professorminh

I tried to find it in my local grocery store but can't find it... If i know a company's name I can see what grocery market or even hardware store carry their product. thanks.

I have 3 burmese/golden zebra loach and 3 days ago there was only 2... I looked everywhere for the other one (in the filter, outside the tank)... I know the bury themselves sometimes, and I think this one buried himself... But he was gone for 3 whole days. He Didn't even come out for food.

Well he's back and seem a little larger and has a golden hue to him. They're usually beige with strips of course... I can't find any literature in this behavior. Why bury themselves for 3 days and come back more healthy than before?

I checked around the tank, in the filter, and in the aquarium...

I know they bury themselves in the gravel sometimes but for 2 days?

this isn't really a question. I just want to share with you guys. My bettas are mating as we speak. And I saw the female help catch the eggs and blew out a bubble to put in the bubble nest...

this is a holy sh!t moment. Nobdy ever documented the female helping out as well.

this is the longest I've kept a common pleco. I think he's 3 years old and he's growing fast. I think he's 5 inches now and he's hungry. I only feed him 1 algae tablet a day and whatever he can get from left overs from the other fishes ( i don't want him to grow too fast). I recently bought new plants and he's nibbling at it. I removed him to a 10 gallon tank and I might put him back in the big tank when the plants are extablished.

Since in the he's in the smaller tank, he's insanely active (swimming around and digging in the gravel). It seems like he's happier here. I know for sure it has less nitrates... I'm working on the bigger tank.

so I have 2 questions.. How to keep a pleco in a planted tank?

and What's this digging in the gravel?

(he's digging with is tail by moving it really fast).. seems almost like he's making a nest.

I have it lying around and i'm setting it up in a 10 gallon tank.

it sounds like a bunch of clicks. At first i though he was tapping the bowl's wall but I just saw him do it. He's making like he's chewing something. This is the first time i've seen/heard of this. Is this common?

I know live tubifex carries parasites and what not... Does freeze dry one carry them as well?

I fed my fish dried tubifex a year ago and the everybody in the tank got sick and I swore off tubifex but I'm rethinking it now.