Mighty Prawn

I'd like to do 2 salt tanks one day, a mantis tank, and an interesting critter tank. Those mantis' are so awesome. -Hideo

From what I understand cycle is pretty useless. -Hideo

Those pictures are decent, actually. -Hideo

Well if you like them, don't return them. Being near a bubbler will help a bit, but moving them to wherever the filter outtake is might help. If it's a cannister type filter, put the outtake hose right down in the water near them. -Hideo

They are ideally kept between 65-85 degrees. Keep an eye on it though, they can starve pretty easily if there isn't enough waterflow bringing them food. Maybe set up a filter with an outtake pointed directly at it from the substrate to keep water going straight to him at all times. -Hideo

People have had success keeping a male and a harem of crays in large enough tanks with lots of hiding places. I had 2 together, and I had the rocks set up so they had a little door, and they'd pile up shells and gravel there to guard themselves. Worked out good. More space is better, I think 10g might be too small, unless it's just a few days to get the magic happening. -Hideo

Hopefully they're all captive bred and no wild specimens are taken any further. -Hideo

I currently feed the 1mm sinking community pellets, but I have to feed 1 at a time, because they eat too slowly and won't eat off the substrate. Standing there hand feeding bettas 1 pellet at a time takes a little longer than I'd like ;-) I might just start breaking up larger floating pellets into pieces. -Hideo

I'll probably pick up some Thera A jumbo and some flakes for my guppies. Now they just need a 1mm floating pellet for my bettas :-) Is it okay to feed Thera A even when there's no illness as a preventative? -Hideo

My favourite thing about fish is frying up a large fish and eating with with garlic butter and a little basil. My least favourite thing, when a fish dies of a disease so I can't eat it. -Hideo

I'd listen to Albert. I listen to him like people listen to Jesus, and so far I've had great success. Also, he pays me 1$ per person who also listens to him. -Hideo

She has a 230 gallon. -Hideo

Another super super easy way, especially with small fast fish, is to remove all the objects in your tank, and use a net that is as wide and tall as your water line. Put it at one end, and bring er to the other side. Bam, every fish in one go. You may have to make the net yourself. -Hideo

Man, I love my land snail so much, I could never dream of offering up its chillun' for food. -Hideo

As another note on the gradients as Neil said, they can be really nice when done right. I'd definately advise you practice on cardboard or something you don't mind ruining a million times. It's easy to do the wrong way, but it's pretty tough to do the right way. If you have an airbrush, it's easier. Not for me though, anytime I have something that sprays, it always ends up in my eyes no matter how airtight my safety goggles are. -Hideo

I've got some very small slugs or worms or something in my cherry shrimp tank. They're tiny, and there's also some spastic moving white "specks" in there, too. The only thing I can think of is possibly daphnia for the white specks, but the little worm things? They don't seem to be doing any harm, either, just existing with everyone else. -Hideo

I'm personally partial to acrylic paint, as I hate spray paint. I've never once used a can of spray paint without getting some of the paint on my fingers, hand, or clothes. No matter how careful I am. I'd say more, but Neil pretty much covered the 2 best options. You may also want to consider buying a piece of plastic "Cardboard" you can get at Home Depot, Staples, printshops etc. and get it in black, or just paint it black. That way your glass isn't permanently black. Also if painting with acrylic, you can use a brush to get some textures if you want to. I did a gradient from black to grey bottom to top that looked pretty awesome for a guy. I've done a few dark blue to royal blue gradients as well that look pretty good. -Hideo

Wha, the jumbo fish formula is floating? Argh!!!! What a waste of 70$ -Hideo

I'm wondering, will algae serve a similar purpose that plants do, such as consuming some nitrates, ammonia etcetera? Since my 180 gallon has 3 oscars who like to rip up plants and swim around with them, I'm thinking I'd like some other sources. My water is fine, but it's probably a little overstocked (well, not yet, but will be when all fish are full grown). I also really like the look of that green, really bright green, rich algae. Maybe it's cyanobacteria, I don't know. I get it in my one tank that's in direct sunlight. I'd like to have that stuff growing in my tank all over the rocks and driftwood if possible. And if it would be beneficial, rather, if it's not BAD for anything, what's the best way to get a lot of it? I really like the look of it, so even if it doesn't eat up nitrates I don't mind. I'll be doing a hanging shoplight over the tank as a permanent light solution. -Hideo

My fish prefer tiny little NLS community formula to frozen krill, blood worms, etc. My fish seriously went on "strike". For real, they wouldn't eat anything else for 3 days when I ran out of NLS large fish formula. So I finally decided to try feeding them some of my community formula, and even though it's waaayyyy too small, they were finally happily eating again. And I'm not talking just a few fish, all my fish. 3 7-8 inch oscars, 2 full grown severums, 2 5" arius seemani "columbian sharks", 2 5-6" leptobarbus hoevenii "mad barbs", 8 guppies, 4 platies, 8 cories, 6 kuhli's and 1 female betta, all refused to eat anything else. Interestingly, some of the smaller fish will eat flake food if fed with NLS as well. It's mostly the babies who eat the crushed up flake, but if the adults get some community pellets, they'll eat some flake. I'm probably going to be buying through Neil exclusively now, due to the stock at Gold's not suiting my needs. The biggest size they carry simply isn't big enough (of pellet), the large fish formula is pretty small, so I'm hoping the jumbo fish formula will be big enough to suit my needs. The only thing I wish they had was a multi-flake food. Another thing I like to do is crush my NLS and use it to feed fry. Just like crushing up flake food, but much healthier. -Hideo

Well if there really were any jobs other then wedding or portrait photography, and it paid reasonably, maybe I'd consider it. Until then, er.. That's a huge understatement. Photos are used for all kinds of things. Wedding photography is one specific path, and so is portraits. There's aerial photography, product photography, industrial/commecial photography, stock photography, fashion photography, nature photography, insurance photography, crime scene photography etc. etc. etc. -Hideo

God complex? Seriously though, I think it's just interesting to sit and watch fish, see what they do. Fascinating creatures. Plus it's quite relaxing to sit and watch a nice tank, or even just hearing the sound of 5 waterfall filters running in the backround in your living room at all time. -Hideo

So, what's the deal with hybrid fish like Flowerhorns and "Blood" Parrot's. Are those the only 2 hybrid's available? Is it that the two fish are the only one's that just happen to be possible to occur through hybrid breeding? Or are they the only 2 that seem to produce an obvious hybrid? Or is it that the parents just happen to be commonly housed together due to compatibility and it started out as a n accident? -Hideo

I couldn't get an EXIF data from your photos so I can't tell what camera you have. Increasing the resolution is either possible by zooming out from the image (as digital zoom essentially just kills your megapixels to achieve the zoom) or, you may just have your camera set to lower quality in order to save space on the camera, there should be a setting to allow you to set image quality. If you're using a digital SLR, you can change image quality, usually there are 6 or more image quality settings and a RAW setting. Increase the quality settings in your menu options somewhere. And, if it's none of those things, the only way to increase the resolution is by buying a camera with more megapixels. It looks like more of a cropping issue to me, though. If you're using photoshop, a better way of cropping your photos is to create a blank selection template to use that you can simply drag onto your photo and you see exactly what you'll be framing in your crop. If the raw image is too large for your crop template (I suggest 800x533, tall or wide) than you'll have to resize your raw image so you can fill the crop how you want to. This can take some trial and error, but after you get some practice you'll know how big it needs to be. You can also simply take the existing images you have and blow them up to a larger size, but that degrade the image quality, so it's not ideal. -Hideo

Yeah that's now my fav, when I get one, it's going to be that exact species. Hopefully I can find one! -Hideo