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  1. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    👆 Also can’t wait for updates on ❤️❤️❤️
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    Let us know how you do! Also make sure there is always a clear space at the top for your betta friend to take a breath!
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    One thought I have is to use reverse respiration on the plants. This is where you would float the plants in seltzer water (NOT sparkling water) for a few hours and the carbon dioxide may drive the bugs away. You can read more about reverse respiration here Another thought would be to hang the yellow sticky whitefly traps around the tank. The traps contain a bug attractant and could help with the situation. https://a.co/d/fDsCSBL https://a.co/d/0MFYtMw
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    I love creativity posts like this. Very well done! Feel free to throw a post in here as well if you like!
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    That’s kinda crazy
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    Hmm, seems I have had those before. Mine were scuds. 🙂 They didn’t really swim, they just ran around.
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    It looks epic!
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    Sorry to hear about the pups. Do you think the parvo illness was brought in by the new pup? Are the shrimps molting ok now? I’ve been trying to follow MST advice. If they are swimming around, feed. If they are standing around, skip feeding. But I do add Repashy or bacter AE if I see brand new shrimplets. Also doesn’t he give his shrimps crushed goldfish food? I haven’t tried that. I always worry about them consuming too much meat based protein which could create the white ring.
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    The new little nerite was able to clean the green algae off the shrimp feeding dishes. Algae that I was unable to scrub off at the kitchen sink! He makes it look effortless.
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    No need. I have a helper.
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    Guys my shrimp tank needed help! Even the silicone is growing algae. Light reduction helped a little, but not enough. Many days over the past month or so the light was kept off. This gal sure ain’t toothy enough to get the job done. Also she made a baby (hatched from egg) which I can’t find half the time. Limpets and MTS haven’t made a dent in this either. So here we have Shiva! Thanks to @Guppysnail for the name. I collected name suggestions when I adopted Kratos. Kratos name was chosen by a neutral 3rd party, and I kept this name in mind for the next nerite. Shiva is a young olive nerite. He will be having the feast of kings once he learns his way around.
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    I had to revamp this tank. The huge rocks were just monopolizing the swimming space, and it didn’t seem like the fish were comfortable. It is only 5.5gal. Before & after Geppetto got a new tunnel as well which he loves.
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    https://aquariumshrimpkeeping.com/how-to-treat-scutariella-japonica/ I followed these instructions for the No Planaria method.
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    The day has come. My oldest snail Romeo has finally passed. Romeo was sent to me, along with his siblings, by @Guppysnail. She hatched him in October 2022. I found some pics from his childhood. This could be him or a sibling, not sure. This was the day my snail mail arrived. I carefully placed everybody at their welcome gift. Aren’t they gorgeous!!! Romeo was first to explore. He had a white foot and everyone else had a peachy foot. Also Romeo had freckles. Here he had a bit of a growth spurt. He was notorious for falling asleep on his girlfriends and they had to haul him around the tank for 2-3 hours. What can I say? He liked to snuggle afterwards. 💜 And here’s just a little video of how arrogant he was. LOL! That’s a nerite he’s monster trucking over. But he was a joy to have. He reached 16 months old. Wow! He long outlived his siblings. Perhaps due to the “exercise” he was getting? But he was also the fastest mystery snail and would be bookin it across the tank on a regular basis, just doin his laps.
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    I resolved it with No Planaria. Note: No Planaria is not snail safe! I moved my snails out before treatment. Also it will be awhile before you can return them. P.S. Tried salt dips. Found them ineffective and extremely stressful for me and for the shrimps. Also I had tried Prazi Pro: didn’t work.
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    Sometimes midwater. Never from the surface. I use a tube to drop food to the ram.
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    Flint cozying up to Hampshire
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    One Bolivian ram makes for a nice peaceful community fish. Some folks that got 2 Bolivian rams reported they fight; one will chase the other relentlessly until it gets stressed and starts to starve. Not sure what the magic number of Bolivian rams is. Ask @Guppysnail or @knee @xXInkedPhoenixX is the only one I’ve seen so far to keep 2 together for any decent length of time, but I believe she ultimately separated them because she “wasn’t sure” if one was picking on the other while she wasn’t looking(?) Bolivian rams are less colorful than other fish, but they win for personality. They will interact with you similar to how a betta would.
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    Wow! Look at it go! Aqueon lids.. ugh! ☹️
  20. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Looks similar to the pregnant molly in this video
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    Welcome!
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    Great news! With just 2 days of ich x and salt, the dot on his head is gone. While I don’t think it was ich (because the dots didn’t multiply), the Fritz disease chart recommends an ich med for like 3 different diseases that have dots as symptoms, so I felt I had a good chance of success going this course.
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    Floating plants don’t like glass or acrylic lids but they do ok with an eggcrate lid. However there will be more evaporation and top offs.
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    The spot on Geppetto’s head was not improving, nor was it getting any worse. The treatment was salt and catappa. After a few days of monitoring and moving the shrimps out, I started him on ich-x. Here was yesterday: And here is today, much improved P.S. 3rd photo looks like a bunch of spots, but those are not on him. Those are limpets on the glass and some particulates in the water.
  25. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Since Geppetto has been having a violent streak this week, I made the executive decision to evict his tenants. They are now in shrimp paradise and can enjoy the latest and greatest goodies from my Crayfish Empire shipment such as soybean pellets and dragonfruit sticks, bee pollen sticks, beetroot sticks, etc.
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