I've been keeping fish since i was little. Good old goldfish in the bowl and that teenage ten gallon on the bureau. It's been in the last few years that I've become really dedicated. Moving quickly from live plants in the tank to emergents to aquaponicly growing houseplants in replication of a submerged amazon canopy. One of the things that always stuck with me when reading aquarium magazines was the adventures folks had gathering fish in the wild or the science of raising live food. People raising endangered or extinct species in their basements. The diversity of technique in fish rearing was fascinating.
One thing that always frustrated me was the lack of courage in fish keeping. the unwillingness to step outside the box. People would often parrot advice with little to no personal experience in it. Then folks like me start growing plants in air driven systems and raising fish with no filters, just flow and people freak out. Get almost hateful.
So for this space I'm simply going to write about how I keep the species I keep. how I house them, what I feed them and how many fry they spawn. I'll talk about trips collecting daphnia in rhode island or local plants. Guess that's it for now next time it's how i raise paradise fish, paleatus cories, blackspot brabs, crystal black shrimp and bristlenose plecos in container ponds in the summer.
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