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Pelvic just sounds wrong when used for fish . I’ve only ever heard ventral as in egg vent . Pelvic sounds mammalian .

@Aqua67 WOW ! That is a nice looking fish .

The September October 2024 issue # 768 just hit my mailbox today . Lots of good articles but the one I’m most interested in is Joshua Wiegert’s column Nano Tank Adventures . This issue’s title is “ Land Shrimp Ahoy ! Keeping Pet Isopods “ . These are , as he puts it , role-polies , pill bugs or...

Go get your Betta .

Holy wow ! I’ve seen bloated fish before but this one is the # 1 prize winner . “ Thar she blows ! “

This thread is a good example of every aquarist needing one good basic fish and aquarium book . A real printed on paper bound book .

It looks like some kind of water change gizmo to me too . Automatic water changers are handy and time saving devices for those with many aquarium’s in a large fish room and this is something that could be useful to someone who has one very large aquarium as it would be simpler than buckets .

I want to see pictures of your Discus when you get them .

Almost time to go over to my oldest Daughter’s house for a Labor Day feast ! Beautiful warm sunny day here and I’ll spend it in her basement looking at her aquarium making sure everything is the way I think it should be but I won’t miss out on the food .

Are the teeth on them as sharp and menacing as what you see on TV shows ? I’d like to see one of those . How big an aquarium is it in ? Must be huge !

Marine aquariums are beautiful , interesting and really fun to spend time watching but they’re just not for guys like me . Everything about them screams lots of money . Does that place have seahorses ? They’re really cool .

Either a Texas oil millionaire or somebody with more dollars than cents .

I’d jump off a cliff if one of them died . That’s just way too much money for a fish but to each his own .

It always goes that way in the community aquarium . Change the numbers or add new fish and the turf wars start . And that brings me once again to my preference for species only aquariums . When you only have one species in an aquarium they show their natural behavior and they settle down and are...

Cool ! I’ve seen Glowlight Tetra’s do that before and I have no idea what’s going on . It seems like a couple tomcats that are content to have a Mexican standoff and not actually fight .

Too rich for my blood . My hard and fast rule is I don’t spend more than $5 bucks on any one fish .

Well , well , well . Your story is just about exactly like mine and many others here on The Great TFF Forum . Started out way back in the halcyon days of youth , in my case 1965 , kept aquariums a long time then put them on the back burner for life reasons . Then started up again and quit again...

Figures .

@Alice B what kind of trouble ?

How many ? Still just the four ?

Holy Tilapia Batman ! That’s an operation ! Using power equipment to horse your water around is something I bet you’re the only guy here doing . That’s a good supply of snails too .

@GaryE are they putting on any size yet ?

The fights are coming . Don’t you kid yourself . It’s like @GaryE said , even mild mannered cichlids can be ferocious . Fact .

You won’t have to worry about an unmanageable outbreak of fry should the Rasbora’s spawn because most will get eaten and if you’re lucky a very few might grow up in there if the plants are thick enough . Not really a concern . Fish like the Harlequin Rasbora’s look very nice in large groups and...

An ambitious project for a first aquarium . I like your choice of fish and I like the plant selection and substrate you’ll be using . I’m not into shrimp but I’m warming to the idea . They seem to do better in heavily planted aquariums when they have to share space with fish from what I read...

Is it already that time of year ? When does the regular season start ?

Thank you !

Excellent , another playmate here on The Great TFF Forum . Stick around .

Going to pick up groceries and then dine at a fine restaurant . Taco Bell . September has arrived and this morning has a slight fall feel to it . My favorite time of the year and this week makes 61 years I’ve lived in this town and I still love it .

That’s the guy I voted for . That’s one of the nicest male Betta’s I’ve ever seen . Gotta be an IBC show winner .

Is that the bare aquarium or does it include anything else ?

I said the wife’s guacamole was “okay” . I too like good guacamole and it turns out that avocado is really a very healthy thing to eat . I like native women too . When they are foxes they are really something . I got a good laugh out of that Sonny and Cher bit . Oh , and green chile ? That’s...

I still do that to a certain degree . Never have worried about pH or hardness and the only reason I use R/O water is because the soft water fish I like do better in it but I’ve still done okay with them in my tap water . Maybe I have a good medium water here . Clean , fresh water is most...

What a nice time of year . Got up early to watch the crescent moon rise and today is a nice day . Not hot , not windy , not humid - NICE . The garden is getting to the point of almost done and harvest time is upon me . It’s so nice out I think I’ll leave it out .

Eerie Comics . What else ?

If you like very small aquariums the best filtration is a daily water change . Keep your change water in a separate container under aeration and change one third to one half every day . Many years ago my first aquarium was a glass gallon jar and it was fine for a long time .

You can’t change pH , in my experience , it always goes back to where it was . I have 8.0 and I use R/O water for the soft water fish I like and they are fine in alkaline soft water . I bought a test kit and rarely if ever use it . I wish I had the thirty bucks back . I take care of my water...

Hopped onto GoComics today to read Dick Tracy and guess who showed up on the comments board ? The Master , the Man himself , the one , the only SVENGOOLIE !

Time flies like an arrow , fruit flies like a banana .