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verage only lives a few weeks? How about consideration of the "cost" to the environment of its collection?

My beef here is the issues of:

1) Offering inappropriate specimens that have little chance of living any quality of life for any quantity of time, &

2) The taking of these more challenging species from the wild,

3) Loss of "beneficial" species from the wild, and

4) The gall, greed and ignorance of mis- and lack of information that produces and perpetuates this activity.

Is this a big deal? I think so. Ther

It is critical to understand the relationship between your livestocks 1) Initial State, 2) Suitability of the Environment youre placing it in and 3) Pathogenicity, or degree of infectiousness of disease-causing organisms.

Towards the ends of fostering understanding regarding the relationships between these sets of factors Id like to introduce a model popularized by the late Dr. Stan Sniezsko:

The three interlocking circles symbolize the interrelationship of these factor groups. All conditions of health/disease are environmentally mediated. Indeed, an organisms "life-state" is the manifestation of agreement between itself an

The fry will not need feeding at this time, as they will be three or four days consuming their egg sac, but by the ninth day they should be fed on infusoria, and later as they begin to swim more freely they should be fed newly hatched brine shrimp. Eggs that turn white are unfertilized, and if all your eggs turn white, then you either have an immature pair, or the male is sterile. If spawning indoors in a tank, it is best to remove these fungused

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This tidbit I recieved in the mail today was too good not to share. Mark Shoemaker and Esther Baum wrote these great 10 step do it yourself instructions for creating an....

Reply to Need more fishy advice please

julesangel posted a reply:

hi guys...
since you all wrote that....

ive cycled water, tested ph again ..tried nearly everthing you al suggested(thanks by the way)

Iv.