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  1. PerceptivePesce
    Is it possible to kill parasites without chemicals by removing all the host fish for some time, thereby breaking the life cycle?
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    Guppies aren't derpy, they're slurpy. 😝
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    ok, I think it is Rhabdocoela worms which are in league with detritus worms, harmless. Planaria are larger and usually not white, but can be white.
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    I saw a white worm inching across my glass just now! I'm positive it was not a detritus worm. I was trying to inspect it when a guppy ate it so I didn't get a good look at whether it had an arrow head or round head. It was tiny like a detritus worm but shorter and thicker. I don't see any more yet. I have paracleanse on hand. What do? @Colu @nabokovfan87 @JoeQ
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    I have a bolbitis heudelotii. It's doing well, and I'm a newb! I like the texture contrast against my anubias and java ferns. It also has a slight translucentness like subwassertang, it looks kinda seaweedy, if that makes sense. I have it glued to a rock and last time I moved it around the tank it seemed like the leaves died off, but it grew new leaves quickly- I need to watch it more before I can confirm that observation though. It's my fastest growing plant for sure, and it's rhizome and roots remind me of java fern. I also have a mini bolbitis, but the guppies keep nipping at it. It was beautiful when I got it, but it hasn't returned to its initial glory. Othere than that it is growing well. I just very recently got a hygrophilia pinnatifida. It's not an epiphyte, but it is a water column feeder. I got it for the "fern" texture. It's put out new leaves, but that don't mean nothing since it's only been in my tank for 3 weeks. I'm excited to see what it does!
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    I don't know the inside joke, but I want to know! You no like amanos?
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    Well, I'm still learning myself ☺️ When that stuff suddenly showed up on dead plant matter after a 4 hour siesta, I cleaned it off- I was scared. I placed an online order for amano shrimp yesterday. After lots of reading I had it narrowed down to otocinclus and amano. I decided to go with amano in case I have some kind of fish disease in my tank. Lots of fish diseases don't bother shrimp and vice versa, not all though. Also, I really enjoy watching the blue neocaridina more than the guppies and nerites. I may be a shrimp lover!
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    I was watching a Cory of ACO video. Apparently, guppies and mollies can crossbreed, but the offspring are sterile.
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    I think I see dorsal fins on those fry, so ranchu can be ruled out
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    I spent 3 hours cleaning my tank today. Those 3 hours didn't include putting my gear away and journaling. Y'all, I'm seriously rethinking moss, there was lots of gross stuff in it. Mini pellia is cool tho
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    My canister is an aquatop which is a rebranded sunsun. If I can put the floss in the foam basket, I'll do that, I see where you're going. But let's say I can't, then what would you do?
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    Also, I think @zpayne10s confusion about "low tech" vs "high tech" comes from the Easy Green dosing instructions. EG says dose once a week for "low light", and twice a week for "high light" I may be wrong but I think what is meant by "low light" and "high light" is referencing what kind of plants you have. High Light plants require more nutrients than Low Light plants.
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    Is there an article or vid on how to figure out fertilized water parameters? I've been watching vids on EI dosing, but no one ever gets into the nitty gritty details on how to do it. As far as I know, there arent water tests for micros.
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    Why can't anything be simple? 😄 I have 3 canister baskets, 1st filled with 2 sizes of coarse sponge, 2nd filled with floss, and 3rd full of ceramic balls. I was thinking I'd use the floss basket for carbon, just use less floss. What do you think I should do?
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    I had been planning on increasing the gh & kh that I add to my rodi in an attempt to figure out where that extra gh & kh were coming from, but I haven't done it yet. I'll start slowly increasing it now. Should I put the carbon before or after the polishing floss?
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    It's a 4 month old tank, and it's been doing that since I started journaling on the 1st of November
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    Also, getting into why I'm using RO might get me breaking the non-politics rule around here. Just know, it was a good idea to use rodi. You wouldn't believe how many boil advisory texts I get in a month.
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    I was reading the suggested gh & kh in that article. 1) There are multiple other sources that give different parameters. It's so hard to know what to follow! 2) Actually, I'm not adding 7GH & 5KH in minerals. I've been adding 5GH & 3KH, and I've been wondering what is increasing my GH & KH since I have inert substrate and rocks. I assumed my substrate and rocks werent totally inert, but it just occurred to me that perhaps my water is cannibalizing the fish?!?! oh my heavens!!
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    I saw a guppy flashing earlier today. She skipped along the gravel, 3 flashes. Is that a definite sign of parasite? I have a UV light in my canister. I never use it. Would that be helpful? Anyone got recommendations for bulk carbon?
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    Im an aquarium newb, so Ive been popping into LFS and big boxes often for the past 6 months. I seem to like barbs. Recently, the LFS got some blue checkerboard barbs, and they are stunning!!
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    Yes, @evonner my pH was moving in that range for past 6 weeks. Now it's starting to move lower. For the past 3 days I've been getting 7.3-7.6 I filter the tap through a bulkreef RO/DI. Oh, man, I don't want to count, there's too many guppies! (Primus!) Gosh, there's like 30 guppies, over half are female, like 60%ish. Neither of the instructions for maracyn or ich-x say anything about removal after treatment. Today, I cleaned out some debris. No water change. I have QT stuff, but haven't set it up yet. The guppies seem okay. There are a couple not eating, they swim like they are going to eat but then they turn their nose. The white tipped girl ate, she does seem to be aloof, but when I feed she goes for it.
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    I have no idea how to quantify flow, lets see... Canister is 375gph. Outflow is wide open. I use an out flow bar. I drilled 4 holes 90* of the outflow holes to direct some of the flow downward on that side of glass and to also reduce some of the current coming out of the surface holes; I felt like it was a bit too violent. Both side and front walls have current flowing on them, the back wall is calmer. Food gets pushed down into the tank pretty quick and circulates a bit. On the other side of the 4' long tank is a large sponge filter. There is a corral of water lettuce in the back 3rd of depth, the surface current is reduced there- I see the guppies resting there sometimes. Sometimes I see them playing in the current, I think they like it. I have lots of plants. The older leaves grow more algae faster than newer leaves. Salt is scary. But I should really learn how to hospital/quarantine, it's just kind of intimidating. I'll watch the tattered girls tonight real close. I want to say they all eat, but I want to double check. I dosed the tank last Thursday. WC day is tomorrow, monday. I dunno if I should let the meds soak till thursday or do a WC? Also, I was wondering, if the meds killed off bad or good bacteria/fungus/mold, would that make the phosphates increase?
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    Yes, please, lets do this! @nabokovfan87 1) I put 9 packets of Maracyn, and 9 tsp of Ich-X in the tank. 2) The white spots that were on the glass, in the picture in the OP, are all gone. The spots that were on the plants are all gone too. I did not scrape it off. I assume the meds did that. 3) My parameters today were exactly the same as listed in OP, even the pH went back to 7.5 range. However, my phosphates were higher. About 1 mg/L (fluval test). I changed my lights 2 weeks ago, 42w, 70%, 4hrs on-4hrs off-4hrs on. I was doing 10 straight hrs at 75%, 42w. I changed to iron gluconate a few weeks ago, i think my plants liked it. 4) I cleaned my canister filter and its tubes 2 mondays ago, Jan 28. (I didn't clean the intake pre-filter sponge, nor the sponge filter) I have to be somewhere sunday am so I wont be able to do anything in my tank until tomorrow pm.
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    I need to tell y'all. Both of my big males died over the past two weeks. There's one young male. The other males are too small to cause trouble. There's probably like 15-18 large females.
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    I got a clue, nerms! I observed a tattered female hiding in the corner. When she came out to eat the whiteish tips of her pectoral fins caught my eye. I think the tips of all her fins look like they are turning white, and there seems to be 3 lighter smudges running vertical on the right side of her body-tail (not fin). The lights are out. I'll check in the am.
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