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  1. Matt B
    I have a 6.8 gal. With a lot of plants. I think that's why I've been able to keep Cherry Shrimp, Ramshorns, 3 male Guppies and a Hillstream loach in such a small tank. I use 2 nano sponge filters and a 25 watt heater.
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    @cmo1922 Don't be afraid! Give them a try and see what happens! I think you'd be surprised with what works!
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    So many variations!
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    Detritus (black worm?) worm, pokeing up out of the gravel..." Hey Shrimpies! What's for lunch?"....
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    Baby Shrimpies everywhere! Gonna need some help counting them! Let's count the eyes and divide by two.....
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    Useing a small flashlight to see what was going on in the nooks and crannies of the tank.. I noticed the worms are definitely light sensitive. 🤔 They dart back into the gravel and the ones I can see in the gravel, move quickly out of sight!
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    They would make great fish food. What would be a good couple of little fish for a 7 gal tank? 🤔
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    That is so awesome! It wouldn't last long in a tank with a large fish! Never seen one in a shrimp tank before, makes sense with nothing to chomp on it...It makes me look forward to doing some fly fishing this summer! The adults can be quite beautiful.
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    Pipsqueak shrimpies! So tiny, it's challenging to get pics of them!
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    This is the classic new to aquariums mistakes and fixes....Guilty as charged!! Live and learn and boy did I learn a lot... I think Fritz-zyme helped me , not really sure... Can't test for beneficial bacteria 🤔. I believe there's almost no way to really avoid the chaos of cycling a tank and getting it seasoned. . Lots of live plants and as much stuff from a seasoned tank as possible! Add some fish food, try and grow some algae and wait.......
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    I like this subject and reading about all the different options out there! I recently put some pics together for a friend, she was wanting to know what I was doing with this 6.8 Imagitarium cube. She has a 5 gal cube and loves it. Shrimp and plants, very basic. So the tank is great! I got it second hand, so this was a project... So keep that in mind. The internal filtration system was junk, removed it, (not an easy task) ..The light was junk, replaced it.... lid was broken so I just use a piece of plastic from a rubbermaid container, nice and lightweight, so when I drop it on my foot, no problem. . I really like a small simple cube! This is how it's set up.....
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    @lighting13 It's kind of hard to say how much to add to a 3 gal.🤔.. It's actually hard to describe how much I add every other day in my 6 gal. I'd call it just a 1/4 of the little scoop that comes with it. I've got a lot of shrimp, snails and plants,.. so food gets consumed fast...There are a couple of You-Tube videos I've come across that fellow hobbyist descibe what they do in different tanks. It's amazing how much info you can find these days!
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    They are very active.
  14. Matt B
    There are definitely some expensive shrimp foods out there. They do work great! Especially the powder Bacter AE... However, I've found the same as many others, just crush up a good quality fish food like Xtreme crave works just as well...
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    If I'm not mistaken, these are more or less the same as the Co-Op heaters. There is a 25 and 50 watt available.
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    @Fish Folk That's what surprised me. I've never fed blackworms before. 🤔 From my understanding, it only takes a segment of a worm to make a worm. I wonder if frozen blood worms or another food source contained them? It's pretty cool how things just seem to mysteriously happen. 😎
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    Because I have become a 'Nermy' Sponge Filter convert. I have be considering options for my HOBs..... 🤔 Future water fall feature in a wine barrel pond!
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    Wonder-Shells!
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    @JoeKirk I did the exact same thing! . My 100 watt was flashing EL and then 78.....what the? Oh yeah... face plant. I took off the suction cups turned it so I can't see the display. It's still working great! I do keep a thermometer in the tank to double check its maintaning the temp I want.. So far so good!
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    Another sponge filter modification. I just can't stop goofing around with them! I love these things! I did another half the tube and didn't cut the sponge, with a medium sized...just squished it on to see if I could! Haven't put it into a tank yet. It's a work in progress.
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    Yikes! What kind of detritus worm just crawled out of my tank?.....
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    I have a 7 gal. cube that currently only has a Hillstream loach, Cherry shrimp and a bunch of snails in it. There is a lot more microfauna that have come out, now that nobody's muching on them. I noticed these guys today poking out of the gravel, 'looking' around. Are these black worms? 🤔
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    I really like the Co-Op heaters. I came across these while doing a Google search to see what's new in the heater world. These look just like them... ??
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    Take me to your leader! 👽
  25. Matt B
    I am curious about 'clogged'. What is it doing? Or not doing. I was also wondering do you use the Ziss air stone with the adapter? Or did you switch back and forth to test it? I do not use an air stone with the new Nermys. . What has others experiences been? 🤔
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