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  1. Lennie
    My experience is the opposite when it comes to nocturnal fish feeding time and snail population. In my experience corys eat well during the day. I used to feed my pleco after the lights go off, but the problem is, most food ends up having lots of particles joining the water column. During day time, when you feed bottom dwellers, they eat the pellet on the bottom, and other fish eat the small particles floating around. During nighttime, those floating particles end up on somewhere ready to be snacked on for snails. I think corys are also active at night as well as daytime but they are not nocturnal eaters by any means. Dwarf chain loaches are small in size. Previously I've read comments of people experiencing them not touching to snails at all meanwhile some reports they eat snails. It is probably the size of the snail as you mentioned, or MTS having trapdoor might also be a problem. Due to their small size, even if they eat snails, as you mentioned, they are unlikely to eat bigger sized snails.
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    Okidoki! I will try to catch one pic tomorrow 🙂
  3. Lennie
    I thought this perspective should matter! I will try to catch a pic tomorrow as the lights are off for today. You mean from this perspective right? I found an online pic just to make sure I got it right:
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    Not every loach eats snails, or at least eats them that well. I would highly recommend reading about people's experience regarding that Like for example, a rosy loach maybe can eat very small ones, if it ever does.
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    @Flying fox 6523 I've found this!
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    My nerites were spending good amount of time on mystery shells. So did otos lol
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    Welcome to the forum Jimmy 🙂 Excited to see your tanks in the future!
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    So it has been a couple months size I got my ottos. As a precaution, I did 2 rounds of prazi in food (my all fish including otos eat commercial food), and one round of levamisole last week. However there is one oto that seems extremely fat. Does it seem like carrying eggs, or she is just fat? She(?) poops perfectly normal. But this is kinda worrisome. The tank is established no ammonia or nitrite, around 10 nitrate max. Heavily planted, usually gets food once a day. Kh 13, gh 6 ph 7.5. Currently has active carbon running after medication. they eat whatever I drop to tank. I try to feed spirulina and algae as much as I can but they go for high protein foods as well. Everyone else in the tank including other otos seem fine. here are the pics: @Odd Duck @Colu @xXInkedPhoenixX
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    I have never heard of a yoyo loach reaching 7 inch personally. Also don’t underestimate your tank size, 75g is big and surely can home a small school of loaches, as long as you like them ofc. 7inch sounds like them in wild rather than home tanks. @Cinnebuns @KittenFishMom can you guys help with yoyo loaches, their size, if they would be okay with the mentioned substrate and with corycats in a 75g, theirschool size, their temperament etc.
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    Loaches are fun lil characters. If I had a 75g, I would consider them for myself too but my biggest tank is 160Liters(around 42g) for now. Loaches are very active fish, so the bigger the tank the better for them really. They also like to be in schools too as far as I know. Snails are a great part of ecosystem and helps with a natural look. The "pest" snails are usually good to have, it is just that they can be unsightly as their food sources are way too much. Besides potential fish food, algae, biofilm, decaying plant matter, Something dead in your tank, etc., all can be considered as food for them. So yea, I feel you. Would be exciting to see if you happen to get loaches! I am not sure if they would bully corydoras during feeding time tho. Maybe anyone has experience with keeping both together?
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    As I know your tank is a big one from the previous topics of yours, if you are willing to keep your nerites in your new tank(so move them away), I would get snail eating loaches. Loaches would enjoy your big tank very much and would help you with your snail issue. Assasin snails reproduce a lot as well and they lay under the substrate so you don't actually know how many you have. You can potentially replace pest snails with assasin snails. Assasin snails are opportunistic carnivors, so they will surely hunt down snails, however, considering you already have corydoras and feed bottom feeders, they will surely enjoy fish food too. And full assasin snails probably won't be going after snails really. So I would say go for a school of loaches. In a 75g, I would get a school of yoyo loaches myself. Here are some videos of them:
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    Hornwort and Elodea are great assistance especially in overstocked tanks! I love having one or another in my tanks. Also combats algae very well
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    @beastie check these out!
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    Beautiful fish but shows its beauty through wild colors. From my observations, especially during times I spend at my LFS, which is considerably a good amount of time to make observations, majority of fishkeepers enjoy colors that pop up. I have personally never seen a normal fishkeeper enterin a store and falling in love with a wild colored fish, they always go for the colored ones. Maybe sharks is an exception for this one, people love sharks. Everyone I met who likes these type of wild colors are actually hobbyists with years of experience. Fish nerds, like us, I would say 😄 My underrated fish opinion goes to whiptail catfish. Any type. They have a very unique look, and they are not shy like plecos. Always out and has a great display. No clue why plecos, which spend most of their time hiding, are much more popular than whiptails in the hobby.
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    Welcome to the forum! I have borneo sucker, so pretty much the same with a hillstream loach. They are very cool, however, if you get them to eat algae purposes, I think you would be disappointed. I think they don't do well at eating algae by any means. My friend @beastie also has a group of them in her high flow river type of tank, and she also mentioned even as a group they barely make any difference on algae, even combined with a group of panda garras. So yea, even if you decide to get a hillsteam loach, I would not have high hopes for algae eating behavior. In my experience, they enjoy diatoms and biofilm rather than normal algae. Oh and fish food and frozen food ofc. For hillstream loach specific, they like high flow cooler tanks with lots of oxygen content. That container looks small even for one imo. I have my borneo sucker in my 160L tank, it is smaller than a regular hillstream loach, and she is everywhere in the tank constantly moving. You cannot meet their high flow needs with pea puffers, otherwise pea puffers would really struggle to swim I bet. Personal opinion, Considering they are pretty active once settles in my experience, and love grazing areas, to make sure it has enough grazing surfaces constantly for biofilm, I would not keep one in smaller than a 20g. Because biofilm is their main source of food, if I'm not wrong
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    If they are constantly around the heater, can be nice to check if the heat is well distributed in the tank and matches their needs. Just to make sure!
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    Just like I expected, everyone has a very unique way! I’ve just noticed that I forgot to share my own. As I keep all my tanks in my room, I drip acclimate with a black cover on top of bucket. Then when I introduce new fish to the tanks, I turn off all the lights of all tanks and curtains. Then after half an hour or so, I let some daylight to slide in. After an hour, I generally turn the lights on. I don’t turn lights off when I introduce snails but I do the same for shrimp
  18. Lennie
    I wonder everyone's opinion on this one. If you do, how long do you keep the lights off when you introduce a new fish to your tank or when transferring your fish into a new tank? Do you keep it off during acclimation period or just after putting fish in the tank? If you don't, have you ever experienced it causing extra stress? Do you keep lights off for shrimps and/or snails too? Share what works the best for you!
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    Actually, both works. In the video above, waterfall one even reads higher oxygen content than the leveled surface agitation. Check the min 14
  20. Lennie
    Micro Sword: Exists Chick-In: Why are you running WHY-ARE-YOU-RUNNING?!
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    Ah! I see. It's leaves looked pretty full like Littorella Uniflora I have! I was excited to see that plant seeing more love 😄 very underrated
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    Are those plants Littorella Uniflora?
  23. Lennie
    I remember they were using go pro underwater to film fish on a couple videos of the MD's Fish tank. Here is one
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    Summer is the cutest 💛
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    Waterfall effect vs leveled up HOB does not seem to have so different levels really. Airstone addition is great! Generally the problem with heavily planted tanks is, besides fish, beneficial bacteria and plants also keep consuming oxygen during night time. In low oxygen environments, especially close to morning times, fish may starve for some oxygen. Also your stocking level may play on a role on this one too. Generally, one of the signs I happen to observe is, fish being super inactive, trying to stay upper side of the tank and close to surface acting like betta geting a gulp of air from the surface. I think this video might help you to understand some of the concepts : ,
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