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Sure it does: Indeed, you unequivocally imply as much by stating that "maintaining a pure strain has always been my priority..." That, in fact, has been my position and my message all along, and if I have been a little heavy-handed with my earlier replies it is only because you decided to keep...
Have patience; we all try to help when we can get a break from real life issues. ;) I'll answer what I can...
One male and two, maybe three females. Hex tanks provide less floorspace, gallon-for-gallon, than 'standard' rectangular tanks, leaving less room for males and females to stake out...
Agree with all of the above, and as added advice for caring for the fish, I would recommend giving it a one-week course of MelaFix to prevent secondary infections through open lesions or breaks in the slime layer, and help speed up the healing.
Am I overreacting to the possibility of unwittingly distributing impure strains of ram throughout the hobby, or are you overzealous in your misdirectional defense of beauty being in the eye of the beholder?
Let's clarify the issue, here: If the balloon trait is recessive, it can remain...
Thanks for the effort, Matt. If you do find any references of M. tuberculosis being found in fish, please let me know--it's as much professional curiosity as it is personal!
"Thrive" is not a word I'm comfortable using, mainly because it's such a nebulous term and is defined differently by people. Some people think their fish are thriving if they've stayed alive for three months in their tanks, while others want them to live for years and must witness breeding...
No mention of M. tuberculosis or of the M. tuberculosis complex. The above fall within the category of non-tuberculoid mycobacteria, NMT, or mycobacteria other than tuberculosis (MOTT). The term "fish tuberculosis" is another example of loose terminology. Again, it's a minor quibble--I...
A minor quibble with the loose language here (you're certainly not the first to do this, Andrew, so I'm not picking on you), but fish don't get tuberculosis--caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis--nor, therefore, can you catch tuberculosis (a primarily pulmonary disease that can affect multiple...
That wasn't my argument at all--I wrote that their preferences are typically different from those of soft-water apistos. Wild guppies have been discovered in waters that range from hard and alkaline to soft and acidic, but the latter represent an extreme rarity in the hobby today. Most in...
Hi Mike,
Perhaps you'd rather not tip your hat until after the convention (which I won't be able to attend), but I was wondering if you might reveal briefly what your definition of 'species' is in your upcoming presentation of "A. agassizii"? Are you looking at reproductive isolation...
Zahi, please resize your image to no more than 400x400 pixels, or edit your post and remove the image tags ([img]) to embed the image as a hyperlink.
As for your breeding situation, it is odd indeed to have a male shy away from a potential mating situation for a prolonged period of time. It...
Because of their extravagant tails, guppies may have trouble swimming fast enough to avoid the attacks of apisto parents, and their water preferences are typically different from that of most apistos. Pencilfish are great dithers, but don't just get one or it will in all likelihood end up...
There's an account on another fish board of an A. borellii pair that have adopted some betta fry after a nest was built directly over the entrance of the apistos' cave and some of the eggs fell from the bubble nest, which the male betta didn't retrieve. It appears that A. borellii's parental...
I would contend that pencilfish are indeed schoolers depending on the species. N. espei, N. marginatus, N. eques, etc., are shy fish and would not do well in groups of three or less. They'd end up needing dithers themselves!
Up to you whether you want to leave them in there or not. By your description, it sounded like they were being actively hunted down and killed, in which case removing them would of course prevent more death.
And don't be fooled into relying on visual signs as a means of preventing disease...