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I have a pair of Mollys in the tank with the a. cacatuoides couple. I think the Mollys are eating the Apistogramma fry. I may have to move the Mollys to another tank before the next apistogramma spawn. The apistogramma couple are not being terribly territorial in the area of the fry. I assume...

How do you deliver the BBS so it gets to the fry? The fry are in the main tank with parents and other fish.

Ha ha. Yes, you tweaked my memory. if I recall properly, Roy Rogers had trigger stuff upon his death.

I just ordered a BBS kit. I’ll know in a few days. The mother and father are first time parents. They are not being particularly territorial. I guess that happens with naïve parents. My Molly’s are looming in the background. Looking for an easy snack.

The Lone Ranger and Trigger would disagree. They seemed to like the arrangement. But I respect your point of view. BTW Was the Lone Ranger’s horse really named Trigger or was it Silver? My memory fails. 🤔

You better add camels to your do not like list 😊

What is the evolutionary advantage of having the hump on the head? Any ideas?

That’s one ugly creature! A face only a mother could love.

I recently obtained a pair of a. cacatuoides orange and I already have fry. The fry are much smaller than I am used to. The first time parents are doing a decent job of caretaking.

No rain in the Baltimore area for around 45 days. But a beautiful autumn.

You are the Pied Piper of Fish!

I have had prime from its inception. I hate to shop in retail brick and mortar places. I get the same prices or better from Amazon even with their built in small shipping charge. Plus good streaming.

This dwarf red coral platy has developed a funny looking tailfin. Can anyone identify the problem, she appears very healthy and lively.

I have two thriving colonies: one is in a 5 gallon densely planted tank and the other in a 20 gallon densely planted community tank. Red neocaridina in the 5 gallon and orange in the 20 gallon. I add Bacter AE twice a week and Dennerle Shrimp King complete three times per week.

I’ll make it easy for you. Vote for me. 🤪

I agree with Fishorama and essay.

Congo tetras need some swimming space. How wide is your tank? Plus people generally recommend having at least 6-8 Congo tetras in a tank.

I assume, but I can’t tell males from females in African butterfly cichlids. No sexual dimorphism that I can discern.

What’s the correct term for when two fish of the same species go nose to nose, moving back-and-forth in a horizontal manner? Is that sparring? My butterfly cichlids (a. thomasi) do it all the time.

El Capitan is his name.

Are you saying you kept all three species in the same tank without significant violence?

Better safe than sorry. But were Byron cited studies done in wild caught or tank raised fish. I can envision genetic changes and adaption occurring in tank raised fish 100 generations or more from P1 founding stock.

Apistogramma cacatuoides orange rules this tank. The female is trying to entice him into a coconut cave to spawn.

A loving pair

There are more things in heaven and earth Horatio, then are dreamt of in your philosophy. Willy Shakespeare

I’m reading a book I highly recommend entitled The Brief History of Intelligence by Max Bennett. It weaves the history of computer learning leading to AI with the evolutionary history of animal intelligence. He provides many examples of fish intelligence. I loved that. Fascinating read. As a...

Do you operate a commercial enterprise?

Interesting and sorry to hear. I have had my minnows for about two years. I do a weekly 20% water exchange. The tapwater temperature going into the tank is 70°F. The tank temperature fluctuates with the room temperature and that fluctuation can be 5° Over the course of a year. I have not lost...

Cass has great eyes to pick out the crypts and Anubias in that jungle. The Anubias flowered recently. Will a sword survive if I cut the distal third of the leaves off?

Yes indeed. The grass-like plants in the very front of the tank are dwarf sagitarria.

Thanks. The low plants are anubias and green cryptocoryne

You can use a filter from another cycled tank or purchase a bottle of Tetra Safe Start or Dr. Tim’s one and only to add denitrifying bacteria to your tank. This will jump start your cycle.

My 20 gallon livebearer tank has become a jungle overgrown with Amazon swords. To prune this tangle of greenery do I remove a certain number of leaves from each root or do I trim each leaf a few inches or something else? Thanks.