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Thanks, I’d definitely like to give them a try

These popped up on Amazon for me and naturally I wondered if anyone has ever tried them for tank lights. Maybe too much for one tank but possibly for a fish room?

Kind of a silly question, but what is so appealing about blood worms from a fishes perspective? My moray is only consistently eating blood worms, which he will come out for as soon as they are out in the water. He has taken frozen seafood before but sometimes turns his nose at it and doesn’t come out quickly for them. Morays hunt by smell so I’m assuming the blood worms are more pungent, but is there a way to replicate that in other food or any suggestions on some delicious smelly foods aside from blood worms.

I have family in northeast Ohio and whenever we visit we go to the Akron Zoo. They have very few aquatic exhibits, but they door have one of my favorites I’ve ever seen, and Amazon riverbank filled with turtles, rays, Midas cichlids, and parrot cichlids. They also have a rare blue variant lobster that showed up at a local seafood restaurant that they gave to the zoo, and some Silver Fulu Cichlids.

Not exclusively, but they do occasionally get crickets, grasshoppers, and flys

My chickens love it, especially when it’s filled with ramshorns

I have 3 archers (not sure which species, one of the brackish ones) in a 90g, and one has become overly dominant. He was the only archer for a while and used to always be at the top of the tank, once I got 2 more he started chasing them to the bottom and now they are always done there looking stressed and he stays in the middle and chases them if they come out. Should I add 2 more archers to spread out aggression?

That’s a mbu puffer

Wondering if anyone else is keeping a Tiger Moray. Mine hasn’t been eating what I’m feeding, not sure if he is getting scraps after light goes out or possibly had started preying on the snails in the tank? Anyone know ever have they’re morays eat small snails?

Fahaka puffer and mbu puffer, and yes it is a big ol’ bushfish and there is indeed several military bases in my area

I frequent this store at least once a week and I thought I’d share some pics of some of the stuff that caught my eye today (the fly river isn’t actual at my LFS but a reptile store that’s connected to it, which I also like to stop by in)

I e heard of people who keep rows of things like cichlids or bettas painting the sides to minimize stress so they are not always trying to fight each other through a glass wall. I’m not sure if this actually makes a difference

Around me the tapajos are average priced compared to other geos. Not much more than the cheapest and way less than the most expensive. It does seam like the RHT is one of the more popular geos which is probably part of the reason why it’s higher.

I don’t think those were water tight seems, looked like he was fitting a glass top table. I would bet you could use this technique for a finishing seam though

https://fb.watch/nGtPV4cEnD/?mibextid=v7YzmG thought some DIYers would appreciate the seam work this guys is showing

Anyone going to the upcoming Southern Aquatic Experience in Columbia, SC? I’m planning on going and have never been before, has anyone gone before?

https://reefbuilders.com/2023/10/09/eviota-atauroensis-is-a-new-species-of-dwarfgoby-from-timor-leste/

Yes to being too broke to buy things. I really enjoy the scaping aspect and I have a stash of tanks I got for free from friends or off the side of the road. A thrift store even gave me 2 30g for free once. I keep a container of substrate mix I use in my tanks which is gravel, aragonite, BDBS, all purpose sand, and sand from my yard. You can buy an 8’ x 4’ pink 2” styrofoam insulation board at the hardware store for about $20 and a gallon of drylok for $15 and be able to make 3D backgrounds for a ton of tanks. Collecting from nature is free. I have gone to my local river and got a 5 gallon bucket of muck to use as substrate, which came with lots of little critters, local plants and fish can be fun to keep, decor like drift wood (I’ve had a lot of success getting cool pieces by digging up the rootball of dead bushes, which is what spider wood is) and rocks are easy to find. If you have a LFS that will buy fish from you you can start an easy breeding project and trade fish for store credit/$ for your hobby. My best advice is to stay off Aquabid or you’ll wind up having to explain to your wife how you accidentally bought more fish…

I use a mix of BDBS and the cheap all purpose sand from Lowe’s, plus some hand fills of ransoms sand from my yard. I’ve never had any issues with my fish, including sand sifters. I have not grown any non Rhyzome plants in it though so I can’t speak to that

Never kept them myself, but considering how common both of them are in the hobby I’d say the are probably more intermediate. Also I hope those are lot prices and not individual.

Nope just Morayartti the Moray for now, maybe one day. I couldn’t tell you, they were $3 Swordtails at my local Petco

I usually think of a large single fish when I think of a center piece fish. It definitely comes down to preference in what you’re looking for; color, personality, uniqueness, etc. Peacock eels, fancy plecos, certain cichlids come to mind, depending on what else you wind up with in the tank. I recently saw someone post about their purple spotted gudgeon which was a definite centerpiece fish, he taught it to hand feed to avoid loosing any fish which he said has worked so far. Not a fish, but a common musk turtle would be really cool, although I don’t know if they are plant safe or not.

No not yet, I haven’t made the trip yet

I’ve had two fish, both passed, that were pretty personable. One was a dojo loach that would always “kiss” my fingers when I put them in the water. The other, my true puppy fish, was Tambi the Protopterus Amphibius. Lots of personality and would hand feed from me. I know people who have the large puffers talk about how personable they are, there vision is excellent and can really observe what’s going on out of there tank so they will grow attached to the ones feeding them.