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A great loss indeed. Of course there is also Melanotaenia bleheri and a few others.

Some stores and breeding facilities in acuaculture settings maintain batts where they keep nets and other tools that go from one tank then another. I don’t know how effective the practice is, but it is intended to minimize cross contamination.

Thanks!!’ Not familiar with it. I will check it out.

Gorgeous. Do you know where in Colombia is that river? Is it in western Colombia? (Cauca or Magdalena Basins?)

Schomburgki are not Metynnis, but Myleus/Myloplus. Further, they are now 3 species, including M. aulon, M. saulon, and M. Schomburgki. In aquarium parlance this translates into wide bar red hooks, wide bar blue hooks, and thin bars. This is since the diversity of the “Schomburgki” barred...

You asked …. This is a small portion of the collection.

There are several species of “spotted” silver dollars (4-5) in the genus Metynnis (a genus comprising circa 14 species). The only two of those that are common in the hobby are maculatus and lippincotianus, with lippincotianus being far more common, at least in the USA, and in recent years...

I collect historic bricks (bricks with brand names or other writings on them) and have a sizable collection.

Very sorry to hear. I am glad that it was not worse, also it sound very serious. Speedy recovery and certainly it will be good to carry the spray. Are the dogs owners aware of what took place?

In a tank that has been running unchanged for about 6 years, featuring originally 10 Colombian tetras, 4 clown loaches, and 4 Corys (leopardus), some reproduction has occurred. The adult Colombian tetras are older adults, close to the end of their lives, and there are only 5 left, but since the...

Indeed, nice to hear you are back and better!

This is well intended but not useful, and not true. There is no such thing as generic “river rock” - if one is in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana (these are just examples), the overwhelming majority of hard substrate in streams is limestone. That is a sedimentary carbonate rock that WIlL affect pH...

Fungus alright. Don’t let it happen (if possible). Have to account for missing fish sooner.

Standard 75g, and 125g.

I would like to go to Guyana, and to the Bolivian/Peruvian Amazonia.