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On 11/8/2023 at 12:30 PM, xXInkedPhoenixX said:
Sorry forgot to answer these, pH runs from 7.4-7.8 and I don't have a heater in their tank so depending on time of year 72-77
OK, pretty much the same as mine.
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Do your rams use caves or tunnels? I've offered them but she doesn't seem interested?
Also Industry's little pout is the most adorable thing ever.
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On 11/8/2023 at 11:36 AM, xXInkedPhoenixX said:
Well if you notice, Industry has colorful fins too, all depends on lighting and the angle I'm taking pics at, some days they are more colorful than others. As evidenced, this is actually her front/center:
Her previously giving me lip:
Bolivian males and females have the same coloring and often the same shape, which is why many say they are very hard to sex and I believe the only reliable way is by protruding sex organs. My two change color a lot, sometimes lighter, sometimes darker. I've also noticed some Bolivians are more gold than blue which I think Snoopy is more gold, whereas mine are more blue. This is just an observation though.
I feed them Fluval Bug Bite flakes, Xtreme Krill, ACO fry food, occasional Hikari Vibra Bites and 1x a week they get frozen bloodworms and the tank gets baby brine (frozen) but not sure how much of those they eat.
True, Snoop is more on the gold hue. Also I have the light substrate working against her coloration. Sometimes when she swims up and in front of the sword plant, I'm like, dang. You are lovely! Snoop insists on eating a lot of the snail food, and she gets vibra bites quite often because they sink well and are a good size for her. She refuses to swim up to the surface for anything, but will usually come mid-level for things. She is an expert at finding the chunk of food that is still frozen vs the stuff that is floating off of the sides of the frozen cube. She always hones in on the big chunk and carries it to the back of the tank and eats it secretly before the tetras can figure out what just happened - LOL!
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I love how colorful Punk's bottom fins are. I'm telling Snoopy we have goals.. 🙂 What is Punk's diet again? & ph? temp?
Oh but actually I guess we determined Snoopy is female so maybe she doesn't get the colorful finnage like the males would? idk
Looking online it seems to be a widespread issue about Bolivian rams not coloring up. Also they are hard to find! Aquashella didn't have a single one. And none of the LFS or big box have them either. Imperial Tropicals is an in-state shipper, and they are always sold out. My LFS did order some one time but they came in with ich. My friend is really wanting a Bolivian ram. She might have to get one from @Guppysnail when hers have fry!
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It took 17 months, but I've finally passed all of my CPA exams. My husband asked how I'd like to celebrate. I reply nonchalantly, "Eh.. probably start setting up a 55 gallon tank" (not rly making eye contact with him...lol..."testing the waters", if you will). He smiled & laughed so I'm taking that as a green light. 💚
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On 11/8/2023 at 9:53 AM, TheSwissAquarist said:
Poor Polos had an op on his leg. No walks for 14 weeks. For anyone who’s ever wondered if a Dalmatian also has spotty skin:
Aw, poor fella. I do think it's cool that it looks like he still has his fur on though. 🙂
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I vac the sand. I use PFS so it's heavy enough to fall back down out of the siphon. I get a gross-looking line in the sand if I don't. Plus the sand turns greyish black, and looks nasty if I don't turn it. There are mixed opinions. Some people vac it and some don't. I saw Rachel O'Leary lightly vac the sand, so I went ahead and did it too.
When I had a UGF w/ gravel I would siphon down to the plates too. Clearing that mulm will keep the water flowing nicely through the plates. You don't need mulm to be there for UGF effectiveness; you just need BB which is going to develop regardless.
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One time I took some water out of my tank with a pump. I shut the pump off then went outside to rinse/prepare sand substrate. That takes awhile because sand can be dusty. Came back in to a filter grinding dry and the fish were freaking out swimming in like an inch of water. omg - The tank gravity-drained... the thing is, stuff happens... I'm so sorry you lost fish. I know that's not easy. You did everything else right; you just missed one step. It's easy to do, and could have happened to any of us.
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On 11/6/2023 at 6:37 PM, nabokovfan87 said:
They really should apply backgrounds for the contest or do something like rate it from both sides? That first photo, I can't imagine the color that the background would be, but having it without peoples legs would greatly improve the visual aesthetic!
I love the idea of using watercolor as the background (or oil paintings). What a visually striking and really impactful piece of the design.
This has me thinking, @nabokovfan87. I mean, really we can paint whatever we want and seal it with 2 matte laminating sheets and apply it as a background.
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@Guppysnail my LFS always has spiderwood. I could go in there and take photos and you can tell me what you’d like to buy, then I can ship it
we can do it over text or something
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On 11/7/2023 at 1:39 PM, Kit Craft said:
Thank you. I think I have seen every video Jason has every put out. I really like to over analyze. 🤣Rewatched the first one last night.
I just met Jason and Joanna in person! They are so nice!
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On 11/7/2023 at 1:19 PM, Kit Craft said:
Thank you for sharing your experience. 🙂 I kind of figure feeding correctly is going to be the deal.
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I have a tank with a little bit of soil and a sand cap with Malaysian trumpet snails. I lightly feed this tank as the only other creatures are 9 shrimp and 1 betta. For the most part the shrimp eat algae and catappa leaf. The betta either eats floating pellets or Repashy, or I will feed frozen foods with tongs, so it never even hits the substrate.
I barely see the snails because they like to burrow. If there is leftover Repashy I don’t see the snails going for it, but the shrimps do. I heard the snails are nocturnal but I don’t stay up to check back after lights out.
They are so small, I don’t see any issue with bioload, especially since they burrow most of the time.
I test the water weekly, and never get any ammonia readings due to soil disrupt, etc
I can’t speak to your other questions, only these topics based on my personal experience.
P.S. When I had them in the shrimp tank they never competed the shrimps for food. They just kinda did their own thing. They are most interested in burrowing.
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Fish for sale at Aquashella
Bettas already starting to sell out. This is the Badfish booth: a sister store of Aquarium Co Op. My friend bought a betta from Badfish.
Here is another booth selling bags of fish hung up.
Trust me. This setup is good. Also each bag had ammonia removal sponge. (Friend bought a trio of bumblebee gobies from here)
Some booths had bags of fish in bins. Sorry, but that was a hot mess. All the customers were picking up the bags to look at the fish; the fish were freaking out; then the customers put the bags back down; the next customers would come and do the same. So much stress for the fish.
I bought my fish out of the clear bin next to this one.
I asked the shop to hold my purchase until I was leaving. They bagged the fish and kept the bag in the bin for me. Easy peasy.
Display tank at entrance
Coral frags
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On 11/6/2023 at 9:55 PM, EL2 said:
water conditioner
To add to what @EL2 said, not all water conditioners are created equal. Be sure you have the one that detoxifies ammonia. Prime or Fritz Complete are examples. You must redose daily until you get your ammonia test kit, because the detoxifying effects do not last…
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One of my YouTube followers said (re: my pristella tetra) : 11 years, is that old for these fish? And I was like, good question. Let me look up their lifespan. It said 4-5 years! 😯
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The quarantine kids are doing so well. Red light because if I put the white one on, they all hide in the corner. They hate it. But I do use it briefly twice a day for health checks.
Oops, sorry that was blurry. Anyway hopefully you can tell they are using the tank space and seem comfortable. I don’t usually do a sand bottom for quarantine, but it’s the tank that was already seeded so we are rolling with it. They probably feel more comfy with substrate anyway. *shrug* Also they are going to town on the ostracods in there.
I did some shrimp tank maintenance today and then just watched the tanks for a long time. Geppetto and I spent some quality time together. He got a coconut hut today. He knows it’s there but hasn’t ventured in yet. He’s used to tunnels and thinks the hut looks spooky. We also played chase-the-skewer and chase-the-fish (fake fish I make swim past the tank). Then we played come-over-here which is just a finger wiggle on the side of the tank, and he will rush toward the activity. I like to do that where he sees it through his tunnel and he swims through the tunnel to get to the action.
There were a bunch of shrimps I saw in his tank this evening. If he sees them he will swim toward them but once they zoom he gives up immediately. Too much effort, I guess. LOL
He had a seat on his little leaf as I turned out his light.
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There are so many!! You’re going to need a table at the swap again!
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On 11/5/2023 at 4:19 AM, TheSwissAquarist said:
Glowlight pipsqueaks in the making:
Is this… a photo of some dirt? 😂
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Aquascaping contest
All of the above tanks were being raffled off after, everything included but the stand.
This may not have been part of the contest? It was part of a vendor booth. The gentleman found a hole puncher that made leaves. He used that on catappa leaves and put those at the base of this tree.
This one was in a vendor booth.
And then don’t tell the contestants but, my favorite scape was the sunset tank at the CaribSea booth.
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On 11/6/2023 at 2:39 AM, beastie said:
Be careful with the ember tetras, they are lazy and prone to over eating 🙂
No kidding. Right now they are all over the place lol. Their feeding behavior reminds me of guppies, how they pick at everything in the tank
On 11/6/2023 at 2:17 AM, TheSwissAquarist said:Which tank are they going in?
Shrimp because the fish are so tiny the shrimps don’t fit in their mouths. The tiniest of shrimplets might, but 2 LFS told me they are ok with shrimps and they will not decimate the population.
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I use terracotta all the time and don’t have the issue. I do not boil it. Do you use wood, leaves, or other botanicals in the tank?
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On 11/5/2023 at 12:47 PM, Ree said:
Thank you for responding. Fluval HOB with bio rings and purigen. I have been so rattled with all my fish dying I changed out the purigen again and forgot to rinse it. This all started this past Wed. I am in rural Oklahoma with a 3hr drive for fish or I order them. When I got home I had a fish. A older had died, I was not that concerned. I only added 2 fish and snails acclimating them slowly. I have never lost a new fish before. Thursday more dead fish. Partial water change. Saturday more dead fish. Another partial water change. Today I lost 8. I look just now and I have lost another barb. My ph is going up and is now 8.0. I have some api proper ph of 7.5 but it says not to use with plants.
nitrate 25
nitrate 0
gh 150
kh 8
ph 8 which is up from 7.5
chlorine 0
I noticed you mentioned you used test strips. Do you have both types? One would be the multi test strip, and the other type would be the ammonia test strip. Have you been taking ammonia readings?
The parameters you listed above are only the ones from the multi strip.
Of “the big 3” (ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate), ammonia is the most toxic.
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Wow. Heater malfunction?
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Malaysian Trumpet snails
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No need.
Agreed