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So if I start fretting like a noob over the possibility of my tank-bred, fairly local (a couple states away is pretty local, lol) weeks-quarantined pair (I hope so, anyway lol, they are tiny but seem sexually dimorphic to me, pink belly and all), so if I should decide to explore the world of...

Yes I'd had them in the back of my mind, it's a gorgeous strain (especially since my adventures in having Japan blue golds has waned since 4 of 5 in two shipments didn't make it :/ yay one male breeding project), they certainly are beautiful- if I hadn't just (successfully) gotten golds and...

It's not a plan so much as thought- I can keep them at whatever temp they best prefer- if individual or species tanks suit best, that can be achieved- so all the ram/killies together are meh? I didn't catch the temp differential at first, the quarantine tanks run 78'- 80' and I was going to fine...

Ah, thank you for elucidating, I am still bitter after I found my last (and I do mean last) addition to the herd belly up a couple days ago. Maybe I can get my two little survivors to breed, lol (they may have been all this time, for all I know, nothing to do but get them in a breeder with a mop...

Years ago when I kept neons they didn't die if they were looked at twice, I have just told myself 'no more'. I have the two OGs that somehow survived whatever they do to wild caught fish and they don't seem to care about being a school of two, that's occasionally seven or nine, and then back to...

I am oogling over my new black metal and full gold ribbons at the moment (and trying to place them, I've got actual cycled tanks, but, which ones? ) but I will always love seeing what pops up in the mutt tank!

I've been cursing driftwood all morning, days playing with superglue and rocks, and finally rubberbands did the trick. Gotta have deep enough substrate to bury the ugly anchor but that's not a problem here lol

I know it's been hashed and rehashed, but there's so much in the way of differing opinions- I've finished the tank redux for the killies, and besides a few trilinneatus corys, I am torn what to put in, and when- I have a pair of tiny angels (that have a tank ready for them I am ready to move...

I just had my first pair arrive safely, I'm so excited! (Especially after the one I had ordered and worried about so long and even started a thread asking for betta vibes that it wouldn't be shipped until things were better with FedEx, and they didn't, and the replacement aliens and the male I...

That's precisely where I found my old shubunkin- I found him two friends to make up for the one that was lost to the raccoons (and bought some net to prevent it from happening again).

I found two pretty shubunkins to join my one in the pond at the LFS, I made it easy on myself lol. I don't think I would care to keep them in an aquarium, but I enjoy them outside in their own space.

My cichlids are just a pair of baby angels, but I went hard on the vals and dwarf sag, I hope they like it.

Check out The Secret Life in your Aquarium on guppies and inbreeding, he links to an interesting study- even tiny isolated populations (like two pair in a small pond) avoid inbreeding, and work it out amongst themselves- to get inbred guppies you have to WORK at it. Sorry I don't have the link...

I have alien betta proofed enough tanks that I was prepared after an impulse buy of two yesterday, lol, at least quarantine-wise in a ten, but I am retrofitting a 29 now (and thinking will they be happier in a group, and debating with myself how many). PS I just found ants carrying eggs and fed...

Looking at those soaking fronds I keep thinking *I'd* scatter my eggs in it, if I was a tetra . Maybe I will end up getting an RO thingy, but this minute I'm sure looking forward to surprising my Amazon-ish tank (probably more Orinoco but who's counting) with a nice cool rainwater change.

Oh, PS, I love all the Pisces series gravels I've tried (mulm on the 'Gunsmoke' is *hideous* though, I'm going to have to be right up on that tank, yay, extra work), but I mentioned the Midnight Pearl specifically- it's not really obvious ordering online, but not just the colors are different...

Thank you! I love throwing in a shrimp wafer and watching them go crazy, it's the first time I had a proper amount and they really do act different with a school!

Oh fantastic, I have all those things, and a plethora of new Amazonian species I'm growing out, I haven't had an angel (for example) for decades, and I'd like to do right by them (and have inadvertently found myself collecting small tetras, I can't believe how my 13 embers are growing out- they...

Gotcha, much to reread and gestalt the nuances, but I got the jist (I have both, use both for gardening, but master gardener class didn't delve into the specifics- or I don't remember lol)- a closed system like pot or tank has a lot less margin for error than my nursery beds (as do my nano tanks...

Mine do, if the school of noobs is too small, they'll shoal with a bigger one, but yeah, different batches know- my corys from Peru know my corys from Venezuela.