Chick-In-Of-TheSea
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Is the fish flashing, darting, and rapid swimming or is it hiding, sluggish, not eating?
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I thought of something else. If you are just using coarse sponge in your HOB and your sponge filter, you may want to add filter floss to it also. I found that coarse only was not enough to keep my water clear. This is the stuff I use, in addition to my coarse sponge.
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I used pool filter sand in mine. I'm not too good with the different types of sand, but I've heard that in general it just take time for the cloudiness to resolve itself.
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On 6/9/2022 at 9:05 AM, sweetpoison said:
So every time I want to move a plant or something in this aquarium it is going to do dust up like this and then take three days to clear up? That is total BS😡 I washed this sand FOREVER!
I’m so annoyed I just want to rip it all out😢
What type of sand did you use?
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On today’s menu we have hard boiled egg yolk and Snello since yesterday’s menu was not popular. I also added a little more Java moss since some of them liked it.
I removed the unpopular algae wafers and cichlid pellet by using a syringe. Anything I sucked out was inspected in this dish to ensure no snails went along for the ride.
I also did a 1 cup “water change” for the breeder box. Used syringe for that too, high up in the middle box of the box away from everyone. New tank water automatically comes back in through the slats. I’m OCD about water quality.
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On 6/8/2022 at 9:40 PM, Bev C said:
you guys are wanting me to have babies 😂 but i do not have the space for another tank
Are you sure? Because @Fish Folk used his closet space for a guppy tank! You don't have a spare closet? 🤪
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On 6/8/2022 at 11:37 PM, Torrey said:
And they name the fish in their tank now, and even fed fish when I had surgery last fall. As in, they offered to feed the fish (flake food, but still!)
That's awesome! I have a lot of work to do. Getting my husband to watch snails hatching was out of the question. He's a gamer and prefers to absorb himself in that instead. (I did text him a photo of a baby snail though. I couldn't help myself.)
However, when I scaped the tank (changed from gravel to sand, added driftwood & live plants) he did walk up to it and say, the tank looks pretty good! Also when I got the Bolivian Ram and added him to quarantine, I got hubby to come and see him. So he's not a complete lost cause? LOL
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Garden snail that visited while eggs were hatching.
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When I got home yesterday I saw things in the breeder box which I believe were slugs. They were moving but didn’t look like what I observed hatching later.
I put a paper towel under the breeder box to try to get a pic to focus.
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If I am really bored and can’t find ANYTHING else to do, I will remove calcium deposits from my hood. 😝
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On 6/8/2022 at 8:26 PM, sweetpoison said:
We use to call them Apple Snails
[New] York is the Big 🍎
York is having some kind of relationship with the cucumber
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About 20 now and some still hatching. This is not a big clutch. I have another also. I’m nervous!
I put a little Java moss in and some babies have latched onto that. And a piece of boiled cucumber. Just a small piece. I haven’t seen anyone eat the algae wafers, sinking pellet, or calcium yet, but they just ate their eggs so I guess it is OK.
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York visits
I thought she was interested in the babies, but I realized she smelled the food. So I gave her a boiled cucumber.
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Adventurous snail
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I am not sure why they are not eating? I guess they need to explore first.
Actually I think it’s because they just chewed out of their eggs and might have full bellies.
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Hampshire came to encourage.
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Garden snail is here right now moving on sliding door
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The foot of the stocking. LOL!
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Everyone ignored the food and tries to escape
Emergency nylon stocking!
All snails experienced an earthquake as I applied that. 🤣
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SNAILS ARE HATCHING RIGHT NOW!!! @Guppysnail
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Aw, I’m sorry to hear he didn’t make it.
Black neon swollen
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For years I’ve had this fish and over time the fish has become more swollen in the belly. It has been the only black neon in the tank and schools with pristella tetra. I thought maybe it mated with one of them, but now I’m not so sure because the swelling has not gone down.
The fish stays at mid level, looks right at me and “treads water” by flapping its side fins. It also opens & closes it’s mouth while doing this (like it’s saying blub blub blub). It does not look like gasping or struggling for air. More like it’s chatting. It has begun to act territorial and chases away other fish that approach it. Then it schools as normal without the mouth movements.
It alternates between treading water, chasing, and schooling.
Illness? or behavior?
Other black neons in the photo were just added yesterday, but the swelling and behavior are ongoing.
Ph 7.5
temp 81
ammonia 0
nitrite 0
nitrate 10
80/180 for gh and kh- I’m not sure I listed those two in the right order, I don’t have the test kit in front of me