Tony s

you know, it is kind of cool looking. you could let it grow out and see. unless its toxic

Welcome back! looks great. but have concerns. if it's a 75g your corners may not be strong enough. screws won't necessarily hold onto that much shear pressure. (pressure against the side of the screw). especially close to the end of the 2x4. quick fix- sister up a few more 2x4's on the outside corners. so that the 2x4's hold the weight and not the screws. but really does look nice.

Yes…. Always get more corys 😃. They behave much more confidently in larger groups. I had six skunks, they hid all the time, I went to 12 now they’re everywhere

Actually correct. Not used to dimensions of long/tall tanks. Although I’ve seen them in worse coop say 20 long is sufficient for praecox mine are in a 75 https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwj926Gxk8SEAxUOIzQIHV0nBYsQFnoECA4QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aquariumcoop.com%2Fblogs%2Faquarium%2Fdwarf-neon-rainbowfish&usg=AOvVaw1BgyFa6F3N8dJ1d6Ifu_e2&opi=89978449

Yeah, you have so many combinations. You might take the honeys to 3 or 4. They would be alright with more. You could add in a tetra like bleeding hearts. A tight schooling fish like brilliant green rasbora. Even a small bodied angel fish would work. Thinking koi

A male apisto would be fine. Depending on your ph and hardness. Softer water is better. Dwarf neon rainbows. Or other small rainbows. how about some male guppies for small color fish

also small species of rainbow fish

normal color variation, i think. as she gets bigger she may color up as well. either more yellow or more dark. not all of them have the bright yellows, unfortunately

looks like standard blue to me. she's very pretty

picture? i assume you were sending one. nothing came across okay you have 2 posts. same topic first one has pictures

you could also go in an african direction. small julidichromus neolamprologus multifaciata- small shell dwellers kribensis

and that's the whole purpose of quarantine. better to lose a sick one here than contaminate the rest. you'd be surprised by how many people just don't do it. let alone for the 4 week recommended period. keep an eye out for visible symptoms. then you can work on saving the rest. hopefully you can figure it out. and save him and his tank mates

everything I listed works well for kit lights except the pearlweed. and you could always get a plant light and glass lid. kinda expensive though. ya , never mind, I went and looked up your tank. maybe another style of clip on light

it will. but it's going to do it slowly. and it will only raise it so much. to the saturation point of the water. well within the tolerances of both animals.

It's the guppies. depending on the source, of course. some kinds are too intensively line bred and have become weak. bettas or honey gourami make good centerpiece. rasboras for schooling, any type. but not too small. shrimp with chili rasbora, or green kubotai for schooling. panda cories on bottom with dwarf gourami on top Try getting guppies from dan's fish. hopefully better sourced. hard water most likely not the issue.

Cherry shrimp will do well in harder water. the tissue culture plants will work for no snails. they will want some cover. things like pearl weed, anubias, hornwort, java moss. and some cholla wood caves would be good.

bent spines? could be the genetics. chewed tails? I've never seen a betta go after platys or guppies before. I have bettas with both But... You could have had a mean betta

I think that platys are on the wane at the moment. especially at fish stores. there are too many more exciting fish at the moment. They just suffer from being too common. which is discouraging. They are super great little fish. I have a 20g with only platys in it, well, and 1 betta (she thinks she's a platy). The other problem they have is reputation. They multiply like weeds. which a lot of people are not into. Myself, I let the platys control the population. The 20g has everything from 2 year olds to week old fry

Just a couple quick things. Hard water for you is going to be perfectly normal. 85 % of the US has it. The fish you have actually do really well in hard water. Second, your betta wouldn’t bother with those fish. I have 7 bettas, all in community tanks with those fish. Bettas are usually only aggressive towards other bettas. You may have something going on. Hard to tell at this point. Could have been a temporary ammonia spike. Or it could be nothing at all. Just coincidence. Guppies and bettas purchased at big box pet stores can be relatively hard to keep alive. Bettas for me only last 6 months to a couple of years. They can receive some harsh treatment before purchasing. Out of the ones I have kept only 1 has made it to 2 years. But I keep rescuing them, better than living their lives in cups. Their tank mates are still fine. Guppies from pet stores can have poor genetics due to extreme line breeding. And some handling concerns.

You can get both dwarf sag and crypts through tissue cultures as well. Not an expert thing. Very easy. The culture is done in a lab. You treat the plant as normal Anubias doesn’t technically have to be glued down. If you’re careful you can just bury the roots and leave the rhizome above the surface Tissue cultures will be labeled as such. Slightly more expensive. But worth it if you want no possibility of snails

Might be a bit of sparring. But none of the babies your kiddo wants

Tissue culture is the process of grabbing cells from the plant and propagating in a culture medium. Much faster than waiting for the plant itself to reproduce. You can get most plants that way. Including anubias. Grabbing cells has the distinct advantage. Absolutely no snail eggs

You may be needing to supplement your gh/kh to support your shrimp. Easiest way for you to do that is get some cuttlebone and tuck a piece behind your sponge filter. Assuming your nitrates are low, then you wouldn’t need to do the water changes as often

John Hudson (kgtropicals) tells a story. A friend of his gifted him a black arowana, it had no place to go. so he puts it in a tank with convict fry. He wakes up to a literal arowana skeleton. Just may be one of the pairings that work. right up to the point it doesn't

That’s great. You have great looking tanks btw. I personally have low tech tanks, and am less concerned about algae. Hair I remove by hand, green spot bothers me not at all. Never had bba. I actually like a bit of green on most of my hardscapes. But to each his own. Wasn’t my recommendation. It’s her directions of how to dose easy green fertilizer. She’s a coop employee and affiliate. And then you go backwards a couple of years and Cory recommends around 20ppm. And the yet again, last year sometime, the recommendation of 50 ppm from the official coop Chanel. (Second video). So I figure between the two would be fine.