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- Tue Jun 08, 2010 5:56 am
- Forum: Freshwater Puffers
- Topic: amazon?SAP puffers=comunity tank?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 683
Re: amazon?SAP puffers=comunity tank?
SAPs aren't "community fish" in the same way as, say, platies. You can't throw them into a mixed collection of fish species and expect them to behave themselves. SAPs are nippy, no question. Anything slow enough to be bitten WILL be bitten. In my experience that includes things like platie...
- Sun Jun 06, 2010 5:48 am
- Forum: Freshwater Puffers
- Topic: Average prices of Amazon puffers??
- Replies: 3
- Views: 431
Re: Average prices of Amazon puffers??
In the UK at least, around £8-12. As far as plants go, they're midwater fish, so the only plants they really appreciate are ones that offer overhead shade, e.g., floating plants. Other types of plants will be "explored" while they're foraging, so use whatever tall plants you want. Cheers, ...
- Fri Jun 04, 2010 6:24 am
- Forum: Brackish Tanks
- Topic: Snails in Brackish Tank
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1295
Re: Snails in Brackish Tank
Melanoides tuberculata can live in up to about half-strength seawater, so they generally do perfectly well in brackish water aquaria. Now, if they suddenly appear on the glass, it's important to consider why they're doing that. By default these snails are almost entirely nocturnal and they rarely e...
- Sun May 30, 2010 5:06 pm
- Forum: Freshwater Tanks
- Topic: New tank + Re-done Tank
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1596
Re: New tank + Re-done Tank
Halfbeaks are my favourite fish! Lots about them on my web site . From personal experience I've found they mix fine with Carinotetraodon irrubesco , and will breed in tanks containing those puffers given space and floating plants. SAPs usually work fine too, saving the occasional nipped fin. But I w...
- Sun May 30, 2010 11:25 am
- Forum: Brackish Puffers
- Topic: gsp tankmates
- Replies: 6
- Views: 728
Re: gsp tankmates
It's not a great combination, no. The thing with GSPs is that they're fin biters, the fins of other species being a natural part of their diet. On top of that, the males are likely territorial. So while some people have peaceful GSPs that work fine in community settings, most people aren't so lucky....
- Thu May 27, 2010 11:57 am
- Forum: Brackish Tanks
- Topic: Migrating FW tank to BW
- Replies: 8
- Views: 782
Re: Migrating FW tank to BW
Freshwater bacteria survive up to SG 1.003 @ 25 C, or 6 ppt, at which point they start to die off and get replaced by saltwater bacteria. See for example here: Nitrifying Bacteria Facts When raising the salinity from freshwater to brackish, you either keep it low enough the freshwater bacteria are h...
- Thu May 27, 2010 11:06 am
- Forum: Brackish Tanks
- Topic: Migrating FW tank to BW
- Replies: 8
- Views: 782
Re: Migrating FW tank to BW
Hi Jeni, What RTR argues is that they do better in low-end brackish than freshwater. He hasn't compared SG 1.003 against SG 1.005 or SG 1.008 and declared any one of them better, so far as I know. Cheers, Neale A decade-long experiment by our Mentor, RTR, Concluded that F8s do best in a SG of 1.005.
- Thu May 27, 2010 10:47 am
- Forum: Brackish Tanks
- Topic: Migrating FW tank to BW
- Replies: 8
- Views: 782
Re: Migrating FW tank to BW
If you're after figure-8s, why not keep the salinity at SG 1.003 @ 25 C, in which case your freshwater filter bacteria will adapt just fine. Do 20-25% water changes every weekend, replacing the water in the aquarium with SG 1.003 water. After a few weeks you should have salinity close enough to 1.00...
- Sat May 22, 2010 5:53 am
- Forum: Brackish Puffers
- Topic: How fast freshwater to marine? (gsp)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1828
Re: How fast freshwater to marine? (gsp)
I agree. The GSP itself could be dumped in medium salinity brackish from freshwater conditions without the least bother. But the filter bacteria are a whole other thing. From freshwater to about 10-15% salinity, i.e, around SG 1.004, your freshwater bacteria will be in place. But above that, the fre...
- Sat May 22, 2010 5:05 am
- Forum: Brackish Puffers
- Topic: Unusual tankmates for GSP?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 949
Re: Unusual tankmates for GSP?
There are many cichlids that thrive in brackish water, as well as some that do well in seawater. Indeed, several species are found in the sea in the wild. Admittedly not in deep water, but in lagoons and such, but in fully marine conditions nonetheless. Their salt tolerance is in fact one of the mos...
- Thu May 20, 2010 3:53 am
- Forum: Brackish Puffers
- Topic: lights?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1414
Re: lights?
Fish use light in multiple ways. For example, they use light for orientation, and try to keep the brightest light above them so that their countershading works most effectively. If you've ever seen if in a dark tank in brightly lit room, you'll see they lean over to one side, trying to balance the l...
- Mon May 10, 2010 5:40 pm
- Forum: Freshwater Puffers
- Topic: Auriglobus modestus or silus
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1752
Re: Auriglobus modestus or silus
I'm going to break ranks here. I don't think you can tell these two species apart by looking at live specimens. I've read Klaus Ebert in the Aqualog book, but I'll mention here that Kottelat further distinguishes Auriglobus silus by looking at its fin rays as well as the shape of the caudal peduncle...
- Mon May 10, 2010 5:20 pm
- Forum: Hospital
- Topic: I had no idea this was out there.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1325
Re: I had no idea this was out there.
What are called "zoonoses" -- diseases caught from animals -- are actually quite common. There are obvious cases in recent history of things being caught from farm animals for example, e.g., swine flu. Quite a few diseases we consider to be human diseases probably evolved only once we star...
- Sun May 09, 2010 5:19 pm
- Forum: Hospital
- Topic: I had no idea this was out there.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1325
Re: I had no idea this was out there.
Always a pleasure!
Cheers and good night, Neale
Cheers and good night, Neale
pufferpuggirl wrote:I love it, you always bring us back down to earth Neale, thank you once again.
- Sun May 09, 2010 4:59 pm
- Forum: Hospital
- Topic: I had no idea this was out there.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1325
Re: I had no idea this was out there.
The thing with "Fish TB" is its talked about rather more often than it actually occurs. Without doing some microscope work on tissue samples from the fish, no hobbyist can distinguish Mycobacterium marinum from any of the other Mycobacterium infections, of which several occur. Furthermore,...