Terrie Lee

Ohhh droool. Green being my favorite colour and plecos being my favorite fish I think this is the holy grail of fishkeeping for me. I want one!

Nature's Corner Store has some too. Very pretty.

ooh! Pretty!

Snails! Here are some new pictures of my apple snails. I love them! They are the cutest pest I have ever spent money on!

I had some baby fish that were born in the bag on the way home from the LFS. I was upset when they all got ich and died. A day after I thought they were all dead I noticed one ich-coated baby fish swimming around the tank. He's a goner I thought. Every day for 4 days I woke up and fed the shrimp in the tank expecting to see his tiny corpse. Every day when I got up he was swimming merrily around with less ich on him every day. On the 4th day there was no evidence of ich at all. For 4 days after that he has been swimming around the tank seemingly healthy as a horse. How long should I wait to put him into the fry tank with the other fry? I do not want to infect them with ich. Especially after watching the other batch die. I am very happy that the baby survived! It is currently in with my cherry shrimp because they cannot get ich and I thought they could efficiently dispose of the bodies. The cherry shrimp have eaten fry before so I would like to get him out of there.

LOL! I tried to search information on them and all I got was recipes! It's especially funny as my husband was making jokes about them being big enough to eat when we were in the store looking at them. I did find this on this website. Rock shrimp, Atyopsis spp. Rock, or Mountain, shrimps are mainly imported from Singapore, and are often large (up to 8cm/3") and quite colourful. They are normally browny-red with a pale stripe running along the back. However, more than one species appears to be imported under this name, including Atyopsis moluccensis. These shrimps are filter-feeders and have special fan-like appendages for extracting micro-organisms from the water. They are interesting to watch and quite active in the tank. Unlike Caridina japonica, the Rock shrimps are found in warmer water. Also this link: http://www.fishprofiles.com/files/profiles/r90001.htm

Gaining and sharing knowledge is strongly encouraged around here. :welcome:

Their mother is a blue platy. She is very pretty. She has a blue iridescence with black spots all over her. Henry gets in the prettiest platies. I do often go to NCS for advice. I have been going there almost exclusively since I started keeping fish a year or so ago. They have never let me down. :thumbs:

I was very upset when the platy babies that were born in the bag on the way home from the store got ich and died. When I was complaining about it to Gillian at Nature's Corner Store she reminded me of livebearers habit of producing more replacements. Well, they have! The other fish I bought that day was looking very very pregnant yesterday evening so I put her in the breeding trap. Today when I got home from work there were a bunch of tiny wiggly fry swimming around her! Yayyyyyy Babies! Here's hoping I can keep these ones from dying!

Congratulations!

I would like to know if my Acanthodoras spinosissimus and my Pelvicachromis Subocellatus get along in a 29 gallon tank? There is a large piece of driftwood the cats like to hide under. It will soon have some plants for the p.subs to play in. I'm shuffling some tanks and I realized I know very little about my noisy kitty friends.

Cool fish! What kind of catfish is that?

Welcome to AA. There is very good advice here and some nice people!

Pretty little fish!

When I put the ich medicine in my tank I remembered that the medicine would kill my baby fish that were in the breeding trap so quick as possible I took the breeding trap out of the tank and put it in my shrimp tank. Of course not thinking the babies could be infected. The babies are infected. So I have three questions: 1. Can cherry shrimp get ich? 2. Is there any way I can save any of the babies? I know the super ich cure will kill them, but is there any other way? 3. If my shrimp get ich, how do I treat them?

I left my fish for 5 days while I went to Montreal. It was even duing that heat wave we had. I came back and they were fine.

I have had similar results with my houseplants. I am just sad that there is a lot of WC water and not very many houseplants!

Aww it is too bad the shellies you wanted turned out to not be the shellies. There was more than one in the bag I saw . . . . . . . . Your rainbow is beautiful! I like him very much!

I lowered the temp on my heater to accomodate my p. subs and did not notice it dropped too low for 2 days. The poor tetras got a chill and blammo ich. I also had some poor water quality (wich I was in the process of fixing) Some high nitrates over a period of time. That's my best guess anyway.

Adorable bunny! I love bunnies!

I did.

Malcite green and benzaldehyde green are they the same thing ? That is the active ingredient in the ich cure that I will be using of the salt does not work. Apparently syno cats are sensitive to malachite green. Would they be sensitive to the other thing? I hate ich so much. I thought I was doing everything right. I put in 2 teaspoons for every 5 gallons is this too much, too little?

Are Pelvicachromis Subocellatus sensitive in any way to salt? Are synodontis petricola? I have ich and I need to put some salt in my tank. Will this hurt my giant val that I just bought and planted today? There is also some cryptocoryne hudori in there that I just bought today. Okay I just found out that Val is salt tolerant.

Yes that is quite the cloud of babies.

Nature's Corner store usually has a collection of small plecos that are manageable. If you go in and ask they might have something.