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I don't recommend taking out all media/pads. I only recommend taking out carbon and purigen.
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You can put the carbon back in after a week if you want. The only Ned that needs to be resized without an active infection is the paracleanse.
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Yeah, typically foam under the glass is a problem. You'd be better off putting it under a piece of wood and having the tank sit on that.
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How much salt are you using? also do you know if others are getting good hatch rates out of the eggs you're buying? cheap eggs can have lots of unhatched.
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I would look into dwarf chain loaches.
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I don't think there is gonna be an easy answer for this. Pictures and water parameters may help, but currently not much to go on, other than being old as you've said.
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Depending on it's age, so far it looks female.
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If they are well established they can take some flow. However the vines can get tangled up if it's too much.
The only detrimental effect of your Oase Bio Plus will be your wallet 😛
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I would recommend having an algae eater that would eat it, amano shrimp, siamese algae eaters would be a couple that would do it.
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I suppose the scope of what you are trying to do would help. Yes rock wool can work just fine in pots submerged if you're trying to propagate for resell.
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i recommend planting the pot into substrate and letting it spread.
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While it could be done, it would be difficult.
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First thing I would do is fix the ph and nitrates. Get the pH up to 7.0-7.2 and nitrate to 50ppm or lower. Then I would have 1 dose of maracyn in the tank for a week. What is the water temperature? Anything about 76 is likely to be causing some stress. I'd try to keep it around 72-74 for the dojo loaches.
What else is in there besides the dojos and the synodontis catfish? it looks like it's dorsal fin has been nipped, if there is aggression there, that is another further stress factor. Think of you having a bad injury and trying to heal, but being in a dirty environment, it being too hot, and the wrong pH. All those factors tax the body and don't allow it the resources to fight the bacterial infections.
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For the retail store a bucket packed down that was 50-75% full would last maybe 1 weekend. As for online sales, we'd want mesh and can sell 300-500 of them a week? Currently we can order roughly 20 a week...
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The next time you take it apart, I would inspect the impeller, remove it, clean where it sits and make sure there is no broken fins on it etc.
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From what you're describing, to me it sounds like the intake may be clogged. Make sure the "basket" part or intake sponge if you're using one is clean. you can remove the whole intake part and just have the pipe, if flow improves you know it's the intake causing causing the loss in power. This comes from debris like leaves getting stuck in it, or too fine of a sponge for an intake.
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looks like algae to me.
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You would dose ich x and EM each day. And do a water change each day before. Also I wouldn't be doing a 3rd med currently as you'l be changing water so much it wont be cost effective to treat for tapeworms. Also lots of medication will be going into these fish with all the water changes, and I like to reduce the amount of different meds going in when I can.
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My first tip is don't trim everything off and don't give up. Instead approach it as a learning experience. It'll take a few months and hard work and learning to beat it, but when you have that skill, you'll be able to battle it forever.
Do you have any alglae eaters that'll eat hair algaes yet? Siamese algae eater, flag fish, hungry amano shrimp, hungry mollies etc?
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Glad everyone is enjoying it as much as I am. i like to unwind and read it at night mostly.
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Do you have a dewormer like Paracleanse? They could be lighter color cause of your light substrate or stress. The bubble in feces can be a sign of tape worms.
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I wish I had access to that toy 😉
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Seems odd that a parasite like that could survive the brackish water. What salinity are you running? My first thought would be to up it in an attempt to just kill it off.
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Gosh, I love corgis... I put in a bigger doggy door at the new house incase I can get one in the future.
Paracleanse and maracyn question
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You only redose the paracleanse aft the 3 week mark. It's because the internal tapeworm eggs have to hatch out to be able to be killed by meds. Also cloudy water isn't a problem, but you should keep an eye on water parameters.