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Some individuals are to a degree. The "minimalist" movement as of more recently. But that's far from the answer. Well at this level of involvement, if many many more were involved then it would be something. At least at this point it hasn't scratched the surface of the issue. But it's something...

Too bad we couldn't act more like ants. I have a carpenter ant colony just starting out. My hope is to set them up where they can farm aphids. Ants tend to live in symbiosis with their environment. But are socially far more similar to people then I think most realise. Obviously not exactly many...

That's deviating to hear. If anyone remembers the first matrix movie. I have always said since watching it they explain whet people do better then I had ever heard. We are a virus spreading across the earth destroying everything we touch. not a quote different words same message lol. But if I...

Byron you had me at monophyletic clade lol. Your on an entire other level then me bro. I understand very little. Feel like I got the point, most of it lol.

Love the passion Colin. And no trouble just conversation lol. Those are all great points. Yes what people are capable is unimaginable. Some of the worst experiments ever done on an animal were human on human experiments. So does that mean its potentially less accepted based on specie's? I know...

Hmm understood. And yes grizzlies and polar bear are supposed to get closely related. Also did know they were still figuring things out with cory's, didn't know there were 9 different species being called corydoras. So corydoras are dieing off? Not something I was aware of either. Are there any...

Hybridization, probably have some blood boiling already. Not exactly the point of the post. I'm only curious because some of my personal favorite fish are hybrid. Valentina synodontis (still argued if it's a hybrid or not) and flowerhorn cichlids are some of my favorite fish. Those seem to be...

Ya as I had said my friend gave him to us. It's my fiance's favorite. She named him ray because he looks like a stingray lol.

1 hillstream loach, 2 copper Cory's, 3 peppered Cory's, 1 julii Cory, 1 Valentina synodontis and 1 bristle nose pleco.

And that is a great way to do things. I completely respect thats the way you do it. To me this is one of the things that make any animal keeping tricky and controversial. We will probably always as people debate rather keeping a lion in a cage is humane. Same for the aquarium. Also the specific...

Lol. Well thank you. It almost doesn't feel like having a tank. 30gal was the smallest I used to have when I was big into fish. Used a 30 as a QT tank because I had several big fish. This tanks stocking list has just recently changed a little. We had three female bettas. One was older and we...

I hear you Colin. I respect your obviously knowledge and totally understand questioning if the fish have been in that system for two years. But doesn't the immediate response that came from that video seem a bit strong for an assumption? He may have implied that to some. I didn't take take it...

That's great Byron. But I have raised and actually spawned a pair. Unfortunately I lost the fry and didn't have much success getting them to do it again. What they don't mention in that information is they won't spawn for at least 2-3 years. Females seem to take longer to become sexually mature...

I agree and I did try to apologise for my response. I did take things a bit personal. And that's on me, my bad. I was feeling as if people were disagreeing with certain things just to simply disagree. Was incredibly frustrating and I responded in a way I'm not entirely proud of. I stand by the...

Ok. Did he say those fish have been in it since the begining? He sells juvi rainbow fish. If you are any successful you are hopefully moving stock if your selling anything. Not only possible those fish are passing through but probable over the span of a couple years. Again at least in my...

I keep telling myself I'm not getting back on here. But can't help it. I'm obviously the bad dumb guy reading back through. Seems I made no sense at all and you darn guys are so much smarter. This forum is a joke for sharing thoughts. I disagree with you. Seems a more sensible person may...

I understand. And that's a terrific point. Has nothing to do with my original point. Bass in texas are much bigger then bass in Idaho. People travel from across the US to catch trophy bass in texas. Guess who travel's to Idaho for bass? No one. So by your explanation bass in Texas should be far...

And Byron your the one telling people they need a 6 foot tank for a senegal bichir because it gets 18" long. Bro your giving aquarium advice. They won't have an 18" senegal in a tank. Maybe a big one in the wild gets 18" but even then it's a not an average size, it's a big one. So we all mislead...

Ok y'all are blindly right. I never recommended anyone do anything. I'll repeat that because it seems most are pretty much missing that. Didn't tell anyone to do anything. I stated my opinion a couple times as to what I may do on a couple subjects. But as I always try to say it's my opinion and...

Dude rain water falls basically as R/O. So by your question I assume you understand it then gets filtered through the earth to underground waterways. Yes your familiar with the process. So why would R/O water need to be filtered? Because the moment a drop of rain comes into contact with a...

Come on bro. This is the stuff I'm not trying to keep doing. Obviously water underground is filtered through the sediment. We aren't talking drinking water we are talking rivers and lakes man. I mean come on. If your belief is all rivers and lakes are fed my some underground water source spread...

Ok. Well never recommended no water changes to anyone. Never suggested anyone do a natural tank. Simply wanted to open up a discussion on a topic that interested me. Obviously that was a bad call as it seems to have ruffled a few feathers. As far as the rain/melting bringing clean water I guess...

I That I do understand. And I don't know much about rainbow fish. But I don't doubt what you say. Does make me want to go back and listen closer to his shrimp talks. See if anything doesn't mix well with what I believe I know about them lol. I don't know him personally. But he isn't the only...

And I respect that and would suggest that's how everyone approach a new and especially unorthodox idea. I'm not sure if I have actually seen him do any peram testing on video. I can see if I could find one at some point. He does give off the relaxed no care vibe. Look at his white board behind...

Maybe consider this. Without doing any research just off the top.of my head I know that large mouth bass across the United States range in average size. This is largely contributed to Temp and a couple other factors. They are the same specie's but slight differences I'm habitat makes pretty big...

Awesome, would love an actual discussion. My issue with our friend was I just got told i was wrong. No give and take just copy and paste the same litterateur. That's not a conversation and very frustrating lol. Anyway. I can understand your scepticism. And truthfully I know very little about...

It was directed at him. As I said a bit frustrated and it was referring to another post where he broke down what I said into like 5 different quotes correcting each thing. And my point wasn't that it diluted the water at all in nature. It was actually the opposite. It collects all types of bad...

understand. If you look at his you tube channel you can see other videos more about his shrimp. They have international competitions for different fish and inverts and so on. Not saying blindly listen to him or me. Just asking people to at least check it out. If it interests you do a little...

While I have you in here I have to get a couple things off my chest. You quoted a ton of crap from one of my other posts. Correcting everything of course. I just have to say you are so wrong on several things. I don't think you will hear any of this. But rain certainly does not flush rivers or...

Was going to apologise for bad spelling. But I'm on a phone and I cut my thumb up with a table say pretty good. Showed a pic in another post. Anyway messes with my texting pretty bad lol.

In your opinion? Could you please just ad din your opinion some times? Believe him or not he has kept shrimp most consider to live on average 2 years for up to 4 years. Doing things the way he does things. He's not growing lights with a globe. His tanks had a glare but I think milky what would...

Ok. I created this post to escape you and your buddies judging eyes. Obviously that didn't work. Look I get it. You believe that what you believe in is better then what anyone else may believe in. I disagree making me the enemy (remind us of anyone) . Can at least this post be free of you...

Have no idea why you would treat a fish in any way that has zero sign of issues. Fish flash bro. There is absolutely no way that cranking up the heat helps cure something you can't even know it has.

Hahaha you went to great lengths there. This forum seems to be the "come ask this guy he has all the answers" fish forum. Hahaha. I said live never said thrive who argues the health of animals near Chernobyl. You are truly and odd duck. Hahaha. I just read he end hahaha. Your nuclear war stance...

Your right, again. Anybody doing things differently is wrong, again. Don't know where this world would be without open minds like yours my friend. Do just a small amount of research on the man before discrediting him as a bad keeper. Look a his prize winning shrimp that he raises in tanks...

Well was talking with a friend more familiar with metal. Looks like I'll probably go with steel. Probably going to end up having it made. Don't trust myself welding something that needs to hold a car lol. Anyway here is a rough sketch of what him and I kind of came up with. Shelves will...

Started this to talk about "new" ideas in fishkeeping. Only been here a short time and noticed when mentioning something against the norm there was a bit of push back. I get it. We all have things completely figured out and are done learning. Ok, sarcasm aside. Let's talk new ideas. I'm...

Love to push the limits of what's possible. Catching a bit of push back for my "radical" beliefs on water changes already lol. Love to challenge the norm within reason. And have seen some stuff from credible sources about tanks going months without water changes. Obviously the chemistry must be...

I really want to do this. Planning to start a brine shrimp hatchery. Mosquito larva was like a light went off in my head. I Live in Alaska and we have nooooo shortage of mosquito. I often will take a freshly killed mosquito on the tip of my finger and feed them to my bettas. They eat them off my...