Lennie

I hope that's valid for all kribs but not only pulchers 😄

Where? I cant see them! Save me from this pain of trying to find them 🤣

Thanks for sharing your experience. These guys are already on my list of one day fish. I can imagine their aggression as parents bcoz when I was searching for their care back in the days, I came across a video where they try to clean the glass and the fish bite the owner so hard she asks her partner to keep doing the cleaning. 😄 Please let me know more about them whenever you have time whether here or in dms. Yellow color (my fav on fish!) combined with me never experiencing a shell dweller make me keep them a lot. I saw some at my LFS around two weeks ago, but I was like, Lennie, No! 😄 😝 Besides aggression, not being a community fish also played a role on me quitting the idea of keeping them. Not everyone would be willing to spare a species only tank when you want to rehome, right? This was the video I watched:

My male is also great in that regard. That being said, in our fish group, Ive seen many people mentioning having issues with dads pushing the eggs out of the cave and they look healthy, not bad at all. Not sure if that's accidental or not. The sad part is the parenting of a BN dad is quite short termed, and you cant even enjoy seeing it properly. I guess I enjoy it more when fry swim around with their parents hunting bbs together. Also many fish sadly fail the part of resisting to snack on their own babies when they start free swimming too, if the eggs hatch successfully 🫠😭

Hello Guys, Today, Ive come to an end of "successfully" raising GBR fry with their parents. It took around 7-8 egg clutches to reach this point, and I thought Im finally there. This morning, after feeding the parents white worms, I saw the female ate the 23 day old fry out of nowhere. Checking the back corner, they have laid another batch of eggs. The fry is black/grayish, so not really mistaken for worms, or spit out later on. It was not even leaving group. Although not guarding the eggs at all, I think we came to another attempt of keeping ram fry with their parents. Ended up seperating them from their parents 😭 I wonder what causes this horrible parenting skills. GBRs have a bad reputation in this regard, but they are def not the only ones I see/hear bad parenting of fish. Why do you think fish's parenting skills are this bad? Is it them not being raised by their parents as fry or so? I keep hearing bad parenting experiences more than I hear good. However, seeing fish raising their own fry is just awesome to watch. So.... What are the best best fish parents you ever had? Let's share experience to find the best parent(s)!

They are just flirty

I also started my daphnia culture 11 days ago and I enjoy it so far. I had a big tub that I used to use to cycle numerous fish room sponges when I was setting it up. So it had been sitting with the filter gunk and algae covered on sides unused. I emptied it but left all of surface growth for daphnia to snack on. They seem to do well so far. I used a small sponge filter that is already a bit full of gunk, and has low air flow. So I think it cant suck much but good enough to keep it cycled. I always heard sponges were not doable in my researches due to sucking baby daphinas/disturbing them with the air flow, but Im having so many babies growing just in 11 days, so I assume it is fine as it is. I also have tons of frogbits on top. I noticed them holding on to the roots sometimes. Like a monkey on the tree. I think they like it I also mix dry yeast with spirulina powder feed them this way I have a bare bottom setup No smell and easy to take care of is a very important combination for me. Daphnia fits the theme well. Same goes for white worms and vinegar eels. And ofcourse, brine shrimp hatching. Microworms are the worst. Stinky. I hated them. Hope everything goes well for you. I haven't actually seen anyone using substrate so please update us on your experience. I wanted to use mystery snails too, but I wasn't sure if they would crush them. I noticed my daphnia seem to enjoy spending on the bottom of the tub too (maybe due to having an oxygen source already and no light on top). So mystery snails, especially adults, might accidentally go over them, I thought. My friend uses a couple baby plecos to snack on the dead ones to keep parameters okay but both snails and plecos would poop a lot? Idk. I also aim for a no water change sort of setup.

I just wanted to update and say all fry survived yippie! 🥳

Looks great. Let mine stay at your hotel too! my only worry would be your group having a dominant male in the future and not letting other whiptails to use the other tubes around. But you can easily remove the tubes and put all around the tank if that happens

Hello, I bought mine as vampire crabs but ended up learning they are actually borneo crabs. They are not too different but has a few tank setup and care differences. My setup looked like this, including a lid on top For vampire crabs, I would highly recommend watching Indoor Ecosystem's videos. He has many tanks of crabs, nice care guides and even breeds them. Also has a few tank setup videos too. If you ask me, I would not go for such setup in the abovementioned picture. My crabs love hiding and enjoy spending almost all their time in the land part. It is usually recommended to have %80 land %20 water. I also don't find mine great at feeding and finding food. So I think having a bioactive setup is great for these little guys. Highly recommend a good land part sufficiently setup to home isopods and springtails too. So you will be less likely to face issues like mold, uneaten foods, etc. If you will try isopods, make sure to have a seperate colony going on elsewhere. They may snack on them a bit too much. Hikari crab cuisine can be nice. I feed it to my crabs from time to time. But it is not enough. A diet that includes variety should be preferred. Please see this video and many others he has in the playlist In this video above, you can find plenty of ideal setups based on the tank size. Please note that, if you happen to keep isopods, not all are meant to do well under such high humidity tank conditions that vampire crabs require. So you should read about their needs too

I hatch mine on room temp everyday actually. Maybe it lowers hatch rate a bit but usually I get a nice result. I use magnetic eggs (called Sep-art) so all I do is dropping a magnet inside and get the orange juice. I dont use any heater or light.

As an update: I can say it worked well. They cleaned up uneaten food particles pretty good. I haven't seen any deaths since I added snails. Two options; Either no fry died, or snails ate the ones that died. However there were two issues. First eggs. TONS OF EGGS. I have seen around 10-15 clutches in a week. Besides eating leftover food, they had an option to snack on dying leaf parts so they always had food available. Second problem was poops. The container was full of poop usually. Might be a better idea to add a baby snail that would not lay eggs for this period I think. That is a self note. ------------------------------------------ As it is a bit related my topic here, I don't want to create another topic for this question. The gbr fry are exactly 20 days old tomorrow. They have been eating bbs for a while. Ive just fed some this evening. Gonna feed more tomorrow morning before I leave (friday morning for me). Then I will be back on Sunday afternoon. 1) Planning to setup a new bbs hatchery tomorrow morning. Would bbs survive if I set it up early morning on friday and farm it on sunday afternoon? 2) Would 20-22 day old GBR fry be okay with being fed on friday morning and no food until sunday afternoon? ( I made them acclimate to whiptail tank parameters so I now have them in your type of fry container with sponges on since I wont have time to make water changes @Fish Folk) Thanks for the help in advance.

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I would suggest to ask on reddit r/crayfish or to try to find a specific crayfish community. Maybe they can help better I havent seen lots of crayfish keepers around here. Maybe @Ninjoma Might have an idea? Otherwise, as I said, try to find a crayfish community for better help before it is too late Hope your friend gets better soon

I find guppies, especially imported guppies, problematic overall. You may be a newbie and asking for help. I have been keeping fish for 15+ years, and I still lost majority of my guppies as I got imported ones. I think it has something to do with pathogens and immunity development. The parents do breed. A few of the parents make it. The rest sadly dies over time. The ones that survive this acclimation period to your tank and all the offspring of the imported parents that born in your tank do great. Also idk if this is valid for guppies, but some fish may be raised in brackish conditions so they have no immunity development and when they end up in your tank, they just dont do well. Because they have been so isolated and sterile until that time. My suggestion would be go for the hobbyist bred options if possible and get them from a good source. If you already got hobbyist bred ones, then idk.

Their origin is not known. So we cant directly say if they are hybrids, manmade or exist in the wild. To quote some info about this: https://www.seriouslyfish.com/species/rineloricaria-sp/ This fish may or may not be a man-made, or even hybrid, species. There are a few theories regarding this currently in circulation. Some believe that the fish are derived from a true wild caught fish, possibly of Paraguayan origin. These wild-caught red whiptails are supposed to breed true, producing all red fry, although there is no concrete evidence that they actually exist. The second possibility is that it’s a selectively-bred form of Rineloricaria lanceolata, but this would appear unlikely, as there exist no records of mutant red fry in spawning reports of this frequently-bred species. The third explanation suggests that the true red whiptail was hybridised with R. lanceolata, the reason being that, lanceolata females are quite fecund, and thus the fish could be raised in commercially viable quantities more rapidly this way. -------------------------------------------------- https://www.loricariidae.info/leliella-sp-l010a#:~:text=It's believed that the first,between this and Hemiloricaria lanceolata. -------------------------------------------------- https://www.planetcatfish.com/common/species.php?species_id=747 "This red colour form is considered to be artificial although it is unclear what species or methods were used in its production. Aqualog introduced this fish with an l-number of L010a, it is very different from L010." -------------------------------------------------- https://www.fishipedia.fr/fr/poissons/hemiloricaria-lanceolata This website had differences between its original French version and English version. This is the google translate version of the French one as this info does not exist on the English page if I am not mistaken

Anytime! Oh, and make sure they are not bothered by any fish that are commonly territorial in the tank on the bottom side. Ive seen my GBR pair bothering them a few times. They are no longer housed together in my case.

Hello, I asked him and another friend who also breeds a couple wild bettas. They said the following: In a 29g, you can try keeping a smaragdina pair. He said he keeps a pair together. However, there should be so many hiding spots for the female to hide when needed. Smaragdinas don't seem to be as peaceful as mahachai and especially imbellis are. The pair can be kept in the tank when they spawn. But male will be quite aggressive towards the female. Male is not a big danger for the fry it seems but female is. If you dont take the fry to grow somewhere else, he said expect 3-5 fry to survive. Creating lots of hiding spots for fry made with big tiny leaf plants like Najas guadalupensis may increase the chance of fry survival he said. Other friend said expect around 10 fry this way. --------------------------- If you ask me, it sounds risky. I wouldn't try it myself. I wouldnt like to have a tank that female would be target of an aggression all the time. Going for a paludarium would cut their swimming space a lot. It would directly eliminate the option of considering a pair in a tank. Bettas are known to jump and I had a serious jumper betta before.

Today I found casuarina cones on sale somewhere! Maybe I should get it? Lotus pods look great visually. I wouldnt care if they like it or not. If I happen to find it, I would directly use it even purely for the visual 😄

Mine love banana leaves a lot besides catappas. Usually alder cones, plane tree leaves, fig tree leaves and beech tree leaves were not really attractive for shrimp in my case. If I buy anything, I go for catappas, and get naturally dried banana leaves from my garden. I add alder cones to my tanks bcoz I find them rich in tannins also add nice visual, but my shrimps are not interested.

Hello Surreal, In terms of diet, mine did not really show interest to veggies much so I stopped feeding it to them. Maybe you can try to see how yours react to it. I give them small frozen foods, tropical insect menu, krill flakes, and algae tabs that are rich in both algae overall and includes different algae types. I dont think they are picky eaters at all. They dont exactly school or schoal but I think they are social and like to have their own kind around. So good to hear you got a group. That being said, I have to disagree with them being extremely peaceful. As adults, males can be territorial a bit I keep their tank warm. Currently at 29C due to raising ram babies with them. I wouldnt go higher than this, but also not too low. When I move ram babies to another tank, I would still do around 26-27 C. They like small pipes that are open on both end. However existence of such hiding places significantly decreased their activity level in my tank. That is a sacrifice to consider making for their happiness :,) Mine liked playing around plant leaves and woods. Especially as juveniles they were jumping from one crypt leaf to another. In terms of flow, you may have some but I think they are fine no flow. That being said, as they like their tank warm, I do keep at least two sponge filter to increase the surface agitation in a 50x40x25cmh breeding tank. In their community tank they had a Hob also. So I would suggest a good aeration of your own style. They LOVE leaf litter. I add so many different leaves. I added a huge piece of banana leaf from my garden two weeks ago, they enjoyed it very much. Catappa leaves are their number one fav still. I also have wild type neocaridinas with them. They live together peacefully The ph is 7.5 in their tank if Im not mistaken If you have any questions please ask. I just wrote down a few things that came to my mind

My males did not grow those facial beard like thingy until I moved them to a species only breeding tank. They all looked like females in their community tank without growing anything. Hard to know. my females that breed also dont have such belly. Yes they get a bit rounded but not as big as it is in the picture. Just wanted to mention these to share some experience to help you guys decide on the medication type/applications malik also had an issue with one fish from his colony before which looked similar. Im tagging the related part below. You guys know medications better

You are most welcome. Anytime you need help, I can ask him. I only have personal experience with classic domesticated bettas and not wilds. Btw, amazing color up since the day you got him. Seems like he loves your care and his tank 🥰happy boi

Hello there, I also love shallow tanks. I have one 23cm high and 20x 25cm h shallow tanks, so 21 shallow tanks in total. (One more, but I use it for my isopods). I dont think there are big differences between normal tanks and shallow tanks. I can mention a few negative stuff that comes to my mind -Plants that grow vertically fast can be a lil annoying to maintenance. This can be a limiting factor. I would advice you to choose your plant options wisely in general to make sure height wont be a problem. Make sure this wont be an issue for you - substrate depth can cut very much from the tank and swimming space. Scaping with a thin layer of sand on the bottom and leaning towards less substrate depth might be a good idea. Otherwise creating a balance between swimming space and substrate thickness can be a problem, planting and rooting may become annoying. -Installing a HOB can be annoying if thats your choice of filter. I use an AC30 in one of my tanks with similar size to yours, and I had to remove the intake tube and attach a fine sponge filter there directly. In one of my long shallow tanks(110cm long), I had to install a wavemaker to turn the water well and create nice surface agitation. - siphoning the bottom is a bit challenging. Why? Because before you finish whole ground, you are usually siphon the half of the water in the tank. Surface area of the substrate is equal to the tanks that are much taller, so they hold more water. But in this case, tanks hold less water than an average tank with a similar footprint. - In where I live, majority of the heaters are tall even if they are low W. The shortest I find is aquael ultra heater and even that is 16cm tall. With substrate it can be a bit challenging to position the heater vertically. Make sure tk get a heater that is short in height, or can be used lopsided

Hello again @Epiphanaea We have a reputable betta breeder friend in our local group who also breeds so many different wild types. I asked him what this is by sending the pics youve shared, and he said it is a male betta smaragdina. Not an alien or female. I cant tell if it is exactly true or not but I hope it helps. At least wanted to share his opinion with you