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I'm looking for a good source of Endler's that aren't mixed with guppys or other related live bearing fish.

Anyone have a source they can point me to?

Thanks,
Jim

Thanks again to Algenco.

The shrimp I got from him last year have not only overpopulated a ten gallon tank, they're now working on filling up a thirty gallon and I've finally moved a couple to the...

Haven't had a chance to visit the site in a while, but now that I can I just felt the need to share news of my good fortune ...

I was gifted (yes a birthday gift) a school of 6 young Denison...

How odd. I just had a number of my black neon's die over a 3 day period. Lost half the school. I checked my parameters and things were fine and my water changes are typically about 10 to 20 percent...

I'm looking for advice on UV Sterilizers, types to get, how best to use them, pros/cons.

I want to get one for my 90 gallon and one for my 30 gallon. My goal is fighting parasytes.

On the 90...

Thanks for the concern. Fortunately this was an already functional system, I just switched around the fish to different tanks to have large with large and small with small. I thought that might help...

I broke down and bought a shoal of 24 of these wonderful little critters. I put them in my 30 gallon which I'm reworking to be for smaller fish and all the larger fish are now in the 90 gallon.
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CONGRATS!

The shrimp I bought from Algenco are reproducing at such a rate I'm considering moving some of the colony to the 30 gallon! Pretty soon I might start to offer them for sale to the local...

I don't have to any more, but at first he wouldn't make the effort to go for the food and being in a community tank with guppies (aka pigs with fins) they would get all the food before he had a shot...

For me, the hardest to catch have been the Oto's. They seem to get super skittish and go crazy. I'm also afraid to squash them.

Just transfered al of my fish to a larger tank while I work on my...

Nice!

Great pics, very clear and the loaches look awesome.

Jim

I was talking to a friend about the lid drilling and he offered to help with it. He offered several nifty ideas and one sounds like it'll really help with gas exchange. He suggested a small grid...

The Fluval 1 Plus is rated for up to 12 gallons, only 2 more than the stingray, so pretty close and the amount of movement of water should be enough to help with gas exchange once I can get the lid...

I've started gathering the items together for the jar tank.

Jar:...

I've spotted some freshly hatched ones bopping about in the water colum and one hanging on the back glass eating some algea I allowed to grow there, and another one about 2 to 3 weeks old with very...

I will be looking at jars sometime this weekend among the madhouse of shoppers.

Once I have a better idea what is readily available to fit my vision I'll post how it is progressing.

Thanks for...

Had a close look-see at my 4 last night while transferring them to the 90 gallon from the 30 gallon. No black patches. Bummer.

Knowing what to look for will help once I find them, but getting the...

AARRRGGGGHHH!!!!! :brow34:


Well Jess, at least you were able to help us all with narrowing down the ID process to something useful.

Thank you for that. :19:


Now it is back to the...

Spent a little time examining the tank last night and what did I find ... that's right, a very tiny (about 3mm) baby cherry shrimp crawling on the floating anacharis.

I suspect this is from a...

I'm thinking about purchasing a glass jar (size could be from 1 gallon up to 2.5 gallons) and I'm thinking about filtration and lighting.

The lighting might not be a big deal since my office is...

I might have to place an order for some additional moss in the near future.

I've aquired some nice branching driftwood I might tie moss to for a different tank, and I'm also thinking of taking a...

I have to say I'm very happy with the progress of the ones I got from our esteemed Algenco.

The shrimp are doing well.

At present there are 4 confirmed berried females with an estimated dozen...

I went with 6 dwarf chain loaches, aka, sidthimunki loaches. A bit expensive, but I was looking for a different type of fish to add so it worked out well.

Jim

With any frozen foods it is often better for the fish if you thaw the portion you plan to serve them before adding it to the tank.

Some fish can suffer intestinal damage from frozen foods.

I...

I knew I could count on the good folks of the AC for answers. :19:


I went to the park that runs through the middle of my apartment complex this afternoon and hunted up about a dozen fallen oak...