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It was really interesting reading through this thread, as someone with a relatively newfound interest in hunting and fishing. You've done a great job illustrating what some of the process can be like, and it's definitely furthered my desire to pursue hunting as a practice if/when I can. I was...

I always siphon into a bucket, for multiple reasons, but I've had one of my shrimp take that joyride before and it was definitely a good thing the bucket was there to receive it. I do worry about not being able to see the babies in the bucket since they're a touch translucent at the moment, but...

My crystal red shrimp finally had shrimplets!! I had no idea one of my females was even berried, but I just noticed some teeny tiny little red-striped young'uns yesterday. What tips and tricks do people have for siphoning tanks with shrimplets? I know some people cover the end of the hose with...

This is Jelly the neon tetra, the very first of my current group and the fish that got me back into fishkeeping. I adopted her last December (wow, almost a year now!) from an undergraduate student in our lab who was moving away and couldn't take her fish with her. She actually had a few neons in...

Heat might kill some of the ich, but the main reason increasing the temperature is recommended is because it helps speed up the life cycle of the parasite. Ich has a few life stages. What you see on the fish is an encysted form which has a protective coating. At this stage, medication and heat...

You probably won't get much help for turtles around here since this is a fish forum. You might want to try reaching out to some reptile forums instead. I'll be honest though. If you're strapped for cash and are still missing most of the necessary supplies, you'll probably want to consider...

I wish you luck! Again, a jeweler's scale will be a friend to you. Or at least a kitchen scale that's capable of measuring in milligrams, although I know of very few that do.

Yes! I have two Australian green tree frogs that'll live in this tank once it's done. Right now, they're in a DIY modified storage tub

Please look at your product's dosing instructions first, but one recommended dosage of fenbendazole for use in food is 2.5mg per gram of feed. Feed the medicated food for 2-3 days, then repeat that feeding regimen again in 14 days. So what you would do is get or prepare the amount of food that...

Adam Ragusea was actually the exact person I was thinking of 🤣 Although I have seen other people do it to! His little ranchus are very cute.

I don't know what your living situation is like or what space you have available, but definitely consider a non-glass tank of some sort. They'll be a whole lot cheaper per gallon than a glass aquarium. I've seen people successfully keep goldfish in agricultural metal stock tanks like this. They...

At long last, background construction has commenced on this tank. I've actually just finished applying the expanding foam and most of the background elements, but I'll wait to show progress shots until it's cured and I've carved it into the final shapes I want. For now, I'll introduce the plants...

Return the blue gourami. You've stated you aren't willing to set up another tank to separate them. Don't allow an animal you bought to die needlessly just because you've decided to do nothing about it. The blue gourami did not choose to be in that tank. You put him there. Implying that the red...

Alright, my bad, I looked into some scientific literature and the term is indeed used for fish other than salmonids/catfish. My guess is that even though these fins are not fatty in the vast majority of tropical fish, the term "adipose" might have been applied here because they don't have the...

Only a select few types of fish have adipose fins, including salmonids (salmon, trout, etc.) and some larger catfish. An adipose fin is called that because it is fleshy and fatty. It has adipose tissue in it. The fin that you're describing on tetras and other tropical fish is not fatty at all...

Moray eels are a whole group of eels—an entire taxonomic family—and there are over 200 species. The snowflake eel is one of them, so yes, it is a moray. I don't think there are any eels that would be "false" morays. I'm pretty sure the only eels that get that title are the ones that actually are...

I'm an invertebrate biologist who specifically works with sea stars and no, I can confirm that there are zero freshwater sea stars (starfish). In fact, you'd be extremely hard-pressed to find any echinoderm (sea stars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, brittle stars, crinoids, etc.) in an estuary, let...

That was my suspicion as well. Glad to have a second opinion. Just a waiting game at this point, then. I'm excited to watch this fish color up, at least to the extent that it can. In person, it's a little hard to tell where exactly on the fin they are. The fin rays are surprisingly delicate...

The garlic juice probably isn't doing anything for your ich problem, but I suppose it can't hurt. The bigger issue is that you're heating your tank without using any form of medication. Heat does not kill ich directly. Not at temperatures that would be safe for fish, anyway. Heat simply speeds...

If you're referring to the two spots on her anal fin, then no, I'm fairly sure those aren't ich. I've dealt with ich before and these spots don't look like any ich I've seen. Any other white "spots" on her in the photos would just be light reflecting off of scales or fin rays. In person, the...

As my new ram has been settling in, I've been debating with myself a little bit about its sex. I'm fairly sure it's a female, but considering I don't know its age, I suppose there's a chance it could be an immature male. Points in favor of female: - Relatively larger vent size. It seems like...

There are zebra ostracods?? Man, aquarists and our obsession with anything black and white striped. They'll make anything a "zebra" these days!

Yes, that definitely looks like ich. I've just finished dealing with a minor case in some new fish I got a week ago. They didn't have any signs when I bought them, but it cropped up a couple days after I brought them home. Unless you have a severe case, ich is a rather trivial disease when you...

If you are dealing with open wounds, the best course of action is to do frequent water changes, about three times per week, at least. They don't have to be as large as your typical weekly change, but doing them more often will help keep the water cleaner in general and also keep bacterial counts...

I'm glad someone agrees. I've never particularly liked angelfish. Something about their faces and body shape just sort of wig me out. They're cichlids, but they got a little melty like a chocolate bar in a pocket, and solidified into something not quite right. They're weirdly muscular, with too...

A flat stone sounds great. In the meantime, I would definitely recommend feeding with tweezers/tongs. It allows you to better control how much food each frog gets and ensures that they aren’t eating substrate with food. A pipette still allows food to fall down unless the frogs are ready and able...

Wow, no wonder a brine shrimp was so difficult! How large are they, roughly? Mine were also fairly small when I got them, and they stay small. My two adult males are at most an inch long. I probably got them at roughly 3/4". Also, I can tell from the video that their "tadpole tail" is just their...

We would be in the exact same boat, actually! I was also planning on getting an A. agassizii at first, but ended up falling in love with bolivian rams instead :) As an update for the thread: I got some artificial plants for the tank. Not my favorite, but I unfortunately don't keep any...

I hope you have a blast with these guys! They're so much fun to watch. Cute names too :) My only word of caution is that it looks like some of that gravel is small enough to be swallowed, but large enough to potentially cause impaction. I use a very fine-grained sand because, as I'm sure you've...

The tank has no light. All light in the tank is ambient room light. As I said in my previous post, the reason that photo looks bright is because the camera took a longer exposure. Again, as I mentioned in my previous post, there is an artificial cave. The ram has, I think, finally realized it's...

Well, I got the ram today! But I'm rather worried about it... I just put it in a quarantine tank and I can tell it's extremely stressed. I floated the bag for 15 min, as usual. Once the temps were the same, I dumped the water/fish out into a net and released it into the tank. It settled on one...

To my eye, she doesn't look overweight at all. Pretty good body shape and definition. From the photos, she looks like a healthy betta. I think I know the online body condition chart you're talking about and I wouldn't say she fits any of the overweight examples. Also, there is always going to...

If you want more than one, make sure you're able to sex them confidently. There can be quite a bit of same-sex aggression in some dwarf cichlids, especially between males and especially during spawning. If you want a pair, look for a shop selling an adult pair who are already bonded. It'll be a...

What signs did the fish exhibit before they passed? And is there anything odd you notice about your fish currently, other than shyness? Since you mentioned two of your fish rapidly declined in health before dying, I think it would be best to investigate potential illnesses too. It's possible...