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How would the following fish react to one another in a crowded, over-filtered tank? Bichir (Marbled / Senegal / Armoured / Ornate -- P.s. palmas / P.s. senegalus / P.s. delhezi / P.s. ornatipinnis) Jack Dempsy / Jaguar / Oscars Severum / Convicts For all species assume a 100gal tank...

My male ate the second day I got the pair. The female ate on day three. They lived through a mini-cycle for about a week and suffered no ill-effects.

Feeders are only prone to disease because they are commonly inbred. As far as cycling your tank, yes, the guppies will work, but I would reccomend fishlessly cycling. Use the search function and you'll find more than enough information on running a fishless cycle to get you started.

Guppies (Poecilia Reticulata) belong to a different genus of fish than platies (Xiphophorus variatus) or swordtails (Xiphophorus helleri) and thus are unable to breed with guppies. There is the potential for guppy/molly breeding as both belong to the Poecilia genus but I havn't read anything...

Ich is highly infectious so treating the whole tank is the best route. No medication required, just salt and heat. Turn the heater up to 85 degrees and add about 1 tablespoon of salt per gallon. Watch for the ich spots on your angel to disappear then wait two more days before turning down the...

Try drying the plant out. Remove it from the water for 10-15 minutes, then shake the plant off in a 5 gallon bucket of water.

Quarintine would be an obvious must. In fact I think it could be rather beneficial if done properly. Say I were to get a shipment of 20 L-No plecs. I'd put five in each tank out where they are visible, but on the tank I'd have a piece of paper stating when the fish had arrived and that they...

Absolutly. I can tell anyone I want to that they will not be able to buy certain fish or pruducts from me. The ability to do so is supported by law and a key part of free trade -- "an establishment has right to deny service to any individual". As for dening sales to people, I would do so only...

The fish database would be incredibly easy, but tedious to make. You could probably get away with script that contained a database of common names and scientific names. Then when the user gives you a common name it converts it to the scientific name and then could gives google's first result...

O.O How often do you vac? 5-10 mins maybe. My snails and corys do a good job cleaning up.

What would it look like, what animals / fish would be in stock, what would the tank setup be like, what would the floor plan be like, etc.? I know it's silly, but I'm begining to plan and research what a really, really good petshop would be like. :read: So post what you think would make for...

All of your fish are very docile and well suited for community life (if far too big for your tank). The gouramis are too unless mixed with their own kind in a space too small for the two to claim aqdequte territories. Really, the best way to think of them is as slightly toned down bettas; you...

I got 30lbs of granite at a rock supplier about two minutes from my house for $3.20. A much better deal than getting robbed at PetCo :Angel: Too bad they didn't sell drift wood :( As far as the type of rocks you can use go, stick with igneous. They're by far the most stable since they...

I'm leaving for college in August, obviously I can't take my 20g and my parents have alrady said they won't really do too much tank maintainance aside from feeding so I'm trying to figure out what I can do to really keep things clean. Right now the plan is to buy several ramshorns, 5 ghost...

Small tetras like neons and cardinals are natural prey for angels, they will be eaten at some point. I'd go with bleeding hearts, serpea (watch them for fin nipping), or black phantoms; pretty much anything with a body that is long and high. Though... if you were to get neons, you have a...

A full grown "shark" (they're actually a catfish) wouldn't even fit inside a 25 gallon. You'd need something at least 100 gallons to house one animal as they grow to 40" long.

That's actually a pretty good idea, and I've been wanting a pond... but state laws require that a pond any deeper than 18" must be surrounded by a 6' fence, which is prohibited by the neighborhood's covenant. =/ Maybe I'll check that sort of setup tomorrow. They do have 50gal half barrel...

If you give the site he linked to the genus (Echinodorus) it pulls up over twenty plant examples.

I find guppies more pleasing to look at than platies. Some platies / swords seem to find it necessary to pester and harass all other platies / swords until they have their own tank. Some sort of killer platy lineage that is starting to creep into the pedigree. =/ I'd just return or...

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