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  1. Fonske
    Apple snails chilling out
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    I would like one of these guys. Very cute, very smart and entertaining to look at. They are sold as freshwater fish, but I have doubts about that, so no taking the plunge yet.
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    Long-fin black (green?) tetra
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    Thank you :) One tip if you are going to do it - avoid (or modify) two-piece suction cups like this one: Their "arms" are perfect for holding the rhizomes, but they are also prone to detaching themselves when one tries to adjust the position or (especially) the angle of the cup. It's not hard to fix though, just tie the parts together with some thread and it will be fine. Plants can also be secured to cups with a cable tie or thread, i.e. it's not necessary to have cups with "arms".
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    Yes, just suction cupped to the glass. I used suction cups that came with heaters and submersible lights, they were an easy fit for ~1/2" thick rhizomes. They don't fall down. The flow in the tank is very gentle, the anubias is lighter than water, so there is hardly any weight load on the suction cups.
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    If you want to keep the sand, then mixing it with another substrate(s) can help. Dirt and fish poop shows the most on a fine, light-colored uniform sand, so adding a dark, or (much better) multi-colored natural-looking sand or gravel will make the dirt less conspicuous. If your sand is white, it might take a lot of a darker additive to tone it down though. I once mixed one part of white gravel to seven parts of black and dark gray and the result was still very bright. You can also cover your sand with a layer of coarser darker sand or small gravel or pebbles, but in this case some of the annoying hard-to-vacuum sand will still show up at the surface.
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    Thanks. No, the tank is from a no-name chinese manufacturer. The rounded-edges style is called "hot bent glass" here. The tank is quite shallow, this is actually one of the reasons why I decided to put the plants on the walls, there is not enough room on the floor. A cube with planted walls would look even better, I think. I forgot to mention that the bunch of anubias nana petite (at the bottom of the tank, center-left) is sewn onto a piece of coarse black sponge (camouflaged by a bit of the sand on top). Can probably be considered as "living mat".
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    I took some for you.
  9. Fonske
    I have 4 display tanks with fish 3 plastic tubs one of which is turtle's 1 former QT now permanently occupied 2 small betta tanks and 1 tank with apple snails. I also consider 2 tanks of my spouse to be half-mine because I feed the fishes. So 12 in total. I need to reduce this number...
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    I think they were custom made for that particular shop. I have not seen these decorations in any other stores and I could not find them online.
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    My mini-Cthulhu is up to something...
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    To be fair, the crucial bit for mine (the bottle cup with the nozzle that connects to the air pump) came for free with the brine shrimp eggs. Along with a strainer, measuring spoons for salt and for the eggs, and other useful stuff. I don't heat the hatchery, and I tried to get rid of the light too, but it did not work. Also, harvesting from this device is a bit awkward, so this is the part I am still figuring out how to improve.
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    I don't have any of my own, but want to share something I think is cool. These are from a place that sells only corydoras and plecos. The shop also carries jewelry and diamonds, right next to the fish tanks.
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    Mine is quite un-glamorous, but it gets the job done, for the total cost of $0. I wish I could just buy Ziss or build a cool unit like the Bill Smith's though :) Before assembly: In operation:
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    Dwarf gourami
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    If you rinse and drain the BBS, the amount of chlorine in them will be negligible. I always rinse mine in tap water. (I put them into a small container with non-chlorinated drinking water after rinsing because I find the "diluted" BBS easier to dose. And drinking water eliminates the chlorine worries.) Of course, you can use your tank water for rinsing if you don't mind the extra work.
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    Mine have already got a festive Catappa leaves wreath.
  18. Fonske
    Small (about 2cm) green tiger barbs.
  19. Fonske
    Guppies and glo-danios would be ok for 10g. Here are quick snapshots with no editing other than cropping. No special lighting).
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    Betta poop is a very compact round thing, it can be easily detected and sucked out using a turkey baster or something similar. Any snail, even a relatively small one like a pond snail, will produce a lot more poop than a betta. Snails are 24/7 poop factories.
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    Yes, if it is a real traditional goldfish bowl like these ones. The bowls in this shop are on the smaller side, the largest (at the back) is about 2.5ft in diameter. Most also have a water re-circulation structure with the intake at the bottom and the return through the dragon head on the side.
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    Rust can be removed by soap. I have cleaned various metal items (pliers "frozen" because of rust, a cup damaged by baking soda, rusty old scissors) using just soap and water. Stick the rusty tool into a piece of soap or let it sit in a very thick soap solution for a day or two (maybe more if there is a lot of rust) and the rust comes off very easily and cleanly after that, just washes away with water. I don't know whether this method is safe for coated items though, soap might remove even more of the coating if it is already damaged.
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    Black halfmoon dragon(?), no name yet.
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    Isoetes velata var. sicula somewhat resembles vallisneria, but it's rare and not easy to propagate.
  25. Fonske
    I love mine.
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