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BN plecos are fine, they get along about anywhere...... If you dont care for the Cichlids, find some one to trade or even the LFS.. If you got to take care of it, might as well have something in there that motivates you or the whole thing will decrease or cease!

AH! Love it..... I went from 4 tanks the first of Dec, to 8 now with two dry ones, "just in case".... LOL Once I would have said FILL EM UP! But, I always want an ER, so 10s are good for that!

OK, so I was comment on someone elses into, and realized I have not yet do so, until now. I have been dabbling in fresh water fish for well over 50 years. Been in the hobby, then out and back in several times since I was a kid. My grandma got us started, when she lived on the river with great...

Greetings! You now have aquarium water in your veins, and it will never be completely eradicated.... LOL I am fairly new here, too. But have been in (and out then back into) this hobby for 50 years. Currently, I have 8 tanks (4-10g, 20g, 20 long, 29 g and 55 gal... all fresh water...

Petco sale is thru FEB 2nd, but 5 gal is not included, only 10 -30 gal are $1 gal, large than that are 1/2 price but the 5 gals are 13 or 15 each!!!!! WOW

I am a grandfather ... <3 so Raise your own kids! hehehe

I am sure hoping that Aberdeen Aquarist did not mean to say that they DO NOT eat fish, since they have kept fish as pets, but "the mother in law in another matter"... DO NOT EAT your mother in law, OR your pet fish !!! LOL OK, I will stop now.... it is a response to a thread from near 7...

platy or sword

Curious what is the singling out of mystery snails? (I too, appreciate snails) The thing that confuses me about them, is "what's the mystery?" They are freakin snails!!!! LOL But seriously, what is up with the MS?

I figure between the back-to-back spawnings, (Dec 5 and Dec 27, when they came out of the cave, respectively), There is prob around 100 frylings!

Yeah, I know exactly how you feel! Love watching them, too. I moved the females all out after the 2nd clutch. but I am sure it will not be long, before I have another arrangement going on in the 55!! LOL This is dad, or maybe uncle and some of the babies

"Sudden" color changes, with no apparent side effects is quite often due to a creature having better food, environment or just plain better stability, they grow happier and color become more vibrant and vital.... Just enjoy him, you seem to be doing a good thing for him

I don't know, I am not there and seeing him everyday. but if he is eating fine, acting normal and swimming well, pooping.... No need to worry, . . . my grandmother (who raised MANY species of fish and beautiful African violets) always said about worry.... "It's like a rocking chair, maybe gives...

Looks like all normal pigmentation to me

I have been threw 4 periods of my life where I was involved in spawning bettas. First off, from the start, doing my research, I could NOT imagine trying to spawn these fish WITHOUT a heater, even in a climate controlled dedicated fish room. Do plenty of research, FIRST! Maybe get off the...

Yes!! simply throwing two fish of the same species but opposite sexes together just to make more babies, makes one simply a multiplier, NOT a breeder. We all need to do research and keep learning and expanding our knowledge. I do feel any honest person that cares to do the work, continue to...

Privacy? Whut? Snails carry their home around on the back, so anything the rest of us are seeing, is basically happening with between the DOORS of their homes! SO, maybe we had better see it THAT way, and just not be sticking out nose in THEIR bidness! LOL (and yeah, I say they are mating...

I speculate that your environment, including water and food, is an improvement over the same things/water parameters he was raised/born into. The change in water condition will cause snails to develop ripples and ridges in the shell, as well as color changes as they grow and age. You can often...

TY! I have had several boys that have made it 5 or more years (my record was almost 7 years) but that was always in smaller bowls, live plants and "dirty" conditions, but some peoples standards, but more like their ancestors environment. The light was on almost 24/7. though the plants were so...

To me it looks like a wound, but could be fin/scale rot. Hope it is NOT SFR, I treated the water with aquarium salt. I am no expert, but back in 2015, I had a older male, had an eruption further up his "shoulder", looked like a pimple. Soon it popped and he was completely infected, scales...

The "algae" eater only eats SOME algae as a juvenile , but not as it matures. IT just become older, bigger and a larger threat to other fish. The Common Pleco (Hypostomus plecostomus.) grows quite quickly, reaching 24" or more early in life, quickly outgrowing the often small aquarium that it...

I think there is somethings to consider here, besides the vast array of "other" livebearers... so, follow me, if you will. Yes, everyone knows what guppies are, they are something that reminds us of childhood and the like. Yes, common and well, popular, There is a reason, besides simply the...

And, yes,,, they are O. javanicus

Plus with the two tanks, and moving the parents and hope they leave me viable fry/eggs... then not all my EGGS are in "one basket"! LOL

The plants and the mops are so intertwined in that tank, I do not want to ruin the rooted plants at this time to move that part of it. I also have khuli loach that have bred in that tank, so ..... there is that too

I wish these and the common pleco were bannished from the hobby!!! (no offense to the OP or any members is intended)

I saw these little charmers at the shop, and decided I had to have them! Interesting nano fish, young and trying to spawn, but not colored up yet. I brought home 5 fish. Ended up with 3. a trio..... Darn things spawn every day.... literally! Moved them out of my 29 and into a well aged 10...

I was aware of the fact, there were male and females in my 29 gal. I was thinking I would set up a dedicated system for breeding, I have normal black long fin males, a brown normal short female, lf ablino female, and 2 blue eye lf females... Dec 5th I find babies out on top of a cave, figure...