Mississippi fish guy

I have not been reading too much lately but the book I am currently working on is Disciplines of a Godly Man by R. Kent Hughes. I have I few others me and my brother bought but I haven’t gotten to those yet.

Aren’t those around 130$?

I set the trap in places that were in front of their hiding places and waited. Also I chased them with a net and had the trap in a corner in case they went their.

I have used the diy water bottle trap to catch in my fish but I had never thought to use bait and let the trap sit. I’ll have to try that when I need to catch my cherry barbs again.

I haven’t yet. when I order plants next time I plan to get some pearl weed and let it float since I think my red wolf fish would like that. I’m not sure when I will be ordering plants though.

I’m currently researching colleges and I am thinking about going into some sort of freshwater ichthyology ( I haven’t figured much of my plan yet since I’m still a junior in high school). I was wondering if anyone here is or was in a similar field and what you studied while you were in college.

That’s good. My brother is wanting to setup a darter tank and that would save him a good bit of money on the gravel.

I didn’t know you could get pea gravel from a hardware store. I will have to remember this for future reference.

Mine would probably be buying a cheap hob filter from Walmart for what was at the time my quarantine tank. The filter soon broke so I bought another and it broke so I bought another. I think the third one lasted me quite a bit longer than the other two but it did eventually break. Also I bought cuttle bones because I thought they were dissolving blocks that would get my 10 gallon set to grow out the guppy fry that I have. I have no idea if the cuttle bones are useful for aquariums.

Thanks, I will be looking into those.

I have an aco light. It is set at 60 but my lid blocks quite a bit because of the material I used to make it.

I am stopping fertilizer for now since I rarely dosed it before. Would less light intensity be better before or after less time with the light on? Also I’m considering turning the light off for an hour in the day since I did that before.

Thanks, I will probably collect some when they start to hatch in the ditch. There has been any water in it for a while so I don’t know how long it will be before they are large enough for me to tell what they are.

If that is a freshwater tank then check and see if it is a freshwater moray eel.

I found those behind my family’s house in a small ditch but I had no clue what they were until now. How can I know if they are parasitic since they would probably go well in the pigmy sunfish tank I will be setting up and scuds are a bit harder to find in the ditch. Also are sow bugs and water lice the same thing or are they different?

No, I didn’t know there were more aquatic isopods than the giant isopod. Could you give me the names of some?

I don’t have them right now since I don’t have an available aquarium and I don’t have the space for another. I didn’t know they existed till this post though I do want to try and breed them one day.

So I have ran into a problem with collecting pigmy sunfish, I can’t legally use a net to catch them. I’m currently looking for hooks that are small enough but I’m not confident that I will find any.

I like the sailfin tetras. They remind of the golden dorado and blue nose shiner.

Here are some pictures I pulled from the internet. the next one is a copepod

black spotted topminnow Mosquito fishWhile I was not at clear creek when I caught this I have caught these before there.

By how much? About how many hours would be good?

I have been having algae problems in my 55 red wolf fish tank lately. There has been some algae in the tank for most of the time it has been set up but mostly just on the driftwood and glass. I don’t mind it on the driftwood so I leave it there. recently after adding a large piece of drift wood I found, the brown algae started to take of on the wood, the last remaining java fernlet and my Pogostemmon. My banana plant is mostly untouched, my Amazon sword has a couple leaves with algae but is doing fine. The Java fernlet has died. The Pogostemmon is almost gone. My crypts don’t have much algae but have what looks like small bites taken out of them (there is a longear sunfish but I don’t know if they eat plants). Also there is a dark green algae (I don’t think it is bga) growing on the glass. I started dosing easy green at 1 pump per ten gallons. After about two weeks of dosing easy green the tank developed green water. It has also had green water for a long time but never enough to tell it was green unless you looked from the surface. I have around an inch of Fluval stratum as my substrate and I don’t vacuum much of the mulm that accumulates. I have an aco light that I run at 60% but my homemade lid blocks quite a bit of light so it probably only gets about half of that. I currently have 3 crypts, 1 sword, 1 banana plant, 1 Pogostemmon, and some mayaca fluviatillis floating around. I intend on adding more plants when my lava rock caves are done. how can I get rid of the algae?

I have 3

Actually it has been in the tank for a few months I just didn’t realize it could be an issue until today. I did redo the tank a couple of months ago but the kuhli loach was in the tank before that.