Malta Aquarist Society

The following is an email, my girlfriend sent me lately .. in order to make me aware that mine (the hobby) is not a hobby any more but an obsession. It PERFECTLY describes my story, and most probably yours. Read it and tell me what you think :   The Fish Keeping Obsession Can you become obsessed with fish keeping? In most cases, ...

Observing them better since posted .. seems like it could be more of a fight than some disease, fish look really healthy, vibrant colours, apetite, etc Tough still impressed with the number of scales seen.

In my bedroom I have a 55g tank with livebearers .. mollies, swordtails and a loads of guppies, then some corydoras and ancistrus. Three days ago I introduced a couple of swordtails, but the day after the female died. So yesterday I went and bought two females, not to lose the strain. Today as I gave the usual peek to see if everything is fine I ...

Hi jazz, I can help you out re: white worms, I have some which I can give you, just need one week till I get it going again. I'm currently keeping it in a refrigerating cooler which keeps temp at about 10 deg. celcius. The temp at which they should be kept is debated on various sites I browsed. Some say 10 deg. celcius is perfect, some say ...

 Hi spyne, I can be a bit more accurate about the electricity bill since I have a seperate meter in my own fishroom (we only receive one bill at home, but I can work out how many units I've consumed and pay my parents .. I think that's the only way to stop them interferring with what to switch on, etc). However, from the 1st of ...

Well Done Bertrand, at the moment I'm also cycling a tank to give mine a try. Don't need to start rushing re: feeding the fry, eggs take about 2-5 days to hatch, depending on the temperature but the fry take about 5-7 days to consume their yolk sac completely. Keep us posted  

Today I went to see our stand at San Anton Gardens .. attractive aquarium (which is very limited in setting it up due to it's shape). Could see the adults and children attracted to the goldfish on display.  I think the space provided this year was much better than the last one, since it's more easy to encouter the stand when touring ...

Hi Rob, As Charlie said, this morning I went to the Spring Fair in Ninu Cremona School. The stand was interesting, with the emblem of the club, the profiles of both the Aulonocara sp. and the Cyrtocara Moori were also interesting. What could have been better, is the fish (I know it's a sponsor related thing, and obviously the fish had no ...

Well done jtheuma, thanks to you the crayfish can now live a better life. Hope that from this experience, one learns to be patient ; with dedication and care the fish/inverterbrate can recover, instead of being thrown away in the first place.

Thanks for the comments. I would like to see more people in the hobby, so I will show more different sp. when available, and possibly some day do a talk about them and give some killies for free to people to try them out.