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Aquarimax 250: Aquarium podcast

Aquarimax on aquariums!

Join hosts Rus and Kelly as they discuss comments and questions from Paul in Central California and Matt in Perth, Western Australia.

 

Meet Finn, a former carnival fish who now has a great life with Paul in Central California:

Finn from CA

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Join Aquarimax hosts Rus and Kelly as they discuss comments and questions from JR in Kentucky; Mick in the one and only Carnforth, UK;  Ravikumar in Kerala, India; and Tom in Provo, UT.

See Mick with a radio host and a lovely corn snake:

 

 

 

Aquarimax Epsiode 206

Join Aquarimax hosts Rus and Kelly as they discuss comments and questions from Mick in Carnforth, UK and Eliot in Sacramento, California.

 

If you have access through a library or academic institution, this article discusses how the diet of nematodes such as microworms can change the nutritional makeup of the worms:

C. Schlechtriem, M. Ricci, U. Focken and K. Becker The suitability of the free-living nematode Panagrellus redivivus as live food for first-feeding fish larvae Journal of Applied Ichthyology 20

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0426.2004.00542.x/full

 

Here is Eliot in Sacramento, California’s 3-chambered sump, home to many red cherry shrimp:

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Here, Eliot documents his success with the Dry Start Method in photos:

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After two weeks of Dry Start Method:7

Aquarimax Episode 101: From Copepods and Daphnia to Aquarium Management App and German Blue Rams

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:

http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/shrimp-other-invertebrates/94835-raising-daphnia-floating-plants.html

as well as this link on aquarium-safe rocks:

http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/rock_metals.php

 

Rus would like to add this link about raising Daphnia on some alternative food sources:

http://www.caudata.org/forum/f1173-advanced-newt-salamander-topics/f11-food-live-frozen-freeze-dried-pellets-etc/f12-daphnia-moina-brine-shrimp-etc/77665-results-experimentation-daphnia-cultures-alternate-feeding.html

 

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.herokuapp.com

 

 

Aquarimax Episode 11: Daphnia and Moina

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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