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  1. Brandy
    I think you have the best advice from both posts above. Learning is good, but at the end of the day this is supposed to be fun.
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    Blackbeard in blue. Staghorn in red.
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    Yeah, genuine concern. I have had snails wipe out GBR eggs before my very eyes. Mine were lousy parents anyway. I have since learned to pull eggs from watching @Fish Folk's videos, which worked well for some other cichlids. If I were going to try with Rams again, I would just pull the eggs and go that route.
  4. Brandy
    Looks like staghorn to me. I have always seen it in my tanks with high light/low nutrients. So depending on the plants you may want to fertilize more or light less.
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    Judging by this little shadow here I think your guys are doing ok. It is never super huge, just a little rounded. But your tank looks pretty clean, so you are going to want to keep offering them extra food. I have heard blanched spinach is also an option. For most of them I think offering stuff a few times might be required. I have one oddball that will try almost anything immediately, but most of mine take a while to really recognize a new thing as "food".
  6. Brandy
    Yes, repashy makes fish "jello". Spendy but pretty irrisistible, and so I have it on hand for the more worrisome fish. 🙂 Best way to check that your otos are ok is a belly check--their bellies should look like smooth little rounded pearls when they are on the glass. If they look "skinny" or concave then you will need to take action. Figuring out what they like though is always a good idea.
  7. Brandy
    Mine are fans of cucumber slices, and lately repashy. However, grazing continuously is pretty normal for grazing critters. So yes supplement is good, but don't worry if they are just "busy" especially if they are still growing. My older otos are "lazier" and occaisionally take breaks, but they are also visibly larger than the new guys.
  8. Brandy
    What about clown killies? they have to be tiny enough for a 10g? I know nothing tho.
  9. Brandy
    I think I would want to try breeding honey gouramis in it, or get a pair of A. agassizii 'fire red'. Not having done either, of course. However, until I reduce some of the other stock I have raised I would probably force myself to go with Option 7: Only in my case it would become a grow out for some of the 150 EBA fry I have...😬
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    Even one biig slip of over feeding is not likely responsible for that much carnage unless you had some other runaway ammonia spike--ie 15 rotting snails in the substrate. With as many plants as you have, they would have likely stabilized the ammonia by sucking it up before it could harm your fish. I would agree there must be a pathogen or chemical contaminant--carefully consider what could have ended up in your tank, do you have any toddlers around, do you dose fertilizer? Flourish Excel/liquid carbon? A slip overdose of that can do a lot more harm than food...as can a kid's random additions, I have found.
  12. Brandy
    Hmm. There are diseases (brown rot, canker, leaf spot) that could cause that, or freezing can sometimes. Was it exceptionally cold where you are this winter? If not, I think I would be cautious doing any pruning without sterilizing stuff between trees. Dip or spray tools with bleach solution and let dry. Where I live in the PNW cherry trees are weird in that they like to be pruned in the early spring (before fowering) and late summer (after fruiting) instead of winter like apples and roses. I would clear out the dead limbs asap, and burn them or put them in yard waste instead of the compost. If it is a disease the best thing you can do is cut back hard into healthy wood, and keep the tree area clean of dead foliage (its own or another fruit tree's leaves for instance). There are also antifungal solutions you can spray in winter, some are fairly mild.
  13. Brandy
    Aaah, I think this is a rainbow stiphodon goby, which is reported to eat biofilm...VERY COOL! Thank you @Dwayne Brown!
  14. Brandy
    Can you post pic or a link to the fish you mean? There is a peacock gudgeon that is also called a goby sometimes, but I didn't think it ate mulm or algae, but instead ate meatier foods?
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    Suggestion: Siphon out the mulm to a bucket (swirl your siphon hose gently just above the mulm). Lift the bucket to a counter top. wait 10-20 min for the mulm to settle to the bottom of the bucket. siphon just the clean water to another container and return to the tank. It might need to be repeated a few times to get it all.
  16. Brandy
    Mine stays rooted in the shrimp/guppy fry tank, but they don't have the mass to pull on it. I think ACO sells plant weights...might be your only hope.
  17. Brandy
    Not likely "sucked thru" so much as crawl thru. Some of mine set up shop in my filter media and just continue to breed in there, lol.
  18. Brandy
    @OnlyGenusCaps Your user name is cracking me up. Love it!!
  19. Brandy
    Your nerite has a little trapdoor over his opening called an operculum. I can see in the photo that it is closed mostly. if you flip him over he may open it and crawl off (on his foot, the soft part he crawls on). If he doesn't, he may be dead. It is a good idea to give them a day or two and try flipping them so that their shell opening faces down. Sometimes they are scared of being pecked at by fish and wont come out, kinda like a scared turtle.
  20. Brandy
    Sure. But I don't discount everyone else's experience, or spam the site. To be fair, this could be an error--maybe he just couldn't find the previous post and thought it disappeared. Good of you to remind me that I should not assume the worst. Tough day at the lab, apologies to all.
  21. Brandy
    Given the tag, @JamesB I gather that the 6 other replies given were not reassuring enough and only Cory's (or possibly Dean's) opinion will do. We may as well stop trying to help. I could affirm again that his tank is not overstocked, but he would just repost to try to get his question in front of an expert. We could explain again about bioloads, filtration, water changing schedules, physical constraints, and potential issues down the road, but we are not celebrities, and his question is totally unique and has never been asked on this forum before.
  22. Brandy
    For me it is pretty extreme, and escalated rapidly. I cannot have them in the house. I have found that some fish will take frozen tubifex worms just as eagerly. My puffers are not in this category, but they like snails and brine shrimp.
  23. Brandy
    If I were being clever I would try for a high value fish--locally that would probably be something like an orange laser cory. But I really want to breed otos! Those guys are so adorable... Alternatively, I would love to have a spare 20g (or even a 10g maybe) and divide it and try to breed pea puffers. I have a theory that if you could move them back and forth between tank sections, you might get fry more easily by virtue of preventing canniblaism. I have also been eyeing Odessa Barbs...
  24. Brandy
    I expect it will rot fast. You can use it though, it is not harmful. It would be comparable to cholla wood, which in my invert tanks lasts a year or so tops. During that time it will make mulm, but it will feed snails, shrimps, and etc.
  25. Brandy
    reportedly they are not poisionous, but they are bad tasting, and fish likely will not want to eat them.
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