Joe

Hello, I have two icecream containers filled with porridge, yeast and microworms. I have a few questions: - How long does this mixture last before it is supposed to be changed? So far it's lasted me a week. - I store it in a cupboard. Should I use the fridge? - I've heard of people using vinegar in their cultures. What is the benefit in this and is it worthwhile? - The mixture I use is two cups of porridge mix, and I make that into porridge with boiling water, let it cool, and divide it between the two boxes. Then I sprinkle yeast over the porridge. Are there any better feeding mixtures that people have had a lot of success with? Thanks, Joe

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Fill it with huge tanks and mass breed Cardinal Tetras and Apistos :happy1:

Indoor Chocolate swimming pool :happy1:

Chuck up

Sorry it's been a while since I've updated this thread, but I've been busy with college lately and haven't had the time to take pics. My male currently looks like this: Except he doesn't have as much red on his body, but his colour is still developing. He's still only a little 3-4cm fish, so still has a lot of growing to do. He should look like this when he is older:

Wow that is so cool !drool: The Cardinals look excellent! They really suit the scape, and look nice together with the Black Phantoms. I see you still have a couple of Sundadanio axelrodi and the Emerald-eye Rasboras in there. Awesome

The ones with the bluey bit under their eyes I think are Head-and-Tail-Light Tetras, Hemigrammus ocellifer, and the ones with the red tails are Red-tailed Phantom Tetras, Hyphessobrycon roseus.

+1 to Cardinals

Well I just won't give them milk again Which doesn't matter anyway, because I already have lots of nice green water for them

A 54L tank is not a small container

Yeah I definately agree with Mikey. Once I took 35 pics of my Apistogramma macmasteri male and only one was good, and it is one of my best pics too

Wow I am so jelous !drool:

CUTE :love: :happy1:

Yesterday I hadn't checked on the bug tank before I posted on this thread. When I inspected the tank after I had been on the computer I noticed that there had been a massive die-off with the daphnia. I honestly don't know why, but it is so infuriating I sighted only about two or three daphnia, and the rest were all dead on the bottom of the tank. I did an approx. 30% water change. Today I have seen quite a lot more and there are quite a few little wee ones, but not as much as before. So I'll have to wait for ages before the numbers build up again and then I can hopefully start feeding them to my fish.

Right you are Mine haven't even showed any signs of spawning yet

Yeah but none of your spawns have been successful yet I fed them microworms yesterday :facepalm: You're all probably thinking I'm pretty stupid since they are fry food and are absoloutely tiny, but they did nibble at them, and my Emperor Tetras really liked them :happy2:

Emperor Tetras, Nematobrycon palmeri :happy1:

Yay it is so awesome :happy1:

How infuriating

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No don't apologise. It would be quite boring if everyone only said 'Oh wow cool' and that was it. I love hearing other stuff that people have to say. It makes threads interesting If I get Apisto fry... The water is too hard in my tank - the pH test kit displays it as green or slightly blue. I don't think I'm going to have much luck unless I have water with no hardness. Then I can soak peat in it and make it really soft I REALLY need some sort of rainwater collecting system BTW I think I lost a female Apisto - when I stripped the tank to catch some fish the other day I could only find the male and two of the females. So that's $45 worth of fish lost :facepalm: But at least I still have the male and two healthy females

Awesome :bounce:

anticipation

Well... I put some lettuce in the tank yesterday after I took the photos, so I can produce some green water for the daphnia to feed on, and I also added a bit of milk too. When I came home from college today I was delighted to see that they had bred. There are tonnes of little daphnia at the surface all scooting about! It is so cool! :happy1: