Recent content by Mephistopheles

Full tank pics here

Full tank pics here

Agreed... absolute algae garden. It isn't worth the pain of trying to clean all the algae off all of the time (unless you're the type of person who enjoys scrubbing algae off of things). I tried this at first, but gave up and threw them all away after about 6 months.

Should I be feeding him more than once a day?

When he was little I fed him flake, but now that he's bigger (6 inches), I feel like he needs a little more variety or something bigger. I'd be interested to know what others are feeding them. Also, I recently had to move his tank (40 gal FOWLR) and I haven't hardly seen him eat since (about a...

maybe he could identify this guy(girl?) then

Would it be unusual, then, to have hundreds of microscopic bristleworms crawling around in the sand then?

I've been messing around with the microscopes and MOTIC-cams in my classroom and caught a nice shot of one of the little critters roaming around in my substrate. I've been trying to find it's classification, but no luck so far. Does anyone have any knowlege on this organism? It's the little...

I'd like to have my class look at and try to identify some of the critters thriving in the substrate of our class tank. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any internet resources to use. Does anyone know of any? The organism that seems to be the most abundant is a red, semitransparent...

Doesn't it depend on which is the mother and which is the father? I thought I heard that somwhere, but I could be completely mistaken.

So the general consesus is that this is not my fault? I think that's what I'm getting. Just making sure that this isn't the syptom of some deficiency of something.