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- 15 Jan 2007, 08:01
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: Talking Doradidae
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1344
I do agrree with racoll that it is very wise to think about room for more fish, bofore adding them. After all, these fishes will lefe to a very respectfull age. I myself have 3, obtained in 1989. They now life in a 400 * 100 cm (13 feet something * 3 feet something) tank, but more importantly, they ...
- 14 Jan 2007, 09:18
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
- Topic: Chaetostoma eggs
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2356
- 13 Jan 2007, 19:27
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: What equipment or product has made fishkeeping easier.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4123
http://www.pythonproducts.com/nospill.htm I only see it has to do with waterchanging. i myself simply use 2 tubes: 1 to empty the tank, and 1 to - simultanously - fill it. Thus the waterlevel will not change dramatically, and I do not lift any amount of water :lol: I'm lazy, you know, and proud of it
- 11 Jan 2007, 12:40
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: Aquaria connected by tubes
- Replies: 2
- Views: 841
Although it is possible to get such a system working, I do not beleive this does. The tiniest amount of any gas (air, or nitrogen or ...) will result in the collapse of the elevated water into the tanks. I also do not believe that an fis would swin into and through a pipe of its own size, epecially ...
- 10 Jan 2007, 22:24
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: What's the best cichlid site?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4277
C i c h l i d Forum is where I frequent. [url]http://www.c*****d-forum.com/index.php[/url] I've never been on this site. As I think I do know something about central American cichlids, I visited that subforum. What an unpleasant surprise. It will not come into my favourites. I prefer the cichlidroo...
- 07 Jan 2007, 09:22
- Forum: Tank Talk
- Topic: Recycling water?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6949
In fact, by using old water, you dit yourself another favour: the old water ,coming from healthy tanks, does contain already the good nitrificating bacteria you will be getting by ripening the tank. In fact, this week I received 4 new tanks, and I filled them all with 75 % old water (they will ripen...
- 05 Jan 2007, 19:03
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
- Topic: Ancistrus sp. (3)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2525
I do hope 1 thing: There used to be a long-fin and albino entry (numbers 4 and 5), but as they are actually the same as sp(3), they got merged several months ago. that as the numbers 4 and 5 habre been use previously, that any new ancistrus sp will be named 6, and not (to fill the ranks) 5 Because, ...
- 01 Jan 2007, 17:41
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
- Topic: Am I doing this correctly?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 6858
- 01 Jan 2007, 14:29
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
- Topic: Am I doing this correctly?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 6858
Regarding the issue - the dood does increase the ammonia leves considerably, I wonder whether this observation is generally true for all kinds of wood. In fact I think it does not. Wood for keeping repitels will generally bve dryk and perhaps previously used with reptiles. Repiles do not excreate am...
- 30 Dec 2006, 08:50
- Forum: All Resolved Issues
- Topic: Hypoptopoma sp.?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1437
- 29 Dec 2006, 19:53
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: Cichlids and the like
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1539
I think you ought to divide the Laetacaras anyway, regardless their condition, because these fishes will certainly crossbreed. regarding your more immediate queries, unhealthy fish do pose a health risk for healthy fishes: they are very vunaerable for deseases, and after attracting some illness, the...
- 27 Dec 2006, 21:39
- Forum: Tank Talk
- Topic: Recycling water?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6949
Salts and minerals removed from RO/DI systems can be added back in. I believe these are contained in aquarium additives. It does make the water soft, but you can use additives to increase the hardness and aragonite to increase the pH. Apparently these salts are elsewhere much less expensive than in...
- 27 Dec 2006, 17:50
- Forum: Tank Talk
- Topic: Recycling water?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6949
Although this last option does have an answer to evaporatiojn problems, I'm afraid the problem is, RO oes remouve all salts, not just nitrates, ammonia and phosphates. Therefore, you will end up keeping your fish in extreme soft water - which kills them, and very hard water in container A - thus dec...
- 27 Dec 2006, 08:22
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Everything else)
- Topic: Urgent help needed please!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 734
On a Dutch forum a vet in school posted a lengthy article about killing fishes painlessly. The fridge is amongst the worst solutions, contrarily to popular beliefs. Good solutions: a blow on the head, a knife (well placed, behind the gills) and poisening with clove oil, - benzocain or 2-phenoxy-etha...
- 26 Dec 2006, 09:30
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: Out and about in S. Africa
- Replies: 55
- Views: 11124
Thank you so much for the input, Shane! I've often wondered about this. Nature isn't static with temperature. If we go back a step, would it be the light(sunrise/sunset and seasons in some areas) that dictates the temperature changes and also pH changes? This gives me another insight into why some ...
- 26 Dec 2006, 09:15
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: Fiancée not understanding me liking fish.
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6235
As you, I like to enjoy what happens when relaxing. On saturdays I used to take 30 minutes to lace my shoes - watching my fishes. However, being single, I do not have somebody I must (or should) please around, so I can life my own way. I always thought 'get a life' meant 'spent time differntly than ...
- 24 Dec 2006, 22:11
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Everything else)
- Topic: Platystoma juruense, Zebra Shovelnose care
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1811
It's pointless feeding them live fish, it costs more and increases the risks of disease and choking. Matt I do agree fully. I've read ads requesting for cheap fish, I know the buyer will use as feederfish. howevre,r cheap fich does have more risks than expensive, and expensive fish (1 euro each, th...
- 24 Dec 2006, 22:03
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: Fiancée not understanding me liking fish.
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6235
- 23 Dec 2006, 23:14
- Forum: What is my catfish?
- Topic: Living fossil??
- Replies: 3
- Views: 918
- 23 Dec 2006, 15:12
- Forum: Speak Easy
- Topic: Out and about in S. Africa
- Replies: 55
- Views: 11124
Are we too obsessed with the temperature staying the same? Too obessed? I do not know about you, but I do know many people are. they even have digital thermostates, controlling the temperature for 2 digits behind the dot! Sworttails (Xiphophorus and related) prefer a temparature fluctuation during ...
- 22 Dec 2006, 10:54
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)
- Topic: Dissolved oxygen, saturation, supersaturation
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2555
Lastly, and I am deadly serious about this, anyone trying to supersaturation their tank will oxygen has to have something wrong with them. It does not really happen in nature, and I take it as fishkeepers we are here to consider the safety and comfort of our fish. We are not running an intensive fi...
- 21 Dec 2006, 20:43
- Forum: South American Catfishes (Callichthyidae - Corys et al)
- Topic: Wild caught high fin C. paleatus
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2378
My very first posing on this great forum........ In January last I visited Uruguay, and brought a lot of fishes with me. Among these 2 species of Corydoras, one from a little stream, Arroya Tropa Vieja, near the town Salinas, 30 km west of Montevideo, the other from a lake near the town Treinta y Tr...