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  1. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    A very warm welcome to the forum! Glad you're here! Trying to figure out your stocking question. Are any of these your filter? Also these notes came upon aqua advisor. (The bristlenose eats driftwood as part of his natural diet - you don't need a huge piece of driftwood. A little one (ie: the size of a fist) will do just fine. It might float at first, but you can put a rock or something on top of it until it sinks. You should boil driftwood first to remove contaminants.)
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    Omg I had a bad experience when I was adding sand to the 29 gallon. Took out a little water with a pond pump. Maybe 20%. Unplugged the pond pump. Left it in in case I wanted to drain more water. Depended on how much displacement would occur with new substrate. Went outside for awhile to rinse the sand. Came back in, heard the filter making an awful noise, running dry. This was the tank. It had gravity drained. I almost killed everybody. My heart sank to the floor when I saw what happened. Everybody survived though. They just got like a 95% water change. 😥 And fortunately I had unplugged the heater when I took out the 20% Lesson learned. I will remove pump or any kind of hose ASAP.
  3. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    They think you just fed them the good stuff. Believe it or not, snails have an awesome sense of smell. Mine will race across the tank when I drop food in the tank, especially Snello.
  4. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I’m not familiar with bacter ae but apparently this is a thing. LOL
  5. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I noticed you also have goldfish. Goldfish are a cold water fish whereas your other fish require a higher temperature.
  6. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Mystery snails hold onto fertilized eggs for months. If you’ve been on my egg journal, you saw I hatched some snails. Well, I only ever had one mystery snail. It has laid eggs 11 times since I got her in March! At least 2 of those clutches were fertile and produced babies. The other ones I froze because I don’t have more tanks for them.
  7. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    They could be limpets (microsnails). Watch closely to see if they move. It’s going to be hard to tell, given their size. Harmless but unsightly. They will multiply if they have a food source such as algae or biofilm.
  8. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Could be the disruption of the substrate. Once things settle they will be about their normal business again. But also my mysteries often go up to the water line because they like a little bit of air. Mystery snails have gills and a lung. They live mostly underwater, but in times of drought in the wild, they will go into the mud and they will switch to using their lung. This is also why they can be shipped in damp paper towel instead of in water. Fun facts! Another explanation could be that there is a film on the top of your water that they like. Sometimes the film is clear and you can’t really notice it. Some of my little ones were traveling upside down on the surface of the water! It was weird! I call it moonwalking. Mystery snails will also will start going toward the top if they are considering egg laying.
  9. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Did you do a recent water change or stir up substrate? Mine will go to the waterline if things get stirred up.
  10. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Beautiful journal, beautiful story, @Hobbit
  11. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Yep, I used to have a cichlid tank! I raised mbunas, and my brother raised convicts in his tank. It was awesome! The mbuna carried the fry in his/her mouth!
  12. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Thanks, I just ordered some.
  13. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I have the same thing going on with my red ludwigia, but I just put root tabs under it, so I don't want to take it out.
  14. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Pretty sure the algae can be killed by taking the plant out and soaking it in seltzer. They were talking about that over on the Reverse Respiration thread.
  15. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    You could always do a glass dish of sand as well to see if they would like that.
  16. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    This one? https://greenleafaquariums.com/products/mono-potassium-phosphate-kh2po4-1lb-bag.html
  17. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    What kind of fertilizer do you use in your planted tank?
  18. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    In Cory's nitrogen cycle video, he is saying that not all the beneficial bacteria live on the filter. They are split between the other things in the tank as well: substrate, decor, etc. So even if theoretically you kill the bacteria on something (ie: sponge filter), there are other things in the tank that still carry it, and you should be OK. Same thing that Jason from Prime Time Aquatics said in his video as well. Jason is a microbiologist, BTW.
  19. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I guess my Java fern became all spotty/black because of a lack of potassium? I wonder if Leaf Zone would be beneficial. As usual, my first thought is about snail safety (fish too; fish seem hardier though). I always hesitate when it comes to water additives.
  20. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Welcome back, @sweetpoison!
  21. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Wow. We've been doing the treatment for what, almost 3 weeks? I'm proud. I've had no losses, and no one else was affected. All signs point to a full recovery for these guys. Thanks @Colu & @nabokovfan87! I saw someone's horror story on YouTube. She had a tank of gorgeous cichlids, and lost most of them to the disease.
  22. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Oh wow. I L❤️VE THEM! (The shrimp cheerleaders are fun too.)
  23. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    What I do is put a bucket into the sink, let faucet fill bucket, drop pond pump in bucket, send out the water to the tank. MUST dose the dechlor into the tank first 🙂 This video helps figure out the type of pond pump. Faucet flow rate is a factor to consider. I used one size up from what I thought, just to make sure, because of the length of hose and the height of tank.
  24. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I believe all the meds have been water changed out at this point. The little guys are still doing well. Anytime I water change I carefully redose the salt that is removed. They are at the level 2 salt treatment. They are eating good. Frozen brine shrimp and Xtreme Krill. It is my understanding that columnaris could have killed them in 24-48 hours, then wiped out the entire tank. Is that right? It's that dangerous? If that's true, man did I get lucky! First thing I did was isolate them.
  25. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Same here. The little sitting area off the kitchen is where the tanks are, because everywhere else is carpeted. Ever considered a Python? Or pond pump + hose?
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