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It could be Flubendazole is banned for use in food fish, But as far as I know it is OK for ornamentals. A fast search found it on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Plymouth-Discus-Product-WORMER-Plus/dp/B085TQ75Z5?th=1 Dr. Harrison has been selling it for years and still does. If it had become illegal, ...

Viktor- I am not the best at disease diagnosis. I have dealt with columnaris successfully, for the most part, over the years. However, when it comes to wasting and ultimately not eating there is another option to consider besides bacteria. You may already be aware of this, but I figured it was worth...

@Captainandy Bit there is not a near limitless supply of marijuana any more than there is a limitless supply of corn or rice or almost anything else. Until marijuana is legalized all over the world, a lot of it never makes it being sold. @Janne We can discuss all the regulations, processes etc. invo...

I would state the opposite, the more species that legally can be exported as ornamental fish will decrease the risk of extinction I do not agree with this. Consider the case of the recent trend in my country to legalize marijuana for recreational use. One would think that this would put a cramp int...

I just want to be sure I am understanding the situation clearly. First, am I correct in understanding that it is now legal to export any fish from Brazil that is not on the list to which Jools linked above. Second, if the answer to the above is yes, does this also mean all of the L numbers which hav...

If you hook heaters from two different tanks to the same controller but only have a single temp. probe, whichever tank the probe goes into will determine when the heaters in both tanks can or cannot turn on regardless of the temp. in the tank without the probe. If a heater in that tank get stuck ful...

I pretty much use two heaters on almost every tank I have. The exception is smaller tanks 15 gal or less. I cannot fit 2 heaters. Also, on tanks with canister filters i use inline heaters. However, my 150 also has a second in tank heater as well as two hang-on in addition to the canister. That said,...

I also use controllers on my tanks with the most valuable fish. I use the Azoo Mini controller good for up to about 900w of heating. My first ones cost me about $22 each, My next 5 were half that on clearance when Live Aquaria bought FosterSmith. Since then they got hard to find and the last 4 cost ...

I have no issues with dad raising fish from spawning to free swimming. When I began with spawning zebras in 2006 I had two males that did all the spawning and an uncertain number of females involved. The two males spawned about every 30 days. However, the spawns were about two weeks apart for the tw...

I have done it both ways. I used to be all bare bottom and over time I began using a bit of sand. This is as much because it hosts the bacteria we want and because, in some cases, it helps to keep the wastes in easy to spot places. While I have read about fry and a bacterial layer, I have never witn...

There is an old saying, "You get what you pay for." I use kens mini sinking sticks. I get about 6 different ones and mix them. However, I try not to feed it more than 15% of the time. I also make my own blend of his flakes and try not to feed them more than 20% of the time. My primary food...

I do not have many fish books. I do have a few on plecos. One is Ingo Seidel's Back to Nature Guide to L-Catfishes. It covers a lot of plecos not just the big ones. it has general things like dietary considerations, breeding, habitats etc. Then it goes into details of the specific fish by Genus. It ...

The rep[ashy site gives this link for international sources: France - https://www.reptiligne.fr/fr/ They only list the reptile food but they might be willing to order you fish food. there may be other European sites which do carry the fish stuff. You can find them listed by country here https://www....

My plecos now are all Hypancistrus. But I also keep corys and loaches. I use three different classes of foods. The first is frozen and these are mostly all meaty foods-blood worms, mysis and brine shrimp, brine git loaded w/ spirulina adn even daphnia. Fry get cyclops and rotifers. next i feed the R...

Beyond what Jools suggested- While the two fish may currently be of similar size, they do not end up that way. 333 gets larger. That being the case it grows more and this may mean it needs more food to do so. There is length and then there is bulk. 333 likely are bigger bodied than zebras when they ...

Brought to you by the same country where Covid originated. Why am I not surprised.

What nature has spent millions of years creating man can wreck in on a matter of a few decades.

I am always a few days behind schedule lately it seems. I should have done the below days ago... Here are some pics of the offspring shot the same time as the pic I did post. The fish for a bit more relaxed and are more typical of how most of them should look. TR173_4fish.jpg TR173_bigfish_1.jpg TR1...

I am not because it is too far for me to drive there and back. I do not care to fly any more as they have made it it to unpleasant an experience. I stared flying commercial when the planes had propellers.

I have a group of 11 TR l173 which I raised from about 1.75 inch (4.4cm). They have been spawning for about 3.5 years (not continuously). There are about 40 in a growout tank ranging from about 2 to 3.5 inches. Pics of the are not great because they were pretty stressed when I pulled their tank apar...

Let me start by saying what follows is strictly my opinion. I could be entirely mistaken in my conclusions or I could be on the money. Somebody wiser and more experienced than I am might post and say that I am wrong. I definitely see similarities when I look at other peoples pictures. For me one of ...

@Captainandy - I am not an Asian breeder and neither of my 173 groups came from Asia. One came from Brazil and the other from Germany. :d I keep and breed both of the above fish. Before I moused over the pics and saw the URLs, I had pegged the bottom one 100% as 173 and was fairly certain that the t...

The fish have been sold pending my ability to get them shipped. i should be able to pull this off in the next few weeks. I am happy a couple of members here were able to take advantage of the low pricing I had on these fish. I see them for sale as imports for $210 - $300 a fish from 1.5 - 2.25 inche...

Nothing beats cory or pleco fry for cuteness.
To paraphrase the Beatles - "You are the egg man Goo goo g'joob."

Apparently luck is running through my 173. I discovered one this morning in a 5 gal; bucket on the terrace. it is in the shade, unheated and at night temps here are in the mid 60sF (18.3C range). I found a live 173 today that was in that bucket for at least a day and possibly 2 nights and a day. Its...

So, a gent was coming by today to pick up 13 L173 from me. They were one lot of 7 and the 5 lot w/ the extra bonus fish sold in this site. The fish were house in one of my tanks on the terrace (no running water). Last week I moved out the 7 from an adjacent tank and cleared another tank of the 6 fis...

I tend to agree with the above. But I tend to broaden this a bit because I do not spawn my fish in pairs but in small groups. Over time who is spawning with whom is impossible to determine. However, I will move offspring out of breeding tanks to grow tanks before that are able to spawn. If do not re...

As promised, I selected a replacement fish. It is 2.25" TL which is bigger than the one lost.
I would love an L24, but I have mo place I could keep it.

Considering I had to catch a couple of hundred+ fish, size them, sort them and get them into various holding tanks losing just one is close to a miracle. On average I would say I netted each fish at least 3 times during the process. So I essentially netted something over 600 times. I am about to hea...

Bad news. I had to move a few fish to different tanks today, this included the above group. To my dismay I discovered the minimal remains of one of the fish in this group dead. I will select a suitable replacement, take a picture and add it to this thread. Unfortunately, I am not sure which of the s...