Interesting. Now please cite references to back this up . How were you able to bunch middle eastern culture with far-eastern culture when they are worlds apart?
eh, Japan pushes the boundaries on a regular basis. The us reality programs sickens me too... I dont really watch tv anymore unless its sports or nature shows.
I totally agree and i have replied in the past saying something similar. But yeah the 5 post requirement was established early on to prevent spammers and folks
not really interested in joining the forum from wasting bandwith.
If you use the ones that food grade or the one that will be used for a refrigerator , then it shouldnt be any problem. I have used clear hoses from
home depot before and never had a problem with them. Ill try to do more research on this though.
If you dont know what it is, theres a good chance its a FH. Trimacs are hard to come by these days ... youre more likely to pick up a FH by accident than a trimac. :)
Cutting shrimp down to bite sized portion would be right. Getting them to try shrimps would can be a challenge, however. Like what rallysman said, make sure that they get a hump in the lower back from feeding it on food it readily takes before weaning it on shrimps.
A lot of people have...
It could be a culmination of things : tannic acids from the drift are lowering your ph , organic wastes from the fish and plants .. are often do you clean your substrate? water changes?
Can you post a picture of your setup ? maybe we can help you with how the tank is aquascaped, location of the tank or maybe even the background?
BP are very social fish , its sort of unlike them to just cower in a cave
unless something is stressing them out.
Thanks for the support on both forums. But i also echo
the sentiment on what the others said.. Its better to
register only if you have interest on that specific forum and
the kind of fish / setup that majority of the members are interested in . :)