Recent content by niggit

i do offer frozen bloodworms, brine shrimp, daphnia, "discus delight," and another food by hikari, but feeding three large discus exclusively on frozen food starts to get expensive. plus, having four or five different packages of food is starting to take up a lot of room in the freezer. i was...

i have three tanks that i'm itching to show off :wink: but anytime that i've tried to take a picture, they haven't worked out. i have a good quality pentax camera and have taken courses in photography, but the problem i'm running into is getting enough light on the tank (without causing...

i'm not sure of any sites that may have info on him (aside from fishprofiles.com (?)) but, i do know a little bit about them. in the wild they live in fast-flowing mountain streams so they require highly oxygenated water. i believe they prefer water that's a little on the cooler side, and are...

i was just wondering if anyone had any recipes they use to make their own frozen fish food. i am particularily interested in making a diet suitable for everyday use with my discus.

yes, it is a bacterial bloon (a good, beneficial bacteria) and this is a common problem in new tanks. if you are always cleaning the tank out every time it gets cloudy, you are only making the problem worse as you are killing any bacteria that have formed and causing them to bloom again. some...

i have a lonely male german (blue) ram and have been unable to find a suitable (large and nice enough) female for him. i did see some really nice gold rams though. are the gold an albino version of the blues? will they get along, or even mate? also, do blue rams pair singly, or do they like to...

I have a new discus (that i am luckily quarentining!) that developed a deep "pinprick" hole just behind his eye. [when i bought him, i borrowed the tank he was in at the store and brought it home until i can get my new, larger tank set up for him and the two other discus i have. when i got the...