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  1. The Killer of Fish
    Your local?!? Yep you are lucky. Welcome.
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    Is that good or bad?
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    Yep. You’re right. I’m wrong. I assumed they were asexual. My bad. A female can hold sperm for up to nine months. I was not aware of that.
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    They are asexual so they don’t need help.
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    You would have to talk to your LFS to see if they need mystery snails. But if you move them don’t put them under water. You see how the mystery snail laid the eggs above the water line? You will need to do the same thing.
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    Yep. Looks like a mystery snail egg cluster. I don’t think pleco eggs cluster like that, do they?
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    I don't need the help for flow. My 8 inch air stone provides quite enough flow, but you are right having the HOB to have a place to hide a bag of crushed coral or over things is helpful. Thanks for the reminder.
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    Actually, I have never really been interested in a canister filter, but that could be because I have never had one. I have always liked my HOBs but because of the potential of fry from my Angels and hopefully my Cories, I'm really considering all Sponge filters. The mattenfilter is a great idea, but I didn't want to make that much fuss with my current plant layout and I would have to disturb well established plants in one of my back corners if I implemented a mattenfilter. Thanks for the suggestion though. I agree. It always helps to have them around in case of an emergency.
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    Howdy all, Glad I found this thread. I have a 90 gallon tank that I plan on replacing the two HOB with Sponge filters. I have two Marineland Penguin 350 Bio-wheels on the tank. How many sponge filters should I use? Three of the large 40-60 gallon sponge filters? Does someone have another suggestion? FYI - my water movement is provided by an 8 inch air stone bar that I have set up parallel to the right side of the tank, so I don’t need a HOB for that.
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    You know if the Cardinals, Rasboras and Guppies start eating the small ones eventually the big breeding ones will die and there will be none to do the breeding... if the other fish eat enough of the small ones. That is a lot of scuds in a bucket. Oh. They are a freshwater crustacean, so they are like shrimp, and I read somewhere that they are sometimes called freshwater shrimp.
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    There needs to be a “Holy Crap!” reaction image. Dang that is a lot of scuds. Have you thought of not feeding at all? Guppies will supposedly eat scuds, but if you are keeping them full they have no reason to look for other food. Maybe your Rasboras will eat the small ones… if they are hungry. Have any friends with Cichlids or Killifish? I have read that they like to eat scuds.
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    I have wanted to try cuttlebone but haven’t been able to find any locally that is just plain cuttlebone that isn’t engineered or flavored. I use egg shells that I grind to powder with a coffee bean/spice grinder. I add it directly and mixed with food. I started doing that when I saw the shrimp snacking on the ground egg shells.
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    “I was thinking about having 8 Candycane tetras and some snowball and Red Rili Shrimp, but I am still open to ideas.” Sounds great. Don’t forget the Christmas Tree Moss. 🎄
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    The mulm never really looks good but it is good for the plants.
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    Oops. Oh well it happens. Some people are happy with you and others aren't. Nothing you can do about that.
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    Yep that is duck weed. It grows faster than water lettuce and will over take the tank but it is great at removing nitrates and if you have any goldfish they love to eat duck weed.
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    Don’t feel ignorant. I’m sure WE aren’t the only two that didn’t know how water softeners worked.
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    Wow. I am sorry you have to deal with that. Ugh.
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    I know it isn’t much but I am not used to seeing any ammonia or nitrates in well water.
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    @Seattle_Aquarist, I know I'm a little late to the discussion and the fitting has already been installed, but wouldn't have been better to put the fitting on before any of the filters? Then you get the base water and go from there. Maybe with the iron in the water @Colton M could have the best red plants in the region.😏 BTW - @Colton M be careful with all of these changes to your water. You are doing this to grow plants, but you never mentioned that your fish were suffering, so they are used to the water you have had and you are about to make a big change... at least it seems like a big change. We don't want to go from dead plants to dead fish.
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    It seems Wolffia is the genus name for both duckweed and watermeal. I found the picture below at a herbicide website. It describes both plants. Has anything been added or changed with the tank recently? Did someone borrow your net? Did a kid borrow the net and use it in the local stream or pond? I am assuming a bird couldn't have flown over the tank left a deposit.... Do you use rain water? Find what has change and you will find how you got it. Sorry to say not sure how you get rid of it except by getting a Goldfish. Cory says they love Duckweed. Good Luck. Let us know if you figure out how it happened. It will be a lesson for all of us. Thanks.
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    WoW!!! the picture with the roots looks great. I understand not wanting your other plants affected but the natural look of those roots coming down through the water looks really good. Instead of "containing" them could you direct their growth down the back of the tank? Maybe move the plants that are getting crowded out. There is a Youtube channel called PlantLife Projects where he does a lot with Pothos and other plants and aquariums. He shows different ways he has secured Pothos within and above the tank. FYI - I know there are a lot of other channels with similar content, but he caught my eye recently. Again I must say WoW, your Pothos looks amazing.
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    @asondhi Personally, I think it might be time to cut your losses. Take the Serpae back. I hate to hear that your Angels and Cardinals are getting beat up on. Maybe getting more Serpae would fix it but I’m not sure I would want to gamble on that. If you want something that might be just as striking against your green plants, what about a large school of Ember Tetras? Would Chili Rasboras work? Good Luck. This is a difficult decision.
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    Hmmmm. Without anymore details, I would suggest pretty much any community tank fish. Does the comment "Besides Discus" mean you plan on having a tank that is perfectly setup for Discus, including the high temperatures and soft, acidic water, and you are already considering them? Many fish can handle 6.8 pH. It is at the low end of the scale for Cardinals and Cories, but one thing that I have always remembered from Cory and Coop videos and podcasts is water stability/consistency is more important than chasing a pH or kH or gH or any other parameter. Get rid of ammonia, nitrites and control nitrates and keep your other parameters consistent, and most community fish can handle it. You have a lot of water to play with. I'm going to enjoy hearing how you set it up. Have fun.
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    I believe it is possible as long as you start off with enough shrimp or let them get established first and then introduce the crayfish. I agree with @CJs Aquatics that the shrimp will help control the snail population by getting to leftover food before the snails do. However, one thing to keep in mind is that all three of your inhabitants depend on calcium for development, so you are going to want to make sure to supplement the calcium in some way. I grind egg shells with a coffee bean grinder and add them regularly to my shrimp/snail tank.
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