freshwater plants

cool lets talk plants for the freshwater aquarium, what is the coolest plant in your own opinion? me i love the red tiger lotus and crpts..

hey james that cryp i got from you today i splitted in two one for the 120gal and one for my cherry shrimp tank and guess what all of the algae is gone from the leaves my small snails took care of that so really it looks nice now, cool thanks again for the plant dude..

I like the Madagascar lace.

Anytime Mike, good to know it got cleaned up for ya
Let me know if you want anything else out of that tank...and BTW I think Red Tiger lotus is one of my favorites...but java moss is by far the most useful IMO

dude my flame moss from thailand is and it is doing nicely

Hook me up with some sometime...I may end up setting up a tank to breed cherry shrimp in...it would fit in there just right ;-)

hey thats not a problem dude i just moved it in the tank to a better location so it should be really sweet here in a few, i have a crap load of babie cherry shrimp and my female is carrying another clutch of eggs..

hey james i am still driving to the shop this thursday and i will bring those 4 keyholes with me make sure tim is cool dude..

I talked to him about them last night and we are green lit! I think I may keep them in the hallway for now instead of moving them to the basement. I have not bred keyholes before...how aggressive do they get when the are defending a spawn (I'm trying to figure out a way to get a pair to work in my 75 plant tank)

actually these fish the keyholes are a pretty timid little fish anything will scare them off into the plants, my cutteri and now the blue acaras are beating them up, they have spawned before and they just seemed to chase off the intruder at about 6 inches from the nest and then they return to the nest but really it is never really aggressive were it will keep going after them to defend the nest and if another cichlid keeps coming at them and will not back off they will let the spawn get eaten, pretty much sissies in all for a cichlid from the amazons there common name are keyholes they attain four to five inches total which is were they are now and are only 2 yrs old for a fish that lives 10 to 15 yrs their scientific name is cleithracara maronii they would do wonderfull in your 75gal at home and they seem to be secret spawners and would do nicely in a tank with tetras and other non aggressive cichlids, and they will fit nicely with the jurarapi they were fine with mine, but if you want to produce some good fry you might need to place them in a tank by themselves, my four have been in the 120gal since they were juvaniles so they only know a bigger tank and i really dont know how well they would do in a smaller system, so i will be at the shop this thursday to drop them off sometime near the openning of the store, cool dude i will talk to you later..

Good times Mike...I'll have to think a little more about what I am gonna do with them then, thanks!

hey james did you ever feed the blue acaras live blood worms before, dude they love it man..

I gave them frozen blood worms a couple of times, not live though. Do you have a steady source for live blood worms???

yep you were right those werent bloodworms they were black worms and i stopped feeding them with those, of corse if you know anyone with live bloodworms let me know or if anyone knows were i can get some bloodworms please let me know..

WILCO Mike...BTW feeding blackworms is a great way to get stubborn fish feeding and I have NEVER had a problem with any disease transmission or anything else from feeding them...I actually kinda like feeding them on occasion.

cool but dude they stink and the fish did love eating them, hey BTW i went to LTFF meeting and joined and i ended up scoring some cool julidochromis marleiri about 6 of them, and some peacocks as well from their auction, but all of the fish are fry and juvies..

Sweet...I will probably start going to some of the LTFF meetings, but they are on the same night as the KHS meetings so I gotta share the love!

yeah what is khs meetings, cool dude that would be cool if you went to the LTFF meets, i seen turtlefag there but i dont know if he stayed or not, they had a cool cory speaker there and dude knew what he was talking about i was very impressed by him and his knowledge, cool i hope you can make the next meeting..

hey james dude my cutteri are trying to mate with the female red points now that would be a funny looking fish, but they are doing fine right now, hey send me a PM with your email and i will send you a photo of this cichlid i got not to long ago it looks like a hybrid fish, later..

That would be an interesting combo...you gots a pm

my cutteri males are huge dude and they are hooking up with the big female red point but the size ratio is still small compaired to the cutteri, BTW when i introduced the red points in the 120gal they automatically started to punk out fish, too funny they are so darn aggressive..