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You'll have to forgive my continuing fascination with these critters. I read on an apple snail forum about a feeding strategy that some snails use called skim feeding. The snail climbs to the water surface and forms a saucer-shaped structure with its foot that acts as a skimmer. The snail...

I wrote this three years ago in an eggnog-induced haze - (that's my alibi, and I'm sticking with it! :wink: ) It's dedicated to a firemouth cichlid I once had who delighted in terrorizing his tankmates out of the tank and onto the floor until I shipped him off to somebody with a bigger tank and...

I bought a dozen golden apple snails at my fish club auction two months ago. This week, I noticed several egg clutches just above the water line I'm really excited about this because this is the first concrete evidence I have that anything actually bred in one of my tanks! I never realized what...

...while their home is in my bathub getting bleached! I picked up two new fancy mice this weekend - a grey marked one named Thyme (pic 1) and a beige one named Almond (pic2). Female mice generally sort out a social heirarchy amongst themselves with minimal fighting, but dumping a new arrival...

It's been too quiet in the NY/NJ forum, so I'm gonna make some noise! :band: The Greater City auctions are alot of fun - and not just because I almost always come home with something. :wink: It's interesting to see what people bid on and how much certain items go for. Tonight, someone paid...

I just purchased a dozen golden apple snails at my fish club auction. In the past, I've had poor luck with ramshorn snails because my water is extremely soft (GH and KH of 3). Over time, the snails would develop shell deformities and die. What would you recommend as a good source of calcium...

I recently went to the Adirondack Balloon Festival in Glens Falls, NY (about 10 miles south of Lake George).

I had an interesting experience on the subway this morning on the way to work. A reasonably well dressed and well groomed guy enters the subway car and asks for everyone's attention. He says that his wife and one month old daughter just moved to NYC from another city (I forget which one)...

I picked up 3 albino and 3 spotted BN ancistrus at this week's aquarium club meeting. They're cute - only 1 inch long. They posed for me while munching on some green zucchini. These six fish completely decimated a chunk of zucchini about the size of a golfball overnight. They hollowed it...

I'm planning to convert a 15 gallon plant propagation/quarrantine tank into a Lake Tang shelldweller tank. At the moment, the tank contains driftwood, gravel, and lots of plants. It's a temporary home to a severum that I purchased last month. Everything is going to be moved into my 58 gal...

I just have no luck with these guys. They must not like me or my water. I bought six silver hatchets the other day and one was dead within 24 hours, four dead within 48. :cry: They look healthy - it's just that they drop dead. At least they were only a buck apiece. This is my third...

I keep getting recurrent blue green algae infestations in my 29 gal. I've tried 4 day blackouts - they work, but the BG menace always comes back. Now it's taken over the 58 gal in the same room. Both tanks used to be lushly planted, but each successive infestation weakened the plants to the...

If you spend a little time watching your fish every day, you eventually recognize their typical normal behavior. If you're lucky, you may even begin to notice little quirks that are unique to a particular fish. This is one of the fun parts of owning an aquarium, but it can also be a great way...

Just a heads up for those of you on Long Island or within striking distance of Carle Place, NY. I got an ad in the mail from Aquarium Adventure yesterday. All frozen fish foods (Omega One, San Francisco Bay) are buy one, get one free. All livestock is 40% off. The ad runs till Jan 1. No...

http://www.ohioffa.org/cde/docs/aquariummanagmentexam_000.pdf (Answer key can be found at bottom of test)

My 29 gal, and ONLY my 29 gal, has been plagued with a weird algae. I've been battling it for several months now. I think it came in on a piece of store-bought driftwood. It grows in a thick sheet that covers everything - back glass, filter intake/output, substrate, driftwood, rocks, and...

Bluegills are being used to continuously monitor drinking water in San Francisco and New York. Read about it here and here Wouldn't it be neat to have one of those monitoring systems for our tanks? You could be e-mailed or paged if your fish were in any way unhappy!

My brother lost 7 koi and comets to a hungry blue heron last weekend. :evil: I just hope he didn't lost the silver one that I like. :cry: Anyway, the pond dealer sold him a water spray fountain and a heron decoy. Will this work? The decoy idea sounds silly. Any non-lethal ways to ward...

I've been keeping fish for over two years, and I must say that I'm starting to get mighty frustrated. They still won't talk, and I haven't even been able to get any of them to retrieve small objects that I throw into the tank. I'm thinking of replacing the fish with aquatic mice (mus...

I've really had it! :evil: A month after a four day blackout, two of my tanks (the 29 and 15 gal) had an explosive outbreak of stinky, blackish green BGA. Why does this stuff keep coming back? No new plants or livestock have been added for weeks. I blacked out again for six days and did a...

This is my first battle with the dreaded BGA. Tonite, I get home early with plans to do my weekly PWCs that I really should have done Sunday. I open up the 58 gal, and detect that unpleasant, sickeningly sweet smell. Oh no. A piece of driftwood in the back is absolutely covered with a...

I’m starting the most ambitious woodworking project I have ever attempted - an intarsia angelfish made with 31 pieces domestic and exotic hardwoods. I’ve built furniture before (my oak bed, two small aquarium stands, drawers, and lots of cabinets), but nothing this intricate. Intarsia is a...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10897027/ Kinda creepy, but it did benefit a very worthwhile charity (Habitat for Humanity). Besides, who wouldn't want to own a small piece of William Shatner - one that truly did "boldly go where no man has gone before". :lol: :lol: :lol:

I used a diatom filter to cure green water back in November, 2005. http://www.aquariumadvice.com/viewtopic.php?t=66071&highlight=diatom I haven't had the green water problem since, but I'm planning to run the diatom filter on each of my tanks for about an hour once a month. Here are some pics...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10743413/from/RL.3/ This is terrible. :( I hope nobody or their pets here were affected by this.