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  1. Fonske
    "Let's share" "Please, not now"
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    How old are the females? I would separate the females and wait for them to give birth. Then add the male immediately and most of the next batch of babies will be from him. Guppy females can store enough sperm to drop about 4 to 8 times without a male, so if you want 100% "clean start", it might take several months of separation. Probably not worth it unless all the prospective parents are very young.
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    I love everything longfin, but never thought they would look so good from above. Gives me ideas about my longfin danios...
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    I only have house plants and a camera-shy red-eared slider besides fish, but hope some day I will be able to keep a beautiful snake. Such mesmerizing creatures.
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    Here is what I feed to my assortment of greedy not-too-picky eaters: live: daily baby brine shrimp, occasional fruit flies and mosquitoes frozen: blood worms, daphnia, brine shrimp, cyclops blanched: carrots, zucchinis (mostly for the snails and shrimp, guppies like them too) dry: flakes, goldfish and blood parrot pellets, algae tablets, sinking koi pellets made by a local guy, small tropical fish foods that came for free with the tanks purchase.
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    I keep three longfin zebras and a dozen of shortfin glo's together. Lots of mutual chasing but no fin nipping. However, from time to time I see the long fins ripped from all the crazy motions they do, so I think the veiled danios would probably be happier without their shorfin relatives.
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    Apple snail, in it's own tank, asking for more plants to devour.
  8. Fonske
    I rinse them, put them in a petri-dish-like container with salty water and store in the fridge for no more than 24 hours.
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    Halfbeak close-up
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    Time will tell what's the best for you if you try things out... My definition of "the best strategy" is "less work for the same amount of live BBS", so I hatch double the daily feeding amount every other day and refrigerate half of it.
  11. Fonske
    Yes, it's rosy bitterling, Rhodeus ocellatus.
  12. Fonske
    Anyone wants to ID these guys?
  13. Fonske
    I love that bettas always have cool names :) Meet Sapphire, my chubby half-moon. He lives with a bunch of female guppies and they seem happy together.
  14. Fonske
    My betta has no problem with the black background. There is a couple of anubias plants at the back of the tank, they help a lot to reduce the reflections.
  15. Fonske
    How about submersible lights like the long one at the bottom of the picture? This light is attached above the water level and is not pointing straight down so there is a bit of reflection. Not as much though compared to the "normal" light on the top of the image.
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    Grumpy crab
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    I am a gravel vac maniac for the same reason, I hate the dirty gravel look. My solution to the fry problem was to set up a separate 2.5g fry-only tank with no substrate, plus the bucket routine to be 100% safe. More work with water changes in the tiny tank, for sure, but the clean main tank was worth it. Also, maybe a breeder box for the fry could be another option? There is a recent video of Dean presenting one on More Aquarium Co-op channel.
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    I also never noticed rabbit snails eating any plants (mine much prefer blanched carrots and zucchinis). They scrape algae from the leaves, but the leaves themselves are intact, even the tender ones, like cabomba and water wisteria. Sometimes the snails drag themselves over the leaves that are close to the substrate and do a bit of damage this way, but usually it's a very minor damage in my experience.
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    When I had many rooted plants and moved them around (a lot), I usually did not pull the roots out of the substrate. Instead, I kinda scooped a chunk of the substrate around the plant, roots and all, and moved the entire thing to the new place, trying to disturb the root system as little as possible. Not always easy to do if the plant was big, like a dwarf lily with its roots spread all over the tank, but in many cases the roots themselves held a substantial amount of the substrate together. This method worked pretty well for me, e.g. I moved my crinum three times and it did not seem to mind it at all. When I moved my lily to another tank and wanted a different substrate, I just covered the transplanted area with the new substrate, leaving the old gravel underneath it.
  21. Fonske
    Going strong, a bunch of ever-hungry-always-begging-for-food females.
  22. Fonske
    Anubias flower, phone, edited.
  23. Fonske
    My betta cleared the baby leeches after the big mama leech was removed. Not a 100% shrimp safe method though.
  24. Fonske
    It's a tough choice indeed. Some plants I love for their looks, like cabomba and water lettuce (they hate me though). Frogbit and anubias I love for their usefulness and versatility. But the one plant that brings me most joy now is actually an unidentified moss (Christmas-tree, maybe). From a small bunch of not-so-pretty but vigorous branches found in an old tank it grew into a big ball, and then into a thick carpet. Very low light, very low maintenance, no fertilizer or CO2 carpeting plant is the winner for me.
  25. Fonske
    My dreams change every time I go to a pet market. The latest edition is a bunch of longfin platinum koi and a big black ghost knife.
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