Thanks Barbie..

More things to research!!!!!

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Hey Just was watching my last remaning hoplo and he is swimming around looking happy. However I noticed several spots and one large missing scale patch on his head. Is this ICK. I have some poor pics here sorry... :( http://www.mickenator.com/Pages/fishpics.htm Click on the hoplo link. I don't know ...

I need to get me a dropper! It seems that allot of hobbyists use that like you said to control how much and where the food goes. Re: the light the cats are way too skittish.... even with the room light or the acetinic light on they bail into the caves... but if i turn all of the lights off... poof t...

Thanks everyone! I appreciate your feedback and input! I will let you know how it goes!!

(Already have the aquarium fish book pages marked.... now just to convince the wife....mmmmmmmmm )

Thanks again!

SH

One more thing... I could see where it could get time consuming filling orders.. but all you would really need to do is get the supplier, get some pre orders, and only use Paypal. Once done... just fill the orders as they come on in and ship them off!! Tack on the various shipping charges and voila....

I think it is a great Idea! I would get a couple!!

Put that nice logo of the catfish/world located to the upper left!

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mmmmm..... No I have not..... I guess the peat would make the water a bit more acidic and drop the ph down... Well I do have 5 chambers in the wet/dry so I could easily add it. Now where would I find peat?? re: the mid water fish you mentioned, I will have to look up the rasporas.... I am sort of lo...

Another quick question... I am trying to focus on a good healthy feeding strategy for my differnent fish 1 hoplo (soon to be 6) 2 Pim blochii's 6 Cories (network, 3 lined, reticulated ... or whatever else you want to call them :D ) 1 common pleco 7 danios 1 Asian Red tail... I currently feed them on...

Touche! Thanks Silurus. Any suggestions for a nice lazy type mid tank swimmer that would go well in the tank?? PH 7.5 (for some reason can never get it lower) KH 8 GH 11 Ammonia 0 Nitrite (Usually 0, but around 1ppm right now.....) My wife for some reason just doesn't see the immense cutness in the ...

Cool! Thanks for the feed back. I will probably get 3 skunks and 3 adolfos? later on. I am really starting to get into cories. No wonder they are so popular. They are very very cool. I may also get 2 large pearl gouramis to have something swimming in the mid-upper tank. BTW filtration consists of th...

Okay... here is the scoop... 100 gallon tenecor simplicity plus (so actual gallons probably closer to 70-75 due to the built in wet dry and assorted rocks/sand/wood)). Currently have: 7 Large zebra Danios (range from 2 - 4") 1 small asian red tail (3.5") 2 Medium Pim Bocchis (4") 1 Me...

He Yann,

That is a good point re: the carbon. I always thought carbon was a required filter media for most tanks, but you are right, it will begin to leech out what it has asorbed in the past. That reminds me that I should take that stuff outta my tank!!

thanks

SH

Well I am down to 1 hoplo left. I can't find the 2nd surviving guy so I am assuming the worst. The last guy has some missing scales around his head... don't know why.... Anyways the good news is that the fish guy I got them from is sending me 6 more free of charge. This time I will ensure that evert...

I too use water straight outta the tap here in San Jose. I do use the chlorine remover chenicals, just to be on the safe side.

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Well... I am sorta stuck yet again. I currently have a 100 gallon simplicty plus tenecor tank, which has a built in wet/dry filter with bio balls. It uses a Rio 400 to pull the water thru the system and returns it back to the tank. Currently it is stocked with the following: 2 Pim Bocchis 7 Danios (...

Thanks for all of your advise. I have 2 hoplos left. One seems to be doing quite well. The other seems to be frantically swimming to the top of the tank and free fall back to the bottom where he lays on his side. If touched he will do the exact same thing (needless to say I only touched him once...)...

mmmm.. i will check the bodies! I have kept them to do a post mortem later today. Weird thing is, is the all 3 of the dark colored with black spots hoplos died, whereas all of the light amber ones survivied. That was sorta weird. They were packaged in a regular large "baggie" that you usua...

Man that is just wrong. But like anything, if there is a market out there people will go to all kinds of lengths to make cold hard cash! Like it has been said before, the only way to stop abuses such as this is to take away the market. I noticed that on this forum there are several respected members...

Well I just got my 6 Hoplos which had been shipped to me. So far 3 have died and the other 3 are 50-50. I am somewhat traumitized. I put them into my established 25 gallon tank with has 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, and is a balmy 75 degrees. I conditioned them in the bag for about 20 minutes and then drop...

Well I just went thru the same thing with my 100 gallon. Of course my Ammonia test was thrown off by the huge amount of water conditioning I have to do. One thing you can try is bio-spira from MarineLand. It actually contains the proper dormant bacteria to convert ammonia to nitrite and contains the...

Well you guys were right. I setup one of the 1200's and it causes all kinds of wierd eddies and currents. The Danios seemed to like it. They did a lot of shoaling and "synchronized" swimming. I have 2 fake log caves and the Pims hid in there and it seems to be sheltered from the currents. SH

mmmm...... good point with the hoplos Heok! In that case I am going to run one of the maxi Jets on the lowest setting with the filter attached, and the penguin on the opposite site. It too will have the its huge filter sponge on which should dampen the the amount of water it expells. I guess I will ...

oooo.. just got my 2 Maxi Jet 1200 powerheads rated at 295 Gallons/hr. I also have an older penguin 1140 power head rated at 300gph. Plus my rio 400 for my wetdry filter/sump pump. Of course the first three are going to decrease their output when I convert them to their filter configs. anyways as yo...

Thanks Team! Appreciate the feedback. I did add rocks and driftwood from the other tank to the new one. I did not know that water conditioner would throw off the test. That would make sense now as I add a whole bunch when i did the water tests. I am going to continue to monitor it before I move my B...

Okay I think I really hosed my tank trying to cycle it. I started off trying to "artifically" cycle it. I added pure ammonia to it. I think I added too much! Well after a couple of days I checked the ammonia and it was off the salciyte test. So I decided to change 50 % of the water (100 ga...

WOW. Very impressive collection.

How many catfish do you have and what size tank are they in??

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Thanks Rusty, I am going to give the maxi jet 1200 a shot. Just ordered a couple and want to see how quiet they are. If they are not I will send them back and get another 1140. BTW I took that POS Rio 400 back to the store. I am working on using that older 1140 to replace the noisy rio 400 return pu...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi, I just got a new 100gallon tenecor simplicity plus system with a built in wet dry filter. Currently the return pump is a rio 400. I want to add another powerhead into the tank for increased circulation/areation/curr...

Well boys and girls... I finally got my new tank. I bought it used on Craigslist and spent 400.00 US. It is a 100 gallon tenecor simplicty plus plexi with a built in wet/dry system. It has slots for all of the gear in the back (pumps/heaters/mechanical and biologocal filtering). It currently has a r...

Cool! I love those rays! Guess what??? just found out that they are illegal here in California.... sigh.....




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