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I "rest" water for some of my tanks. If I had room to store enough water, I'd do it for all. The advantage is that I don't have to worry about water temperature, as it automatically adjusts itself to the room T; and filling small tanks from 1g bottles is easier than using a bucket+pump combo. I don't treat the water with anything, just let it sit for several days without lids/caps. It depends, I'd say....I use water conditioner tablets and some of my fish (angels, congos, bettas) don't take it well. They are much better with water changes from a bucket/bottles that have stood open for while (normally for a whole week, but occasional 24 hours is fine too). Other fishes seems fine with the conditioned water so that's what they get.

Cory recommended single angel as a centerpiece fish in one of his videos and I took advice from him. My solo young angel lives with congo tetras and a rainbowfish; he/she chases them around a little bit when in breeding mood but seems happy and healthy in general. I think it's ok.

I'd try with light on the them all the time. My hatchery runs at ~86F during summer months. The only effect is that BBS hatch much faster. Air is likely the main issue as you seems to be doing everything else right. I don't use Ziss, but I know that the way the air is supplied (even using same airpump), can affect hatching a lot. Ditch the airstone, play with the air flow a bit if you can, keep the light on and it should work.

1) Are you having this issue specifically with Ziss hatchery? Or this is your first attempt at live BBSs? 2) Do you use any light during the hatching? In my (DIY, not Ziss) hatchery hatching rate dropped a lot without light source. 3) You didn't mention what kind of BS eggs do you use, are they from Aquarium Coop? If not, could they by chance be decapsulated BBS eggs? I would do a test hatch of a tiny amount of the eggs in a flat dish/container. No air, no dechlorinator, 12g salt per 500ml water, a pinch of baking soda, 24-48 hours at 70-80F.

A snakehead. Graceful, chill, leopard-spotted, and air-breathing. Young snakeheads in local ponds look amazing.. big ones are food, so I kind of had them, just not as pets.

I have so many favorites...green water, because it never grows in my tanks...unattached long hair algae, because it's so meditative to pull it out...brown diatoms, because otos love it, and otos are neat little fish to have. The real "favorite" though is staghorn, especially when it decorates delicate plants with its intricate, stylish, impossible to remove bushes (//sarcasm off).

Valentine's day angel :)

I totally fell for the inventive, er, "unique" name, thinking it's a journal about some angelfish subspecies 😄 I'm glad I did though, the baby gobies are so cool, wish you all the luck with them!

Is there a lid on the tank? If not, you might want to check your air humidity. I couldn't grow water lettuce no matter what and learned from an old fish-keeping book that the reason was my very low air humidity (below 30% RH at times). Water lettuce apparently hates that.

Great-looking and aptly named fish! Love the spots and the chunky outline; foresee a lot more than a pair in your future :)

Mine destroyed all the plants, relocated all of the substrate repeatedly, and killed a tankmate of a slightly smaller size (plus had some of my blood as well). I would never unleash them on such a beautiful aquarium as yours. Some young leopard bushfish would look awesome in this tank, I think, but it's not a cichlid and too big for 55 in a long run...

My understanding is that the magnets are for the panels to be easily removable, is that correct? Such small diameter won't work with the glue tape, it needs some area to hold the vertical weight. If the goal were to semi-permanently glue the panels to the frame, the tape would most likely work. It's sticky (very sticky) to smooth surfaces. It can be removed without residue though (with a lot of effort).

How big is the contact surface and how much weight it has to support? I would probably try glue tape if extra-thickness is not a problem. It sticks to metals but I never tried wood, it might need some smoothing to work. If the magnets are small, I would put them into a casing of sorts. For example, a plank of wood (same thickness as the magnet) with a hole. Peg the magnet into it (with some superglue just in case), then glue the plank to the panel with any adhesive that works for wood.

Does anyone play the 6-letter variation? Got lucky with this one :)

I use alcohol wipes, eyeglasses cleaning solution, or just water, followed by a dry paper towel. Gets rid of those pesky hard water stains quite well.

My lone rabbit snail gave birth to strictly one baby per month for ~7 month. Sounds like you have two very fertile females.

I would go into a fish store and fell in love with some totally unexpected random fish I have never thought about.* *most likely a gorgeous betta. Or some colorful shrimps. Or a rabbit snail. All are awesome, fun to watch, and will do just fine in 5 or 10g.

Spring festival holidays + Wordle archive = lots of fun :) Now back to the normal with one Wordle per day...

Don't give it up yet. Maybe try to toss it into other tanks and see how it goes. I like anacharis a lot and I tried to grow it in 5 tanks (no ferts or CO2, inert substrates). It grows like crazy in one tank, stays the same and covered in algae in another, hangs on dear life in the third, and completely melts into nothing in the last two tanks. The best growing tank has a lot of sunlight, lots of heavily fed fish, and runs at lower temperature than other tanks. When sun hits the tank, the anacharis is pearling and its beautiful...

No, I didn't see these symptoms, my bettas have always been gluttons and quite active. Their issues always started as problems with fins or skin in general. After changing to softer/lower pH/filtered water (among other things), they seem to be doing much better. I use only gravel and sand, so no experience with pH variation due to active substrates.

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I have ~7.6-7.8 pH, ~12 dGH and ~9dKH in tap; my tanks are small and evaporation is ~1/2" per day. After topping off with tap water for a while, dGH went to >15, and dKH to ~ 12. Didn't see any effects on the fishes I kept at the time (guppies, danios, bitterlings) or plants, neither negative nor positive. These days I top off with RO only softies like bettas, others seems fine with the tap (and large water changes every week).

I'm having too much fun working on the old puzzles... Had several lucky two-liners. I couldn't find how to save/get back to the results though, the archive only shows the number of guesses...

Yes, "the most likely to lose" situations, when there are too many possibilities to try...

Congratulations on the fish babies! How big is your tank and how many adult guppies are in it? If your guppies are well fed, they won't hunt babies too much after a day or so. Definitely feed the babies, small amounts several times a day if you can. Live baby brine shrimp are the best, but any powdered fish food will do. You can leave the plastic plant in the tank or take it out, it probably won't make much difference. Size and growth rate of guppy fry can vary quite a bit. You might have to wait for the next generation to see what size they are born at and how fast do they grow and color up. Whether your fry is a couple of days old or a week old doesn't make much difference care-wise; as long as they have clean water and food that's small enough for their mouths, they will be fine.