Recent content by sharkweek178

I think so.

I don't have fry though.

I had an issue with delivery from Brine Shrimp Direct. I called their customer service and they were great. They made everything right. And as a bonus, they sent me some sampler packs. One of them has arctic copepod powder. What can I do with that? Can I feed it directly to my fish...

Edible doesn't mean "can be chewed up and swallowed". Edible means fit to be eaten. So the AI in the cartoon was incorrect.

I've been told that before feeding earthworms, you should leave them in a bowl of water for an hour to give any dirt they've ingested time to pass.

Look at this chart of AI hallucination rates. The best of any of them was 17%. If someone had a research assistant who was wrong 17% of the time, they would fire them. AI cannot be trusted. There are some tricks to getting better results from AI. Ask it to source what it says. Then...

The only people who recommend multiple feedings per day for adult fish are the people who sell fish food.

I do two or three days a week. Not only do fasting days do no harm, they're actually beneficial. Fish aren't like us. They're cold blooded. So they don't need the calories to maintain their body temperature. That's the evolutionary tradeoff that cold blooded animals make. They don't adjust...

Many reasons. Diluting nitrates is just one. Water changes also replenish trace minerals, keep TDS low, help clear out pheremones and other semichemicals, remove pathogens. Water changes aren't just to fix bad parameters (although they do that). A regular schedule of water changes keep your...

I often get those in my mosquote cultures. Especially when leaves end up in them.

I don't know what happened with this pygmy chain sword I don't know what happened with this pygmy chain sword. The one sent out runners. And then it stopped. This is pretty much as far as it went. And none of the other pygmy chain swords sent out runners at all. They've been there since...

The picture I just posted is the best look that I've gotten. It looks bad. At this point, I'll focus on quality of life and euthanize when appropriate.