Recent content by AJ356

Nice one. I started researching about keeping fresh water mussels alive in a home aquarium because of this thread! I know it's a big challenge. But what a fantastic project it would be to have a tank with breeding bitterlings, and fry living inside the mussels. There was a mad YouTube clip I...

Adult females tend to spawn in more than a single mussel during each spawning season, and multiple clutches from several females of one or more bitterling species may be hosted in a single mussel.

From Seriously Fish Bitterlings (see ‘Notes’) exhibit an unusual spawning symbiosis in which the interlamellar spaces of the paired inner and outer gills of living unionid mussels are used as a spawning substrate. During the reproductive period females develop a long ovipositor which is used...

This is interesting timing this thread, as my dad passed away about 5 weeks ago

I just checked Google. It's a mussel, not an oyster...

When my dad got me into fish about 38 years ago, I remember we had about 4 bitterlings in a tank, and the females would have a long tube hanging down when wanting to lay eggs. My dad told me that we needed an oyster for the female lay eggs in. This is me going by 38 years ago memory, and not...

Personally, I've never thought of dither fish as there to keep the peace, more to encourage shy cichlids out into the open more.

This wasn't your specific point, but I feel one of the big mistakes in the hobby is how people love the variety of fish, but don't consider feeding habits and competition at feeding time. That's just one aspect of many, of a species only tank that is worth it's weight in gold. An example being...

Ha same as what @Essjay had. Pardon our https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/306481209970 interruption link.

Maybe something like this Gary? Do you think all krill powder might be "equal" or like other fish foods in terms of hit and miss with quality? Am I looking for anything that says 100% krill powder? Or do you think it might come with fillers? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/306481209970

It is something like this https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/236286886307

We don't come across North Fin foods too easily in terms of choice over here, in the Kingdom that is United. But I got this from ebay today and I like the first three ingredients that are listed, black soldier fly larvae, whole herring meal, and whole sardine meal

Pellets, but the cheapest I can find in UK for a quantity that is not huge in volume...