This shot comes along once in a lifetime!! And no it was not photo shopped. Enjoy it in all of its glory. Taken at the Bighorn River

I am interested in diet and fish. So I was curious about this paper. For one, I feed a mix of Frozen, Repashy and a commercial food. I rotate between them and try to hold the commercial to 15% or so of feeding until my last brand change.

Commercial is a pretty generic term as it covers the worst to ...

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Here is what Carl S. the founder of the site I linked says in his very complete information re UV and changing bulbs.
Bulb: Check your UV Bulb/Lamp every month if possible. More importantly, CHANGE your bulb every 6 months for aquariums (run 24/7 as suggested earlier in this article), and ...

The price is certainly a deal.

I would be concerned about the fact that 5 in 1 comes in several sizes. But I cannot find flow rates. With UV what it might kill depends on several factors. The trick is to match those factors to the problem one is looking to solve. The considerations are:

Kill level ...

Sorry to hear it Eric. But I am older and had a worse one a few months ago.

My WC L173 had been actively spawning and when I would look into the tank I could see an assorted size of offspring wherever I looked. I knew the time was passed to do tank breakdown and removal of offspring. But I had ...

Sexing zebras can be difficult. Some of the most experienced zebra folks I know have confessed to getting it wrong when they were sure they had it right. This is one reason I prefer working with groups.

The ideal ratio would be 2 males to 1 female. This is because females can produce eggs faster ...

Sorry I am late to this thread. I would have looked to have a 2-1 m-f ratio. My understsanding that it takes a female about 2 weeks to produce eggs while the male will need about a month from spawning to the time her boots free swimming fry.

When working with my Hypancistrus I have always used the ...

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My experience with 236, 173 and 236 sw is that their young all tend to look super white to start, then they morph. This has led me to advise buyers that unless they know their source very well, it is safer to buy them when bigger and one can be certain of what the fish might be. While I have ...

One of my healthiest tanks is a 75 gallom. heavily planted but with barely an inch of sand. Most of the plants are aniubias, But I have some crypts and Hygro in small pots with fine gravel.

There are two filters on the tank as it used to have fewer plants and much bigger fish. One filter is an ...

I do not want to argue with Darrel. But when I do not seem to get much in the way of nitrates in any of the tanks where I am using a mature Matten filter. But I have not tested for nitrates in a long time. I do know two things though. The first is that hobby nitrate test kits are somewhat inaccurate ...

I have been a big fan of air power and poret foam for a number of years now. I do not do corner filters however. I do Mattenfilters and I use a lot of the Poret cubefilters. I also have a single 5x5x10 inch Tower filter. I initially lpowerd all of Mattens with water pumps, but switched all but one ...

I have only 20 tanks holding just over 800 gals. But we have both out own well and a septic system. The latter returns water to the environment and it can work its way down being filtered and returned to the aquifer. The waste water from my tanks is either pumped out the windows, flushed down the ...

And here I thought there was no such thing as PhD in stupidity. Apparently I was wrong.

Well I guess id one acts rapidly it is possible to extract things and fertilize them. But I would bet you have to act pretty quickly after the fish died. If you find the fish floating a nibbled on after a day since it died ?

And I actually was about to sweeten the deal with a second TR parented ...

These fish have now been spoken for as part of a larger purchase. Unless things fall apart, which I do not expect, it is a done deal. When things are consumated, I will make the promised donation to the site.

I would also be worried about contaminants. Do the people with homes by the beach spay chemicals on their lawns or plants which may drift onto the beach? Are there vehicles which patrol or manicure the sand? These spew fumes that settle in the sand. What about garbage or oil spills? And after storms ...

I have kept a group of these loaches for about 20 years. I have never seen any indication they spawn and I am not even sure what I could do to encourage them to. What really surprised me about these fish is how long they live. They compete with my clown loaches for longevity.

Any clues to spawning ...

Nice rock. I have a similar looking rock also from a Scotish gent. It lacks the paperwork, but it sits inside my WC L173 breeder tank. I think they bring some sort of luck. Do not lose it.

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Lots of views but no indications interest so far. I thought this was a pretty good offering. I am in the process of having to go onto places on the net I have never wanted to in order to sell many fish as I exit the hobby over the next dozen months. The process means using a separate ...

I have three of these stands. One is for 29/20L size and not currently in use. The others are first the 65 gal, but I use it for 40Bs. I have an angle-iron frame stand for my 50 but it will also work in the 65 stand. The second is their 55 gal. but I use it for a pair of 33Ls. The stands have done ...

At my peak I was 65 inches. I am barely over 63 now. Gravity and age have shrunk me. I have one stook with wheels and a smal A-frame step ladder. I usually put the bucket on the top of the ladder when I am vacuuming or when I fill it with tank water to rinse media. So if can make it easier to reach ...

Erixd- I seem to recall when we met at CatCon that you were taller than I am? I have 2 x 75 and reach the bottom fine on a normal stand but need the step ladder for the in-wall which is higher above the ground.

From the Aqueon site.
60B 48.5" x 18.5" x 18"
75 48.5" x 18.5" x 21.25"

That is a good ...

OOPS - I forgot to mention the bonus. I will add one more fish. I had a second breeding group of L173 that came from tank raised parents from a different source than the WC breeders. I sold the breeders in the spring last year, but I still had a number of their offspring in grow tanks.

I will add ...

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Group of 6 True F1 L173 - Unsexed:

Sizes TL: 2⅝” to 2⅞” avg. 2¾
Born & raised in my tanks: pH 7.0, TDS low 80s ppm, temp. 82-86 F.
(2x2⅝", 2x2¾", 2x2⅞”) I believe there are both ...

Isn't the upper portion of the heater the guts but not the heating element which is then located in the lower half of the heater?

I have had sucker mouth catfish get heater burns. Usually from squeezing between the heater and the glass.

And I agree, a pretty fish.

Nice, Eric.

I also uses those boxes when I am in shipping mode. The average time it takes me to empty a tank of decor, catch fish and put things back together is anywhere from 3 to 5 hours in a larger tank.

So I will start pulling the fish a day earlier and overnight them in one of those traps. I ...

Yes they did. The buyer picked them up from me at CatCon last Oct. However, I have just beguns sgregating new groups of all my fish to sell. I will list at least some of the here.

I brought a second group of them to CatCon as well and they sold as did a group of my L173 from tank bred parents.

Altering Your Water's Chemistry

Hardening Your Water (Raising GH and/or KH)

The following measurements are approximate; use a test kit to verify you've achieved the intended results. Note that if your water is extremely soft to begin with (1 degree KH or less), you may get a drastic change in ...

The Ebo folks are good at communicating. They sent me a recent email with a link to the DHL site (they are handling the shipment). Boy, are there a lot of inspections, clearances and ways to delay things. My package is on the way but I have no idea where exactly it is nor when it will arrive. My ...