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  1. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    If I am not mistaken, it is because the male to female ratio has to be a certain number. @Guppysnail do you know what the ratio should be?
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    Let a nerite snail do the tidying for you. Their shells have beautiful designs as well. https://www.aquariumcoop.com/blogs/aquarium/nerite-snail-care
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    Do you guys put a light over top of the bamboo?
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    Let me introduce you to @Guppysnail. She's the QUEEN of bamboo! These are her tanks! OK here we go. Scroll down to "Emergent Plants" https://www.aquariumcoop.com/blogs/aquarium/plants-for-african-cichlids?_pos=5&_sid=29b1dc1f1&_ss=r
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    Hi, and welcome! It's true! Everyone's nice and actually constructive, sharing knowledge and helping each other out. This video features Irene who works at Aquarium Co Op. She talks about optimizing the filter, and in hers she puts pothos, but bamboo has the same effect. I will try to find the article specific to bamboo, but this video should get you going in the meantime!
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    Yeah! You got a bonus!
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    Ramshorn snail.
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    Hi @sweetpoison 6:26 in this video is another technique as well, but your hose needs to be lower than tank level if you go this route (she ran her hose out the door. That's what I do too)
  9. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I saw one fishkeeping YouTube channel (KGT) had completed a long move, with many tanks and a lot of fish. He moved the fish in totes. I am glad you are ok @Patrick_G The whole situation must have been very upsetting.
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    I'm going to tag @Colu also because Colu is familiar with a lot of fish diseases. Let's see if we can get any additional input, just in case. I went many years in the hobby without a quarantine tank. So did my brother and Dad who also had fish tanks. Most of the time we were lucky, but sometimes not. That was before the YouTube days. I have learned a lot along the way. I've got a fishy in quarantine as well right now. Also, I forgot to say - welcome to the hobby and to the forum!
  11. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    When you cannot see obvious symptoms, it could be internal. Possibly parasites. Missing barbels could be caused by a substrate that is too sharp, or possibly fin rot as you suggested. One super helpful tip that I learned is quarantining new fish to ensure they do not infect fish you already have. Check out this video on how to make a simple quarantine tote. Here is another helpful blog post. https://www.aquariumcoop.com/blogs/aquarium/how-to-treat-sick-aquarium-fish Also, if you have no idea what you're dealing with (what illness it is), aquarium salt covers pretty much everything. https://www.aquariumcoop.com/blogs/aquarium/aquarium-salt-for-sick-fish
  12. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    The pond and your whole entire garden is beautiful.
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    I found this snail in my tank after adding moss. The tank was newly set up with only plants. It has been peppercorn sized for 5 months and I don’t know what kind of snail it is. It’s cute though. His name is Nibbles. Can anyone ID him? (The mysteries were added to tank later)
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    Look for a food called Hikari crab cuisine. It contains calcium which is important for their shells. They also love boiled green beans (NO salt). That's their favorite! Just split it in half lengthwise and remove seeds. Other foods they like are boiled zucchini, carrot, cucumber, squash, and cabbage. Another thing you can do is float a piece of cuttlebone. It will slowly release calcium into the water, and they will occasionally graze on it.
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    I heard ramshorns can eat through shells of other snails. I do not know if it's true or not.
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    Pretty cool! I think there should be a column called Ease of Maintenance.
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    Cool. This thing hardened properly. I might do this again in the future, probably with less sand. I think the sand takes away from it. Perhaps a darker sand or a pinch of dirt would be better.
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    So the one last night was fun. It was about forum members and journals. Every person on the forum had a breeder box in their tank, but inside these breeder boxes was air, not water, and no fish or critters. Whatever journal I was reading last before I went to bed, I was teleported into that person's fish tank, but I was miniature (like Honey, I Shrunk the Kids), and transported into the breeder box where the fish were swimming around me. The same thing happened to other forum members. Whatever journal they were reading last before going to sleep, they teleported into that tank. I ended up in @TeeJay's cory tank, and the cories were swimming around the breeder box and I could see all of their cute whiskers.
  20. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Tupperware is the way to go. If left on the glass it can fall off or harden, and that had happened to some aquarists. In my signature line are some helpful resources. Congratulations! How exciting! Prepare yourself for the cuteness of baby snails.
  21. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Emergency water change this morning on the snail tank. There will be no more posts about Dot. Here’s a photo of the gang in the display tank. We have on the glass Dodger chillin with C3PO and York is supervising the intake.
  22. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Wow! They colored up very nicely since they were added from the specimen container! Beautiful! I second that, @TeeJay. Baby brine shrimp are very simple! I just used salt, an airstone, eggs, and a mason jar. Easy peasy!
  23. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Interesting. Most times York lays eggs in the dark, but one morning I watched the tank and did an egg check, went to get a shower, came back and there were eggs. Light was on. That time it was maybe 7am-ish.
  24. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I also use the clay pots turned on their sides as caves.
  25. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I caved and ended the 2-day fast early because when I approached the tank this evening, one snail swung down Tarzan-style using a pothos stem to stick the landing perfectly in the food dish. Then he was vacuuming in there but the dish was empty, and I felt bad. Gave him a cabbage leaf to chew on. He chewed a hole in it as he stood it up vertically so on one side was him, the other side was this little “window” through which I could just see that little mouth goin chomp chomp chomp. ☺️
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