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I'm jealous of places where a musician like @WhistlingBadger could just take his instruments down to the pub for a session, and people like me could sit in and enjoy it.

Shoot from a slight angle, aim at the eyeball and beware of reflections on the cleaned glass.

A simple deworming would be a product with praziquantel. Nematodes have 3 main ones, often flubendazole. Nematodes aren't really worms even if we think of them as such, and survive dewormers. Depending on your country, you could use a variety of products. Look to the ingredients list in the...

We aren't supposed to talk religion on the forum. I'd like to have a company called "Bog Man Botanicals" and claim to be selling ancient lore and products used by the ancestors. It could even have a beauty line attached to it, preserving us from the ravages of age.

Your source can be important. A reason why 'earth' as a location doesn't help a lot is that we can't know stores, etc. I know for me, buying from box chain stores often gives me diseased fish. They tend to have more tb because it thrives in bad conditions, just like human tb. The big chains...

Hanging around with grownups has its appeal. Who are your favourite Celtic artists? I've been listening to the sad but powerful Lankum, and lots of the Mary Wallopers for fun stuff. Ye Vagabonds are good, if almost too traditional in the bar band way. KInd of like the old Dubliners to me.

Given the prices of rainbows here, where good ones are quite expensive, getting a group is a stretch for most of us. We aren't surrounded by them as Colin is. And while duboulayi are beauties, I have never seen that one in a store. Here, we see mutt rainbows, boesemani, lacustris and sometimes...

I've never found a good site on them, but word of mouth says different local variations. That said, more than one local variety in the hobby has been found to be a distinct species when DNA work was done. When I've seen them in shipments, the bags were all reds - no blues. So that strongly...

serpae are territorial, and may nip. They like larger groups and should not be with long finned fish, but I have never found them too nippy. I've also kept fish like that in groups of 6 to 10 ten though. Any social fish kept in 2s and 3s can become trouble.

Look for duboulayi rainbows. They handle cool better than the Papua New Guinea ones . I'd be leery of the underbed containers, but that may be because I come from a colder climate. They would lose heat fast. It's easy for us to end up talking at cross purposes with all of our different...

It was too cloudy for me to see the lights. I saw a thin strip while I was on an island on Lake Champlain in Vermont on Thursday night, but that was only a tiny opening in the overcast conditions. I'm turning human again today. Since Tuesday, I have spent close to 30 hours driving, and am sick...

Ah, the code... I have long lived fish, and 2 days ago, I visited a guy who had many of the same individual fish that were there when I visited ten years ago. I'll suggest some tricks. 1. After you calculate numbers, and come up with say 20 fish for your tank, look at the number, smile sadly...

I am back from my two aquarium club talks. They both went well, and once they have recovered I should have 12 species to photograph and show you guys.

I liked them. They are a gentle, easily dominated fish - for a one Cichlid species tank with a fair bit of room. If I had them again (I saw some listed in Canada this week and thought about them) I'd give them a 55, with a few tetras. I think it's the only way you'd see their behaviour. With...

Looking at Hurricane Milton developing. It won't come up here, but it is tracking toward some friends in Florida, who are getting out of its way. I hope everyone dodges that bullet - it looks bad. I'm leaving for Montreal in a couple of hours - taking the road through Maine and up into Quebec...

Is there a bar above that you tie your ankles to to clean the bottom of that tank? Seeing that might cheer your wife up.

I cheked to make sure I had the name right and it was good, a couple of hours ago. I didn't mention flagfish because they aren't that big. I thought you wanted bigger than swordtails. There are beautiful American fish - your problem would come in summer when it might be too hot.

I wasn't sure where in zone 9b you were. California is way west of the cool fish. I put a couple of paradise fish in a school pond, and took out hundreds when the water got cold. They did fine in a 75 gallon in a large group. There's a US seller, Jonah's Aquarium, that carries native fish...

Zone 9b. I would take a good look at your native fish. There are some really nice ones in that zone. Poecilia latipinna sailfin mollies, two or three killie species, some nice minnows and sunfish. You might be surprised at how nice unhybridized American mollies can be. As long as you never get...

That's more than I would have done. I tend to be fatalistic, and figure if it was tb, it's there forever. Microscopic life has a way of surviving.

My LFS sticks stainless steel forks into zucchini coins that have previously been frozen. All their plcos and Loracarids get them. It seems to work very well.

There are microscopic parasites that cause a spinning disease in farmed trout and salmon up here. The water conditions are radically different, as are temperatures, but serious research has been done since it has an economic impact. All we need is a few more tens of million Discus farm...

Our accents are being destroyed by media. There is an accent with a hard fast clip on it in my current city, not unlike a Newfoundland accent I grew up hearing in the family. I met a fellow while I was walking the dog on the beach today, and we had a good talk as we went along. I had to strain a...

I haven't used carbon for about 40 years, except to remove meds. I've never noticed plants removing tannins. That's something to watch for. I have peace lilies, Pothos, snake plants, ferns and various other plants in/on a lot of my tanks, and I also like tannin stained water.

A pH of 6 is okay for Corys. I'd avoid using the chemicals, and just let things stabilize with weekly water changes. I think you should add plants as suggested above, and settle in with water changes for a bit of white knuckle fishkeeping. You're doing an unavoidable fish in cycle, and as long...

My elderly Uncle lived in a home for years. He couldn't live with us because a traumatic brain injury had caused moments of violence, but there were no incidents in his nursing home. Partly, that was meds, but it was also the skills of the staff. Amazing people doing a thankless job. I used to...

They're healthy looking African fish for an SA tank... you may make friends and end up buying another tank...

I wonder if Australian bloodworms are the same species as Canadian ones? That's a whole other can of worms - the ones I find here are about 1/4 to 5/8 inch with no visible head structure. It may be that we're calling wild collected bloodworms could be different beasts. I notice we have...

I am the evil one.

Here's my usual pain in the patootie question - which leopard fish?

I have only been able to get blackworms a couple of times. To stimulate breeding, they are fantastic. That tells me they are nutritional. I evaluate all foods on how they affect fish egg production, mainly with my killies where it's easy to observe. If you don't want your fish to breed, I'd...

Just watch - dropsy is not a disease, and it can't be transmitted. It's a symptom of kidney failure, which can have many reasons. Gill diseases are generally not diseases either, but parasites. It matters if you go online seeking meds.

Speaking as an animal, this is good. Plant day hasn't taken root around here.

I use no frozen now, but when I did, I gave up on shrimp. Freezing really breaks them up, and you buy a lot of water. What's there is good, but. I developed the common allergy to bloodworms. They have a protein that a lot of people develop a problem with. I got so bad my hands swell if I put...

I'm just going to write the device off. It did its job. It had so little memory I used it like a phone - an easier to view one. I was working on an article for about an hour, went on here, read some stuff, made a comment, went back to the article, read some news and it began to go haywire. I...

My ex-brother in law, who was a hunter and a butcher, used to bring us moose steaks, and they were a workout for the jaws. He'd talk about having the perfect recipes, and about how tender the steaks were, and I'd get nostalgic for the cheap bubblegum of my childhood. I'm hoping for my...

I've been feeding my neighbour's cats while he's been out hunting. Last night I realized he was back after I'd walked over. He was at the very end of loading a couple of hundred pounds of moosemeat into his freezer, and looked like something his cats had dragged in. His wife disagrees with his...

What temperature do you keep the tanks at? That sounds like an overheated aquarium. Try to save the media in the filter for the new one. It'll fit in somehow. The pleco will be fine for the night, but that will be a small tank overcrowded. What are the other fish?

We usually get started by saying something like: I have a tank in mind. How many fish can I put in it? We cram in the most we can, and from that, we learn about diseases, aggression and prison behaviour. Since the fish don't "do anything" (they can't), a lot of people quit the hobby. The rest of...

It's a knock off version. It's fully charged, or so it said when I looked seconds before it failed. I plugged in last night in case, and not a twitch. The battery light is on, so the charge works. I never used it with the cloud. I saved to the hard disc, old school style. I've lost one...