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  1. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I already did that. I don’t mind Rhabdocoela though.
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    After the RR? Mine had a hard time with hair algae (the kind that embeds into leaves and is kind of like the fuzzy side of Velcro). They couldn’t eat it as is, but they could eat it after the RR and they brought the plant back to pristine condition. Eating the stuff after RR:
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    No hummingbirds yet, and I’ve been cleaning the feeder each night and placing it back out in the morning with fresh nectar. Hopefully they will find it soon! If not I may buy a red flower to place next to it so they have an easier time spotting it.
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    I have a healthy colony of Rhabdocoela in the wild tank again. Where do they come from? I didn’t think they survived the No Planaria? I did see them alive during the treatment, then I stopped seeing them for 2 weeks or so (mainly during the carbon phase). I wonder if they had gone down into the substrate and just now decided to emerge again? I did move a windelov to their tank yesterday, but I never see Rhabdocoela in the tank where that plant came from. I have to assume they’ve existed the whole time, I suppose, treatment and all?
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    The purple of this so-called black beard algae is actually quite nice. Reminds me of a purple passion plant. I like my ignoring method for my BBA. It’s really just on a few of the hornwort that is floating at the top. You can give the RR plants to the neos after they come out of the seltzer, and the neos will pick off any residual dead algae.
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    So sometimes I give my shrimps "jobs". Plant not doing so well? Put in shrimp tank. They clean off the bad parts. Plant looks nice again. Maybe they get to keep the plant; maybe I put it back into another tank. Then I noticed they are always eager to go after molts. I figured they'd like a piece of cuttlebone perhaps for the calcium. I am all out of cuttlebone, but I found a grungy piece in the 29 gallon. I put that in the shrimp tank. The next day it was sparkly clean as if I had just purchased it. 🙂 Good shrimpies. If you ever wanted to clean ceramic media, they are good at that too.
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    It's not so bad. You spray water onto the glass and then it allows the material to cling. Then just use a credit card to push the bubbles out the sides. It does not have adhesive, and you can reposition it or remove it at any time.
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    My betta was biting his tail. Someone suggested that there is too much outside stimuli and that I should cover 3 sides of the glass. That was the worst tail biting day of all. He went nuts. https://www.amazon.com/Velimax-Blackout-Stickers-Blocking-Darkening/dp/B073TVRQ5D <---- removable! 2 things that helped my betta a TON are: Upgrade from 5.5g tank to 10g tank. Raising tank up so he can see other tanks or the room. He was previously in a lower shelf tank, and he didn't like that. He likes to see what is going on. He is curious. @Guppysnail has gouramis and may be able to offer ideas re: the temperament?
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    Agree w/ Rhabdocoela ID. I have them as well. They are beneficial to the ecosystem.
  10. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I think even medium coarse fine biomedia or carbon (depending on your needs) would work. Just not the coarse shrimplet hotel on top, lol. @nabokovfan87 Also the layers got gunked up, even in just 2 weeks, so I do not think it’s a set it forever type thing.
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    Specimen container tank. Bacter AE day and the biggest one came out to enjoy.
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    I love it. And this could be a clever way to run charcoal (pelletized, dust free) to remove meds, or zeolite to remove ammonia. Hey @nabokovfan87. Don’t you have a mods thread somewhere? I think this qualifies for sure!
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    She will if you survive the 10. 🤣 I do have a snuggler who loves belly rubs, and that’s Tony!
  14. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I think it would be fine if the fine floss was on the top. Having the coarse on the top was my issue.
  15. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    10 hrs later & still looking for shrimplets. I’ve rescued.. 40? Maybe 50? thus far. Note to self: this was not the best filter choice…
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    10 switchblades for anyone who touches my tummy.
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    Today I set up a blown glass hummingbird feeder. Not only will it help the birds, but it is also a nice piece of art to enjoy when I look out the kitchen window. Down here the nectar will need to be changed every day or every other day, depending on outside temperatures. Red dye nectar is unhealthy for the birds, so I used a recipe from the Audubon society. 4 parts water, 1 part refined sugar. I did a halfway fill today because I don’t know if I will have any customers or how long it would take them to find the feeder. Nectar can be made up to a week ahead and stored in the refrigerator. It is way prettier than the photo shows. When the light hits it a certain way, it is awesome. You can kind of see the effect if you look at the bottom part of the feeder in the photo. I had a fair number of color choices, but red is what they like. I also read that they don’t really like yellow, so I tried to avoid yellow. My friend has a blue feeder but doesn’t get any customers. Then again, she does not have any shade, and that is where the feeder is supposed to be. The nectar probably gets too hot in the sun. The hook on top is called an ant moat and it holds water. The water prevents ant access to the feeder.
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    Yesterday I aged a bucket of dechlorinated water so that today I can remove the carbon filters from the shrimp tanks. I was supposed to run carbon for one week but I ran it for two. Upon removal of this one, I found about 20 shrimplets in it. Maybe more; it’s still in the bucket and I will check again in a bit to see if I can find any more. I knew there would be shrimplets, but I didn’t think there would be THAT many!
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    I tried an AquaClear and had the same issue, so I returned it!
  21. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Very nice planted tank. The platies looks great in front of the plants.
  22. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Neat video of damselfly nymph https://youtube.com/shorts/-xOaEPWFCIU?feature=share
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    I plan to go; not sure what day yet. Maybe @Zenzo knows about any potential ACO meetups.
  24. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Wow, what a random thing! I’d love to hear the story on this one. It will be fun to see what they develop into.
  25. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I want to fix her up with Brutus. He likes to hunt crickets too.
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