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    Unfortunately I lost Morti, my crayfish a couple of weeks ago. It was very surprising and sudden with no apparent symptoms beforehand. My best guess is it was a unlucky failed molt, as other inhabitants seem to be flourishing. However, today I received some new crustaceans. Baby Blueberry the crayfish. Lemon and Peach, the crabs.
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    Yeah, I'm familiar with foot curling being an old age symptom of mystery snails. I'm not sure if that is what is going on here because their foot looked normal when they were on the glass. I can't remember how long I've had this particular snail, or how old they were when I got them initially.
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    Anubias and buce are relatively salt tolerant in my experience. Not sure about Dwarf lilies, but tiger lotus is salt tolerant too. For reference, I'm keeping these plants in a brackish tank with 1 tablespoon per 1 gallon of sea salt.
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    Yeah, totally. I'm not 100% sure. They have been relatively active, but my partner notice they were struggling earlier. Nope, they are freshwater. I think the only brackish crabs I've seen for aquariums are fiddler crabs and red claw crabs.
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    I finished preparing my 40g for the crabs I will be receiving on Wednesday. -Added Ttree pleco caves for a total of 4 to give everyone a place to hide/ molt. 1. Back right side of tank facing the side glass. 2. In the center to the right of the wood piece. 3. In the center to the left of the wood piece. 4. Didn't get a photo, but it's behind the front right side plants. Here's the wide shot. -I got the HOB breeder box all setup as the land area and I got all the openings closed off with mesh. The crabs can climb the wood piece in the middle to get to the land area. Some bonus photos I took:
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    Someone on the Facebook group shared a picture of their gold roseline shark. It was so pretty I decided to order some to join my other roseline sharks. While doing so, I saw a crab species I haven't kept before (Terrathelphusa cf. chilensis), so I will be trying them as well. I'm currently preparing my 40g for them. Here is my reworked tank: I have also given up on s. repens in the midground of my 10g. I've tried it several different times and it never flourishes. I'm pretty sure there is just too much shade in the spot I want to put them in. I decided to try blyxa japonica for the first time. I think it looks great so far! Under high lighting it is supposed to turn goldish or reddish, so I am excited to see how it turns out.
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    I saw some males (which are usually smaller) at my LFS yesterday that were like a full inch thick and 6+ inches long. They were comically large. My LFS was like "yeah I don't know, someone local brought them in, they were keeping them in a pond, they must have been fed really well or something"
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    I've been working on my paludarium and have a cute yellow mushroom growing in the terrestrial area.
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    Now that is a chonky baby.
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    They are in a 75g tank, with a lot of other fish. I feed the tank a rotation of community crave, xtreme nano, vibra bites, easy fry food, freeze dried brine shrimp, new life spectrum algae max, crab cuisine and xtreme shrimpee pellets.
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    I've floated brazilian pennywort and it worked well. I'm also very confident you can float Pogostemon Stellatus Octopus, but I have only ever planted it.
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    I got a bunch done this week. 10g -I moved swapped the ludwigia rubin in this tank with the ludwigia narrow leaf in my 75g. Now all the background plants are ludwigia narrow leaf, which is easier to grow bushy in my experience. If this doesn't work the way I like I plan to try water sprite next. -I finally got rid of the planaria in the tank using "No Planaria." I only had a few shrimp left and they hadn't been breeding, so I thought the planaria may have had something to do with it. I also added some more cherry shrimp, to help kickstart the colony. Cherry Shrimp Guppies Brackish Paludarium -Been fiddling with plants a lot in this tank. Tiger lotus and ludwigia narrow leaf have been doing well, so hopefully I can get the tank into decent looking shape that way. -Added some more ghost shrimp, which have been doing well. Ghost Shrimp "Marble" the Vineyard Snail "Krabby" the Fidler Crab Fiddler Crab 29g -I pulled off the anubias from the front of the wood and I think it looks better. I'm going to try putting some buce green wavy on the underside. - I gave up on the ludwigia and rotala that were on the back sides and I am just going to grow out some wisteria instead. Based on the length of my light, the sides don't get as much light, so I think I need to use an easier to grow plant in those spots. -I pulled out the caves that were in the middle, because the fish didn't seem to use them and I couldn't really see them behind the chain swords. I'm trying vesuvias sword and melon sword in their stead. "Derp" the Angelfish Platies German Blue Ram 75g -I consolidated my plant species more. Going to do ludwigia rubin on the back left side, hygrophila Siamensis on the back right side and dwarf sag along the right wall. Roseline Sharks and Siamese Algae Eaters "Arrie" the Rainbow Shark Guppy Baby Reticulated Hillstream Loach 40g Swordtails and Zebra Danio Peppered Corys
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    That should work. I really like german blue rams with angelfish since they both like warmer water. You might be able to get away without easy green, but I would dose some anyways to improve your chance of success.
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    Bacacopa coroliniana.
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    I've been trying to get decent photos of my baby hillstream loaches for a while and finally managed to this week.
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    It was hard to pick 7! Here are the ones I chose in no particular order. 1. My best wide shot of my 29g. I just really love the wood piece and my angelfish "Derp" in this tank. 2. Baby hillstream loaches in 75g. It's hard to get a photo of their body because I mostly notice them when they are on the front glass, so I was happy to get this shot. 3. My best wide shot of my 75g tank. This tank takes the most work, so I feel proud when I manage to get it into decent shape. 4. My vineyard snail "Marble" who lives in the terrestrial area of my paludarium. I very rarely see her out of her shell, so this is the first photo I've ever gotten of her. 5. My buce black pearl flowering in my 75g. The Facebook group really enjoyed this photo and I really like seeing uncommon plant phenomena myself. 6. My best picture of one of my Indian Lilac crabs "Plum". They are easily my most photogenic wet pet, so I always have a ton of good photos of these guys. 7. The best picture of my Blue Kong Zebra crayfish "Mortimer" AKA "Morty." He's a bit elusive, but quite interesting, so I am happy to get a decent photo of him when he is out.
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    I've done it before without issue.
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    Yes. I plant and rearrange plants in my tanks without moving the Fish all the time.
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    If you're willing to try low end brackish, I find fiddler crabs really fun. They are very active and always up to something goofy.
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    My buce black pearl is flowering!
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    I use a tropical terrarium soil mix of 1.5 parts sphagnum moss, 2 parts Coco coir, 1 part tree fern fiber and 0.5 parts earthworm castings in my paludarium. Some definitely does get in the water sometime and I haven't noticed it harming my guppies, fiddler crabs or ghost shrimp.
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    That's Morty (Mortimer)! Here's pretty cool, other than that one time he completely buried my monte carlo under substrate. Here's a longer video of them I shared earlier:
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    I may have went a bit overboard on the footage 🙄. Around 22min I feed the tank and after that point you can see a lot more "aggressive" behavior. My general experience with my rainbow shark is that they are a very chill, mild manner fish. They mostly hang out with my roseline sharks and SAEs, but do stray from the pack to explore the rest of the tank more than my other cyprinidae fish. They also do short split second chases of the other cyprinidae fish here and there, but none of the fish or inverts seem to be concerned with or scared of them. They are on of my favorite fish.
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    Eventually she will stop rolling around on my keyboard and just sit under my monitor, or I will move her to the ground and she will find a different place to lay or she will jump on my desk again and the cycle repeats.
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    The explanation I have heard from Cory, is that if a leaf is dying off it is because the plant is consuming the nutrients from the leaf to use elsewhere. I personally trim dying leaves if I don't like how they look, and leave them otherwise.
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