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  1. Fonske
    Always fun to look at tiny things. Are these paramecium? Would love to know more details, e.g. what the magnification is.
  2. Fonske
    My community tanks are fed twice a day. The first feeding is after the tank lights turn on at 11 a.m., with dry foods (rotating flakes, algae tabs, and sinking pellets). The second feeding is around 6 p.m., with live BBS and/or frozen food (bloodworms, daphnia, cyclops, brine shrimp). Couple of times a week I toss in a piece of blanched carrot or zucchini, at night, for snails and shrimp.
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    I learned the hard way that bettas don't thrive in my hard, higher-pH water. Especially bettas with ball gowns for fins and those of most "unnatural" colors, like white. Reds and blues seem hardier in my experience. These days I make sure the water in betta tanks is soft and full of tannins from catappa leaves. I would also make sure there are no sharp objects in the tank as well as tight places the fish can get stuck in (which bettas love to do). My recommendation for a first-time community-tank betta would be a short-finned one, a plakat or maybe a spade tail. But it's hard to resist other types, they all are so gorgeous!
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    Congratulations with your first babies :) Same thing happened to me too. Ordered my first guppies, got several females with fry in their bags. I hurriedly set up a small fry-only tank, just 2.5 gallons, with a tiny filter, heater and light. It was much easier to make sure the babies get all the food and none of the parental predation there. I fed five to six times a day, live baby brine shrimp, egg yolk, powdered flakes, frozen cyclops, etc. Light on for at least 12 hours a day. Daily water changes. My tiny tank ended up to hold 200+ babies after a couple of months. It was a lot of fun to watch them grow and color up. :)
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    I don't think it matters, really. Start with knowing your water, then choose a fish that you like from the species that are known to thrive in similar water parameters.
  6. Fonske
    Unless there is an intake sponge on the HOB which they consider to be Shrimptopia :)
  7. Fonske
    Very pretty colors, love the blue and black combination.
  8. Fonske
    That's so cool! But...does it mean some swords have flowers and some not? My dark sword grew a stalk that totally looked like a bunch of flower buds, but there were no flowers, the buds just developed into new mini-swords with leaves and roots. Maybe yours is like a spider plant? Flowers first and then they become new small spiders? I would just wait and see :)
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    I would start with testing the water and considering "easy to keep" species. Is your water soft/low pH or hard/high pH? Do you plan to use a heater or the temperature is going to be on the lower side? Some fish can tolerate a wide range of water parameters, (e.g. zebra danios) and some might not do very well if the water is not to their liking. Also, in a peaceful community setup, you don't have to populate all the levels in the tank at once, so it might be wise to begin with just one species and add others as you get more experience and confidence.
  10. Fonske
    Oh my gosh, they are beautiful! Such an amazing blue color. Thank you for sharing. Now I will forever dream of getting those to mix with my (I believe) sunset variatus.
  11. Fonske
    Endlers
  12. Fonske
    This. My balloon pearl gourami is named Biped, kinda deservingly. My rosy bitterlings are Thugs, which is completely undeserved. One tiny longfin angel is Little Troll because that's what he does to his tankmates. And the biggest oranda goldfish is "3D (impolite-synonym-of-behind)" because it's basically what (s)he consists of.
  13. Fonske
    More fun than art here... fishy photos run through an auto-painter.
  14. Fonske
    Likely never going to keep these, so only admiring from a distance. Long-fin short-body platinum koi.
  15. Fonske
    Went to a park today and found a mysterious spot of several square meters covered in snow. Mysterious, because for at least a month there was no snow or any other kind of precipitation in here.
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    It just decided to flower one day, I did not do anything special. Then the guppies in the tank discovered the flower, decided that it is delicious and ate it :)
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    Floaters are finicky. I once changed gravel substrate to coarse sand and in about a week all the frogbit on top of the tank melted away. My theory was that the gravel substrate accumulated a lot more mulm and nutrients for the floaters and they starved to death upon the removal. I suspect removing the wood could do something similar to your water lettuce. Another thing I learned about water lettuce is that it hates dry air. It dies in two days in my 30% humidity. Does your tank have a lid?
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    Baby blood parrot
  19. Fonske
    I am curious, would this kind of HOB be suitable, at least potentially? This is a modular system and all the chambers are sealed. (not my photos)
  20. Fonske
    I use a similar (simpler) tool for the same reasons. Another DIY thing I use all the time is the chopstick-extended toothbrush, for cleaning the tight spaces like tank corners, insides of internal filters, crevices in wood, etc.
  21. Fonske
    Anubias hastifolia grows pretty tall (there is a thread about it here on the forum). Another option is Anubias gracilis, it has very pretty leaves on long petioles, if you can get it.
  22. Fonske
    It's good to familiarize kids with their surroundings early.
  23. Fonske
    All my tails and fins are alive and look healthy. Dark amazon sword got babies, they are growing roots and giving me a headache on where to plant them.
  24. Fonske
    Who is this guy? Looks like a diamond morph of silvertip tetra. Is there such a thing? Its size is about 1.5".
  25. Fonske
    If the mountain won't come to Muhammad, then Muhammad must go to the mountain.. maybe I should start a goldfish-renting duckweed-cleaning service :)
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