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It's been more than three months since you heard from me. On 2/2/ I was rushed to the hospital with double pneumonia and informed I had 72 hours to live!
Kaiser sent an air ambulance to rush me to Richmond, CA and my five aquaria
were abandoned. My brother arranged for my canaries and...
My friend Jordan Reece was #37 in the planted aquarium competition this year, one of only two Americans. He mostly keeps schools of small tetras keeps many kinds of shrimps-Amano, cherry, candy cane, and red. I bought two Amanos-does anyone know their scientific name? I need shrimps that are...
This is probably my fault. I am barely computer literate after 15 years on
these dreadful things. I have been trying for a week to reach PRICE LIST
from Neil's home page. I get some spammer's list of 100's of generic
items I might wish to purchase-balderdash!
Would one of you kind souls...
I am posting this in the lounge hoping someone can help me locate:
2 pair Etroplus maculatus-xanthistic form
1 male E. maculatus-normal colouration
3+female Apisto. hongsloi-hopefully from a line not carrying an orange gene
1 male A. juruensis
1 pr or trio A. macmasteri
6 A. borelli - as...
I noted that all my fish were itchy in all three tanks yesterday. Assuming
an overload of bacteria low down I treated all tanks with Melofix which I have found miraculous.
Tonight I noticed that one of my 2 cardinal tetras has ick on it's dorsal. I've had phenomenal luck with Ick Guard but...
Dear All-
As promised I am supplying a complete census of the fishes in my 150 and 29 communities in which cichlids are breeding and raising fry:
The 150
3-Hyphessobrycon bentosi 'Rosaceus' 1m 2f
4-Botia sidthimunki
5-Corydoras panda
1-pair Apisto. panduro
7-Hemigrammus bleheri...
site and am wondering how other members feel about it.
HERE IS MY WANTED FISHES list (alive or aliver!)
1 female Colisa lalia - the normal fish
4-6 Mikrogeophagus altispinosus-females
***The xanthistic (yellow) form of Etroplus maculatus-6 sub adults or a
probven pair.
1 male Lake Victoria...
Dear All- I have four tanks now and had a ghastly experience with UPS on the first fish I've ever had shipped-they finally arrived 48 hours late with the water in their bags in the 60's. Two maroniis were dead on arrival and several more fishes died during the next 30 hours. The third day...
I will, later today write a census of my two communities* but suffice it to say that my 150 must have close to 100 fishes not counting fry. I returned to the hobby by chance after a 40 yr. break, initially terrified. I started w. a 29 gal set-up from Wal Mart-a pair of P. pulcher, 8 Blue Rams...
I hoped by trying die Zwergbuntbarsche I'd be avoiding major tank rearrangement (ha) and aggression. I've had 4 Bolivian rams, M. atipinosus for 5 mos. One is now eeeemormous-3.2 inches to peduncle and fat-I suspect a female. The smallest who has stayed flat to convex bellied is the worst...
Dear All- This was one of the worst/best days of my life. A shipment from Neil was screwed up by UPS and isn't settled---if any of the fish survive it will be a miracle. While clinmbing the walls-not easy when you are disabled with a broken niock and spine I did a partial water change on my...
In my 150 community tank I have 4 large Echin. 'Red Indian'; 1 small unnamed Echin; 1 bity one bought as compacta. These are doing fine as is my anubias coffeefolia. However I want to grow red foliaged plants at the end of the tank which gets a few hours of morning sun and both the...
Dear Cichlidians-
We had our first meeting of the Aquarists' Association of Arizona and I spoke on "The World of Dwarf Cichlids:An Introduction." We had a nice turnout and I met most of the owners of the various LFS. One runs a business centered on pond and aquarium maintenance-largely...
I was shocked at fish prices in Phoenix-they're 2 or 3 x whatb they cost in Tucson. At the best shop in thye city I saw these unknown dwarfs marked
"Rock Kribs." The'd gotten a few pair of adults which spawned and raised
about 30 young. I bought the last three. No scientific names in the...
Hi All-
All the fish in my 29 which has much dead vegetation are itchy and scratch themselves on the plants and other places. No visible parasites.
Apparently perfect health.
Should I do a major water change? How can I make them more comfortable? I hate to be itchy myself.
What is...
apisto. standachneri. Now where do I get steindachneri??
Again I ask the whole group where can I find the xanthistic form of Etropolus maculatus. I can't even find the natural form!
Dear Randall and All- My 6.5 week old Pelv. pulcher fry are getting enormous (some males 1.4")eating like big piggies. Meanwhile Mom and Pop are coloring up and she's filling with eggs. So far they treat their brood (23 in all) like the other dithers BUT I'm afraid after they spawn there's...
Hi, All- My grandfather bred Eqyptian mouthbreeders in the 20's and 30's. I bred other cichlids in the 40's and 50's. My largest tank was one 50 gallon. I used natural multi-earth-toned gravel as a substrate and grew all kinds of plants. Honest to God, I never changed any of the water in my...
Hi All- Well my 150 community has become nightmarish. In order to fill it I saved R/O but we had to resort to my garden hose through the window and try as I may I have been unable to get my pH below 7.2 and all 18 of my apistogrammas-mostly agasizzi and cockatuoides began dyring off-plus seven...
Hi, All- I ended up with c. 20 P. pulchers who are now large enough at one month to eat full sized black worms and tear apart frozen mysis shrimp. Everyone is getting along but the largesty male A. cockatuoides has fathered a bunch of eggs and two of my little tiny M. ramirezis are trying to...