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Yes I have. I found that it worked well but was rather slow and didn't grind up some stuff such as dried shrimp etc. The coffee grinder I now use works very well for everything - flake, pellets, dried shrimp and vitamin tablets. It is also much faster than a pepper mill and does larger quantities.

Not anymore. It's the fancy colored types that are readily available now. You have to watch the shops - Ie Big Al's and Natures Corner for example that will occasionally bring in wild type swords.

This site may be of help. http://www.petshrimp.com/ I believe that amano shrimp spawn in fresh water but the young go downstream to saltwater and come back up when they mature.

A plastic supplier should carry the solvent and bottle with needle for joining lexan. For cutting it I suggest you check with Seajays as he did a lot of that when he had his display construction company.

Gouramis and Angels don't always get along. If the Angels are small and the Gourami is not he could account for the fin shredding.

Would boiling the dehumidifier water resolve some of the contaminant problems such as spores from the air etc?

Look for the gravid spot on the fry - once they are a few weeks old you should be able to spot it. You need a glass container - I found some small clear triangular bottles with large necks and cork plugs at Michael's. Works well for sexing out guppies.

I have found skunk loaches to be quite effective at controlling (but not eliminating) snails in my large tank. A word of caution - the rope fish may decimate your smaller fish as time goes on.

Dehumidifiers will help to dry it out as well.

Don't try to move it with more than an inch of water in it as tanks don't like to be moved when they are full. Best to drain it down and put the water and fish in 5 gallon pails (with covers) and just leave enough water to keep your plants going. Then you should be able to move it. (HINT: I always have a piece of 3/4" plywood under each of my tanks as it allows me to move the tanks around with an inch or so of water in them which means I can leave the fish in if they are small enough)

I picked up the sheet(actually a roll) of thin cork when I was trying to eliminate reflections in the tank. It's a lot cheaper than the cork bark but does not have the same esthetics. Could you use a different type of tree bark seeing as how most of it will be out of water?

I agree with Dunl. That's what I do when I do my water changes twice a week - I just leave them running and I have aqua clears, top fins as well as some very old (longlife) hob power filters.

When you do a water change take your aquarium water and put it in barrels or pails outside. It won't take long to go green without adding anything.

Also an excellent article in July, 2006 Tropical Fish Hobbyist on this fish - it's a danio!

I use drift wood I find along the North Saskatchewan river and I select only the strange (odd shaped) pieces. Since most of it is sitting high and dry (probably for a year or two at least) and has no bark on it I just put it in a tank as needed (keep it on the back patio) and weigh it down by tying it to a piece of slate with some fishing line. I tried the free floating process and one piece (from out in the middle of nowhere by Manyberries) took two and a half years to get waterlogged.

Who do you get your power through and what is the rate per kw they are charging?

Use some caution here. If I recall right excel will melt riccia fluitans(kill it) and if you have enough in your tank it can cause a meltdown in water quality.

It could be the rubber o-ring that is gone. you can get new ones at some of the retail stores or you can take the old o-ring to Ackland Granger and get another one the same size (including thickness) for less than a $ 1 each. (Buy two or three they are cheap at that price).

airless bags would work very well for a trip like that.

If you put it in a container with some water from your fish tanks (old water from your water change) it will have all the nutrients it needs and should grow well. As a matter of fact the shallower the container and wider the better.

It's not just the betta that can be the problem. I once had a group of white clouds with a betta that was a poor (or early forerunner) imitation of a crowntail with all sorts of little ends on his fins and the white clouds kept nipping at them as they thought they were some type of live food.

The pop bottle trap worked - caught a loach, a pleco and the smaller krib (the bigger male couldn't fit. Dumped them in a bare pail and shuffled them back or into another tank (the loach).

There was a good write up on dwarf pike cichlids in a recent copy of TFH. It mentioned some that were only 3 inches long.

There will always be difference in sizes from a batch of fry. I've had some swordtail fry that, within a week or so, were absolutely huge compared to the rest of their brothers and sisters and they usually mature more quickly.

Thanks for the pop bottle suggestion. I just cut the ends off two 2 liter pop bottles - capped one and stuck the other one into it. Once they have soaked in my drain sump for a few days (to neutralize the glue from the labels) I will set it in the tank and I should be able to catch them quite easily. I forgot that Algaefarmer had set some of those up in his tanks.