Recent content by GaryE

I only use Latin for fish, and really don't understand it as a language. But there is a wealth of recently recorded Christian religious music leading up to the era of Bach. I have a hard time getting my head around opera. I admire the skill, but... Still, as you go along, check out the vocal...

They should be able to live for 7-8 years, and stores generally sell them at 3-4 months. It's an easy to breed tetra, and I've raised them. They reach adult, sales size in record time. So it can't be age. They're generally very hardy, as one of the first tetras in the hobby, way back when...

Generally, that kind of hair algae is from either overfeeding, or too much light. I scrape the glass and then put my hand in and twirl the stuff around my fingers - manual removal keeps it at bay. I have a couple of tanks that get indirect window light and it grows in them. For some reason, one...

When I was a kid, Gene Krupa was always dangled before me as a moral tale. The great and admired drummer who succumbed to heroin. My Dad was the first timewarped musical fan I ever met. He was a drummer, and for him, the music had died with the big bands. Later, I've developed a love of the...

I've now gone to two orchestral concerts in my sweet short life, and I'm won over. It is a spectacle, in spite of what people might expect. You see how this ancient music is a work of intense coordination between a lot of moving pieces. It helps that I love baroque era music, but this old guy...

I'm planning to stay retired next year.

I have a lovely living room armchair here - a friend ordered one for himself, and the company sent two by mistake. He contacted them, and they said it would cost more to ship it back, and it was his to keep. We were moving into our house then, so voila, we profited from the mistake. It's crazy.

You would need to either locate a guppy breeder, or join a local aquarium club and seek one out. There are a number of fish clubs in Florida.

It's easy - just get a stupid number of tanks, like me!

My inexpensive ones were easily sexable - and the tank at the store was 50/50. But even ratios is nothing a splash of sex hormones won't solve, if you think your clientele doesn't know or care. I like the fish and I've been watching the prices fall as smaller and smaller ones become available.

When I had wild type, or wild caught mollies, a problem was how little the males tolerated each other. I think that was independent of their relationship to the females though. They would kill each other in aquariums, but when I watched large male latipinna in Florida, they'd approach females...

I worked in corporate for a short time, and knew things I had a non disclosure agreement making me shut up about. No 'small' person mattered . As a highly paid (trillion bucks a year, baby) fish forum moderator, I support such heartlessness with all my own shriveled heart and soul. The jet's...

They've stayed small here. This thread has inspired me to do a tear down of my 120, and move everything out to other tanks. I want to fix the stand a bit and it could use a redesign. I think I'm going to move the riesei to a 10 or 20 gallon of their own, depending on how many I find in there...

I would argue harems don't exist in the fish world. I think it was looking at fish through a male fantasy world in the 1930s onward. Male fish don't have females. There are male hierarchies, and in too small a tank they'll kill each other down to one survivor. The same an happen with...

It's been done. I had mixed hatchets when I didn't know what I know now. That means I didn't pay enough attention to the dynamics to be able to comment in depth, but I recall no aggression. The tank set ups I used to have - I missed out on a lot on that old if I had known then what I know now...