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  1. Lennie
    Sounds great to have your own babies join the community. Congrats on the accidental breeding 🥳 If I were you I would consider adding some algae eaters that would enjoy those temps and setup. Also, if you are like me, besides their algae eating benefits, they are just as fun as keeping other fish! I really enjoy keeping my SAEs. Besides being an algae eater they are just fun to watch. I wouldn't keep a group less than 3, they are weird creatures, love to play around and chase each other but noone else in my experience. Keeping two would result in too much chasing between individuals, number three allows mine to get distracted between each other. Maybe 4 would be even better? Your tank is BIG! Other than that, you can also add some hillsteam loach/borneo sucker, I think. To me, they are very unique and fun too! I have no idea about hillstream loach tolarance for hard water but my borneo sucker and SAEs seem to tolarate harder waters and higher ph up to 8 in my experience. @Guppysnail Gup did you mix RO for your hillstream tanks or do they just do fine in your liquid rock tap?
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    @jwcarlson say hi to Lily!
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    @beastie has indostomus and she may help
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    Yea dude, sadly. I hope you find a way to solve the head issue on yours 😭 I got hyped about getting discus due to my dad, but I shouldve never gotten them at the first place given how fragile they are. Also they are big! I am more of a nano fish guy in general, other than plecos, the biggest fish I have in size are angels/gold gouramis. Thanks for the videos They live in a tank where the heater is set to 27.5C (81.5F).
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    I lost Marshall. It was very sad. Nothing I tried worked sadly. There is a discus guy here, told me that mine probably had a gill rot and it would be kinda impossible to treat. I don't exactly know what it was but all I know is I tried. Hope he is happier where he at. But their behavior with each other taught a lot to me about fish feelings. Lily literally put effort to make Marshall get better even when he was dying sitting on the bottom on its side. Watching their interactions made me even more sad I almost cried. Lily, the female, is in a community tank in my bedroom with some rummynoses, sterbais, and two angels. She is doing great rn. Now much more accepting about food, no longer picky. More active and happy. She is enjoying her widow life I guess. No more men! Thanks for asking. Appreciated
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    Im glad to hear. I have no idea if garlic is actually snail safe. Because, if I am not mistaken, some people use it to kill slugs/snails in their gardens or so. I also saw something similar mentioned in Kats aquatics page. So I found this: https://www.katsaquaticsshop.com/post/garlicandsnails It basically says allicin in raw garlic is harmful but heating garlic destroys allicin so it becomes safe? When I check garlic guard info online, I came accross this: "Garlic Guard is an appetite/flavor enhancer for freshwater and saltwater fish. GarlicGuard will help renew the interest of poor or finicky eaters. GarlicGuard contains the naturally derived, active ingredient found in garlic, allicin, which has been demonstrated to possess health promoting benefits. Allicin possesses strong anti-oxidant properties (similar to Vitamin C) which promote enhanced health through elimination of dangerous free radicals. For enhanced health benefits, GarlicGuard also contains Vitamin C. Freshwater and Marine. Reef safe." So is it not snail-safe? I'm confused. Do you have any idea Duck? @Odd Duck
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    Is garlic safe for snails? Im not sure
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    Even if it does not eat them directly, is it still a stress factor for snails, shrimp or surface grazers to touch it due to their stinging cells?
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    Thanks for sharing your experience. come, get some. I have many spixis 🤗
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    I have no first hand experience but spixi snails are known to eat them if you can find any. I have many but didn't test hydra eating behavior That being said, Lav's experience regarding spixi's hydra eating was not satisying it seems. Instead, baby mysteries devoured the hydras in her experience.
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    Bettas are commonly bred for colors and looks and Im not sure to what extend people care about the diseases that are highly related to some certain lines and their overall health while breeding. Breeding fish requires more responsibility than putting a male and female together and attempting to breed, if you ask me, especially if those fish are known to have problematic lines. Those dragonscales, marbles, double tails, constantly coloring up kois and many more. Super long tails and fins, big ears... People even breed dragonscales (which are likely to be blind due to growth of scales on eyes) and sell blind ones under the name of "diamond eye betta" and stuff. Out of 11 bettas Ive kept so far, only 3 didnt develop a disease/symptom and seem healthy in the long term. That is a very low ratio I would say. Now at this point, I think they are one of those healthy ones, but this time, it feels kinda late to breed them potentially as they are not young anymore. That makes it harder to potentially have healthier generations. The common point of all those three is being plakats and no development of further coloring other than showing their color under good care. I LOVE bettas but I hesitate to get them anymore. That being said, there are plenty of wild betta options, which tend to be much healthier overall from what I see from my friends. But many of them are under risk in nature so sourcing them tankbred and still from a good source is important. Many crossbred bettas or versions like aliens are sold as "wild" which are not wild.
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    As the title says, Is it doable? I already keep my goldfish tank around 21-22C. The ideal range for the rainbow shark I see is 20-26C. My goldfish tank is planted with some floating plants, elodea, and some other tough background stem plants. It is 180 liters (~48g). I have two goldfish there and they are not bad swimmers. So I dont think they would be outcompeted by any means for food and such. So do you think its doable to add a rainbow shark to their tank? Are rainbow shark aggressive towards fish that dont have the “shark look” too? Thanks in advance
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    Welcome home new friend 🐻‍❄️
  14. Lennie
    That is also something I observe in some old mysteries. Who knows. Romeo's freckles are adorable
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    @Guppysnail may help for your worm questions and about dario feeding. She also has cpds and shrimp. I currently have daphnia, vinegar eels, white worms and I hatch bbs. I think they are all same level and easy. I would not worry about the hardness of a culture. More importantly try to focus on something you would utilise well based on your fish's size, interest and swimming level and the culture's requirement (feeding, where to keep, ideal temp, etc). I currently dont have microworms as they are smelly. All the ones I have have no bad odour.
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    Exactly. I have my female bettas one in a 33g tank another on 42g tank. People say bettas like small tanks. Just no. Only those long fin males or dumbo ears do better in shallower smaller setups because they seriously have a quality of life issue when it comes to swimming. My females and plakat males are everywhere in big tanks and easily can go bigger than what I keep them at
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    Just make sure what you heard are long time experience based and coming from sources you trust. In this specific case, I would advice looking for experiences regarding keeping honeys and pearls together, but not their unique peaceful behavior in a community tank. One species being nice overall in a community tank does not mean it will be peaceful versus everything. Labyrinth fish usually are not a fan of each other. My rams were peaceful versus everything even when other fish were literally ignoring their territory, but they killed the other ram in the tank even tho she was never close to them. My female betta sorority worked for a long time but when the number dropped to three, they started being quite aggressive versus each other, however I easily keep those ladies in separate community tanks rn. My gold gouramis lived together with the honey gourami for months, but honey gourami ended up being bullied one day when the bigger gouramis reached sexual maturity. The list goes like that. I hope you get my point. Usually as juveniles it is less likely to observe issues. When they reach sexual maturity, stuff may go wrong between the fish. A peaceful community fish does not exactly mean they will be peaceful versus their own kind in a tank. You can surely try if you have back up plan. If you have a 29g and 55g, and can easily rehome honeys to 29g if your attempt fails, then I see no reason why not to try. Without a back up plan, I wouldn't try.
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    I dont have pearls but my golds didn't work with honey gourami after some time in a 42g custom made tank. Problem arising from the gold gouramis' side of course. Honeys are way too nice. Anything that decides to not like them can bully them I think. Pearls are known to be nice overall but they are much bigger than honeys in size. If they decide to bully these angelic creatures, they can easily do it I think. If you ask me, I would not keep them together. I gave it a try in my case because I have plenty of options to make it work if it fails and it did.
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    Hello again Maree, I had a similar topic back in the days. I'm sharing it here so maybe it may help answering your questions
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    It is a nymph and they are predators. They will hunt down your shrimp and fry, and maybe tiny fish too? I usually like to have a live tank with beneficial critters like copepods, detritus worms, snails, shrimp etc. But not all critters are good for the tank sadly. And these are one of those that are not. I hope you are keeping it in a different container, otherwise they are fairly hard to find and catch.
  21. Lennie
    Hello, I gotta agree that I think 5g is very small for many fish in my personal opinion. If you ask me what I would do if I really wanna keep fish in, I would add botanicals, twig branch, and attach some small anubias/bucephalandras and turn it into a blackwater tank and keep a small school of chili rasboras and a couple neocaridinas. This way, using no rocks and no thick substrate would help you a lot to maximize the swimming space. I would only cover the bottom of the tank with fine sand to not make it seem bare, nothing more. Twigs would let them swim through yet would still provide a good visual. big wood pieces would cut from the swimming space more. Also using a small HOB would prevent taking space from the swimming space like a sponge filter would I suppose? Something like these on your own style and based on your tank size: In my personal opinion 5g is extremely small for white cloud minnows. They are very active swimmers and not that small in size.
  22. Lennie
    @Odd Duck and @Colu might help better, but I would also consider antibiotics other than metronidazole I guess. No levamisole and prazi worked for my red lizard's skinny issue. In fact it was not even growing even when I got them all in the same size. I think feeding the tank with sera baktotabs worked for me. It is an antibiotic food (nifurpirinol). Now she is a healthy adult. But yours is not accepting food well. So I'm not sure what would be an appropriate way of trying antibiotics, if you should, and which one would be appropriate. This was what mine looked like. Very skinny: While others looked like: Size and weight comparison even when I got them all exactly at same size as juveniles:
  23. Lennie
    But aint a weapon material. 2 out of 5. 😝🤣
  24. Lennie
    Maybe he wants to be the "snack"? 😏 😝🤣
  25. Lennie
    And a horrible wife! 😮 Aren’t they supposed to form monogamous pairs Which one specifically?
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