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True, I have put the request into years ago to have the fawcett in the room replaced which would make a huge difference for water changes. Until that happens 5 gallon pails are my friends.

Wont the BN eat the Hastatus? Now the challenge of finding the fish.

Will they live and breed given the lack of maintenance? Also I should have mentioned that the swords in the tank are pygmy. I will need to get some bigger ones. Probably have to replace the lights to methinks.

Very cool Jay, we should chat. I think this would be a super thing to set up in my class for our science curriculum.

Hey fish gurus, I find myself in need of some option acted hobbiest advice. I have a 75G tank in my grade three classroom with two 4 foot T12 bulbs, a Rena xp4 and a fluval 404 the substrate is gravel sized pebbles with the moon shell and pot to hide in. There are some valeseneria growing along with two swords and a 5G pails worth of duckweed and hornwort. Usually I have kept electric yellows or jewels in there as they help me teach both about fish anatomy and adaptations, plus they are all stars at breeding so that the kids can see the life cycle and the parenting process. I want to make the tank more relevant to more areas of curriculum, namely social. In order to do that I want to house species native to one of the four nations we study and portray the natural look of their rivers or lakes depending on stocking. We study: Ukraine, India, Tunisia, and Peru. I need your help picking one that will allow me to set up this tank to show off one of these nations biomes and pick fish that will breed like mad to show the kids the life cycle and parenting. One last problem, the kids look after the tank and due to its location, it rarely gets WC's more than once every three months. Top ups are regular, feeding is often hearty due to the kids. Ukraine is out as the fish are the same as here so getting them is an issue. Tunisia is a Saharan nation with mainly salt or brackish fish that need a MFK room to themselves. India has a bunch of fish, here are the ones I could recognize as purchasable: Danios A ton of different kinds of barbs and rasboras Scats Monos archers Killifish galore Halfbeaks Spiney eels Gouramis a plenty Snakeheads Glass fish Horsefaced loach Pipefish Peru has 1000's of species so again I will give some that I recognized: Oscars Green terrors Silver dollars Piranhas Corys Leaf fish Neons Rummy nose tetras Hatchets Knife fish Needle nose gar Leopard Pleco Geophagus Discus, blue Penguin tetra Motoro rays Angels Pictus cats Raphael cats Apistos a plenty You will of course notice that most are not specific names. That is due to the 30-40 different types of that species I found and thought generic was fine for this list. Please help me out to think of a setup. One last thing to think of: Very limited budget. It is a school after all. Thanks Andrew

They look for bolt holes in live rock. Unlike their relatives who hug the sandbed, the fire fish or dart gobies like to operate in mid to high areas near to a coral or rocky shelf for protection. You may lose the gobies if they are startled too much by other fish as they naturally will jump. Keeping a lid on the tank or if you run halides and need the air circulation a net lid made out of bath scrubbies that have been pulled apart and stretched over a frame will prevent them from jumping to their deaths.

Normally I would agree that the many thousands, this is no exaggeration, of "minnows" could be native, except for the density per gallon which is not normal unless you are a salmon in the spawn of a west coast river. These were also not the typical shape of most native minnows. Having taught natural history in Edmonton this is something I am confident of. These were defiantly the fry of larger fish who had spawned in the pond without predators to cull the numbers down.

Sterile fish do not spawn though

Probably would, I will let you know when I do. Just thought it was weird and interesting and that I should post.

Quick, somebody sneak out there like a ninja with a dip net and snag a few specimens for raising and testing. Then we will get to the bottom of this!!! Just joking. Yes there were tons and tons of little fish. Most of which were about the size of my ring finger.

The adults were closer to 24" and definately did not look like any kind of gold fish I have seen. The mouth was a lot more forward facing. The course was Raven Crest.

Yes, a picture would help immensely. Sadly I usually do not golf with a camera on hand. My question was more to do with whether or not this was even reasonable that someone could actually have them and then if it was legal or not. As we do not have a picture, I could say that being able to tell one fish from another it looked very much like the carp. It had the same dull gun metal gray colouration, the low eyes and large mouth. The fin configuration did seem to match. Scales were visible too. I thought of asking at the club house, but was somewhat intimated to be honest. It was a tournament day and one of the people is asking about the fish. I know, I know, too self conscious but still it is my reason. So has anyone noticed this as well?

So, as the title suggests I was out golfing on the weekend, with gorgeous weather by the way, and when my ball landed at the edge of one of the many water traps noticed thousands of fry in the water. Curious I kept an eye out at the other water traps as the day progressed. Normally this would be Koi, but in this case definitely not. I caught a really good glimpse of the adults in a couple locations and they were defiantly not Koi. They were considerably bigger even than the monsters I saw in Castle moats when I lived in Japan. These did however, look a lot like Asian Carp. Can it be? I thought that this fish would not be allowed due to the devastation it has caused in NA. Granted these water systems are closed, but still, what if some got out into the very nearby river or tributaries? Has any one else seen this or am I just crazy?

Yeah, I definitely do not want to pay as I was not intending on getting these fish so I should say I will take them for free.

I have space for them and I am in Edmonton. I should be able to meet at Mayfield. Does anyone know if there is a price? I didn't see one in the add.