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my trilineatus have a baby once in awhile, never see the eggs

My Amano shrimp didn't handle the snails, but the Assassins are doing the job. I'm not overfeeding.

Did all 5 water changes yesterday. Too hot outside to do anything else.

When I have an aphid problem caused by ants, I locate the anthill, Mix up some beneficial nematodes in water per directions, pour appropriate quantity on anthill in evening. I haven't seen an aphid on my milkweed since I put nematodes down. as long as ground is kept watered, they live and keep...

freeze dried tubifex worms were very popular with mine. I fed twice a week, one block - with only one cray maybe half a block

I can spot in ponds, but I am not sure in the tank where they are laying, may borrow my daughter's yoyo loach

At least it's not an octopus, lol. I actually kept a couple in a half full 10 gallon in an elementary classroom for a couple of years. The half full was to prevent escape. King cray ate the other one over spring break

it ends when no one buys them. I am about to the point of not buying any fish anymore. Kinda like the cutesy betta bowls Pennplax came out with around 2003 and the stupid gumball machine aquarium that won a prize at the trade show - less than a gallon and very little oxygen exchange. The trade...

botia will do it, but I have so much trouble getting healthy fish I'm afraid to buy any anymore

I've been squishing, zucchini squash did not work, although the clown pleco and albino bristle nose enjoyed it. I'll try the cucumber. where are they hiding their eggs?

I don't know. I think mine ate each other. I had neon tetra disease going at the same time, that or they got old and died. Been a couple of years

SlapHappy - the DFW forecast has one day below 100 in the next 10 days, and that is today. I finally got half an inch of rain, mesquite will bloom soon, there will be a fall honey harvest.

I have Aquarium Atlas by Baensch and Riehl - Copyright 1982/1986. I'm not sure if this 1, 2, 3 or 4, but it's a good book. I've used it for years

yes, but if you run out of snails they eat each other so only get one.

I tried to buy an assassin snail tuesday, but they store was out

we have high pH in a lot of Texas, I know people that breed angels at 8.0 for sure.

I'm struggling too. I went to a plant swap, got some plants, rinsed both in the sink, and one in the 55 must have had ONE snail egg. That snail has done a fine job of building population. The plant in with my trilineatus cories didn't have a snail egg.

rinse plants very thoroughly or your tank will get snails. I was not thorough enough

I'm taking the fifth.

In the bucket test, sometimes what goes up is the GH before the Ph does. 5 way test strips are the easiest way to monitor this kind of testing. a small seashell can do exactly what you are describing. Reef rock or old dead coral ornaments are often guilty as well

my favorite is The Complete Fishkeeper by Joseph Levine. Out of print quite a while, but it answered questions I did not know I had. I had the library copy for about a month. Couple of years later ordered on amazon and it was some other library's cull. Doesn't matter to me

that fish tanks cause humidity and when the big AC goes down it is time to give the fish away. working on it.

All 4 of these are at my house and presently up for adoption! There may be a 5th, but owner was letting kitties potty outside so the last kitten may never be found.

I just try to introduce new fish now and then, best I can manage, and I am keeping an eye on my albino bristle nose because there may be a daughter in with daddy. I'll try to catch her

I think so.

I hadn't bought guppies since probably 2005? eventually no pretty colors so in 2020 I added a male back in from the original group that had been at a friend's since 2017, and I got a little color. bought 2 fancy males in early 2022 and i have a lot of color now. Except the deformed spine that...

there was a company pushing actual glass aquarium gravel 20 years ago. I think I kept their samples for art projects. If the edges are irregular, bottom feeders are likely to be injured, if very smooth, no bacterial adhesion. I wouldn't.

Yes!

yesterday's brief rain

all pics from my samsung phone, a nothing fancy A32 a spider in the garden yesterday. Wulfwarro eating a tennis ball. Potter wasp nests on a painted pinecone, near the snakeskin collection, spider on the tomato plant, daylilies

looks like a lion. Maine Coon?

My fish have me well trained.

Clown Pleco, June 19th, before he saw I had the camera out