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You are on the right track with Easy Green and a plant light. It is normal for new plants to go through melt, even if you have all the right things to start. They usually spring back. One nice thing about stem plants such as moneywort is that, if the bottom of the plant is doing poorly, you can cut the plant in half and replant the top in your sand and it will become a new plant (you may need to wrap a plant weight around it for it to stay down since it will not have roots at first). @nabokovfan87 is right regarding taking the java fern out of the sand. Here's one way to "plant" it. Cory uses rocks, but driftwood is another nice choice, and your baby snails will enjoy eating the slimy stuff (biofilm) that initially forms on the driftwood. It is a good source of fiber and protein for them. Check out Crayfish Empire for free samples of snail foods, too! They will even send you a package of calcium carbonate for free. (Just pay shipping) Their snail foods are nutritionally balanced with the calcium, protein, and vegetable matter that mystery snails need.
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Med Trio caused my water to get cloudy and my Nitrite to spike
Chick-In-Of-TheSea replied to Teacups's topic in Diseases
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ORD they are snuggling
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New favorites? Everyone's got em, right?
Chick-In-Of-TheSea replied to Shadow's topic in General Discussion
I like how his foot is speckled. When Gup first got the GBRs they were in a top tank. She was cleaning the bottom tank and then looked up and she said all the GBRs had their snoots pointed down looking at her. 😂 -
Med Trio caused my water to get cloudy and my Nitrite to spike
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Agreed. I have used Colu’s treatment and it works. Sometimes it needs to be repeated if the illness is stubborn. Do not share nets, equipment, siphons between tanks or you could infect the other tanks. You can disinfect your equipment in a mild bleach/water solution in a bucket. Then rinse well with tap water. I also dip the stuff in dechlorinated water just in case some bleach (aka chlorine) didn’t rinse off. -
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@Guppysnail this snail is pretty -
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Have you tried bunch of water changes to reduce nitrates? Do you get any nitrate reading from your tap water?
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Med Trio caused my water to get cloudy and my Nitrite to spike
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I would describe columnaris as “a dull patch”. Flat, not fuzzy. Grayish. -
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Snoopy and my rescue snail- 589 replies
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Mystery snail eggs & inverts journal
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Snails snail snails!!! 🐌 🌀 🐌 🌀 🐌 !!!! Kratos on sand, filter feeding. Look for his anntenae- 1,895 replies
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I love the furcatas at LFS. They have super bright fins on the side that they flap up and down like bird wings. -
Med Trio caused my water to get cloudy and my Nitrite to spike
Chick-In-Of-TheSea replied to Teacups's topic in Diseases
When I use maracyn, I usually develop an ammonia reading because it kills the bacteria on the filter. Ammonia then leads to nitrite. I use Prime and Fritz Zyme 7 if I am mid treatment and can't justify a water change because it would mess up dosing. I monitor the fish closely to ensure there is no stress. Prime will detoxify ammonia or nitrite even if you have a reading. But it will have to be redosed every day because those effects wear off. -
Yes for sure, it has spread out runners and I don't do anything to it. Occasionally some Easy Green (when I remember). I do have to tack down the runners with plant weights; otherwise the runners will grow up into the water column.
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Some manufacturers just know they suck and give you extra with the product (which I appreciate). There is a company/seller/brand (?) on Etsy called Stroodies which has some kind of magnet setup or patent for their betta tunnels and similar goods in their shop. The magnets are encased in the 3d printed plastic of their products I believe, so they don't get exposed to water. While certain 3d prints are tank safe, I'm trying to get away from that stuff because the grooves in the products (such as my filter baffle) just collect algae/slime.- 1,525 replies
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I wasn’t going to use the box filter itself but rather the sponge filter with the box filter’s lift tube with the horizontal “spout”. I would like to have the air take that 90 degree exit path vs straight up the co op tube, to prevent slime from forming on the tank lid. However I think this would entail drilling or melting the plastic because I’d need to find a way for the air to enter the filter as well. I think the piece could easily break if drilled, so I need to brainstorm it a bit.
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I’m interested because I have the same box filter and was considering doing something similar.
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Chick-In-Of-TheSea replied to Chick-In-Of-TheSea's topic in Photos, Videos & Journals
2 questions: Why are suction cups so terrible? and Why is silicone so terrible? (By “terrible” I mean “temporary”) 🫤 On more than one occasion the silicone has failed me on Geppetto’s PVC tunnel. It will be great for awhile, then one day the tube will just fall, leaving the suction cup behind on the glass. This most recent repair I skipped the silicone and tried 2 scuba tank o-rings. One is around the stem of the suction cup and takes up space between the stem and the hole in the pvc. The other is inside the pvc tube and hopefully provides a boundary and friction in case the tube should want to slip. Perhaps the higher temp in his tank will cause the orings to expand slightly and perform even better. I guess time will tell. If it doesn’t work I will get him a wall-mounted half coconut shell, because I am anti- zoomed floating log. I had one of those once and it smelled horribly like chemicals! I didn’t use it. It went right in the trash.- 1,525 replies
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Mystery snail eggs & inverts journal
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Ah yes.. those ones. It didn’t go as planned. But I only saw him eat one. The other ones have lots of hides and I think they are using them. But I don’t watch the tank 24/7 so not sure. 🤷🏻♀️- 1,895 replies
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I don’t have any more pure blue dreams; the ones I have have traits that looks like black ink spots. Why do you say “poor wild shrimp”? They are living in paradise!- 1,895 replies
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The merged tank Also a bladder snail is in there, and I’m not sure how I feel about it.- 1,895 replies
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Help Deciphering Water Test?
Chick-In-Of-TheSea replied to RedwoodLion's topic in General Discussion
@modified lung what do you make of this?