Recent content by Magnum Man

saw the 1st orange dwarf cray, since I added them... reassuring to see one a couple weeks after adding them... cleaning up the white sand bottom...

... and now a half hour later, apparently the "zoomies" are over, and I only see one from my seat...

I would have suspected the others ( Gasteropelecus maculatus ) for example, being larger, and not in the same family, may try to eject the Carnegiella???

I've noticed this with my Denison barbs, that the male is really intolerant of other males around his females, and often the tanks just aren't big enough for the offending male to get away, and dies of stress, and quite quickly ( when this last happened, the offending male was not physically...

curious if anyone has mixed various hatchets in the same tank, if they would group, and interact with each other, or just be competing for space, and force jumpers??? for example Gasteropelecus maculatus, got mentioned, and they are much bigger than the Carnegiella strigata, that I have, which...

from that last picture, the tank is looking really nice

I'm witnessing the larger group is using the whole top of the aquarium, even the areas with flow... the smaller ( test ) group, mostly remained in a tangle of roots, in a calm area... also with the larger group, often harder to find, being spread out over the whole tank, but I'm watching one...

cool, I added 3 rabbits, to this tank, but have only ever seen 2... right now there is 1 on the front glass, so all 3 visible at the same time... and this is one of the three little panda garras on the white sand by the front of the tank...

maybe these guys just like each others company in the bubble stream??? it's a 55 gallon tank, lots of turf to explore... yet they are back in the same place I saw them a week ago...

click on the picture hit the + magnify, an they just pop out...

AI info, so take it with a grain of salt

my tank actually has 2 hang on back filters, and 2 power heads on under gravel lift tubes. and a long row of bubbles on the back side, but by thoughtful placement of aqua scape, and the massive amount of roots, the tank is fairly calm.... fish could find some current in this tank, eddies in the...