Recent content by keethrax

How does that logical leap work? Sustainable collection and cyanide are two seperate issues. Are you capable of logical connections/rational thought? Heck maybe it's me that isn't, so feel free to explian the connection between the post you quoted and yours.

Since when has naesco let the facts get in his way?

If it's somethign charcoal will fix, a larger water change could help as well (sicne it woudl dilute whateever the carbon would be removing. It would also potentially help several other possibilities. It's amazing how many mystery problems can be postponed or even solved by a bigger water...

since it seems to be affecting the corraline and the clam, I'd double check ca/alk (with new test kits if necessary). Lights are another good point, what type/how old are the bulbs? have you changed the light routine recently? It could alwasy be two seperate problems too that are just...

You want to save them? Don't keep an aquarium. Full stop. If you keep an aquarium you are responsible for the deaths. Deal with it, or get out. Yes the damage to can be limited, but it will still exists even if the fish is captured with zero impact on anyhting else. If you want to treat it as...

So you re-edit it to fit. Maybe that *is* what you meant, but I'm positive I could drag up another instance of you name calling that wasn't mentioned, while Mary gets blasted again and again for blanket statements (possibly unfair) while you can get away with personal directed attacks.

Question: How do you prevent "hardness" creep of your water doign tap water only replacements? IE you lose water, but not the buffering compounds to evaporation. When you add water, you add more of those. Over time this does build up, and does affect plant and fish life. If you change out the...

Yet another bizaree leap of logic. We can tell taht most of the stuff enver makes it into our tanks. All of it, no, nothing's perfect, but we have a darn good idea. Saying that because a measurement isn't perfect it's not of value, and therefore a method that doesnt' use it and just hopes for...

We saw mortalities like that, primarily in the tetra's. And since they made up a very largee proportion of the fish we sold, that probably means it works out about right even though the rest of the species didn't tend to (for the most part) do near taht bad. This was at ta primarily LFS (though...

I opened boxes for a LFS for a while, and it very much depended on the fish. For any of thee big voulme fish it was pretty high. Especailly because you can fit an awful lot of tetras in one box, and small fish tend to (but arent' always) more fragile fish as far as sruviving after the stress...

You don't need the UV unit. You don't need the wet/dry, if that's what the overwlows lead too (I imagine it is), you'll need a sump of some sort, but I'm sure you can get by for less than the cost of the wet/dry. An old/used aquarium works great. Some method of adding more current to the...

If you have enough rock and such it shouldn't be a major issue. If it is, just do lots of water changes tilll its over and you should make it jsut fine.

That's a pretty bold statement. By so claiming, you claim that: a) No water changes should be needed. Because it's easy to demonstrate mathematically that a system of small changes can be jsut as effective as a larger change (providewd you don't mind chanign more total volume) And so if small...

Sure, but that's why many of us who say do smaller changes don't say change the same amount, but rather woudl say do 4 10% ones weekly rather than on 30% one monthly (examples only). You need to change *more* water doing smaller changes, but the upside is in system stability and quicker...

I don't quite get what you're getting at. I'm not arguing that as they become easier to *keep* (not to ship) that the demand will go up, and this will increase the collection pressure. All the more reason to have to collect fewer animals per animal that makes it to the end of the chain. I don't...