alanmin4304

Nice leps and great pics.

C.blassii

Aint evolution a great thing

The albinos are normally Coryodorus auratus (or used to be)

Or high fever and a volcanic spew.

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The idea has been around a while but still works very well. Good to see you are doing some research.

Ira is on to it. The fusals are more volatile, contain a lot of the hangovers and come over first. You get a similar thing with concentrating fruit juice. Most is concentrated in the off season on the plate evapourators used for making milk powder and the high temperatures caramalise the sugars and blow off the fusals and aromatics. We had a guy in our patch that used an old machine dating back to the 19th century and it pulled a vacuum which made the juice boil off at a lower temperature so the aromatics remained as did the true colour. It made a very good product but he got done by the then apple and pear marketing board and sold it to some religious outfit. Most people forget that ethanol is a poison (not as bad as methanol) but many nationalities and races have developed to combat it by producing an enzyme to neutralize the toxicity to an extent. This is why some people get completely drunk on a glass of beer. The enzyme is itself put out of action by the drug antabuse which is taken by alcoholics that want to get off the booze and go to real heaven.

It will go black if not getting enough light. I am assuming that you are talking about Heteranthera zosteraefolia.

I seldom used to quarantine fish at all. I would buy from reputable sellers and preferably watch them swimming in a tank before buying. Fish can carry some diseases asymptomatically and that disease will develop with the stress of relocation but those diseases can be treated pretty easily. That would be the silliest advice I have heard in a while.

The first thing the yeast does is break the complex sugar to simple sugars like dextrose and the type and ratio of those has a lot to do with the flavour. You can get invert sugar but I have never done that since the yeast inverts it anyway. Yeast does not ferment lactose so they add that to stout to make milk stout (as in Coronation St). Put some under the house and you might be surprised how good it is in a couple of years.

Looks like you have an ethanol lab as well. It is all about the fermentation and distilation. I used to get mine from a friend at 97% from a very good still he built. it has an afinity for water so you can't distil better than that. Any less and you could be carrying other stuff over as well as water. You can wash it through carbon. I made an inline carbon filter and let it run slowly overnight 20 litres at a time. Coca cola kills most flavours as well as your guts. I gave it up 11 years ago, as well as the coke.

They do best in the early twenties and they live longer as well. If you are buying them they breed best as teenagers and you can breed them at a young age. They are often sold too old and are half carked by the time you get them home because the shops treat them as a community fish which they are not.I have raised over 1000 N. guentheri in one tank and a few hundred australe in a different tank without problems. Drop the temperature and run a peat filter.

Welcome to the site. You can lust after leopard geckos and torts while many here would kill for even a look at your snakes. For me they scared me stupid when I went to the zoo in Melbourne.

93 out of 97 is pretty good. The booze does actually improve quite a lot if you are able to keep your hands off it and let it mature even for a few months --years even better. Oh those were the days. Gin, bourban,whiskey, zambuka,rum, khalua and vodka. Then liquours from fruits. 20 litres at a time. As well as 9 x 200 litre barrels of wine. I don't know where I found the time.

I used to breed them as a community with a number of males and females in a bare tank with just mops. There is a lot of postering with the males but it is all bluff and not much damage done to males or females. You can plant it out but it means you have to search the plants for eggs.

What % ethanol are you getting?

It does not save labour as you still have to maintain your biological filtration---would probably cut down on the amount of cleaning required. Some of us don't do much cleaning anyway.

The one micron filter (Mrs Google has pictures on "vortex diatom filter") is a physical filter also and is used for polishing. It is used in conjunction with a more standard biological filter or sump that takes care of the conversion of ammonia, nitrite and urea to nitrate. Is that the case with this one also?

It is a physical filter and will have little of the nitrogen cycling that happens in a biological filter I would suspect.

So are sandflies. It is not uncommon to be pestered with sandflies after an effluent discharge has been cleened up discharging to a stream.

A. australe will breed well in a community and you just remove the eggs into small containers to hatch. Start a new container each week which also means a new tank each week. The fry will start into brineshrimp nuplii straight off and the eggs generally don't need meth blue or anything (just remove any that fungus or turn white). High temperatures stress killies out. When I was breeding them I used to keep them on the floor of the fish house where the temperature was lowest. If you add peat to the breeding tanks you need to get them used to straight water slowly later.

Most killies (particularly Nothobranchius sp.) are enclined to get velvet and a way to avoid that is to add a little salt or peat to the water. It sounds like you may have columnaris, saddleback or mouth fungus or whatever you wish to call it.

Just because I am good looking does not mean I am nice. There are a couple of pet shops down this way that sell hand reared birds if you get desperate.

Some of us are growing so fast we have grown through the hair on the top of our heads.