I ran across this great article about freshwater aquarium bio-filtration the other day. It would seem as though, once again, what we took for conventional wisdom in the area of filtering our aquariums was incorrect. I’m starting to believe that the longer I keep fish, the less I really know about it! Continue reading Aquarium Nitrification Revisited
Author: Dennis Ball
Green Water Rack
When I started constructing my current fish room I tried to compartmentalize each rack into a stand alone system. Thinking along those same lines, I constructed a rack specific to green water and other cultures. It’s nothing fancy and fits in well in my “working” fish room. Continue reading Green Water Rack
Devario acrostomus – A Fall Auction Treasure!
Our clubs fall auction was this past Saturday, October 5 2013. It was a great time and the club president reports it was our biggest auction ever. I always have a great time and the variety of fish, inverts, plants and hardware that comes up for auction never ceases to amaze. All that being said, as a keeper of Danios, there is generally not much available in that area to get me fired up. Normally most of the Danios for auction are either my fish, or fish that I am already keeping. Well that certainly wasn’t the case at this auction! Continue reading Devario acrostomus – A Fall Auction Treasure!
Life is good!
The past several days around here have been nothing short of fantastic. First, I get an email from Pete Cottle. As the saying goes, Pete is the man who literally wrote the book on Danios!
Pete is one of my fish keeping heroes, and we have communicated over the Internet for several years now. He is always very helpful and supportive when I’ve had questions or problems. Long story short, I receive his email because Pete was asked his opinion on a Danio breeding problem, and he ask for my opinion as well. Talk about making someone feel good about themselves. Thank you Pete! Continue reading Life is good!
Musing of a fish keeper
Just the other night we had our August club meeting, (C.A.F.E.). Rusty Wessel came up from Louisville Kentucky and gave a talk about “Fishes of the Maya”. Rusty usually brings fish to auction after the talk and this time was no exception.
As I watched all the super cool fish Rusty had brought along being auctioned off, I felt a little down that I wasn’t still keeping cichlids as this was a rare opportunity to acquire some very special fish. I soon found myself reminiscing about fish I have kept over the years and what a fantastic hobby fish keeping truly is…..
As a child, I kept a multitude of “critters” in bottles, jars and buckets. All treasures carried home from streams, ditches and local farm ponds here in rural Ohio. In 1965 I started my “official” fish keeping career as I imagine many 8 year old boys did, with a 25 cent turtle from the five & dime store. Continue reading Musing of a fish keeper