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  1. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I was on my way home from my parents’ house and figured, why not stop at Sea World to try out their new pipeline coaster. Whoa! So it’s a standing coaster (cars are surfboards) and the harnesses are on up & down hydraulics. Whenever it catches G’s you like, “float up” and your feet leave the surfboard. Omg was epic! Pic of coaster: And then look at this guy, so tired… until people showed up with sardines. Instantly woke up and… Random photo dump of other things; went on sky tower for the first time and got some aerial shots. Fave ride Mako, got to ride it twice due to 5 min wait. Hill for Mako. It has a 200’ drop. I think this is a wood stork. White coaster is a new one, under construction. Antarctica/Penguin theme Mako: Flamingo paddle boats
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    The sky looked like a painting yesterday morning. Also I made a tasty cornbread today with some bean & bacon soup. I have been experimenting with our new Instant Pot. That thing cuts cooking time in half or even more. Hard boiled eggs 5 min. Baked potatoes 12 min. It did a good job with chicken thighs, as well as the soup I made today. My husband likes to use it for beef stew. Convenient.
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    Is that the one that looks like a long, rectangular box with a red switch/lever on the end? I looked at that one but I only have 12” of water due to deep substrate and dropped waterline. That heater is like 11.75” or something and didn’t give me a lot of options on placement. That’s frustrating..
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    Snoopy eating worms! (And I forgot to clean the glass)
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    I’ve been using Aqueon. The other tanks have ACO heaters. I tried shopping online but there were a lot of foreign brands with overinflated reviews, so I ended up at big box and bought Aqueon again. Yeah. I think it’s because the heater came forward and now I notice it.
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    Got the heater. Big box store this time due to convenience/location. This!! Made me happy. See what the bucket says? This is progress from what we usually see. Right @xXInkedPhoenixX? #babysteps And then just for fun, I took pictures for @Guppysnail And then this creepy guy/gal! Whoa!
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    Heater glowing red the whole length of the tube. Not sure if it’s always done that? It is dark in the tank now, for one. But also it has come a little bit forward because its suction cups detached from the back wall. I don’t know if I’m being paranoid or not, but I really don’t know how old the heater is either. Returned to the tank a few minutes later and the heater is off; the rainbird is doing its job. Rainbird: Maybe time for a replacement heater.
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    They had some other cool fish as well. Different types of rainbow fish, barbs, cichlids, then they have turtles, lizards, spiders, and snakes. Tons of snakes. They have floor to ceiling bins of snakes. They do have a lot of things for paludariums and vivariums, etc I just snapped random photos while I was there.
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    Browsing through Pet Bazaar. Mom & pop shop. Many snakes! And amphibians. Snowball pleco Tigerhead pleco Peppermint? Camo Pacman Frog
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    Omg, thank you @nabokovfan87 for sending better quality nets! Disaster prevention at its finest! I and the fishes are very grateful to you.
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    Based on this example, I have no worries! He competes with the best of ‘em!
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    I had released him yesterday. His symptoms are mild. I took a video (he is not the first fish shown). He enters the shot from the left. Has a sort of rocking horse movement but he seems to be ok. He was stressed in the breeder box. I will try the salt.
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    Anytime I have had a wonky swimming fish it was all downhill. Thankfully this is a mild case. I am thinking about releasing him back to the community. His buddy keeps swimming up to him in the breeder box and they see each other. Jailbird seems glad to see his buddy and becomes more active. I ended up with these 2 when I bought washed out looking fish from a new shipment at LFS. I had requested pristella tetras but when color developed I was surprised! LFS said they must have jumped in the pristella tank from the next tank over. Anyway, I didn’t worry too much about school size since they school right along with the pristellas. I don’t know if being in the breeder box is better or worse for him.
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    Friends, we have an assumed swim bladder issue with a head-and-taillight tetra. The first thing was to get him to QT on Tuesday but he got snagged in a net, and as I texted 2 forum members in a panic, he freed himself. I threw away that net. After his stress and mine, I just put him into a breeder box. 2 days later and he is no better and no worse, I decided to move him for an epsom bath. Different net, finer, and feels “silky”? He got caught in that net too! This poor fish can’t catch a break! As the epsom salt bath is only a 15 minute deal, I just stuck the net with him attached into the bath and ran air. Upon transfer back to the breeder box, he freed himself. Thankfully. He has a barb or something below him that I suppose will get caught in whatever net. Anyway, I can’t foresee multiple transfers per day as @Colu’s disease thread recommends, but I think once per day is manageable, and I would transfer him using a solo cup. I would like to do salt as well but the snails can’t take it. I could move him to qt but he’s not contagious (to my knowledge) and he doesn’t like to be separated from the school. Video was taken right after his transfer back so you will see a little bit of heavy breathing. When he swims he drags along the bottom of the breeder box. He has negative buoyancy, and a bit of trouble turning. It’s like his fins aren’t allowing him to go where he wants to, so he wiggles his body to compensate. 18 other fish are unaffected and healthy. @nabokovfan87 @Guppysnail
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    Sorry you’re dealing with illness in the fishroom @nabokovfan87. Never fun. Here is what I consider the staples in my fish first aid kit: med trio kanaplex* jungle fungus tabs* salt Indian almond leaves i have other things in there that I have used to treat specific things (for shrimps) but probably would not replace those as I don’t expect those issues to recur. Also I hav Expel-P in there now. I am not certain on this yet but it’s possible it may work better than paracleanse. Last two times I used paracleanse issues were unresolved. 🤷🏻‍♀️ So when things start to expire I may research again and stock the Expel P instead. *Highly recommend having these 2 because if columnaris ever shows up, you have to act fast. Also Kanaplex treats gram positive and negative I believe. @Colu is that correct?
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    Just catching up.. wow! There is quite a bit I missed! First, sorry about Industry. Glad to see Punk is hanging in there though, and Invictus looks awesome! The tank move.. I can’t imagine. I tried to transport African cichlids in a 5g bucket with airstone from PA to FL. I lost some. To tell you the truth, they were fighting because they were in too small of a space. Then again, could have been sloshing or stress too. Not sure. I did see the fighting though; nothing I could do to stop in while on the journey. It was stressful. The medieval tank looks great, and I know your mom will enjoy it! And the shrimp you were so doubtful about.. you mentioned there are hundreds now? That’s awesome! Looking forward to following along on the large tank adventure. I love the stand.
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    Born to be wild! I haven’t seen any shrimplets lately. I wonder if it is because I have been feeding less. I haven’t been feeding much powdered food at all. I guess I should go back to that. I was figuring when they pick apart the shrimp sticks that would make enough dust to feed shrimplets but maybe not. Also found that the filter wasn’t working well, barely at all. It was the situation where the end of the airline gets loose over time and doesn’t properly seal onto the sponge filter. I snipped the end and reattached and it’s working much better now. Oh also found some small black worms in the tank(?) during this weekend’s water change. Multiple females are berried. One other thing. I keep the light off quite a bit to control the hair algae issue. I wonder if lighting plays any sort of a part in reproduction. Tonight I fed them “snail cookie crumbs” and they are frenzying over those.
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    Look at with camo and without. I hope this thread helps others. BNPs are tricksters!
  19. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Looks at the handsome fellow after going back into the community tank. I can’t believe how he fooled me!
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    So it seems Flint was activating his camouflage and wasn’t actually sick. I returned him to the tank and he toned down the camouflage after he made the grand tour enjoying every wall, wood, and plant. Thanks @Lennie for reaching out to a pleco researcher on our behalf.
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    During the rest period after the medicated food, Geppetto healed on his own, and I didn’t need to remedicate. 🎉
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    That’s bizarre.
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    And then he made 100 poops.
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    The Repashy morning wood I gave him last night was like the size of a half of a die (dice). It was gone by morning.
  25. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Thanks guys I put 2 more leaves and 1/2 tbsp salt. He’s in a 5.5gal tank. I already had one leaf in there, mainly for food, but the tannins were being removed by the carbon and the poly filter. I took the carbon and the poly filter out, and I cannot see a blue tint to the water anymore from the jungle fungus tabs. He has had three or four water changes since the medication course ended. @Colu the patches got larger. Not raised. Off white
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