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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: