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Guppies.
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You beat me to the wifi controlled water changes. Have mine waiting to install on the new build. I'm on a quest to see how low I can go with changing water. I think making tweaking it easier via an app will help.
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The new fish room and studio build thread.
Cory replied to Cory's topic in Photos, Videos & Journals
Replacing the 2 garage doors with walls and the concrete footer put in to enclose the outdoor space. Moving right along.
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Hmm I'm not sure, but if they are attaching to the fish, that has me a bit worried. Is the tank planted? If not I'd put some alt in to try and help with that. Otherwise maybe try a round of paracleanse if you haven't yet?
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Corydoras multiradiatus and splendens in temperate tank
Cory replied to Pigeonduck's topic in General Discussion
They should be able to handle that. Also look into barbatus corydoras as they prefer those cool temps. -
Congrats, hope you're ready to raise fry 😛
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Originally when you got them did you use any meds to treat internal tape worms? How many total corydoras do you have and what were they eating? Basically you keep playing detective until something is the "ah hah" moment, or it's never figured out and hopefully are setup for the future to have success.
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I suspect this hasn't gotten a response yet cause there isn't a question and the statement is vague. Here what I think you're asking? Dwarf chain loaches are easy to care for, normal tropical temps of 74 to 82 like most fish in the hobby. They do fine with or without current. All loaches eat meaty foods such as blood worms, brine shrimp, clams, snails and almost all dry foods.
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Was he with others his own species before isolation? He could have a parasite that has gone to his brain, they typically have weird motor functions after that. I myself haven't been successful in bringing fish back from this point, and am not sure of the cause either 😞
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I'd just keep an eye on it, first pic looks alright, second is decently cloudy. If fish are acting normal, just keep an eye.
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Doesn't sound normal, some clouding but "very cloudy" has me a little concerned. I'd test the water to be sure you don't have any spikes going on currently. Perhaps there were worms in the substrate? That's the only time I've had super cloudy water is when live black worms died in the substrate. Any pictures?
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Airstone dissipates CO2 Into the atmosphere?
Cory replied to Boot282's topic in Plants, Algae, and Fertilizers
Lots of things kinda glossed over here. Really you'd only be gassing out co2 if the concentration of co2 is higher than what the airstone was replacing. Plenty of times people are limited as their tank has used up all the co2 in which case an airstone actually adds in co2. As far as having an airstone and co2 injection going, having one doesn't affect the other. You could have max co2 saturation and oxygen at the same time. THe act of bubbles moving up the water column and breaking the surface would gas off some co2, maybe you put a few percent more co2 into the system and now you have achieved a healthy environment for fish and plants. Co2 uptake would be another big factor, which most people aren't measuring and instead just say any agitation is bad, co2 good. Meanwhile lots of people end up at the edge or worse for their fish with talk like that. Think of it this way, an airstone keeps your fish alive, co2 keeps your plants alive, instead of choosing 1 to live why not both? As it's super easy to accomplish both being in good supply in our aquariums. -
There was a bug with our system. Where the free stickers that went out with orders originally, didn't get marked as fulfilled, when they fixed the bug, it sent out notifications it was being shipped but had already shipped long ago, sorry for the confusion.
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I know why they didn't do well, they came in dead essentially. Temps, and other conditions during shipping can change why two shipments back to back can have different results. I'm not sure if that made it in the public video, or members only video. Definitely did record it though.
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If he had med 4 days ago, he may just be recovering still. I'd recommend testing your tap water. Without knowing what your tap water is like, you really don't know what doing a water change will do. If it has lower pH for instance, you'd make the water worse. Perhaps the water changes with the meds, lowered the pH and now it's gonna take time for the holey rock to raise it again?
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What is your tap water parameters? Changing water may make things more stressful, when was the last water change done? I'd probably turn the temp up by a degree or two, to stimulate appetite. For background information, have you done any deworming of the mbu since you've had him?
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I'd say currently you pH is a bit low for the mbu. Do you have a picture of the tank overall? Small Mbu puffers tend to be very shy around other fish, severums could pose a problem at feeding time. How bright is the lighting?
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The color dissolves, that is normal.
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First start with listing water parameters. Water is never really "fine". It's all part of the bigger picture. Stress is a common cause of puffers not eating and often it's a water parameters causing it. pH Nitrates Hardness Nitrite Ammonia KH/Buffer Water Temperature
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I've been working on it myself. Covid basically slowed everything down. I plan to just go to Japan and bring back eggs on the plane 😛
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Today’s harvest. About 36 hours as I was too busy to harvest yesterday. 1 tablespoon of eggs.
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I should point out, the marina nano heater that we bought from Fluval, we were out of stock for 4 months, ordering it every single week. Then they said, oh by the way, we discontinued that heater.... Stuff like that is why we have to move away from companies that are slowly sinking from within.
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We stopped selling them because we'd go 6+ months without shipments. Fluval has a really hard time keeping heaters in stock, as well as some other products. Heaters because of their size, didn't make us any money after shipping. WIth the constant burden to customer service of when they'll be back in stock, it simply made sense to stop losing money then waiting on a company who ships to unreliably.
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For this method, you'd want to do a regular service. To get how often, watch for when your tank has more free floating particles in the water, if that takes 4 months, perhaps you service filtration every 3 months. A lot of people use way too much filtration so they might be able to go 6 months to a year, With less filtration might be weekly or monthly. Like my store is every 2 weeks essentially from having 1 sponge filter and hundreds of fish in a 20g.
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You'd want a minimum of 2 inches to be at sellable size. To maximize growth. Use an auto feeder feeding 4x per day, and then 2 feedings by you per day, usually morning and night, whatever works for your schedule of Live foods and frozen foods. Then make sure water parameters don't get out of line. The goal is to keep fish eating every 2 hours. This would be for a 12 hour light on cycle.
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