My fish and a thread about eating. (page 2)

Cassiline

LOL! Hiya! Another fish nerd!!! Hey, Cassiline keeps cichlids... I'm an Amazon kinda girl. Keep corys, angels, bristlenoses... they don't eat each other.

Hey Odrade!!

How are you? Talk about fish...lol. I was so upset because I killed my batch of fry and now I can't get them to stop having little nemos! Help!!

When last we spoke I had some on the way, since then I've had 2 more batches and another on the way. I don't know what to do with them all. You need some baby Yellow Labs and Demosoini? gahhhhhhh lol

Hugs to you lady

Cassi

Whoa too funny Cass... yeah, once those guys figure out to stop eating their own eggs, there's no stopping them. I know a guy who has three 55 gal barebottom tanks full of Labs cause he can't bear to just feed them to his Jaguars. And now the Jags had a giant brood and he has about 400 fry in a 135 gal octagon tank. Haha! I am so not doing that. Everytime my angels lay eggs I do a water change to rile 'em up. Works everytime, they eat the eggs within a half hour.

Cassiline

And now the Jags had a giant brood and he has about 400 fry in a 135 gal octagon tank.

LOL

I guess I will have to stir them up or something. I was surprised however that the fish stores will not take them in trade... They will take them for nothing... but won't even trade me a 16oz bottle of Stress Coat or Lake Malawi salts. Then they turn around and sell my fry for 8-25 dollars a piece. This makes no sense in my mind!

Cassi, needs to go into the fish business!!

shotgun

Stef ... Special K can tell you a good story about Jack Dempsies

She had hundreds of dollars worth of exotic fish and the Dempsies went beserk one night and ate them all except for a couple which they chased right out of the tank.

Nicolas

Anyone know a cheap and simple solution to lower a water ph of 7.5?? I actually want to reproduce my dwarf cichlid and they need a low ph.

seeitallclearlynow

Two of the asshole fish ate the little convict!

ROFLMAO Stefanie!

That's priceless.

We have definitely got to be sure to keep you around for a long time, you cutie!

Stefanie

lol Thanks Seeit

I think I am gonna give them away...

Poztate

When I was a teenager,a long time agothere were not very strict rules as types of fish you could import. I managed to get hold of a genuine Piranha. I kept him in a 20 gal tank. Being young and dumb I used to like to stick the tip of my finger in the tank just to tease him and then get it out at the last second. He never did get me but came really close at times.

I made a deal with a pet store. The sold me gold fish that were sick or dying really cheap. It was facinating to watch my Piranha go after their prey. He started his approach slowly and then SNAP only half a goldfish would be left. He finally meet his end one day as I was away at school. He jumped and managed to bang the cover off the tank. He was on the floor and slightly dried up by the time I came home. After this I stuck to the slightly less aggressive breeds of fish.

Black Sheep

I was given a 7" long silver shark that had outgrown its welcome elsewhere. It really didn't like my oscars and managed to knock the plate glass off the tank and jump out. It, too, was rather dry by the time we got home.

Odrade

good dark malaysian driftwood will lower pH over time. So will oak leaves I believe, which are actually really good for spawning cichlids.

But 7.5 isn't bad. I've found that unless you have pH down in the low 6 or mid to high 8, it's better to not do anything, eventually as long as the water quality is good, they will adapt. If you try to buffer, you will have all kinds of headaches with monitoring for pH bounce. Way more trouble than it's worth. Inducing spawning of dwarf cichlids is usually more a matter of water temp changes, light changes, etc.

Check www.thekrib.com for tons of articles on the subject. Really great site.

O

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