Recent content by gwand

You are right. I try to clean the impeller and case every six weeks. But sometimes I miss with 7 active tanks. But the AC unit that didn’t restart had a clean impeller and casing compartment. So in this particular case that wasn’t the issue.

That is just terrible. Heal quickly. You’re a shoe-in to win. I hope Judge Judy gets your case.

I i have a heavy duty one. Expensive. But I have 7 tanks. I can’t afford seven units to run while I’m away. I go away very frequently for a week or so. I depend on my generator working properly. I just installed the Seachem Tidal. So far I like it. Very quiet and self priming.

I never had gobies but this is what I read: The most colorful of all freshwater gobies in the genus Stiphodon, the Neon Blue Stiphodon Goby originates from fast moving rocky streams. In the wild, it lives in small groups where individual fish stake out their own territories among the rocks. They...

Blue Stiphodon Goby (Stiphodon cf. atropurpureus). This goby is beautiful and originates from rocky, fast moving streams.

Several of my red coral dwarf Platy females have a somewhat distended belly that is pale red with a tinge of yellow. They are eating and are active. No abnormal poop. Do you think this is pregnancy, worms or just well fed? The fish are very camera shy so the photos are not very good. Thanks.

I started listening to music on my grandparents’s vinyl 78s. Then in middle school I started to buy 33 1/3 vinyls. Moving to college I took my entire collection of about a hundred vinyls with me. I made many moves since the first and it became a chore moving with my enlarging collection. So like...

I’m a hypocrite. I still like fancy guppies and endlers.

Yes. The Metropolitan Museum of Art started out first displaying Elvis in Velvet but eventually moved on to oil paintings by the Masters.

My local fish store agreed to buy my Anomalochromis thomasi young adults born on April 5. This is the third brood since October. These guys are fantastic looking and it’s wonderful to watch their interesting interactions and other behaviors. So I began the netting process at 9 AM. By noon I had...

If you want to see a living creature light up, stick your finger in a light socket!