Sophia

Henward is now officially King Loach. I look forward to more movies and maybe another song I love how they zip along together and dart here and there. Inspiring.... one day I will have a big tank ... sigh

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I will also add for the record that my female scheeli is a jumper. She will jump anywhere to get away from the male if she wants to, this has once included out and onto the top glass when I was feeding. One habit she and I have gotten into is she wriggles to the surface on top of the riccia so the male can't see her from underneath and I feed her while she is almost out of the water. She will jump and wriggle to a better spot if she feels like it too. Bit risky, but she is a risky chick. In a past life she rode a harley

some fry were lucky enough to get a smidgen of white worm today - this was very exciting news in Fry World, exciting enough to take worms directly from the dropper or worm stick. 1 fry stole a whole worm that was twice as long as himself, I had to fight it off him with the dropper so he didn't turn into Bloat Fry.

Henward is the Loach King

Well in that case I certainly don't mind giving away eggs, but only if they are wanted children hehehe wouldn't want to pass any on to someone who didn't want a fry-surprise :oops:

Hey and don't forget you said that you would post some pics of your werneri threadfins when they came out of summer camp.... I haven't forgotten 8)

I didn't know that. I was meaning the Kh hardness.

rent a loach!!

lone duckweeds brave enough to venture into Fish World at my house will be plucked immediately to their death :evil: 8) Duckweed might be my new staghorn haha much easier to deal with but. I don't think my tank water is hard, it gets 1 tsp of tonic salt per 4 litres, it takes about 3 ppm or drops before it turns the test water yellow. I think that was the measurement last time. What do you guys call 'hard' water?

hopefully not :oops: though if you get one it's a bonus I will scour it for eggs and any wrigglers will not be silly enough to get caught

I cleared my tank of snails. I sold everything and got a new tank. On a more serious note, I tried a range of things - harvesting with/without traps of various kinds and veges in the tank but if your water is too soft to add snail rid then I think you can kiss goodbye to any chemical fix-alls. If you don't want to buy new fish to eat the snails and you have a spare tank you could move all your fish into it, snail rid the tank to all hell and back, change the water 8 billion times and then move them back in.... that would work but it's a lot of effort and probably easier to move the fish into the new tank and then clean out the snail tank. In my new tank I snail ridded almost all the plants that moved in, washed others by hand under the tap and so far I've only ever found and caught 2 ramshorns. Have had the filter out frequently and never find any eggs, which was Snail HQ in previous tank. I think and hope I am currently snail free. (touch wood & fingers crossed)

Deepsound did you tie the moss to a stone or just plant some pieces in the gravel?

I decided to cull the duckweed in the end. Took about an hour to scoop it all out and disentangle it from the riccia. Wasn't as bad as people say, though I am used to threading very small beads, which was not unlike catching solitary floaters of duckweed on the end of scissors. That has helped as there are some quite good gaps between the riccia clumps for the light to penetrate. The only crypt that isn't really doing well yet is the retrospiralis. It can't seem to get more than 2 leaves before 1 melts. It did get disturbed initially but that was a few weeks ago now. In comparison, the walkerii that I got at the same time has grown obviously bigger.

Defintely more than 10 as there are 7 counted fry and I caught 3 super pin heads in the siphoned water yesterday. Many more living in the riccia and probably on the bottom in the mulm. Also in the riccia I found and removed about 10 dead eggs all fuzzy and white.

I have some plants that are living out the diagram exactly - the hydrocotyle of the standard variety that grows toward the surface, 20c and larger lily pad leaves.... in my scenario the plants stay low, ie under 10cm and the leaves are all smaller than a 5c piece, very slow growing. This may be more due to lighting type than no Co2 as it was larger when I got it in the shop - brighter lights and no Co2.

the sag will look better once it's started spreading

Fry 1 still significantly bigger than the rest. Many of the fry are now eating and going after small bits of blood worms, even if as big as themselves. Mostly they like the dried brine shrimp as it falls in small particles, then the flaked food. At least 7 fry out and about today, little and big pin heads at the surface and against the back glass.

very cool indeed Dennis, a little path through the forest I hope you're pleased with it

my 2 scheeli males were the same. So I took the big one out to give the little one a break and now he is the tyrant of the tank! I think it's all an act. THe little male has still visibly grown since I've had him so he must have been getting enough food

there is some greenery in there, maybe 2 newish ones. There is hope!

It's not a gift if if you don't really want it... .... as far as I know you aren't rolling in cash and someone has to keep all these critters alive somehow. Maybe there is some way you can politely decline or sell them on TM to fund your other projects.

Cool, not far off for some of them then. :bounce: and how long after that till they are ready to spawn?

generally at what age can you tell what sex they are? many of the big ones have the markings of females