Recent content by Lycanthi

Heh unfortunately in Europe you can't get aquariums for the equivalent of $1 a gallon. The cheapest I've found is €27 for 10 gallons without a lid. Which would be fine, but I'm also pressed for space to put aquariums on. I don't have a large house, just a 2 bed apartment and my partner wouldn't...

Yes, it's sad what people will do to animals for fashions or fads. I try to keep animals that haven't been heavily selectively bred. I prefer the wild type colouration over the domestic colouration for most species. When I kept guppies I deliberately sought out "mutts" so they were closest to...

Well, the balloon fish isn't due to not wanting to cull, it was greed: "hey that looks different, I wonder if people will pay more for that?" and then deliberately selecting the most ballooned fish to breed on. Much the same way we ended up with deformed dogs like pugs, dachshunds or bulldogs...

Thank you :) these fry are certainly more work than my krib fry were - for them I just added egg yolk for the first week and then quickly moved them onto ground flake food, but they were so much larger to start with. They also grazed the substrate or surfaces to eat so it was very easy to target...

I've given them brine shrimp but it looked like the male got most of it, he's really a bit of a bully. I'm giving them green beans today. The larger fry actually look like miniature fish now. They have tiny anal fins and dorsal fins (hard to see in photos) and are starting to go yellowish. No...

I've been giving her epsom salt baths every morning and starving her in case it was constipation (I feed the others while she's in the bath). No change unfortunately ☹️ I also gave her a boiled green bean (just the inner "pea" part) as I had no peas, and she ate it but she's still really round...

I'll keep looking for a place that sells the cultures. Might be a long drive though so it's probably not something I can do anytime soon. The nitrites came down to 0.05 mg/l and the fry seem to be growing again. There's now 26 free swimming fry. I suspect there's more in the moss that will come...

I'm using full strength seawater and a 750ml jar, maybe I should get a larger container? I dont have a hydrometer but I do have piped seawater so I'm just doing water changes with that, it should remain the same approxinate salinity (barring a bit of evaporation)? I'd love to find a daphnia...

The nitrite was down to 0.15mg/l this morning so hopefully this is the tail end of the nitrite spike. I'll keep doing the frequent water changes. Oh, what is arduous about growing them? Aren't they basically the same thing as seamonkeys? I remember starting a batch of them and keeping a colony...

Update: there's now around 20 free swimming fry and probably more wriglers in the moss. I've stopped saving the eggs for now as I don't want to be overrun. The quarantine period for the new glowlights is nearly at an end so I'll be adding them to the display soon. The fry are growing slowly - I...

Nice! Congratulations 😄

There's now 8 free swimming fry in breeder box and 11 clingy fry in containers at the top of the QT. Also I found one free swimming fry at the top of the display tank so the 3 glowlights there have spawned too :O Maybe they spawned before and I just never noticed fry because they got eaten so...

Woo hoo! Congratulations :D

They spawned again, either last night or this morning. I collected about 20- 25 eggs, and one that had already hatched (maybe from an egg that was stuck in the moss from prior spawn). I'm going to be overrun if this keeps up lol I put the eggs into another plastic cup (actually the cut off...

Very pretty fish! What happened to the first set of wrigglers? Did the parents eat them?