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Least killifish Heterandria formosa
TheDukeAnumber1 replied to Guppysnail's topic in General Discussion
I've kept these fish for years now and still enjoy them. They are easy breeders and you'll get fry surviving with a little cover for them. A dwarf sag carpet is perfect IMO but you can get away with less. They aren't picky eaters and they will eat from the top of the water column to the bottom. They will breed on dry foods but on baby brine they breed like crazy and fry are big enough to eat BBS right after birth. My summer tub colony tolerates 90's water temps just fine and can handle low water temps around the 50's. Much below that they cannot take though. They are very easy to sex with males being much slimmer and have a gonopodium, while females are more round have a dark spot on their anal fin. They are a very hardy fish but if water quality gets truly bad the males will drop much earlier than the females. They are a fish built for more still waters do well in lower current tanks. It's a super fun fish and IMO shows best when you grow the colony so the tank has a ton of them in there. When that happens you can feed and food won't hit the substrate with so many tiny mouths and it's not hard to get them to eat out of your hands. Plus with it being the smallest vertebrate in North America you can have a very high number of them and yet have a very small bio load. -
I've had small broyzoa colonies in my aquariums and really enjoyed them, I think they may still be surving in a filter tube some where. But while fishing this weekend I snagged a weed and pulled in a fist sized colony. It was so fun, more so that a big bass tbh. The gel colony was much firmer than I expected.
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Forum technical difficulties?
TheDukeAnumber1 replied to Chick-In-Of-TheSea's topic in Off Topic General
From what I remember atm the meme thread thumbnail was the image from this post but the color was inverted Meme Thumbnail And the What Did You Get Done Today thumbnail was the third image from this post Thumbnail I've noticed others have changed but I cannot pin down where the image is. -
Forum technical difficulties?
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To add one more to the pile, a week or so ago many or all of the thread thumbnails got reset to the first image in the thread. -
Been a busy summer but I finally finally got around to making a light for my DIY BBS hatchery. Designed and 3d printed the lid, wired up a couple led's with a regulator, and covered with ample hot glue to seal it up. I'll be getting my slightly better hatch rate now per the study in this thread 🙂
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Hobbit has taken up the mantle this year. See -> Taco Easting Contest 2022
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Celebrate the CARE Forum's Second Anniversary with us!
TheDukeAnumber1 replied to Hobbit's topic in General Discussion
@Hobbit @Its Hutch Sry guys I had to go out of town unexpectedly until after the holiday 😞 I can't give the contest the attention it needs / deserves. That being said if someone wants to take up the mantle I'll still happily provide this years trophy. -
Share your macro photos!
TheDukeAnumber1 replied to TheDukeAnumber1's topic in Photos, Videos & Journals
Heterandria Formosa, North Americas smallest native fish, one of the worlds smallest fish... Can take down suprisingly large fry... 😬- 568 replies
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Celebrate the CARE Forum's Second Anniversary with us!
TheDukeAnumber1 replied to Hobbit's topic in General Discussion
Hello all, if you intend to participate in the Taco Eating Contest please @me in this thread or shoot me a PM so I can get a tally when I create the contest thread. 🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮 -
@Torrey Rules were listed here -> https://forum.aquariumcoop.com/topic/13657-care-anniversary-taco-eating-contest-sign-up/?tab=comments#comment-108640
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I would be happy to run the taco eating contest for sure. I would do same rules as last year with a one of a kind 3d printed trophy prize for the winner with the stipulation we get a min of 3 particpiants aside from myself B)
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Yeah for sure lets try to work something out, I'm a little south of Chicago. So far I'm getting good hatch rates, more eggs than I can raise, and atm things are good. Today I needed to add feet to my DIY bbs hatchery stand. Foam dart heads, (nerf dart heads but not nerf), work quite well.
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I/we would be happy to help but more information is needed. Answering the questions we have asked above may help us narrow down the issue.
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I was literally thinking about getting one of those and modifying it as a remote solar pump for one of my ponds. I haven't closely looked at one yet but I would bet that it's just 5v usb in and the battery is a 3.7V nominal lithium ion battery. Solar panels come in 6V so splicing one into the micro usb cable and using a regulator or resistor to drop the extra volt may work.
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That the water quality is not identical in all three tanks. More info may help, I.E. your test strip results in all three tanks, tank history, feeding schedule, maintence schedule, photos often can help. Otherwise maybe run some carbon in the other tanks to see if whatever is bothering the snails can be pulled out of the water.
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@Beardedbillygoat1975 @Guppysnail Yup, the one I use is very similar to that one. Black plastic body with stainless steel mesh.