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  1. dSerk

    Vacating Apt, Need Home for Severum, Tanks, Eheims, et al.

    Falls Church, VA on the 5th floor of apt building. PM for more details. 3/4 Eheims may be taken. I'll try and keep the thread up-to-date.
  2. dSerk

    Vacating Apt, Need Home for Severum, Tanks, Eheims, et al.

    I cannot guarantee she won't prey on the tetras. I'm fairly certain she ate some pencil fish many years ago. The three Eheims are ready to go but the 4th is being employed. I guess let's start with a PM. (Sorry, been off the forums for a long time.) -d
  3. dSerk

    Vacating Apt, Need Home for Severum, Tanks, Eheims, et al.

    Falls Church, VA On the 5th floor of an apartment building. -d
  4. dSerk

    Vacating Apt, Need Home for Severum, Tanks, Eheims, et al.

    Hello, I'm leaving my apartment and can't can't the fish stuff with me. Here's a run-down: - Rotkeil Severum, about 100 years old, female. She just laid eggs a couple weeks ago, however she's not in prime health. - two 75 gal. tanks with stands - one working Eheim and 3 more probably working...
  5. dSerk

    Not prepared for the storm

    Thanks everyone and apologies for the extra thread. I live in an apt so a generator is probably not plausible, but I am going to get a couple battery powered air pumps for next time. Because there's going to be a next time. In the end I lost only 3, 2 juvies and an adult I'd had for 2 years. I...
  6. dSerk

    Not prepared for the storm

    Howdy, y'all. I haven't had power since Friday night. My fish are dying and I really don't know what to do. I've lowered the water and pulled out floating plants and tried to do some meager water changes. I've lost 2 juvenile Chuco and an adult Thorichthys I've had for two years. The water has...
  7. dSerk

    Fish Species Diversity FW/SW

    http://www.livescience.com/18360-ocean-fish-diversity-extinction.html Pretty interesting. I've often wondered about diversity in sw vs. fw.... every little stream in the Amazon has it's own species, are ocean reefs the same? The authors point out that populations' ranges are less restricted...
  8. dSerk

    Thorichthys maculipinnis tryin' so hard

    "Disbelief".... sorry was channeling Bush for a minute there. OT: how does one edit his post?
  9. dSerk

    Thorichthys maculipinnis tryin' so hard

    :love0030: Thank alot guys. Really, means alot having this brain-trust to turn to. There's gotta be 500+ person-years of fish-keeping experience in this club. I am not worthy. Just having experienced folks to calm ME down is great. She looks like she's ok tonight. Added some table salt (maybe a...
  10. dSerk

    Thorichthys maculipinnis tryin' so hard

    Considering the source I'm sure this is sound advice, but table salt? Like Morton's "When it rains, it pours?" A HANDFUL?! For five gallons? Seriously? I think I'm too chicken to try! That's enough to kill many amazonian fishes right? But CA cichlids will be ok? No offense intended, i'm just...
  11. dSerk

    Thorichthys maculipinnis tryin' so hard

    Thanks Matt. She's alive, upright today. Going to change a little more water for her and keep her in the bucket till I get home tonight 'bout midnight. Salt does not mean table salt, right? Never looked into this.... She didn't look injured. Her tail looked a little milky; her gills looked a...
  12. dSerk

    Thorichthys maculipinnis tryin' so hard

    Got home about 3am from a late session at work to find Mom belly-up in midwater but still breathing. She'd been hiding yesterday and today. I didn't think anything was wrong. I've moved her to a 5 gallon bucket with half tank water, half fresh, and half a cap of prime. I set an airstone with a...
  13. dSerk

    Thorichthys maculipinnis tryin' so hard

    Maybe. Just around the time when Fran made her original post the female was laying more eggs. A weak effort. Only about a dozen total. She'd lay a few, fan them and go swim over to the male, come back fan some more, repeat.... He showed no interest in "gettin' down" or even fanning them. After...
  14. dSerk

    Male Nic hump

    Literally overnight? BTW, what's the full name? I don't know "nic"...
  15. dSerk

    Thorichthys maculipinnis tryin' so hard

    Maculipinnis and ellioti are the same (as far as BAP is concerned at least). They seem to have about as much diversity from population to population as any other CA cichlid. The LFS sold them as "Elliot's Cichlid." Dogofwar informed us they are synonymous. Whatever had gotten into them seems to...
  16. dSerk

    Thorichthys maculipinnis tryin' so hard

    First pic is from first day, iirc. Two days later all were white. This was their second attempt. It was roughly twice as large as their first. I think that's Mom on the right and Dad above to left. Hard to tell. Dad's just beginning to get a hint of nuchalhump. Dad's coloring is bright but...
  17. dSerk

    Thorichthys maculipinnis tryin' so hard

    I picked up 3 juvies from the LFS over the winter and they're all about 3" SL now. Two have paired off and (against my wishes) are attempting to make some babies and failing. I've had them in a planted 10gal and just haven't had the time to make space for them in a bigger tank. But no, they just...
  18. dSerk

    New Tank

    First, because the wood was not sinking. I had to use rocks to keep them down. Second, I kinda like the wood sticking out of the tank. I like stuff coming out of the tank. I thought they'd provide support for some emergent plants, though I think my aptartment air is too dry. In the future I may...
  19. dSerk

    New Tank

    New Tank - Complete This past weekend I picked up some Discus from Discus Hans, so I guess that my "New Tank" is now complete.... no more plans on adding fish or plants. A school of tetras or pencilfish which my Severum will not eat would be nice, but I can wait for the "right fish" to turn up...
  20. dSerk

    Has anyone seen my Pencilfish?

    Dumb, too. :p I couldn't resist, plants have always been part of my tanks. Original plan was put them all in pots then remove pots when fish start to anatagonize the plants. Well, I was so happy with the aquascape I decided to skip the pots. So far, the severum and festivum have only showed...
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