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Here's the flexibacter link:

http://www.flippersandfins.net/flexibacter.htm

I've heard of eggs disappearing when Amano shrimp are around. I think it would be wise to remove them, if you can.

The last time I saw some largish ones in LA it was at Pasadena Tropical Fish (in Pasadena, a suburb of LA). They were about 8" if I remember. I don't live very near, and haven't been fish scouting there for several months, but they have had them several times in the past when I have visited. Check t...

Mine seem to do fine with most plants. The only exception has been any attempt to put in foreground plants, which they seem to take great joy in ripping up :) It can also be hard with "floaty" stem plants, which they often accidentally uproot (such as bacopa). Among the plants I have are Vallisneria...

Great pics! Lucky you to have such a big guy

Heaters seem to be getting worse and worse. In the last year, I have had 5 fairly new ones die on me (two of them within a week of buying them). Only one stuck on high, and I discovered it quickly.

Good to hear you discovered it and had minimal losses.

I bought some of the Gel-Tek anti parasite meds a while back. Supposedly fish will eat it, but mine wouldn't. I ended up soaking bloodworms in the gel overnight. I tried it with some of my endlers, as they usually eat anything, but they wouldn't eat the gel droplets. The fish I was treating ended up...

I use a shot glass to thaw the cubes in, then a mini turkey baster to distribute the worms among the tanks. I like the baster as it means I can target feed, if I need to. The mini baster is easier to control, so I can easily feed only two or three bloodworms into a tank, if I want to. I only thaw th...

I've heard a lot of people advise that you run fresh carbon in the filter once you're done, just in case anything got in there. It doesn't seem that it would harm anything to do this.

I also feed a variety: flake, shrimp pellets, algae wafers, veggies, frozen bloodworms, frozen brine shrimp. I sometimes give them home-grown grindal worms, which they seem to like rooting around in the substrate for. I don't feel comfortable feeding live food if I can't control the quality.

I keep clowns and cherry shrimp in a heavily planted tank, with my largest clowns at about 4" or 5". The cherries breed fast enough that there are always quite a few in the tank, but there are lots of plants for the shrimp to hide in. I have a couple of powerheads, and the shrimp don't seem to mind....

Cool pic, Martin.

They're just so much more flexible than the dojo loaches I have, and really fun to watch. They're certainly very responsive to feeding time.

Yes, Shari, I have been a longtime fan of Hitchikers Guide

I just got four new P. anguillaris yesterday. The LFS has had them for a while, and I have really wanted them. So far, they're doing great, and being really "eely." I have them in a tank with cherry shrimp. Does anyone know if they'll eat the babies (that's not a problem, I have cherry shrimp breedi...

So this is where we test?