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  1. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    @mountaintoppufferkeeper I love your little vids so much. Your puffers are so cute.
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    I went to Festival of Trees today at the art museum. I guess I didn’t really take many photos! But here are a few. That house is totally edible. Also, this little guy was just so cute. He was part of a gingerbread house display too and is edible. He made me smile. The window behind him is made of hard candy melted into a sheet. (I know that from watching British Bake-off) LOL
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    I moved his favorite sponge filter out and look who started a journey! Kratos! He journeyed all the way to his original hangout, the PFS, where he will sit and collect what comes his way.
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    A few of Geppetto’s shrimps
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    Here you go @nabokovfan87, I made it easy for you. Plants acquired 8/29/23 11/12/23 Nice & green & healthy.
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    Maybe furcatus https://www.aquariumcoop.com/blogs/aquarium/forktail-rainbowfish
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    Couple of shots of the embers. Still doing great in quarantine with healthy appetites. The light is up higher now which is why they seem less vivid. Just trying to keep everyone comfortable.
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    I raised the light so now it’s here And here are some photos of Spike. He has a favorite “hut” or “lean-to” consisting of a single catappa leaf.
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    It is Soilent Green! Nobody but Geppetto likes community plus. Well, I suppose the embers like it. Seems they’ll eat anything.
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    If fish are at the top, I would add an extra airstone ASAP. What is your ammonia reading? @Colu
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    That is a mouthful @Kurt Brutting Looks like they are a relative of furcatus - both are in Pseudomugil genus. There is one LFS that is a little further than I usually go that has Pseudomugil Furcatus. I love them 😍, and the Luminatus too! They are on my fish wish list, but I'd want to have a longer/larger tank for them to enjoy first (I'm overstocked in the 29g currently). What tank size do you have the Luminatus in? Their blue eyes.. ORD! 💙
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    Ugh, yes. I am struggling with bypass as well. I will put a new floss pad, and it's great, then by day 3 it's bypassing. (I keep the coarse & the ceramics in there always - just giving them a tank water rinse weekly). What I've been doing is turning the floss pad counterclockwise each time (so the top of the floss pad would then be on the left), and that buys me another couple days. @Bentley Pascoe mentioned bypass as part of the HOB filter sucks video, and I would agree. When you want to do a custom loadout, as most of us do, you welcome bypass. Boooo... I still want to try the bumpy sponge too though. Perhaps I can get some more runtime out of that before bypass rears its ugly head; I just have to find the right porosity or whatnot so I can get some good, reliable flow through it. For me, bypass is probably more annoying than for some folks, because I do keep a dropped waterline for the mystery snails and hence the splashy noise level ramps up. It's either than or one of the air pumps walked itself into something and I can literally hear it through the wall. Can't win! 🤣 Aww, love it. 😍 "Only plants"... mm hmm... sure. We will see about that! 😉 Maybe this is a sign. Probably getting fishes is faster than these plants. Just sayin. Also your sword plants are looking so epic.
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    I'm very happy! I dropped Repashy in today, and Spike went right over to it and began eating it! Hooray! I could not tell if he had any of the zucchini yesterday or not. I pulled out what was left at the end of the day.
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    Could you maybe use vitachem with the bloodworms so they get their nutrients? What do you think @Odd Duck?
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    Are those furcatus @Kurt Brutting? I love them! 😍
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    No they haven’t but sometimes we can have a back and forth conversation. We always call pss pss pss followed by 3 tongue clicks. Whether it is my husband or me feeding, we always do that. And they will reply to us. Then we feed peanuts in the shell. Given the choice of peanuts, they always want the ones in the shell. They like puzzles, I think? They will eat bird seed if there are no peanuts, but aren’t really that crazy about it. I was skeptical about it when my husband told me, but hiccup crow has a very specific language. He started calling about 2.5 hrs into my shift (!!)
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    Our “hiccup crow” that we feed in our backyard followed me 19 miles to work! Turn the volume up and you will see why he is hiccup crow. And he is soaking wet in the rain! A few months ago another crow followed my husband to work, about the same distance.
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    @TeeJay @nabokovfan87 have you seen the neon rosy barbs? Just as vivid as an orange goldfish! They are awesome! 🧡 My LFS always has them
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    A little bit of Thursday morning parasnailing
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    Given the CHOICE of Repashy & zucchini, Snoopy chooses zucchini. (I had to resecure the plant weight. The first time she pulled the zucchini right out and took it halfway across the tank swimming backwards) 🤣😍
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    Hooray! Someone brought in peppermint mocha creamer to share. I added just a hint of it to my coffee [with TeeJay]. Mmm!
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    Black discoloration on fish could be ammonia burn. Ammonia can occur when medicating, as some medications disrupt the nitrogen cycle. Do you regularly test for ammonia? Of the “big 3” (ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate) ammonia is the most toxic. If you test with strips, the ammonia test would be on its own separate strip; it is not part of the multi-test strips.
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    I believe that pitting of the shell is generally caused by water that is too soft. Snails need pH of 7+ as well. Crayfish empire has good quality snail foods. You can get a bunch of free samples and just pay the shipping. Also @BAT don’t you have a lot of snails that you had hatched out? I believe I remember @Guppysnail stating that when there are a bunch of snails in a tank the calcium depletes rather quickly, and so you may need to add a liquid calcium to the tank to keep up.
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    Again trying to get Spike to eat is a struggle. He did eat a small flake or two, then for some reason ignored the rest. I tried some vibra bites again but no go. He will sift sand around food but not actually taste the food. I thought, maybe he needs really soft food? I put a Snello pellet in there. A Snello pellet will expand and then fall apart into a little pile of dust. So, he cruised past it like 8 times, but kept stopping to look at it. Each time it would be a little fluffier. Then, he tasted it. And then he would do a lap around the tank and sift sand here and there. Then return and have another taste of the Snello. And again. Progress!!! And then a tetra came to investigate and Spike defended the food and ran the tetra off. Awesome. That’s just what Snoopy would do. Also tonight I noticed he swam mid level in the tank a few times, which is nice. He’s becoming more comfortable. He does accept white light more now but swims more dart-y and his breathing quickens when that is on. So I only do that briefly to check coloration and health of the fish. Spike (right) with green Snello dust pile (left). He’s now staying closer to it.
  25. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    The new ram has been named. He is Spike! In the cartoon, Spike is one (of 3) brothers of Snoopy’s. Andy, Spike, and Olaf Here’s a little clip from I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown. Spike brings his BFF to visit Snoopy. More than one person suggested Woodstock, but we already have a Woodstock! Here is Snoopy and Woodstock: Also, here’s a favorite clip of a sound effects artist, kickin it old school. ☺️ https://youtube.com/shorts/-UJQXqlVvrA?si=0x7hcZ7_hTLpXQdb
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