The N. multifasciatus have been with me for a little over a year. Just recently they started to build this pyramid. The substrate was completely flat before the project started. These tiny guys are amazing.
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I really, really appreciated this essay. I have a feeling some of you might, too. https://www.groundshift.us/on-reverence/
Besides feeding my fish, it was all about our new family member. Today…….my tanks…..nada. Why? Today we got our rescue Collie and he’s a sweetie. He and our tri-girl Collie...
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Handsome doggie. He looks very happy to be in his new home. He certainly has lots of toys to play with and a great doggie friend and loving humans.
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These guys frequent my yard because of all my bird feeders. The males are strutting their stuff right now.
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Now today I’m at what might be my last car show for the season. Dog yesterday and car show today…..what a weekend.:) And then my wife and I are going on a fall color drive tomorrow. Life is good.
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If anyone remembers my old cherry barbs, I still got a couple left. Two of them are the originals who were blinded from the hand sanitizer incident back in 2020. The other two I have are their...
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Shrimps & Other Invertebrates
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On Wednesday, we found a little pool in a small creek at the park that was teeming with large (probably 3/4") scuds. Might get back over there today sometime and see if they're still there...
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Planted Aquarium Journals
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This tank isn't built yet, and possibly won't be for a while: I still have to re-home the Inle fish (the blue Gourami is going in the hillstream tank; anybody want some rosy Loaches?), collect...
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African / Old World Cichlids
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The Sun God will protect them. Let's hear it for the sun god! Ra! Ra! Ra!
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Fed the bigger fish some chopped up grocery store shrimp. Bruce taking off with his piece, hiding from the camera like the guilty bugger he is L240 pleco Hybrid ancistrus (triradiatus x...
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I woke up the other night to sounds in the kitchen, to find one of our cats raiding the cupboards for their treats. This bag has been moved multiple times. Yes, opened themselves too. Buggers...
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Today I'm in the shadow of yesterday evening. I covered my kayak in LEd lights and went to a fundraiser for a food bank. Basically, you gave some money to paddle down a river after dark in a large...
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Up for show is my adult Inirida Severum. I bought him over a year ago, and he has proven himself to be a wonderful addition to my 75-gallon aquarium. He is a very attentive fish and is always flashing his sparkly greens and blues...
Pelvicachromis subocellatus - a female in breeding colour. I miss that fish.
Ever since two weeks ago, I've purchased three betta males. I've been saying for a long time that I wouldn't start keeping bettas again. But I just couldn't help myself. So...
Introducing my unusual Plakat Koi Betta Splendens named Pretty Boy Floyd. Here he is swimming above his tiki head ornament in which he sleeps every night. Betta Splendens are also known as...
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I got to thinking about how many gorgeous fish we’ve all had through the years and they’ve since passed on. All we have are their memories and pics. I am going to try to limit it to 6 at most, but...
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Some of my axolotl‘s i crossed my only female copper axolotl with a white axolotl i now have a large number of babies and a good percentage of them looks like they’re gonna be copper , I also have...
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This pair of Nigerian Red Pelvicachromis taeniatus arrived on July 28, 2026. From the first day the pair have been inseparable. I rarely see them individually. They share a tank with Nannostomus...
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My Pelvichromis taenitus 'Moliwe' from 2018. She was A beauty. Now called Pelvichromis kribensis. @GaryE that is a fantstic krib their you had. When you see fish change color like that so...
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I went to The Grand Tetons National Park, Targhee National Forest and Yellowstone National Park and while I was at Yellowstone, I got interested in the stuff growing in the runoff from the...
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Xiphophorus variatus old DDR strain, Yellow variety. Hard to get your hands on these days. I've got also the red/blue version at home. I am very protective of this strain, simply because it is...
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Hunted last night as well. Deer. Did not see a thing though lol, but the weather was beutiful in the woods, deer or no deer I had fun being in nature! There are four seasons in Wyoming: Winter...
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@WhistlingBadger Out on my bike this morning and just happened to see a group of six antelope running . For those who have never seen antelope run it is really something to see ! They are fast...
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Marine Betta/ comet When I kept marine tanks I always had 1 of theses. I at one point had found some reports of breeding and found 2 of these fish that arrived at the same time that were...
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Allow me to introduce Chromaphyosemion biteniatium BDEL 26-3. That translates to Benin (country of catching) Dineson Elson Lamboj (the people on the trip) caught in 2026 at the number 3 location we visited. The males died soon after I...
Phenacogrammus aurantiacus (Gold Blue-Eyed Congo Tetra or Lampeye Congo Tetra). This pic is of one of my shoal of 7 males (2.75”- 3.0”) in my 75g tank along with a shoal of...
This is my ninja wood cat (Tatia musaica). I've had him for about two years now. He's kept with other Amazon catfish and peaceful schooling fish in my 125l tank. He only comes...
This is a powder blue Mikrogeophagus ramirezi born on April 27, 2026. He lives with his mate in a 20 gallon long accompanied by N. marginatus and Hemigrammus erythrozonus. Ram enjoys Repashy grub...
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Entering my 'odd one out' Red Cherry Tetra (Hyphessobrycon sp.Muzel). This fish was alone in a tank with other tetra species at a local store. I picked it up and added it to the 11 I already had...
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Tropical Discussion
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I feel bad for the fish I kept going back decades, but…honestly….it was done that way back then…..UGFs, no WCs to speak of…just topping off, and only minimal water movement/filter turnover. And I...
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I'm having success with a homemade mess of a recipe, so I'll share. I was given a meat grinder - the kind local hunters use to make sausages. I bought a large enough bag of black soldier fly...
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He runs his social media groups like a cult as well. Normal people are prohibited from sharing any advice unless they set up a tank like he does it and they are personally vetted by him and his...
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I feel bad for the fish I kept going back decades, but…honestly….it was done that way back then…..UGFs, no WCs to speak of…just topping off, and only minimal water movement/filter turnover. And I...
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Interesting….. My mixing of well water and RO still has the 7.8 pH as well. But…..the key for me and my 8 Tetra tanks is getting the mixture ratio so that the GH and KH are between 2-5. Thus, the...
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I go by the egg test. I received Apistogramma njisseni a few times, directly from the wild, from a pH in the low 5 range. I could easily breed them at a pH of 6.8, IF the hardness was low. With a...
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At one of my recent monthly meetings we had a speaker who mentioned he used a few toothbrushes for cleaning tank related things. I have a toothbrush I have been using for ages. But the speaker...
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Scientific Section
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I refused to join Facebook, However, when the come out with Assbook, I will join there. I almost hate to tell you this. There is an Assbook site.
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This is my 29 gallon community tank established two years ago. Starting at the top, the rim has a series of Pothos plants growing aquaponically. On each end of the tank are Tidal 35 HOB filters. Across the top of the tank is a Nicrew...
Here is my first fish tank! It is a 29-gallon Aqueon aquarium which I put a lot of time and money into restoring. My original setup contained large pieces of white gravel with...
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hey… old fish water is good for something, it makes great water, with which to water our house plants, I also water my new apple tree with it, but it would never get reused for...
My 80 litre / 21 gallons 8 Chili Rasbora 12 Neon Green Rasbora 4 Celestial Pearl Danio 3 Corydora (Brochis Sodalis) Sword plant Anubia barteri Rubra Red Tiger bulb Alternanthera cardinalis...
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have your ever tried old style painting on canvas with brush using oil or water color paints or do you mainly do digital. I do lots of different kinds of art. I've attached some examples if you...
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hey… old fish water is good for something, it makes great water, with which to water our house plants, I also water my new apple tree with it, but it would never get reused for fish… if you are...
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Beautiful ram! For this drawing I’ve tried a bright, colourful and simplistic style.
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These gold sailfin Molly juveniles were born on August 19. They love live BBS.
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Tropical Discussion
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It depends very much on the origin of the fish. For example, a river running down a mountain around the equator will have different species at different elevations and their temperatures. With...
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Tropical Discussion
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I would never ever do this. But I spawn plecos which come from rivers with pristine water (mostly the Rio Xingu in Brazil). The fish I spawn I have paid anywhere from $270 to $1,000 per fish to...
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The fact that he has 340,000 subscribers proves 2 things to me. The first is anybody can be a Youtube star no matter whether they have a clue or not. The second is that the average person is...
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I've grown up on YouTube, it's one of the main sources I use to learn about this hobby. I completely agree that there are channels out there that just spew words viewers want to hear to get views...
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General Chat
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A few minutes ago, I got to sitting up right close to my 75g Congo Tetra tank a mere two centimeters from my face watching them swim all around :fish:and I thought others might enjoy it too. There...
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New to the Hobby Questions and Answers
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I just returned from 12 days away, with my fish living a totally unsupervised life. I turned off some lights, and locked the door on a fishroom with 50 tanks and a few hundred fish. It's what I...
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Yesterday's dinner: Dark meat chicken and mashed potatoes with gravy and side of tomatoes
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🎉 And the male. His fins though 😍 So far so good but theyre under close monitoring given theyve spawned. They've not gone too crazy with defending the eggs, the male is keeping most of the fish to the opposite side of the tank and...
Fish Forums - Photos and Videos
My 29 gallon tank Stocking 4 Black Skirt Tetra 1 Bolivian Ram 1 Peppered Cory 10 juvenile and 1 adult BN Pleco Plantings All are anubias...initially planted 10 years ago...
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I currently have 10 running, but sometimes that number doubles, depending on how many I need for grow outs. My biggest tank is 8x2x2, but I’m currently saving to reinforce my floor so I can get my...
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Got my September LSAT score back this morning. Scored a 170! 94 percentile. I'm over the moon. Taking it one more time next week then sending in my applications.
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I hadn't realized there was a wood pigeon's nest in the trumpet vine. The single chick was already big enough to leave the nest today, and it wasn't the least bit bothered by my presence. It had...
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I have a small TV, but I rarely turn it on. My mother in law has an enormous one (to help with vision issues) and I have to confess, I have thought about sneaking downstairs and watching a few...
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Betta Splendens
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I appreciate the sentiments alongside the way of laying it down easy. Like I said in one of the replies, I was watching him at the store since the first of the month since they kept saying that he...
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Planted Aquarium Journals
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Well, today I began converting this tank into a more traditional se Asia tank. I removed the island, saved the plants I wanted to save (lemon balm, corsican mint, dwarf basil) and dumped the...
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Cyprinids, Characins and Atherinids
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Finally had some sun here so took a cruise a little North of Speculator. Some areas at peak foliage color.
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Tropical Discussion
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53 active. They range from a 120, to a line of 5s I'm using for killifish pairs. When I was a student, I had one tank, a 20 long, but other than that relatively short period, I've always had at...
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Today I've harvested a group of delta guppies from an outdoor tank. They were put outdoors as being green specimens. But today, they've turned out being purple. Only their heads have remained green. The group has reproduced themselves...
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Today has been a big change for me. After 12 years of being a type 1 diabetic I’m finally off pen injections and now on a pump! It’s quite a different experience to the...
Tropical Discussion
I'm going to throw out some propositions for new aquarists, and see what people have to say! No planted tank has more than temporary beauty until it is as least six months...
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Ok- here's Luna. She's the real cat of the 2 we have. Milo, the other one, is more like a dog. Luna does what she wants, and occasionally will just go crazy loving on me and climb up my back to...
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Oldest Granddaughter is in town to do a presentation for the Montana Historical Society and so I get to see her which isn’t often and I’ll get to eat at Number One daughter’s today . It’ll be nice...
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One of my all time favorite fish. Ever since my first fish tank and first fish book they have caught my attention. I have kept them several times and done well with them even a couple times...
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Today, I've harvested most of the fish of my swimming pool in our backyard. The common gudgeon (Gobio gobio) has reproduced well in there this year. I haven't harvest them al for daylight was...
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My colony of Neolamprologus multifasciatus have been with me for over a year. They are cute and industrious little guys. Now they are in the process of creating Mount Kilimanjaro. I suppose they...
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One of my local fish stores loves my gold sailfin Mollys. I raise them specifically for them. In return I receive store credit that I use to purchase equipment and frozen food. Here are the latest...
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looks like a standard female guppy, unless you got it from someplace that handles specialty fish… often specialty female guppy’s show no sign of what they are capable of producing with the correct...
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@MattW This is big news. As a type something or other diabetic (not type 1, not exactly type 2...), I haven't needed insulin (yet), but I can imagine going on the pump would be liberating. I...
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Well, after the other news, I thought I'd treat myself by continuing the restoration of my 1960s workshop. I'm around 2/3 of the way done with reassembly of the main unit, which I finished today...
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Tropical Discussion
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All my fish are 3 inches or less by design. I do not like large fish. I can’t articulate why. It is a visceral reaction. But there are so many beautiful and interesting small fish.
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Livebearers
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Tonight was a good night for getting decent pics of probably my favorite tropical fish….Phenacogrammus interruptus….Congo Tetra. :yahoo: I’ve enjoyed watching these guys mature. I know…..I said earlier I have my favorite top 5:fish:
My wild caught 'kribs' have finally appeared with young. I'm finding this really interesting, as I haven't bred pulcher since they were the first Cichlid I ever raised. I had a...
The black neon tetra are not as colourful and doesn’t stand out as much as many other tetras however seeing them in the dealers tank so many times i’ve taken a liking to them...
Planted Chit Chat
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Dr Innes was clearly surrounded by a scene in which smart people were trying to figure out a new thing. There must have been a lot of discussion, testing of ideas, sharing of ideas and collective...
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today a visit at pets at home I brought 8 nice looking Harlequin Rasboras the last time l kept this species was in a community take more than 40 years ago i’m hoping to get them in good...
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That shop tool is going to be fun for you and a worthwhile thing to have . Old means nothing when it comes to things like that . You will build things and get the satisfaction of making something...
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Well i cant comlain, i have atank :) At last i have got another sorted. I converted my workshop into a what my wife Her Den haha. She is the pool lover so this year i sold up and closed the shed...
I was looking through Exotic Aquarium Fishes by Dr. William T. Innes today after reading posts on The Great TFF Forum about plants . Whenever I have questions I consult THE greatest authority ...
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Tropical Discussion
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This is direct from Swisstropicals and Stephen Tanner; Q: how do rinse Poret® foam sheets? A: the easiest way is outside in the yard or driveway using a garden hose. Simply bang the sheet flat on...
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I think about the origins of the hobby and their aquariums from the 1800's. I see where they were coming from. They collected plants from streams and lakes and they were growing in muck, so...
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Philadelphia? I Yup. The City of Brotherly Love was the epicenter of the hobby in the USA from the beginnings in the late 1800s through @1940, when NYC took the lead. It was so renowned as such...
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ooo… someone's feeling pretty today… ( tank is right at 65 degrees right now )
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Freshwater Journals
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AquaShella was held today at the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center. There were, surprisingly, many vendors and attendees for a Sunday. My favorite fish seen: Bushfishes Imperial...
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Fish Forums - Photos and Videos
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I've just discovered this YouTube channel amd it has some of the best in situ footage I've ever seen. I don't know if he's using 4K cameras but wow the underwater footage is amazing.
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For the last couple of weeks, I kept hearing a plop noise shortly after the lights went out. At first, I just thought a fish got spooked and breached the water. Until today, when cutting off dead pothos leaves, I noticed the roots of...
Surprisingly, the eggs haven't dried out or been taken over by fungus. They actually have embryos inside!
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Tropical Discussion
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I've had tanks that were full of oscracods, scuds, cyclops, and water fleas, aquatic worms...and they all disappear shortly after fish are added. But I think the live food gives the fish a good...
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General Chat
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I have been just fine . Life is good and things are going okay . A pity you have to work 🤣 . Retirement is wonderful ! Yep, retirement is the best job I've ever had. I even like getting older...
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Tropical Discussion
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I've had tanks that were full of oscracods, scuds, cyclops, and water fleas, aquatic worms...and they all disappear shortly after fish are added. But I think the live food gives the fish a good...
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Cyprinids, Characins and Atherinids
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The pharmacological treatment is finished. The UV light is on. The lesion on the N. marginatus has resolved. I’m hoping the tank is safe. I performed 3 large water changes in between each dosing.
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Tropical Discussion
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My understanding is Malachite green itself contains copper to some degree, hence the turquoise color. Malachite is a typical secondary mineral. It originates by decomposition of primary copper...
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Tropical Discussion
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@Back in the fold @GaryE I got the answer, this is from UKAPS. Check out dw1305’s answers on replies 2 and 4. https://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/what-is-this.80267/#post-803844
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Tropical Discussion
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Here's what I found about Malachite Green: It's an organic dye (a triarylmethane compound), made only of carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen — 23 carbon atoms, 25 hydrogen atoms, and two nitrogen...
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General Chat
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When I had higher pH well water I did my 135 as a Tang tank. Lots and lots of rocks~! Our water here has a high PH of 8.0-8.2 but its very soft water (0-3 dgh). The KH though is what saves me...
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