That's with the assumption that the brown short fin male is homozygous for both traits, right? If the brown shortfin already has some other genes, you might get some different results. I bred a LF albino female with a red short fin male, and the fry were all brown and about 50/50 longfin/shortfin. B...

I'm sorry to say that they probably died. There can be quite a bit of mortality when bristlenose fry are young. In order to insure survival, you'll need to keep a ready supply of food in there for them. Slices of zucchini, cucumber, or other vegetables for them to browse on. Bristlenose eggs are lar...

My kids regularly dig up earthworms and feed them to my fish. My Megalechis picta had a large nightcrawler stuck in his mouth a while before he finally got it all in. I do not chop them up or wash them, although my son does like to pinch them into pieces as he puts them in the tank.

Sorry to hear about that, Andy.

That's interesting, because if there's any "rule of thumb" as to what we should always avoid, I've been taught that it's "avoid conifers," which would include all the cedars. That seems to be repeated a lot, but I haven't heard of someone who has personally killed their fish wit...

Some of my favorite "driftwood" pieces are old cedar stumps from the woods near me (probably eastern red cedar here in southern Wisconsin). They are very rot resistant, although they do turn the water orange for a while. I find stuff that is old and mostly decayed, and then pressure wash a...

Get pool filter sand. I don't know what is available in California, but the stuff here in Wisconsin is beautiful. I have chameleon whiptails on it, and they look great.

They'll be fine.

Ooo, can we ask these guys to study more species?

Very cool!

Right now my favorites are my Megalechis picta that I bought from Tedsfishroom.com. Very active and interesting fish! I'm hoping that they won't get too big for the tank they are in, but I can always move them to a bigger tank if so!

Very cool!

Welcome back!

Ted Judy is getting some in from Peru this weekend. Tedsfishroom.com

I've been checking my Petsmart here in Madison, but I'm not even getting hilstream loaches, which I really want, BTW!

I find that many plants do well in shallow sand, 1/2" thick, including Crypt. wendtii , Val. americana , Sagitaria subulata , and many different types of stem plants, favorites of mine being Limnophila aquaticum (Ambulia) and Hygrophila angustifolia . For rooted plants, I recommend potting them...

I wish this forum had a like button.

Looks like a little bit of algae. Nothing to be concerned about, and if you are doing regular water changes, it isn't necessarily an indication of poor water quality. Put in an algae eater of some type. I'd say cut back your lights, but it looks like you have live plants. Personally, I like substrat...

Any chance we could get a "Mark forum read" in the quick links or on the top of the page when viewing the unread posts page? I usually go directly to the unread posts page, which I have bookmarked, and there is no link there to mark the forums read (that I can find).

Thanks!

Eric

Crossocheilus reticulatus would be a good option. There is a nice article here: http://www.reef2rainforest.com/2015/02/ ... -thailand/. They do a great job of keeping down hair algae.

I'm a big fan of pencil fish.

I'll miss this a lot. Reading now on Tapatalk.

I'm a fan of Extreme Catfish Scrapers and Repashy in all its flavors.

Sounds like you are feeding all the right foods. Maybe too much competition between differently sized fish?

My fry do fine with raw and blanched both.

Find a dead hardwood tree stump that you like, and submerge it in a vat with an airstone. Change the water every couple of months. Repeat until you are satisfied. I usually put dry dead wood in the tank and let it sink naturally.

Honestly, a couple of degrees isn't going to matter much. Your temps are fine for a community tank.