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  1. Fonske
    I read on the internet that blood parrots can't do much damage because their teeth are so small...well, this particular parrot didn't know about that, apparently. Also, the Green Texas was much prettier and 6 times more expensive 😢.
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    It's hard to say from the photos, but the relative sizes of your fishes seem similar to the ones I saw. I'd be concerned about the acara...
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    Sounds very similar to what I've witnessed. Blood parrot female laid eggs, and started to lock lips with her Green Texas tank mate. It didn't end well for the Green cichlid... the blood parrot killed him a couple of day later.
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    Went on a cleaning spree. Decided to dismantle and scrub one light...then the tank lid... then another light...woke up 6 hours later to 8 squeaky clean tanks and a huge hot water bill. 😄
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    Are they normal guppies or albino? I have two albinos, a male and female (from a normal golden guppy mom and unknown father), and both of them are about 30% smaller compared to their non-albino brothers and sisters from the same drop. All grown in the same 5g tank.
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    I kept BBS eggs (not from Aquarium Coop) in a freezer when I just started hatching them. It took me almost a year to use the package, and all was well and constant. Then I got lazy and put the new package (same brand, vendor, and container) next to the hatchery for easy access, at room temperature. After couple of months, the hatching rate started to decrease and the time to hatching started to increase. By the end of the package, I had to use twice the amount of eggs to get the same amount of live BBS, and it took ~48 hours instead of 18-24 to hatch. The eggs developed quite a bit of smell, too. Could be just my eggs and/or conditions, but my BBS eggs are back into the freezer and going to stay there, dry and cold.
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    In my experience, albino guppies are definitely less robust. Not blind, but a lot more sensitive to poor conditions and changes in their environment. I had better success with albino strains when I bought heavily pregnant females as close to giving birth as possible and let them drop in the tank I wanted to keep them. The moms, sadly, often didn't make it, but the babies survived and did quite well. When I tried to do grow albinos in a fry grow-up tank and then transfer to their permanent tank, the results were a lot worse. So yes, albinos require more care and carry higher risks compared to normal strains.
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    One of my spade-tail males builds continuously, his half of the tank always has a big nest in it. Another one did it just a couple of times (in ~8 months).
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    Get black 6-8mm gravel for substrate, skip blue tank backgrounds and go black, and stay away from guppies.
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    Mine are about 4", including the tail.
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    Or long-bodied fish... rope fish and bichiers seem to be on the rise in my neck of the woods.
  12. Fonske
    So sorry about your peacock.. my LFS had one in a ~5g tank and it was so cute and so interesting to watch. Looking forward to see your new mantis!
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    Thanks! It did look nice with the fancy black trimmings, but later changed to gold and white. Prices also vary a lot depending on type of the goldfish, e.g. I've seen handsome 8" (body-only) commons for ~1.5$ (not on sale, regular price).
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    I wish my marimo things had mussels in them, my poor bitterlings would finally have had a chance to spawn... but no such luck.
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    Yes, normal betta poop is blob-like.
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    I had a couple of marimo balls, they grew from 1/2" to 2" and then unrolled themselves into flat pancakes. Rolling them back didn't work. If I were smart enough to try stitching them, I would've definitely tried it.
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    I'm no goldfish expert... I live in China though and my very superficial observations are a) goldfish are popular; b) they look good -- short bodies, perky fins, long tails, very shiny, supersaturated colors; c) those sold in pet shops are not expensive. The most expensive ones I saw were ~8" orandas/telescopes/other fancies for ~230$. (again, I'm not into high-end goldfish, this is what one can get from a local pet market). My 6" oranda (below) was ~20$, the smaller ones ~5$-7$.
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    I hit the gym and grew more muscles than @Zenzo so heavy buckets of water are much easier to deal with now... just kidding, no muscles, but getting somewhat in shape definitely helped with my manual water changing (WC) routine. Also, a three-bucket process of WC. One bucket for dirty water, another for clean water plus a third bucket to hold the siphons, sponges, refill pump, gloves, and other stuff neatly together and close to the tank I work with. Made the whole process much easier for me.
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    @Guppysnail I don't see any difference from other foods in my setups (which are mostly small tanks with high stocking levels, high temperatures, strong-ish filtration and large weekly water changes). I feed egg yolk first time in the morning (because it's a part of my own breakfast, so very convenient). For fry, I rub a tiny (really tiny) amount of yolk between my fingers and rinse in the tank. It makes a cloud of minuscule particles, ideal for fish babies. For adults, I crumble it just a bit. Start with very little and see how fish like it.
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    I feed a lot of live and frozen foods, but many of my fishes* grew a lot faster and larger after I added hard-boiled egg yolk to their diet. The effect was so quick and noticeable, I now consider it a must-have food for them. *guppy fry and adults, congo tetras, pearl gourami, leopard bushfish, and angelfish juveniles/adults.
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    I raise small batches of guppy fry (typically about a dozen) in 1g (fry-only) and 5g (with parents). In both tanks they grow like there is no tomorrow, I have not noticed any difference between the setups.
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    As someone who never bred fish for money, I would just take advice from Cory and go with guppies.
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    Guppy

    Fonske replied to Bobby H's topic in Fish Breeding

    From different parents, I would say it's very unlikely to have all females. From one guppy mom - yes, it's possible. I once had a newly-bought female that dropped a small batch of 12 fry and they all grew up into unmistakable females. No idea why this particular drop was so unusual, as the guppy mom was in my care for only two days before she gave birth. In all other cases in my experience, males to females ratio has always been very close to 1. However, some guppy strains could be sexed very early, others took a couple of months or even longer. For guppies of darker colors, I often could see their gravid spots way earlier (as early as one week old) than the difference in anal fins; some light-colored strains had very hard to see gravid spots, but their anal fins begin to change shape after three weeks or so. Some strains took a lot longer to mature. I once put a bunch of young, same-age virgin females of two different strains to breed with one male, got babies of one strain and then discovered that some of the "females" of the other strain were developing gonopodiums 😲.
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    My largest congo tetra male in direct sunlight.
  25. Fonske
    Here is mine. (S)he absolutely insists on being the primary subject of any photo, even if I try to sneakily photograph other fishes with a long zoom. Behold, the magnificent congo tetra.
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