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    (It’s actually sweet potato- Shh!)
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    Happy Halloween! On today’s menu we have worms (EEK!), Jack-o-lanterns, shrimp lolly, and candy. A shout out to @TeeJay for the shrimp lolly idea.
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    In the floating anacharis I found a shrimp molt. I guess that’s good. They must be growing and getting the proper nutrition.
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    Hemigrammus ocellifer I ended up with them when I walked into LFS to buy pristellas and their fish hadn’t colored up yet. Once they started developing color in my quarantine tank, I realized they were head and taillight tetra. They get along and school with everybody, even though I only have 2 of them. And I’ve grown fond of them. When they turn it does look like little lights. Turn signals?? 🤣
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    @TheSwissAquarist I hope you had help carving all those! That’s a lot of pumpkins!
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    Serket looks great in that tank, and your guppies are so beautiful.
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    Why didn’t you give them candy? They like shrimp lollies.
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    Their family is one Bolivian Ram, black neons, pristella tetras, and head-and-taillight tetras.
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    Snoopy’s bottom front fins are very bright blue today, like a black light. The pic doesn’t do it justice. It’s very shimmery in person. And the spots on his bottom back fins are showing up well today too. Snoopy is a happy guy. Flakes all around for everybody. He energetically makes his way through the pack now and feeds just under the surface. He does pretty well for himself. He always spends some time socializing with me too. He notices when I am at the tank.
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    Ingot came up to visit today. I gave her a flake. Ingot is Romeo’s girlfriend. Then the word got out, and York came up to be fed a flake. Then, looking down on the tank, C3PO is on his way! So after he took some puffs of air, he got a treat too. I love hand feeding these little vacuum cleaners. And in the back, Amethyst is chillin with Hampshire.
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    They are pretty attached though, grippin that root. See through, yes. Melty, no (surprisingly). I’m gonna let it ride out. If they float up, I will remove them. Something is happening here.
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    I use a pond pump and a bucket and a 1/2” diameter hose. To remove water from tank, just drop the pond pump into the tank. The hose can either be run to a sink or outside. To add water back, first and foremost, add dechlorinator to the tank before doing anything. Then put a bucket (it would need to be a shorter bucket, a 5g bucket is too tall) into the kitchen sink or the tub and fill it. Leave water running, drop pond pump in, and run the hose into tank. You can place an intake tube onto the end of the hose to disperse the water. And turn pump on to let the tank fill. I use a digital meat thermometer in the bucket to ensure temp is close to tank temp. The benefits of using a bucket with the pond pump are 1) no dealing with faucet fittings, 2) no having to go outside, 3) ability to monitor temp, 4) no contaminants from say, if you filled the sink up and put the pump in the sink. Who knows what cleaners or food bacteria were in the sink? 5) no carrying buckets full of water. The con is you can’t vacuum the tank this way. If you need to vac the tank, you need to shell out the cash for the Python system. Some issues I had with the Python system are that I couldn’t get it to fit my kitchen faucet, so I had to go outside to use the hose hookup. Then I would track dirt in and out of the house at every water change. But ultimately, calcium buildup froze up my outdoor hose fixture completely. I literally can’t turn it anymore, so I needed another option. Also I couldn’t monitor temp going in like I could with the bucket. There is a fitting that you pull down on the Python while at the faucet that will cause the Python to begin to suck water from the tank. Pushing this fitting up will cause water to go the other direction: back into the tank. I can help you with the pond pump system. It’s easy to set up but the trick is selecting the right pond pump. These are the measurement I’d need: Distance from sink (or tub) to tank Height of tank Faucet flow rate* *You’d need to look up the make/model of the faucet to find the specs. Dwarf hair grass is a medium light plant. It also requires root tabs. In my experience, a 29g does best with low light plants due to the water depth. Take a look at micro sword instead. And it doesn’t need root tabs. Only easy green. I’ve had great success with it. It’s very happy and has been sending out runners.
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    All swords got their root tabs today. No leaves have melted off yet, but the leaves are see-through. I’m surprised snails and shrimp haven’t chewed on them yet. The leaves remain affixed despite the long journey, RR, and replanting, so fingers crossed the little swords spring back! I think they will!
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    @nabokovfan87 you say you’ve been fighting this stuff for 2 years. Ever considered sanitizing the tank? Similar to how a quarantine tank is sanitized with 1/10 bleach solution after a fish is ill? You’d need to move the fish and shrimp out to a tote though. If this stuff has spores and that’s how it spreads, the situation may warrant scrapping the substrate and decor. Of course, it’s a big decision and I’m certain you’d like to exhaust all other options first. Sounds like you made progress with the blackout, so that’s awesome. If you go through the process you mentioned above, maybe print out a blank calendar and write on it what needs to be done on which day?
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    Lol. I liked that it was red too. That’s what I used for my hospital tank only. Oh man, THANK GOODNESS! It was cool! It was like an air line was in the tank. Usually I see bubbles sitting on leaves but this is a first! Go plants!
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    It’s really awesome to have the family involved.
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    Here’s the guy today. He enjoyed some brine shrimp. Still keeping him at level 2 salt. I’m not comfortable reducing salt yet due to his patches. You can see 2 saddlebacks in the last pic. Pic quality is not the greatest; sorry.
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    Well, now that that’s over, here’s a happy piece of anacharis pearling like crazy from the root. I spent TOO MUCH time doing water changes on the 5.5g. There was a TON of mulm in there, and I decided it didn’t seem feasible to do a sand cap. I’m certain the sand would have just stirred everything up, as the mulm was so lightweight. I’m having second thoughts about this tank. Because of the small water volume and its position on the bottom shelf, it was a lot of back & forth. I siphoned into a dish pan, and I was trying to add water back with a bucket, but there wasn’t enough clearance for the bucket to empty it completely. So I used a gallon water jug, but I don’t like holding something that heavy over the tank; what if it slips? Also it doesn’t fit that great between the shelves to pour it. So I’m giving thought to what the process is going to be. I want it to be easy to maintain this tank. (I’m sure I will not be changing this much water at a time later though.) Here’s where we’re at. Another water change or two should do it. That’s for another day. And this is junk. It’s getting returned.
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    YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW! *expletive! expletive! 😡
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    Well today is a fun day for visitors. Look at this guy. Anyone know what he is?
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    Great! Ingot and Amethyst it is! (and don’t I wish)
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    Massive slug on the door!!! at least someone cleans the glass
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    You add your files, then you type some stuff and leave your cursor where you want the picture to be; scroll down to the picture you want there and click “insert”. Your cursor is then going to be blinking right after that pic. Hit enter and continue typing more of your post. Go down to hit insert again on another pic, etc Any pictures you don’t click insert on will be automatically posted at the end of your post … it looks like you did it in your last post.
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    Well, it started with York. She’s an apple snail, and New York is known as the big apple. Hampshire was the next snail. He’s a nerite. Since it was just the two of them I figured I’d coordinate names, like [New] York and [New] Hampshire. Dodger was getting picked on at the pet store: attacked by fish. He’d retract into his shell to dodge the attacks. Goliath is a small runt snail that doesn’t seem to grow, and I figured a small snail should have a big name. Nibbles just seemed cute for the tiniest snail. C3PO is a gold snail and we are Star Wars fans. Romeo is always in the mood… Bon Bon just has a Bon Bon shape (they all do, really). Button is an olive nerite. Idk, just thought it was a cute name. Woodstock is a gold snail, and my Bolivian Ram is Snoopy because of his curiosity in everything I’m doing. I think that’s all of them. I did name Gumdrop on her journey to being adopted. Idk- I think the magentas with their stripes kinda look like candy. 2 other magentas I’ve got have not been named yet. Earlier in this journal there’s a massive list of snail names that my friend and I came up with one day texting back and forth. Pippin is a fish that went through several courses of meds. He was scrawny but resilient. Tough when he had to be. Like the little hobbit Pippin who would fight even when he was scared. These 2 need names! The top pic is a lady snail for sure. The bottom pic not sure.
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