Doc4PC2

Does anyone know where I could get a couple of Panda Loaches that

won't cost a fortune?  Some places want 80 bucks to ship to me in

Montana.  I would love to get a pair of Panda Loaches, for my freshwater

fish tank, but not at that cost. Anybody know of a place?

Thanks!

Not,all are large. And you can have one in as small as a 55g. You can keep 6-8 in a 55. I have 20 in a 90 and do fine lol. Only thing you can't really do is have one or 2. They get aggressive best to,have a min of 4-6 the same age.-Chris

You can't keep just one by itself? Why can't you keep just one?

I was just saying on another post, I wish someone would breed a dwarf Discus. You would make a fortune!

I love Discus, but you have to keep a large enough tank for even one, or start with a Julie, and sell it when

It out grows the tank and get another young one, but they grow fairly fast. So a dwarf Discus would be

Awesome! I would love a couple of dwarf Tourquois Discus.

Yeah I thought 10 to15 minutes seemed a little excessive too. I usually boil for three minutes for

Everything, spinich, zuccinni, oak leaves, etc, then let them cool and put them in.

You might think about blue bolts.

I just ordered some Tantora Mulberry leaves that are dried, organic and raw, and it said to boil them 10 to 15 minutes first before putting them in the tank.

Loved that page! Thanks for doing that. I have been looking for what I want to put in my 10 gallon tank. I

want it to be freshwater fish, not shrimp. Just maybe four of them max in the tank. I love those Panda Loaches,

they are very cool. The Zebra Pleco is too.

I wish they made dwarf discus. You would think someone would have breed them by now.

Wow, sorry to hear that, that is a bummer for sure.

U just found a whole new world filled with information, great people, photos, vidoes, and

the place to be for everything shrimps, and aquatics! Welcome!

I haven't a clue one yet. I just have the tank, and wanted to look at different designs ideas. It is a regular Marineland 10 gallon Glass Tank.

I made a sliding glass top for it, and I have a nice light for it, but that is as far as I have gotten. I am starting from scratch on the design

of the inside of the tank, and was just wanting to know if anyone has some great ideas on how to landscape it and design the inside

of the tank.  The link that Pika left was good, but I was wondering if there was a place with lots of different ideas to look at?

Okay, I will have to try that for sure. Where do you get these Mulberry leaves from Ebita Breed?

Nope. Even with the cheap white led strip, you still get the hair algae. Sorry, but I

have the cheap white led strip light, and I still get hair algae. I got rid of the light,

and went to a different LED Light with night and day lights.

Very cool, that will look awesome!

Does anyone know of a good site that shows off different tank designs?

I have a Marine 10 Gallon tank that I am starting from scratch, and am

trying to decide how to design it. So I want to get some good ideas,

and maybe see some other tanks and what they look like.

Han gave me a sample called Cheeseburger with one of my orders. I don't know if it is the Kukki you are talking about though.

But the Shrimp didn't seem interested, and you have to be very careful when you take it out of the tank, or it will fall apart

and spread uneaten food all over. It won't stay in one piece when you take out the uneaten food. I always take the uneaten

food out, if it is not eaten within three hours, four, max.  So, you have to have tweezers and a net right next to it to get the

Cheeseburger out, or it will break apart and spread all over the tank.

It also may not have been the Cheeseburger food too, as they don't seem to be interested in eating much of anything I put

into the tank right now. They seem content to eat the biofilm, and Indian Almond Leaves. They love the Indian Almond Leaves.

They will eat it until there is nothing left except the skeleton. They don't like the fallen Oak Leaves as much as the Indian Almond

Leaves, but they eat it, but not like they eat the Indian Almond Leaves. I wonder what other kinds of leaves they would love that

as much as the Indian Almond Leaves? I have only tried the Oak Leaf and IAL.

Saw five fry today. They are six days old now, and are starting to move around a little more.

The Momma was a SSS CRS, and I notice, I have a couple of SSS fry, and some lower

grade fry too. The color isn't very red on some, and on others, it is very red?

Yeah, for freshwater, I would have to say Discus. Their are some with some

pretty impressive colors.  Same water parameters as some shrimp, only the

temp has to be a lot warmer for Discus.

Even thought they are two sections over with dividers, and fry proof stainless steel mesh over the dividers in each section?

Do I still need to have sponges on the intakes? They would have to suck up the fry from two sections over? Would they

be powerful enough to do that?

Thanks for your help.

I have a small UV Sterlizer, and a Aqua Powerhead 50 with the water polisher Filter in the middle media section of my main 48" long shrimp tank.

I usually will run them for a couple a of days to three days max, at least once every two to three weeks.

But I have fry in the left end section, which is two sections down from where the media and filters run.

So, I was wondering what others think, if it is still okay to run the UV sterilizer and water polisher filter like normal with the fry being down at the end?

Or should I not use them at all with the fry being in the end the section?

The tank sections have dividers and fry proof stainless steel mesh over the dividers to separate each section ( see my main tank journal in my gallery).

But, I am just unsure if I should use the power head and UV sterilizers at all in the tank?

Thanks, Doc

I'll have to look that up.

I have a few Whispers, but it is the luck of the draw with those. Some are quiet, some are not, and

it you put towels and things like that over them and under them to quiet them down, they will burn

out fast, because they are not getting any air flow. A couple of the quiet Whispers that I have are not

so quiet, but then a couple others that I have are perfectly quiet.  So you got me....

It works great. No squeak anymore!

Thanks everyone, great info!

I am redoing a 10 gallon tank completely. I used white distilled vinegar and water to clean the glass inside and out, and

rinsed it really well, with RO water, and let it dry. The tank looks new.

I think I will try the peroxide and RO water to clean the Malaysia drift wood.

I use the Danner AP - 8

It has four outlets, and it can go from loud to quiet. But I have found a setting that

gives me the power to run all that I want, and it is very quiet. I do have it sitting on

a couple of small cloths with the nothing on the top of it, and air flow going under

it too. I think you can see in my main tank journal gallery. On the lower settings,

it is super quiet.

Tons of great info. The life span really took me by surprise. I had no idea they could live as long as 10 years or more.