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seahorses are slow and stupid feeders and strongly prefer live food so the longer it survives in the tank the better

mollies as they are not too fussy what water you dump them into - I had some years ago acclimatised to salt for feeding to seahorses good big babies and prolific

there's some cool stuff on youtube this is a video of how to make a nice simple brineshrimp hatchery, with some blissed out angels sampling the product at the end http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=AU&hl=en-GB&v=7uNkHPuGaqo

do you have an excess of males in there (>1 per 3 females)? I'm told this can cause this problem

just found this one - if you have an ambition to keep any of your livebearers outside this tells you what the min temp recorded of them surviving is http://www.goodeiden.de/html/temperatures.html

I had something like that happen to mollies, fry were fine but adults were getting red blotches and sloughing skin and dying rapidly. Normal treatments didn't work, but Furan sorted it out

meh most powders aren't good to breathe in I am supposed to wear a dust mask when I clean my pigeon loft because pigeon keepers often come down with an asbestosis-like thing from the feather dust. I've met someone with it and its nasty dusty situations = use a dust mask

make them shave the cat?

Dremel tool would do that and so much more

great planting very appealing combinations of plants and fish

something I have read about mollies which may apply to other livebearers is that an apparently female young fish is actually male and becomes male in appearance later ie on maturity. They supposedly mature late but into great looking fish. I have had a fish do this but s/he died before I could establish if s/he was fertile as a male. It was purty though

RIP my fighters are like that sometimes, I will put a young platy in with them that I could swear wouldn't fit in their little mouths but it disappears and the fighters look very pleased with themselves

try Richfields chocolate too its sooooo much better than Cadbury's ever was, not that its hard to be better than Cadbury now they have made the recipe bleccccchhh

how about something to live in the bottom of the tank? you have lots of options there, GBAs or corys or loaches spring to mind.

your cory probably kindly tidied up any corpses for you

I find it helps when stocking a smaller tank to think of the fish as inhabiting different "levels" and to only have one type of fish for each level. Thus, your pandas are your bottom-dwellers and its best to not have any other type of bottom-dweller. Your harlequins will stick around the middle and when the tank settles down you may be able to get something else that favours the upper level of the tank. For example I have a 60L tank with GBAs lurking in the depths, pearl danios in the middle and gold gouramis that like the top. I suspect the harlequins might be calmer in a school of 6 or more but I'd wait until any water quality/health issues are under control.

test rocks you pick up with a few drops of vinegar, if it bubbles its gonna raise your pH. I get mine from the ever-obliging Hutt River, and give them a quick boil

nice idea using them for bettas was thinking they would look cool with java/xmas or riccia, you could get a kind of moss blob thing going on or a wall if you lined a few up

might be hard to explain that one to the neighbours kids but full marks for originality

still unnamed poor chap 12 babies have hatched so far, 4 eggs left so possibly a couple more to go

:bounce: he's a dad! chicks are hatching out right now in my incubator and definitely take after him :bounce:

lol yep sleeping is not a problem I'm completely knackered actually. I can't take that stuff anyway since it interacts with my antidepressant, which is a total pain if I get a really runny nose.

just curious, wonder if it might be nicer than our tap water

panadol and echinacea and fluids and sleep I think I feel a bit better. I never got up to a really high fever at least

news said if you are in the main area you can expect a few more aftershocks so hang onto your fishies (and cockies). Poor animals I bet they are terrified