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Happy 2009, everyone!!!
(Lenny & Ray, I’ll post my updates in the morning)
DebR and the Three Goldfish (CB, Lucille, and Raven)

LOL
Darn Lenny! That was our little secret
Happy New Year everyone!
Even Lenny!
-Mike

Uh Oh Mike… your secret is out. You get your Garra Garra pedicure every week at the Lil Tokyo Spa!
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY…. SEE Y’ALL NEXT YEAR!!!!
Lenny Vasbinder Fish Blog - http://GoldLenny.blogspot.com (Links to any articles referenced in above reply are listed on the right side, alphabetically under Labels and also under […]

What size tank? What kind of water parameters?
The Mongabay profile on Swordtails… http://fish.mongabay.com/species/Xiphophorus_helleri.html shows one of the compatible species are loricarids (armored suckermouth catfish with 600 species found in Central and South America… many are algae eaters) http://fish.mongabay.com/loricariidae.htm from 1.5″ Otocinclus affinis to 4″-6″ Dwarf Pleco’s to the 18″-24″ BIG BOY Common Pleco’s.
Many of […]

Otocinclus, select snails, small varieties of algae eating plecos. Oh, check out Garra Garra, I forget how big they get. At the moment the prices on som Garra are high as the West has finally figured out that places like Turkey and Japan use Garra for exczema and other skin issues. They have spas where […]

What would be some good small species algae eaters that are compatable with swordtails?
Thanks
Lisa

Or perhaps the blue moonlight LEDs. I think they would really set the tank off at night…
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Raymond Wetzel wrote:
> Alright, from this we can gather that this is definitely no marking > or color pattern indication of any sort. It would appear to […]

Alright, from this we can gather that this is definitely no marking or color pattern indication of any sort. It would appear to be a wound, probably suffered when the fish ran into an unexpected foreign object (plastic rock or plant) you recently placed in the tank — not that […]

then you could keep the tank in the low 70’s room temperature range without having to buy and run a heater. If you definitely want an algae eater, then you would have to have a heater to at least keep the tank from getting too cool and keep it in the mid-70’s.
i do have a […]

I am in Keyser, West Virginia and it’s been raining all day. Supposed to turn into freezing rain…it’s so cold!
Carol Lynn Cumberland childofgod19832003@yahoo.com
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Lenny I am only 65 miles […]