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Quote: “Gut microbiota can affect fish physiology, development, life span, immunity, and barriers against pathogens (Burns et al., 2016; Nie et al., 2017; Smith et al., 2017; Yan et al., 2016). Therefore, the gut microbiota plays an indispensable role in fish fitness. Several recent reviews...

Diana, I can always count on you to read my scribblings. :D

To me a tank does not start to achieve stability until you see growth on the rocks. No, we don't want it covering our corals but some growth is normal and natural. If your rock is still bare rock, don't put in anything that you don't want to lose and especially creatures that live on copepods...

I just got back from my morning walk, Thank God summer is coming. Anyway getting back to the tank. We discussed how to aquascape to keep the fish as stressful as we can. This is another home made rock. It is bent PVC pipe with a cement covering. This is a coral reef in Bora Bora. I took...

Now we can discuss how to set up a tank to be immune. As I said in the beginning, if you don't believe fish can become immune, go out for a walk, maybe jog a little and get some fresh air. But since my fish seem to be 100% immune from communicable diseases I will my discuss my method. This...

We are almost there. Now we are talking about gut bacteria. Something almost always overlooked as Lateral lines it is almost never posted about but it is gut bacteria, good and bad that controls our immunity (Along with fish) and is probably the reason when we medicate fish with almost...

I will get to setting up the tank eventually but I think first we need to know about the immune system of fish. Our skin is composed of dead cells on the outside to make us water proof, to an extent. A fishes skin is living all the way through and is semi porous "almost" like our reverse...

How does stress affect fish? We get stressed if we lose our lip ring or get a pimple on the tip of our nose. But these are not life threatening events. (well, the pimple may be. I once totally shaved off one of my eyebrows because I was trimming them and forgot to put that comb thing on the...

First off, Remember, I am an electrician, (a really good electrician) and I am not a researcher or scientist, I also don't have as many degrees as a thermometer. I did not even go to college, there was that war thing and besides that I hate school and would rather learn what I want to learn when...

I posted this probably a few years ago on another forum. But I don't even remember it: Last night, or actually this morning at 3:00am I hear: "YOU HAVE A REMINDER, THE COMPUTER GEEK IS COMING OVER TO FIX THE COMPUTER" It was the Alexa on the other side of my house. When I set the reminder I...

Thats one big reason everything costs so much and criminals are walking all over the place. I saw yesterday a guy was charged with 30 counts of first degree murder and 4 cases of attempted first degree murder. He got 34 life sentences with no possibility of parole. So if you kill one person or...

It's all fixed but I hope my insurance company don't cancel me. Last year woman ran into the back of my car when I backed up about 12" so I could get my wife's door open. She was fine, didn't fall down and walked away. The store Mgr called an ambulance and the EMTs said she, (In front of the...

Yesterday was a bad day. It started good I went to a deli and got some bagels which I rarely do but everything was fine. I parked my car with the back of my car about 8' from my garage door. About 4 hours later I walked behind my car and noticed the ground was covered in black gravel. I...

Thanks, I took some pictures.

My wife won't come worm collecting with me. But I know she really wants to come so I stored them in her underwear drawer. :biggrin:

I had a productive although wet walk this morning. I collected about 25 worms. I could have gotten a lot more but I didn't want to deplete the worm population of Long Island. My fish are so happy, and immune

I am going to 2 LFS today. My wife has a Doctor near both of them so I take this opportunity to get there. One is very big and they sell dogs cats, lizards, tarantula's, snakes, frogs, birds and they have a Wallaby who walks around the store. I don't buy anything except food as my favorite...

Thanks, she still has it but much better today. It is quiet because we cancelled Easter but may do it in a week or two. Now I will have to find those Easter Eggs myself. :eek2: