Koi Fish Information Centre

Some breeders/exporters will only sell the male species of fish/critters as a way of trying to hold a semi-monopoly on a species. This was tried with the Red Cherry Shrimp but enough females have been imported into the USA that there many breeders/sellers now. The male of a species are usually the “prettiest” […]

Yes Lenny that is what it looks like. It mostly happens to the larger snails. It is probably like mentioned, the bigger foot making it have more of a suction and the snails being sucked in. I have had to pull the snail (shredded) out of the intake. Not nice believe me. […]

I have lost a number of adult mystery snails to the intake filter. I have a fluval canister on the tank that this happened to and I had to put a sponge pre filter on it to avoid this problem. Pam
To: AquaticLife@yahoogroups.comFrom: alambiet@yahoo.comDate: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 03:00:54 +0000Subject: [AquaticLife] Re: Snail […]

I think something was wrong with that snail… if it actually got stuck on the intake.. or maybe it was just trying to clean the inside of the strainer and got part of it’s foot caught.. like getting a finger caught in a crack and then it started to panic and got sick as a […]

It will be difficult to feed them in a tank with adults. They will be able to find plenty of food in your tank to start, eating the microscopic critters. You can crush your current flake food to a powder so they can eat that as well. The problem is that the fry will be […]

Hah! I must be behind the times…today I found a ½ inch Multipunctata baby swimming around in the 75G. I netted him and he’s by himself in the breeder net in my fry tank for now. Eating NLS Grow formula like a veteran.
Wonder how many others are hiding in the mbuna mouths?
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Planetcatfish says to strip in 2 weeks. I’ll have to remove all rocks and strip all holding females, because I didn’t not see anyone specific pick up the eggs. I can tumble any mbuna eggs that are not free swimming. But I AM curious to see if I got any kitties.
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Okay, GREAT!!! I wasn’t aware of other catfish in the tank. If a few of them got into the mix there’s a good chance you might have S. multipunctata fry soon. Lots of luck with them — wishing you the best of success in catfishin’. They’re gonna have […]

I witnessed my first attempted Synodontis Multipunctatus spawn yesterday, what a surprise!
My Pseudotropheus Demasoni (cichlids) were spawning on the in-tank background near the top when the catfish became interested. The cichlids use the background because the catfish won’t leave them alone on horizontal surfaces, LOL. In spite of that I have plenty of […]