it's been over for a week...

I would think it'd probably kill the thing... not the liquor but the carbonation going over the gills probably really doesn't help... like breathing out of a newly emptied 2 liter bottle or something.

well, lone discus can be kinda nasty, you ever think of getting him some tankmates? I kept cardinal tetras with mine and never had a problem.

Sturgeons are a whole other cup of tea, but I believe that some species are protected due to overfishing. There are 3 listed in Axelrod's atlas, the typical 30 foot max beluga sturgeon, a whiptail sturgeon he lists as maxing out at 60cm, and one other that is listed as 1.25 meters max size. They are...

heh, I just meant those are the most likely genus, if it were to happen I'd suspect them first. I've got a royal in with mine and he leaves anything non-catfish alone. The reason you see commons with discus is most discus hobbyists don't really care and why pay more for something that rivals or surp...

There are sharks that find their way into freshwater, bull sharks being the most notable, being found in lakes in nicaragua if memory serves me right, as well as rivers in north america occasionally. I'm not aware of any truly freshwater(restricted to only freshwater that is) shark. There are a few ...

I'v had bad luck with oto's but that may be due to their natuarl oxygen needs or just bad stock... my discus tank is filtered at about a 12 times per hour turnover rate and they never made it at 85 degrees. Whatis your turnover rate? maybe others would be able to advise.

ahh, ok, the ratings were gone, I didn't realized they were just hidden.

but oddly enough rays have evolved, at least the freshwater species, denticles that are not hook-like, except along the dorsal surface of the tail, but really more rounded and pebbly, and in some species they stay towards the backside of the fish. the leopoldis I have have them from about midway on ...

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Samurai, I regard the slime thing as a highly exagerated event, or possibly even an urban legend. No one's ever been able to prove it to me. That being said it's unlikely that a healthy discus would sit still for such things, and most plecos aren't that brave. I've got plecos in with stingrays, whic...

for weight just estimate 10 pounds per gallon, water weighs about 8 pounds per gallon, the extra goes for filters, substrate and such. And you can do the old tank surface area/per inch of fish... I find that to be... very conservative though, apparently normally comes out at about 4 inches of fish p...

Actually I fed, and feed my stingrays nightcrawlers from a bait shop, and have had no problems what so ever. As to the power bait thing, I have no idea, I think most of the baits are made more for their attractiveness tot he fish than for their nutritional content.

Merry christmas all.

Scott

well, if this species requires a mud cave, it'll be very difficult to allow them to do that in a tank... mud and filtration are a nightmare I'd imagine

can you give us a price range, would make giving you "cheap" digicams a lot easier.

If we're not going catfish... I had overfilled one of my tanks a bit and it was just about at the point of running over... I was running past the tank to get to the faucet and all of the sudden this jet of water shoots out of the top of the tank and arcs out about 5 feet into the room... It was my f...

wow, that's a heck of a good deal... I paid 10 times that for mine... of course there's shipping and losses to figure in too...

I"m not sure about any gold rush in that area, but I do know Xingu is being dammed for hydroelectric power. The whole scheme is to put in a bunch of dams to regulate water flow, so there aren't any seasonal variations. No dry or wet seasons, as well as producing many lakes filled with rotting v...

That is pretty darn cute. My best would probably be the gold nugget and the L200 on the filter outflow after a water change has brought the water level up... they're the 2 that get that inche or so of great algae that everyone else is too wussy to go after. but they sometimes come out of the water p...

Tbone... lighting is a big deal. mine was taken of a fish in a 90 gallon with 350 watts over it... Patience helps... ;) I can kill about 15 megs on my media card for each decent picture I actually get. A digital is a lifesaver. I'd never attempt fish photograpghy with a standard camera, unless I kne...

That is exactly what I have seen, see my last post here for an example http://www.forum.planetcatfish.com/viewtopic.php?t=4308&start=15 I've been in petsmart looking at something and over heard the store clerk trying to explain that an oscar got too big for a 10 gallon, the person wouldn't liste...

The responsible fishkeeper will find the info before going into a shop to make a purchase. The burden of finding information rests on the aquariasts shoulders, not the shops. They ought to correct misleading information, but you ought to have checked out the fish in books or a few places online befo...

yeah, a 10 gallon's pretty limiting, and so is a budget... Cories are probably the best way to go, maybe a dwarf bristlenose or something if you find one cheap. As for mistakes, cycling with fish was the biggest one I made. And, before purchasing any fish, go online and spend a few minutes reading a...

that's probably possible, but... are you sure it wasn't there before, and you didn't notice it? the sheen's fairly difficult to see most of the time, unless you're looking for it, on my fish anyway, except the L038...

I believe the sheen is due to very fine, hair-like odontodes, or spines on the scutes. can anyone confirm this?

Yes, if I'm not mistaken a bit back I read an article on florida having serious problems with certain groups catching them in canals. They weren't so much worried about the plecos but the netting process was killing local fish species.

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Well, the fish you're keeping together aren't exactly the best idea in the first place... goldfish and tropicals are best kept seperately. And your LFS is different from mine, Trey takes in the grown out fish, but he's currently wasting a 180 on oscars, pacu, tinfoil barbs and common plecos that no ...