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  1. Fonske
    My tanks and most of the fish are small, so I do a lot of catching by hand. Works well for platies, guppies, gouramies, goldfish and other slow-ish and trusting fish. For fast swimmers that come to the surface, like danios, I use a transparent plastic container, they just swim right into it. Especially if a bit of floating food is added. Scoop, scoop, done. For small tetras and rasboras - a black net, second hand guidance, and a lot of time.
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    I feed flakes, pellets, granules, tabs and I have no preference because most of the time I crush them all into a combined powdery mess. If I had to choose one, I would probably choose pellets with high greens content because those are a) good for my bigger goldfish; b) can be crushed for smaller omnivores/vegetarians; and c) added to carnivores' diet of mostly live and frozen foods.
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    Cardinal tetra
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    My BBS eggs (not Aquarium Co-op) came with their own coarse salt, measuring spoon, and instructions of "use 12 grams of salt =one leveled measuring spoon per half a liter water". BBS have been hatching nicely with this recipe. I saw other people use two table spoons for on liter so I did a quick and dirty comparison today (one measurement only, so no error estimate) using my "12 grams spoon", table spoon, the coarse salt and fine table salt. Results: 1 leveled "12 grams spoon" is 12 grams for both coarse and fine salt 1 leveled table spoon is 18 grams coarse salt and 20 grams fine salt 1 heaped table spoon is 23 grams of fine salt and 30 grams of coarse salt (it heaps higher) So my suggestion is to try one slightly heaped table spoon of salt per liter.
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    Shy moony
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    Hmm, what about the ramshorns?
  7. Fonske
    I don't have discus but my tanks run pretty hot for the most of the year. Various kinds of anubias seems ok with that.
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    Apple snails waiting for their tank to be cleaned
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    When I got my first guppies, seven severely pregnant females, each one was packed in its own small bag. I put them all into one tank and they immediately started fighting each other. Non-stop pecking everyone on everyone. I had no other place for them so I just let them sort their differences out. The next day some died (bad ammonia burn in shipping, likely made worse by the fighting too), the remaining ones calmed down. They are still living together with no issues. I guess I would try your approach with the breeder box. Good luck.
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    I toss a frozen cube into a tiny container (about 20ml or so) with water, the cube thaws almost immediately, then I feed several tanks using a pipette. If I need less than a cube, I wiggle it in the water for a second or so. When enough daphnia is in the water, the rest of the cube goes into a tiny ziplock bag and back into the freezer. I try not to keep the semi-used cubes for long.
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    Lambchop rasbora
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    I mostly use internal filters and I cover them with nylon socks (new, washed with warm water only). No fry goes into the filters and shrimp love to forage on them.
  13. Fonske
    I saw the bubbles in situations other than trimming as well. Whenever my cabomba plants were out of water for a while (no trimming or other manipulations, just being out of water), they would "pearl" profusely from the entire leaf mass when put back into water. I don't think is was a happy pearling but some kind of damage.
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    Maybe a general purpose immersion heater for that? One that looks like a big metal spiral? Heats up quick, no danger of shattering. No temperature control though.
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    Live foods like baby brine shrimp and frozen foods like bloodworms work for me. It takes time to consume BBS so all species have a chance. Bloodworms can be fed to to a particular fish using tweezers. Also, after a while, my ram learned that food comes from above and there is a lot of competition, so she comes to the surface at feeding times.
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    Aging chinese ricefish.
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    This thing? All my lids are DIYed from the stuff. Sharp as knifes indeed so I dull the edges right after cutting. Not going to say how because the process is potentially a much higher hazard than a couple of skin cuts (ouch). Still keep a bottle of hand sanitizer gel with aloe vera (a miracle cure for small skin injuries) handy, just in case.
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    Used to be a treat back in my childhood days... Fresh sunflower seeds straight from the head during the short hours of fading autumn sunlight... Lots of soap and hot water to clean the green hands afterwards.
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    I usually start seeing the babies when they reach about 5mm in length. Takes some time to grow to that size. Before that they hide, very, very efficiently.
  20. Fonske
    Heater, thermometer, catappa leaves, don't overfeed.
  21. Fonske
    What a stunning tank. Looks even more beautiful after the trim. Thanks for sharing. (is there fish other than discus there? A small fish on the first photo?)
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    I stare at my tanks and wonder where did all the pond/bladder/tiny spiral snails go. Used to be a lot of them snailing around, but in few recent months they seem almost completely disappear. No loaches or other snail eaters. Lots of food and fish poop. Mysterious.
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    I would first try to separate the anubias from the wood and reposition it, maybe attaching to the side of the tank near the bottom, with the stems diagonal or even parallel to the substrate (and "pressed" to the glass), so it takes much less space.
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    Danios and ricefish.
  25. Fonske
    Yes it will. Speaking from personal experience.
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