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STEP 1: Conditioning a pair for spawning

When conditioning a pair, feed a variety of foods - many live and frozen foods. Every day, or every other day, water changes in the container are a must, as more and better foods, together with lots of clean water, helps to get a pair into condition to spawn. Condition a pair for no less than a week, and two weeks or more if they have just recently arrived via a shipment or i

As the temperature goes up so levels of dissolved oxygen go down so the first thing to do is increase aeration/water movement. Temporarily reducing your lighting (quantity and/or duration) will help reduce heat, but is obviously not a long-term solution. If you have covers on your aquarium remove them and install a fan so it blows along the surface of the water. This "evaporative cooling" is probably the most cost effective form temperature reduction. The high cost option is to go for a heat exchanger or chiller. A heat exchanger sho

Anchor Worm or Lernaea - Symptoms: An ulcer develops where the worm attaches; secondary infections may also occur around that point.

Bacterial Infections - As bacterial infections usually are due to poor water quality, it is imperative to first remove the primary cause. It is also important to remember that true primary bacterial infections are relatively rare, while most often problems are due to water quality or parasites.

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Moving need suggestions
Ok so the house is up on the market and I have to start finding a way to move he tank with the least stress on the animals. Any suggestions on moving would be great. I have fish rock and corals to move. Let me know Matt.

hi from discus breader in Portugal

VITOR HUGO QUARESMA posted a new topic:

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I hope you like my pictures from last 19 years breading discus . In this time i work in Brasil to bread wild discus from amazonia .
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Shelldweller from Lake Tanganyika

Lamprologus ocellatus

There are several species of shelldwellers in lake Tanganyika, but this one is definitely my favorite, Lamprologus ocellatus. Shelldwellers are maybe not the most colorful fish form the lake but t.

prob with my tang
recently i purchased a powder blue tang while i already had a sailfin in my 55 gallon i had once before adjusted two fish to each other and thought i would give it a try. well about three days into the venture my powder blue was being harrassed by the sailfin tang. shortly after he developed ich....