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    Honeybear needs attention now! This is what happens every day I try to work from home: Thanks! Yes, I love my crabs, they are my favorite. Here are some pictures I took of my male lilac crab "Plum" recently.
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    Sure, I can probably do that this week. For now, here is a shorter video I have already.
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    Thanks! I haven't noticed the bristelnose plecos messing with my plants in any destructive way. They definitely climb all over everything.
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    "Pomegranate" the Indian Lilac crab
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    I like to try aiming for 100% on aqua advisor for initial stocking, but once everything is setup and settled, I may add more if I think I can/ want to based on the behavior of the fish.
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    More so previously. I've only been playing Slay the Spire and Super Smash Bros Melee for the last 12+ months. White cat is Coral. He's a brat. Gray cat is Honey Bear. She loves to bad.
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    For background root feeders I would recommend ozelot swords, melon swords, crypt spiralis or vallisneria. For side of tank root feeders I like tiger lotus the most. Dwarf lily or a medium crypts like lutea are another option.
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    My top three in no particular order: 1. Tiger lotus Very easy to care for, giant, beautiful and spreads like crazy. My favorite midground plant. 2. Buce green wavy. I like rhizome plants a lot for covering wood and rocks. I think buce is my favorite because it is short and seems hardier than anubias which can suffer from rhizome rot. Green wavy is a nice color and texture that can work in most setups. 3. Ludwigia rubin. Stem plants are nice for filling out backgrounds. I like ludwigia rubin because it is easy to care for, is large and can have a nice range of different colors from green to bronze to red depending on the amount of lighting. It feels like a great jack of all trades
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    My top 5 in no particular order. 1. Swordtails I like livebearers because they are easy to care for, kind, active and easy to breed. I think I like swordtails the most because they are some of the bigger ones and I like that the males and females are distinct, but both are very colorful. 2. Pearl gourami I find their faces with their upturned mouths extremely cute. I also find their shyness endearing. They are one of the biggest fish in my tank, but get spooked the easiest. 3. Angelfish I love how big, kind, colorful and derpy they are. Their body shape is also very unique and amusimg to watch when they are eating. 4. Rainbow shark I find them very elegant and beautiful looking. They also feel like a guard dog who protrol the area and protect the other fish. 5. German blue rams I my opinion these are the most beautiful all of fish. I love their vibrant colors.
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    I'm pretty happy with how my tanks are looking. I'm mostly trying to perfect my background stem plants. 75g 29g 10g 40g Brackish paludarium. I've been experimenting with tiger lotus and ludwigia. Tiger lotus seems to do really well in low end brackish so far. My hornwort has definitely been thriving as well.
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    One of my Indonesian batik fiddler crabs. They are red and white, which is pretty cool compared to the brown of the gold claw fiddler crabs. Very reclusive so far. Lulu had eggs! Unfortunately the larvae need a full marine setup, so it isn't really possible to breed fiddler crabs in a community tank, but still interesting to see. Got a cute video of the whole community chowing down at feeding time. Bonus, miscellaneous crab photos.
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    My thought is that adding an airstone is easy and cheap and prevents issues with running low on oxygen which can be catastrophic in worst case scenarios. So it's not that it is absolutely needed, but I think the cost to effect ratio is such that it is a good reccomendation for most people.
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    In terms of space, I think a HOB with a pre-filter sponge and a nano sponge filter take up about the same amount of space. However, if you choose to go with a HOB, you will still probably want to run an air stone, which will take up additional space. I personally like running HOBs in all of my tanks because being able to add specialty filter media on a case by basis is important to me. I also think they are better at picking up debris than sponge filters. I also like that the increased flow helps spread fertilizer across the tank to different plants. In most of my tanks I run both types of filters. In my 10g, I use a HOB and a small zis airstone.
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    Not so far. I've seen him nibble on some buce a bit.
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    Wow, those are rad. Probably the coolest rainbows I've seen.
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    Got some decent footage of my blue kong zebra crayfish today: Also, I don't think I shared a photo of my apisto yet. Bonus: tankception relection photos
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    My blue kong zebra crayfish only likes to explore in 30 second increments with hour long breaks inbetween.
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    I have the eBook, but you can spend $100 on a physical copy if you really want to. https://www.amazon.com/Brackish-Water-Fishes-Aquarists-Identification-ebook/dp/B007PEZ72U
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    I also have a rainbow shark. She doesn't really bully them and they seem to like hanging out together. She does give them a chase every once in a while. I'm wondering if she is herding the other sharks to one side of the tank though because they seem to stick to that side most of the time. It's also possible they prefer the cover, temperature or flow on that side though. I'm less sure about this one, but it has seemed fine so far in my experience.
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    My roseline sharks and siamese algae eaters get along great. They basically school together. I think the main thing when it comes to freshwater "sharks" is not keeping multiple rainbow sharks or red tail sharks together.
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    Did a bunch of maintenance over the weekend and I think my tanks are in a pretty decent spot. 10g: -I'm working on getting the ludwigia to get more bushy and fill out the back better. It's been somewhat difficult because the bottom leaves are constantly shedding. -I'm also waiting for the repens to establish more. This has also been difficult because it's hard to prevent them from being shaded. Brackish Paludarium -I'm hoping I have finalized my brackish plant selection at this point. Crossing my fingers nothing dies off. 29g -I removed the nymphoides hydrophylla because it wasn't getting as tall as I wanted. I replaced it with some ludwigia trimmings. -Still waiting on the hygrophila siamensis on the right to grow in. 40g -I removed the dwarf lily, because I didn't like the coloration and replaced it with a tiger lotus runner from my 75g. 75g: -Still working on getting the right height and bushiness of the center background plants -Trying to get the dwarf hairgrass to more evenly cover the center area -My madagascar lace is growing not one, but two flowers! They are still just a long stem with a bud at the end, but i'm hoping at least one will bloom. -I found more reticulated hillstream loach fry. I know I have at least 4. They are super cute.
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    Roseline sharks are cool. I think pearl gourami or angelfish could work too.
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    My preference is low end brackish, because it gives you more options for plants. It also has the small bonus of saving you time and money from dosing as much marine salt. I would only do higher end brackish if I needed to to keep a particular animal.
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    They do need a land area. I have a HOB breeder box that I am using and have a piece of wood so they can climb up to it. Only one of them actually uses it though. The other one climbs the Madagascar lace and then sits inside my HOB. The are known to be predatory towards snails. I've only seen them eat very small snails though, so it's possible they wouldn't harm mystery snails, nerite snails and other larger snails with an operculum. I wouldn't risk my prized snails with them though personally. I haven't seen an aggression towards my fish or vice versa. They seem to be perfectly content hanging around with eachother. There's probably always at least some risk and crustacean behavior can be personality dependent (like bettas).
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