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  1. LumberZack
    Making a followup post on this in case someone's looking for the answer in the future. It's been 3 weeks since I added the med trio to the 10 gallon quarantine tank. The tank had 3 common plecos and 3 freshwater crabs. 1 crab is alive, 1 escaped.. someplace, and one died from a fight, I think, since his large pincer was detached. So, I'm going to call it a success. 😛 Med trio probably ok for crabs 🙂 Thanks
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    ok, thanks. I treated the tank and will post how it goes.
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    The lady of the house brought home some plecos, Siamese/Chinese algae eaters and crabs... Is the med trio safe for the crabs in the quarantine tank? I've Googled a bunch and just don't seem to find anything about it. Thanks for your input, Z
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    @Cory thanks. I'll put some easy green in my next order. I have some Trace I can put in there in the mean time.
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    I have a very healthy watersprite plant in my 55g that has spawned around 15 new plants. I took 2 of the 6-8" plants and moved them to a newish 10 gallon tank. It's been up for a month or so with 2 guppies in it. After a week the plants have just melted away. I've been adding 1oz of Flourish to the tank since I put them in there (I dose the main tank daily). I also added some Fritz 7 a few days ago to boost the bac. and increased the guppy count to 5. Same water source and the 10g has a bit of ammonia 0.25-0.5 I added the plants to help the water conditions. Any ideas on what could be the problem?
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    Has anyone seen these before? LOL I had these appear and wonder if they are something new? I have 2 Cowboy/Colts and 2 Bengals/Buccaneers 😛 The photos don't do their colors justice. Maybe they are MLB Guppies? Mariners & Marlins?? NHL ? Philly Flyer $ Tampa Bay Lightning? ok, seriously though... some kind of Black Bar Endler cross? I bought a half dozen unbranded females of various strains a few months ago from 4 LFS and lost about 1/2 pretty quickly. Along with these several males almost gone. But as guppies will do I have many many little fishies now. I expect the drop these came from are just at maturity and I'm thinking about breeding them for these traits. I find them pretty interesting. 😄 Any comment or thoughts welcomed! Z
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    Got a second dose in the tank this evening and spent better than an hour pulling algae off of stuff. Don’t know if it’s the carbon or not, but the algae was kinda crisp this time around. It was very slimy the last time I tried to pull it off of stuff. before and after
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    I have the Fluval Plant 3.0 LED on this 55g tank. I ran it full on from 7a-10p for the first few weeks. Which really helped the algae 😛 and my plant load was much smaller. When a firmware update came out, I changed the pattern to something like 7a-10a, off, 6p-9p,off. This gives around 6 hours of light and matches when I’m in the room and can watch the fish. (There’s a bit of fading in/out that happens so as to not startle them with sudden lights on/off. ) This has been the pattern for a month or so. They know now that about the time the light is full on, food appears. 😁 Just spent an hour or more cleaning algae off of everything so the tank is a bit hazy: Z
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    I have a plant that I don’t remember the name. While trying to clean algae off it several weeks ago I accidentally plucked one of the leaves off. 🙁 so I just stuck it into the substrate to see what would happen. It didn’t die off and is budding or something. My question is if or when I should remove the sprout-root babies? It seems like they would do better at some stage getting their roots in to the soil. But I’m guessing they are feeding off the leaf at present. Thanks, Z
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    I have the Fluval Plant 3.0 LED on this 55g tank. I ran it full on from 7a-10p for the first few weeks. Which really helped the algae 😛 and my plant load was much smaller. When a firmware update came out, I changed the pattern to something like 7a-10a, off, 6p-9p,off. This gives around 6 hours of light and matches when I’m in the room and can watch the fish. (There’s a bit of fading in/out that happens so as to not startle them with sudden lights on/off. ) This has been the pattern for a month or so. They know now that about the time the light is full on, food appears. 😁 Z
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    Thanks. Picked up some Flourish Excel at the LFS today and dosed the tank this evening. I believe I have a couple of types in there at present. Blackbeard and stag or thread, it's a crazy mess. clearing up in a couple of day would be awesome. I'm just getting back into the hobby after 15 years and I don't recall having so many issues before. Z
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    Any thoughts on what this algae is and what I should get to eat it? I have 3 amano, and 16 small neos but they don’t seem to be making a dent. 55g full of guppies. thanks Z
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    I have a quarantine tank that killed all of my guppies (well they died at least). lots of meds from the quarantine 3 had gone in there to save them, but no luck. anyway, at least 1 90% change has happened since there have been no fish and I’ve just let it run in case the cycle had crashed. it been a couple of weeks and there have been only a few live plants in there. now there has been an explosion of worm things. could they be parasites that had been killing the fish and now have life cycled back to worm form? would appreciate your thoughts before I nuke or trash everything within 10 feet of this tank 😜 thanks
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    Looks pretty good to me. Are you running just the one sponge filter? How long did you wait before moving any fish over since I assume the gravel you moved would have jump started the cycle?
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    I only have Ammo-Carb in the bare bottom 10 gallon tank. I bought a 4 pack of reusable media bags to put them in. I put one in the intake basket and one against the sponge filter. Only been in there about a week so far. I need to find some resources on having a quarantine tank setup and running that doesn't crash or ammonia spike when I put actual fish in it.
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