Tag: Fish Breeding
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Breeding the Banggai Cardinalfish: My Success (And Mistakes)
Some aquarium success articles you see are full of prideful brags. I’m guilty of that myself, from time to time. But when it came to breeding the Banggai cardinalfish, you will see that I got lucky and made lots of mistakes, If you’re interested in following in my footsteps, though, these forgiving fish will reward…
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Plumbing Your DIY Aquarium Rack in Your Fish Room
Once you decide to connect multiple tanks together – either for breeding or to have a sump – you need an aquarium rack. And once you have the rack? It’s time to worry about plumbing. The drains and lines allow you to streamline water flow throughout the tanks and the entire system. Now, you’ve made…
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DIY Aquarium Rack for Fish Room: Design continued
DIY Aquarium Rack for Fish Room: Design Continued This is a partial view of what the DIY Aquarium rack looks like when complete. To protect the wood from water damage, I used a deck stain/paint. I’m happy with the wood protection but do wonder a bit about whether or not it is leaching chemicals. I have…
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DIY Aquarium Rack for Fish Room: Design Continued
DIY Aquarium Rack for Fish Room: Design (continued) This blog post is a continuation of the last entry where I showed you how to build the horizontal shelf for a DIY Aquarium Rack for your fish room. Please note that the horizontal shelf as described in the last post is represented now from the side view in the…
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DIY Aquarium Rack for Fish Room: The design
Over the next few blog entries, I will walk through the steps for a DIY (Do-IT-Yourself) aquarium rack for a fish room. This will allow you to use multiple tanks all linked together to a central filtration and circulation system. It’s a pretty big rack, so you will need some space or even your own…
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Rotifer Culturing at Home: Continous Cultures
Rotifer Culturing at Home: Continuous Culture Set-Up and Protocol Growing rotifers as a continuous culture is easy to do, but requires a small amount of work, almost every day. Unlike batch culturing, where the goal is to culture the most rotifers possible in sequential batches, the goal of continuous rotifer culturing is to create a…
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The Best Book about Breeding Saltwater Fish
Want to know the best book about breeding saltwater fish? Scan a little farther down the page and I’ll show you. The best book about breeding saltwater fish The fourth best book about breeding saltwater fish is… 4. Breeding the Orchid Dottyback: An Aquarist’s Journal, by Martin A. Moe, Jr. Published in 1997, Breeding the Orchid Dottyback:…
