Fish Folk

Confirmed breeding pair! EBAs sitting on wigglers. This is so helpful for selling them. People would much rather buy a confirmed pair than “unsexed” assortment. And I, for my part, refuse to guess / lie about a pair being confirmed. Either they are, or they aren’t.

Exciting day!! I’ve found Nothobranchius guentheri eggs a-plenty in my coconut fiber media. short story long… (1) My 10 gal breeding tank cracked, flooding my fishroom 🥴 (2) I pulled the spawning container, poured excess water off top, and poured out into a container with paper towels under and on top to absorb moisture… (3) Today, i checked the media, and behold! (4) Now I let it air dry some more, then carefully label a zip lock bag (species / date bagged / 8-weeks when they can be hatched out) (5) I place this inside a small styro in a warm upstairs room of my house (bathroom back shelf) Can’t wait til June!!!

Mormyrus Longirostris I had to look these up. Very unique fish. Their overall adult size is too prohibitive for me to bring into my hobby. That electrical shock thing is fascinating!

Are you referring to the fish food “dropping” down through the water column because shiners are drift feeders? Or some other parameter “drop”?

And I like the option of those Hydor fans blowing back from opposite side as suggested earlier too. Interesting! Now I've got to build this some day . . . confound this FORUM! No way can I keep up with the fascinating project possibilities here!

That's brilliant. Now I have to try this out . . . killing me here! So would you do something like this? Where the powerhead is redirected via PVC elbow up to spray bar?

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Thank you much! That's a brilliant little DIY. Makes sense. So are you imagining a powerhead leading up to a spray bar? (sorry if you've just said that)

So please forgive my ignorance . . . what's a "spray bar"?

@nabokovfan87 That's great help! Thanks much. If I was setting this up myself right now, I'd definitely want to test all of these ideas out. At present, I'm focussed on other projects. I'd love to try a high flow set up though. I'm wondering what you'd think of something like this? (substrate / hardscape added, of course)

I assume you mean Gardneri? I think that males will fight a bit. It's probably best to keep multiple females per male. A trio is probably all a 10 gal could hold. I'd, in fact, consider a different species, or a larger tank for Gardneri long term. I've been breeding Scheeli. They're very similar -- a bit smaller, and maybe slightly less aggressive. If you want a display 10 gal tank where fry emerge now and then, you'll want to have a ton of low cover. Males of the Genus Fundulopanchax typically chase females down to spawn in / against mops, plants, or substrate... The eggs take weeks to hatch, and fry are so small, you won't see them well until they're weeks old. So if you have a load of java moss, they'll breed in there just fine and multiply for you slowly. Adults do eat some fry, but enough fry will live if your tank is well-planted. I have really enjoyed the Emerald Killi (Scheeli). Here are a few photos of the males I've kept, hatched out and raised up... And here's a look at the 33-gal long that I use as a colony for them. They'll breed in here now, slowly multiplying. I don't necessarily need to specially breed them using mops / hatching jugs / fry grout tanks unless I want to... But I think that I'd someday rally like to try my hand at the Australe Orange Killis. A guy in my fish club breeds and sells these. They really stand out brightly against green, making for a lovely contrast...

I'd love to hear! All I've ever done for flow is add powerheads, and occasionally an HOB -- but typically, that just pushes water down rather than out across. I think that what I'd love to achieve is something like the opening video from Oliver Knott. I'd love a sequence that really simulates the heavy flow of a river. My basic reasoning is that it _seems_ like these Gold Nugget Plecos thrive and multiply in heavy, heavy flow. Any ideas?

Your girl looks gorgeous. Love the yellow + orange.

Rewatching the MAN City v Liverpool match right now here: https://dood.so/d/1l5w95bq6x7h Lots of popups, but once you clear, it's a great re-stream.

Here it is: The moment this eve in Valencia, when two teenage F. C. Barcelona subs -- a 17 year old (#30) and a 19 year old (#16) -- sliced open Levante F.C. like a razor sharp fillet knife through fish...

We’ve got FREE SWIMMERS!!!!! I’ve waited a long while to get this right again. Here’s a video there’s Shiners in both containers…

I notice that the male beats up the female a bit here. Maybe they’ll get better at it though.

Ugh! We won. 2-3. Brutal. Worse moments in our play were unforgivable. Levante pressed like a pack of rabbid hillbilly raccoons. Refereeing was awful, on both sides. Only saving lights were our subs. We’ll take the three points, but that felt like a 5-0 thrashing loss.

Off with De Jong and Nico… on with Pedri and Gavi… lo and behold! Barça is up 1-2 !!!

Can you find a video of one of those in action?

Pep G. looked absolutely manic at the final whistle.

I’d love to read a thorough post from you on feeding, nutrition, where you source your food, etc. This is great info!

Xavi Hernandez — Special halftime talk translation: ”You look like a bunch of stoned cows out too late on a Spanish Sunday night! Every clown who makes a ridiculous pass in the second half shall be summarily dragged home behind the bus!”

I haven’t yelled so much at my TV for 30 mins straight since… I can’t remember. Barça is playing BAD!!!

So! We have some fry. They’re really, really hard to see… Here I’m feeding…