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Thank you for the response. I do not mind if they don't spawn right now as we have a lot going on in the next couple weeks. I just didn't want to leave them as they were with the community, only to hear or find they beat the daylights out of every other fish in the tank because they spawned...

I have a M/F pair of Thorichthys meeki, who had been in a community tank up until 48 hours ago. I noticed that they were getting more colored up, sticking close and just nitpicking everyone. I moved the pair quite quickly and easily to a 55 gallon planted that I have prepared just for them. They...

A both the plastic and mesh breed/hospital box. Worthless pieces of crap. Absolutely worthless. Might be great for guppies but for anything else they are just crap. Granted, I purchased them because I needed something ASAP and they were the only option. Now I have a pair of XL acrylic boxes...

Sand fleas or better mole crabs are harmless, creepy but harmless. These little razor blade toting Isopods are completely different than the sweet little "sand piggies"(my kids call them that 😂).

A brand new Pet shop opened 5 minutes from my home. I was like sweet, got to check it out see if they will buy my plants and possibly BNP fry. There are no words. Needless to say I will not sell anything to him. He had a beautiful tank set up under the checkout counter, at least 240 gal. It had...

While the song is absolutely horrifying in of itself, it is at least way cooler inside that ride than the temperature outside. When we went a few years ago with my oldest, it was April and high 80's, too dang hot for April. Though I am not fond of the ride we did ride a few times just to escape...

No worries, even the most experienced have their moments. I have a couple deep tanks and I can't tell you how many times I have ended up with a wet tshirt, water on the floor or dropped various objects off the step stool platform. Sometimes, it just seems written in the stars for each and every...

I will have to snap a picture. They could possibly be Delphax or Agassizii as they look quite similar to either, or they could be some weird cross. I don't know but my faith in buying cory cats for what they are sold as is pretty slim at this point. 😂 ☠️

He is in the 180g. I am trying to convince my husband that he needs more room. He said only if we win the lottery🤞🤣

They are almost corporeal when young, the bigger they are they get a bit stiffer in motion side to side but they can throw it in reverse like no other. They look very stately in their tuxedos. MIne is 18" long now at 3 years old.

Black ghost knife fish, it is a mouth full😅

Over the years I have had a little bit of everything except minnows and sharks. I love cichlids, specifically SA. I also have had a number of oddball species though BGKF have a very special place in my heart.

My BGKF is 18" at 3 yrs old(I have had 3 over 22 years, this one is the newest) They can be a sensitive fish, especially to any change in water quality or lackadaisical maintenance that leads to bad bacterial grow. 180+g is where you want to be at minimum for an adult. I would not keep a BGKF...

EBA and standard BA will happily pair off together and produce fry, then it is simply a matter of what genetics the BA has that will determine the % of fry being either color. There are a few species of cichlid that will hybridized, so if the goal is to breed, keeping species only tanks is...

I am not sure there would be enough taurine in a vegan to allow the big cats to thrive. Shame on you trying to feed them plant based meats. 😂 Edited to add: Just in case"They eat antelope, antelope eat grass". Yep. I know. I am being a smart bottom. Never feed a cat a vegan diet, nor should...

I quarantined my new kitties in a separate room on another level of the house in a room closed off from the others. Made sure hands were washed and I changed my clothes after interacting with the new kitty. After threat of disease was passed we began " scent exchange" and gradual introduction to...

Mom lives in Michigan. The pond had no heater, was too shallow to not completely freeze, hence why we needed to move the fish(they were eggs that hatched in a lilly pot she moved from the big pond). It was covered over with 2+ feet of lake effect snow. Best we can figure is maybe the layer of...

Trying to catch a Comet out of a shallow pond before winter (2 ft deep, murky, needed to get in it to be able to reach center). He was stepped on by my husband, wrote off for dead, pond froze over completely. In Spring he defrosted and was ALIVE! My mom couldn't believe it, she called just to...

Mammals usually are vetted, not fish. Even well vetted animals should be under quarantine conditions, length of time depends on species and the varied pathogens each can carry. Nothing in this world is 100% and I stand by my statement that no matter the species, or where it is gotten from, if it...

My LFS has these guys on the regular. They are pretty cool fish. Monos and scatophagus argus are some I would like to keep one day.

No matter the source or the species, all new inhabitants should go through a quarantine. The plus side to mammals is that many already have been through extensive health screening and vet care before you even own them. This doesn't mean you add them to a population all willy nilly. Fish, birds...

Ahaha, that makes more sense. I was like, alright...each their own. We have sports bars and guys do that all the time, I should have known but I am not big into sports so that light bulb never went off. 😂

Uhm, well from what I can figure you are heading to the bar with your friend to watch cartoons on the TV. Saw some scary looking ladies, the sparrows even flew off. It was awesome?🤣 ☠️

I believe it is more along the line of selective breeding as the gene variation and pool has been vastly affected by poachers killing large male tuskers and tusked females. Leaving behind tuskless animals or ones with smaller, less desirable tusks to mate and procreate. If all you have left to...

Could be Male being over protective, or, sometimes when conditions are right and they are in breeding fitness Males can be ready to spawn again before females are and if that is the case they can get pretty aggressive with the female. If she is not carrying eggs when he is ready they can chase...

This is Summer. She is a 12 week old Weimaraner pup. She is the newest addition to the house but is proving to be a very good girl. She knows how to sit, down, stay and spin (She is a quick study). She heels and has very good recall for such a little girl. She loves everyone and everything, a...

This is very cool. There are a few channels I watch on youtube that do resin sculpture. If you don't already have a channel, might be something to look into. Great job.

It has been cured, does that count? ;)

I like parody movies, my favorite is Space Balls. 😂 Kids are also big into Star wars, can't wait until they are old enough to watch Space balls with me.

Congratulations!!!

🤣🤣🤣I am dying. Thanks for the laugh, I needed it.

Four fathers are waiting in the hospital for the birth of their children. Nurse comes to father #1 and says: "Congratulations, you have twins." He says: "Wow, what a coincidence, I work for the Minnesota Twins." Nurse comes to father #2 and says: "Congratulations, you have triplets" He says...

IKR. The octopus episode I relate to a lot. Where Bluey's dad is just super silly and the other dad takes game too seriously. Like octopi don't do that🤣 I am that parent, like how can I make this educational and fun. However, the boys are like come on mom, just be silly.

They have a few movies out, the boys really like the reef one with the crown of thorn star fish. Ring of Fire one is cute and the one with the underwater caves is too.

Yes! I couldn't remember where I had learned it. Octonauts🤣 My middle was big into them. Haven't seen them in a minute as my little is obsessed with Bluey.

Why couldn't the green pepper practice archery? Because it didn't habanero. Bada bum!🤣

I have used it for years without any trouble. With that said, anything is possible, single celled organisms can be quite tenacious. The chances of a parasitic protozoan hitchhiking in Rapashy is improbable, but not entirely impossible.

I am late to the party, I mix mine 1:2. 16 tablespoons of rapashy to 2 cups boiling water. Mine sets pretty quickly. I whisk it in a bowl quickly and pour off into mini ice cube trays. Within 10 minutes I run a card across the tray to scrape off the over pour, pop them from the tray and put one...

I had a garden bed that was neglected during the time I was caring for my second kiddo. When I finally got in it to weed and trim, I came face to face with a Garden spider. I almost died. Not because the spider attacked, but because I reared back and fell out of the raised part of the bed. Fun...