Recent content by ghyti

Mag drive water pump. Impeller blade broke. My son printed a new one. Works great.

Nothing to worry about. Not at all unusual. Some people snip it off with a scissors to get it to grow back normally.

The male will guard the eggs for a week or two and will come out at night and round up escapees. Everything eats baby Bristlenose, even big guppies will eat them. If there are other fish in the tank you probably won't have many survive. I put dad and cave full of eggs in a smaller tank by...

The vibrating next to each other is fighting for the best spot. Even at a 1/2 inch they will fight. They are cave spawners. The male will stay in the cave and wiggle his tail to attract females. The Female will stay as far away from the cave as possible. When she is ready to spawn she will get...

Feed them microworms if you have them. Try to get some if you don't..

Not unusual at all for two females to spawn. Because of the eggs you know you have at least one female. The only way to tell if the other one is male is to get some living fry. Move the slate to a gallon jar with an air line and some anti-fungal. If several batches of eggs all turn white in a...

An old rule of thumb says Watts = 3 to 5 times Gallons. A 300 - 500 watt heater is fine in a 29 gallon until it sticks on one night and cooks your fish. A lot of people use two small heaters instead of one big one to avoid this problem.

Certainly not Altums. Look like a standard domestic Silver.

They look a little young. How long have you had them? Angels take 8 months to a year to get old enough to spawn. Almost impossible to tell male from female until they spawn. Even then hard to tell until the eggs hatch as sometimes two females will pair up and lay eggs.

Feed him Zucchini. Cut it into quarters and rubber band it to a weight. I use chunks from a broken terra cotta flower pot. Dip out with a net after a day or two if he doesn't eat it all. Algae wafers will also work.

OK didn't realize the heater was that big. The biggest I have is 250W. If you have well water I suspect the heaters are burning the calcium/lime in the water onto the glass. I have that problem with my water heater, but that is a 4500w heater so not to applicable to your problem. But it says to...

I would tend to believe that it is the guards that is the problem. I have PH 8.3 with KH and DH way over 300 ppm. I have had heaters in some tanks for close to 10 years and have never seen buildup like that. Either the guards or you need to get a different kind of heater.

Ok so the source i looked up which said pinoy was pb/pb should have said philppine instead of pinoy. Thanks. No not necessarily Pinoy are Philippine Blue (pb.pb) except with and added Dark gene. You could say all Pinoy are Philippine Blue pb/pb but not all Philippine Blue pb/pb are Pinoy.

The Philippine Blue gene is noted as pb. Mr Keneddy (I probably mis-spelled it) Discovered the pb gene in some platinums he was working with. He line bred them and cross bred them to prove the gene. That is what I meant by developed. No one "invents" genes, they exist naturally. A Pinoy is a...

Blue Diamond, California Blue, etc. Are all made up names to try to sell fish to unsuspecting buyers. Blue is blue (pb/pb) developed by Keneddy in the Phillipines and called Phillipine Blue. There is no Pinoy gene. A Pinoy is a Phillipine blue fish with a dark gene. (D/+,pb/pb) or (D/D,pb.pb)...