February 21-28, 2007 questions you asked Aqualand

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Mike McGinley, Johnston, IA, February 21, 2007
Hey Guys, I bought some "mature" marigold platys from you a few weeks ago, and I'm now swimming in healthy 3-4 week old platys. They are a mix of marigold, salt and pepper, and sunbursts. I don't have room for them, and I'm not asking anything for them. I'd rather give them to you to sell to other hobbyists rather than off them or feed them to Zed the painted turtle. Let me know what you think.

A: Sure, bring them on in. We'll put them in a "kids' tank" at a very reduced price. LA

Jose Zamora, Santa Cruz, CA, February 21, 2007
Hello I have a 20-inch red-tail catfish in a 150-gallon tank. After I fed him last week, he now floats upside down. I physically turn him over right side up, but it doesn't last long. Is there something wrong with him? Any help will be greatly appreciated..

A: If he swallowed an air bubble, he'll probably pass it. If he has an air bladder problem, the outcome is less sanguine. As far as I know, there's nothing you can do for his air bladder problem (or air bubble problem). Hopefully, the problem will correct itself. LA

Stephen Burd, February 21, 2007
Hi Larry, I spoke with Michael the other day and he said you might be able to identify the exact type of tree frog that we have. I don't know if the attached picture is in focus well enough for you to see her details. I'm still new with close-up shots, actually, I've never had the need to learn until now. But let me know if you can identify her. Thank you,

A: Far as I can tell, it's a white's tree frog aka Dumpy tree frog. They come from Australia. LA

Sarah Taylor, Orange, CA, February 21, 2007
RE Bass letter February 20
Oh man. I didn't know they grew so large.. I was thinking cichlid
size, but I'm not much of a fisherman. I have two very poor pictures
of this particular fish on the second page of my album, here:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2006516&l=20131&id=74500810
Think you could possibly tell if it's a smallmouth or a largemouth?
Although I'm sure it's hard to tell with such a small specimen.
If you want to use any of those pictures (there are a few good ones,
particularly of the newts) feel free. And if you notice the eel, you
may recall I asked you a question about him (or her) last month or
something. It's eating in mass quantities now, thank goodness.
BTW: I'm a biology student here in California, and I'll be specializing
in fish and amphibian studies. I hope to be an aquarist... I don't
hope to be rich. I'm known as the "fish lady" where I work, a little
petstore. In the past week, I've begun making concise information
charts for every fish/reptile/small animal/bird in stock.. I suppose I
care more about education than sales. They always threaten to fire me,
haha!

A: I couldn't tell what type of bass from the angle of your picture. The easiest way to tell a largemouth is the way his mouth comes back past his eye -- thus the name LARGE mouth. LA

David Chau, Canada, February 22, 2007

My 55 gallons tank has been up and running for almost a month now. I notice that there are white spots on the walls of the tank but not on the fish. Are those ich?

The water temperature is at a constant 30 C. Water is replaced every week at 25%. Food is fed once a day. Filtration system is a Cascade 700. Regards,

A: Ich is a parasite that lives on fish -- not on aquarium walls. One possibility is nerite snail eggs. That's purely a guess, but it's definitely not ich. Your 30 C sounds awfully warm for most fishes. I'd gradually lower it to 25 C. LA

Tammie Smith, Australia, February 22, 2007
I was just looking at the site on jaguar cichlids. In my tank I have a jag and a flower horn royal degree, both very large. When I first put the royal degree in, the jag being a female followed him around like they wanted to mate and they did as I have hundreds of fry now. Really looking forward to see what they look like. Have you ever heard of a flower horn and jag having fry?

A: Lots of our American cichlids will cross. And the progeny are rarely mules (sterile). We've been seeing more and more of these lately. In fact, I picked up four different crosses at our last local fish auction. Some people do not approve of these crosses. Myself, I like the attractive one. Unfortunately, most fall into the "bait" category. Your progeny will probably be 50% trimaculatus X jaguar and 50% gold severum X jaguar. At the very least, they should be interesting. LA

Luigi, February 22, 2007
Hi, I was referred here from someone on cichliddepot.com. He said the person in charge of Aqualand Pets Plus is knowledgeable and probably would return my email.
I am going to buy a 125 gal tank, and I don't know what I can do with it. I have an idea, but I don't know if it will work or if I will have enough
room. I plan on for now:
1 jack dempsey (this is the main fish I want)
1 firemouth
1 convict
I plan on adding some dithers and targets, but I would like at least 1 more
fish the jack's size and aggression level, so they can challenge (keep active)
each other. But I don't know what without a real brutal outcome. Also another 1 the convict's size if possible. Here is a list of some fish I have been told to consider:
jewelfish (I know they come from Africa, but I'm told they will still get along well with these fish),
salvinii,
rainbow cichlid,
green terror,
red terror,
Texas cichlid,
chocolates,
severums
jurupari
I do not want to breed in this tank. I'd like any advice on these fish or any other compatible ones. Plus how many large ones and smaller ones can I fit in? I just want to do this tank right. Thanks.

A: There is no one right way to populate your tank. There will be arguments. There will be casualties, but in a 125 you can add fish that would quickly kill each other in smaller quarters. Your chances of success go way up when you start with younger fish about the same size. Add plenty of caves, crevices, and crannies for the shyer personalities, and driftwood, and cichlid-proof plastic plants. All the ones you list will get along most of the time -- especially if you have only one of eaxh species. Keep in mind that convict cichlids are at least twice as big as they measure. And when they spawn, they're about four times as large. LA

Kurtis Stockdale, Ames, IA, February 22, 2007
I was wondering if it is possible for a female Jewel fish to spawn with a male green Severum. I have a 75 gallon aquarium with 3 tinfoil barbs, 2 convicts, 2 green severums, a Jack Dempsey (very mellow for a jack), and I recently (last week) added a Reddish Jewel fish into the mix. The jewel's belly had been getting large, and tonight I just saw that she is now guarding a patch of eggs, and one of the severums is constantly staying nearby and the jewel doesn't mind it. However it chases all other fish away. The jewel had also been hanging around with both of the severums previously. The jewel and the severum seem to be acting like the convicts when they spawn.
I find this very interesting, because the jewel is from Africa, and the
severums are South American. I will probably pull the eggs out tomorrow, and see if they survive, or if the jewel had been carrying the eggs from when she was in a tank with other jewels.
I have found your site very knowledgeable in the past and often refer my friends to it when they have questions about fish, so I thought that you might be interested, or have a comment. Thank you for your time.

A: Jewels, severums, and convicts practice very similar spawning rituals. I would not think the jewel would cross with the others, but you are looking at the eggs. Since the other parent is not closely related, I'd expect the fry will not be fertile. But, who knows? LA

Mickey Campbell, February 23, 2007
Hey I noticed your web pages about fish and I have been looking at them a
lot... {Specifically blue dragon gobies, bumblebee gobies, ghost shrimp, and
flounders}, I found a seller of Blue Dragon Gobies {before finding your site} and fell in love with them. When I learned that they got along with bumblebee gobies {something I was looking to set up a tank around}, I was... very happy. Anyways....
Now I have a tank with a pvc pipe in it and a goby... with some foods that
the seller said they ate. Problem is it is really skinny. You can see the stomach from its skin, and there are like skin wrinkles on its head. And it's the day after I got him and there is no food touched
I was just wondering if you have any tips, cause they said that these guys
just ate flakes (anything in front of them, like a pleco) and such. {I figured
that they would prefer to eat what was given to them in the store, instead
of what they are -supposed- to eat). Anyways
I was figuring you would be able to help me on what to do. {S}he is about seven inches, really skinny. I just got her home last night, and I am not entirely sure what to do about her feeding. Should I just hope she will eat what the store said it eats? or should I grab some frozen brine shrimp?
Any help is greatly appreciated. And sorry for the bother {sorry for not getting to the point quickly}.
ps: She was moving around a lot when I came in the room today. Also, her fins and gills are a pale white, with red spots. Any idea what this is?

A: Give him/her the frozen brine shrimp or frozen bloodworms now. Live California blackworms would be better. She/he will convert to flakes over time, but she needs the other foods now. Her activity means she's looking for food. LA
PS I can't give you specifics on the red spots. Make sure you add at least one teaspoon of aquarium salt per gallon.

Joey Nordberg, February 23, 2007
I suggest you add a Cuban anole care sheet as they are starting to sell those as they outnumber green anoles. I also hear how they taunt you. A male was two inches from my face then ran over my hand and then just went back to basking.

A: I pre-anticipated your request back in 2005. You can check them out under Knight Anoles .

Vincent J. Sims, Birmingham, Alabama, February 23, 2007
I am interested in ordering some fish from your company,,,,how do I go about doing this??? Thank You…

A: Sorry Vincent. We do not ship fish. LA

Marion Cronen, Niskayuna, New York, February 23, 2007
Hello LA, Hi there. I hope that you can help me with this problem with my angelfish. I bought this pair 2 weeks ago, and to me with their breeding tubes down they look like a male and female. (I've added pics) Someone else on an angelfish forum is saying that they are 2 females. I really don't think so.
Three days after I bought them they laid a small batch of eggs and they both took runs at the eggs. Those didn't make it. And 3 days after that they laid more that didn't make it either. And just yesterday they laid more but ate them all. These 2 are adults as they are bigger than a silver dollar in body size.
All 3 times I've seen them both taking runs at the eggs -- like the female was laying them and the male was fertilizing them right after she laid them.
I hope you could tell me from the pics, if they are truly male and female. Thanks in advance for your help..

A: Excellent photos. I cut them down to show the parts in question. Your deduction seems logical. However, their excess egg production would indicate two females. Still, many angelfish spawns are infertile in their first attempts. Maybe they're still adjusting to their new water parameters and diet. I'd give them another month before I gave up on them. LA
PS Let me know what lens you used to get those pics. Thx

Joey Nordberg, February 24, 2007
RE Feb 24 email
I was talking about the Cuban brown anole instead of those.

A: Maybe I'll do a page. They're awfully similar -- just a bit larger, more aggressive, and hungrier. They're a drab brown with a stripe of black diamonds down their backs. They're hard to catch and they're crowding out the green anoles. LA

Elyse, February 24, 2007
Hello, I am pretty Russian girl, bored tonight.
Would you like to chat with me and see my pics?
If so then email me at _ _ _ _

A: Spasibo for forwarding this to me, Shannon. I've been meaning to brush up on my rooski-isms. LA

Ben Bawden, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Feb 24, 2007
Hi, I work in a fish shop in Australia, I was wondering if you keep Tandanus Catfish ,Tandanus tandanus, in the US? They are quite nice fish and grow quite large. We keep ours in coldwater tanks with Comets; we also recommend them as a great “different” fish for outdoor ponds.
I have one in a 3 foot long by 2 foot high tropical tank, and it is going quite well It is housed with Guppies, a large Male Bristlenose, Angels, a Dwarf Male Gourami, 2 cherry barbs, 2 clown loaches and a pair of rainbow sharks. It does a great job cleaning all the left over foods. And despite their bad reputation, it has only ever taken a few reject neons.
If there is any more questions you have on any Australian animals, Birds, Reptiles, Amphibians, Mammals and Fish I would be more than happy to help you as we also deal in those animals. We are South Australia’s Major supplier of Green and Golden Bell Frogs and Perons Tree Frogs.
Sorry to ask yet another question, but are Australian Freshwater Tortoises available in the pet trade in the US? Cheers,

A: I can't answer for everyone in the U.S., but I've never seen a tandanus catfish or an Australian freshwater tortoise -- even though I've seen Crocodile Dundee twice. I thought it was near to impossible to export Australian critters. Maybe we can get a permit at Smugglers R Us? LA

Ben Bawden, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Feb 24, 2007
As far as I know, we can export Australian fish, just not Mammals, Reptiles or Birds. I will look into it from this side if you would like. There are many Australia Freshwater fish that I believe you would like. Purple Spotted Gudgeons although they are getting rarer are quite nice, but a Murray Cod and Barramundi would be nice.

A: If the purple spotted gudgeons look anything like the peacock gudgeon above, they would make an attractive aquarium resident. LA

Marion Cronen, Niskayuna, New York, February 24, 2007
Hello Larry, Thanks for getting back to me about this. I will have some more patience with them. It was just puzzling me. The lady I got them from said they were male and female. Although like you said the change in water or food could have sparked it, as she was just feeding them I think it was Wardleys flakes. We feed ours Kent fish food, so the Angels were getting Premium soft and moist cichlid pellets with krill to help condition them for spawning. We feed it to our 9 inch Red Devil and she lays eggs every month faithfully. And they were also getting Krill, Plankton, Frozen Blood Worms, HBH Angel/Discus flakes, and Veggie sticks. They both ate really good right from the beginning. They are adults about 2 yrs old, beautiful, and I love them.
I had also gotten 2 baby Blood Parrots a little while ago (they are in a different tank) (we have 13 tanks). About 2 weeks after getting them, they laid eggs that didn't make it as I don't think the male knew what to do (too young). But the change in water sparked them to spawn. They haven't since.
Getting back the angels, after I emailed you the pics last night I went and looked and there were more eggs so I don't get what's going on. It could be 2 females. Although the spawn the other night was just a small one, this was a bigger one.
The camera I used was an Olympus C740 Ultra zoom. I didn't use any special lens for the pics. I just put the camera in Macro mode. The Angels were about 5 inches away from the camera.
Sorry for babbling on here :)
I've attached a pic of the Angels. Like I said, they are bigger than a silver dollar body-wise -- way bigger with the fins.

A: I was noticing a bit of babble working it's way in there. But, thanks for the report. LA

Janice Robertson, Arkansas, February 25, 2007
Wondering if you could help me? I have a (don’t laugh) 14-year-old goldfish that my kid won at the fair when she was 5. He has proven to be resilient as he traveled from So Cal to Arkansas in a 5 gal jug. Anyway, right now he has no appetite. He keeps his nose down towards the bottom like he is looking for food. His poop is very thin and yellow where it used to look like a piece of dark brown rope. And he has what looks like blood under his skin around the gills, but he is not bleeding.
Any idea what this could be?
I changed his water yesterday and there were what looked liked brown fuzzy balls. Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated.

A: First, congratulations on keeping Gaston alive for so long. Second, the brown fuzzy balls are uneaten food pellets growing a bountiful crop of fungus (saprolignia). The blood streaks are from his system pumping blood towards the surface of his body in hopes of finding more oxygen. The uneaten food (actually eaten by bacteria and fungus) is consuming those pellets and sucking oxygen out of the water. Use a Gravel Vacuum Cleaner to get rid of the rest of the uneaten food, cut back on his food, and increase your aeration. LA
PS His age could be contributing to the problem.

Shelby Sherwood, February 25, 2007
I see a pic of a sugar glider on your website. I was wondering if you sold them, and how much? I already have a sugar glider, and am looking for a cage mate. Reply to this letter at _ _ _ _ Thank you for your time,

A: We have sugar gliders from time to time. Their price varies a lot. We have none today. We do not ship. To arrange for us to get one for you, call us at 283-0300. LA

Dave Pepe, Langhorne, PA, February 27, 2007
Afternoon! In your opinion and experience would you recommend sand or gravel for a substrate?
I've heard so many different opinions but would like to know what your experience has proved. Thanks

A: Much depends upon what you use it for. You can't use sand if you want to use an under gravel filter. If you want to grow plants, I'd recommend BB-size gravel. If you use a power filter, you can use any substrate you like the looks of. Sand tends to pack into a solid layer in a fairly short time. It tends to get sucked up into gravel vacuum cleaners. If there were only one perfect substrate with all others being worthless, you wouldn't see row after row of different substrates offered on your dealers' shelves. LA

James from Ames, IA, February 27, 2007
I was just curious if you ever get in any other Lake Tanganyika cichlids besides the ones featured on your website? I was particularly interested in any of the Paracyprichromis species or the Tanganicodus irsacae. Thanks,

A: We've had both the blue flashes and the goby shell dwellers. They're not ones we can get on a regular basis. Are you in the MCA.org? LA

Nick Bachman, Minneapolis, MN, February 27, 2007
Hello. I see that you have Budgett's frogs. I asked if you ever got them a
few months ago, I'm glad to see you now do. Unfortunately, although I still
want one, I am now at college in Minneapolis. Is there ANY possibility that
you would have any Budgett's when I'm on spring break during the last week
of March? I've been searching for budget's for nearly a year, and now
that you have them, I'm so close! Thanks for any info.

A: This was the first time I've ever seen a Budgett's frog in real life. It's easy to see why you wanted one. None of our suppliers listed them. Now all of a sudden, we're finding new suppliers that carry lots of amphibians we've never seen or haven't seen for a while. Hopefully we'll still have one for you in March Call before driving down. LA

Michael Hissom, Wilmington, NC, February 28, 2007
I have a serious question and although I have been keeping and breeding fish, both marine and freshwater, and invertebrates, both fresh and salt for more than 40 years a question keeps coming up that no one seems to have an answer for. The scenario usually goes something like this. A customer buys a fish that in the wild often grows to some outlandish size but when asked the pet store owner will tell the customer that the fish will only grow to the limits of the aquarium it is kept in. This of course allows a fish that is much bigger than the aquarium to be sold. I have been against this practice for a number of years, and seldom buy a fish that will outgrow the aquarium I plan to put it in. Of course this keeps me from buying and keeping some really interesting fish. As a kid I always wanted a Wels catfish or Silurus glanis. Of course I never got one, since I was convinced that keeping a large fish like that even in a 200 gallon tank would be cruel. In the last several years I have encountered something that has made me question this generalization about large fish in a too small aquarium. A few years ago I broke down and rescued an iridescent shark from a twenty high it was being kept in at the local fish store. It was about 12" long and I kept it in my 125 along with several other large and small fish. There was (at some point) several inland silversides, freshwater flounders I raised from fry to become 6 or 7 inches long, a large elephant nose fish, blue spotted sunfish, flag tailed portholes, a rope fish, and a few other nondescript fishes. The shark was in very good shape for its size since most of these fish are so nervous they injure themselves severely when they get large by ramming the sides of their tank. This fish didn't do this and was calm for its species. It never got any larger and lived for five years until an untimely failure of the tank caused it and its tank mates to die. It even lived outside in a yard pond a couple of summers. It was alert, and ate well on black worms and pellets. Why didn't this fish keep growing or at least have failing health from being stunted in the too small tank? The guy who had it before me had kept it in a 55 and had traded it in on some new fish. I have seen several other iridescent sharks since then that were living well at 12" or so in one hundred gallon aquariums. People that I am discussing this with on the catfish forum are quite vocal that a fish that should get large in the wild will not live in captivity without it dying young of stunting and other health issues caused by being kept in a too small aquarium. What is your take on this? Can large fish be kept small by keeping them in a small aquarium without killing them in the process? Was my fish just a fluke caused by a fish that was somehow smaller than it was supposed to be like an albino or some other genetic quirk? You guys have undoubtedly seen many more fish in this situation than I have so what is your verdict?

Michael Hissom
Captive Environments, Aquaculture

A: My verdict, based upon the wisdom of Solomon, is that some do and some don't. We've all seen goldfish that kids win in contests and keep (or their mom's keep) in 2.5 Anchor-Hocking flat fishbowls. I get reports that these comets have survived in these quarters for 5 to 8 years. (Maybe it just seemed that many years?) At the local golf course and park ponds (in the absence of blue herons, channel cats, and raccoons), they'd grow to a foot or more and live beau coup years.
In the 600 gallon pond we used to have in the middle of the room (1,400 gallons per hour waterfall, 50% daily water change, and coin-operated food machines for the kids), we never had an iridescent shark grow over 18 inches. Of course they were competing with koi and tinfoil barbs.
Cindee McDonald reports a 13-year-old at 27 inches in 900 gallons
Lori Clarke reports a 15-year-old at 23 inches in 195 gallons
Lucas Jiang reports that they grow to 7 kilos in 50 x 50 ponds
If you put plastic plants at the ends of their tank, they won't ram the ends.
Anyway, most fish will stunt with minimal problems. You know those sunfishes just get dinkier and dinkier in most ponds and out compete the bass (in the absence of channel cats and rotenone). Those dinky sunfish are not handicapped in any way except size. They just adapt to their environment.
Several of my customers have said the chain pet stores tell them pacús will only grow to 6 inches. It could be to sell more pacús, but more likely it's because they don't know any better. Maybe both. LA
PS You'll still get various opinions, because people believe what they want to believe.

Clara Sánchez, FL, February 28, 2007
Dear Sirs, In order to illustrate an article regarding to Axolotl we would like to publish in our web page some pictures we have seen in your web page http://www.aqualandpetsplus.com/Amphibian,%20Axolotl.htm
If you disagree or, by any circumstance, don't want us to publish these pictures, we hope you will send us an e-mail telling us so, as soon as possible.
We also inform you that, in exchange, at the end of the article, we will set a link to your web page, so as our readers can find out more about this subject.
Best Regrads,
Content Department
Facilisimo.com

A: Sure. You have my permission. Send me a copy of your article in Spanish, if it's not too much trouble. Gracias. LA

Phill Barney, Nova Scotia, February 28, 2007
Are you Canada or USA? Do you ship to Canada?

A: USA. NO. LA

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I'd rather give them to you to sell to other hobbyists rather than off them or feed them to Zed the painted turtle. Let me know what you think. A: Sure, bring them on in. We'll put them in a "kids' tank" at a very reduced price. LA Jose Zamora, Santa Cruz, CA, February 21, 2007 Hello I have a 20-inch red-tail catfish in a 150-gallon tank. After I fed him last week, he now floats upside down. I physically turn him over right side up, but it doesn't last long. Is there something wrong with him? Any help will be greatly appreciated.. A: If he swallowed an air bubble, he'll probably pass it. If he has an air bladder problem, the outcome is less sanguine. As far as I know, there's nothing you can do for his air bladder problem (or air bubble problem). Hopefully, the problem will correct itself. LA Stephen Burd, February 21, 2007 Hi Larry, I spoke with Michael the other day and he said you might be able to identify the exact type of tree frog that we have. I don't know if the attached picture is in focus well enough for you to see her details. I'm still new with close-up shots, actually, I've never had the need to learn until now. But let me know if you can identify her. Thank you, SB A: Far as I can tell, it's a white's tree frog aka Dumpy tree frog. They come from Australia. LA Sarah Taylor, Orange, CA, February 21, 2007 RE Bass letter February 20 Oh man. I didn't know they grew so large.. I was thinking cichlid size, but I'm not much of a fisherman. I have two very poor pictures of this particular fish on the second page of my album, here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2006516&l=20131&id=74500810 Think you could possibly tell if it's a smallmouth or a largemouth? Although I'm sure it's hard to tell with such a small specimen. If you want to use any of those pictures (there are a few good ones, particularly of the newts) feel free. And if you notice the eel, you may recall I asked you a question about him (or her) last month or something. It's eating in mass quantities now, thank goodness. BTW: I'm a biology student here in California, and I'll be specializing in fish and amphibian studies. I hope to be an aquarist... I don't hope to be rich. I'm known as the "fish lady" where I work, a little petstore. In the past week, I've begun making concise information charts for every fish/reptile/small animal/bird in stock.. I suppose I care more about education than sales. They always threaten to fire me, haha! A: I couldn't tell what type of bass from the angle of your picture. The easiest way to tell a largemouth is the way his mouth comes back past his eye -- thus the name LARGE mouth. LA David Chau, Canada, February 22, 2007 My 55 gallons tank has been up and running for almost a month now. I notice that there are white spots on the walls of the tank but not on the fish. Are those ich? The water temperature is at a constant 30 C. Water is replaced every week at 25%. Food is fed once a day. Filtration system is a Cascade 700. Regards, A: Ich is a parasite that lives on fish -- not on aquarium walls. One possibility is nerite snail eggs. That's purely a guess, but it's definitely not ich. Your 30 C sounds awfully warm for most fishes. I'd gradually lower it to 25 C. LA Tammie Smith, Australia, February 22, 2007 I was just looking at the site on jaguar cichlids. In my tank I have a jag and a flower horn royal degree, both very large. When I first put the royal degree in, the jag being a female followed him around like they wanted to mate and they did as I have hundreds of fry now. Really looking forward to see what they look like. Have you ever heard of a flower horn and jag having fry? A: Lots of our American cichlids will cross. And the progeny are rarely mules (sterile). We've been seeing more and more of these lately. In fact, I picked up four different crosses at our last local fish auction. Some people do not approve of these crosses. Myself, I like the attractive one. Unfortunately, most fall into the "bait" category. Your progeny will probably be 50% trimaculatus X jaguar and 50% gold severum X jaguar. At the very least, they should be interesting. LA Luigi, February 22, 2007 Hi, I was referred here from someone on cichliddepot.com. He said the person in charge of Aqualand Pets Plus is knowledgeable and probably would return my email. I am going to buy a 125 gal tank, and I don't know what I can do with it. I have an idea, but I don't know if it will work or if I will have enough room. I plan on for now: 1 jack dempsey (this is the main fish I want) 1 firemouth 1 convict I plan on adding some dithers and targets, but I would like at least 1 more fish the jack's size and aggression level, so they can challenge (keep active) each other. But I don't know what without a real brutal outcome. Also another 1 the convict's size if possible. Here is a list of some fish I have been told to consider: jewelfish (I know they come from Africa, but I'm told they will still get along well with these fish), salvinii, rainbow cichlid, green terror, red terror, Texas cichlid, chocolates, severums jurupari I do not want to breed in this tank. I'd like any advice on these fish or any other compatible ones. Plus how many large ones and smaller ones can I fit in? I just want to do this tank right. Thanks. A: There is no one right way to populate your tank. There will be arguments. There will be casualties, but in a 125 you can add fish that would quickly kill each other in smaller quarters. Your chances of success go way up when you start with younger fish about the same size. Add plenty of caves, crevices, and crannies for the shyer personalities, and driftwood, and cichlid-proof plastic plants. All the ones you list will get along most of the time -- especially if you have only one of eaxh species. Keep in mind that convict cichlids are at least twice as big as they measure. And when they spawn, they're about four times as large. LA Kurtis Stockdale, Ames, IA, February 22, 2007 I was wondering if it is possible for a female Jewel fish to spawn with a male green Severum. I have a 75 gallon aquarium with 3 tinfoil barbs, 2 convicts, 2 green severums, a Jack Dempsey (very mellow for a jack), and I recently (last week) added a Reddish Jewel fish into the mix. The jewel's belly had been getting large, and tonight I just saw that she is now guarding a patch of eggs, and one of the severums is constantly staying nearby and the jewel doesn't mind it. However it chases all other fish away. The jewel had also been hanging around with both of the severums previously. The jewel and the severum seem to be acting like the convicts when they spawn. I find this very interesting, because the jewel is from Africa, and the severums are South American. I will probably pull the eggs out tomorrow, and see if they survive, or if the jewel had been carrying the eggs from when she was in a tank with other jewels. I have found your site very knowledgeable in the past and often refer my friends to it when they have questions about fish, so I thought that you might be interested, or have a comment. Thank you for your time. A: Jewels, severums, and convicts practice very similar spawning rituals. I would not think the jewel would cross with the others, but you are looking at the eggs. Since the other parent is not closely related, I'd expect the fry will not be fertile. But, who knows? LA Mickey Campbell, February 23, 2007 Hey I noticed your web pages about fish and I have been looking at them a lot... {Specifically blue dragon gobies, bumblebee gobies, ghost shrimp, and flounders}, I found a seller of Blue Dragon Gobies {before finding your site} and fell in love with them. When I learned that they got along with bumblebee gobies {something I was looking to set up a tank around}, I was... very happy. Anyways.... Now I have a tank with a pvc pipe in it and a goby... with some foods that the seller said they ate. Problem is it is really skinny. You can see the stomach from its skin, and there are like skin wrinkles on its head. And it's the day after I got him and there is no food touched I was just wondering if you have any tips, cause they said that these guys just ate flakes (anything in front of them, like a pleco) and such. {I figured that they would prefer to eat what was given to them in the store, instead of what they are -supposed- to eat). Anyways I was figuring you would be able to help me on what to do. {S}he is about seven inches, really skinny. I just got her home last night, and I am not entirely sure what to do about her feeding. Should I just hope she will eat what the store said it eats? or should I grab some frozen brine shrimp? Any help is greatly appreciated. And sorry for the bother {sorry for not getting to the point quickly}. ps: She was moving around a lot when I came in the room today. Also, her fins and gills are a pale white, with red spots. Any idea what this is? A: Give him/her the frozen brine shrimp or frozen bloodworms now. Live California blackworms would be better. She/he will convert to flakes over time, but she needs the other foods now. Her activity means she's looking for food. LA PS I can't give you specifics on the red spots. Make sure you add at least one teaspoon of aquarium salt per gallon. Joey Nordberg, February 23, 2007 I suggest you add a Cuban anole care sheet as they are starting to sell those as they outnumber green anoles. I also hear how they taunt you. A male was two inches from my face then ran over my hand and then just went back to basking. LA A: I pre-anticipated your request back in 2005. You can check them out under Knight Anoles . Vincent J. Sims, Birmingham, Alabama, February 23, 2007 I am interested in ordering some fish from your company,,,,how do I go about doing this??? Thank You… A: Sorry Vincent. We do not ship fish. LA Marion Cronen, Niskayuna, New York, February 23, 2007 Hello LA, Hi there. I hope that you can help me with this problem with my angelfish. I bought this pair 2 weeks ago, and to me with their breeding tubes down they look like a male and female. (I've added pics) Someone else on an angelfish forum is saying that they are 2 females. I really don't think so. Three days after I bought them they laid a small batch of eggs and they both took runs at the eggs. Those didn't make it. And 3 days after that they laid more that didn't make it either. And just yesterday they laid more but ate them all. These 2 are adults as they are bigger than a silver dollar in body size. All 3 times I've seen them both taking runs at the eggs -- like the female was laying them and the male was fertilizing them right after she laid them. I hope you could tell me from the pics, if they are truly male and female. Thanks in advance for your help.. A: Excellent photos. I cut them down to show the parts in question. Your deduction seems logical. However, their excess egg production would indicate two females. Still, many angelfish spawns are infertile in their first attempts. Maybe they're still adjusting to their new water parameters and diet. I'd give them another month before I gave up on them. LA PS Let me know what lens you used to get those pics. Thx Joey Nordberg, February 24, 2007 RE Feb 24 email I was talking about the Cuban brown anole instead of those. A: Maybe I'll do a page. They're awfully similar -- just a bit larger, more aggressive, and hungrier. They're a drab brown with a stripe of black diamonds down their backs. They're hard to catch and they're crowding out the green anoles. LA Elyse, February 24, 2007 Hello, I am pretty Russian girl, bored tonight. Would you like to chat with me and see my pics? If so then email me at _ _ _ _ A: Spasibo for forwarding this to me, Shannon. I've been meaning to brush up on my rooski-isms. LA Ben Bawden, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Feb 24, 2007 Hi, I work in a fish shop in Australia, I was wondering if you keep Tandanus Catfish ,Tandanus tandanus, in the US? They are quite nice fish and grow quite large. We keep ours in coldwater tanks with Comets; we also recommend them as a great “different” fish for outdoor ponds. I have one in a 3 foot long by 2 foot high tropical tank, and it is going quite well It is housed with Guppies, a large Male Bristlenose, Angels, a Dwarf Male Gourami, 2 cherry barbs, 2 clown loaches and a pair of rainbow sharks. It does a great job cleaning all the left over foods. And despite their bad reputation, it has only ever taken a few reject neons. If there is any more questions you have on any Australian animals, Birds, Reptiles, Amphibians, Mammals and Fish I would be more than happy to help you as we also deal in those animals. We are South Australia’s Major supplier of Green and Golden Bell Frogs and Perons Tree Frogs. Sorry to ask yet another question, but are Australian Freshwater Tortoises available in the pet trade in the US? Cheers, A: I can't answer for everyone in the U.S., but I've never seen a tandanus catfish or an Australian freshwater tortoise -- even though I've seen Crocodile Dundee twice. I thought it was near to impossible to export Australian critters. Maybe we can get a permit at Smugglers R Us? LA Ben Bawden, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Feb 24, 2007 As far as I know, we can export Australian fish, just not Mammals, Reptiles or Birds. I will look into it from this side if you would like. There are many Australia Freshwater fish that I believe you would like. Purple Spotted Gudgeons although they are getting rarer are quite nice, but a Murray Cod and Barramundi would be nice. LA A: If the purple spotted gudgeons look anything like the peacock gudgeon above, they would make an attractive aquarium resident. LA Marion Cronen, Niskayuna, New York, February 24, 2007 Hello Larry, Thanks for getting back to me about this. I will have some more patience with them. It was just puzzling me. The lady I got them from said they were male and female. Although like you said the change in water or food could have sparked it, as she was just feeding them I think it was Wardleys flakes. We feed ours Kent fish food, so the Angels were getting Premium soft and moist cichlid pellets with krill to help condition them for spawning. We feed it to our 9 inch Red Devil and she lays eggs every month faithfully. And they were also getting Krill, Plankton, Frozen Blood Worms, HBH Angel/Discus flakes, and Veggie sticks. They both ate really good right from the beginning. They are adults about 2 yrs old, beautiful, and I love them. I had also gotten 2 baby Blood Parrots a little while ago (they are in a different tank) (we have 13 tanks). About 2 weeks after getting them, they laid eggs that didn't make it as I don't think the male knew what to do (too young). But the change in water sparked them to spawn. They haven't since. Getting back the angels, after I emailed you the pics last night I went and looked and there were more eggs so I don't get what's going on. It could be 2 females. Although the spawn the other night was just a small one, this was a bigger one. The camera I used was an Olympus C740 Ultra zoom. I didn't use any special lens for the pics. I just put the camera in Macro mode. The Angels were about 5 inches away from the camera. Sorry for babbling on here :) I've attached a pic of the Angels. Like I said, they are bigger than a silver dollar body-wise -- way bigger with the fins. MC A: I was noticing a bit of babble working it's way in there. But, thanks for the report. LA Janice Robertson, Arkansas, February 25, 2007 Wondering if you could help me? I have a (don’t laugh) 14-year-old goldfish that my kid won at the fair when she was 5. He has proven to be resilient as he traveled from So Cal to Arkansas in a 5 gal jug. Anyway, right now he has no appetite. He keeps his nose down towards the bottom like he is looking for food. His poop is very thin and yellow where it used to look like a piece of dark brown rope. And he has what looks like blood under his skin around the gills, but he is not bleeding. Any idea what this could be? I changed his water yesterday and there were what looked liked brown fuzzy balls. Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated. A: First, congratulations on keeping Gaston alive for so long. Second, the brown fuzzy balls are uneaten food pellets growing a bountiful crop of fungus (saprolignia). The blood streaks are from his system pumping blood towards the surface of his body in hopes of finding more oxygen. The uneaten food (actually eaten by bacteria and fungus) is consuming those pellets and sucking oxygen out of the water. Use a Gravel Vacuum Cleaner to get rid of the rest of the uneaten food, cut back on his food, and increase your aeration. LA PS His age could be contributing to the problem. Shelby Sherwood, February 25, 2007 I see a pic of a sugar glider on your website. I was wondering if you sold them, and how much? I already have a sugar glider, and am looking for a cage mate. Reply to this letter at _ _ _ _ Thank you for your time, A: We have sugar gliders from time to time. Their price varies a lot. We have none today. We do not ship. To arrange for us to get one for you, call us at 283-0300. LA Dave Pepe, Langhorne, PA, February 27, 2007 Afternoon! In your opinion and experience would you recommend sand or gravel for a substrate? I've heard so many different opinions but would like to know what your experience has proved. Thanks A: Much depends upon what you use it for. You can't use sand if you want to use an under gravel filter. If you want to grow plants, I'd recommend BB-size gravel. If you use a power filter, you can use any substrate you like the looks of. Sand tends to pack into a solid layer in a fairly short time. It tends to get sucked up into gravel vacuum cleaners. If there were only one perfect substrate with all others being worthless, you wouldn't see row after row of different substrates offered on your dealers' shelves. LA James from Ames, IA, February 27, 2007 I was just curious if you ever get in any other Lake Tanganyika cichlids besides the ones featured on your website? I was particularly interested in any of the Paracyprichromis species or the Tanganicodus irsacae. Thanks, A: We've had both the blue flashes and the goby shell dwellers. They're not ones we can get on a regular basis. Are you in the MCA.org? LA Nick Bachman, Minneapolis, MN, February 27, 2007 Hello. I see that you have Budgett's frogs. I asked if you ever got them a few months ago, I'm glad to see you now do. Unfortunately, although I still want one, I am now at college in Minneapolis. Is there ANY possibility that you would have any Budgett's when I'm on spring break during the last week of March? I've been searching for budget's for nearly a year, and now that you have them, I'm so close! Thanks for any info. A: This was the first time I've ever seen a Budgett's frog in real life. It's easy to see why you wanted one. None of our suppliers listed them. Now all of a sudden, we're finding new suppliers that carry lots of amphibians we've never seen or haven't seen for a while. Hopefully we'll still have one for you in March Call before driving down. LA Michael Hissom, Wilmington, NC, February 28, 2007 I have a serious question and although I have been keeping and breeding fish, both marine and freshwater, and invertebrates, both fresh and salt for more than 40 years a question keeps coming up that no one seems to have an answer for. The scenario usually goes something like this. A customer buys a fish that in the wild often grows to some outlandish size but when asked the pet store owner will tell the customer that the fish will only grow to the limits of the aquarium it is kept in. This of course allows a fish that is much bigger than the aquarium to be sold. I have been against this practice for a number of years, and seldom buy a fish that will outgrow the aquarium I plan to put it in. Of course this keeps me from buying and keeping some really interesting fish. As a kid I always wanted a Wels catfish or Silurus glanis. Of course I never got one, since I was convinced that keeping a large fish like that even in a 200 gallon tank would be cruel. In the last several years I have encountered something that has made me question this generalization about large fish in a too small aquarium. A few years ago I broke down and rescued an iridescent shark from a twenty high it was being kept in at the local fish store. It was about 12" long and I kept it in my 125 along with several other large and small fish. There was (at some point) several inland silversides, freshwater flounders I raised from fry to become 6 or 7 inches long, a large elephant nose fish, blue spotted sunfish, flag tailed portholes, a rope fish, and a few other nondescript fishes. The shark was in very good shape for its size since most of these fish are so nervous they injure themselves severely when they get large by ramming the sides of their tank. This fish didn't do this and was calm for its species. It never got any larger and lived for five years until an untimely failure of the tank caused it and its tank mates to die. It even lived outside in a yard pond a couple of summers. It was alert, and ate well on black worms and pellets. Why didn't this fish keep growing or at least have failing health from being stunted in the too small tank? The guy who had it before me had kept it in a 55 and had traded it in on some new fish. I have seen several other iridescent sharks since then that were living well at 12" or so in one hundred gallon aquariums. People that I am discussing this with on the catfish forum are quite vocal that a fish that should get large in the wild will not live in captivity without it dying young of stunting and other health issues caused by being kept in a too small aquarium. What is your take on this? Can large fish be kept small by keeping them in a small aquarium without killing them in the process? Was my fish just a fluke caused by a fish that was somehow smaller than it was supposed to be like an albino or some other genetic quirk? You guys have undoubtedly seen many more fish in this situation than I have so what is your verdict? Michael Hissom Captive Environments, Aquaculture A: My verdict, based upon the wisdom of Solomon, is that some do and some don't. We've all seen goldfish that kids win in contests and keep (or their mom's keep) in 2.5 Anchor-Hocking flat fishbowls. I get reports that these comets have survived in these quarters for 5 to 8 years. (Maybe it just seemed that many years?) At the local golf course and park ponds (in the absence of blue herons, channel cats, and raccoons), they'd grow to a foot or more and live beau coup years. In the 600 gallon pond we used to have in the middle of the room (1,400 gallons per hour waterfall, 50% daily water change, and coin-operated food machines for the kids), we never had an iridescent shark grow over 18 inches. Of course they were competing with koi and tinfoil barbs. Cindee McDonald reports a 13-year-old at 27 inches in 900 gallons Lori Clarke reports a 15-year-old at 23 inches in 195 gallons Lucas Jiang reports that they grow to 7 kilos in 50 x 50 ponds If you put plastic plants at the ends of their tank, they won't ram the ends. Anyway, most fish will stunt with minimal problems. You know those sunfishes just get dinkier and dinkier in most ponds and out compete the bass (in the absence of channel cats and rotenone). Those dinky sunfish are not handicapped in any way except size. They just adapt to their environment. Several of my customers have said the chain pet stores tell them pacús will only grow to 6 inches. It could be to sell more pacús, but more likely it's because they don't know any better. Maybe both. LA PS You'll still get various opinions, because people believe what they want to believe. Clara Sánchez, FL, February 28, 2007 Dear Sirs, In order to illustrate an article regarding to Axolotl we would like to publish in our web page some pictures we have seen in your web page http://www.aqualandpetsplus.com/Amphibian,%20Axolotl.htm If you disagree or, by any circumstance, don't want us to publish these pictures, we hope you will send us an e-mail telling us so, as soon as possible. We also inform you that, in exchange, at the end of the article, we will set a link to your web page, so as our readers can find out more about this subject. Best Regrads, Content Department Facilisimo.com A: Sure. You have my permission. 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