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  1. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    From aqua-imports.com: Goldfish need cold water, and the pleco needs tropical water temps. Might not make good tankmates due to the temperature requirements? The goldfish should really not be kept above 74 degrees max.
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    Welcome to the forum! Could be chubby pleco?
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    Here is a link to my tetras doing the mating dance. It's cute. They do this immediately after the brine shrimp. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_uTjqOa7VHpcqpSL7ChH786IcFPIxgn2/view?usp=sharing It's my understanding that tetra fry cannot eat baby brine shrimp right away; they will need something smaller, like infusoria. And Ember tetras are an especially small breed.
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    I watched the Co Op member video about breeding egg scattering fish. You have to lay down a plastic craft mesh at the bottom of the tank to allow the eggs to fall down through so the tetras do not eat them. Alternatively you can put a glass dish on the bottom of your tank with large rocks in it. What gets my tetras doing the mating dance (although I don't/haven't bred them) is feeding them live brine shrimp. I've seen them mate with frozen brine shrimp as well. I keep my tank at 77 degrees. @Fish Folk made a rock dish to breed his egg scatterers. Here is the video.
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    Ha. Look at the foot. That is cool. The shrimp is eating it.
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    Pretty cool! I knew that lizards and snakes shed. I didn't realize frogs shed too.
  7. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    😄 Hey @TheSwissAquarist this is your next adventure! P.S. Need a stick bug photo
  8. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    The frogs shed?
  9. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    LOL. Sometimes I give him live brine shrimp. Apparently this critter here is a real treat. He's having a great time. If it is mosquito, that mosquito picked the WRONG TANK to lay their eggs in! ☠️
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    Is this mosquito larvae? @Ken Burke
  11. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Yesterday I had a situation where a contaminant got into the wild shrimp tank and many of the shrimp were twitching and jumping. I feared I would lose all inhabitants. I did a water change and ran carbon with a hob. This was a bit too much current for the tank, and I’m sure it created stress. I only ran the HOB for 30 min at which point hardly anyone was twitching anymore. Then I dropped the media bag of carbon in the tank next to the sponge filter and went to bed. I was too upset to study or eat or anything and I just kinda shut down from anxiety and guilt. This morning I dreaded to look in the tank. But I did. Everyone is fine. Everyone. Thank God. Here are 2 of the gang
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    a clear wild type
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  14. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    I had bad luck with it in a tank, but it may be very well suited for a jar, due to the soil. I did have it in inert substrate (sand) in a tank, and it's tricky to fertilize from below due to the runners. It crossed my mind, but I invited and encouraged these snails and I feel responsible for their care. They may be small, they may be "pest snails", but they are my pest snails. 🙂 Oh it does when I have my weekly bit of evaporation. It looks cool. To do things over again, I probably would use a rock instead of driftwood, because the jar water doesn't look great with the tannins. I like tannins for a tank, but I like to be able to clearly see into the little jar. Still, the tannins aren't that bad, as you can see from the photos. I notice them a bit when I'm doing the water change. Me just being nitpicky.
  15. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Oh, I'm so excited. Those are the 2 colors I have in my tank as well, so I'm looking forward to seeing what the genetics yield. And the little shrimplet, oh my goodness, so cute.
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    The shrimp are doing well. They are very active this morning, swimming all around. I hope that they are just telling me they are hungry and not that they are stressed. Even the little shrimplets are doing just fine, walking around/foraging, which is a blessing. I gave them a green bean today. They had a huge meal of shrimp cuisine yesterday. Yes, even after my diligent tank cleaning. I admit, I was guilt feeding them because I knew I was about to medicate them. 😳 I used their little dish so the tank didn't get too messed up. Molts removed this morning. I plan to do the inspection later today to check for signs/changes with the SJ.
  17. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    You've done such an amazing job here w/ the carpeting plants. Just beautiful!
  18. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Links! 👇
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    That was a chunk of driftwood. It’s still in there but absolutely covered with moss. The moss looks beautiful up close. If only there weren’t an army of bladder snails clinging to each plant 🙂 I don’t think buyers would appreciate that, LOL The grasses are the only plants that failed. Walstad had the same experience with grasses and now avoids them. They were such a mess to work with as well. One of the reasons the jar got so full is that I was replanting the cuttings. Cuttings such as this: I didn’t want to throw those away because I knew they’d root, yet I couldn’t plant them in my tanks due to the bladder snails and their sneggs.
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    I caught the wilds out of the Walstad jar because the colony has scutariella japonica, and these wilds were from that same colony, and I want to treat them in a tank with other wilds. As I’m working my way around the plants with the brine shrimp net and a “shooing skewer” I’m thinking, wow. This jar is very prolific with plant life. But what now? What’s next for the jar? It’s successful but I didn’t think it would be THIS successful. Just for funsies, let’s put the day 1 photo. So I think on this a minute, and then it dawns on me. What would Foo the Flowerhorn do? That’s right. A big trim. I took my time and rescued every limpet and bladder snail from the trimmings. The jar gets a different treatment than the tanks. I do my best to preserve the ecosystem. There we go. Better. That taller plant there is actually a shoot/second plant the rosette sword made! But we have a surprise, don’t we? Lil tyke: There are more. I don’t think I will transfer them. It would be darn near impossible to find them all and I’m a working girl and it would be too much to undertake on top of everything else. I added some Repashy Soilent green powder. I usually do that once a week anyway. Just as I was cleaning up, and had finished the 45 min acclimation to the tank for the adults… I see another adult in the jar. UGH! At which point the light clicked off. That will be for another day. Perhaps tomorrow. This is their quarantine tank. There are about 35 shrimp in there, even though it doesn’t seem like it in the photo. Most are up in the floating plants.
  21. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    …that their behavior hasn’t changed and they are foraging and doing shrimpy things, just like the adults. The SJ is there for sure. I was watching that slithery grossness earlier on Magnifier. I haven’t seen it on shrimplets. Only adults. Then again shrimplets are too tiny to see any detail. Ha. I saw one daredevil take a ride up on the bubbles. I don’t mind keeping it, but I’d try to get a green one or hide this one behind stuff.
  22. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Ok. The medicine is in. I tried to create a drip system for med dilution and administration. The cup is the stand. The skewer is to shove in next to the bottle to keep it upright. It didn’t really work. Idk if because the med is thick or, more likely, the bottle needed a relief hole bc the stuff kept wanting to retract back up. Anyway, I took the valve off and just shook the bottle (tank water/meds) and squished it in, through the tubing, in intervals, above the sponge filter. Shake bottle, release meds, shake bottle, release meds. This med needs a lot of shaking/dilution; it’s thick. At the end I filled the bottle again with tank water and repeated the shake/add process. I expected the shrimp to go nuts but they really didn’t. They are foraging around as usual. I used Magnifier on the shrimplets, and they are doing the same. I am pushing a bunch of air in there with this air bar. You can see the foaming, which the med bottle confirms will happen. Really bad glare, sorry. The air bar doesn’t want to lay flat so, whatever. I don’t want to reach in the medicated water. I will be doing that tomorrow to get molts out though. I did a bit of an underdose, just a touch, due to medication syringe not specific enough. I’m told the treatment will still work fine at a 2mL dose. I’m not doing the wild tank yet because I don’t want them to be on the same water change schedule. Plus I need to still add the Walstad jar shrimp to that tank. I did lose a shrimp in the wild tank. It was very clear it was a molting issue. Not a failed molt though. The shell was extremely loose. I think just the molt stress plus the tank move stress combined. I also notice that shrimp tend to harass molting shrimp.
  23. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    You would love it @nabokovfan87. You need to get certified.
  24. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    Just got back. No underwater shots today. Just me and nature at the bottom of the ocean, sans technological distractions. Saw the Margaritaville ship at the marina next to mine. My dive charter for the morning dives. Divers. A light roster today. I like it that way. No tripping over a bunch of people whilst making one’s way back to one’s seat. Also since everyone was advanced, we got to do some unique deeper sites (90ish feet). The seas were flat which makes everything less exerting. Despite this, I did have to do 1 catnap at a rest area on the way home. Dive 1 ”Area 52” Depth: 86 Bottom time: 54 Temp: 78 F Drift dive. Queen angelfish stole the show. They constantly look like they are under a black light. 2 small (3-4’) reef sharks, 1 loggerhead turtle, parrotfish, spotted trunkfish, butterflyfish, Goliath grouper, yellowtail snapper, trumpetfish, gray angelfish. During the ascent we were in a big school of purple fish; fish ID uncertain, not blue chromis. Some people saw nurse sharks. I missed it. I saw the folks pointing but I think the sharks got just out of range of sight. Dive 2 ”Shark Canyon” Depth: 83 Bottom time: 37 Temp: 78 This dive had amphitheaters. Well, several reefs in amphitheater shapes. We were told to stay still in each amphitheater (kneel on sand) and sharks may come. This was true! 3 bull sharks (appearing at different times, then disappearing again). One was a 9 footer; the others were maybe 5ish feet. This was my first time ever seeing them in 125 dives! Also a Goliath grouper “encounter”. She just came up to my face, just one foot away and stared. She breathes with her lips open but there is a flap (idk) between her lips that would open and shut. She did that with a few other divers also, but kept coming back to me for some reason. We then moved on to the next amphitheater but the Goliath came with us. She stayed with us the whole dive. Oh also she had a sidekick remora which was very active and would always be within an inch of her. Saw the same sharks at the other amphitheaters, plus 2 reef sharks (again, 3-5 ft). I did my ascent at only 37 minutes in so as to mind my decompression limits, as my previous dive was longer. My dive computer tracks all of this for me and also counts down my safety stops. So apparently it was shark day! I have gone many a dive in the past without seeing a shark. I’m happy with the experience. And the bull sharks were fine. They didn’t try anything. They were just swimming around doing their thing. With their remoras.
  25. Chick-In-Of-TheSea
    It’s been a busy afternoon. I’d say there’s about 30 wilds. At least.
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