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  1. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Hmm. So the bloating doesn't go away between meals, I take it? The little guy is so adorable.
  2. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I have one ram as my "centerpiece fish" and used the steps above to help her get some food vs. tetras. She wasn't quick enough or assertive enough to push through their school to get to food. I make a secret food stash for her at "her tunnel" - it's a flowerpot with the bottom busted out laying on its side, but I have it tucked under a piece of wood. I drop the food between the pot and the wood, and the tetras don't notice. I also have an artificial log. It seems the ram does better when there are decorations that she can swim all the way through. It sounds like rams vs. other rams is more problematic, as @redfish is experiencing.
  3. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Since some Bolivian Rams are NOT competitive eaters, you can target feed them as you are doing. Try feeding sinking foods, but make sure you drop them in several areas in the tank, far apart. Get the aggressive ram to go feed in one area, and in the meantime, get sinking food to the shy ram. I like Hikari Cichlid Gold sinking pellet (micro size) - you may have to shop around for micro size; most places will sell as small as mini, but if you get mini, you'd need to crush it a bit. Make sure you have a few tunnels in the tank, and plants, even if they are plastic plants. Just something to break up the line of sight. Try to feed the shy ram in their favorite area as well, after the aggressive ram is distracted. Another thing to try is boiled vegetables. Bolivian rams love to pick at stuff on the bottom. Mine likes boiled yellow squash. You can cut it into small chunks since you have more than one ram. I would avoid any type of floating food as well. They don't like to eat at the top, if given the choice. What size is your tank @flyingcow? If worse comes to worst, you can separate the rams. And it could as @Colu said, be a parasite issue as well. Or could be several factors. @Guppysnail
  4. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    That's clever @Minanora!
  5. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    @nabokovfan87 I got a little confused because on the ACO shop there is this. But I'm thinking the ACO instructions are for preventative, not for an observed issue. I think I should go w/ package instructions, just in case this is camallanus. I also didn't observe anything like this until after I added just 1 T. of salt. (Not 1 T./gallon - just 1 T. total. 10 gallon water volume. Was doing an experiment on bacteria shock & recovery caused by salt) Found the worm the day after. I saw more activity than what the video shows.
  6. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    @Guppysnail buys the frozen green beans. Not sure if she cooks them for the snails or just tosses them in. I take fresh green beans, and I freeze them in a large ziplock. I take out a few and boil them, let cool, split open, and put in tank. But right now I'm just trying to use up my greenbeans from a can which was the first veg I ever tried to feed the snails. I did put a lot in a chicken soup too! And just froze what was left. That's for sure! I went to buy Sensodyne toothpaste the other day. Do you know it was almost $7 for 1 tube! So I bought Crest Pro Health instead which does pretty much all the same stuff sensodyne does. My favorite way to start the day is talking snail! ❤️ And waking up to a snail sleeping on a root like a tired Tarzan.
  7. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Maybe it just seems that way because they are white.
  8. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Snail candy
  9. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    How is it comfortable to sleep like this?!
  10. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    No big deal. That happens sometimes with handling. Not to worry. Doing it this way is much more effective than chancing it on the glass. Now just add the lid to the container, once you’ve put a few small holes in it with a pushpin or tip of a pen, something like that.
  11. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Watch the last 10 sec of video
  12. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    That’s awesome! How do you clean the sand? 🤷‍♀️ It was wriggling and it looked different than the other fish waste. I didn’t feed any bloodworms.
  13. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    😂
  14. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    1 day after you find them. Use a gentle grip and wiggle the clutch slightly.
  15. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    @Colu no meds in water during the video, but we are looking through a plastic tote, not glass. I saw it wiggling on the bottom and removed it. Not sure if it would free swim or not if it had the opportunity. I will let you guys know if I see any more. The worm is brown.
  16. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I found a worm in the quarantine tank. Since I am not a worm aficionado and I know detritus worms are white, I started them on paracleanse. @Colu
  17. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I always worry about throwing the baby out with the bath water when I vac this tank. Nibbles got “beamed up” today in the siphon but I think he’s just heavy enough to fall back down without pinching the tube. I siphon into a black bucket, often in early morning hours, and I use a flashlight to check the bucket for Nibbles.
  18. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I wake to more Aponogeton melt but looks like I have some new growth from the bulb already.
  19. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    🤣🤣🤣🤣 Agreed. I’m in a hot climate too. I’d never go that small for an outdoor tub. In fact, I would more likely put a tub into the ground if I were to start a tub.
  20. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    The eggs, Not usually. Snails, perhaps! Yep! (see incubator comments above)
  21. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    If only you guys could smell this. Mmm
  22. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I’ve been thinking of getting one of those magnetic strips that holds knives and using that for the aquascaping tools and the magfloat.
  23. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    If you plan to hatch them you should not leave them on the lid. Eggs left on glass have a lower survival rate because they usually slide off and fall into the water OR they don’t receive the proper humidity (meaning the shells get too hard for the babies to chew out). Instead you should float a snail incubator in your tank. It’s a tupperware with a few holes poked in the lid with a pushpin, and then you put a damp (tank water) paper towel on the bottom , a dry paper towel on top of that, and then your eggs. Put lid on. About 1-4 weeks to hatch.
  24. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    It looks great!
  25. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    The quarantine gang is eating some frozen brine shrimp. My mystery fish are starting to color up, with black near their tail. Also, unrelated - why am I baking gingerbread cookies? And then I smelled the spices and next thing you know I’m humming Christmas carols? I am confused?!
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