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What size a tank are they going to be in? I bred them for a while and had them with everything. As long as I removed fry when they became free swimming nothing really bothered then much. I had two pairs breeding alternately in a 75 gallon with discus, green neon and ruby tetras, Dicrossus, bristlenose, Sturisomatichthys, L46, L519. The Dicrossus would start hunting down fry. If you're running just the rams in a smaller tank than 75 go with small tetras. Cichlids are relentless and barbs won't do well in the >80° temperatures.

Nope, no apology necessary. Glad we have a discussion going about this issue. I haven't swapped my airline out to rigid tubing yet so that's still in the future for me.

Thanks for all the responses. Quick update; hatcheries are now inside a 10 gallon tank that sits at 78-78 °F. There's a light on a timer for 16 hours a day. I still get some of that dead looking stuff at the bottom but what I think I need now is to swap out the Ziss airstone and line to it for something rigid that can get air right to the bottom point of the hatcher. I remember a certain Deano on the YouTubes mentioning that he did that too with the Ziss hatcher. Will try and upload a picture of it later.

Thanks, yes I definitely should be using a light on them. How many eggs are you using for your water to go cloudy? I'm probably around half a teaspoon right now, give or take.

Been having some problems with my brine shrimp hatches. Water starts out in the 70's (°F) and eventually settles at 20.5°C or 69°F. I add 2 Tbls of uniodized salt and a pinch of baking soda in chlorinated tap water to the Ziss hatchery and leave it for ~36 hours. Air is steady but not a violent boil. When I go to drain and strain the hatch out the hatchery looks like the photo below. There is a layer of yellow/orange that is not live shrimp. I can't tell if they're dead or if they might be molts. Fish will still eat them but pickier ones turn them down, probably because they're not moving. Wondering if anyone else has encountered this and what could be done to increase live shrimp yields. I've searched around online and found people describing similar problems, sometimes on this same forum, but no resolutions. I'm determined to sort it out. I run a new batch every day to feed some tiny wild caught Dicrossus and can test and observe on a 36 hour cycle.

Livebearers, the smaller rainbow fish species.

Meant to reply to this ages ago. Thanks for the recommendations, we did try Marination and it was great! And the tip about the quality of coffee shops was spot on, I definitely enjoyed some Mexican style coffees that were amazing.

So I'm making a trip to Seattle and plan to visit the store finally for the first time. If anyone has recommendations for where to eat around downtown Seattle it would be much appreciated.