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  1. Daniel
    Congratulations! It couldn't have happened to 3 nicer nerms!
  2. Daniel
    I have a dissolved oxygen sensor that sometimes is in aquariums that I dose with Easy Green. I have never noticed a drop in dissolved oxygen associated with the addition of Easy Green.
  3. Daniel
    It was warm today, in the 60s, so I started getting bee equipment out and tubs for summer tubbing.
  4. Daniel
    Who is the real Randy Reed really? Is it true he dyes his hair? Inquiring minds want to know...
  5. Daniel
    In its own way, this forum is an online fish club. You are an honorary 'nerm' now.🙂
  6. Daniel
    Ah @TheDukeAnumber1 insightfully asks the key question. Light to moderate feedings of flake food mostly. But there were time periods with much heavier feeding of blackworms, mosquito larva, etc.
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    @KBOzzie59 Good to read a post from you!
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    Up until recently this aquarium had 75+ 4 - 5 inch adult angelfish (that had been in there for 5 years). I don't think it the aquarium was anywhere near its carrying capacity in terms of bioload. I suspect I could have had 200 large angelfish in there without issues. If what you intend to have is about 150 fish around 5 inches in length in an aquarium almost 2 1/2 times as large, my inclination is that you wouldn't exceed your aquarium's bioload capacity. I have never had to do massive daily water changes on this tank. With the angelfish you see above, I did a 20% change somewhere between once every two weeks and once a month. Several times I went many months with no water change at all.
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    @Clockwork-crow Looks perfect to me. The more vegetation the better for sparkling gouramis. Here is a video I shot recently of mine spawning in the dense hornwort.
  10. Daniel
    @MarkDavenport When faced with a similar choice to yours, I chose not to have any filter or sump. I have never regretted that decision. I have been running an 8 foot by 3 foot by 3 foot aquarium since 2007 with no filter at all. Here is what the aquarium looked like in 2010 with plants: Here is what is currently looks like as a hardscape only tank. It runs fine either way. Filters are a home for beneficial bacteria and provide circulation and flow in the aquarium. In a large aquarium there is plenty of room and surface area for the bacteria and you don't need a filter to provide flow. I have an Iwaki pump underneath the aquarium that constantly circulates the water and an inline heater, but that is it. As your friend suggests, I do have an automatic water change system, with an overflow standpipe that goes to an outdoor pond (full of cherry shrimp). It is hard to imagine what the addition of canister filters or sumps would add in a positive way to the functioning of a large system like this. It is easy to imagine the cost, noise and maintenance that this additional equipment would bring. So, even though it must sound counterintuitive in the extreme, as someone who has lived with a large aquarium in the middle of my livingroom for more than a decade, I would advise considering going without any mechanical filter at all.
  11. Daniel
    Movement attracts predators. I have seen rabbits, mice, deer, woodcocks etc. hide by just not moving. Sometime running away is more dangerous than staying still.
  12. Daniel
    Since the pandemic the majority of my purchases have been either through AquaHuna or AquaBid.
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    Daniel replied to Connor Elliott's topic in Diseases

    It certainly could happen. But two factors would work against it in the long run. The drug resistant bacteria would likely have a harder time competing against non drug resistant bacteria if there were no drugs present (which I would presume that your aquarium does have some time periods without drugs in it). And if the drug resistant bacteria were to kill its host, it would perish also or at least be back to competing against non-drug resistant bacteria in a presumably un-medicated aquarium. If drugs were frequently used, it would definitely have long term viability.
  14. Daniel
    Who couldn't love very hardy, very easy to breed fish.
  15. Daniel
    Everybody loves convicts!🙂
  16. Daniel
    I wondered that too. But eventually came to believe there it more like a midnight to midnight cycle. I just didn't know when midnight was. I definitely could be wrong because getting a few more reactions in the morning seems like a rolling 24 hour limit. But later in the day when my ability to react comes back, it comes back like a flood which seems like a midnight to midnight type of cycle. Maybe it is neither of these options.🙂
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    It runs a 24 cycle but I think the developers must be in the UK or Finland or Tuvalu because sometimes I run out of reaction in the morning but by afternoon they are back. I asked about it once but didn't get back an actionable answer.
  18. Daniel
    Looks like frogbit. According to my fancy new German plant book I got yesterday, "Eine interessante Schwimmpflanze" which sounds like "a interesting swimming plant" but probably means "an interesting floating plant". 🙂
  19. Daniel
    I always wanted to breed a very black and very white butterfly betta. I tried, but never got there. Like this but in black and white.
  20. Daniel
    For me harem breeding has worked when the were large open spaces (in largish aquariums) combined with varied boundary markers like plant barriers or hardscape. This allow the apisto male to go from 'apartment' to 'apartment' and yet the females had reasonably defensible locations.
  21. Daniel
    Don't tell anyone, but I never quarantine my fish. I not saying other people should do it the way I do it, as there are good reasons to quarantine fish. I just don't it. And, it has been a long time since I had any reason to use a medicine. Most of my aquariums are single species aquariums which not withstanding what I said above, is a kind of quarantine. By the time some of the fish end up in a community tank I have already owned them for quite a while.
  22. Daniel
    Yes, I found them in this ditch off the side of the road in Kinston, NC. Ditch wasn't pretty, but it was full of native plants like Bacopa and Myriophyllum, and native fish and ghost shrimp. And E. gloriosus
  23. Daniel
    I love Elassoma! I have kept pygmy sunfish in this genus for the last 15 years. They are definitely in my top 3 fish. I also keep Bluespotted sunfish (Enneacanthus gloriosus). Here are a couple of young female Bluespotted sunfish. Elassoma are definitely picky eaters. I have never got mine to eat anything but live foods (mostly baby brine shrimp). And yes Elassoma will hide if they don't feel comfortable in their environment. When I first collected pygmy sunfish my wife referred to them as 'the fish you never see'. Eventually I put in enough cover and dense plants that after that they would come out and be visible. Both of these fish are very popular in Europe.
  24. Daniel
    Please tell me there is a Cory McElroy. 🙂
  25. Daniel
    Germs?
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