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oof that cant be fun. Maybe if you start off light you can slowly fix your back?
Can a tank be literally "over-fryed"?
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OP
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No, my pains are from a car accident... I still need to go to the doctors for it. Ever since then, my lower back gets severe pain.
Sorry to hear that... You should definitely get that checked out.
OP
OP
Thanks.... Yah, I definitely want it checked out. Its just finding the time.
I'm pretty sure my back pain has something to do with pinching nerves because I also have twitching issues no one really knows about. (I try to hide it)
I'm pretty sure my back pain has something to do with pinching nerves because I also have twitching issues no one really knows about. (I try to hide it)
You need that checked out
OP
OP
Yes I definitely do. I'm afraid of the results and telling the doctors about the twitching... I don't like telling people in person about my problems which is why I can tell you guys... And talking to my parents about my issues I just cant seem to bring my self to do... They know about my back issues but not the twitching (at least I think they dont know)
You might have slipped a disc or ruptured a disc in your lower back. See what the doctors say. If they won't help or just say take pain killers, see a Chiropractor, but find a decent one and get them to check the back.
A decent chiropractor will check and straighten your back the first visit. Then ask you to come back a day or two later to make sure it is still in line. Then that is all you need to do unless it plays up again in the future, which it might because once bones and joints are damaged, they can move about.
If the chiropractor says come back twice a week for 6 months, tell them you can't afford it. Get the back straightened, go back a few days later or a week later to make sure it's straight, then stop going.
But don't see a chiropractor if the accident was in the last 3 months, let the bones and joints/ discs heal first.
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When you speak to a doctor, if the doctor wants you to have a CAT scan, tell them no. You are fine having an MRI but do not have CAT scans.
CAT scan is an x-ray of your body or part of it and you are exposed to x-rays for about 20 minutes continuously. They are harmful and do cause cancer.
MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) uses a magnetic field to view the body and parts inside and is completely safe unless you have metal parts in your body. But they ask you that before you go in the room.
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Walking is good for your lower back and helps strengthen the muscles in your lower back. Weight training can also help but start off with light weights.
Re: carrying buckets of water to the tank. Use smaller buckets or don't fill them as much. You do more trips to the tap but it will be easier on your arms and back.
Pour the water into a big bucket and have a small water pump in that bucket. Attach a length of plastic hose to the pump and run it up to the tank. Fill the big bucket with dechlorinated water. Turn the pump on and let the pump move the new water into the tank.
A decent chiropractor will check and straighten your back the first visit. Then ask you to come back a day or two later to make sure it is still in line. Then that is all you need to do unless it plays up again in the future, which it might because once bones and joints are damaged, they can move about.
If the chiropractor says come back twice a week for 6 months, tell them you can't afford it. Get the back straightened, go back a few days later or a week later to make sure it's straight, then stop going.
But don't see a chiropractor if the accident was in the last 3 months, let the bones and joints/ discs heal first.
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When you speak to a doctor, if the doctor wants you to have a CAT scan, tell them no. You are fine having an MRI but do not have CAT scans.
CAT scan is an x-ray of your body or part of it and you are exposed to x-rays for about 20 minutes continuously. They are harmful and do cause cancer.
MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) uses a magnetic field to view the body and parts inside and is completely safe unless you have metal parts in your body. But they ask you that before you go in the room.
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Walking is good for your lower back and helps strengthen the muscles in your lower back. Weight training can also help but start off with light weights.
Re: carrying buckets of water to the tank. Use smaller buckets or don't fill them as much. You do more trips to the tap but it will be easier on your arms and back.
Pour the water into a big bucket and have a small water pump in that bucket. Attach a length of plastic hose to the pump and run it up to the tank. Fill the big bucket with dechlorinated water. Turn the pump on and let the pump move the new water into the tank.
OP
OP
Thank you Colin for your thoughts on the matter!
I do try to stretch but lately I havent been
... Thank you for letting me know about the CAT scans and MRIs... I will definitely remember that.
Also, I just bring the garden hose through our garage and to the tank and fill it that way with low flow on while I kick back and watch ut while visiting with you guys
You can over fry anything if you leave it in hot fat long enough. What are they ever teaching kids these days?
If you use a garden hose to fill tanks or buckets for anything to drink, turn the tap on and let water run through the hose for 5 minutes before using any water out of the hose.
Garden hoses have a chemical in them to keep the hose soft and flexible. This chemical leaches into the water and is extremely poisonous to anything that ingests it. The softer and more flexible the hose, the more chemical in it.
Hoses also leach more chemical in hot weather so always flush a hose out before using it for the dogs water bowl, bird bath, or the fish tank.
Garden hoses have a chemical in them to keep the hose soft and flexible. This chemical leaches into the water and is extremely poisonous to anything that ingests it. The softer and more flexible the hose, the more chemical in it.
Hoses also leach more chemical in hot weather so always flush a hose out before using it for the dogs water bowl, bird bath, or the fish tank.
maybe he didn't do home ec
I would check out the back. I may or may not have a car accident to blame, but I had lower back issues as a teenager. I now know it was my most likely height outgrowing the supporting muscles - in my family there is a history of wild growth spurts (I went 5"4 to 6"3 quickly, my cousin was 5"1 at 14 and is 6"6 now...). I have a devil of a time with the back now - scoliosis and disc damage. With the tech out there now I expect I could have had things done - at least physio.
You don't know if help is available unless you ask.
I think you're raising Tateurndina ocellicauda, right? If I am ever able to get them to breed here (they have simply never cooperated) I would raise them at one juvenile (1cm) per gallon. And since I have to plan ahead for the very short term, that's one fry per gallon. It's no use setting up for failure.
Overcrowded fry without water changing grow poorly and are prone to stunting. You end up with fish people don't want, and the goal of breeding fish for hobbyists is to share the wealth by spreading fry out to interested fishkeepers...
You don't know if help is available unless you ask.
I think you're raising Tateurndina ocellicauda, right? If I am ever able to get them to breed here (they have simply never cooperated) I would raise them at one juvenile (1cm) per gallon. And since I have to plan ahead for the very short term, that's one fry per gallon. It's no use setting up for failure.
Overcrowded fry without water changing grow poorly and are prone to stunting. You end up with fish people don't want, and the goal of breeding fish for hobbyists is to share the wealth by spreading fry out to interested fishkeepers...
OP
OP
I always let the hose run for a few minutes before using it. But mine is one of those no kink ones made of a different material than the rubber...
I doubt its growing pains... I can't even walk or move when I get these pains... Luckily I have been on a streak of no twitching or back pains... I do have a light pain but nothing horrible YET...
I must have gotten lucky with this pair. They always dance around each other and the male always flares... Sometimes the male can get aggressive towards her but it settles down in a few minutes and sometimes seconds. Its beautiful and almost romantic when they do their dance. When they chase its just irritating lol.
I have about 50-80 fry in the 10 gallon tank. Oncw they are at the right size I will call up my LPS and sell them to the store.
TwoTankAmin
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One more thing you need to learn and that is livebearer math.
Common sword tails reach secual maturity somtime between the age of 2 and 3 months. This means if you had a batch of fry born in march thay can already spawn. Now lets work with some small numbers. Lets say you have one female which gives birth about ebery month. So in lets assume you got 26 fry and 1.2 were female. So you now have 13 more females. The in May and June you get two more spawns awhich means 26 more femaler and a total of 39 (not counting what you had to start).
Now in June you have 13 more females born in March which could each give you another 26 babies or a total of 338 babies. But in July you add the 13 Apr. born females so you now have a total of 26 females that can give birth to a total of 676 more offspring. And in August to could be getting 1,014/month. Swords tend to make more fry in a spawn as they grow. And even if half of the fry in the above do not survive, half the numbers will still be a problem. Mysolutions when I kep swords were towfold.
I got angels to eat the sword fry. But eventually I discovered wild strains of swords and fell in love with the Montezuma. They are notorious fry eaters and will also stop spawning at time and then resume. The also have the longest sword all.
This is livelbearer math. Understand that nature's goal is not to overrun the world with the offspring of a single speacies. But nature is not stupid eithe. The smaller the % of offspring expexted to make it to adulthood means the greater number of them nature sees fit to have born at the start. Survivial of any species is a numbers game and most baby fish are food for something else.
For the livebearers nature added a twist. The eggs mature inside the female and free swimming babies emerge. This is a survival mechanism. I breed plecos and they are cave spawners and are raised to free swimming by the dad before they leave the cave. This is a similar strategy from nature which circumvents the problems of eggs being eaten.
And the above illustrates why things are often very different in nature and in a tank.
Common sword tails reach secual maturity somtime between the age of 2 and 3 months. This means if you had a batch of fry born in march thay can already spawn. Now lets work with some small numbers. Lets say you have one female which gives birth about ebery month. So in lets assume you got 26 fry and 1.2 were female. So you now have 13 more females. The in May and June you get two more spawns awhich means 26 more femaler and a total of 39 (not counting what you had to start).
Now in June you have 13 more females born in March which could each give you another 26 babies or a total of 338 babies. But in July you add the 13 Apr. born females so you now have a total of 26 females that can give birth to a total of 676 more offspring. And in August to could be getting 1,014/month. Swords tend to make more fry in a spawn as they grow. And even if half of the fry in the above do not survive, half the numbers will still be a problem. Mysolutions when I kep swords were towfold.
I got angels to eat the sword fry. But eventually I discovered wild strains of swords and fell in love with the Montezuma. They are notorious fry eaters and will also stop spawning at time and then resume. The also have the longest sword all.
This is livelbearer math. Understand that nature's goal is not to overrun the world with the offspring of a single speacies. But nature is not stupid eithe. The smaller the % of offspring expexted to make it to adulthood means the greater number of them nature sees fit to have born at the start. Survivial of any species is a numbers game and most baby fish are food for something else.
For the livebearers nature added a twist. The eggs mature inside the female and free swimming babies emerge. This is a survival mechanism. I breed plecos and they are cave spawners and are raised to free swimming by the dad before they leave the cave. This is a similar strategy from nature which circumvents the problems of eggs being eaten.
And the above illustrates why things are often very different in nature and in a tank.
OP
OP
Yah, mine give me about 100-200 fry a month. On the lower end it could be 80 fry a month. They get busy real quick in my tank.One more thing you need to learn and that is livebearer math.
Common sword tails reach secual maturity somtime between the age of 2 and 3 months. This means if you had a batch of fry born in march thay can already spawn. Now lets work with some small numbers. Lets say you have one female which gives birth about ebery month. So in lets assume you got 26 fry and 1.2 were female. So you now have 13 more females. The in May and June you get two more spawns awhich means 26 more femaler and a total of 39 (not counting what you had to start).
Now in June you have 13 more females born in March which could each give you another 26 babies or a total of 338 babies. But in July you add the 13 Apr. born females so you now have a total of 26 females that can give birth to a total of 676 more offspring. And in August to could be getting 1,014/month. Swords tend to make more fry in a spawn as they grow. And even if half of the fry in the above do not survive, half the numbers will still be a problem. Mysolutions when I kep swords were towfold.
I got angels to eat the sword fry. But eventually I discovered wild strains of swords and fell in love with the Montezuma. They are notorious fry eaters and will also stop spawning at time and then resume. The also have the longest sword all.
This is livelbearer math. Understand that nature's goal is not to overrun the world with the offspring of a single speacies. But nature is not stupid eithe. The smaller the % of offspring expexted to make it to adulthood means the greater number of them nature sees fit to have born at the start. Survivial of any species is a numbers game and most baby fish are food for something else.
For the livebearers nature added a twist. The eggs mature inside the female and free swimming babies emerge. This is a survival mechanism. I breed plecos and they are cave spawners and are raised to free swimming by the dad before they leave the cave. This is a similar strategy from nature which circumvents the problems of eggs being eaten.
And the above illustrates why things are often very different in nature and in a tank.
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