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  1. H.K.Luterman
    Make sure you give all of the blood parrots lots of caves, so they each can stake out a little territory to feel safe in.
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    The adult platies might be fine, but I'd worry about any babies they produce. My blood parrot is crazy aggressive and will go after any live food I put in my tank for my ctenopoma and bichirs. I'd try anything that gets at least 2 inches. Buenos Aires Tetra are really cool, but I heard they can be nippy like Tiger Barbs, and need to be kept in large schools.
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    Congrats everyone!
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    I haven't actually kept any myself, I just know about them from reading; I was planning on getting some at one point but then decided not to. I have never heard of them eating snails, but being catfish I suspect they're opportunistic enough to try. I see my featherfin (much larger catfish than dwarf petricolas) pick up and play with the snails in her tank sometimes. But then again, she's a completely different species.
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    I'm completely nerding out here, guys, and needed to share. I recently bought a microscope to help with diagnosing things, and out of curiosity just scraped a little bit of the glass on my 20 long, and put the sample on a slide. I caught a detritus worm! Look at it! I also got some kinda round thing, and if you know what it is, please let me know. I definitely need to get a phone adapter so I can video things easier!
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    This is so cool! Glad they're doing well!
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    Aww, thanks. My featherfin catfish is my baby, and I had to have her in my sig. 🙂 But yeah! The blue wags came from a guy in Hawaii who breeds a ton of livebearers. They arrived fast and completely healthy! After you buy something off Aquabid, it gives you the option to pay immediately, and I recommend just doing that. I then will email or message the seller just letting them know I bought their listing and paid. They usually will get back to you pretty quick.
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    My MAJOR gripe is just that my area lacks any sort of organized aquarium hobby culture, and our stores are pretty meh (my favorite one closed a few years ago and it hasn't been the same since). But beyond that I think the thing about the hobby that bothers me the most is all the conflicting and bad information out there. Though I think with the growth of the hobby on the internet, it is getting better.
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    I've bought blue wag platies (all the way from Hawaii!), mystery snails and neocaridina shrimp off of Aquabid, and my experience has been very positive. The only problem I did have was my shrimp shipment all arrived DOA, but the seller sent a replacement shipment with absolutely no hassle (I provided photos of the unopened bag). Definitely look at the seller's reviews before buying, both the positive and the negative. I've done all of my payments through Paypal with no trouble.
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    Oh hello! I finally, FINALLY think I have the solution for what's going on in the 29 gallon. It's been a long road, full of going in the wrong directions until I eventually bought 2 microscopes (the first was a flop), learned how to take mucus scrapes and prepare slides. I'm going to tentatively say things are better, and once I finish up all the medications I will make a post all about it. Until then, enjoy this pic of Scruffy and Pooka.
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    It'd have to be right away, I think. I've done this by purchasing plants (with duckweed on them) from a Pet Supplies Plus that is just around the corner from my house. I don't actually know if it helped, but it SEEMED to make the nitrite spike phase go faster. Just anecdotal evidence, I suppose. But I have heard others recommending doing similar things - buying rocks or ornaments from petstore tanks to try to get the bacteria. More plants certainly won't hurt, at any rate! Also that's how I got my duckweed infestation. 😉
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    I feed my mystery snails mostly Hikari Crab Cuisine; it has calcium in it, and you can USUALLY get it right here in town at the Madison Petco (I just went to get more on Tues and they were out, unfortunately. Going to look again next week). I also feed them Repashy Soilent Green, which I typically order from the Co Op. My suggestion for cycling (beyond keeping filter media in established tanks for the set up of future aquariums 😉 ), is you can buy plants from local stores to try to seed your tank with any bacteria that might hitch a ride. Beyond that it's just patience.
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    Typically you want to keep dwarf petricola cats in little groups of 3 or more, since they like company. Keeping a single one might cause it to hide all the time.
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    I like the "long" or "breeder" types. Lots of horizontal swimming room. Also has that big, flat, front pane for good viewing.
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    As my ctenopoma has gotten older, I've found he likes to sleep in odd positions. I found him on his side, wedged under a part of the rock decor once. He woke right up when I opened the lid. He also likes to sit against a rock with his nose pointed straight up, resting on his tail.
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    I love duckweed! But I try to keep it out of my 40 breeder just for aesthetic reasons, and so far I've been successful for over a year now (I'm amazed!). If only I could keep it out of my hair and off the doorknobs.
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    I'm in the camp of "only medicate if I see a reason to." I keep new fish in a quarantine tank (mine is a plastic bin) for at least 3 weeks and closely monitor.
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    Endlers and guppies can be kept with shrimp so long as you give them lots of cover to hide where the fish can't reach; rock piles and dense plant growth. It's also best to let the colony establish for a while before adding the fish.
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    I have 7 tanks and now and then I'll get the bug in me to rescape one for whatever reason; just focus on giving that one a makeover until I'm happy with it. I try to keep them all looking nice, since they're in the house where everyone can see, but one is currently a disaster and I can't wait to make it pretty again.
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    I've had my nerites for at least 4 years now.
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    I don't keep track beyond just checking everyone's parameters once a week. All of my tanks have gotten to the point of not "needing" water changes most of the time, and so I really only do them when I just feel like fussing over them (vacuuming up detritus/cleaning up algae/trimming plants).
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    Not only will they try to move plants around, they love to dig as well! I have had to put a rock over the base of my red tiger lotus to prevent my blood parrot from uprooting it. The only plants she doesn't bother with are long established crypts and my giant amazon sword. She's constantly trying to rearrange the plants by her vase/cave, which have all had to be rhizome types glued to rocks and decor; bolbitis and windelov java fern. You can see the ditch she dug in front of her vase in this pic. There's also a deep ditch behind it that reaches the bottom glass. She hasn't been able to rip up the rhizome plants, but she's definitely rough with them.
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    Welcome to the forum! Awesome to see someone from my neck of the woods! BTW, if you use reddit, there's an Aquaswap newly started for all of Alabama. Just search for "Aquaswap Alabama" and it should pop up. I plan on utilizing it when I have too many endlers, and it will be so great to find homes for plant clippings instead of tossing them.
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    My ctenopoma does a good job. I have also heard of using Golden Wonder killifish for fry culling.
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    I've never heard of mud puppies before, I had to look them up! So cool!
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