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arixonbarnes

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About arixonbarnes

  • Birthday 08/07/1946

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  • Location
    Spruce Grove, Alberta
  • Interests
    Hunting, fishing, tropical fish.

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  1. Has anyone tried these digital temperature guns - the ones sold at Canadian tire (now on sale for 29.99). Do they work well when aimed at the side of an aquarium?
  2. I lost several cories to black sand (reptile type) as the sharp edges did in their whiskers and caused infections.
  3. Fishing line works well to tie them together in varoius shapes.
  4. Sorry! I'm talking about cherry shrimp - my mistake!
  5. My crs multiply in all my tanks with bristlenoses, pekoltia brevis, guppies, swordtails (mayae and alvarez species), columbian tetras and serpae tetras. A twenty gallon tank with only crs in it and a few plants (they seem to need plants) will produce many shrimp very quickly. I feed them zuchinni and powdered fish food.
  6. I have Cherry Shrimp in most of my tanks (about 10 tanks) in City of Edmonton water - I do an eighty to ninety % water change every second week(using prime) and the shrimp (& the rest of the fish) are doing fine. Tank temperatures run from 70F to 74F depending which shelf the tank is on. Is your water low or high PH?
  7. I noticed in the Lee Valley catelog that they have precut slate for sale at a reasonable price in several different sizes. The link is http://www.leevalley.com/en/wood/page.aspx?p=70362&cat=1,250,43298
  8. No show in the fall. It's next spring due to the length of time needed to book speakers (almost a year).
  9. They are quite aggressive. I had one female and she killed a pair of endler males.
  10. The 3 tanks on the bottom shelf of one of my tank stands is at 68 degrees F right now and the cherry shrimp (and bristlenoses) are doing fine.
  11. I throw mine in the freezer also except when it's very cold out then I throw them onto the snow and they are dead immediately. I've tried boiling water (gruesome!!!) and not recommended. Some of the old books recommend "throwing them violently upon the concrete" - also not recommended and not quickly effective. I figure if freezing to death for humans is relatively painless then it can't be too bad for fish and as they are small (well most of them) death is very quick.
  12. They shredded my angelfishes' fins. They didn't bother my kribs (but what would dare bother kribs).
  13. I can assure you that the shrimp will NOT exist with tiger barbs. The barbs will clean house on the cherry shrimp and and fish they can fit into their mouths. My tiger barbs(1&1/4 inches) cleaned up 10 guppies (1 inch) the instant I put them in the tank consuming either head or tail first and slowly digesting the part that was sticking out. They also enjoyed the cherry shrimp I put in the tank until I caught on. Tiger barbs are nasty so watch what you put in with them.
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