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Try sending aquafarmer a message he was advertising some a few weeks ago. John

Several things to consider: 1:/ they will likely have several goes at it and will likely eat the eggs within a day or 2. And they should be separated as the eggs or fry will not survive in a community tank. 2./ In order to have viable eggs and healthy fry the temp should be 88F 3./ PH will need to be lowered to have a higher hatch rate;likely to 6.5 4./ Kh and Gh should be below 6 In Alberta that would mean mixing 60 70 % RO with tap water Once you have fry you will need to change75 -90 % with pre heated water daily, in a bare bottom tank. Good luck and have fun John

Gorgeous! John

I like it! I have met some very nice folks here and this would help to acknowledge them. John

"Does anyone have any recommendations on water conditions to keep happy discus?" I would do some research on simplydiscus.com. To grow out your discus to optimal size you will have to change up to 75% water daily for the first year. Tap water pre-conditioned for 24 hours and heated to 88 F is all that is needed. To grow-out healthy discus and trying to maintain a high tech or even a planted tank, at the same time, may be too much to ask for, and would not likely be attempted by the most experienced discus keepers. Young discus need to be fed 4-6 per day and the accumulated waste can not be removed efficiently in a planted tank. Pure clean water is key! One more note: you will be seriously overstocked in a very short time j

If you had enough filter material from an other established source you may have over dosed the ammonia. I would do a 50 % water change and monitor. When the NH3 drops to 0.5, I would add ammonia to 2ppm. If that disappears in 24 hours you may have cycled the tank with the existing media. J

This sounds right. You will be adding so much additional ammonia the prime will no longer effect it. You can test this with your daily monitoring of ammonia levels. I just started a 20 gal. tank by taking a little filter material and other good stuff from other tanks and putting it in the new filter. It was ready in 3 day's. Going to a larger tank, this method will speed things up considerably. John

A good place to start would be to google "fishles cycling" Takes about 4-6 weeks. If you have access to a established tank you could squeeze a sponge from that filter into your tank and speed things up. Some people use a product called stability and add fish ....I am skeptical of this method. I would not use any other media than some pot-scrubbers or ceramic rings and a sponge on top for polishing the water. Once cycled get some fish and some fresh food, any food older than 1 year should be discarded. Plants are a personal item. They make things look very nice. Lots of info on planted tanks on the net.....enough to keep you reading for a few day's. John

Ditto! Can I come and borrow it for a while? John

I would think that Heiko Bleher would know he discovered them :-) Try posting on simplydiscus forum,as he writes there from time to time. Perhaps name the post "Asking Heiko Bleher" he usually responds. John

"OH and the bottom panel is cracked so im probably going to have to either buy a new peice of glass and replace it or ill have to buy a new corner tank. " Pretty risky if the bottom is cracked....does it hold water? I guess you could silicone a piece of glass over the top but would you want to risk it? J

Just google spawning mops for many examples. :thumbs: Also read here: http://members.optushome.com.au/chelmon/Contents.htm John

Ok but you would have to drill larger holes now,or am I wrong? How difficult will that be. You may have to build a jig to keep the bit from moving . You will have only 1/8 of material to work with. John

Not a clue...I scooped some out of a ~1 acre deep pool with hundreds of koi and goldfish. They look kind of ugly and dark and I may just chuck them. It seemed like a good idea at the time. John

Grrrrrrrrrrr sorry to hear this :banned: John

Prime is great and relatively cheap. For discus the water has to be preheated and airated in a storage container for 24 hours to prevent the CO2 in tap water from taking the slime coat off. John

Has anyone fed live, fresh water shrimp? The ones I captured are about 3/4 inch long. I am not sure if I even want to put them in the tank; they move quite fast. Would they reproduce in an aquarium? John

Yes! There is also hybridization if there are other Melanoteania species in the tank. I have had success with hanging a homemade mop in the tank 4 day's in a row, removing the mop and hatching them in 5 galllon or smaller at 25-28 C in about 8-10 day's John

Must ask; are you sure of your water parameters? Did you measure? This may be a slow deterioration of your water quality. Has your filter been cleaned just before you started to lose fish? You are surely close to maxed out in that tank and may need 50 % water changes per week or more. Perhaps there has been a large build up of dissolved solids over a long period of time. Ammonia builds up near the bottom first so that is perhaps why you lost the plecos. J

Patience is required this may take up to 6-7 weeks. You will find the ammonia start to drop soon then it takes more time to get the nitrification bacteria to grow and convert to nitrate. The use of stability as per bottle instruction will speed thing up. J

Looking very good indeed! Nice to have the tools to do that. John

Well, if I shared it with a bunch of other people, I probably wouldn't. I'm not the type that likes an audience. But that's just me. My sentiment exactly. If the space you are living in is not ideal perhaps one might feel unhappy and or depressed and sex could be the last thing you'd want. John

Who would want 14000 tetras? :shock: I spawned some apisto cacatuoides in a 10 gallon, the male who is 3+inches was very unhappy the whole time he was in there. It did not stop him from fertilizing the eggs and being a good parent though. :smokey: The lake kutubu rainbows.... same scenario; the male came from a 90 into a 33 he was P#$@$$d the whole time. Again no problem getting fry I guess with some time the fish would do ok but would they have trived?......I don't think so. John

Here is a subject for discussion. I have noticed, as I am sure a lot of fish keepers have, that the fish behave different and seem more content,relaxed and happy as their tank size increases. Sure stocking levels have an enormous impact. But on the whole they seem to do much better in a larger tank, and add to the owners enjoyment because they seem more content. Sam Chicklet just posted some pictures of a fish that improved after being moved into a different environment for instance. This brings into question keeping a 3" fish in a 10 gallon indefinitely for instance. Or a 12 " in a 90 gallon. Opinions and observations please. John

Yes a bad one with an old camera from August this year.