Beyond using them to jump start the cycling process and shorten it from an average of 4-6 weeks to 2-3 weeks, I've never used the bacterial over-the-counter cultures either.Not on regular basis. The BB's don't live in water (to any appreciable degree) but on surfaces. If it has been months and the c...

Yeah... perhaps we could focus on the cycle because this sounds mighty strange at the face value. I don't know what to say or how to help.

You don't want RO or soft water in your house plumbing if you have copper pipes as they will be eaten away, IME especially my outdoor copper and bronze pipes and spigots have been destroyed after 5 years of exposure to water with TDS of roughy 50-200 ppm... even though the pH was 7-ish.

You know it's the worst when you have to look up stuff to even start making sense of the caption haha... It's an allusion to Don Quixote and his famous horse.

Rocinante stopped dead in his tracks unwilling to jump over a tree fallen across the road but I wasn't buckled in, so I haven't ... yet... stopped...

Thank y'all for the lesson in naming. I for one appreciate it. ichthyologist's heart belonged to a lady named Natalie and the catfish somehow reminded him of her... if this did happen to be true then it would be nataliei , I think thats how it would go. OK, we can take it up a notch. The situation ...

Thank y'all for the lesson in naming. I for one appreciate it. ichthyologist's heart belonged to a lady named Natalie and the catfish somehow reminded him of her... if this did happen to be true then it would be nataliei , I think thats how it would go. OK, we can take it up a notch. The situation m...

:) Thank you for this, Eric. I was indeed wondering. The best I could come up was the ichthyologist's heart belonged to a lady named Natalie and the catfish somehow reminded him of her... or he simply wanted to name a discovery after her in a romantic way, just like astronomers name newly discovered...

Welcome to the Planet! I'd suggest creating your own thread on your syno collection. I think it is warranted and more sensible than having it here, even if for your sake alone as you will get more attention and feedback, when needed, that way. You can always come back to this thread to discuss those...

Agree with Eric. Praziquantel is too a common dewormer. Fenbendazole is good for tough cases or where a parasite had developed an immunity to prazi and other more commonly, older-generation dewormers.

I've never kept almost any of these, I can only tell you my personal take on the ones I kept, what size tanks I'd use at a minimum to house these as adults: Microsynodontis batesii Microsynodontis lamberti microsynodontis polli akysis longifilis akysis pictus akysis portellus akysis vespa -> 30 lite...

The rule you are citing is the well known rule of thumb for the minimum tank size. I have a thread on the topic with more info: https://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=36395&hilit=rule If you specify the exact species, I would give you my personal take on their minimum quarters for w...

Great advice.

I use salt too (coupled with the PP or not) but rather blindly, that is without the microscope. What aquaholic does is the right way.

Cool. Is your goal to raise them all together and have them inhabit one tank? It'd be an interesting community if they could learn to live together peacefully. Visuals would be nice too.

Great input from one of our most seasoned veterans. Chlorine and fluorine in our uk water ... flouramine and chloramine are our new issues and your dechlorinator won’t remove those. May or may not be off topic but this is the first time I hear of fluorine and fluoramine as a treatment used for city ...

I'd probably do more searching and reading online on the topic of how young is too young to go into full marine because there is no telling when you'd be helped sufficiently here, could be today, or could be never. IDK who keeps brackish or marine tanks on here. I am a 100% freshie. I think most or ...

I replied to Bas in a long and substantiated post, which I am yet to experience from you. Let's talk fish, not people, I propose. What we are really doing here is learning and helping each other to grow in the hobby, while obliging by the forum ToS - no trivial posting and keep it on topic as reason...