the third picture sort of snuck in there, trying to do too many things at the same time :)

This was sold to me as S Serpentis, any thoughts?
Thanks!!

he is an absolutely beautiful fish and you are lucky to have him (and vice versa)

i have gotten them to school but it really only was when someone gave me about 100 of them and they were in a large tank, they only time they truly schooled was at feeding time and when they sensed a threat in a really big (long) 18 lb siamese cat who would get up on this hind legs and go nose to no...

you said it, the large surge of high quality nutrients, condition that are orders of magnitude better ( no one tapping on the glass 200 times a day, so less stressed) just their natural response to excellent conditions

so yeah, unless the tank is the size of your living room, multiple grans is a bad thing. they do fine with S multi as tank mates but the multis i have are a really boisterous bunch, always all over the place and this would appear to keep the granulosus in his place. i see him sometimes, lights out o...

"Also, I must be missing something or... are not multiple granulosus necessarily bad together?" didn't say that . i said the only time i have seen them for sale it was a sole individual. 5 of them would be in excess of $1000.00 and unless i win the lottery that is just not going to happen....

i keep mine in a 150 with some others, mostly S multipunctatus
Just out of curiosity how much did they set up back?
Around here (US) about $200.00 each, so about 160 pounds sterling
I'v never seen anyone selling that many at one time, mostly they are a one off on a site called aquabid

generally tank back vinyl sheets are either put on with a mild soap and water solution or an adhesive stick .never heaard of oil and i don't understand how they expect that to work

i had something similar happen, i ordered $350 worth of frozen blood worms and frozen brine shrimp from drs foster and smith (boy do i miss them) during their annual sale, all in one 1 lb slabs. i left the box opened on the floor for ( just for a minute) , one of my neighbors is really old and needs...

this is for water levels in the actual tank, you r looking (I think ) for water parameters, you might want to repost there as this is essentially a dead thread

Petco still does the 1$ sale but it is limited to under 40 gallon, that's where two of my 90's came from

the old days..........

for what it is worth i bought a new 2217 for a neighbor who had a 75 gal and an ancient h.o.b. and there was no discernible difference in build or components between the new one and the last one i bought maybe 5 years ago. Jaeger heaters have been owned by a couple of companies, at one point due to ...

amen to that. i have 9 eheims, 2- 2026, 1-2028 and the rest are 2217s. two of the 2217s were bought in the late nineties. i have had to replace the double tap valves in one, the other one is just the way it was when i bought it. keeping the impeller and hoses clean makes a big difference in flow rat...

If it's like the units i have used the charger should sense what level the battery (ies) is at and charge accordingly. Having to program the charger is new to me, but hey, why shouldn't it connect to a pc, everything else does. Might have something to do with the batteries, the ones i used were mari...

there is no reason an undergravel filter won't work but it has to be cleaned periodically and the gravel, unless you vacuum periodically will develop "dead spots" that will result in the formation of suphur dioxide that is very toxic to fish. the junk that collects under the ugf plates in ...

boy, there is a good reason everyone wants one of these, synodontis are pretty ( to us especially ) but this a knockout!

sorry for your loss. it has happened to all of us. you try all you can, sometimes spending a lot of money in the process because at that point it just way more important that you save him (or her) and in spite of all you do it turns out bad anyway. what i do at that point is give everyone an extra w...

tried added aeration but still have a problem, it's just the older synos that are being affected. there are some young ones in the tank and they are fine
Neither the Oxy Tet or the Metronidazole are making any diff to these 5 fish, any other ideas?
Please?

Darrel, thanks for your reply! I thought of that too.The tank is a 120 XH with two eheim - 2217, 1-2215 and two large sponge filters that are cranking. The 2 -2217 spray bars are positioned just under the surface so the water comes up and out and then splashes down as is the 2215 I know tall tanks h...

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