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This is my pug/Frenchie mix, Tommy. We had DNA done and he is exactly 50/50. He is close to five years old. We bought him as an adult. His former owner had extensive back surgery and could no longer care for him. He is a very active boy! A few years back was one of the saddest days of...

Yeah, same thing I was thinking! Thanks, Colin!

I saw three or four of the small worm like creatures clinging to the glass of my tank when I was changing water. They are made me 5 mm long and were very difficult to photograph for whatever reasons. I have never seen this thing before in any of my tanks. I checked for detritus worms, but...

Well, I have more pieces of the puzzle right now. The breeder went to the crossroads and sold his soul to the devil in exchange for this fantastic specimen.

I never market ANYTHING. I am looking at buying these fish and an in search of info. I found the Mississippi Blues years ago, thanks to the first husband. Mississippi John Hurt, Lightnin Hopkins, Howling Wolf to name a few. And oh yeah, start with Robert Johnson.

Thanks for the link. A well respected breeder of many decades tells me that spirulina brings out the blue. I am feeding bug bites spirulina every day, along with other foods to my blues. Hope I spelled that word right, too lazy to look now, but I’m close enough so that you should know what...

Nice fish, but other variety, Magnum. I will try to attach a photo.

I’ve been hearing this name here and there and got in contact with a breeder. Here is what he had to say. He provided additional information on the California green, another variety to me. I quote from him below. California Blue is a cultivar that was once developed the Philippines and the...

You would not believe the conflicting info I get from forums/facebook groups, but then again you might. Same thing for online searches. What I do is seek many opinions and form conclusions based upon the best consensus I find & common sense. I have fish that play in air bubbles, mostly loaches.

That is exactly what I had in the tank, one at each end. Here’s a pic of the replacements that will arrive soon, maybe today or tomorrow. I have them in other tanks and the output is far more powerful than what you get from that bar, at least so far as I can determine visually.

Colin T, I’m so glad you popped up now on this subject. The resident guru in another group is telling me I am at risk of providing too much oxygen to my tanks. He says this can cause a deadly incurable disease. He talked about bulging eyeballs and all kinds of stuff and I couldn’t read it, too...

I’ve seen stones/filters with different outputs. Specifically, what do you use?

I see several at Amazon with a range of prices. Can you recommend a specific brand & model?

Malok, thank you so much for your post and the kind thoughts. Both are greatly appreciated. I am going to Amazon right now to look for the meter you discussed. I’m surprised that after all the reading I have done on fish keeping I never came across this before on O2 meters.

My current working theory, arrived at moments before Wills posted the same, remains unchanged. He expressed it better than I. Scroll back if you’re interested. Yes, I will clean filter media as Colin describes going forward. Although the filters (and heaters) were not responsible.

Could have been that and O2 deprivation.

I’m being told that fish who die from oxygen deprivation have flared gills. I was in too much shock to really notice while quickly removing them. Would the gills have been so grossly flared as to be impossible to miss?

Wills, that is my latest theory. Inadequate oxygenation and the annual addition of a few fry that escaped predation. It was my most densely populated tank. There were numerous large hides & a death inside may have very well eluded me. I thought of shifting some to other large cichlid...

I really don’t know. I’ll have to ask my boyfriend. He’s a genius who knows everything. lol. lol

My hands have become so sensitive that I can stick my finger in & tell the temp within a few degrees. lol.

Heater good, temp. stable. Nighttime spike extremely unlikely. In tanks of this size one does not generally see rapid rises and drops in temperature. The tank has two heaters, one at each end. I did recently hear of a person with Altums who lost his group when the single heater...

Thank you, Colin, I do things that way from now on.

Actually good news that this is unlikely to be contagious. No way I will dig the bodies of my dead pets from the outside bin. Their appearance now is unlikely to resemble what it did six hours ago anyway. It will bring me more sorrows to see them again. As to their survivors, they appear...

You don’t think conditioned tap water is just as effective for cleaning filter media?

I always use API tap water conditioner to clean filters

When the power goes down here, even for a second or two, all the electric clocks, including on the microwave & stove, flicker & must be reset. I did a 75% water change. You’re saying clean the FX6 too? I have a DIY water exchange system made from 3/4” hose & PVC pipe. I did the 75% water...

No sprays in this room that has 7 other tanks, all doing well. No unusual behavior. I don’t know exactly how long it would take the deaths of several large fish to spike the ammonia. Extremely unlikely one died unnoticed and caused a spike that killed so many others. I don’t even know...

This morning I found ~15 out of ~20 cichlids dead in a 125 G tank. All ate well as always during yesterday’s feeding. The tank has a working cycled FX6 filter. This group has been together for about three years. No new fish have been added other than a few bred in the tank that managed to...

Be sure to let us know if anything interesting makes that pond its home

Thanks. I’ve seen people who can do a lot better with their iPhones than I can. But I am working on improving.

I saw some of those , I thought he only did two movies, Unless you’re talking about a TV show.

Income taxes, and I am really suffering. It totally sucks the big one.

It’s the one in my profile picture. I got the six fish from a top breeder in Philadelphia that I met up with in a Facebook group. I saw the picture of the parents way back in 10/23. The breeder said they would spawn any day and they did. He sent them to me when they were about eight weeks...

Yep, that’s the truth and nothing but the truth. I have had the biggest problems with algae on the tanks near the window.

I totally agree! Here Is Another photo where the Same plant looks better than the Fish. I really blew it on that photo by not having my iPhone set correctly. The focus should’ve been on the Fish, not the plant..