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  1. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Cadet is curling up around the Kat’s Aquatics new food. He really likes it, apparently. This is the 3-in-1 and I’m trying to see which one they like. He ate all the red ones first. New little blue guy from Aquashella joins in and goes for a green one. Juniper shows up next I think I like this food! It’s not all dusty, and the fish didn’t figure out how to steal it.
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    The new ram is doing well and has spent the morning sand sifting and exploring. The community was overjoyed at the live bbs, but I forgot one important detail: Bolivian rams are completely oblivious to bbs! They just stare at you like, ok so... are we getting food or what? Meanwhile there is a massive fish frenzy going on above them. 🤣New rams (mine in qt tank and friend's in the heated/filtered bucket) did not understand vibra bites or Repashy community plus either. To be fair, the community plus matches the sand. I mixed up some Soilent Green and will try that later since it will stand out. I want to fill out their bellies; looks like fasting or wasting disease. Fortunately the Paracleanse is already in the water for the ember tetras' treatment, and that is the correct remedy for wasting disease. And I had run out of frozen food earlier in the week. Will have to go get some on the way home. The new ram is being ultra cute. Doing the start/stop swimming. Curious: dorsal fin up. Content with observation: dorsal fin down. Swim backwards by closing the tail up. Etc 😍 The quarantine kids hate white light so pictures will be a challenge.
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    Forgot to mention, the first 3 minutes in the tank, the ram sand sifted. 🙂 came out of a gravel tank so was probably excited to see sand. I usually do bare bottom qt but this was a tank that was recently vacated so that’s why the sand.
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    Currently budgetary constraints. Also can’t find a stand I like. I’m not buying fiberboard 👎🏻
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    Dechlorinator. 💙 Yeah mine got bent at some point and now it doesn’t sit flat against the glass when I want to inspect a shrimp. Also the seams confuse shrimplets, the material holds a big air bubble, and the net wants to collapse.
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    I think the breeding tube is the key to everything with these rams. After staring at them and comparing them for so long, I’d bank on that as the method to differentiate.
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    or ACO multi strips! I gave these to a friend last year who never used strips! She had always used liquid tests for everything. Also ACO little towel is a good gift
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    Was in big box today to buy a small piece of mopani to get some extra tannins going on Geppetto’s tank vs doing the rooibos tea every water change. I looked up at a tank (I rarely look at tanks in big box store) and I stopped dead in my tracks. I saw like 5 Snoopys in a tank. Now mind you, I haven’t seen Bolivian rams in about a year, not even at Aquashella. They were labeled as Ruby Clown Cichlids. Hence they were priced at $7.99 instead of $14.99…. Just as a reminder, when I bought Snoopy she was labeled as a “red ram”, whatever that is. So my friend who always swoons over Snoopy has been wanting one very much, so I did get one for her, and I spent, no lie, like 45 minutes in the store trying to decide what to do for myself and trying to sex the fish. Because I want Snoopy to stop glass surfing. I hate when fish do that, and I believe it’s out of boredom (although some of it is to get my attention too). The truth is, she’s been doing this a long time, and I always feel like she deserves better, socially. I believe, (and I explained to the associate what I was looking for, and she helped look for those features) that I got a male. We made sure NO breeding tube, the bump on head, looked at pointy fins. This could be an epic failure but because I have seen one success story by @xXInkedPhoenixX who definitely has a male and a female, I would like to try this out, under careful observation. I am taking everyone’s experiences very seriously, however. If things go south, I have an extra tank as well as hobbyist friends who live closeby and could potentially adopt. Now this is a terrible pic because the fish is confused/just was transported. Also I had to take it with the light out to ease stress of reflections. Maybe I can get better pic later. (A little sunken belly, no?) Anyway, this fish is in with the new ember tetra which were recently started on preventative paracleanse. Also there are live brine shrimps hatched out and are ready for the morning feeding tomorrow for all the tanks. The paracleanse is a 7 day soak (ACO instructions) and then water change with 2 week rest, then we repeat 7 day soak. Again, this could crash and burn.. or it couldn’t. For now 1 month (minimum) quarantine . Oh also, friend’s ram has separate setup in a bucket and will be picked up in the next day or so.
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    I feel like Swamp Thing when I come out
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    Great because the airstone always falls off.
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    So does the kit eliminate the need for an airstone?
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    Yep I run the Penguin 200 on the 29g tank. It's actually for tanks up to 50g, and I sure put it to work w/ all those snails. I have 3 new juvenile snails; some of the old ones have passed, sadly. 3 old ones are left now and I don't intend to add any more, just the BNP. Also I always run a sponge filter in there too as well as extra air. And then I do lots of plants, hornwort, and the emergent pothos, so my last month of nitrate readings were like 5-10. I still do the weekly water change anyway to keep the detritus level down.
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    I've seen folks use the reflective windshield thingies for cars .
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    Wow. I'm in love
  15. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    cool @lefty o Check out this guppy tank that was in the CaribSea booth at Aquashella
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    Ha! Yeah, some dive sites I've been to look like that. But the water is crystal clear underneath. But the duckweed sticks to our gear when we exit. 😛
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    Oh sidenote, I am being given a bnp; Idk what color or anything yet, or even when - LOL! - just, my friend's friend bred them and has too many etc and so, one will travel with her from South FL to me and will come help eat my driftwood and stuff. Technically I could get as many as I want at no cost. I've not researched about bioload yet, so I just said one for now.
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    Check this out @TeeJay. I saw this booth at Aquashella https://plecoceramics.com/collections/ceramics
  19. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I mean, was the word "apistos" actually written on the cave? Because if not, it's fair game...
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    He sure is!
  21. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    They are my fave. They are all different ♥️
  22. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    @Guppysnail I do have a small HOB I can run and a bunch of floss, with the clarifier. @nabokovfan87 the air bar is creating a lot of churn too, so the jetlifter wouldn’t be a cure-all. Although I could discontinue the air bar. That went into the setup during scutariella japonica and I never took it out. They do seem to love the current, and it’s cute to see them swimming around in it ♥️🦐. Not concerned with output of HOB because I made a baffle out of a water bottle. Without the baffle, the shrimps do struggle, especially the juveniles. I had used that on this tank for a good two weeks running carbon after the No Planaria treatment. The HOB has a coarse PFS as well; it’s the Marina S10, so the shrimplets should be OK. I have been trying to vacuum as well as I can, but shrimplets… and not a lot of open sand - there are feeding dishes, driftwood, plants, shrimp houses, lotus pods, alder cones, rocks.. there’s a lot to work around. I can see in your UFO beam above you have the particulates as well. …was.. was that shrimp abducted? 👽
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    Some of the loot Merry Christmas from Fluval API let me pick something off a table. I can ALWAYS use another fishroom hand towel.
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    So, see this here? Well, unfortunately I was using the competitor calcium (food). Now I got this goin on: Is Fritz Clarifier the answer? Running a fine sponge filter in there currently. Water changes don’t help. Been dealing with this for quite some time and decided I need to figure something out. Also is Fritz clarifier ok with shrimps? I know it claims to be. Asking if anyone has personal experience using it with shrimps. It’s like it’s snowing in there all the time. ☹️
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