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I finally get to do one of the things that I have wanted to do for a long time, put in a fish room! I was hoping I could get some advice from everyone so I can do it right. I don't want to think "I should have did it that way instead" after only a few months. I figured I would get as much...
Its been a while since I have posted due to limited internet access and now that I'm back,I thlought I would share some pics of the fish hatchery were I live and work. No cichlids here but I hope you find the pics interesting.
This is a shot of two of the race ways. We use a flow through...
Is this hole in the head disease? http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y77/tjnelson44/100_0546.jpg
I just noticed the two grey areas on its head today. It is in a planted tank (algae garden) and water quality is pretty good. I try to keep the nitrates around 10 ppm for the plants but it is...
This is my girlfriend's first tank ever. I thought it was such a cool tank I would share some pics. It is a 10x10 cube that has been going since the first part of February.
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How low of temperatures can most apistos be kept at with out doing them harm? Would room temp (about 70 degrees) suffice just to maintain them, not to breed them? I ask because I will soon have a bit of a difficult fish keeping situation. I have just been offered a job at a fish hatchery in...
Here are some pics. They spawned this morning. The female is pretty aggressive this time around, you can see some pieces of fin missing from the male.
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Is this some sort of dwarf pike or just a juvenile of a larger Crenicichla sp.
After looking around I thought it looked somewhat similar to C.wallacii but that is probaly just wishfull thinking on my part. I have two of these. One has an black and red ocelli on the dorsal while the other...
I have an opportunity to purchase one of these digital cameras for 297 dollars. I would use it for fish photagraghy. Would this camera be good for taking fish pics? Does anybody have an opinion on these? Here is a link with some info...
I was using a 20 long as a quarantine tank for some new fish that I picked up. They had gill flukes but I have moved them to a small tank for treatment. I was hoping to use this tank to hold some juvenile nijsseni. How long do I need to wait for the tank to be safe for other fish? Since there...
I just recieved some fish, snails, shrimp, and plants from them and all of them were alive except the siamise algea eaters. All four of them were dead. I called them and told them about the dead SAE. I was just hoping for credit on my next order but they did better than that. They are...
My male eremnopyge has what looks like an odd growth on his side. The growth in is about half way down his body. It is about a quarter of an inch long and about a sixteenth of an inch wide. It has a pinkish orange colour to it. It is raised, I can see a slight silloutte when I view the fish...
I have been having trouble with the nitrogen cycle in my breeding tanks. They will be fully cycled for a while and then they seem to uncycle. I will just get an ammonia spike and it will not go down. The production of nitrate just halts. In others that I have tried to cycle, the ammonia was...
Hello, I am planning on plumbing about six of of my tanks together and possibly using plants in the sump to reduce the amount of nitrogenous waste. I plan on using a 20 gallon tank for the sump with up to 80 watts of light. Will most plants do alright with very soft water (TDS<60) and a low...
What is the general feeling on bacteria additives like cycle and stability? Most of what I have heard has been negative. Do they really help to cycle a tank?
Trevor
I have 3 female kribs that had some sort of parasite that I belived to be gill flukes so I tried a treatment that has worked very well for me in the past. Eight table spoons of salt to ten gallons of water. I have used this successfully on a a different group of kribs in the past without any...
Hello everybody. I have a 20 gallon tank with a pair of nijsseni and I recently added a few female kribs that I had quarantined for two weeks. Now I have notice that my nijsseni sometimes have white, stringy feces and other times it looks normal. Sometimes a piece may be half normal and half...
Hello, I was looking at my female fresa today and noticed that only one side of gills would flare out when she would breath. The operculum on one side remains motionless while the other side seems to flare out a little more than it should. Other than that, all appears well. She is very...
Hello everybody. I was planning on setting up a 10 gallon planted tank but was having trouble finding a good light. I am looking for a 20 inch compact fluorescent light to fit the tank but so far the only options I have found have been a diy system from Aquarium Hobbyist Supply and one from...
I guess I just had a little to much time on my hands so I tried something. I rinsed a 2 inch clay pot In ro water then placed it in an 8 ounce plastic cup with ro water. I then filled up another cup with ro water and no pot. After a day the ph of the water in the cup with the pot was 7.2...