Aqualand Q&As December 21-31, 2011
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Hi, I have a question on reproducing Amazon sword by seed I have one Amazon sword in a tropical community ten gallon fish tank and it has a bloom stalk growing up and out of the water. I got it at Wal-Mart; I got it because it had a bloom stalk and it had good leaves.There was five or six plecos in that tank I was surprised that they had not skinned it down. I brought it home and so far it's surviving with added salt ( just to help the fish) and no special light and no fertilizer besides fish wastes.Also, is there anything to help the roots do better?
LA
A: Amazon swords reproduce by crown division, seeds, and runners. If your bloom stalk produces flowers, you can fertilize them with a small artist's paint brush. Once they go to seed, you need to scatter the seeds in shallow water. Right now, you can encourage good growth (leaves and roots) by planting your sword in BB-sized gravel. Give it 12 to 18 hours of good light. And feed it a plant fertilizer that contains iron. SeaChem makes some excellent ones. LA
I recently bought two of these snails at a pet store. The other one is identical. The small container is temporary. The people at the pet store said it was a mystery snail.I also gave one of these to a relative. A couple minutes later it was zipping (as snails go) around his five gallon tank. This snails also have a 'scraping' tongue and two antennae. They are about two centimeters long.The reason that I an unsure about what they are is I have never seen them breathe from the surface.
Eric
LA
A crew of these hungry gastropods will rapidly scour an algaefied tank.
A: You have a zebra nerite snail -- one of the best
algae eaters in the world. LA
PS You can find more info at
Zebra Nerite Snails,
I understand that mini-tanks are harder to maintain and, I do not disagree with the facts you have stated. The only reason people have these is so they don't have a ten-gallon tank on their nightstand.The reason I am sending you this website is it has a lot of information on keeping fish and plants in two to four (approximately) gallon containers. It also has information on breeding these fish. yyyy I hope you find it helpful!
LA
Mini-marine tanks at the
Marine Aquarium Conference of North America here
in September.
A: The site you recommended reminded me of the way I used to keep fish when I was a kid -- lots of gallon jars from the nearby rerstaurants. You can't find gallon jars these days. Nano-tanks are gradually becoming more popular, particularly in Europe. The shrimps, mini-fishes, and mini-plants are giving mini-tanks more traction. See Misc Mini-Fishes and the various shrimp pages on our website for more ideas. LA
Hi, My 6 year old is going to be a mommy. She has two black moors in a 10 gallon tank in her room and for the last three months, I have been cleaning the tank out and changing the filter almost every three to four days. It was suggested that we add some mystery snails and a moss ball along with some wisteria. We purchased four snails to help in cleaning the crap from the moors. It wasn't working so I decided to get a more powerful filter. That seems to work, but when I took the canopy off the tank I noticed the clutch of tiny pink eggs at the top of the canopy near the light, How do I take care of these things or should I just let nature take its course and the moors vacuum them up. please help, thanks in advance for your help... and sorry to ask this of you at this time of the year...happy holidays
LA
A: Just let nature take its course. Any attempt to move the eggs usually fails. LA
Hi Larry youmay not remember me but this last summer I sold you a huge plecostomas and trade you a jaguar cichlid for a small parrot cichlid.
A: No prob. I have an empty 20H on the top row. Bring him in any morning before noon. LA
Hello, I was going to add a Mexican petunia to a 2.5 gallon aquarium.I was wondering if they were toxic to fish, I understand they are a bog plants so they are partially submerged.
A: I doubt they would bother your fish. I've
never tried one underwater. Let me know if yours lives.
LA
PS They are illegal in Florida.
hi, my mother bought herself a late christmas present- a lobster for my tank. i've read some rather confusing articles and threads, but I've never gotten a straight answer- wether these things will attack and eat fish. i have considered putting rubber bands around at least one of it's claws, but i have a feeling my mother won't like it. i'm guessing that it has similar temperament to your usual crayfish because as the store guy had it "this guy won't eat nobody" so i'll go for that now, unless you have some uncommon knowledge on this species/variant
LA
A: Probably one of the Australian yabbies. They usually prefer plants BUT I would not trust one of these guys with any fish I wanted to keep. Most crayfish continue eating after you turn their lights out. Most fishes go into a torpid state and are easy prey. Your rubber band solution sounds good (on both claws). LA
Hi! My son got some Christmas money and we ended up going to our local pet shop that we always use and we found this type of lizard/iguana type thingy and it was 15 dollars. So that's what he wanted, well when i told the guy, he said you can have them both for 15, they were givin to me, i don't know what they are but they're in the iguana family. Well i need to know what they are. They act a little strange. One has a fin on the back of it's head and i believe that one is female and the other one is a male. The one acts like he's guarding her all the time. At night the fin one sleeps in it's box house thing and the other one stays their all night guarding her standing outside the box. If it's preganant, i need to know what species these are. They're both a little different. One has a fin on the back of head and white stripes, the other one has neither but both have the same spotty tails. They're very very long. The tails are very long and there feet are long. Both are about sixteen or more inches long. One with the fin is very jumpy and the other one is very mellow. I hate to bother you but i've been googling all day, your website was very knowledgable, so i called to get an email adress, figured i could send pics. I live in SC or i'd bring them to you lol. I wanted to know the species so i could get info on them, and find out if these might be young one's and they'll get bigger, and if you could tell if they're male or female. Also i have the normal concerns. get a cage? Have a bowl of water for them to swim in? Heating mat under there tank? Is a glass tank okay? Stuff like that. I hate to bother you but i appreciate your time soooo much. I have attached pictures. Oh and you can see the bag in one of the pics, i picked out this sand cause it was pretty lol. Well i have the normal brown sand in the tank, and added some of this not knowing it was like some calcium sand, is that okay to have a little bit of that with them? Thank you!!
MW
LA
A: You have a brown basilisk, Basiliscus basiliscus. Your shop owner probably said he was an iguanid -- a large group of lizards. Basilisks are omnivores. The male has a crest on his head. LA
Hi do you have a list of pets available? looking for Tarantula's and spiders.
A: No. We don't ship any critters so we don't keep a list of what we don't ship. If you're in our area, give us a call (515 283-0300) and we'll tell you what tarantulas we have in stock. LA
A: Check around and see if you can get a part-time job or internship with your local fish store. You can probaby coordinate with your school and get course credit for it. Actually, I do notify you of the new pages at the bottom of my home page. It looks like this:
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Oh! I thought you just meant free shipping. That is very generous of you! With the holidays and everything, they'll probably just sit in campus mail until they hatch, so I'll just give you my personal address: yyyy
Again, thank you so much! And sorry for the late reply. Between the holidays and all the end of the year paperwork at the lab, I've fallen behind on returning emails. Happy (early) New Year!
A: Okay. I'll mail the eggs to you tomorrow. LA
Teresa
Bowlin, Des Moines, IA, December 30, 2011
Larry, Attached to this e-mail you will find a
Memorandum of Agreement. Iowa Comprehensive
Human Services (ICHS) has operated the Workforce
Investment Youth program for many years and
through those years, I have worked with you and
your organization through this grant. This
upcoming year, we need to reapply for these
funds and would appreciate your commitment to
continue working with us.
I would have rather met with you individually,
but due to the holidays and the time constraint
of the proposal being due the last week in
January, there is no time to spare. I would
appreciate your reading over the MOU and if you
have any questions about it, please do not
hesitate to call me at yyy or Cheryl at the
office at yyy.
I appreciate all the help that you have given me
and the help that I have been able to give to
the youth that you serve. I hope we can
continue this in the future.
The MOU can either be e-mailed back to me, or
faxed to our office at (515) yyy by no later
than Monday, January 16th.
A: I'll FAX it to you tomorrow. LA
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