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SAE's love currents. They are active and happy in just about any environment, but they really enjoy a strong flow. My larger ones like to sit on a rock about three inches directly in front of a 450 gph powerhead returns. It is impressive. River and stream gobies like it too. I had a stiphodon someho...

!!!!! And i thought I got into it fast!! I am at like one and a half years and only have 4 tanks. 45, 40, 20 and 5 1/2. I understand the feeling about warning signs. I have pet store owners calling my cell when they get in new, unusual, or small loaches and gobies. One friend of mine waits to acclim...

Cool! I wish there were similar shrimp in Georgia creeks. We have several varieties of crayfish but they don't get along well with most small fish.

Did you capture these near your home too? THey are beautiful

Very cool fish.

He could easily be doing it more often than I know of. There are plenty of days when the only times I get to watch my fish are when I am feeding them or turning on and off the lights.

I have seen him do it once when he was not eating. Once he regains consciousness he always jerks around. It is very strange.

Hello everyone, I have several coys, and about a month ago i noticed that one of the younger ones had lost its barbels. I at first thought it must have been the result of a fight, but a few days later i noticed some trailing, loose skin around the edges of his mouth and it looked like his mouth was ...

I have successfully kept a betta with a cory and some neon tetras; however, you may have a hard time at this point. From my experience, once a betta(i am assuming you have a male) has been in a tank alone for a while, he becomes very territorial. My betta lived peacefully with some neon tetras and a...

I had a hard time with over-heating while i was cycling my tank. At one point the water in the tank was about seven degrees warmer than room temp. I have a canister filter, and I just raised the flow bar a few inches above the water and turned it so the water spent as much time in the air as possibl...

That is one round cory!

Most large, chain-pet stores will check your water for free. I have managed to keep fish for about a decade without buying a testing kit... It gets a little rude during cycling though. I have gotten to know most of the people at the stores I frequently visit, and I always find something small that i...

I have recently been compiling materials with the intent to breed daphnia. I have no experience, but I have found this website to be very helpful. (http://www.aquaculturestore.com/info/daphnia.html ) It is actually a very interesting company. I am thinking about some of their darters and maybe some ...

I put two assassins in my 20 gallon about nine months ago because i had hundreds of pond snails and more every day. There are probably 20 small pond snails left. I don't know about MTS, but the pair has very effectively kept down the pond snails. They eat all of the young, and any that get old and s...

My river tank has been setup for a few weeks and yesterday I introduced the last of the fish i intend to keep in the tank: Two fat, old, greedy Siamensis Algae eaters. I could never have imagined a conflict between the hillsteams and the siamensis since the loaches hide in caves and the algae eaters...