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  1. faydout
    I found a clear one on Amazon with the suction cups (immediately replaced with ones meant for a tank). I played around with it and ended up setting the sponge vertically on the narrow side, right in the outflow.
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    I've made a baffle for one of my HOB's using a soap dish and an Aquaclear 50 sponge, suction cupped to the glass right up against the outflow.
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    I've got a 54 corner also. I run HOB's on this so that I can baffle the outflow easier (soap dish method), with a couple of big, nasty sponge filters stacked up in the back corner. I'm running a Marineland 200 on it atm, but have had an Aquaclear 50 (I think an AC70 would fit, but wanted to be sure) and a Tidal 55 on it. For lighting, agree with Nataku. The 24 - 36" lights are your best bet. I run 2 Fluval lights (1 Aquasky, 1 3.0) on mine. Just a note on the weirdness of this size, I run a 40B right next to it and the 40B has more floor space than the 54.
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    Bachelor tanks can work for Apistos. One tip to get around this that I use is to feed with a turkey baster, make sure the dominant male is good and busy, then feed the other male in a separate part of the tank, out of sightlines from the first one. Oh before I hit submit, those are definitely 2 male cacutouides triple reds.
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    Mostly, I run mine at around 1 - 2% blue through the day, then bump them up to 10% for an hour once the day lights go off. My Cory's and Kuhli's become more active but tbh, it looks pretty and I like it.
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    Just sptiballing so please take this with a huge scoop of salt. Is it possible that the ammo lock is preventing the bacteria from processing ammonia, starving beneficial bacteria in the process (mostly aimed at more experienced fishkeepers here, who have used ammo lock or know how it works)?
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    So, I haven't kept Cray's in about 10 years (basically since I started doing cichlids as the centerpiece in all my tanks). I've got a 10G now that I was thinking of doing Sparkling gouramis in next. So, the thought of 2 in. crayfish is kinda interesting from that perspective. I can google them and research just fine, but can you tell more about actually keeping them, before I go look up a species profile?
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    Super O/T, I haven't even thought of keeping crayfish in my tanks in years. The 12 year old inside me let loose with a "chicken butt" as soon as I saw the title.
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    I think honeys would do ok, sparkling gouramis are another one to consider that do well in smaller tanks.
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    I haven't really ever checked the list of banned aquarium flora (that should probably be my contribution to the I'm a bad aquarist post). Luckily it looks like parrots feather is the only banned plant here. Dwarf water lettuce would be my favorite. I seem to be able to dang near grow that stuff in an unlit closet.
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    If you're wrong, I'm wrong too. I've read the same thing. I'm pretty sure you'd be safe.
  12. faydout
    I work in IT, and still rocking my iPhone 7. I was tempted by this year's iphone pro model, which is the first time since I got this one that I've been tempted to upgrade. Ultimately, I decided that this year being a redesign year and the first year Apple's putting the 5G radios in, that I'd wait one more and let everyone else beta test for me and pick up the "12s" next year.
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    Following along with some of @Daniel adventures (seriously jealous of the banana plant find, agree they're some of my favorite aquatic plants) and in need of some moss for growing out fry, I've decided to try and collect some from nature. I found a reference to some of the mosses in Rocky Mountain National Park (I'm in Colorado) but can't find any info on narrowing down it's distribution in state. I hike a lot and don't get to combine hobbies very often, so this seems like a fun scavenger hunt. I'm hoping someone has a better reference that can narrow down where to go, or if not that, just some general advice on what environments I should be targeting (like lakes vs streams)?
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    I use a turkey baster to feed my bottom dwellers (back on topic for a sec, this lets me place the food right where I want it). In a tank that I keep Keyholes, the Keyholes are "active feeders." Any time that turkey baster hits the water, the gang is beaking at it until I squeeze the bulb. The sadist in me is looking at that feeding station and imagining my little cichlids losing their dang minds watching their dinner slowly sink down that tube. This might be a good idea on those days when the gang is pulling my plants up and I feel like I need a little payback.
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    I keep eyeballing the emerald eye Rasboras, I need a top dwelling shoal, but I also need one that can do 80, which the Brevibora dorsiocellata do not do.
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    The Marineland version of the Cobalt comes with an intake tube that stops fish from getting too curious. I'd be shocked if the Cobalt didn't. I've been using this system, my next upgrade is to get the hose and a bigger, nastier pump that can pull / push water 50 ft across my basement so I won't be hauling buckets anymore. I plan on using a 30 Gallon trash can for clean water so I can treat it first. That would cover a 50% water change in my biggest tank. As for adding voice command, I'd think any alexa enabled smart switch would work.
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    I'm more posting this because I've never bred intentionally, but have a busy pair of cacatuoides and would like to watch the thread. I'm getting out and picking up a (10? 20Long?) to grow the next batch of free swimmers that I see. I let the last clutch go feral, but tried to help Mom feed and care for them, so I could see the process. I started feeding frozen bbs (the ziss hatchery and eggs are in my cart for my next co-op order) and cyclops once I could see the little ones actively foraging. That took until the second day that I'd seen them. I can absolutely 100% verify that Dad will snack on the wee babes if he gets a chance, but Mom is a Lion. She would let him in closer than the Cory's, but she maintains a bubble around the kiddos, even with him. As for the rest of your questions, I hope someone with more experience can fill in the blanks for both of us.
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    I keep it on hand, but only use it when I want to remove some kind of chemical from the water (meds being the best example). For water clarity, I've found that fine filter media (poly fill in media bags, fine poly pads being my favorite) does the job for mechanically cleaning fine particles out of the water. Carbon isn't going to do much for that.
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    If it's that big of a bully, maybe the right answer is nothing? It may be better off and less stressed in it's own tank.I had an Oscar like that a long time ago.
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    I feel really lucky. Mom's a great parent. She's been fighting Cory's off this whole time, but seems to have figured out that the little coral pipette means bbs for the babies so she stands back to let me feed. I've been keeping up on that, 4 times a day. She's kept 10 - 15 alive so far and isn't fully grown herself yet. Dad's pretty much a fly by Chucky Cheese parent, All that said. if I manage 1 female out of this spawn I'll be happy. I wanted, planned for, and made space for a harem and I'm a female short of that (the online place I got them only did pairs).
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    Congrats, I just got my first Apistos almost 2 weeks ago, and had my first Apisto spawn yesterday. I'm not pulling them or anything, I don't have a tank to raise them in currently, although I did pick up some frozen bbs and cyclops last weekend when I saw the parents doing the dance.. I already got clearance from the boss to go pick up a 10 gallon if anyone's left tomorrow morning. More babies, because Babies!!!
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    If you've got a spare HOB sitting around, could you use that with no media in it to grow your plants? That seems like it would get something like what you're after for free... at least well enough to test the idea. If not, I'd think picking up an aquaclear 50 would be cheaper than buying a hang on refugium.
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    If possible, I'd try adjusting the intensity of your lights, and maybe reduce to 8 or 9 hours a day for now. If you have a light that you can adjust, I'd dial it back to around 50% for a week or two and see if it starts to make a difference in the brown algae. You can adjust up or down from there. I'd also dial back the amount of fertilizer you're using a touch also, to compensate for reducing your lights.
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    I did my first batch of online fish ordering last winter, and while we don't get anywhere close to Wisconsin or Minnesota temps here in Colorado, we get some sub zero temps and a lot of single digit lows. I ended up paying for overnight shipping for some of my orders when the weather wasn't looking like it was going to be decent for a week or two, everything shipped, and everyone made it here safely.
  25. faydout
    No worries, I was just throwing something else against the wall. I guess the other benefit to using it as a kill switch at feeding time is that I set a 10 minute timer on it when I kill power and it turns it back on for me. No more having to worry about turning the filter back on when I'm done (yeah, I've left it off overnight before... ).
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