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African dwarf frogs are breeding.
Chick-In-Of-TheSea replied to Guppysnail's topic in Photos, Videos & Journals
I don’t know how I didn’t discover this journal sooner. All caught up. Amazing to see the progress! I bet they were a big hit at Keystone Clash! -
This looks like it could be vorticella. I’ve no personal experience with it, but it does look consistent with vorticella pictures I have seen. Vorticella ID Vorticella treatment
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What did you get done today?
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Rooibos tea into the betta tank for 17 hours. Then some catappa leaves- 3,324 replies
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Look at this leaf I found in the yard! I think it’s hilarious. Dinner plate for reference- 1,525 replies
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I never put snails back after No Planaria because of this. I have been afraid to because you never really know. However, the tanks I treated now have bunch of limpets that have appeared and seem to be doing well. I assume they may have come from the bacter ae I add to these tanks. Or from playing musical plants. Not sure. During treatment some MTS emerged from substrate. I removed them ASAP and they were ok. And every now and then I will still see one in that tank. Idk how. I did run the carbon for at least a week, I think. And siphoned the sand once or twice. Hard to do because of shrimplets.
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I used the instructions on this site to do the treatment.
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Gender-nonconforming betta really wants to be a mom/dad?
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The ones I had used previously in tanks had not been frozen. I plan to check these each week to see how long they truly last. -
Gender-nonconforming betta really wants to be a mom/dad?
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Ok guys I did it. Put some leaves again. I had a bunch of my freezer. That’s where I put them after I boil them for tea, then later I feed to shrimps. Geppetto is really really happy @SkaleyAquatics @Epiphanaea ok now back to the original topic 😌 -
Mystery snail eggs & inverts journal
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Cadet. 8 days since adoption. A footrace: Juniper:- 1,895 replies
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Gender-nonconforming betta really wants to be a mom/dad?
Chick-In-Of-TheSea replied to Epiphanaea's topic in Fish Breeding
Come to think of it, my bad experience with leaves was mainly in a shrimp tank, where I couldn’t siphon because there were always shrimplets. Should work fine in the betta tank. In the meantime I put a rooibos tea bag in overnight. Here is before & after. There are a bunch of new crypts in there; I’m waiting for them to fill out the tank. They get easy green and root tabs. -
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Something’s brewing in Geppetto’s tank… Before & after, 17 hrs, no boiling. Also, one of his plants has an algae “pom pom” LOL I will add some leaves and pull them in one week. I’m not a fan of the mess they make when they decay. I will add mopani as well. People complain about tannins in mopani, so I think it will be a nice addition for him. P.S. The rooibos smells kinda like eucalyptus. Mediciny? Has lots of antioxidants and beneficial properties like catappa leaves. He does still tail bite, on occasion. ORD look at him peeking.. Also when he comes out he does this little back & forth dance. Ok well, I now realize leaves aren’t just “mess” and “tannins” - they serve as enrichment. I don’t know why I didn’t consider them as such before. My fish is teaching me. I wonder if he will make a bubble nest today, with these new, embraced changes. Additional bonus, his colors actually look more vivid with the tannins in there. Idk why. I can see more of his greens. Yes. He is a blue & green fish! I knew that because I had shined a flashlight on him at night, once in the past. When the light came on today, he and the shrimp were sleeping next to each other on the sand. Then they woke up, looked at each other, and were both like Aw, HAYL NAW! Geppetto flared and the shrimp zoomed. Reminds me of those one night stands in movies where the morning comes and it’s like “ok, you gotta go, here’s your stuff”(throws the stuff at the person) 🤣- 1,525 replies
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Mystery snail eggs & inverts journal
Chick-In-Of-TheSea replied to Chick-In-Of-TheSea's topic in Photos, Videos & Journals
TBH I am in love with the wilds. They are all unique in their own way. Looking in the blue tank, there are very few that don’t have the black pattern. I’d have to cull most and have a pretty empty top tank if I were to try to keep the line. I don’t see the value in it, if I were just doing it for myself. I just have more fun watching wilds. It’s like, wow look at that one! Whoa, check this other one out! Constantly surprising me with all of their outfits.- 1,895 replies
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The good news is I gave my friend 25 good ones and they reproduced, so the nice genetics continue on with her 💙- 1,895 replies
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I have used No Planaria on shrimp successfully to rid them of flatworms. It is absolutely not snail safe so be sure to remove your snail friends. Run carbon after treatment. (Note: prior to that I used PraziPro which did NOT work)
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Mystery snail eggs & inverts journal
Chick-In-Of-TheSea replied to Chick-In-Of-TheSea's topic in Photos, Videos & Journals
So I pretty much messed up the blue dream tank by failing to cull. Now most have this black ink blot or stripe pattern. Not looking nice. I plan to combine the two tanks and reduce my maintenance. Not that I do much maintenance on these. But I dislike kneeling, then doubling over just to observe the bottom shelf tank. (First few photos are from blue dream tank, the rest are from wild tank. Currently they are goin all gangbusters over algae wafers. Heh. In that dish you can see some more of the stripe/blot blue ones.) Oh and the last photos.. a shrimplet I thought was too cute not to include, and a berried wild mama with a very cool pattern.- 1,895 replies
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Co-Op Plants: Pick One
Chick-In-Of-TheSea replied to nabokovfan87's topic in Plants, Algae, and Fertilizers
Micro sword is underrated. It’s very carefree and it lives on and on and on. You have to be willing to tack down the runners with plant weights though. Plants from runners shown here. -
No Planeria would work, but it will definitely kill any snails you have. But if no arrow shaped head, it’s probably just a beneficial worm. I wouldn’t go through the trouble TBH
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ORD. He’s learning from the pros.- 1,895 replies
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Guppysnail Aquarium Journal
Chick-In-Of-TheSea replied to Guppysnail's topic in Photos, Videos & Journals
What, you got tired of hide & seek?- 2,923 replies
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So this happened . . .
Chick-In-Of-TheSea replied to Epiphanaea's topic in Photos, Videos & Journals
Is this the same tank? Looks great! Found her. She loves it. And check out the bubble nests! Any change with her eye? Maybe no ocular tissue was left or, not sure..? -
I'm not convinced these are rhabdocoela. Rhabdocoela have more rounded ends. Mine don't turn that sharply.
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Gender-nonconforming betta really wants to be a mom/dad?
Chick-In-Of-TheSea replied to Epiphanaea's topic in Fish Breeding
I just don't like little clouds of dust kicking up whenever the fish swims along the bottom. -
Mystery snail eggs & inverts journal
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Pest snails fall into a different category..- 1,895 replies
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Chick-In-Of-TheSea replied to Chick-In-Of-TheSea's topic in Photos, Videos & Journals
Ok, here we go! Got the macro lens and got a video of lil Cadet! Had a growth spurt too! You can tell if you compare to yesterday’s pic (on the driftwood). (It is easy to tell the snails apart because Juniper is bigger. ) The adults found daphnia at the tank edge: The fishes’ leftover breakfast. See, this is why everyone needs snails. Otherwise you’d have to manually remove that daphia.- 1,895 replies
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