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Lotsa new fish!! | 17 comments (17 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
Play nice or else... (none / 0) (#4)
by unclescott on Wed Sep 10, 2003 at 04:09:43 PM PST

Congratulations on the new members of the community tank. Sounds like a neat tank.

Not much I can add to the above. :) The mollies can and should pig out on veggies, as you probably know. If they get woozy, a little salt doesn't hurt. They also sometimes don't do well with the crowding we get away with while keeping other livebearers. Doesn't sound like an issue in your aquarium.

Neons and cardinals are mostly carnivores. They will eat most standard offerings so you don't have to start raising fruitflies. ;)

Neons do come from about a 1000 miles upstream from the cardinals. Their waters tend to be "whitewaters" which have a little mineral and fairly neutral chemistry (in case you want to breed them.) They prefer water in the low 70s and may need more food at higher temps.

Cardinals (when they can be found anymore) come from much warmer (80 ish) waters which tend to be those notorious black waters of the Rio Negro system. They actually make pretty good companions for discus (so long as they aren't bite sized.)

We adopted a cardinal which was 6 + years old when we got it (and the 55 that came along with it). It lived a couple more years after that!

I probably should have gotten it a half dozen cardinal companions. At the time cardinals were coming in with really nasty diseases. I didn't want to set up a quarantine tank for them.

Your tank temp, like all community tanks, will be a compromise. You probably already are doing this. As you inch down from 80 degrees F. to the middle 70s watch the cardinals and mollies. Black mollies are about the touchiest of commercial livebearers.

Even when I raised enough mollies to swap for fishfood at a local shop, if the mollies' temperature dropped too low, they got pretty little white spots all over their previously spotless bodies. :(

All the best,
Scott the laconic

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Scott the "laconic"? (none / 0) (#9)
by guppygirl on Thu Sep 11, 2003 at 12:44:15 PM PST

NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But you do love getting me to look up them words,
don't cha?
That's OK, I love to ameliorate my lexicon!!!
;-)


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Lessee .... ameliorate... (none / 0) (#11)
by unclescott on Thu Sep 11, 2003 at 04:22:16 PM PST

wasn't that a popular French movie from a year or so ago. ;)

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i need a dictionary (lexicon?) (none / 0) (#10)
by parttimer on Thu Sep 11, 2003 at 04:14:56 PM PST

scott i'm getting rid of emperor and lemon tetras, if you want them you can have them. this offer comes with free shipping. or anyone else in chi. area.

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Which Scott? (none / 0) (#12)
by Scott Lockwood on Thu Sep 11, 2003 at 05:49:50 PM PST

I'll take them!  Aren't you local?  :-)

"I love to visit PetSmart's Tropical Fish Dept. to see what new diseases are around today." -- inkmaker
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yes you (none / 0) (#13)
by parttimer on Thu Sep 11, 2003 at 08:35:19 PM PST

yes local

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What are you doing Saturday (none / 0) (#14)
by Scott Lockwood on Fri Sep 12, 2003 at 04:47:40 AM PST

after say 3pm? I get out of Cisco class at 2:30pm.

"I love to visit PetSmart's Tropical Fish Dept. to see what new diseases are around today." -- inkmaker
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sounds good. (5.00 / 1) (#15)
by parttimer on Fri Sep 12, 2003 at 03:39:05 PM PST

let me know.

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Cool. (none / 0) (#16)
by Scott Lockwood on Fri Sep 12, 2003 at 04:59:24 PM PST

Email me your phone number?  email me at scott@guppylog.com

"I love to visit PetSmart's Tropical Fish Dept. to see what new diseases are around today." -- inkmaker
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Temp (none / 0) (#6)
by Scott Lockwood on Wed Sep 10, 2003 at 06:34:23 PM PST

Yeah, we're hanging around 78 or so... Seemed like a fairly good compromise. :-)

Will Neon's and Cardinal's cross?

"I love to visit PetSmart's Tropical Fish Dept. to see what new diseases are around today." -- inkmaker
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neons (none / 0) (#7)
by parttimer on Wed Sep 10, 2003 at 07:42:39 PM PST

i don't think so, but neons like slightly acidic water to breed.

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