DreamScape_Aquatics

@Colu No white stringy poop. The male tends to hang around the surface on top of a sponge, but that's also his favorite line of sight break whenever the female starts getting angry. I have a pretty large chunk of Pothos growing out of the tank which handles nitrate really well. I've had nitrate in the tank and it builds slowly but gets reduced so much that on the test strips its practically negligible occasionally there will be the slightest hint of color. Also my first action before coming here was detoxify anything nasty with prime and load it with stability for a few days. I was pretty much of the same mindset as you, maybe the cycle crashed, or maybe it never even cycled. Yet she still flashes. She doesn't even swim now, just flashes constantly. Seeing as I have no idea what parasite is causing it, I'm just gonna give the whole tank a salt treatment and hopefully she pulls through.

Well maintained, 3ish month old tank has one breeding pair of A. Borelli 'Opal'. Last spawn, mother was raising fry very well as usual. Father minding his own business. Mother goes into hiding on 10th day of fry free swimming. Stays hidden 3 days, emerges finally to eat. No fry left, still yellow but color has faded drastically. The second she comes out to eat starts flashing on everything, 15+ times. Test water... Results 20 long ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, 0 ph 6.2 temp 82 TDS 85 Why? I have many tanks so cross contamination is always possible but all other tanks are seemingly disease free. I just don't understand if the Female had flukes, ich, etc... that would have presented itself by now. Male is fine seems nothing has changed with him. Any help is greatly appreciated.

I'm actually breeding some of these guys at the moment. I have to agree completely with the identified male and female. They are probably a pair. The third appears to be a subdominant male. The easiest way for me to sex these type is the dorsal fin. The male will have a much more pronounced dorsal. Hope this helps! Maybe we can get another picture of the unidentified one?

Thank you all for your warm welcome 🙂 looking forward to learning and sharing with all @Jawjagrrl In my experience with the diamond tetras they tend to stay mostly docile. They get along seamlessly with head and tail light tetras they can't tell the difference between each other it seems. I have also kept them with rummy nose and noticed at times they would school together. I will occasionally see what looks the be a bit of a spar but nothing crazy. Their temperament seems very similar to smaller tetras except they seem less afraid of larger fish and school rather loosely. They do eat VERY aggressively, if you could call it that. I have to way overfeed my 75 because the diamonds will ravage every scrap of food before any other fish know there is food in there. I think keeping them with other tetras would be perfectly fine as most tetras are pretty quick when it comes to eating just make sure your diamonds aren't getting chunky while nothing else grows.

To preface, let me say I run my rack with individual sponge filters. with 2 larger air pumps per rack. However for my next rack I would like to make a more centralized system. I know sumps are a good option for this but drilling holes, or having to construct rather tacky looking pcv contraptions for overflow, and learning a whole new form of filtration, constructing it... All sounds like quite a bit of a mess. What I do know are canister filters, and as much as Cory likes to hate on canister filters I love them for my larger display tanks. So my idea is this. With an fx4 12 10 gallons. How could this be done? my idea is T shape joints to split intake and outflow into each individual aquarium. I can't find anything online about it and was wondering if anyone has done this before or would just like to theory craft the franken canister with me.

Do they have any tankmates? From what I see it looks like a bite mark from another fish. How are they doing now after the Maracyn? I find that even with fight inflicted wounds this is the best approach, unless you're willing to use salt. Will probably take a while to heal if it is though.

Hi everyone who comes across my post! I'm Shane and well I really like fish. Been keeping fish primarily livebearers for the past few years ended up selling a lot just because I made so many babies and life was good. I moved from houses and all my fish started dying. Didn't know how, didn't know why. I gave them "all they needed". So of course I began researching. One thing led to another to another and soon I went from somebody who just had some fish that pooped extra fish to actually understanding and caring. All this led me to aquarium Co-op along with some other places. But the coop is where I feel I belong. All this has most definitely hurt the wallet(going from a 20 high to 20+ different aquariums) but in the process my knowledge has grown immensely. I hope to open my own fish store one day. If anyone has questions about any livebearers I hope to be able to be the one to help you. Can't guarantee what I do is the best way but hey it works really well for me. That house change I was talking about, my water went from very hard(~200TDS) out of the tap to very very soft(~30TDS) out the tap. So to keep my livebearers take a bit of extra work. Anyone who has experience with Angels, Apistos, or Discus. I would love to hear from as my water is almost perfect out the tap for South American cichlids. Attached a couple pictures of my 2 main display tanks. 60 Cube with mollies, platies, and swords. and a 75 with angels a pearl gourami diamond tetras and a few bristlenose and other oddballs (farowella cat, sterbais, kuhli loach, probably a couple others I'm forgetting) also love discussing hardware. Filters, skimmers, media, etc Always open to constructive criticism, I truly believe you can devote your life to this hobby and not even scratch the surface. Knowledge is always better in the form of a collective. Thank you everyone. ps the photos were taken at the time of the post so not perfectly pristine tanks, we all know that only lasts for a few days.