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Sharon Roberts

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  1. Galvanized horse tanks do not hurt goldfish, white cloud mountain minnow, zebra daino, Odessa Barbs, koi, and guppies from my experience. I don't know about other fish. I have both cleaned my horse tanks when too much algae and just left the algae. Im sure the fush love the algae and use it for food. Horses probably appreciate clean water but they deal. Since I have well water, I do not worry about declorinating the water but I'd think this would be necessary with city water. This year I have a tan plastic tub, 100 gallons. I love it. I have a 1/4 inch mesh wire inserted below the plants on right side. I use a shrimp net to capture the fry that congregate in that area so I can move them to a grow out tank. The plants and inserted wire are sitting on a upside down bucket so the water's about 4 inches deep in that area and shallower. The white tiles help the fry show up since they are so tiny. This year i got a couple hundred GWCMM and long-finned zebra daino. The thing in the center is a modified aquaclear HOB Filter. The foil keeps the water from splashing out.
  2. Hi @JudyS Be sure to let us know what your fry are when you find out. I have found that Celestial Pearl Danio and Zebra Danio swim close to the top and remind me of those college rowing crews (I'm sure there's a proper name for them, but cant think of it right now.) because they go forward in bursts. The Serpae Tetra that I've raised seem to stay motionless (for protection?) They will hardly move to get food when they are really young. Golden White Cloud Mountain Minnows have a blueish "light" that seems to come from their insides. They seem to swim like Daino fry. I'm a chicken keeper, too, although I've never raised show chickens. Some of mine have been beautiful, though. I have 10 right now, and two roosters.
  3. I'd use your tap water if you possibly can. RO water is a lot more work. If you can raise babies in your water, they'll be much better acclimated to it. If you can get the parents to spawn in such hard water, that is. I use Seachem Equliberum (for GH), Alkaline Buffer, and Acid Buffer(for ph, KH) to adjust my RO water to the proper GH/KH/pH. My well water (pH 9.2 before RO) AFTER the RO treatment has a pH of 8.4 but it quickly drops (1 - 2 days) to 7.2 pH because there is no KH to keep it stable I suppose. It will not go lower than that. That being said, I must wait two days before I use my RO water. I have 3 32 gal. Rubbermaid food grade containers. I transfer the RO water from the newest made container (8.4 pH) to the other containers where I can usually count on the pH being 7.2. But because there is practically no GH or KH, I must use the Seachem products to adjust depending on which fish I'm using it for. What a pain. If anyone has a better way, I'm up for suggestions.
  4. I have not researched the breeding habits of Nerite snails, but I do know they need brackish water, too. Maybe do them with the Amano shrimp? Just a thought. I bred White Cloud (golden) outside in a 100 gallon horse tank this year. They were very prolific. They are lovely. I sold most to my LFS. The few remaining are still in the tub. It got to 106 one day this summer with no effect to the fish that I could tell I did not measure the water temperature but it was probably low 90's at surface. I do not use BLACK tanks because of the extreme heat. I may move them and the horse tank into the garage in November. My goldfish (which I use as insect control in farm stock tanks that my horse drink from) simply burrow into the leaves at the bottom of the tank when it is freezing weather. Have not lost any from cold - it once got down to -6, I've just lost a whole tank from heat when they were in a black tank. (It got over 100 for several days.)
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