Sciurus
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Whats the best way to disinfect things like water change hoses, old tanks, old plastic plants, and other tools used in and for aquariums to prevent cross contamination from diseased tanks to clean tanks?
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Ok i will try that! Thanks
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On 5/19/2024 at 1:50 AM, Colu said:
Possible camallanus worms it's difficult to say for sure
Im pretty sure they're cammalanus worms as they look like little red strings sort of wriggling in/out of the pleco's butt. Correct me if im wrong in assuming this though.
On 5/19/2024 at 1:50 AM, Colu said:you have to remove all your shrimp and treat or quarantine all your fish and treat
Could snails and shrimp still be carriers? If i move all my fish in there to quarantine and treat them, would the main tank remain contaminated if not treated, or would it go away if there are no fish but only shrimp/snails?
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After further inspection of my pleco, it seems he has camallanus worms....
What should i do to treat him if these are camallanus worms?? I also have shrimp in here so I dont want to kill them with the treatment
0 Nitrate
0 Nitrite
0 ammonia
80 kh
7.2 ph
78 Fahrenheit
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Well Im probably just overly paronoid from prior fish issues, when i found him against the glass in a different location under different lighting he looks normal again.
When i actually get a good picture of him with the redness i'll update this with a pic.
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I'll try to take some, but I got home pretty late so my lights are now off and he's skitish so its kinda hard to find him
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0 Nitrate
0 Nitrite
0 ammonia
80 kh
7.2 ph
78 Fahrenheit
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Is this normal/ok for a young BN pleco to have these redder darker areas on its cheeks?
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Found another dead endler, bringing the total to around 7 dead in the past 2 weeks. This makes me start thinking if its something other than old age. Thus I moved some of the endlers to my quarantine tank, a half filled 20 gallon tall.
Besides that, my sparkling gourami was showing its colors today
And here's pudding chilling on the glass per usual.
My shrimp tank has turned into my random plant tank as well. I just threw in a flame sword, vallisneria, and monte carlo, as i currently don't have a place to put them.
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Did some trimming and added mayaca fluviatilis. the mone carlos growing faster than i thought it would!
I did lose another of my original endlers this week though.
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Crypt lucens is another great small crypt that grows faster then parva! Pearlweed is great too!
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Been experiencing some endler deaths lately, doesnt seem to be parisites or bacterial issues and as ive had them for 2 years without any issues. I'm wondering if mass breeding and inbreeding could cause genetic defects that lead to death especially in the case of livebearers when inbreeding is so common. Could genetic defects cause them to die at a certain age or make them mich more prone to dying?
While this might not necessarily be the case with my endlers (as i havnt observed them enough to rule out other issues), im just wondering in general if this is a thing that happens?
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I hate planting monte carlo.
After the big auction last week I got a bunch of monte carlo and used it to hopefully carpet this tank, but it kept floating up and took forever to plant.
In my limited experience of plants, this is probably the most annoying to plant by far.I also got a massive bag of vallisneria and added that to my other tankIt was originaly intended for a stream tank with hillstream loaches later, but thats no where near being done any time soon.
This tank also has a massive mass of pearlweed that started as cuttings that just floated to the top which i never removed. It just feels so sad to part with it and through it away even though it doesn't look the best, and thus i havn't removed it. The shrimp love it though.
I did some much needed maintenance on my endler tank and pulled out a bunch of floaters along with somewhat cleaning the glass. The log in their is still covered in BBA though... oh well
One of the female endlers did pass away, presumably from old age, as it was 2 1/2ish and didn't look to be sick at all.-
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For my first planted tank I did a 10 Gallon with 1inch of dirt and about 1.5inches of gravel on top of that. I did wet it down before filling, so I never really experienced any bubbles popping up. For the dirt I just used miracle-gro all purpose organic soil and have had no issues for the past 2 years, and the pearl weed and crypts are still going nuts.
I never had to put any root tabs just some liquid ferts every once and a while when i remember, now the tank doesn't have a filter and all the plants do the filtering work for me. Mess wise, it doesn't seem to be much different from my fluval stratum tank, both cloud up the water significantly when disturbed. It does give off a lot of tannins which may not always look good depending on the person and style of the tank. If I dirt a tank or not just depends what I have on hand at the time I set up a new tank and what plants I plan to use. -
Well, Its been a while. Kinda forgot I even made a journal.
Anyway, since I last posted, I have lost my Ram and one gourami, everyone else is doing great though!
Shrimp tanks growing in well, pearl weeds starting to carpet!
I've already got shrimplets in here to!
Here's the endlers energetic and hungry as always
My sparkling gourami and pleco are getting more outgoing as well
I also made this terrarium using pearl weed and hydrocotle as a carpet which turned out to work quite well.
Lastly, I've been experimenting with a new 29 gall paludarium layout for hillstream loaches, don't know if this is my final design yet though.
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Another update, sadly the ram just never seemed to accept the food and passed away yesterday probably just from starvation. 😞
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So i tried to feed frozen blood worms and now he actually went for them!! He didnt fully eat it. He took one bite then spit it out and moved on with life😐
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Thank you!
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@Colu when should i start the second week of paracleanse. Should i start it a week after i started or on day 5 after the 25% waterchange or the next day?
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After the first week of treatment, the ram seems to be more interested in food, but still doesn't actively go after it during feeding time. I can see that its pooping, however its mostly white/stringy, but occasionally I can see bits of brown in there, so im assuming its eating something.
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These are better pictures hopefully
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I might be paranoid, but to me it looks like my sparkling gourami has some sort of head disease. Its a really skittish fish so sorry that the pics arnt great.
Water parameters:
Nitrate: <5
Nitrite: 0
Gh: 75
Kh: 120
Ph: 7.0
Ammonia: 0
Temp: 77F
Im also currently treating my Bolivian ram in this tank with paracleanse.
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I love ferns, java fern, bolbitus and even terrestrial ferns like the rabbits foot fern, and my favorite probably being the staghorn fern. I love how natural they look wedged into crevices and the wide range of uses for texturing or filling up voids when scaping a tank. Java fern was my first live aquatic plant, never having a problem growing it, and its always exciting to see them put forth new fronds!
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This is my journal to document my aquariums as they grow over time, and to note things that I learn along the way!
I'm a highschooler with 3 aquariums, a 10 Gallon shrimp tank, 10 gallon Endler tank, and a 29 gallon community tank.
This was my first real aquarium I set up 2 years ago, my 10 Gallon Endler jungle. Two years later it looks like this...a very overgrown mess, but a fully self sustaining ecosystem without the need of a filter or that regular of water changes.
Last summer I set up this tank as a community tank,6 months later it looks like this, and is currently stocked with a Bolivian ram named Maki, a plethora of neocaridina shrimp and snails, a yellow BN pleco named pudding, and 3 sparkling gouramis named Sa, Shi, and Mi. Maki however is refusing to eat, probably due to internal parasites so this tank is currently being treated with paracleanse. Lastly, my shrimp tank that I set up 2 weeks ago.
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I also got a massive bag of 
It was originaly intended for a stream tank with hillstream loaches later, but thats no where near being done any time soon. 
I did some much needed maintenance on my endler tank and pulled out a bunch of floaters along with somewhat cleaning the glass. The log in their is still covered in BBA though... oh well
My sparkling gourami and pleco are getting more outgoing as well
I also made this terrarium using 
Lastly, I've been experimenting with a new 29 gall paludarium layout for hillstream loaches, don't know if this is my final design yet though.
These are better pictures hopefully
This was my first real aquarium I set up 2 years ago, my 10 Gallon Endler jungle. Two years later it looks like this...
a very overgrown mess, but a fully self sustaining ecosystem without the need of a filter or that regular of water changes.
6 months later it looks like this, and is currently stocked with a Bolivian ram named Maki, a plethora of neocaridina shrimp and snails, a yellow BN pleco named pudding, and 3 sparkling gouramis named Sa, Shi, and Mi. Maki however is refusing to eat, probably due to internal parasites so this tank is currently being treated with 
Lastly, my shrimp tank that I set up 2 weeks ago.
Where are the houseplant humans?
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Posted · Edited by Sciurus
Definitely a philodendron of some sort. Looks like 2 different types though. The one with the white striping I'm guessing is a philodendron birkin, and the one with the redish stem in the round bumpy pot kinda looks like a philodendron red congo. I might be wrong though