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  1. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I like siphoning. You can see instant results. 🙂 Also I quite like those tetra strips. You can go through a lot of drops on the gh/kH API tests. Cut the strips in half and you now have double the tests. Since you had a lot of stuff to vacuum up, your sponge filter is likely clogged. Take the sponge off the plastic base and squish it into a bucket of tank water to clean it. This will not affect where you are in the cycle.
  2. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Yes, it’s a little different cycling with plants. A lot of times you will find info on the cycle but the info doesn’t mention anything about the role the plants play.
  3. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    It was only for a few minutes. I gave him the other log and he started going in and out of that. 🙂
  4. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    That is normal.
  5. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I’m sure I can make something more natural work. Or the pvc.
  6. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Better to get it situated at 3 bubbles vs having to mess with it w/ 100 bubbles on it. Then he’d REALLY be disappointed! Did a 20% water change on the tank just in case that floating log leached anything. I really didn’t like how that thing smelled. Kinda like spray paint. Ugh.. I haven’t bought any commercial decor in awhile. I guess I won’t anytime in the near future. I saw some people hang a coconut hut on the wall for their bettas. Might look into that since it’s a natural item. LFS has them. I just need a hook or something to hang it.
  7. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I took a little break and went back to see how he was doing. Well, he won’t be deterred because he started another bubble nest, this time on top of the leaf. But before he gets carried away I wanted to cut it so it was no longer shading the plants. Sorry little dude. He did an impressive dive-bomb into the top of that log though while I was there.
  8. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Detritus worms will not harm you. When disturbed they will usually free swim and then go back down into the substrate. They do not latch onto you or anything. They are just concerned with consuming the waste in the tank. A nerite snail will not eat the worms. However, it will eat algae. The betta might eat them.
  9. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Oh man, so as an extra precaution I took the log out and sanded the inside. There was a lumpy thing inside so I wanted to remove that, just in case. And… chemical smell. 🫤 So I can’t trust it. He was agitated, swimming jerkily back and forth when I removed it. And on top of that his catappa leaf finally decided to sink and now his bubble nest is gone. Look how confused he is. He started pacing at the top. So I took a similar log which has been in my main tank forever and I gave that to him. It doesn’t float, but I think it will do for the moment. Ruins my scape, but I will give him something else later, maybe I will make it with pvc and suction cups.
  10. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I’m thinking yes because sand is quartz. Agreed. You should siphon those out for aesthetics but rest assured they pose no threat to plants, fish, or your tank if they are detritus worms. Even though worms are ugly they are a living organism in your tank which is great. It means your tank is no longer sterile. Sterile tanks are bad for fish and snails.
  11. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    This is great. You have brown diatoms, a type of algae. It means your tank is alive as you expected and that’s what you want. It means you are making progress. You have ammonia because you’ve been adding that in, but your plants may be consuming the nitrites. You should hopefully start to see nitrates soon. Not necessarily. Just because someone else reported getting an expired bottle or something does not mean that yours is. It probably helped at least to some degree seed your filter. You can go ahead and clean the glass. As for the plants, you can lightly brush them with a new, unused toothbrush. You are well on your way. Welcome to the forum!
  12. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Boots? What are those ? 😆is it like a flip flop but a different shape or something?
  13. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    If the stuff was stirred up from the other day it would have settled by now. Probably parameters. The airstone was a great idea.
  14. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Neat. Little did I know I had such a good ecosystem going on. I had detritus worms at one point. Not like a mass population or anything. I didn’t mind them either. And of course the limpets. But they are pretty controlled now. But still there. Oh yeah and hydra. Man, what don’t I have!
  15. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    @BAT I just stirred up a bunch of gunk in my one tank and the snail went to the top. He didn’t like all the dirt floating around.
  16. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I did that. Didn’t seem like anything that he could get caught on.
  17. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    @Guppysnail one of the bigger ones looked like this. & the other ones were just specs.
  18. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    They want to breathe some air. Did you just do a water change? Do you have any parameters that are off? Or there could be something on the surface they want to eat.
  19. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Oh ok, it must be seed shrimp. It definitely is not the new hatchling like this photo. So.. don’t worry about seed shrimp then? What is a seed shrimp exactly? I mean, they must be coming from the eggs?
  20. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    What is in the video looks like a shrimp, has 2 eyes, a long body. What I was seeing was specs, literally size of a sand grain swimming all over the container. Like if you look at a fishnet, the spaces in the net. That was the size of the things. Needed magnifying glass. Pure madness.
  21. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Today Geppetto got a floating log. What does he think of it?
  22. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    The dots that I saved were the size of a grain of sand. They were extremely active.
  23. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Just a few snails. I have sand so the mulm is very obvious and unsightly. The coarse sponge filtration does not seem to be doing anything to help.
  24. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    To say I’m exasperated is an understatement. Nearing the point of tears, I just returned all the waste to the tank. I was inspecting every baster full in the dish and all contained shrimplets (swimmers) and/or seed shrimp (darters). I’ve been at this for 2 hours trying to return each baby to the tank. I cannot decipher or handle easily what is detritus and what is life. I had no idea shrimpkeeping would be many, many hours per week in maintenance. I hadn’t picked up on that when following the shrimp keepers in the forum. The tank desperately needs a vac but I guess that’s out of the question or I will be faced with the same predicament again. I’m guessing I’m just meant to change water only, from near the top of the tank. I feel horrible that I almost killed/dumped out their babies.
  25. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I don’t have one for today. I have to somehow get through all of this stuff.
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