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  1. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I’ve been afraid to go down that rabbit hole. Worried I’d become too interested. Maybe after exams.
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    Some of the collection from today. This is my life now. 😬 I tried to look with macro lens for eggs in the molts, but I couldn’t see any. Might be too small or these shrimp may not have been hosts. And I found a snail JUST LIKE NIBBLES in the tank! Um.. Chick? That is Nibbles. He hitched a ride when you put plants back in. …oh. Anyway, he’s just fine. I had done a 50% water change and have been running carbon. He got put back in his bucket though. Also some MTS came up today. I think they know the water has been changed and there are way less meds. One is really beautiful. OMG she’s trying to dig! Placed in QT bucket so she’s nice and safe during next treatment. I found a few other babies but too small to handle/move.
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    Yep, light had just come on so she was still muted color
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    Today is regular tank maintenance for the 29g community tank. Finally. Something easy and relaxing. It really need it too after my shrimp hunt last week to catch all the wilds. All those little piles of mulm. So, trim some plants, etc. Toss the sponges in the bucket. Ok, let’s start the siphon. Look in bucket: flop flop flop.. (????) oh jeez… shrimplet! Found a few more in the bucket after the water change. Maybe 4-5 total. NOT newborn ones. Elusive shrimplets somehow evaded all the fish and I guess were living in sponges. Sigh... turned into a shrimplet hunt in 3 mulm buckets, as I was using extra buckets to clean sponges… I’m getting burned out… 😔
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    Are those pygmies?
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    Oh, got the results back from 3rd cpa exam. Passed! That’s 3/4 tests down!
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    Treatment 1 for blue tank concluded one day short. Why? The importance of being home the day a treatment first goes in has been stressed, as all the molts on that day need to come out ASAP. That day will have the most molts and hence, the most parasite eggs, so I need to do my best to ensure those are not consumed, thus repeating the life cycle. So treatment 2 starts tomorrow ☹️, because I will not be home Sunday (Father’s Day). I verified this is ok because this particular medicine is considered mild on them. So the plants and wood went back in as they rest. They are sooo excited about all of this. And they got a nettle lolly. 🙂 I will run carbon this afternoon; the tank is still filling right now. The water changes are 50%, dripped in.
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    That worked, to an extent. At first I thought I got one or two molts. Then I noticed a lot of molts floating in the corner. I ended up with 9 or 10 total. There are 30+ shrimp in the tank, so we must stay the course. We cannot shorten treatment. That was a great head start though and likely cleared a ton of the scutariella japonica parasite/eggs out.
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    I like sponge filters for small tanks because HOBs tend to create too much flow and have to be modified to reduce flow for small tanks. Here's my betta in a 10g tank with a sponge filter. I really don't think it takes up too much room; I barely notice it.
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    I use K (powder) along w/ EZG and root tabs. It's not perfectly balanced but it's getting there, and K was the secret to keeping my java ferns from black spot.
  15. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    That looks like hair algae to me. I've got some as well. You can reduce lighting and remove it with a toothbrush. https://www.aquariumcoop.com/blogs/aquarium/aquarium-algae
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    @xXInkedPhoenixX didn't you have a swollen neon like this?
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    Agree 100% ☝️ The snails seem to small to spike the ammonia, but as an extra precaution you could add some live plants to the tank, because plants consume ammonia.
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    I use tap water and prime. Sometimes I change once a week, sometimes I change once a month. Along those lines. My parameters don't change. I started with 10%. Some shrimp would die. It's because I was just dumping the water back in with a bucket. I moved to dripping water back in (well, full flow through an airline - this still ends up being slow). 25%. No more losses. I feed a "tiny" bit of Bacter AE once a week also, particularly if I have shrimplets. Supplement with Repashy soilent green powder. I feed solid foods also (shrimp pellets or prepared Soilent Green repashy, or boiled vegetables) and for fun once a week I give them a shrimp lolly and watch the frenzy. P.S. I have hard water.
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    OK. Wild tank is now medicated. Torrey said I could do a 50% water change and drip in replacement water and add the meds. Doing that big of a water change should trigger a bunch of molting, and thus, the treatment time can be reduced. I will check the tank later to see.
  20. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Snoopy was so much smaller on page one. 🙂
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    The foot look kinda marbled. VERRRYYY COOL @Cinnebuns😍
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    I agree with @Colu's treatment. Bettas love Indian almond leaves. Their natural environment has a lot of tannins. You can add the leaves as @Colu suggested but you can also make a "tea" with them. Just boil 3 leaves in a pot of water and let that sit til it cools to room temp (I let mine sit overnight to try to get it as dark as possible), and then add some of that tea into your tank. If you make the tea, the tannins get into the water column faster. Leaves in the water will release the tannins over time; it doesn't take too long. Either way, it will help the betta, along with the salt. With salt, I would recommend testing the water for ammonia daily. Sometimes you can get a reading when using salt. I see you ordered a test kit, so you're on the right track! Anything above 0, you'll want to do a water change. A dechlorinator that detoxifies ammonia is recommended as well. It's good to have on hand, just in case. I use Seachem Prime. Mystery snail care sheet 👇
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    Or a plant weight! She’s full of mischief, I’m telling you.
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    But sometimes she pulls the food out on the right side, and sometimes on the left side!
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    Snoopy keeps messing with me. Several days this week I put a Snello into the food dish. And Snoopy pulls it out of the food dish and puts it in the sand…🙄
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