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  1. Daniel
    I don't know if he knows this product, but @Coronal Mass Ejection Carl is our resident expert on 'false ammonia readings'.
  2. Daniel
    I am so sorry to hear that! Heaters are prone to fail, so often the best course is to treat them like they will fail tomorrow. Besides getting a less powerful heater that cannot overheat your aquarium, which might be hard for a small aquarium, you can also buy on Amazon an Inkbird temperature controller. You plug the Inkbird into your electrical outlet and you plug your heater into the Inkbird. This way you are not dependent on the thermostat on the aquarium heater. I believe the Inkbirds go for less than $30. I think many of us have had this happen. I am sorry it happened to you.
  3. Daniel
    Looks a female Gambusia affinis, commonly known as 'Mosquito fish'. The tell-tale sign is the black bar through the eye. But if not Gambusia affinis she is some sort of native livebearer.
  4. Daniel
    The 3 things I always keep in mind with discus are: Keep the aquarium very warm, somewhere in the 84°F - 86°F Feed a high quality varied diet, I feed some live foods mainly because they will eat live foods readily and once they are eating frequently they will eat just about any dry food you give them also Keep the water clean, either with water changes or very good biological filtration I would like to hear @Paul's thoughts on what advice he would give also.
  5. Daniel
    For example breeders like Stendker specifically address the water parameter question: This isn't to say all discus breeders have hard water tolerant discus. But some breeders like Stendker do.
  6. Daniel
    Wild discus are use to soft water, but domestic discus are very flexible and can do fine in hard water.
  7. Daniel
    Quite often, sometimes they even fall into the aquarium:
  8. Daniel
    @Lizzie Block had a good post on how to insert a video:
  9. Daniel
    I think you hit the nail on the head. That is where they are popular. I have heard of giant display tanks in Germany using our native pumpkinseed sunfish that look awesome. Same with pygmy sunfish, very popular in Europe. Makes you wonder what kind of aquarium fish do you keep if you live in Brazil or Peru?
  10. Daniel
    Rules? 🙂
  11. Daniel
    During that time period in the Eocene the Arctic ice cap wasn't so much of an ice cap as it was a shallow freshwater lake as per these 2 images courtesy of the Azolla Foundation:
  12. Daniel
    When I had asked this question in the 'Summer Tubbing' thread, Cory replied and suggested rice fish. I was skeptical, but I tried rice fish despite my doubts, and what do you know, it turns out that rice fish are one of the toughest, easiest, most prolific pond fish I have ever kept.
  13. Daniel
    The nice thing about pymgy sunfish is in my experience they are perfect happy in temperature ranges from 40°F to 90°F. Pygmy sunfish are the most temperature tolerate fish I have ever kept. I have had them over winter in iced over outdoor ponds, and I have found them in ditches with the water temperature over 90°F.
  14. Daniel
    I think the your premises are the problem. A moderately stocked 20 gallon aquarium with plants doesn't need any filter at all to safely process the ammonia produced by the guppies and shrimp. An airstone is nice to help with providing some flow, and it won't harm your livestock to have a sponge filter, but given a moderate stocking load, a sponge filter isn't strictly necessary either. Relax and resist the urge to over complicate a problem that doesn't exist in reality.
  15. Daniel
    Azolla grows so fast that it is implicated in the great Azolla Event of 49 million years ago flipping Earth's climate from greenhouse to icehouse:
  16. Daniel
    It wasn't so much of a recommendation as I don't even have thermometers in most of my aquariums, much less calibrated ones. It was more of rejoinder to an earlier post of mine in this thread that many of the wished for products actually do exist. My main aquarium use for calibrated thermometers have been in running trials comparing treatments to similar aquariums where I want the various probes to report accurately. Although I have been known to setup an overly monitored aquarium, the majority of my aquariums are somewhat minimalist, without many of the modern aquarium appliances like heaters and filters that are thought to be necessary.
  17. Daniel
    @AdamTill If I can get around to it a future project will be to connect a Raspberry Pi to a Seneye monitor. A lot of the heavy lifting has already been done on this.
  18. Daniel
    This is a tad prettier and about the right size for a 5 gallon:
  19. Daniel
    Might it have been this post from @Coronal Mass Ejection Carl?
  20. Daniel
    I think a more likely explanation is that some of their genes, i.e. creatine kinase, are evolved to operate optimally at cooler temperatures: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0102492 In the paper above, carp genes enabled greater cold tolerance in zebra fish.
  21. Daniel
    Plants readily consume nitrates. True, plants preferentially consume ammonia, but think of it this way, I will eat tacos before pizza, but I will still eat plenty of pizza.
  22. Daniel
    And one more: @Streetwise's 'Vermont Outdoors' And though it seems early, now is the time to start planning for summer tubbing. I know I am planning and constructing the tubs right now.
  23. Daniel
    And the memorable 'Project Subaru' by @Bill Smith
  24. Daniel
    This first day of the forum thread would be a very good place to start:
  25. Daniel
    Looks like glossostigma elatinoides.
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