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    I actually like doing waterchanges, I enjoy cleaning the glass and doing the trimming. It feels satisfying when I'm done and the aquarium looks very clean! Catching fish is a hassle, and so is testing tanks with liquad test kits. I also hate lugging buckets around and spillling water. Those are my top 3.
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    Frozen foods like bloodworms would be a treat! I've also found great luck with NLS community pellet with my fish. You can also try other xtreme foods like, the community crave or the spirulina flake.
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    The lilly pads should be facing the surface of the water. So it looks like number two would be correct. I like to partially barry the bulb, and as it grows it'll grow a big root structue to holds its own against the snails.
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    I have some shrimp king complete coming for my new pumpkin shrimp, this will hopefully be arriving on Monday. But until then what should I feed my shrimp? I tried a cucmber but they didn't seem to touch it. I am wondering if I should hold off on the feeding until their more comfortable in their setup. Anyways what other stuff can I feed my shrimp. The seller said they really like raw noodles...?
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    I would personally leave it. I like snails and find that they only benefit your aquatic ecosystem.
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    I'm not sure if this fish is legal in california but its defentley worth a look, Rainbow Shiners! They are some of the most stunning fish I have ever seen. @Fish Folk has a beautifulbreeding setup for them, check this thread. Another great option would be pygmy sunfish (once again i dont know if there legal or not in california). @Daniel has experiance catching these guys in the wild, and even breeding these guys. I beleive he may have stocked pygmy sunfish in his famous 1930s hisitorically acurate planted aquarium thread.
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    The Pumpkin Shrimp came! I let them acclimate in the room for an hour until their water matched the aquariums water. and then did drip acclimation for the next 20 minutes.
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    The shrimp are arriving tomorrow! I will post an update with pictures and such then. But today I was doing a little more prepping for the shrimp. I tested the water parameters of the shrimp bowl: Amonia and Nitrite: 0 Nitrate: somewhere between 0-5. Ph: 7.3 Today I moved dobby the nirite snail from hugos tank into the bowl as well as some other miscellaneous snails into the shrimp bowl. I love snails! The guppy tank was litterly flooding with pogostemon stellatus octopus, so I moved some into the shrimp bowl as well. And then I put more in Vader the Rescue Bettas Tank. Today was a no feed day for hugo. I have been overfeeding him lately, and so he's been a little fat. But I did get a few pictures of him: I ordered some shrimp food as well! Coming within the next few days is some Shrimp King Complete. And then in another order I have Xtreme Krill Flakes (mostly for the community tank) and then some Hikari Shrimp Cuisine. Theres so many shrimp foods on the market I wanna try them all! I may be visiting my LFS tomorrow in which I might pick up the New Life Spectrum Shrimp Food.
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    A betta would be the way I would go, all though 2.6 gallons may be a little small. Another option would be to start a small shrimp colony. All though I beleive you would have to make optimize the filter so that it doesnt suck up the shrimp.
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    Today the goal was to make room for the pumpkin shrimp. I have been in talks with a local hobbyist who is willing to sell his beautiful pumpkin shrimp to me. I was originally going to order some off SKA Shrimps. Its a canadian shrimp breeder located in Calgary, Alberta. All though I thought it would be better if I was able to get some off a local hobbyist, because the shrimp have already grown up in smillar water. And I dont have to worry about shipping. So I moved the rummynose back into the community, and Hugo back into his aquarium. Heres a picture of the shrimp provided by the seller that I'm getting: I will soon be moving Penny into the community tank as well. And as promised @CalmedByFish heres a video of hugos last meal in the shrimp bowl:
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    I have had great luck with tissue culture. I find that they usually dont melt back for at all. One thing I'll note is that shipping tissue culture I find can be a little risky. I have had numerous problems with buying tissue culture online, for me it usually comes to me all brown and mushy.
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    he really is. I wanna get a video of him eating tommorrow morning. He swallos the pellets two at a time, and with the floating hornwort its tough for him to get at the pellets. Its very fun to watch.
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    I'm looking to buy some pumpkin shrimp finally within the the next few days. I'm wondering how many a good number would be to start off a colony. The aquarium there going into is i beleive roughly 5 gallons. The company I am ordering on have a buy 10 get one free deal, should I get 11 then? Before I was thinking 8-10 would be a soild group, thoughts?
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    I work at mcdonalds, there pretty understanding of school being prioritized. Probably because all the managers are still in school, or just graduated.
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    The indian almond leaves will also release tannins! My betta loves his tannins.
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    I've never used paraguard. But when I have dosed with meds in the pass I did use fertilizer with no problem. To be exact I used API Super Ick Cure. Honestly I think your going to be okay dosing fertlizer and meds in the same tank. However another thing you may want to consider is to quarintine the sick fish, and treat them there. This way you dont have to worru about your plants, loaches, or snails. And you wont need to dose as much, as the quarantine tank would be smaller. Knowing that your new to the hobby it could be safe to say that you dont have a spare tank around, if you do thats great! use that for your quarintine tank. If you dont I would suggest to use a see through rubbermaid from walmart, could probably even find some in your basement. Heres a video that @Irene made on this method:
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    My angelfish does this when hes scared too. Its honestly a little scary to watch. He did it a lot when he was younger, but he still does it a bit.
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    That betta will be one lucky guy with that aquarium! Show as pictures as soon as you can! I love bettas, there so personable. Good Luck!
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    I have kept both of them in my community tank with a soild 7-7.1ph. I find that Mystery Snails are a very hardy creature and can withstand most water parameters. My biggest tip is to not chase the ph, but to keep it stable. Your cardinal tetras and mystery snails should be fine in the same tank.
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    I had this problem too. One of the things that really helped me was to make sure that the plastic plate was clicked into place. Heres what I mean by the "Plate": Also heres a video that cory made on simillar issues:
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    The fluval 3.0s are my all time favorite lights! Since getting one I have tried to go back to some of the "budget" lights but I seem to get let down everytime. I have the fluval 3.0 nano on my 10 gallon, and I love it. All though pricey, its defentley worth it. Here are my settings: \ Heres a video series made by bentley pascoe on this light. A very informative few videos, that is a much watch for any future fluval 3.0 users. Also heres a thread made by @Streetwise, for forum members to show their experiance and settings with the light:
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    Welcome to the hobby! The USB nano air pumps are very quiet, the quitest in the market IMO. I would suggest to get two aquarium co-op spongefilter instead of the triple-flow corner filter. Just because it looks like your going to need filter floss, carbon or something in that filter which would add to the costs. Adding two sponge filters one at either side of the aquarium is a good idea. You can use two nano air pumps. Or you can use one air pump and just use air valves, would be cheaper. Some plants that are forgiving would be something like Anubias. With my various failures in keeping plants, anubias has always been great for me. Crypts are another great plant. All though they would really benefit from root tabs. An important thing to note with crypts is that the leaves will melt back at first, but with enough nutrition it will grow back. Your stocking seems fine. Snails usually aren't too picky and will do fine eating the left overs after your other fish. All thought they may take to some cucumber or repashy. Danios and corydora would do great in that setup! Perhaps a gourami, or betta would be cool as a center peice fish.
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    There has been pleanty have posts on this forum of the amazing deal they got on an amazing pecie of driftwood. Driftwood is very expensive, it can range anywhere from $20 to a few hundred. Some are able to find driftwood in creeks, ponds, rivers, where as other may find their driftwood in the their LFS or a nearby hobbyist. So what have been your amazing driftwood deals? I got this peice for $10 at my LFS. This was because the tag had fallen off so they didn't know how much to charge me. I'm assuming this would be around $30-40. I love how many nooks and cranys it has, its great for shimmying plants rhizomes into it like anubais, or buce.
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    a local hobbyist to me has a business for aquatic plants. He's where I get most of my plants. He has is own dry fertilizer as well, I have to say that I have been very impressed by it. Its quite cheep, and you can choose the kind of bottle you want it in. So I would agree, that dry fertilizer is the way to go.
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    I'm going to be ordering some neocardina pumpkin shrimp for my shrimp bowl soon. As well as perhaps some limia, or some other types of livebearers. There are some limia for sale on the wetspot. I haven't ever seen limia for sale in my area, buts its a fish I've always wanted. Perhaps they'll eventually end up in my summer tubs this summer.
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