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    Pizza

    Fonske replied to Fish Folk's topic in Off Topic General

    Pineapples? Pineapples on pizza are fine. As well as fish, chips, seafood, duck, beef, Spam, etc.. Sweet potatoes on pizza are bad. Although some disagree with me on this.
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    If you don't mind less colorful appearance, ghost shrimp can be very hardy. Mine don't care about anything. They have been living in a forgotten bottle of dirty tank water; in a quarantine tank with medications; in a fry tank with daily 50% water changes - no problem whatsoever. (This does not necessarily apply to any random ghost shrimp though, I might just be lucky to have a particularly tough variety.)
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    Keeping an eye on me
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    I use a tiny adjustable HOB on my 1g guppy fry/(unintended) ghost shrimp breeding tank. It works very well for me. DIY sponge on the intake, spider plant in the main compartment, low flow setting, and a lot of moss in the tank. The shrimp are breeding like crazy, so I have to relocate some to other tanks regularly.
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    All my display tanks have permanently attached black backgrounds. Solid black helps to hide stuff on both outside and inside the tanks (e.g. internal filters and algae). It also makes plants and light-colored fish stand out a lot.
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    Been there, done that. With mixed results. I have ~20g plastic box on two IKEA coffee tables (made mostly of cardboard) for about a year now -- no problem so far. On the other hand, two ~5g glass tanks on IKEA book-shelves-thing (also basically made of cardboard) stood on it for couple of years, then one tank leaked a little, caused the cardboard to swell, and then both tanks leaked catastrophically within two weeks. The fish survived, but the lesson was learned, and these days all glass tanks in my house are on sturdy metal or solid wood stands made for aquariums.
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    Guppies were both for me. When I bought my first pregnant females, I thought that getting their fry and growing them out was just a step on the way to enjoy the awesome full-grown fish, especially the amazing-looking males. After raising several generations of different strains, I finally had to admit to myself that I don't really like adult guppies too much, especially males (what is wrong with me? ugh). But baby guppies - oh yes, a ton of joy and fun to watch them grow in their tiny tank.
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    What are these fish? Very cool spotted pattern.
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    Right.
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    Fish for our forum anniversary :)
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    Local pond inhabitants not keen on being photographed.
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    My Little Trouble (the angel) and blue ram.
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    Yes, at least in circumference :) The maximum length I have seen in the wild (or supermarket) was about 1.5ft long, but they get much fatter, maybe 4-5" in diameter. The one I photographed is probably just a bit over 1" in cross-section.
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    Ah, there is something I can talk about :) This is a medium-sized (~1ft long) snakehead, a common food fish here in China. They are predators, they like to hang around the shores, and I have a nagging suspicion that they spend some time out of the water too (because when walking around the ponds it's very common to hear a loud splash and then to see a big snakehead swimming away from the rocky shore. Very similar to an encounter with a basking turtle, but the splash sound is different). They are very pretty indeed, even (or should I say, especially) when they are small. They are also incredibly slippery, like a thousand times more slimy and slippery than any other fish.
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    Local wildlife is mostly hiding in the shadows these days
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    I kept a bunch of danios together, including leopard shortfin, leopard longfin, longfin zebras, glo's, etc. and I saw not much difference in activity level between all of them. They were all super active, super fast and chased each other all the time.
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    My pond, bladder, trapdoor, and tiny ramshorn snails never ate hornwort needles. The snails lived happily in the floating bunch of hornwort, but the shed needles stayed around forever.
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    Not my fish, but I like to take pictures of them :)
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    Picture-pretty Saturday after a big thunderstorm last night.
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    In my tanks, elodea and frogbit gobbled nitrates up like there was no tomorrow. Especially elodea. It grew incredibly fast and in couple of days its new growth would turn white/transparent because of nitrogen deficiency.
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    Gray angel
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    Every time I look at bettas at my LFS, I find at least a dozen of absolutely irresistible gorgeous color schemes I want to take home. But the most tempting for me are the ethereal long-finned whites.
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    Today I saved my blue lace guppy juveniles from possible electrocution and poisoning... See the culprit below, the LED light that was on their tank. Luckily, I was at home and noticed the smell and the smoke in time.
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    I got one rabbit snail a while ago, it happened to be a pregnant female, and she gave birth to one baby snail per month for 7 or 8 month.
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    Bunch of rosy barbs
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