Live food
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Join Aquarimax hosts Rus and Kelly as they discuss comments and questions from
Andejka in Oregon
Nigel in Bridport, UK
Bob in Boston
Carlos in NY
Barbie on FB
Mick in Carnforth, UK
Tony in NY
Here’s a website on some gel foods for Nigel’s cichlids:
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/ca/volume_6/volume_6_2/food.htm
For Bob in Boston, here are some sites that mention Mollies acting strange with regard to their heaters:
Molly heater nibbling mentioned:
http://www.gtaaquaria.com/forum/showthread.php?t=19884
http://www.fishgeeks.com/fishforums/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=4126
http://www.mombu.com/aquarium/aquarium/t-singed-molly-advice-please-molly-night-fish-8395645.html
http://www.tony-delgado.com/2011/11/fish-update-dalmatian-molly.html
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061229084408AAscwBV
http://www.tropicalfishkeeping.com/tropical-fish-diseases/fish-sick-angel-bloated-molly-kissing-38351/
Here are Mick in Carnforth, UK’s pics of the pond with the liner leak. He fixed it, and got to interact with some native amphibians along the way! Thanks Mick!
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Join Aquarimax hosts Rus and Kelly as they discuss comments and questions from Adam in Santa Rosa, CA, and Tony in New York.
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Join Aquarimax hosts Rus and Kelly as they discuss aquarium comments and questions from Anne in Pittsburgh, Tony in New York, Jackson in Australia, and Robert in Michigan.
Here’s a picture of Robert’s goldfish after having swallowed an Otocinclus! Robert was able to save the goldfish. At last update, Mr. Wiggles was convalescing nicely.

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Join Aquarimax hosts Rus and Kelly as they discuss questions and comments from Dan in Auburn, WA; Tony In NY; Juliette in Paris, France; Alex in Melbourne, Australia; Andrejka in Oregon; and Anne in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Tony shared this link on raising Daphnia together with plants:
as well as this link on aquarium-safe rocks:
http://www.cichlid-forum.com/
Rus would like to add this link about raising Daphnia on some alternative food sources:
Juliette would like to share two great links on shrimp:
caridea.org (in French)
crustahunter.com (similar to above but in English and German)
Alex would like to make his web-based aquarium manager application available for free to all aquarists, so here it is:
http://aquarium-manager.
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Join Hosts Rus and Kelly as they discuss questions and comments from Stuart in the UK, Si in the UK, Holger in Denmark, and Mick in the UK.
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Join hosts Rus and Kelly as they discuss questions and comments from Stuart in the UK, Cliff, Juliette in France, Mick and Paul in the UK, Jackson in Australia, and more.
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Aquarimax hosts Rus and Kelly discuss comments and questions from Andrejka, Adrian, Mike, and Brian.
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Click here to see the YouTube video clip of the brine shrimp we caught in the Great Salt Lake
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Aquarimax hosts Rus and Kelly discuss their new video of opae’ula, Robert’s Clown Loach Crisis, Grindal worms, hatching brine shrimp with baking soda instead of salt…and a few more things.
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Aquarimax hosts Rus and Kelly discuss the New England Aquarium and brine shrimp, including collecting a few at the Great Salt Lake.
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Aquarimax hosts Rus and Kelly discuss how to culture flightless fruit flies as a live food for aquarium fish and other creatures.
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Aquarimax Episode 11-Daphnia and Moina
Aquarimax Hosts Rus and Kelly discuss culturing Daphnia and Moina as live fish food.
Here is a quick guide on how to culture Daphnia:
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Aquarimax hosts Rus and Kelly explain how to culture and harvest amphipods (scuds)–an easily cultured live food for a wide range of aquarium fish.
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Aquarimax hosts Rus and Kelly provide complete culturing instructions for Grindal worms as live food for aquarium fish.
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Aquarimax hosts Rus and Kelly explain how to culture vinegar eels as a live food for aquarium fish fry.
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Aquarimax hosts Rus and Kelly provide complete culturing instructions for microworms and walterworms as live food for aquarium fish.
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