Recent content by Zatoichi

I've had a little success in raising Rams from eggs to fry to adult. Here are a few pictures of my active Rams. I usually leave the eggs and fry in the original tank. This ends as you would expect, all are eaten. In one case, I pulled the leave off of the sword that the eggs were on and moved...

By mixing RO water with tap water you're completely defeating the purpose of using RO water. Good buffers are not expensive and will treat several hundred gallons of RO. I use Seachem products exclusively. However, my tanks are heavily planted with >3W/G of lighting. I also use a pressurized CO2...

In general, snails are good for an aquarium. They perform may useful functions. Those include eating debris and aerating gravel. But, these functions depend on the species of snail. But, there are many people who find snails to be very annoying and would never have them in their aquarium. Here...