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Here's a pic of my Rainbow Shark. He's 5" in length, and never stopps whipping through the plants. It's the most active of all my fish. Notice the GloLight Tetra to the left of the Rainbow Shark's head... Colin

I just measured the male (somewhat) and it's at least 10" from the top of the dorsal fin to the bottom of the anal fin (not including the little tips that extend another 5-6"). This guy is freakin' huge! he and my smaller black angel are already almost inseperable. Does this seem a bit odd to...

I suspect my favourite angelfish, is a female, but I'm not 100% sure. Can anyone help me identify the gender of it? It has a rounded protrusion from near the anal fin. So did my gold angel and one of them layed eggs. Usually they were inseperable in the aquarium. don't know who layed the...

I spoke to my LFS owner and we can rule out dyeing. He thinks it's a male, but also questioned based off what I said about the pink belly. I still don't know... Colin

I;m not using Fluorish Excel, jjust plain old Fluorish. I don't think my placement of the phosguard gave it much opportunity to fully work, so I put all the Phosguard into my cannister filter. I also had enough room in the media basket to cram an Aquaclear 200 Carbon pack in. Since I like how...

Yellow Panchax is a killifish. This link has a lot of info on it, posted by Auratus. Thanks for the compliments! Colin

I was at my good LFS today telling the owner about my two angelfish. I know at least one was a female, but I strongly suspect that they are both females. Anyways, I wanted to trade the gold female angel for a nice male My LFS owner said he'd take it on a trade once it's fin ailment was cured...

I just picked up 5 oto's to help clean the tank of algae. In the meantime, what would you say to increasing the doese of fluorish to at least 2mL, given my high light and being heavily planted. I get the impression from the very slow growth of most plants (except for one plant which I found...

You can buy the eggs through killifish clubs and online auctions. In nature, killifish often live in puddles. they lay their eggs in the puddles, then the puddles dry up. I believe some (or all?) types of killi's can breathe oxygen through their skin, thus they can flop around for a while...

He's about 4" long. I' get him a mate, but he's the only killi I have ever found. Colin

True, however I have no room for another 10G to quarantine right now. It's either my platy's which I used for cycling, or all my favourite (not to mention expensive) fish in my 30G. Given my options, it's the lesser of two evils. I was going to use a 5G, but there are none available in my...

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Thanks for all the compliments. I agree, he is a gorgeous fish. And no, I'm not joking about all the missing fish. :blink: We have counted nightly since the first disappearance. We lost 7 in 2 1/2 weeks. Not to be cruel, but losing the tetra's didn't bother me that much since they were...

I'm not sure what it is yet, but I've moved it to a 10G with some platy's and am treeting with Clout, as per the recommendations of the LFS owner. he said it sounded like a parasite or something, and to gently scrape off the cloudy crap, oherwise medicating may not work. Colin

Here's my greedy killi... As you can see, it' got a big mouth. I wonder if this has anything to do with 11 tetra's and 2 True Siamese Flying Fox's disappearing (*EDIT come to think of it I had at least 3 or 4 flying foxs disappear)? Colin

I found they were decent algae eaters when they were small. Once they got a bit bigger, though, they ate less and less algae. I just got back from the LFS where I bought 5 oto's. Once they take care of the algae on my plants and celan the tank, a2 will be moved to my 10G. As well, he's going...

Good call on your judgement to bring them all back! The oto's shouldn't give you any prob's at all! Just before writing that last post I had actually called my LFS owner. he brought in a dozen oto's for me to pick from since I mentioned them tohim last week. As for the gourami's, well, it...

I wouldn't keep any of the CAE's. I picked up a couple 1" CAE's labeled as plain old 'algae eaters.' At the time I had many beautiful gourami's. The CAE's weren't a problem for about 2 months. One grew quickliy and the other slowly. The fast growing one hit about 2" and it's favourite meal...

I just called my LFS owner and he remembered me asking about some oto's a week ago, so he brought a dozen in. He's got 4 holding for me. If they are cheap enough and not going to overpopulate and pollute my tank, I may grab more. Colin

The algae started when I had 60W of tube fluoro's (2x PowerGlo and 1x AquaGlo). This is when it was at it's worst. I now have 184W, or 6.1 WPG (138W Daylight compact spiral fluoro's and 46W of regular (yellowish) compact spiral fluoro's. There is more info on my canopy here (DIY job). I've...

As for lighting, I found it wasn't worth it to pay a LFS for lights in the long run. I found VHO fluoro fixtures at approx 60 Watts per tube/fixture at $150 CAD each. For my 30G tank and desired light of 4 WPG, it would have cost me over $300 for the lights. I ended up building my own...

I have actually tested my tap water first thing after gettingthe phosphate test kit, and it came up around 0.25mg/L. My LFS owner told me that phosphates in tapwater are something like a time release, where you may get a low result on the test initially, but over a period of 24-48 hours, the...

There are many different factors that contribute to algae growth. There are alao many different varieties of algae. Perhaps if you let us know all your spec's (tank size, pH, Nitrates, Phosphates, Lighting wattage/type, plant types) as well as what colour the algae is. I'm going to gues it's a...

I noticed about a week ago that my gold angel had a cloudy spot in the middle of one of it's fins. It doesn't look to me like when another fish of mine had ich several months back. I know I have seen this in a book before, but no longer have that one from the library. Any help with the...

I've seen a marbled mix of blue on one half and orange/red/yellow on the other. The colours blended at the lateral line in a really cool way. As for the punnet square and comparing traits, you have to bear in mind that a trait from many, many generations back can come forward at anytime...

What sort of plant, tank, and lighting do you have? It's great that it's growing as you watch! I let my plants grow to the top and then stretch along it before I trim them. I cut them in half and plant the cuttings. It hasn't failed for me yet. Also, if the planst are in good shape, some...

rykitten, from what I understand of Bengals is that they are normally extremely loyal to their owner, but can be very timid towards other. In the case of our Bengal, Bean (seen here), she's 2-faced between timid and pshycotic. My GF's mom is the only one she is totally loyal to. Anyone else...

I've had an algae problem for a while now in my (heavily planted) 30G on my plants. My only plant that has been unneffected by the algae and stil grows like a weed is my Hottonia inflata. I have lots of Fluorite for substrate and use Nutrafin's CO2 system. The algae noticably started the...

Thanks Rusty_S & psgill00 for the nom's! I've posted a sized down version in the POTM nom thread. I actually originally wasn't going to post that one. I liked the first pic of bean, but my GF insisted I post the Shoe pic. Show's what I know... :fun: Colin

I've been nominated for POTM with the pic "Stan, Lord of the Shoes" Here is a link to the thread also featuring a few other cute pic's of our evil, evil cats. Colin

:hyper: :devil: :hyper: I fixed my problem with photobucket! I was right-clicking on the pic and hitting 'Copy Shortcut' or clicking on the image and copying the address in the address bar. It made the link look like "/?action=view&current=BothRams.jpg" at the end of the address instead of...

Thanks! That name would actually be very fitting for the little grey hell-spawn. She is cute, but has razor-sharp claws with a very wide span and she's fast as lightning. I can pull away from most cats taking a swipe with no problem's, but this one get's me every time. She can be nudging you...

Thanks for trying to help, anyways, and thanks for posting the photobucket link to my pic's for others to see. I read the info at photobucket and it says that it does allow dynamic/remote linking for just this purpose. It even says in my personal options that it is turned on. I'm going to...