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Thanks @Aqua67. She tested it at 8 with test strips, which are not accurate, but her local store in Amsterdam told her it was ‘hard’. Hence the confusion.

When I started keeping fish in 1972 it was already well established in the Singapore farms. I’ve been treating my own newly acquired fish for them occasionally ever since then. When I joined the trade in about 1990 I saw just how rife it was. The UK gets it’s fish from Singapore. Always has. A...

Asking for someone with issues on another forum. Thanks.

We’re still using it over here in the UK, and it’s still working. :)

Sterazin is not available in the US.

A lot of them have now been named (the L-number tends to remain after they’re described, just for reference). But the list is still growing. There’s also over 300 C-numbers and CW-numbers for Corydoras. Similar story there….

Depends on the species. B. anabatoides is less aggressive than B. splendens, but nearly all Giant Bettas you’re likely to see in stores are just large B. ‘splendens’ (the domestic version, which is a hybrid) and just as aggressive.

I was treating new imports for visible Camallanus worms every week for twenty years while I was in the trade. Here’s what I always did. Add Waterlife Sterazin as per the instructions. Nothing else. It worked every time.

Didn’t TFH fund a lot of collecting expeditions into the Amazon? I’ll pay for your trip if you name one after me….

“Traditionally, the person who first describes a newfound plant or animal is entitled to name it,” So anyone in theory can do the work, and if the work determines it’s a new species, the describer gets to name it. And the name is valid until/unless proven otherwise.

Any reason why you can’t buy salt and mix it yourself? Would be a lot cheaper.

Congratulations. :) From what I’ve heard and read, the Electric Blue Acara is probably a hybrid between Andinoacara pulcher and the Blue Ram, Mikrogeophagus ramirezi.

This is very much a question, not an answer. It has always interested me but I know very little about it. Let’s say I discover a new species on a collecting trip. What happens next? I assume specimens are sent or taken to a museum(?) so that we have them available for further study. Holotypes...

I’m shocked. How can anyone dislike Kuhlies? Gary, go and see your shrink. Tell him it’s an emergency.

Gary undersells himself. He “tags along” with Anton Lamboj and the like… the world’s leading ichthyologists. The ones that discover the fish and write the books.

Corys would be better, yes, especially in a planted tank. Adult Hoplos would look a bit cramped imo too… :)

I had them in a 6x2x2 the last time. I’d consider about 250L as a minimum.

A very underrated fish that is a joy to keep. That was my experience with them. The related Diadema and Callichthys are the same. Keep a few together. They’re totally peaceful and won’t harm anything except food. You can think of them as giant Corys. They grow big though, 6”+

You never need to do a “complete clean”. In fact it’s probably a bad thing, because an aquarium is a living ecosystem that carries on maturing over the months and years (in ways I don’t fully understand or feel the need to), and a complete clean would be like starting again in some respects. A...

I clean wood, and pour boiling water over it to kill anything, then put it in a tank and wait till it sinks.

That’s interesting. I can’t remember if I’ve seen it on others or not… And when I said it can kill, that could well have been caused by the bigger issue that caused the damage (the infection, or secondary infection, or whatever) rather than the discolouring itself. Mostly the discolouring...

Nerve damage. The Tropical Fishlopaedia (every aquarist should have a copy) says this… Abnormally dark coloration is a very common sign of stress but may also be seen during many other diseases… Heightened or otherwise abnormal coloration may be a sign of damage to the central nervous system...

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A Philodendron species, probably P. scandens.

I also see a Pristella. They would tend to live above the Roseys, if you got a group.

The fins on Roseys and Pristellas are very different in colour/pattern. It will be ‘ok’ but imo it will be at least slightly stressed. If you added a group of its species it would jump ship and join them….

Looks kinda like a Sisyrid nymph, but more like a terrestrial caterpillar.

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I think it’s also about population sizes and bioloads. There was a paper about this that I read and could never find again. They put different numbers of adult guppies (from 2 to 100) in about 20 identical tanks, and after a few months every tank had (more or less) the same number of adults...

Latin names are a lot less confusing. Which Giant Betta are you thinking of?

I don’t normally diss a fish, but I have to agree. Just so you know, @rebe (if you don’t already), black skirts look lovely when they’re small and black, but they grow up to be pale grey and lazy/boring. Apologies black skirts.

Yes, they’ll be ok.

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They are a species that benefits from physical contact with others of their own species, so we must assume they’re stressed on their own. Living instead of dying does not prove they’re being kept correctly.

Apple snails are legal again? I didn’t know. Off topic a bit, but when I lived in Australia as a child my dad worked way out in the outback miles from anywhere. One day a blue budgie (domestic strain) befriended him. Escaped or released? We never found out. He brought it home and it loved him...

They probably don’t want to repeat the mistake they made with rabbits?

Ropefish very much need to be kept in a group, as you presumably know if you’ve had them before. I would not expect normal behaviour from a lone specimen. Having said that, it’s not unknown for fish to behave differently when the light spectrum or brightness is changed.

US food is actually very expensive. In the UK a lb of fresh tuna steaks is £5.70, which is about $6.84. Pretty much all our food is a lot cheaper, right across the board.

I’m not jealous at all. My tanks have never gotten into double figures. :(