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"The ghost shrimp is surprising long lived. A 10 cm individual excluding appendages may be 10 years old and many reach an age of 15 or 16 years old." http://fish.orbust.net/ghostshrimp.html you can type "ghost shrimp" in a search engine and get a lot of info on them

Thanks, Mattrox, for the helpful advice

I believe they are Apistogramma Cactuoides. The female has found a hiding place to escape to. The male usually chases her into the bottom of a plant, He is still very aggressive towards the other fish, as they are not as swift as she is. As for spawning..... will the female eventually...

So my husband decided he wants apostos. About 3 weeks ago we bought a pair (male and female, both very beautiful). The female is nice and peaceful, but the male is a COMPLETE MANIAC. He chases her all the time, and not only that, he goes after the innocent Cory Cats for no apparent reason...

Our Loaches do the same thing. They get crazy and go at it for a while. Dont know about the barbs, but the loaches get pretty stressed out and loose their color. I think it's more aggression, than playing.

It says, at the end of the article: "What's so neat about UGJ is that they are highly customizable. People have used them with gravel and sand."

wow, that's pretty bad, good thing you woke up!

AHA! so we're not the only ones!! At elast you were in the basement, next to a drain..... although our warter did eventually get there :?

Yeay for sushi!

i think until the tank cycles you are going to experience intervals of cloudy water, spikes in levels, etc.... just wait it out.... maybe someone else will have better advice for ya :)

is this too much of a close up? http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~cabotsch/bulloughs/invertebrates/worms/flatworm.html

Yeah, you are right! now i feel bad! :cry: Maybe when he reads this he'll feel better to know i wasnt mad, either that or be really mad i didnt tell him i wasnt mad :?

For my birthday i got a platty and a betta, in a one gal. We didnt know anything about keeping fish...our water changes consisted of removing the fish into plastic cups and dumping out all the water, refilling with new water and putting the fish back. Even cleaning out the filter...who knew...

So, last night my hubby :wink: decided to do a water change. And oh boy, what usually takes 10 minutes took 3 hours. He forgot to take the stopper out of the sink, with the filter output going he didnt hear anythign till the water had overflowed the sink, ran down the cabinets (inside the...

awwww, cute!!! :oops:

Thanks, fawnN, for the advice, that sounds like a good plan. Wiil try it out next time:)

thanks, yeah i think if i put another loach in it wll be to croweded, although they are so cute :)

i feel bad, she looks so lonely, just stays at the bottom by the rocks now. She was very active before the male died, interacting with him and the other fish. I hope she is not on her way out too. Still cant figure out what happened :cry:

usually this will only happen when we vaccum durring a water change, or when the other loach chasses him (he can be bully when it comes to food). But other than that, he stays his normal color. The temp is usually between 75 and 78F.

i posted about them here, when we first brought them home on saturday. http://aquariumadvice.com/viewtopic.php?t=34614 the name, and a website on them is posted there. we have pics, but just havent posted them yet.

This morning i found the male cackatoo cichlid at the bottom of the tank :cry: The female is doing fine. Dont know what caused his death, but will the female be ok on her own. They were sold to us in a pair and from looking online they are always sold in pairs. Any ideas??

When we first put them in they seemd to be swimming around and doing just fine. Today, the female is still doing so, but the male is hiding in one of the rocks and staying there. Is this normal?? Also, i put some flake food and algae waffers in this morning and neither of them ate. Shouls...

It was just certain spots, not growth like. More like if you got a dab of bleach on your black pants. They seem to be gone now, so maybe it was stress related, but his mouth is still whiter than normal, the inside and around the lip area. BUt he is eating fine and not thinning at all. I do...

I'll try to get joedarat to put um up :D

thanks guys!! :D We tried takin some pics, but they dont seem to photograph true to color, They are very bright and beautiful to look at.