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  1. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    York has been busy throughout the day, as I found Aponogeton pieces here and there. I agree with her decisions. These leaves are in poor condition and needed to go. There was a part of the description in the shop that said to expect a melt on these plants, so I’m not concerned. The bulbs look just fine and so do the roots. York is somehow taking a nap on the anubias. Kind of seems like she’s teetering but she apparently doesn’t care. She earned a nice rest. Oh also some of the qt gang are trying to breed. That’s awesome. They are happy.
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    You’re welcome. I also posted a video up above about how to test rocks to see if they will affect your water chemistry.
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    Rocks should not be boiled because they can explode. Not that I haven’t done it. I was lucky. Rocks should be soaked in hydrogen peroxide.
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    Welcome to the forum @boylesdowntothis!
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    What I like is that there is forum community involvement here in the testing. Other posts will come up, and the "RR Team" will encourage those folks to try RR for Issue X and report back to this thread with the results. (Issue X could be unwanted algae, sad plants, pest snails overrunning the tank, etc. A number of things.) RR solved an issue for me, and that was that I didn't know how to kill pests/algae on newly bought moss. I was salt dipping my new plants, but I've read that it's not good for salt to touch the roots. With moss, you can't exactly tell where the roots are or avoid them. RR provides a solution. A fizzy one. 🙂
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    50/50 chance you don’t get a dot putter. Roll the dice. 😉
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    The qt gang ate well again, and I made a feeding ring for Pippin out of airline tubing. Seems to help him out with all those floating anacharis. I noticed the qt tetras flash along the bottom only when the light is on. I think it’s nerves/disorientation and not illness. Everyone is back to schooling when I turn the light off. I think my 2 mystery fish with the red eye are called… wait for it… red eye tetra. 😂 Head & tail light tetra was another possibility but I don’t see any tail lights. (Maybe when they put on the brakes? 😂🙄) Still not sure. No black developed yet on the tail, and both species have that. What do you guys think?
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    Also @Ken Burke those little guys are so adorable. 😍
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    @Beardedbillygoat1975 let us know when they arrive? 🙂
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    Depends if we're talking about erosion or formation. 🙂
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    @Bev C have you considered assassin snails to control your pest snail population?
  12. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    @nabokovfan87 come ON!! You NEED to join Team Snail! Let them do the work (and nerites don't multiply).
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    Looks like the stuff at 2:00 is some of the BBA that was scraped. For the record, I hate pulling sponges to clean them. Mainly bc it messes up the tank. Cory bags it with a ziplock while in the tank. I tried that, but I didn't have success with it, but I think it helped a little. Detritus in the water column is inevitable when pulling sponges in my opinion. So when I do it, I make sure I do it before I gravel vac, so that I can at least suck some of the floating stuff out. I do like those bumpy sponges that you use. I remember you shared the video by the pond guy or whatnot and he explained the bumps. Pretty slick. Maybe one day when I run out of sponge I will pick some of that stuff up and give it a whirl.
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    Yeah, I sneak the sinking food to the ram by putting it in between decorations. It lands at her cave entrance, and since I drop it between the decorations, the tetras don't see it falling through the water. Also she learned to feed near the top with the tetras, but they are quicker. She knows to go to the cave after the food on the top is gone.
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    He and the quarantine crew ate really good today. 🙂
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    Wow, that’s terrible! Sorry you went through that.
  17. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Tetra NERMs - this one’s for you. 85 species, many I have never seen before.
  18. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Guess what? Pippin’s new friends are here now.
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    Hi @Colu
  20. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Sad aponogeton. My helper continues to visit and help with the situation. Dodger worked a shift also.
  21. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I was worried the wondershell would mess with my Ph but I’ve tested and found that no changes occur before the shell dissolved.
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    I love mine too @TeeJay. I use this to hold it. It works well. The key is the rubber band. It has a nice grip so the hose won’t slide.
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    Sand is made of quartz.
  24. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Good morning. Let’s go check the plants in the garage. These are plants that looked bad in the tank. They are under this grow light in tank water with Easy Green. The pothos is just there for fun. The anacharis keeps replicating along stems which seem to otherwise be dead. I trim the new growth and roots off and I put the stem pieces back into the vase. Some of the water sprite is coming back too. These are the plants I am placing back in tanks. The anacharis goes to Pippin because it just distributes everywhere in the main tank with no rhyme or reason. Pippin’s tank has little to no flow, so it stays put. Also I believe the extra plants are keeping this hair algae at bay. He approves. He ate heartily today. 🙂 In the 29g the Crispus still look bad. York is helping to clear dead edges from the foliage. I have a floating pile of water sprite in that tank. Placing these little ones on top of the pile ensure they stay put. The quarantine gang ate heartily as well, with a great amount of energy. I used that old hood light to do a symptom check and to allow me to suction some detritus. They HATED the light, and made the collective decision to go into the cube. But they weren’t in there long. As soon as one comes out, the others follow. I think I saw at least 1 dude flashing against the bottom. They swim with a darting behavior anyway, but something I need to keep an eye on. The LFS said their supplier medicates the fish, so that’s a plus. I didn’t have any white detritus either. Hooray!
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    It’s a thing! My LFS has them. They are called Rosy Barbs.
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