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  1. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    cigarette filters @ 6:33
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    If no cigarette filters available, I wonder if filter floss can be used instead?
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    Or ziptie. Or airline tubing. Fit one end into the other (may require a little bit of heat on the end to become pliable).
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    How about if you put some larger rocks around it so it props it up into position? Or try silicone. Longer cure time, as we know..
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    How about fishing line?
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    Can you put an upside down pot on the bottom, then put your cave pot on that. Zip tie them together through the little holes, then turn the ziptie part to the back of the tank so the tie is not visible? I also saw this for ghost knives, but I don't know if there are any other colors. https://www.chewy.com/lees-aquarium-pets-ghost-house/dp/551142?utm_source=google-product&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign={campaignid}&utm_content=Lee's Aquarium %26 Pets&utm_term={keyword}
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    It's funny how I'm growing my pothos. I have the dropped waterline so York (mystery) can go up there and lay her eggs, and Hampshire (nerite) likes to go up and enjoy air quite a bit too. I use the sponge filter tube as a "vase" and it holds the pothos stem, and the leaves are emergent and hang out in the "airea" under the light. 🤣
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    See, I was doing it wrong. I managed to get some pickerelweed for free, but I killed it because I tried to grow it fully submerged.
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    I haven't kept the light on for more than 5 minutes with him. That's not enough time for heat build up or oxygen deprivation. I also tried it on very dim as well as different colors. He goes and hides. He probably should have been named a long time ago. I've been a fool of a Took for not doing it sooner! sketch credit: https://captbexx.tumblr.com/post/129443809254/treebeard-merry-pippin-sketch
  10. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    No spill and no disruption of substrate (I have sand). Also a worthy mention - pay $15 for a cave or make a cave for about $1.
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    I started posting a little bit about this on the snail journal but decided this is a better spot for it. This little fish has been in quarantine 3 times. Once when he was bought, once for columnaris (with a friend that time) and then again for columnaris after being returned to the main tank where he was mercilessly bullied. He’s been on his own for awhile now. ☹️ Finally after a cycle crash in the quarantine tank due to level 3 salt treatment, I’ve moved him into the snail tank where he seems to be doing well. However, he hides and starts breathing heavily every time I turn on the light. If the light is off he happily swims the whole tank. I think this tank is good for him right now since the anacharis are getting a little crazy. Since he doesn’t like “the spotlight”, and he’s the scrawny kid who didn’t pull the lead role, yet he is tough and courageous when he needs to be, I call him Pippin. ⚔️ He was even featured in Tuesday’s paper! Currently there are 3 black neons in the main tank (used to be more. Ich..). I have a few choices for Pippin. a) I could make the 10 gallon where he is into a black neon tank (add 5 buddies) - in which case snails would move out to the 29g. b) Have a larger school of black neons in the 29g and include him (maybe like 10?). The 29g also has 5 pristella tetras that all get along, but I’d add one or two more just to get to recommended school size, to help prevent future conflict with the black neons. What do you guys think? P.S. To give you an idea of where we started, here’s Pippin’s quarantine friend from a past quarantine (this is his fat picture - he pigged out on brine shrimp before his Kodak moment) 😳😂 They both had symptoms like this. For more on Pippin’s story, click the qt link in my signature line.
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    Pippin is famous! His picture was in Tuesday’s newspaper! link
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    Good move. Tank cracks are something I don’t experiment with or “wait and see”. Better safe than sorry. You can’t always be around. What if it gave out while you were at work or sleeping? Those little lives depend on us. 🐠 🦐 🐌 A few months ago I had a leak and everyone got moved out to a tote. The “aquarium stand” was made of cheap fiberboard (why do they do this?! - it’s dumb.) but painted somehow to look like it wasn’t, like a paint with a slight texture or something- and over time, you guessed it, it swelled. Then the stand wasn’t level anymore and ruined my tank. I replaced it with the Aqueon Forged (all metal). Which has a second shelf for a 5g tank. (Soon.. 🙂) I almost kept that stand and used it as an end table but then I figured I would eventually forget what happened and try to put another tank on it. So off to Goodwill it went.
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    Also if/when you remove the tank from the stand make extra sure the stand is level. That’s the common culprit for cracks.
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    Remember that tote you bought for snails? That’s your emergency bailout. Also what you can do is try to slide a piece of paper under the tank. Is there a little gap that the paper can slide under? And if so is the paper wet?
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    @Odd Duck I’m not sure if pun was intended or not, but that’s what they’re doing- mining for gold dust. The debris gets sucked up and ends up on a little conveyor belt on the boat/surface that kinda shakes it around to pan for the gold. Even just a little bit of gold flake is ridiculously valuable. @4:02 you can kinda get the gist of what they’re doing
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    It's lovely!
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    @nabokovfan87
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    If you're afraid about messing up the aquascape, maybe just put a plate or a bowl in the tank, and dump the water into that so it doesn't disrupt anything.
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    Woooowwwww @sweetpoison! With the shorter wood and the plants added, it looks beautiful!
  21. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Now THAT's a forest!
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    @Pencapchew95 If it's coming off dark brown and moves with the current, it could be brown diatoms (algae).
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    Glad you asked! 🙂 I had made a little care sheet about snails a few months back; the link is in my signature line. Here's the section on food. Food: Mystery snails will help clean your fish tank, and if you have live plants, you will find that they carefully clean the algae from the leaves but leave the plants alone (unless the plant is dying; then they will consume the dying pieces). Tank algae is not enough food to sustain your snails. Just as you would feed fish on a routine basis, your mystery snails should also be fed. They should be offered food that contains vegetables, protein, and calcium. The calcium is particularly important for shell growth and health. Snails can smell food through the water, and it won’t take them long to find it. Some foods they love are: · Hikari crab cuisine · Algae wafers · Boiled green bean, halved lengthwise, seeds removed (20 min. boil time)* · Boiled zucchini slice (10 min. boil time)* · Cuttlebone (sold in the bird section) – break off a piece and drop it into the tank, and the snails will occasionally graze on it. It will also slowly release calcium into the water which benefits the snails and is harmless to fish and plants. Cuttlebone will initially float. It can be left to float or can be weighed down with a small stone, a plant weight, or tucked under the edge of a decoration. · Snello (a recipe that can be made for them) Boiled vegetables can be weighed down with a little rock or an aquarium plant weight if they want to float.
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    @Katherine said snails like sweet potato. Yep! See the fishy in the background of 2nd pic? That’s Pippin. He looks wimpy but he’s tough and brave when he needs to be. He just got out of quarantine for the 3rd time! First time qt when he was bought. 2nd time columnaris. 3rd time columnaris relapse because he got bullied and stressed after being returned to main tank. I need to increase school size before he goes back to main tank or they will bully him again, most likely. Closer look at Pippin:
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    Tried to use lights today on the 24/7 cycle (gentle sunrise, etc) but he was stressed by them. His quarantine tote never had any lights so I’m sure he got used to that. When I turned the lights off, he began swimming the whole tank, and he did eat a little breakfast. Not much. The snails ate his leftover flake. He’s also fairly shy when I approach but he’s kind of getting used to it. Hard to get his photo but if you zoom in here you can see where his columnaris spot is almost healed. For all he’s been through, he needs a tough name. Hercules? Brutus? Hulk? …GOT IT. I will call him Pippin. The scrawny kid that didn’t pull the lead role; he doesn’t like the [Hygger] spotlight. Looks wimpy, but is tough and brave when he needs to be.
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