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  1. Brandy
    Whoa. No, I am sorry I have to disagree. That looks like the beginning of anubias rot. If you have any other anubias in the tank remove it and do a couple of large water changes. Anubias rot will leave the rhizome rotten and the stems die while the healthy looking leaves stay intact. It is not catching to non-anubias, but I have had it wipe out a whole tank of them...twice now, sadly. It is the one plant I do actually quarentine now.
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    I have had guppies in open top tanks for months in overstocked conditions and never had jumpers unless something was trying to eat them, but I just realized, I also tend to crowd the top with floating plants. Maybe I was just dodging a bullet this whole time!
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    Honestly I learned in the context of boat repair. But you have done a great job so far and I am confident you could handle this. The main tip I have is follow the epoxy instructions exactly with regard to ambient temperatures, mixing, and cure time, and use gloves and clothes you can strip out of--the fibers are irritating as heck. This is a moment to consider the tyvek suits, just to prevent aggravation, but this is a small job, it isn't like you are working folded up in a crawlspace (or anchor locker) over your head. A simple buttondown shirt you can take off and deposit immediately into the wash will probably be enough. It WILL hold. It is very very strong. It took me a while to trust my patches to keep out the ocean, but it is pretty amazing stuff.
  4. Brandy
    weird. Well guppies are pretty variable. I have some that always eat all the fry they can catch and others that never do. You just may have more athletic guppies than me. 🙂
  5. Brandy
    If you put that in a white dip out container, say a quart or so, what color is it? Because that looks like classic green water to me. I don't know how the plants could have anything to do with that, no matter how weird your camera settings are.
  6. Brandy
    hmm....but why are they jumping? Mine generally only jump because someone is chasing them. I think your best bet would be some window screen. You can easily cut it to fit and just tape it to the rim.
  7. Brandy
    Fiberglass is incredibly strong. I would really consider it, it is intimidating at first but not as hard as it seems. (refering to the center brace)
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    I have done this with 2 different bettas in 2 different tanks. Generally it works out great. Most of my bettas have had long fins over the years, so they are very slow, and they can't single out a tetra in a school. They chase them for a few minutes and then give up.
  9. Brandy
    Your plants can go in any container with light and clean water and whatever fertilizers you are using, temporarily. They are very tough, generally. I am a big plant lover too, so I know what you mean.
  10. Brandy
    Nerites...I have a whole tree of this plant and I manage to fend off GSA with nerite snails and an army of shrimp. I don't know if the shrimp actually impact the GSA by eating, or if their little feet just disrupt it.
  11. Brandy
    There is no such thing as too much over time--the ichX breaks down within 24h, it does not build up. Sort of like taking atibiotics, you want to keep taking it until the disease is totally gone. It isn't really weird--the ichX is doing its job, stopping new infections, and the other fish may have better, less stressed immune systems if they were in the tank a while already. The spots on your EBAs should start decreasing slowly soon, as the remaining ich completes it's life cycle. Keep treating and come back in a week if there is still no change or if things get worse.
  12. Brandy
    I would sill use. It could have been damaged in shipping or in the factory, but it is not the sort of crack I would worry about leaking. It is a risk of course, but not a high one. Maybe don't set it up on great grandmas antique table... I am fairly comfortable with minor glass damage in small tanks. I have a used 29 gallon with a small corner chip, a used 10 with a heavy score on one end, and a 7.5g rimless with an ACTUAL crack in the bottom panel. As @MN-AQUARIST says, my 7.5 arrived brand new, I complained and they refunded the money. As they did not want me to ship the tank back, I siliconed the heck out of it, and set it up on a very rigid waterproof surface. It is fine, but nothing near it would suffer if it failed. The 10gallon makes me the most nervous. Unsupported scores can become cracks unexpectedly. Chips tend not to change as much, because they lack the directional component.
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    Also...just because I am a nerd, the thumbnail for this thread is an Electric Blue Ram. Not an Acara. Pretty sure that "algorithm" that picked that is a little off. Not sure what the magic is there. 🙂
  14. Brandy
    I have 2 EBA in a 40 breeder. They are a mated pair. They have corycats and some cull guppies in with them. They so far don't eat adult guppies, but they eat the fry which is my goal. They had a second female EBA in there and I had to rehome her. She was not welcome, but they are not agressive to the corys unless they get within a few inches of eggs or fry. Even then, it is more like a firm "Move along there!" than "The time has come for you to die!" I would say you can have one more, but not more than that. They really seem to only be agressive in a serious way toward something small enough to eat or another EBA.
  15. Brandy
    I have to say, that still looks like Ich. I agree with @Biotope Biologist. Do the specks change arrangement every few days? like new ones appear and old ones go away? Ich spends part of its life in your substrate, and the only time you can kill it is when it is between the substrate and the fish. If you are not already, gravel vaccing daily can shorten the amount of time you have to treat. So can increasing your tank's temp, which speeds up the protazoa's live cycle, but this is a lot like a human headlice outbreak, persistance and diligence are the key.
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    @Irene I found that!! I am feeling much more confident now. 🙂 I have 10 fry at the half inch stage, and about 40+ at the 3/8 inch stage, and I have resolved not to pull any more eggs no matter how tempting, lol. From now on, the only eggs I am going to pull will be from little fish that I have a better chance of offloading to a local store. And who knows? Maybe these will go somewhere local. I am just playing what if, because the idea of moving 50 midsized cichlids is intimidating! I resolved not to get convicts or breed angelfish for exactly this reason!! But they are soooo cute!
  17. Brandy
    Probably not directly. Probably the poop increases the bioload which improves the beneficial bacteria growth, which improves the growth of biofilm and shrimp DO eat that. If you were anti-snail likely you could get the same effect with shrimp safe fish...of which there are few. Snails are all shrimp safe though. In my experience this is true. I have seen snail shells pit before shrimp experience molting issues. I have also seen shrimp actually EAT at the pitted shells of live snails, to harvest the calcium. This is not ideal for the snail, but does give you a heads up to throw more calcium into the tank.
  18. Brandy
    I would say in a lightly stocked 55g you can probably put in more khuli loaches than you want to buy...meaning you could get away with upwards of 30. Just remember to leave stocking space for any future fish you want to add. They are low bioload, and like to pile up in little heaps under some decor. They like lots of cover, so the more stuff for them to hide under the more you will see them and the happier they will be. My kid has 6 in a 10 gallon, with 3 long sticks of driftwood running along the length of the tank. They line up under there during the day, and at night come out to investigate all the things on the bottom. They need to be target fed in that set up--we give sinking pellets at night. I put 3 in my 29gallon that is heavily planted and they literally became obese on just what they could find. In that tank, with so much plant/rock/wood cover they are often out in the day.
  19. Brandy
    male. yes.
  20. Brandy
    I use just plain tubing. Can the squeeze ball be removed? Or if you have a medium gravel vac, the hose pops off and you can use it. If you don't want to start the siphon with your mouth, you just stuff the whole thing in the tank (or a bucket of clean water, or use a sink) fill the tube with water put your thumbs over both ends, then put one end in your tank and one in the empty bucket and boom, siphon.
  21. Brandy
    Just a suggestion... Remember that half inch tubing I suggested on the multi tank tools list? Don't net juveniles. Siphon them with a larger hose, then calmly pour thru a large net. Easy peasy. The angel fish and golden wonders will work the same, if you want some fry to make it you just add cover that is predator proof.
  22. Brandy
    My bucket list includes Tequlia sunrise, and now the Vienna guppies from ACO...Which you have to see in person to appreciate, I think. But given my affinity for mutts, I will keep only one non mutt strain at a time or I will be overrun. I have halfblack green cobra, Moscow Blue/turquoise and tuxedo reds in my "mutt" group. I am breeding away from the tuxedo reds though, they are nice, but not the goal I have. 🙂
  23. Brandy
    I suspect it was grown emmersed....It is in the same family as amaranth, and those are indeed seed pods.
  24. Brandy
    Yeah it is really hard to undo the fitness nature has baked in over countless generations. It takes applying a hard selection pressure of your own. In dogs they speculate that the "ancestral" or wildtype dog is mid sized, with upright ears, a medium length coat in a yellow-brown shade, because that is what mutts commonly revert to.
  25. Brandy
    There are 15,000 species of nematodes. A typical handful of soil has thousands. Of those, only a very few are pests. I would not worry, these are eating the biofilm most likely, which is how it "goes away on its own". We often forget how much life we are surrounded by.
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