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If your reputed snail-eaters are not eating snails, here's a little tip.
Feed the fish only one day in three, after a week or two those snails will be toast.

Kuhlis are so inquisitive about squeezing into any conceivable hole or gap that this stuff happens.

Needs a bit work on the focus to sharpen em up.

Nice collection of pics. I visited Kota Kinabulu (formerly Jesselton) in Sabah many years ago to inspect a copper mine that the Japs were developing on the east slope of Mt Kinabulu. Brings back memories of those jungle streams.

What is striking is how fantastically expensive tropical fishkeeping was in those days, at least if you bought your equipment from a store, and then there was little alternative. The average industrial wage in UK was abt 6 pounds a week in 1946 and is about 600 pounds per week today. That makes it e...

adampetherick wrote:mine definatly laid egg sack things on the tank walls and leaves

Then they ain't MTS. Probably pond snails.

It's tomorrow now here, altho it may not be so where you are yet. I say 1936 and if that is not elegible today, relay it to tomorrow wherever you are,

1935

MTS don't lay eggs, they're livebearers (and hermaphrodites) which is why you'll never run out of 'em

Wasn't Mr, Starbuck the mate on the Pequod . Another of these darned whalers :lol: BTW, I agree with Martin that the water advisory in Vancouver is probably just CYA from the water utility. A bit of brown mud never hurt no one, nor fish either. But if they are triple dosing it with Cl it would be be...

Although Ottos and many fish like algae, it is NOT NECESSARY. ANY algae eating fish will survive BETTER on premade packaged food, if you use the right ones and use them correctly ;) May be. But I have always kept Otos in planted community tanks where there are other fish being fed algae based wafer...

Thanks for all the comments. Wolfram, there is driftwood in the tank, but it has been there for years and is so totally overgrown with stray cladophora algae that I doubt it has any effect on water chemistry. The tank is heavily stocked so oxygen consumption will be high. I also keep the temp at 25 ...

Otos are tough little guys once they are acclimated and are not bothered by bigger and more aggressive fish. They don't need driftwood. They do prefer to have plants, and it is cleaning algae from plants that they are best at. They are not particular about temperature. They are gregarious and you sh...

Last night I turned off the venturi bubbler on my community/loach tank to take some pics. I forgot to turn it on again and went to bed. This morning I woke up and the hillstreams didn't. 4 G. kweichow, Sewellia, G. multi. G. cteno. All dead. That air addition is absolutely vital, but I did not think...

Thanks folks. I'll keep you posted when I get around to the setup.