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Hi.I got 24 red cherry shrimp from who does 30 days quarantine, but when I got them yesterday, when I opened up the breather bag and put them into the container, I thought I saw something on shrimp's head so I brought phone to look closer and enlarged focusing on the shrimp head area. Out of 24, 19 has these white sticks on them which FB shrimp group people suspects it could be Scutariella Japonica. I contacted the company; at that time, picture was not with circle marking,and she came back and says all pictures I sent to her looks completely normal... Did not look like she was seeing what I was seeing so, I circled the area I was worried about. I have not heard back from her yet and For just in case they say send them back, I have not putting anything to it nor drip acclimating either. I would like to know if everyone think these are healthy looking normal shrimp with white sticks as part of their red cherry shrimp (but if that was the case, why the rest of 5 has no white sticks on them..I wonder) or what me and other shrimp keeper seeing is correct and they are somewhat sick... What is your opinion @Cory especially? Are they completely normal looking red cherry shrimp? Your store maybe sell cherry shrimp so you may know what is normal and what is not. Thank you.

Thank you. When I had flashing guppy in the past, paraguard worked real good so I hope this fix it up. As for poop, seller said poop seems normal to her... I am not sure if poop is looking like whitish because of bare bottom reflection of glass or not. I need to take out some sample and see what color really is in the white container.

I did not think much before but the corydras in quarantine tank is pooping out white poop from the day 1 I got;They came here 10th of March.They are still in quarantine tank because one of them is flashing and I started treating the flashing with paraguard. White poop indicate something?Or is it normal poop from corydras? I know fish poop has color to it but... I am new corycat keeper and not sure if that is normal or not. Thank you.

I was not sure I do daily water test but it means, you dose paraguard, test water after a few hours, and if it gotfunky, dose stability? Or you need to dose 2 together to prevent it from happening. Quarantine tank got ammonia and Nitrite spike and had to dose stability daily after the treatment I decided on. So, corydras flashing like I explained above is normal to you and nothing to worry about or does it sound like I need to medicate them?

asked company too but 2 different person answer 2 different way so..

1.When you use paraguard, is it best to use it with stability since paraguard can kill bacteria slowly in the tank? I got corydras 10 days ago and up until 17th (7 days), I dosed paraguard half dose to cory (normally, I dose full dose to fish 2 weeks to pretreat the fish before they going in to the destination tank). It is because seller was quarantine fish 30 days at warehouse and cory arrived here overnight so, I went easy on them. After the paraguard only 7 days long, my water parameter got hickups and 2 days ago, I had ammonia 0.5 at max, Nitrite 0.25 at max and Nitrate 5. I fixed that issue by dosing stability daily and now I am back to good water;ammonia zero, Nitrite zero, Nitrate 5. When it is about Nitrite spiked, I saw one of youngest cory in quarantine tank started flashing. It is not like constant flashing but it happens 1-2 min in , into the feeding time and some min later everyone settled after tummy full and resting under the Java moss.Once it flash, she/he does that about 4-6 flips and swimming around and not going to flash again long time.When I go check on them at mid day, I see all is resting under java moss usually (probably they are not in real planted tank so not much to explore?),and noone is flashing. I did water change 20% or so yesterday and tested water this morning and still ammonia is zero, nitrite zero, nitrate 5 so, water quality should be ok. But the same one flashes during the meal time and right after the meal time,4-6 flips at a time and it is short seconds. Is it something to worry about? Is it start of ich or gil flukes? The quarantine tank started getting green water so it is bothering them thus one of them does flashing during meal time and after? The tank is bare bottom. Since I gave them 7 days break from last day of dosin half dosage of paraguard, I am debating if I should do paraguard 2.5ml this time and gradually up the dosage to 5ml and do 14 days long as it was supposed to. But I also read cory does flashing during meal time too so, I do not know how to tell sick or no sick. None other cory doing flashing and only small one doing it and no white spot that indicate ich are on them. Seller wants me to put into more stable well established display tank for them but I worry if this flashing was something that indicate illness..I do not want other healthy fish to become sick... I am very new to corydras keeping. Thank you for your help.

Thank you, @Cory. Definitely 5k tool are out of our budget. I will look into macro lens for cellphone.. That being said, my husband checked tank for red cherry tank and watched your video above and said he did not see anything. I went back this morning and I saw the same ones near HOB area;white dot with white string (how can I attach video on post?? I tried my best for still pic for this. Please see attached picture).I am not sure if it is going to be hydra later on. But I did find Hydra;the upside down umbrella shaped one in another blue dream shrimp-snail only tank (in this tank, I only pulled 1 dead shrimp in past 2 months ..I found Hydra in unexpected place. I had to pull off one by one in other red cherry tank so, I thought if I find bug like this, it will be inside the red tank but.. I do not have molly nor other fish you have mentioned in the video.I only got platy and guppy So, I ordered Planaria zero and Penacur C and digital scale that I can weigh under 1 g. Which one of the two is safer? Would it kill plants? Is it true once you treat tank, you cannot put back Nerite snail even though shrimp are unaffected with med? For now, I had DIY baster;cut airline tube, stick it on the tip of 10 ml medical syringe without needle and I used that and sucked up the Hydra in the blue shrimp tank but if I see 2, there will be more..so I need to treat the tank. I am originally from Japan ( I live in USA but born and raised in Japan) so I can read instruction in Planaria zero if it had Japanese instruction (reading up the review on amazon, I maybe able to find instruction in Japanese) but measurement is different from here. Even if I convert measurement, it would be strange number with US measurement way. Do you have any blog post or video on dosage in American measurement for planaria zero? Or penacure C method for killing hydra? I think it is 0.1g for 10 gallon if I decided to use doggy dewormer but I do not know how to treat the tank with either med yet. I need to look for it. Lastly, thank you very much for fish stickers.Our 6 years old really enjoy stickers coming with order and ask me if I order something from you again,lol. He wants sticker:-)Each time, different sticker unlike other places I shop from so, he is getting excited when he see Aquarium coop box in the mail box:-) He is decorating his tool set toys and his chair with stickers:-)

In my red cherry shrimp tank, I saw little tiny dot with white single string coming off of it. It does not have upside down umbrella shape to it nor thick stem like thing onto the dot. Is this going to be Hydra;something to worry about? I watched video Cory did here But the one I saw is not like that green nor the shape. I tried to take video but cellphone camera is not good enough.If you see white dot with single white hair coming off of it and move with current and dot stays on the front grass, is it baby hydra?? If you got Hydra,are they easy to spot with naked eye? I saw the dots when I was checking aquarium with zoomed up video mode.With naked eye, it is bit hard to spot. I let my husband watch the video and the video I took but he said he did not see anything on the grass... @Cory,what tool did you use for the video above to record? If anything you could recommend to take good,better aquarium picture of video,I will be appreciated. Thank you.

With prolapse, I have treated it with epsom salt dip (not adding those into the tank though). I separated the one with intestine out fish and put in specimen container and 3 times a day I take that fish to the bucket with epsom salt (1 gallon water+prime+epsom salt 1 tbs) and let the fish in the dip like 10-15 min and take him out to the quarantine tank/specimen container and usually, 1-2 days, the spot retract.If the tummy was flat, I used Everything Aquatic's Anti parasite Duo and all is good. I know it is old topic but if you were not finding how to treat them, I thought I would leave how I did with prolapse thing with our fish. Hope your fish got better.

Will do so. 1 tsp 1 gallon dosage 1 week.I got only java moss and handful of water wisteria in the hospital tank so I do not mind it kill my plants.Thank you.

pH 7.8-8.0 Nitrates 10-20 Hardness GH 5 Nitrite 0 Ammonia 0 KH/Buffer 7 Water Temperature 78 Above is 75 gallon tank water parameter. I found sick fish and moved to 10 gallon tank to treat what it looks like fin rot.I think his case is mild. 10 gallon Hospital tank water parameter is only different on NItrate level which is 5-10 Everything else is identical to 75 gallon tank. I have question on Aquarium salt. I found out one of our fish is mild case of Fin rot. I would like to try Aquarium salt. I looked up aquarium coop website for salt dosage.Level 1 is 1 tsp per 1 gallon of water so, if Hospital tank is 10 gallon, it is 10 tsp. My question is that, package says 1 tbs per 5 gallon of water. Which dosage I should go with? Also, after dosing the first dose, until water change you do not add any salt and just observe and when I do water change and say move 2 gallon water out from the hospital tank, then, 2 tsp of Aquarium salt if using aquarium co-op dosage level 1 is correct? How often do you suggest to do water change? I usually went by NItrate reading on weekly water test result. I just did water change and put sick fish in there.I have not added any aquarium salt just yet. Thank you.

oh... I knew uneaten food is going to cause ammonia but I did not think about control pee and poop through the mean of the food;how much to feed, not just looking at uneaten food. That is the good way to look at it.Thank you.

@Fonske, I always added 1 or 2 fish at a time (I was worried for ammonia spike if I add many fish at once.). When I added Santas guppy to 75 gallon tank, there were 4 short tail regular fancy guppy and other was Japan gold blue male.When I added Japan gold blue guppy, he was not being pecked at at all.Not sure if it is because tail was short. When I added Santa guppy male though, everyone went after him;probably making him know who is the leader in the tank... For now, I worried for his split fin so added female he used to live with and only long fin guppy (blue galaxy) male juvenile with some platy in 75 gallon tank. How many fish at a time do you suggest to add in?Many fish means more ammonia so I always did 1 or 2 at a time but if you think adding more at one time is better, then, , as long as I add seachem stability,I do not have to worry about more ammonia will be created after new group of male has been added to the tank? If so,do you keep adding stability for certain days? Thank you,

My 75 gallon tank is planted and there are jungle to hide in but when Santa guppy had group of male guppy following around, the group of guppies go in so, there was no break time for him... I only got handful of fish now in 75 gallon tank but eventually, I like to fill it with colorful guppies... If my husband really can make divider in the center, one side male, one side male and only when I like fry out of whatever, then, we can move them to other tank to do their things but even then, male has to be in the male section so, issue won't be changed. Not sure if I keep long big fin guys only,male only fish, OR as I put more male guppy as day goes by and fill up the tank, would they keep peace and less aggressive each other? At first, when I saw male guppy chasing male guppy in male only 75 gallon tank, I thought they might be playing around but next day, I woke up to find split fin so, I do not think it was "play" but "bully"... So, I took out group of chaser guppy and put them into different tank. I have local fish store guy that takes over our fry to rehome for now, but I never know when he would starts saying "no more"... and the mall he is located in is getting worse in shape; anchor store like JC penny started closing.... and not sure how long his store gonna last so, even more reason to think of male only tank..

Thank you. So.. it is not like it will grow root or something into the substrate once you place a mat on the substrate and periodically like every other week for shrimp tank water change time, I can lift it up and gravel vacuum and I only need to make sure it stays short so it would not attach it to decoration near or something like that then. When I see shrimp tank in youtube, some people got moss carpeted ground and it pops shrimp color and I thought it nice but I was not sure of how to place it, how to gravel vac once it placed on it. Husband was thinking that if carpeted like that even not mesh one like... hair grass or other carpeted plants in the tank, he thought people would just hoove siphon over the plants and not stick the siphon into the gravel to clean the tank. So, it got me wonder. If once planted like that, you cannot clean that carpeted area as much as non carpeted ground. Thank you.

Moss mat question I saw some suppliers sells moss attached to square mat (wire??) like this https://aquaticarts.com/collections/moss-plants-on-mats/products/java-moss-mat to place onto substrate. My questions are.. When you place mat on the gravel, you just place on top and wait for it to grow ? When you want to gravel vacuum, can I move the moss mat around to clean under the wire? Or as time goes by, it grabs substrate and I cannot move it around easy like driftwood with moss? Over time, would the moss mat develop rust or something that might cause shrimp in the shrimp tank at risk in the tank? No worry about rusting? I have not bought it so I do not know what to expect. It just that moss carpet looks real nice and would like to try someday in my shrimp tank..

Hi. Currently, I got Twin bar platy and fancy guppy. To learn the basic of fish keeping, I started off with petsmart fancy guppy and now I am ready to step up and keep fancier guppy and I now got Santa guppy, Blue Galaxy guppy, and Purple mosaic guppy (purple mosaic guppy is new one so they are currently in the quarantine tank). I did not want uncontrolled breeding in the tank so I was thinking of putting all male guppy in the 75 gallon tank and make other tank for female tank. I never had issue with female only tank but when I tried adding Santa guppy male to the male guppy tank after quarantine time, all male (at that time, it was offspring from petsmart guppy male plus platy but platy did not bothered the Santa guppy at all, just gang of guppy male followed everywhere Santa guppy went...) and short tail, not big tail) did not give him a space and chasing and looked like pecking on his butt area.. After a day, I saw Santa guppy male pectoral fin got split so I took all petsmart guppy offsprings male and put into other thank, and I was afraid to damage his fin more than necessary so I ended up putting galaxy female and Santa guppy female... and gave away petsmart guppy male to local fish store. Currently, 75 gallon has 3 platy, 1 Santa guppy pair, and 1 blue galaxy pair. It is more peaceful but I am wondering how I can do the peaceful male only tank to control the breeding. My husband is thinking about making divider for the 75 gallon tank and make one side male, one other side female. But if one side got only male, it would be the same environment to the time Santa guppy got chased around 24/7.. I wonder if I would see bullying again in the male only side in the tank... On Facebook page guppy group,I was told small fin guppy would bully big fancier tail ones... To those who got male only tank and @Cory, what is the tricks to make a peaceful male only tank? Do you have any suggestions you can give me to try? Thank you in advance.

Would you tell me what kinds of area of her gives you an hint it might be columnaris? I would like to know. Any tell tell sign of the disease?

What points do you feel like she got columnaris? Is it normal that fish that might got columnari has been active and eats well and no fuzzy spot? She and fry and male guppy paired with her are in the quarantine tank right now.

Hi. Here is our quarantine tank water parameter for the pair of purple mosaic guppy plus their fry. pH 7.4-7.6 Nitrates 10 Hardness 5 Nitrite 0 Ammonia 0 KH/Buffer 7 Water Temperature 78F 2 weeks ago, I got a pair of purple mosaic guppy (they birthed fry in the shipping bag so the pair live in the tank with fry. All of them are in quarantine tank and pre treating the fish right now. I wanted to ask about gill of female looks ok or not, I posted the picture of her side shot (below) on face book page group along with video. I was mainly curious about her gill being normal or not (to me it looks like bit of dent in the gill.. I could not take best picture of the world but..) but someone said she looks like having columnaris pointing that she had white looking patch on her back (which I circled in the below picture;the spot she pointed out). BUT, to me, it is just reflecting to the tank light and I do not see white area without light like this;look picture below. This is the picture from the top with sun light. If it were white patch color would stay white, not bluish color... Me and seller think the area that was pointed was the area lights reflect and purplish bluish grayish color looks like bit of white if you try to see it as white under tank light.I do not find fuzzy stuff on her or any strange behavior like loss of appetite or part herself away from other guppy etc. She swim strong, active, eats enthusiastically and it has been 2 weeks. If it were columnaris, then, fish goes passes very quick I heard. She never look lethargic at all... All of her tank mates;male guppy and fry looks ok too. What is your opinion on her? Does she look like columnari fish? What about gill? Her gill looks ok to you? Other than gill that got me wondering if normal or not, I feel like she is fine to me.Poop is fine too.Nice solid one.. The person who said she might had columnaris never replies back after I posted these pictures ( I was told to put out pictures more so I did) , and there are no followed comments still.. (it has been almost 2 weeks so I doubt she would leave follow up comments..) and I was kind of left out with wonder/doubts if she really got columnaris or not. Since it is deadly disease, it bothers me a lot. Thank you.

thank you.

Wow.... Thank you. I opened up the 10 gallon cycled tank for plants to quarantine and so far, I see no bugs coming out of it but we will see. I will keep it there one month and see what happens. Seller said I could quarantine plants with light and also saw copy paste plants dipping with bleach;1 gallon water 5 ml bleach for snail into their e-mail. I usually do the dipping and this time, I washed plants under running water and then put into treated water so hopefully, it made gone if anything else came with that leech. Hope I did not get leech egg on plants.. By the way, what are the white living thing around on mystery snail in the video? Thank you.

We got choco the cat and Palette the Corgi (pembroke)

Today, I got plants and plants were wrapped in newspaper and tied with plants weight with rubber band and all the plants were in heat sealed plastic bag. This one is from well known plant place and never had anything other than hitchhiker snail but today, leech was in the bag. I dipped in bleach ;1 gallon water mixed with 5 ml bleach as paper direction says for short 5-1 seconds and then I washed under running water and then now I have plants floating in plastic tote/bin in the water mixed with prime. Can I quarantine these plants to make sure all are leech free in the plastic tub/tote? Aquarium co-op Face book page people said I can, with tank light and squeeze the filter for beneficial bacteria (but I do not want leech egg or anything get to the good filter sponge when squeezing, I maybe can do squeeze filter in the tank water and add tank water. My questions are, airstone is necessary to keep plants not going to melt and grow? For quarantine plants in the buckets or whatever, cycled environment needed? I need to add stability too? Also, how often do I need to do the water change? Would you tell me what you would do if you find leech in your plant order step by step? I just do not want leech egg stuck to plants and put those into the tank I was going to re-scaping... Thank you.