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    I was annoyed at first they gave me a shrimplet and charged me full price. But now I am glad.
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    ::Sips beverage while scrolling around looking for new Froggin photos.:: 🐸🥤
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    For me it is medicating fish, I always feel bad isolating them and dumping stuff into their water but hey, we have to sometimes. And the other thing is checking to make sure I haven’t sucked up little creatures while cleaning the tank. It is shrimplets now but at one point it was baby snails, which start out sesame seed sized. It is very time consuming and hurt my eyes because it requires a magnifying glass and a flashlight. Honorable mention for annoying thing (I wouldn’t say “stressful”, just unpleasant): filter maintenance. @Lennie might’ve been referring to your betta. You say he’s nice, but in general bettas don’t have a reputation for being nice. I repeat “in general”.
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    I’ve heard that too. And one of the second purchase was a shrimplet.
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    You have to buy a good number of them to start. It is survival of the fittest. I drip acclimate for 90 minutes. I bought 8, half died, bought 4 more, and then I found that the females were berried shortly after.
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    Yeah my dad used to have hatchet fish and yelled as us kids for leaving potato chips on the floor near the fish tank. Uhh, dad? Not potato chips.
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    Hikari shrimp cuisine. Earlier in this journal you will find the struggle I had with starting @Theplatymaster. Getting started was hard and I had die offs. Forum members suggested this is normal with a new colony.
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    Yeah.. I mean, I do it.. but I don’t like it. My preferred method* is the one I use with algae and dirty glass. *Look the other way and pretend it doesn’t exist.
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    What are your parameters? Maybe @nabokovfan87 can help. He seems to know some good shrimp resources.
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    I made mine out of pvc and used fishing line and scotch tape to hang it.
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    @nabokovfan87 can’t keep his hands off filters. They’re slimy and disgusting; I hate touching them.
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    If they are new shrimp, this is normal. It’s not til the colony gets going that the dieoffs stop. Make sure when you do water changes that you drip it back in. Mine couldn’t handle it when I poured from a bucket, they were too sensitive for that and would die. And I was doing 10% only. I added 4 more shrimp before the rest died, and then boom. They started breeding. Once they breed once then you’re good, the new shrimplets are born into your water and are used to it. Cinnebuns doesn’t drip water back in. Instead, she pours some from a large plastic fast food cup into the tank every hour or so, to replace the water that was taken out.
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    Yep. Both normal. They are silly characters aren’t they? Mine doing the antenna curl while eating.
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    The patient has been discharged.
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    Snoopy is very respectful of snails and gives them the right of way.
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    Na, there are no anchovies. I don’t like hot anchovies, but cold ones are alright every so often. The fancy restaurants serve them on the plate with the Caesar salad. Caesar dressing is made w/anchovies. You should see @Lennie’s red shrimp, @nabokovfan87. They are so bright!
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    Snoopy the Bolivian ram gets frozen bloodworms once a week. And once a week frozen brine shrimp. In between its Xtreme Krill flakes, daphnia, and vibra bites. She likes the vibra bites a lot because they fit well in her mouth and they sink if I release them underwater. She doesn’t like to top feed; she’s not good at noticing if food is up above her. And she eats random boiled vegetables when she wants to also. There were some pellets I bought to mix with meds but I ended up not doing it. They are called micro pellets. Just a basic tropical fish food. I gave some to the tetras but it turns out Snoopy likes those too.
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    The couple that had adopted mysteries from me. I reached out to them. They’ve got 7 tanks. They said they had decided to hatch some of their clutches. Got like 160 babies or something like that. York’s legacy lives on… 🥰
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    Did you cook chicken for dinner last night @Katherine?
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    Eh zip tie a panty hose on it
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    Would it surprise anyone if Snoopy tried to be a part of this video?
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    I just remembered you have bottled bacteria. Choose ONE of those products to use to build up your biological filter, following the instructions on the package. Test your water every day for “the big 3” ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate. Write results down. If you see any of the first 2, do not change water- you are going to allow the bacteria to consume it. This is called a fishless cycle. When you get to a point where ammonia and nitrite are reading 0 consistently every day (even with ghost feeding) and nitrate is in range (see test kit instructions for range), you may vacuum your tank from the ghost feeding, replace with water dechlorinated* with your Fritz complete, and add a small fish. Once the fish is in, just feed enough food that the fish can consume in 30 sec. No more ghost feeding or letting food sit in the tank. Continue to test and if everything remains stable, you may add more fish. *Dechlorinate the water before putting it in the tank (vs dechlorinating the tank itself and then adding water) because chlorine will kill your bacteria and harm fish. The every day goal is to have ammonia and nitrite at zero always. The smaller the tank, or the newer the tank, or the more fish in a tank - the more unstable. We used to say “an inch of fish per gallon” of water. Keeping in mind how big the specific fish you choose will grow over time. Which you can look up before you buy the fish. Also you may see some brown algae coating the surfaces of your tank/decor while you are going through the fishless cycle. That’s a great sign! It means there is life in your tank and you are well on your way. It does go away or some people use a new toothbrush to tidy things up at water change time. Bonus tip (optional): live plants. They consume ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate, in that order of preference. Live plants help make the water safer for fish. Low light popular beginner plants are anubias and Java fern. They do not get put into the substrate though, they are water column feeders so the roots stay out. A lot of people attach them to rocks or driftwood so they stay put. Live plants usually do not consume ALL the nitrate though, so you’d still need to change water regularly.
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