syno321

Siphoning the gravel with your weekly water changes will eliminate any chance of crashing. As well using fish that live in the gravel like Horse-face loaches will help keep the gravel loose and also eliminate crashing.

Would you prefer to clean the sponge on your intake or the complete canister filter? I use the AC sponges on ALL my intakes for mechanical filtration and just squeeze out the sponge when performing a water change. On my canisters I usually go at least 1 year between complete filter cleanings.

It's true they are harmless to most adult fish but I don't think I'd want to accidently introduce them to your ( or a friend's ) baby tank via plants or water. A sure fire way to eradicate them with NO harm to any fish or plants is to double dose a product made by Aquarium Products called Aquari-Sol. I've sometimes had to use this in fry tanks over the years, and had no adverse effects.

Channa bleheri prefer little water movement and are not picky about plants. They do seem to enjoy multiple pieces of bogwood as well as a thick cover of floating plants. Mine spawned a few times in a twenty gallon tank so decorated with the bogwood and a thick cover of Bacopa caroliniana ( I'm sure any floating plant species will do ). It was filtered by a slow bubbling sponge filter. As for the feeders, I never fed my adults any, just the regular compost worms, frozen krill, and even got them to eat cichlid pellets.

Cory fry are not good at handling depth upon hatching. Your water level probably shouldn't be more than 4 ". Under the right conditions they will be at least .5' L within 4-6 weeks. Microworms are a great initial food because if you overfeed they live in the water on the bottom ( the cory fry "hit" zone ) for many days. Once they're starting to grow well after 2-3 weeks, start adding water to increase their depth on a gradual basis.

Be careful with the Mxyocyprinus, they can get huge and do not require tropical temperatures.

They are open. What hours, I don't know. Probably at least 12 -5.

Large horseface loach

I have a pet Wimple Piranha that I keep in my Corydoras grow-out tank.

I've bred the C. horei before and found that the males are probably the most aggressive cichlid I've ever kept in terms of putting pressure on the females to spawn. How are you finding yours? What methods are you using to minimize the male's agression? They are a cool cichlid, almost looking like fish created by committee.

Actually that picture does not do them justice. I acquired some wild ones from Jeff Carmack back in the early 90s and when they bred both parents turned solid black with the crimson chest. Don't get hung up on the conditions, they are easy to keep and breed in any conditions as long as extremes are avoided.

The swords are planted too deep, you should would be better served by ensuring that their crowns are not buried in the gravel.

Just got a message from my buddy up here who has fry now. He bred them the same way as when the erythromicrons spawned for him previously.

Actually at one point in time ( the mid-nineties ) CAOAC, the Ont. clubs, voted to not allow the Western clubs to host another convention again. This was after Calgary, Regina and Edmonton had successfully hosted the annual convention, and made a small profit while doing it. I went to all 3 and enjoyed the hospitality tremendously. I'll never forget the Regina auction that went from 11:00 to 19:00, despite the best efforts of Ray Lucas, Doug Brown, and myself keeping the auction going at a torrid pace. I can't remember the reason for the motion to limit convention location, but do remember the alienation felt by the Western clubs when this motion passed.

So if that is the case. Which I highly doubt. Why would the western clubs continue to be a part of CAOAC

??? Its not like they are forced?? If any clubs out west are interested in hosting next years CAOAC let me know & I will let the CAOAC executive know. I have personally heard the executive talk about how nice it would be to have a convention out west. That is one of the reasons they are considering splitting CAOAC into two regions so both can have their own events etc.

Please if any clubs in the west have ideas, suggestions let me know or let the CAOAC executive know. Otherwise nothing ever changes. Don't forget this isn't the same CAOAC as in the 90's.

Doubt all you want, it's true, we lived it. As to why the western clubs are still members, do yourealize that it is very risky to operate a club without insurance? Need more be said?

Actually at one point in time ( the mid-nineties ) CAOAC, the Ont. clubs, voted to not allow the Western clubs to host another convention again. This was after Calgary, Regina and Edmonton had successfully hosted the annual convention, and made a small profit while doing it. I went to all 3 and enjoyed the hospitality tremendously. I'll never forget the Regina auction that went from 11:00 to 19:00, despite the best efforts of Ray Lucas, Doug Brown, and myself keeping the auction going at a torrid pace. I can't remember the reason for the motion to limit convention location, but do remember the alienation felt by the Western clubs when this motion passed.

It look interesting some good topics. So who all is going?

Not I....I will wait until CAOAC finally decides to have a convention West of Ontario.

Don't hold your breath!

No I didn't get mine from Gold's, I got my group of 7 from Armke about a year ago. They are certainly good feeders. I made the mistake of buying a group of 6-7 C. tricolor from Albert @ Gold's and trying them in the same 54 gal. tank. Imagine my surprise when the next morning I go down for the AM feeding and there's no tricolors! I think they are more like a flat-nosed bullhead catfish in behaviour more than anything else, and really enjoy them. With 45 tanks I sometimes can't devote the necessary time to each project, but will start to work with them on a more consistent basis. How many have you got in that tank? Congrats on the spawning!

WHAT SIZE TANK DID YOU HAVE THEM IN? WHAT WERE YOU FEEDING THEM?

A former CAS president who is an excellent breeder in her own right, and Djay from this forum have bred the "brother" species, M erythromicron in species-type set-ups. I have bred the Asian Rummynose, Sawbwa resplendens, which comes from Lake Inle, and due to the the alkaline/medium hardness of the water, incurred no problems breeding them in a species set-up. So Calgary and Edmonton tap water should be fine for these beauties and I would expect successful local breeding reports on this forum soon. As for the commercial breeders/suppliers in the Far East, they are usually right on top of popular new species propagation and I'm sure they will be churning them out by the boxful asap.

Collected rainbowfish in Australia in 1978 on Fraser Island. It was at night in a stream using a headlamp. Very fun and interesting. I wrote an article on it for the Aquababble.

I get mine from Henry @ Nature's Corner.

I use them all the time and am very happy with the product.

I haven't seen these "blue" firemouths, but the typical red ones are gorgeous and great parents.

Room temperature, substrate unnecessary, floating plants ( Elodea, Water sprite, Hornwort ) is simplest and probably best. Daily water changes are not required provided there are enough floating plants.

Anything from the N. brichardi group of species. You'll get to watch them demonstrate great parental care, and then watch previous broods help take care of more recent ones.