Recent content by kennef

Kornchild is pretty accurate on this one. owning herps as well as fish for many years now, i have learned one absolute rule for frogs. they can and will eat anything they fit in their mouth, including other frogs. i had a pair of ACF's i had adopted from another family, until one of them...

WaterPond is right about feeding, when overwintering fish you cut back on their feeding, more because they wont eat it and it will foul the water than any other reason. the really important part to overwintering is if the pond ices over is keeping some portion of the surface clear of ice for gas...

i use pond pumps from Harbor Freight, they are so cheap as to be disposable

yeah, pretty much thats what i do. carbon doesn't do much against anything that a fairly regular water change fixes, as someone on this forum said... :)

hehe... good stuff, always better to work at a job you love, providing you also have enough for the mortgage/kids braces/car payment... :) Do i sound jealous?

generally cannister filter use bio media to do biological filtration, with foam for the mechanical. I use a fluval with the ceramic rings, and i just rinse them and the pads once a month or so. i dont use carbon, and had an extra tray for more biomedia, so i put some lava rocks in it because i...

whats a finger fish?

Polyepturus Reptopinnis its a really lovely looking Bichir... but rather large as was stated earlier. my senegals usually eats sinking pellet foods such as shrimp pellets and such. both of mine are opportunistic as it relates to other fish... so i keep a goodly swarm of guppies that i can...

yeah, not only will it flower, but if you get the stalk back down in the water after it does, you'll get plantlets starting to grow. i have something like 15 baby swords from my monster since i put it out in my goldfish pond. soon i will have to bring it back in, but i dont have any idea how i...

everyone in my area that knows about them uses the scientific name, 'polyepterus' when referring to them. i pronounce it 'B*tch-er' just because i like the way my wife rolls her eyes when i do it....:)

i think that section requires a minimum number of posts... maybe 50?

i vote for NEWTS!!! seriously.. a little river tank with newts and minnows would be awesome

i think the fish guarantee at most pet shops is ridiculous, simply because of the conditions aattatched first, you need to bring in the body, with a water sample, so it can be tested and shown wether or not the tank conditions caused the issue, which is completely subjective in most cases...

i agree with you, for the most part about dwarf puffers; because they arent the common everyday fish. i will say this however. Of the 6 LFS in my area, at least 4 of them have more clueles employees than petsmart, but i see no one ever mentions these in a rant. my petsmart employs an equal...

nice thread here, and the original poster has fairly valid points made which i didnt miss. what i also didnt miss was the post about mislabeled prices on plants. now i am all in for any deal that comes along, but to be honest, no retailer has an iron clad responsibility to honor typographical...