Recent content by knifegill

Re: Here's one for you meat eaters. You're a meat-eater, too. You just happen to be a malnourished one.

I have a lineage like this! It's a snakeskin/magenta amalgam. Mine throw neon green, purple and blue gups, along with bits of tequila sunrise and a sort of coral rose hue. Yeah, they mutts - but the prettiest guppies I've ever seen! Mine happened When I put a frosty pink/coral male from...

Re: Rescued raphael catfish..Questions. Happy to say his bones look well-formed and the eyes are normally cloudy for the species. He looks amazing. Their incredibly slow metabolisms are beneficial in small quarters. Time and time again I've seen huge raphs come out of small tanks no worse for...

Still no love for giants around here that I know of. I did buy a betta pugnax...

Keep alone, with other hardwater or brackish fish, or with unrelated livebearers. They like brackish, hard water - like most livebearers. Add a tiny bit of sea salt (you won't need much!) and some crushed coral in small quantities to bring up the hardness. Be certain, beyond certain, that there...

Lost my platysilurus mucosus. :( Don't even know why, just found him floating.

My biggest is only my Oscar, he's about 13". But if my adonis grows out to what they say, he'll eventually be a monster.

I can use free feeders for my axolotl. Let me know by PM if you want to send some my way. :D

Re: guppies NOT breeding Usually more water changes and some calcium carbonate or sea salt will get them spunky again.

I used to be a purist. Now I'm bored. Going to try to produce some Blue Galaxy cichlids, someone's name for Texas x Dempsey...

Epic! Mine lives alone, I should get him some friends...as soon as I have the space. :(

No, it's normal. My Oscar often only uses one gill at a time as well.

Really? Mine barely fight. I pick them right up with my hand most of the time.

One for fun: Orinocodoras eigenmanni with p. armatulus- You'll have to log into MFk to see it.

Males have a lot of spines of their fins and are narrower.