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[jaylach]

I wonder why they would do that. I bought all three in the same order. But, if I get more requests for the chilis and amano shrimp I will post that fact here.

I have been shopping at Amazon and the only thing they seem to ask me is how I liked the delivery. The only choice is to click on stars. I do not rate sellers nor do I expect them to rate me either. I pay promptly all the time and that is all that one can basically rate a buyer for.

If a seller is bad, I just do not use them a second time.

The reason they segregate reviews is simple... If a multiple order is reviewed as the entire order a bad review on a specific item in the order would likely lower the review score for all items. Reviews being item specific also gives a good seller more of an idea as to items they should drop.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

So far I never got another request from Aqua Huna to review the chilis or the amanos.

Also, I notice a couple of days ago one of the 3 surviving redlines look to be on the thin side. I detrrmined I needed to pull it to an H tank and treat it with Flubendazole. I had been watching it for a few days and I came to this conclusion when feeding which I often do in the evening. I decided to do this the next day.

The next day I could not find the fish. I tried putting in a bit of flake in case it was hiding. All the fish reacted to the food but the skinny redline which did not appear. I then took a flash light and looked everywhere in the tank for it. I checked in the plants, on the bottom under the wood etc. It was nowhere to be found. I have not found a corpse not even one partly rotted.

So far none of the other fish show any signs of wasting, so I have not treated the tank. I have all 8 harlequins and all the cories. i also see assoed amanos but cannot get acount. In the other Q tank the sidthimunkis appear to be prest and they are very active. But it is not possible to get a tru count as they are too active and there is too much cover. This is supposed to be their permanent home. I intend to add 6 of the harlequins to the tank and the other two will go into a 29 where I have had 4 for a few years. The two suriving redline need to grow some before I can put tem in with the 6 full sized adults I have in the 150.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

Yesterday was the big day. I broke down the 29 and caught all of the fish and moved them into their new permanent tanks. I digned one of the Harlequin rasboras netting it and I am not sure if it will be OK or I set in motion its fianl time in my tank. It had righted itself in the new tank but was staying off on its own not with the others.

I am picking up 6 more Hoplisoma oiapoquense from the breeder to go with the other 4 a won from the same breeders offered ay my club auction. The 4 are in my heavily planted 75 and I want to end up with them all in a species tanks, Catching the 4 may be really difficult, They love to hide and only recently did I see all 4 all together for the first time in a few months.

I am also looking to get more pandas and paleatus to get them up close to 120 of each than I am now. I also need a few more rasboras. I like some of the cheaper common small fish as much as I do my insanely pricey B&W plecos. I would really love to have a colony of threadfin rainbows (Iriatherina werneri) again.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

I am disappointed. I did not get the corys last night. The breeder said they were pretty small and he had segregarted them eary in the day, He did not like how they were behaving and decided he needed to let them grow a bit more. I can not argue with that as I want healthy fish. But, y club does not have a meeting in July, so I have to wait until the Aug. 2th meeting to get them.

One the plus side that gives me the time to do two things. The first is to catch 4 corys about 3/4 inch in a well planted 75 gal. Then I need to set up a 20L somewhere for them. I had emptied the 29 planted Q tank yesterday so it only has a few Neocaridina davidi blue dreams in it. I wanted to try to get another colony going. The oiapoquense would have gone in there temporarily.

I need to find more pandas and long fin paleatus to bulk the groups up.

The good news is the harlequin I dinged seems to be doing OK.

 

[anewbie]

I am disappointed. I did not get the corys last night. The breeder said they were pretty small and he had segregarted them eary in the day, He did not like how they were behaving and decided he needed to let them grow a bit more. I can not argue with that as I want healthy fish. But, y club does not have a meeting in July, so I have to wait until the Aug. 2th meeting to get them.

One the plus side that gives me the time to do two things. The first is to catch 4 corys about 3/4 inch in a well planted 75 gal. Then I need to set up a 20L somewhere for them. I had emptied the 29 planted Q tank yesterday so it only has a few Neocaridina davidi blue dreams in it. I wanted to try to get another colony going. The oiapoquense would have gone in there temporarily.

I need to find more pandas and long fin paleatus to bulk the groups up.

The good news is the harlequin I dinged seems to be doing OK.

Surprise a month will be long enough; i find my apsto fry take a good 6 months to a year depending on species to get to a reasonable juvi size. Now i realize that cory are not dwarf cichild but i've done pleco and it took them over 8 months to realize that i had a problem (sadly i found some 1 inch honeycomb bn - well at least 1 in my aquarium). Also my geo will take close to a year to get an inch or two (adults or 6 inch or so).

 

[TwoTankAmin]

I have had an decent assortment of my fish spawn over the years. I have had well over 1,000 plecos born in my tanks. I have had spawns from all sorts of fish from corys to barbs and many in between. The plecos have paid all my hobby costs since day 1. I will not ship my Hypancistrus
offspring until they are over 1.5 inches.

So, I appreciate my disappointment as I am totally sympathetic. The gent from whom I was getting them is a master breeder. You might find him as a speaker at weekend events. I have several species bed by him already. His fish are some of the very few for which I will skip Q. They leave his tank and land in mine in under 8 hours. I have never had any problems from this either.

This is one of the best parts of being in a fish club. Many of the members have been keeping and breeding fish do a very long time. We all know how to keep healthy stock and we take great pride in what we do. Bill is somewhat of a legend in the North East.

Thanks to the Danbury Area Aquarium Society for sponsoring club member Bill Cole at the 2019 convention Bill Cole was awarded the first Master Breeder Level Three in the history of the NEC. He has sold over 2000 lots of fish that he has bred in his fishroom and sold at NEC Convention auctions and club auction of the past many years. Bill has been invited to be a panelist at the “Masters of the Spawn” Friday night kickoff presentation at the 2019 “Dancing with the Fishroom Stars” convention.

Danbury Area Aquarium Society

DAAS CARES Member of the Year Award recipients

2016
Leslie Dick
Dick Moore

2015
Artie Platt


2014
Leslie Dick
Tom Sands

2013
Leslie Dick
Dick Moore

2012
Bill Cole

2011
Leslie Dick

Call for Nominations: Betty Mueller Memorial Honor
Deadline: January 31, 2025
This special recognition is given to individuals who, over the years, have given overwhelming
dedication and support to the aquarium hobby and
to the Northeast Council of Aquarium Societies,
Inc.
2011 Bill Cole

 

[anewbie]

I have had an decent assortment of my fish spawn over the years. I have had well over 1,000 plecos born in my tanks. I have had spawns from all sorts of fish from corys to barbs and many in between. The plecos have paid all my hobby costs since day 1. I will not ship my Hypancistrus
offspring until they are over 1.5 inches.

So, I appreciate my disappointment as I am totally sympathetic. The gent from whom I was getting them is a master breeder. You might find him as a speaker at weekend events. I have several species bed by him already. His fish are some of the very few for which I will skip Q. They leave his tank and land in mine in under 8 hours. I have never had any problems from this either.

This is one of the best parts of being in a fish club. Many of the members have been keeping and breeding fish do a very long time. We all know how to keep healthy stock and we take great pride in what we do. Bill is somewhat of a legend in the North East.

Advantage of living in a place with a bit of culture - i live in the southeast city with close to 1 million people and only one lousy fish store - club - ha good luck.

On the other hand if you want barbecue ribs ....

 

[TwoTankAmin]

I have purchased very few fish from stores. Most of my fish were either imported from the wild or from some excellent breeding operations and especially from people who breed the fish. I have been extremely lucky in that respect. Early on I shopped on Aquabid, but that can be a hit of miss experience and I mostly stopped in late 2005. I recently went back there and bought a few fish. Some were in good shape and some were not. One of my favorite ways to buy fish now is from the members of my fish club.

I love BBQ and here in the Northeast there are not a lot of true BBQ spots. There used to be one with its own smoke house about 30 minutes away. It had the BBQ downstairs and a bar upstairs. But after there was a shooting in the bar I stopped going. I love BBQ but not enough to die for it.

 

[Oldspartan]

Was cleaning the "frog" tank Saturday morning and our albino was sucked through the vacuum. He seemed OK but I put him in a large 8-quart batter bowl and added a small air pump. Sunday afternoon he still seemed fine, so he was moved back to his home tank. This morning, I sadly found he had left the coil. I am very careful when vacuuming but this fella always seemed attracted to the vacuum mouth for some unknown reason, and it was not his first trip through the pipe. Turned out to be his last,

This morning we are heading to the Menands Wholesale Market for fruit and vegetables. Our garden is very small this year, purposely, so we will need to purchase any veggies we choose to put up. We also buy peaches each year for freezing as pie chunks and also canning a similar to apple sauce. We get our apples pears, mulberry and boysenberry from our own trees as the fruit matures. Also, our berries -- strawberry, blackberry, raspberry and blueberry.

Today we will be buying a crate (dozen heads) of cauliflower, a crate of peaches. and asparagus. The cauliflower and asparagus will be processed tonight in the new summer kitchen. The peaches sometime this week.