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A multi guarding her fry living in a shell.

Not yet. I will have to try it.

My lake Tanganyika tank has two dwarf a. compressiceps, two j. transcriptus and six n. multifasciatus with new fry. No color in this tank but interesting patterns and behaviors. I’m amused by the multies. Now that there are fry the multies have become territorial. They chase away fish that are...

One of the things I like about visiting my son in LA is the plethora of Asian restaurants. I love Asian cuisine. There is China town, Korea town, Little Tokyo and Thai town. Each neighborhood has fantastic, rustic, traditional cuisine.

You missed my point. I was saying he can alter his GH by diluting it with distilled water or RO/DI water. A lot easier than mucking with adjusting pH.

In my two 20 gallon long tanks each has a pair of a. cacatuoides. One also has 10 n. beckfordi and the other has 10 Glowlight tetras. My tap water has a GH of about 215 ppm so I cut it to about 107 ppm with distilled water. Everyone is happy.

Right now with the polar vortex bearing down on my house, my fish room is indeed very cool. I hope my heaters hold up.

My Julies spawn a few weeks ago and this morning I spotted n. multifasciatus fry. They are minuscule.

Have you watched Slow Horses?

Happy birthday. I’m 52 years ahead of you. I win😁

This is Candy Man whom I’m nominating for fish of the month. He is a Czech-derived morph of Apistogramma cacatuoides. The Czech breeders call the morph lemon candy. Candy Man lives in a 20 gallon, densely planted tank with a female named Candy. She is quite a bit smaller and completely lemon...