Recent content by Innesfan

Skewed sex ratios, the bane of apisto, killie and livebearer fanciers. @emeraldking offers some invaluable insights. Does the 2-to-a -vessel method work when raising Apistos? I know @GaryE hasn't had success with it with his killies but I have. And I know some guppy folk who swear by it for...

From Innes: photo of Bitterlings spawning @1933.

And if you ever develop a hydra problem, no species will devour them faster than a blue gourami or the blue gourami variants.

I've used many species and cultivars but I'm especially partial to Beech, American or European.

With the exxception of some purchases from killie and livebearer breeders who opt for US Priority Mail, all my orders have been FexEx or UPS overnight and I've had 100% survival rate. The killies did fine spending two days in transit. A livebearer breeder in Hawaii gave me a white knuckle...

Oh, I hear you. One of many reasons why I find the Discus revision so interesting. 'Blues,' 'Browns' and 'Heckels'--two species comprising three phenotypes and three 'evolutionarily signifcant units'--will all 'hybridize' and produce fertile offspring. "Greens," S. tarzoo, will not. And as far...

In many cases, DNA is challenging our understanding of what a species is. I am told that in Nannostomus, for example, there is more DNA variation among populations of N. beckfordi than there is between N. beckfordi and some other Nannostomus species. Some Apisto veterans have told me this is...

Welcome to the hobby and to the best think tank in the hobby.

That's a huge plus. Siblings that have been raised together and never separated can live harmoniously. The only truly successful sororities I have encountered have been composed of sibs. Now the interesting situation here is whether the two sibling groups will get along outside of their own sisters.

Are they siblings? That helps in situations like this.

This will be interesting to monitor. Normally if I heard that five female bettas were being kept together I'd be concerned about intraspecific strife. The usual scenario is that one betta is targeted by the others and they are picked off one-by-one til only one remains. Which is why virtually...

You must be thrilled. Well done!

Sarasa is a color pattern of deep red and white and can be found on any variety of metallic goldfish--comets, ranchu, fantails etc. Nobody has suggested the fish on the left in your photo is a koi, but rather that it is a goldfish-koi hybrid. Such fish have 2 barbels. Koi have 4. Goldfish have...

Did you notice the typo on the cover for the "Getting Started.." article? Glad your LFS took the fish. Despite all my years in the hobby, culling is still something that makes me uncomfortable especially when it's just for population control.