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  1. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Also if a tank starts to leak and you don’t know what to do; it’s at night and all the stores are closed ——>Tote How do I know this? 🙄 Literally had this happen, dumped a tote full of Christmas decorations onto the floor and used the tote to save fish
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    For the longest time I’d use them to make media bags. Especially in the rare cases I need to use carbon. I’ve now moved to drawstring media bags because I cannot ever get the knots out of the pantyhose and hence I had to cut (ruin) them.
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    Man, when I saw the title of the thread, my first thought was turkey baster! Since that’s already taken, I will say 1) modified juice jug (water dispersion) 2) terra cotta pots. (Pot= cave or plant pot. Modded pot=tunnel or box filter. I even took a tiny pot and made a box filter for the specimen container, which became a trumpet snail “tank”. I’ve also hospitalized ill shrimp this way. Pot tray=feeding dish. Any part of the pot=bacteria growing surface or fish spawning site. Broken pot [sanded]=cave.) 3) Dip container or sour cream container. When you siphon stuff out of a tank, you can check for things (ie: shrimplets) you accidentally removed, because the container is white. I use “Dean’s” French onion dip container! Every single day. 4) gel superglue - mod equipment or decor; attach plants 5) Tupperware (worm farm, snail egg incubator, mini fish hospital, etc) 6) scuba o-rings- reduce size of a hole by placing an o-ring inside of it. Keeps a smaller PFS on without the need to use intake basket. (My intake basket is pretty wide, and I didn’t want a huge unsightly PFS taking up so much space in my tank) 7) magnifying glass 8 flashlight 9) craft mesh- covers gaps in lid to prevent escape artists
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    Item C looks like Eraserhead’s kid. 🤣
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    It does not look like vorticella or other common shrimp diseases. It seems like some sort of microfauna, similar to hydra, that needs to attach its foot to something for survival.
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    Just had to get this beautiful girl on video.
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    Is this the issue you are referring to? @Biotope Biologist any idea? Seems like an external organism, maybe a polyp of some sort.
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    I can’t tell; too blurry. Here is what scutariella japonica looks like. The white thing will wiggle and/or retract and lengthen. You should use a magnifying glass to observe and confirm. @nabokovfan87 do you have any photos?
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    I no longer need 2 quarantines, so I scaped one of those tanks. Before & after I played a little with void space this time, on the right. This is 5.5 gallons. Also, Flint says hi.
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    We need to see a photo of the issue to say for certain.
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    Was thinking about a rock purchase at LFS today. I selected a few and was turning them this way and that on their counter. The old man running the shop (who insists I always call him Captain Nemo) asked what size tank I plan to put them in. Then he got that size tank down off a shelf for me and allowed me to “play” with the tank and rocks, designing the scape. That was thoughtful, and a service you’d never get at a big box store. I didn’t like the price of the rocks (per pound), but I bought them anyway because the customer service was awesome. Go local! P.S. They also got their 40 years of service award from the Chamber of Commerce. They are a 3rd generation family-owned company! Marie used to dive internationally for fish and sell them wholesale! When she could no longer dive, she turned her scuba tank into a fish tank! She showed it to me, but the tank wasn’t up and running anymore. I encouraged her to set it up and display it! I hope she does. This is her son, the new owner. He’s already training his replacement, hehe
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    Interesting. Discovered a bladder snail in the Walstad jar. Have not seen any in there in quite some time. It (that one pictured above which lives in the shrimp tank) finally laid some eggs. It put them on the glass; looks like little dots smeared on the glass with Vaseline.
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    I think he has!
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    I’ve had an issue before where a fish was weak (had been in a hospital tank) and when it was returned the other fish went after it. I think they saw it as a “liability” and wanted to eradicate it. Perhaps that was Industry’s mindset. Hope Punk is doing ok now @xXInkedPhoenixX
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    @Guppysnail accurately predicted where Flint would enjoy spending his time.
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    Apparently a slumber party and tank “greeters” welcoming me
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    Thanks @knee. I will try again in the future.
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    I did like it. Then when I dive I look for the scenarios mentioned in the film.
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    Plastic too. No dropped, broken vials. Also the markings are raised up. One problem I have with glass is eventually the little line wears off. Then I scotch tape around the tube and fill to the tape line.
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    Aw, they are really cute.
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    Busting open a new test kit and this made my day! Wooohoooo! No more fumbling with caps.
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    Heard a story once of someone who drained a tank and stored it. Months later, they filled the tank. Not long after, a goldfish was swimming around in there. Apparently there was an egg in the tank that survived all that time.
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    Sorry to hear about the cracked tank and the Banggai Cardinals. Bummer. I recently had a fish that wouldn’t eat as well, including live foods. I did lose the fish, unfortunately. Your fish room is coming along nicely though. Props to you for plumbing tanks. I’m too scared to do it. I’d buy the predrilled because I worry I’d goof it up. Agreed. It worked for me too, along with his recommendation of a garlic infusion. I see your issue was epistylis though @Chris. Unfortunately I know that sound.. got the tank quickly drained and down to the curb, but halfway there the bottom fell out of the tank…
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    That’s cool. My friend ordered MEGA SIZE tetra flakes, on BOGO!! She has so much food, so she shared some and that’s what I’ve been using.
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