Recent content by Big Dave

a place for pets is well worth the trip. Very well stocked, great quality fish, friendly owners. You will not be dissapointed. Prices are the same as other LFS. they all charge a premium to cover overhead.

Ok heres another one that made me laugh. Apparently he ships his fish with Co2 instead of pure oxygen. I wonder how that works out? http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/auction.cgi?fwangelfish&1327501816

I got a chuckle out of this. His Ad sounds very grand, too bad the super senior grandmaster breeder can't spell and ends up looking like a fool. http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/auction.cgi?fwangelfish&1327273058

I used to look like this. But here's a more recent pic......

I've bred alot of stingrays in the past. I don't have any now but I'm thinking close to 25-30 rays. I was the first one to breed histrix in the US that I know of. Lots of fun, but lots of money too. Thats why I don't do it anymore.

hybrids suck. Everytime I see a parrot cichlid I want to pee in the tank.

pull the eggs out after you are sure the male is done fertilizing. the eggs need to be in a small tank like a 5 or 10 gallon. tank with an airstone, an antifungal like methylene blue. 50% water changes everyday. and once they are free swimming about day 7 you should start hatching brine...

If you wrote a thorough professional letter with tons of info about the species and present it to WA fish and wildlife, that may get you somewhere. A few years ago I wrote a paper on stingrays because they were going to make them illegal because they had no info and noticed alot of people...

I'm acquaintances with the head of fish and wildlife enforcement for WA state. A petition probably won't do much because they've already done the research and decided that these fish are a potential threat. All though the fish listed above are illegal in WA state, the likeliness of an...

very nice tank full of cool fish.

africans of some kind

Aquarium Plus in China town has some honduran red points right now.

males = more pointed dorsal and anal fins extending past the start of the base of the tail. Males also have a 2nd or 3rd spike at the front of the dorsal that is elongated but some females have it too. Best way is the fin shape and males will tend to be bigger in size. Females - more rounded...

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I've got a group of L199 and L129 plecos I'm trying to breed. I've got a pair of Uaru that I believe is a male female pair. I've got a few pairs of angels, kribensis and convicts. I'm also keeping a bunch of fish for a friend of mine right now.