Next time you go on one of your field trips by the water, if it is legal of coarse, bring a small net and get some fry from the local waters. You could even grab a bunch of muck if you chose to, and see what develops living out of it once it settles into the tank. You will likely get snails and all other small critters.
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I forgot to mention about the stuff on the wood that is oozing. I had that once with a piece of driftwood as well and removed it, it looked like a fungus and not algae or anything coming from inside the wood. Looking at your pictures, the wood looks fresh and not dead. That may be a problem depending on the wood. Also, I would boil or bake any driftwood you find outdoors. This could possibly be the problem with your wood in the tank. I would remove it myself.
Cookie*420;4564435; said:
hmm... I may have to remove it then and see what can be done to treat it. I personally really like this wood in the tank, so may do some water tests and if it's fine i'll just manually remove the fungus and leave it be.
Also, I think we're gonna get captive bred sticklebacks just to avoid any disease introductions etc. And yes, we have already done that, picked up a lump of mud, some plants and thrown them in a tank in the laboratory. I'll post some pics if you fancy it, there's tons of inverts!!
Ah, you have done that. There are tons of little inverts you would never know were in there unless you really looked, it is fun to do if you haven't done it before.
Not to familiar with sticklebacks, but just looked them up quickly and think they are pretty cool little fish. I like their spines and bigger sized eyes. They should be interesting to watch.
Not to familiar with sticklebacks, but just looked them up quickly and think they are pretty cool little fish. I like their spines and bigger sized eyes. They should be interesting to watch.
Yeah I know I quite fancy giving them a shot at breeding too. Honestly, the amount of in verts in a teaspoon of freshwater mud is unreal!! I've just got back from doing a macroinvertebrate count in samples from a Loch in the north of scotland, and my head is buzzing with hundreds of latin names and leg shapes/head size/number of hairs etc haha
iamnick0009;4565639; said:
Do you want a picture of the invert tank or the inverts that i'm studying under the microscope?? There's just so many!!
so the general rule of keeping everything native to scotland has kinda gone out of the windo!! Today we picked up a nice little 3" Dojo loach, who is happily cruising the new surroundings. Also, two large apple snails went in, just to keep everyone in the office sweet 
Pics on the way soon...
Pics on the way soon...Lol, swaying from the original plan because you saw a cute fish, sounds like me. How is the driftwood doing too, is it still oozing stuff into the water?
