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  1. H.K.Luterman
    Adding on to what Kat_Rigel said, you can get Repashy food and mix crushed up Tums into it; makes great snail food. I use the mixed berry Tums and either Soilent Green or Community Plus Repashy. Then you can just feed a little bit at a time if you only have one snail.
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    Do they look like this? It's hard to tell from your picture. (not my gif) Little white specks in your tank that swim are copepods of some sort. The ones in that gif are daphnia. Fish love to eat them. You might also notice little round dots that swim like drunken bumblebees. Those are seed shrimp, and also are great fish snacks. They're all harmless and just part of the ecosystem in your tank.
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    Yeah, like Maggie, my swords get those leaves too on the bottom. Those are the older leaves, and new leaves sprout out from the middle. You won't see those older leaves improve, it's the new growth that will look better and better, and the overall size of the plant will increase over time. Trimming the older, ugly leaves will stimulate the plant to grow as well. Just trim them off at the stem base. As for the root tabs, is probably fine you put in a couple. You won't have to add more for another few months, most likely.
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    I've noticed those little whitish grains on my marimos too. I think it's some kind of sand substrate, or at least that's what I always assumed it was. Anyways, cool! Good to know these guys can withstand something like that.
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    I use both Soilent Green and Community Plus for my live bearers and they love it. I'm totally hooked on using Repashy foods. I buy mine from the Co-Op rather than Amazon (I usually check them first whenever I need something just because I prefer to support them). Edit: Oh and I forgot to add that I just make it inside a tupperware container and use a knife to cut it into little squares.
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    All planted, low-tech, freshwater here: three 5 gals, one 40 breeder, one 29 gal and one 75 gal. I have contemplated doing a brackish tank in the past for a figure 8 puffer, but just never got around to it. I enjoy my freshwater tanks too much.
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    I made a gigantic mess. 😄 Tore apart my 75 because last night I decided I wanted to redecorate. So I took out all the rocks and wood, and any removeable plants. Was pleased to see how big this anubias has become. Filling back up... And done for now. Waiting for it to clear up before I do any more poking at it. It's going to take a few weekly water changes to get all that stirred up mulm out.
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    Welcome to the forum! Cool assortment of critters you got there. What kind of loach(?) is that, it's really neat looking. Edit: The one in the pic above the hillstream.
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    I'm pretty pleased so far with the results of adding crushed coral and Wondershell to my pink ramshorn tank. I'm still chasing that PERFECT shell without any white spots. And some lovely detritus worms in this photo. I think of them as aquarium sprinkles. And recently I bought a pack of multi colored mysteries off of Aquabid. I got purples, blues, golds and light and dark browns. None of the purples wanted their pics taken today. I'm thinking of adding some magentas into the mix soon, since I really love the look. Also, I love how they eat duckweed. I'm thinking about incorporating it into their food somehow.
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    Awww. Yeah I think nerites are going to be your go to if you really want a snail that will eat algae. Snails like mysteries and ramshorns do some work but they're not the same kind of cleaning powerhouse a nerite is (though nerites leave all those little white eggs). To me, mysteries are a snail you have as a pet and less as utility. And because of their size, they do bulldoze through plants that might not be firmly rooted. Personally I love them, and I'm a bit obsessed atm as I recently purchased a bunch and am growing them out to breed.
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    My quarantine tank is an 18 gallon plastic tub I got at Home Depot. I marked on its side where 10 gallons is for when I need to medicate. I only set it up when I need it, so I keep it's filter sponges seeded in my other tanks.
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    This is Mister Mojo. I've had him for almost 2 years now, when I first purchased him he was all white. As you can see, he has a tumor-like growth on his head and gill plate; within a few months of buying him, he developed them, and they have slowly grown bigger. He's otherwise completely healthy and active, and a great little guy. He lives in a 5 gallon shared with a million baby pink ramshorns and one golden mystery snail. And wow look at the crappy job scraping algae I did this week.
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    The little albino senegal is still in quarantine growing out, and she is certainly taking her time (I'm calling her a she until I can verify her sex). The bin has been set up so long that it's going through a diatom algae stage. She started off smaller than my pinky finger, and I had to feed her the tiniest slivers of food. Now she's handling larger pieces which she can tear up herself. She's almost to a size where I'd feel comfortable putting her in with Dragon and Pyewacket. I just want her to be bulky enough to handle the bullying that will come as they figure out the new social dynamic. I've also started calling her Dinky Do. She now knows that me taking the lid off the bin usually means food, and she's so cute when she comes up looking to be fed. I took a little video of her.
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    My fish food (and a package of tortoise pellets) get a shelf in the fridge. I also have some stuff in the freezer.
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    Plants would lower your nitrates. If you're nervous, you could wait another day just to be sure ammonia and nitrite stays at 0 and if any nitrate shows up. When you do add your fish, you can not feed for a couple of days and then slowly ramp up feeding to make extra darn sure the system can handle it.
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    I fill up little panty hose bundles filled with crushed coral and set them on my sponge filters as a way to add carbonate hardness into my water. Here's a pic. Kinda ugly! This one isn't as well hidden by plants as my others. You can hide them better in HOBs. The thinking is that I can better control how much crushed coral I use this way instead of just adding it to the substrate. If I want to remove some, I can just take out the little panty hose bundle. Wondershells I put directly into my tank, somewhere in the front so I can see how fast they're dissolving.
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    I've had no experience keeping them, but I'd love some Florida Flagfish. They really look neat and they're not something you see often. I think they'd do well in a 20 long.
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    My dwarf chain swords (that's what I think they are, I got them from the Co-op years ago before I had an account and have since forgotten what they are for sure) are finally really taking off. I think a combo of removing most of the duckweed to let in more light and being more diligent with root tabs has made the difference; I see them pearling all the time! I've been raising up some mystery snails to breed; not for profit, just for fun and to keep their numbers sustainable. They're in the 29 with my limias, who are absolute piggies, so it's been tricky trying to find a way to get enough food in the tank for both them and the snails. But I think I'm getting a good balance now. Oh, and I trimmed the anubias in my betta tank that's been growing for years, and added the clippings to other tanks. Yay, free plants! And I moved a struggling bolbitis out of the 29 and put it into the 75 a couple months ago and it's growing again!
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    Welcome to the forums! I used to follow a few Facebook fish groups, but got pretty frustrated with the sort of environment they'd seem to create; a lot of fish policing, scolding and the spread of misinformation. Not to mention, I'm just not a big fan of Facebook in general, I much, much prefer it here! Post some pics of your tanks, we'd love to see them!
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    Betta Pea puffer Neocaridina shrimp Do snails count? X3
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    I third this! X3 Sounds like a really fun project, I'd love to see your progress.
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    Aw, don't worry if your plants don't look great right now, we won't judge. It took a while for my big amazon sword to get established and look good. And algae is something we all deal with. I've never heard of gluing stem plants. I do know they can be tricky to get to stay planted. If you're using tweezers, you might want to just use your fingers; that seems to work better for me. Get a good length down into the substrate and then push it a little sideways, that will usually get them staying in for me. Also, pat the substrate around the bottom to compact it a bit.
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    I'm late to the party but I voted snails, because I love them and have them in every tank. Also I'm a bit obsessed with my mystery snails lately. X3
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    Man, I wish my first tank looked like that! How fun. Definitely interested to see where this goes! And how long it will take before you get more tanks. 😉
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    Hi Patrick, welcome to the forums! I had taken a very long break from the hobby, but then I too kept a few mossballs in bowls on the windowsill on a whim. After that I bought a 5 gallon and next thing you know, I was back hard core into the hobby once again. Nice looking tanks! The pic with the cat cracks me up.
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