Recent content by SwerveDriver

I've had 4 rummynose for about a week now. They tend to swim in the low mid section of my aquarium. Initially, since they were new occupants and are smaller than my other fish (danios, rasboras, gourami) they were afraid to come to the surface with the other fish during feeding. Now, they...

If I drop an algae or sinking wafer and it goes uneaten something fuzzy grows from it. What is it? Is it fungus? It's like a light fuzzy mould or fungus that grows on it. I usually remove them after they go uneaten for a day. But would shrimp eat this stuff? I have a shrimp only tank which...

Just discovered that my one of my shrimp (cherry) is alive and well. It's been hiding during the day and only comes out at night. I don't have a clue about my other shrimp (yamato). So I guess my little red honey gourami doesn't eat shrimp after all. Which means I'll probably buy a few more...

Do you feed them anything in particular?

I measured my otto and it's about 1 1/4" from head to tip of it's tail fin. I think it's reached its maximum size as it hasn't grown in months. They are amusing little creatures and great tank additions. I currently have two in a 38gal planted tank and I'm considering adding more or perhaps...

I have a red honey gourami that eats just about anything. She'll eat freeze dried bloodworms and brine shrimp, flakes, pellets, algae wafers, sometimes algae off plants and driftwood, raw vegetables. She's constantly eating. I don't know how true this is of gourami's in general, but mines a...

I have a red honey gourami (not sure if it's the same as your species, perhaps) and she is a pig! :) Eats just about everything, flakes, pellets, sinking wafers, algae wafers, some algae, freeze dried blood worms and brine shrimp. I find that my gourami is constantly eating and naturally...

Cherry barbs are timid. Mine like to take cover in plants every so often but they come out as well. I have them with danios, rasbora's, gourami and guppies. All the other fish are quick in grabbing food and the barbs sometimes perfer to fetch whatever sinks rather than getting any first dibs...

I had baby guppies within 5 weeks of purchasing them, but it's not like I had to do anything special. :) Out of a fry batch of 17 I'm down to 5. Getting guppies to breed is one thing, taking care of the fry is another matter.

I had a red honey gourami, two cherry barbs and a zebra danio in my tank when I introduced some shrimp. For the first two days I rarely saw them. I spotted one shrimp skimming the top surface late at night once, and I spotted my other shrimp along the bottom floor skimpering behind plants. I...

Can shrimp get ich, fluke, or other external parasite, for instance and spread it or die from it?

One thing about those large Java Fern leafs with no roots is that they grow new baby plantlets quickly. My original Java Fern with rhizome and roots has grown only a few baby plantlets compared to the bunched Java leaves which has grown about 5-8 times more. They breed like guppies! :) I'm...

I've been feeding my guppy fry Hikari First Bites. It stays afloat nicely which gives my fry plenty of time to gobble it up. Once they became accustomed, they now know when it's feeding time and stay near the water surface most of the time. Hungry little buggers... :)