nancyr

thanks Ray and Lee, I will do some reading, I am in Calgary so will phone around to see if anyone carries No Planaria and do the reading tonight. Hideous things.

Nancy

15 gallon tank, heavily planted with moss and driftwood. Hundreds of cherry shrimp and shrimpettes all breeding like mad, and now, after one long year one of my 6 crystals reproduced, well I saw 6 shrimpettes the other day, now two. I do 25% water changes every other day, but because of the pin head size of the baby cherry shrimp I put a piece of pantyhose over the hose and strain water from the top of the tank. I add Aqua Plus to the replaced water as I read not to use Prime for shrimp. I then noticed what research revealed to be planaria. (lots of planaria!) Is there a chemical I can use that won't hurt my shrimp. I can't vacuum as I would eliminate all my babies. I increased the feedings thinking the shrimp needed more food. The only filteration is two sponge filters and there is a bubble bar in the tank as well. HELP!

Nancy

I have had buffalohead fry in a 90 gallon tank with an 8 inch sydontis, electric yellows and strawberry peacocks with no issue. The fry and mom will stay in small caves or under a rock depression in the sand, but then mother only successfully reared about 2. If you are asking who breeds bullaloheads I think his last name is Christensen, he comes from around Edmonton way, and always sits in the first row at the auction, last auction I think he even took on the role of auctioneer for a spell. Maybe I am not right on his name but that is the chap.

Nancy

everyone is welcome, be prepared to indulge in a new addiction!

can't remember $ but at the time I thot they were v. inexpensive, plus if you wait until Saturday at Riverfront it is 2 for 1. They were not the red speckled but called ruby red but were only abt the size of a loonie so were not showing a lot of colour, some where but they are probably scooped by now as this was about a week ago when I saw them. I bought a beautiful spotted red a few months back at Francos that was about 3 inches and paid $50 so they are expensive but in a large tank they grow out really quickly.

good luck

Nancy

I have 4 large red spotted that i have had for a few years, I don't find them difficult at all, keep your tank super clean but they are great community fish. I also have a gold and they all get along, they live in a community tank but it is a 110 g. I saw some wonderful small ones at Riverfront the other day at a great price.

Nancy

I have 4 severums (v. large now, red gold) living in a 90g with fairly agressive peacocks and breeding convicts, all are very happy. They eat pellets, frozen shrimp, blood worms, v. v. easy to care for, and calm as anything, clearly the largest in the tank and the least agressive. I find their temprament much like discus, they come over to see you and watch you. I would leave yours where he is and perhaps consider getting him another of his kind.

good luck,

Nancy

Hi Dan, that was Howard who is a member of CAS, he was sitting right in front of me. Generous guy but I don't know if he is on this site.

Nancy

Hi Kathy, great to see you finally on the site, have you started that last 15g yet?

Nancy

when i first came to cgy abt 35 years ago I set up a 35g, bought some discus from 'hole in the wall' and a pair of jewels. tank had an underground filter system and a heater and light. i never tested the water, only topped up the tank, the discus bred, the jewels bred, all in the same tank to such an extent i could sell back to the lfs, then i moved, read tons of books, i now have 7 large tanks, no underground filters of course, hob, plus large renas, test my water, do at least monthly water changes and have never ever been able to breed discus again. who can tell, perhaps we over baby our tanks.

nancy

6 months on purpose on a very heavily planted tank with only water top offs when evaporation got levels down and fertilizing about once a month. I wanted to see if there was any noticeable issues and signs from the fish that the water was getting bad and whether the plants would be ok. The rummy nose remained bright red nosed, no fish deaths and the plants fluorished and were trimmed on schedule with no algae problems. All nitrogen cycle readings remained stable and at desired levels. The only noticeable thing was that the water was starting to get the slight smell of cyano bacteria/stale stagnant water. I eventually changed the water because I needed to clean the 2 canister filters due to water flow being slowed down and because the smell of the water was starting to bug me.

I have since gone to roughly once or twice monthly (roughly every 2-3 weeks) water changes and no smells in the water but I am getting more algae than I used to and I have had fish deaths. Obviously I can not attribute these to more frequent water changes. I am sure the algae is coming from the more frequent fertilizing that comes with WC which causes the roller coaster ride of nutrient spikes once in a while. Still looking for that fertilizing dosage sweet spot that will keep levels relatively good even with the WC schedule.

I have 2 - 90g cichlid tanks with albino bristlenose (who breed - tho the fry get gobbled), a gold nugget L-18 and even a small clown pleco. All have existed for years - with lots of driftwood and lots and lots of caves and hiding places.

I agree, daily w/c, continue for at least a week, at least 25% each time, it works for me, even if you can only manage 15% daily it will help more than anything else. and I add prime, but i am not a great believer in chemicals.

good luck, i always worry like crazy when i babysit a friends heavily loaded discus tank that something like that will happen.

nancy

I have two SAEs in each of my 90g cichlid tanks, they are all v. large and like you when i first put them in i had read that they could be agressive but have had no problems, initially they chased each other but I even have albino plecos in each of the tanks and there hasn't been any issues.

nancy

wonderful pics - you've made my evening - tks for sharing

nancy

Welcome from the NW

hi again, what have i - well first i have a broken hand in a cast so forgive typos

10g planted with cherry shrimp

15g planted pair gold rams; trio bolivians; clown pleco; 4 cory palaetus

(i know - v. overcrowded - hope to move bolivians into:

25g - pair jewel cichlids; common pleco - need to rehome jewels

35g - 3 fancy goldfish; 7'' pleco

90g - planted 2 theraps coeryleus; 2 synodontis multipunclatus; 8'' common pleco; 3 buffaloheads; 1 electric blue hap;

1 neolamprologus savoryi and finally an impulse buy at an auction - 5 oblique victorian -

also 2 cats (animal kind); 2 african gray parrots, an umbrella cockatoo; a shoodle dog and a rottie

oh and also in 90g - 5 clown loaches which were the reason i bought the 90 in the first place but they have hidden themselves away in two towers -

Welcome from the NW

hi again, what have i - well first i have a broken hand in a cast so forgive typos

10g planted with cherry shrimp

15g planted pair gold rams; trio bolivians; clown pleco; 4 cory palaetus

(i know - v. overcrowded - hope to move bolivians into:

25g - pair jewel cichlids; common pleco - need to rehome jewels

35g - 3 fancy goldfish; 7'' pleco

90g - planted 2 theraps coeryleus; 2 synodontis multipunclatus; 8'' common pleco; 3 buffaloheads; 1 electric blue hap;

1 neolamprologus savoryi and finally an impulse buy at an auction - 5 oblique victorian -

also 2 cats (animal kind); 2 african gray parrots, an umbrella cockatoo; a shoodle dog and a rottie

Hi all, I have just joined AA yesterday and looking through some of the sites I find the scope of info awsome. I have been in and out of the hobby for 20+ years and now find myself seriously hooked again weith 5 tanks from 10 gals with shrimp to 90 gals with my beloved cichlids and clown loaches.

nancyr