yeah, i posted this already, just had surgery and the pain meds are fuzzing things up :)

too bad you are not in the states, there is a company called Tripp Lite that makes 120 volt inverters (someone else might be interested)that keep the batteries charged and then automatically switch over when the power goes out and then when it comes back on the go into charge mode, top the batteries...

i have a problem with some S. Petricola. They are very old (17 years, at least ) but they have never done this before They have taken to swimming at the outlet of a fairly small sized power head that is situated maybe 10 inches from the waters surface. At first it was one but then they all got into ...

thanks but no need for prayers, i don't believe in a god that would allow people and animals to be used and abused by the hundreds of thousand (for fish and animals in the hundreds of millions)

i'm going for more spine surgery but when (more like if at this point)i am able to function again, we can keep this up? this is fun!

wouldn't want to be any of your pets, they are there for your use, whatever that might be? that's what it sounds like to me you still missed the point about pulling fish out of the wild. research is one thing, that's not what i am talking about and you know that's not it. how many fish are needed to...

keeping any live animal captive, to some degree, is cruel no matter how you try to justify it. concrete is not living no matter how you many words you move round and i can't see how that even came up :-J pulling them out of a stream to transport them 4000 miles away to "captive" breed them...

i know their is going to be a lot of anger here but i think an honest exchange of ideas out weighs that

for crying out loud you are comparing live fish to a creature that never existed, it's a story. fiction, and not very good fiction at that. we are talking about live creatures/ cross breeding happens all the time. Frankenstein? seriously? . he was made out of pieces of other men / women. how does Li...

thanks, should have figured it would be here somewhere and done more eloquently than i could do

plus the fact that they are so pretty has a lot to do with it to. don't know 'bout cross the pond but here there was this trend some years ago that if you decorated a tank with corals and put in really colorful african cichlids people would assume that you had the expertise to maintain a real salt w...

i asked a local retailer who deals with mostly high end fish and he said it is his impression (not fact ) that the hybids are hardier which would lend to them being easier to ship and better at surviving the shipping however i know of no hard statistics

i can think of some reasons, they are more attractive has to be at the top. they are cheaper to produce, they handle shipping better, they are more disease resistant. i'm not kidding myself. they have to be making more money because these are attractive fish but i think there's room for everyone. th...

but when you put two fish, male and female in to a tank to try to get them to spawn you are interfering in nature's process, to say that naturally ocurring hybrids are ok is really cutting it close. read Darwin's Dream Pond. it's about some of the stuff we are talking about. it says fish evolve to f...

i think a more appropriate question would be: where do you draw the line. how many of the fish we consider standards were created by inbreeding or breeding with other species? 10,000 years ago? it seems to me that there are a lot of african cichlids in darwin's dreampond that are awfully and some th...

interesting. i have had had a hip replacement, two knee replacements, a shoulder replacement, lots of titanium in the spine and a pacemaker, is this what you would call me?
everything has a right to life. if it is alive it is a part of nature and therefore natural whether you like or not

also they tend to panic when the lights go on if it has been really dark. my tanks are in the basement and i leave a light on all night because i have had fish bash into the glass and hurt themselves this way. cheaper to leave a light on. not tank light, just some light in the room. tank lights are ...

i lived in cambridge ma (USA) for about 10 years and was forced to buy an inverter and a couple of deep cycle marine batteries for my tanks. the inverter was a good one, tripp lite i believe and the batteries were good and i lost count of how many times that setup saved me from disaster, in the hot ...

i had them breed for me about 10 years ago and i still have the same colony, they are just really old and have turned almost completely to a dark brown that's almost black. they spawned regularly until maybe 5 years ago. they are in a 150 gallon community tank and at this point they have stopped spa...

is is absolutely true that they are a very social fish. i have a tank where i put all the fish i get (but might not want)because someone is going out of the hobby, cuttind down on tanks and there are at least 5 different species of cories in there.they are always together in different mixes, there s...

a really attractive fish, although some would consider it an abomination

http://www.nationalfishpharm.com/ these are the people i have used in the past, if you can buy in bulk it will be much cheaper per gram that way. i usually get someone or two or three to go in with me on the purchase and break it up that way. amazon sells this in smaller amounts and they used to sel...

handsome hoplo, i've had 2 for the last 10 years and they are doing great. when it's quiet they come out.

everyone counts, why not you?

i can only speak for the states but i know here, most of the good local pet stores are gone. they have largely been replaced by places that are way more interested in selling cat and dog food than fish. the fish are frequently in bad shape, absolutely have to be quarantined and still often don't mak...

http://www.nationalfishpharm.com/
my go to people. if you buy in large quantities it is a lot cheaper. i've got a lot of large tanks so it was easy to justify 500g, i share with the people in ly local fish club

i've got one in a big tank and the only reason i know i still have him is that i redid the tank a couple of weeks ago and got my annual look at him. doesn't matter some of are just fine being wallflowers and he's welcome to the grub and the space. I bought him because in the local store the people a...

are you using a large in line heater?

love the cats, second only to catfish

Additionally, why not give the fish more room to swim? why should they only have 60 gallons of room when there is 90 available? get an airstone or a circulation pump and fill it up! leave a little space in that tightly fitting cover. There are pictures of many tanks, plants have nothing to do with t...