PerceptivePesce

I didn't know some tweezers wouldn't open up wide enough, and I'm having trouble imagining them. Got a brand name? I wanna check this out so I can wrap my head around it.

Yes to the first question. No to the second. You grasp the algae, or whatever, between the tubing that is slipped over the tips of the tweezer. I hope that makes sense, I'll continue to clarify if you ask 🙂 @Ninjomasorry, I should have quoted you

I just invented the solution to this problem. It's sheer brilliance! It works extremely well at gripping hair algea and removing it from plants. It's that super soft air tubing slipped over the tips of my tweezers. The grip is strong. You're welcome, internet. Now take this knowledge and fly! Spread it to all!

This morning I found what was left of the dead shrimp. Only his meaty tail remained 🍤, and there was one shrimp trying to finish off the tail fin when I pulled it out. I've had a few other neos die and they never got eaten. I guess they were diseased and the others could sense it somehow. Crazy. I assume this one was healthy and died from stuck-in-sponge trauma.

Well, the expel-P regimen was devastating. I have 3 big girls left and I lost some java ferns. I'm just curious. How well do y'all figure this treatment works? Like, what are the chances I didn't get rid of all the parasites? I'm asking because I think I want to just go ahead and get the goldfish I've always wanted.

Yesterday, I found a blue neo stuck in my coarse pre-filter sponge. I had to tug pretty hard to get him out, but he swam off. This am there is a dead shrimp and all the other neos are feeding on him! Do I need to feed my shrimps some meat?

Stone masonry? The list of hobbies needed for my aquarium hobby is getting longer every day. 🤣

For the store. I want an all black sponge filter with an opaque black riser tube. There are none out there. I modified a sponge filter to get the all black aesthetic, but now the air stone needs to be replaced and I can't find one to fit, even the ACO ziss airhead is slightly too tall. So frustrating!

How long does it take for a nitrogen deficiency to manifest? I'm dosing my tank with expel-P which also requires lights-out for 24 hours. I've done 2 treatments 8 days apart and my 3rd treatment is scheduled in 2 days. I've also lost 2/3 of my nitrogen producing guppies, and I've done 2 extra WCs (before treatment WCs were performed once a week, I've done 2 WCs per week since treatment.) My java ferns were fine before the treatment, but now they are dying. The leaves are quickly rotting away.

@Colu I'm one day late dosing the 2nd course expel-P. Last week I dosed on Tuesday. This week I dosed today, Wednesday. Will this delay mess-up my treatment?

Thank you! One more question. Is it okay to do another WC before next week's dosing?

@Colu How long can the vectors stay alive without fish hosts? Can shrimp be a host? (My shrimp are fine right now, they seem to be doing great.)

@Colu Is it normal for things to get worse among my fishes after expel-P treatment?

@ColuI fed at 9am and dosed expelP at 9:30am, cst. Lights are unplugged, UV in canister is off, and I covered the tank with a blanket. After I WC with vacuum, do I turn the UV back on? Should I put carbon in the canister?

@Colu Hi, it's me again. Is there some kind of disease that affects snails and fish but not shrimp? I order 6 nerites online, received 8, and added them to my tank on March 7th. (4 king koopa, 3 horned, 1 olive) They were all alive and moving for a day or two before stopping. Today, they all smelled bad and I removed them. Also, I'm still seeing juvenile guppies wasting and not eating. My neocaridina and amano all seem to be doing well- no deaths that I know of. @nabokovfan87If my water is dirty, would the shrimp be dying too?

I'm a newb with Java ferns. I got them about 3 months ago. My advice, let the babies grow a bit more before removing them. At first, I removed some young babies and glued them to a rock. Then later, I let them grow on the mother a bit longer before gluing them to another rock. The rocks with more mature babies are doing better than the younger ones.

I bought a small siphon for my 90g with the idea that I'd use it to get around rocks. It was a bad idea, didn't work as well as I thought. But for a nano tank, it's probably perfect. I looked at a few different tools, and I got this one for $15 off amazon. The connections are all tight, no leaks. The quick-connect extension didn't leak. I didn't get the connector for the baster extension, that was a bummer, but the baster bulb fits snuggly to the pipe, and I've used it a couple times to get some debris, it did the job.

YES! Marimo!! What are some negatives about this "plant"? Do they eat a lot of nutrients? Do snails and shrimp eat them? Fish? Do they hold lots of detritus?

I have amano and neocaridina. I got the amano in the mail a little over 2 weeks ago. They arrived at about 0.75 inch in size, and I can tell they've already grown. I found one in my canister last week, and I haven't found a dead body so I guess it's still alive. My in-tank sponge filter and canister pre-filter sponge are spotless! Today was water change day and I was going to clean those in-tank sponges. I bagged the sponge filter first and found 8 or so teeny-tiny (~2mm) blue neo babies!!! I immediately put it back, I hope I didn't kill them! Not being able to clean those sponges may be a problem. @nabokovfan87 I think you were right about my guppy sickness, dirty tank, because I think they may be improving now that I've turned the UV light on. I need to watch it some more to confirm, I've only been running it for a week.

I have digital, API tube, and aco strips on hand. In my experience the API and digital results are in a similar range, and the aco strips always test lower, like around a full point lower. I posted this observation in another thread not long ago, and someone else agreed.

The blue water tube is the normal pH test results? And the OJ water tube is the high range pH test results? If so, it looks like your pH is 7.8 in the picture. That makes sense because the blue water result is a deeper blue which suggests your pH is off the charts for the normal pH test.

I think I read someone on this forum make a comment about how faux-wood rim tanks are rare because it is an antique. Maybe thinking about how it is an antique will make you appreciate it and see it as pretty instead of ugly? But, yeah, I modded a sponge filter's outflow tube from the clear it came with to a black tube so I could maintain my black aesthetic. So, I totally understand where you're coming from. I'm just making an alternative suggestion, not trying to be rude or anything.

@ColuYeah, I did take note of his belly. He was skinny but I did't think it was sunken. I don't think he ate while he was in there, or before I put him in there. I never got an ammonia reading, but changed out 10cups (from 1g) twice. The orangey brown food really popped on the floor of the blue bucket he was in.

@Colu I found the fry dead just now. He was still alive when I left the house 3 hours ago. I inspected him and I didn't see anything unusual, no mouth spot.