Collected Simple Questions

[Doug Brown <debrown@kodak.com>]

1) I have put Lake Ontario driftwood in most of my tanks (weighted down
with Lake Ontario rocks!). Despite boiling and or bleaching I have
obviously transferred a new ecosystem to my tanks. This has worked out well
- the adult apistos love munching on the brown hair algae, I seem to be
getting more spawns, and the fry can apparently thrive on eating soley
whatever is on the surface of the wood and in the algae (i.e. infusoria).
All this is very easy to clean too, I just vacuum out excess algae when
doing water changes. However, I have just noticed after months that there
are some very tiny little white specks swimming around in a jerky motion.
I'm not too worried as it seems likely they are just more food in the tank,
but I'd still like to know what they are. Mosquito larvae maybe? Other
ideas?

2) Are there any problems with adding fry from successive spawns to a one
species fry tank? Obviously you have to stop at some point but when?

3) Why are African cichlids more popular than apistos?

4) Why would you rather use freeze dried cyclops than frozen? Frozen sure
seems a lot cheaper and would retain more nutrients right?

5) Any hints on spawning apistos specifically in 10G and smaller tanks? I
seem to have no problems with even my most difficult apistos once I move
them to 29G or 55G but I have had zero spawns in my 10's or 5 and am
therefore hesitant to consider stocking a fish room with them!

6) Lighting. I am amazed that people are getting away with using so little
light with apistos! I have always noticed that in dim or no light my fish
are really pale and just hide somewhere and sleep. They basically only come
out when the hood light is on. Am I missing something here? Do the fish
just get used to less light? Is it better?

Thanks for reading,

-Doug Brown
debrown@kodak.com



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