darkangel

Thank you Christian. I'm not really in a panic for it. Just wanted to know if it was available.

I am looking to purchase this plant. Unfortunately all I have is the scientific name. If anyone has or knows where I can get this from any feedback will be appreciated.

I was reading those recipes, Just my opinion but calcium chloride is a very corrosive addmixture used to accelerate the set time of concrete. After working with the stuff for a number of years and seeing what it do'es to my hands even with gloves, I'm not to sure that I would want to be adding it to my tank. At a 2% calcium chloride to water ratio it will eat through 3/8 rebar inside of 3 months.

I work with a gentlman that has a 1 acre 15 foot deep pond that he currently has 19 koi in it allready. I will not see him until Tues. But I will see if he is interested. Maybe you can post a price you would like to get for them.

Me too. I think it might be that old age thing sneaking up on me. Or the wife starts talking to me and I come down with a case of memory loss. Or is that selective hearing, can't remember.

Any time I put fish in my tank with any color or big flashy fins my gouramis go totaly anal towards them. Scratch out the gourami.

I use slate tile and pile rocks on top,( Have a wet saw for the tile ), Flower pots with a piece of tile siliconed to the top cut an opening in the pot with a ceramic tile bit in a dremmel. ( bit is $10.00 at home depot) cover the pot with silicone and roll it in the same substrate you have in your tank stick a java fern or some java moss in the drainage hole of the pot. Or go on the hunt for some freeky looking driftwood with lots of twists , turns and holes in it.

I have 2 paradise that were labeled gold paradise when I bought them, They have a more slender body than the blue or black and are a dark brown and gold in color.Almost looks like a snake with fins. Not sure of sex, they both look male though. I also have 1 female blue paradise. PM me if you are interested.

Just siphoned off about a 100 fry give or take 20, and moved them to thier own tank. Ma and Pa went totally insane so I left them with 3 to look after. Now I have to see what I will have for survivors.

I also have a snail problem and the loach thing is slow but effective. I have 2 small tanks left that I may use a more aggresive approach. (SHOT GUN).

They are very nice fish, beutiful coloration at breeding time. But nasty little buggers when they have eggs or fry, They attack everything that moves in the tank. They even scratched out the BN pleco that was in with them, may he rest in peace in the great fish pond in the sky.

I have a young pair of F1 P. Pulcher Red Face that I bought at the last auction, They were sold by Ken Ealy. In any case these guys spawned twice for me now, However the first set of fry became lunch 2 days after free swimming. The second batch are still at the wiggler stage but I'm keeping my eye on them. As soon as they are free swimming out comes the siphon and they get thier own tank. From what I can see inside the cave there is roughly 50 or so little wigglies.

I added 2 pieces of driftwood into my 29 gal. tank. they are large enough that they take up 1/3 of the tank. I soaked them for2 weeks changing the water every second day and used straight hot water. Do a 50% W/C every week and the water still comes out piss yellow but is gradually getting lighter.

I did. I was going to clean Henry out of the 7 he had left, But I thought I would be a nice guy and leave 3 for you or anyone else that might want some. From what I have read on them they are very easy to keep, easy to breed, and will accept most foods. Frozen daphnia, flakes, algae wafers, I have even seen mine dining on escargot. So they are a small snail killer as well.

I now have 6 of these guys in a tank all there own, Very fine gravel, lots of rocks and live plants. They love it.

Did some more searching Nick. The closest thing I could find is Atyopsis Moluccensis. Not much on them but it helps.

This would'nt be the store with a couple of loud mouth know it all kids that could'nt give you the answer to a question if you told them what it was.

Thanks all for the info. I will let these guys I picked up do thier thing for a week or so and see how it goes. Might have to bring in more hit men.

I have'nt found any more info on them than Terry Lee found Nick, But they do a bang up job on the tank, All the plants are clean and one of the sponge filters looks like I just took it out of the package. Only a small tank 10 gal.

I did miss one thing, The tubing going to the box filter.

I went down to see henry and picked up a trio of botia striata, So far the snails are losing. They do have a little trouble with the larger snails but it's pretty cool watching them stick thier faces inside the opening of the shell. Also picked up a pair of rock shrimp, It's surprizing that in just a few hours the job of cleaning they did and the orange bee shrimp are still in the tank so far but will be installing a divider after supper.

Snails, dirty water, box filter, plant frags, and what possibly looks like a crayfish.

I have a cray in one tank and it still has snails, Those I will pick out by hand. As for the rest of them these are breeding tanks with wild caught fish.

I would like to pick up a small group that I can move from war zone to war zone and eventually leave them in the 72 gal that is infested with MTS.

I curently have, 4x 10 gal. 1x 20 gal. 2x 25 gal. 1x 33 gal. and 1x 72 gal. tanks that are infested with snails. I need a small commando unit of snail smacking soldiers to clean up the mess. I would like to know what is out there in the way of snail eating fish other than clown loaches as the size of the tanks are not large enough for one let alone a small group.