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I was driving today, and thinking about this thread. I don't think we can throw wrenches into the research. It is what it is. Very often, real research tells me something I don't want to be true. So I have 2 options. I can simply ignore it and do what I want to do. Or, I can change what I do...

I would love to know how to turn it on, even if just to get the last file I saved on it, but not on the cloud. It's an Asus Notebook PC. I think the point with Musk's ugly truck is that you tell the world you can drop 100 grand on a toy. It's a show off vehicle, all in for status. People who...

There are a couple of considerations. Each fish species comes from a specific temperature, and around the equator, temperatures are fairly stable. That doesn't mean they are hot. When I was in Gabon, it was 26c every day. Water in sunshine was around that temperature. Under the forest canopy...

I say laptop, but it's a chromebook style - a bad purchase to start with. The entire power source seems kaput. It's totally unresponsive to the on button.

Some like neither... But they're fun for those who like either.

I'm glad your trucks lasted. My laptop croaked last night. The mousepad started doing weird things, so I turned it off to restart, and it didn't respond. It still hasn't. It was a very cheap one anyway. It was just over 2 years old. Ah, quality. I had to replace it as I'm in the middle of work...

Well, you know, the water is always greener on the... mmm, that's another issue.

I'd kill for that water. Well, maybe not kill, but... It would be fine as a rainforest tank - African, Asian or South American. I have harder water than you, but still in the quite soft range, and the only issue I see is you have to be up on the water changes as tanks can go west quickly. They...

Tetras have had some changes already. DNA tells a different story than the human eye does sometimes. I think for a long time, a lot of new tetras were put into Hemigrammus and Hyphessobrycon until someone sorted them out. It's only recently that 'someones' have arrived with the means to do it...

I've kept and bred killies for 35 years, and haven't seen anything that resembled tb in that time. I've stopped keeping rainbows because of tb, and have seen it on livebearers as well. I'm unfortunately no stranger to Myco in tanks. But my killies, including many years of annulatus, have never...

This was one of the first fish that made me question the usefulness of English trade names, back when I was much younger. We used to get all three in pet stores, all sold as rummy noses, and it was fun(ish) to figure out which one you had. I seem to recall Petitella being seen as hardier. They...

Bettas have no need for friends. They see all other fishes as annoyances that get into their territories. They enjoy being left alone and feeling like they have control over their turf. Male bettas hope a female will show up, but if she does, as soon as they spawn, they are done with each other...

If the fish were slender like an angel, or moved like an angel, they would be an option. I found them as aggressive among themselves as any angel, but heavier bodied (bioload) and nowhere near as nice as a scalare, I know in the older texts from Axelrod, for example, he said they could replace...

I have no background in laboratories. I'd be delighted if you could share what you find. My guess could be based on total coincidence.

I almost didn't post, because it's such a vague observation, and I have never read a reference to it. Guinean fish aren't popular, or talked about much. It always started with swelling around the throat and gills, affecting the mouth. It took on a bump shape, behind the mouth along to the...

There are several species in the group, all with the same basic body plan. Sizes vary. I found Mesonauta egregius to be several times the body weight of an angel, and overall larger. They grew into big clunkers, with none of the elegance of their youth. They weren't the most interesting Cichlid...

Always try to check the date of posting. This thread is from 2009. It's an easy mistake to make when the subject looks interesting. The price of sterbai around here has doubled since back then.

I'm going to sound horribly unscientific. I have never seen that on a killie, but I have sometimes on Cichlids. It's affected Cichlids from Guinea only. E, annulatus also comes from that region, and is often wild caught. I don't know if it is viral or bacterial. Fish hit with it look good for...

My experience of Ireland says that idea of leaving things out in the sun may not work. What is this thing you call the sun?

They've been an off and on holy grail. It's a blackwater fish that ships badly. Either they all arrive alive and vibrant, or the whole box is dead. It seems there's no middle ground. So they end up quite expensive. The Congolese try shipping them young, which radically increases survival rates...

You have to figure a farmed fish is as old as it needs to be for colour, and not a day more. They don't make money cramming up ponds and tanks. So if you research a fish, you may find a comment on how old they colour up. Wild caughts are what's caught. Sometimes you can tell by seasons. For...

Hyphessobrycon colombianus, the Colombia tetra, in the Springfield MO morph. The head and jaw are quite deformed, and the fish looks overall battered. Not battered in a fish and chips way - it looks kind of chewed up. It's a fish best kept in larger groups as they can be a bit nippy if kept in...

I don't agree with the no export policy, but I also know from experience that aquarists don't do conservation of the ones that are exported. We consume them. I don't know how many pairs of rare Apistogramma I sold or gave away over the years I bred the group. I don't think one of them was still...

Back in the pre-water change era that some are still selling, I had one "corydoras anaeus"/Osteogaster aenea live to 12. Now, with cleaner water and more information, that is not such a surprising thing. I'll wah=ger many aquarists who have been in the hobby long enough have had fish live very...

You under-estimate the power of the retired mind, my friend. All we, the retired, have to do is look at a tree, and say "Hey you tree. get off of my lawn." And vengeance is wreaked upon the neighbours.

A lot depends on where you are and your legal system. I would never offer legal advice on a fish forum, and that might keep you from having a tank in a jail cell. I don't know the US system, but I recently moved from a Canadian Province with the Napoleonic Code to one that follows the British...

It's the circle of life. People probably look at some of us and wonder if they can get our houses... but those fish are living the life now, and you've done well for them to have had this much time. There are tons of aquarists who think their fish live 3 years, and make that a self-fulfilling...

I have learned to never say you are snail free. I crowed about getting rid of Malaysian Burrowing Snails a few months ago, as I hadn't seen any in the 2 years since I'd moved. I thought they'd frozen out in transit. They took that as an insult, and showed me by popping up in one of my 75s...

Congrats on that one. That is a tetra a great many aquarists can't keep alive.

I've been able to acclimate the local Ludwigia sp, as well as bought Bacopa caroliniana with a 2 step program. I begin by submerging them close to the surface with good light. Then I gradually, bring them lower and lower in the tank. They never thrive in a deep tank here, but they do adapt to...

Before I moved here, I gave my Heterandria formosa colony (I had collected them in Florida on a freezing cold day - colder than at home in Montreal!) to club members. One of them contacted me recently, and I'll get their descendants back in 2 weeks. It's a fantastic little fish - plain on their...

Anywhere I go, I try to to consider how I would live if for some reason I were transferred there. Since the whole exercise is a mind game, how this could happen and how I could afford to live in these places is immaterial. In my game, I assume I have good health and no need to work. Possibly...

I wouldn't want to live away from the ocean. I've done it, and I've visited the Plains etc. I haven't been to Texas, but looking at the weather there, I also haven't died and been sent to a hot place for punishment. Texas would do for that. If you want a big sky, sit in a small boat on the...

Those are the rummys with the scale mutation, right? I remember when you got them, they were new to me, but now, I see them around. It may not be how they look in the morning in nature, without the linebreeding.

https://www.aging-us.com/article/206111/text Nothobranchius killifish have become important subjects for research into aging. They have naturally short lives, but mature incredibly quickly. That lets people study many generations in a relatively short time, for a vertebrate creature. This...

It's interesting, and you have a good eye. It could be individual variation,, but if they are wild caught, it might also be a 'mixer', a similar fish not noticed by the exporter, either from the same habitat, or from the exporter's. Keep a good eye on it and see if there are any other...

I went kayaking for the last time this season. On Tuesday, duck hunting season opens, and it becomes too dangerous to wander through the small rivers and streams I like to explore. My head doesn't look like a duck, but the pellets will be flying. The ducks are so used to people they let me...

In some species, there are males who develop slowly, as a second wave. The first wave of quick growers die young. The second wave are the species insurance policy. They live way longer, and father a lot of babies as the bigger, aggressive ones drop dead. They're behind a lot of stories of sex...

Maybe you want to photograph your fish. That's become a big part of the hobby, and suspended particles from new substrate or digging fish ruin photos. I imagine they're responding to that. When I was young and frisky, there was an entire type of filter sold for this - diatom filters. I have...

That kind of bump is hard for me to classify. We're pretty good on naming the issues South American fish have, but I have seen some weird ones on African fish. Since they are nowhere near as popular, we are in the dark about them. It's probably a bacterial or fungal infection. How vague can I...