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However, eggs will hatch in about 24 hours after spawning. Fry should be fed a live diet and if they survive, theyll be about two inches long as adults.

One of the most distinguishing features of the lemon tetra is their large eyes. The upper part of the lemon tetras eye is brilliant red, which is a sharp co

Keep water shielded and away from your chiller. If you touch anything around your mechanicals and controllers, keep your darned hands out of the system. Emphatic enough?

Livestock:

May be collected (check with local law/Fish and Game re licensing/restrictions) or purchased direct from dealers or mail order. Acclimation is ideally the same as for tropicals; dips/baths at least, quarantine at best. Beware of fast changes in temperature, anything more than 5 degrees F. in collecting, moving temperate livestock.

Biological disease is rarely a problem w

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3) Avoid excess, extra twists and turns in your plumbing arrangement. All those tees, elbows, couplings, gate valves... anything that restricts flow is to be reduced to a minimum. All such impediments reduce flow, add resistance to your pump, increase the cost per unit flow.

Through-Put Fittings:

Call them Bulkhead Fittings, Gas-Jacket/Spa Fittings, Through-Hull Fittings... these are all plastic devices fitted through holes in tanks that allow (slip and threa

with or without a source of beneficial microbes, C) And/or some "food" as a source of decomposing ammonia to instigate bacterial immobilization.

At point "2" enough ammonia is being converted by bacteria that have been intentionally or accidentally introduced to the system to detect the presence of the nitrification product, nitrite. Point "3" denotes the beginning of Nitrobacter activity with "4" marking the detectabl

If you do not remove it, it will punctually rot and cause havoc in the tank.

Bettas prefer to eat from the upper parts of the water column. They dont really enjoy eating from the bottom of the tank. So before dropping the food in the tank, make sure you have his attention. Let him see the food, get it close to his face from the outside of the aquarium, let him check out what it is, and then there you go! Drop food in front of his nose. The best way is to drop a tiny bit of food--about 6 frozen brine shrimp, watch the bettas eat it all and then look a

New Corycat Group

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Come one and all, your corycat pics here...

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