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  1. H.K.Luterman
    I feel like picking out guppies from your local store might be the most fun and of course least expensive. Every now and then coming home with a new color variety sounds like a fun treat to me. Some places online do sell packs of "mutts," but yeah, the shipping can be expensive. If you're going to add a predator to keep the numbers down, try adding rock piles to your tank. I have a catfish in with my limias and platies, and she eats the majority of fry. BUT, the rockwork allows a few to make it; she can't get at them all. As for plants, things with hanging roots could be nice, like frogbit. Fry like to hide in the roots.
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    There's still a big problem with the general public viewing fish as ornaments (party gifts and table decor for wedding receptions) and not viewing them as feeling, living beings. Media such as TV shows and movies still perpetuate keeping goldfish in 1 gallon bowls, and bettas in tiny cups on a shelf. Education is the solution, but there's a lot of misinformation and misconceptions to break through. And many people are resistant to change.
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    I usually get more Bebebebebebebe time but I think the camera was weirding her out.
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    I demand a full tank shot. 🙂
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    From what I've noticed with the fish I've kept, they slow down significantly, resting more often. I notice it the most with bettas. I just had a betta pass away last week, and he got to the point where he spent most of his time laying on his side. I put him in a little floating breeder box so he wouldn't get harassed and could rest easier until his time came.
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    How cute!
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    I currently have, besides 6 fish tanks, 1 rescue mutt, 1 rescue russian tortoise, and 1 elderly western hognose snake. I recently lost my 18 year old sinaloan milksnake, who I miss a lot. My life doesn't feel complete if I don't have a few animals to care for.
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    Have you treated them for internal parasites at all? I can't remember from your first post.
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    Redtail Catfish. So adorable and fat and pretty and I just love big charismatic catfish. BUT.... I will never have a tank THAT large for so many reasons, and I don't see a pond in our future (I'd want to keep it in a big tank anyways so I could view it better).
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    It's pretty cluttered atm. X3 The wooden enclosure beside the tank is the indoor thing my russian tortoise lives in when she can't be on the floor or outside. The shelf part the tank is on is like a giant slab of tree.
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    Prime is good to use for a fish-in cycle, it will detoxify the ammonia and nitrite. However, it only does so for 24 hours, then the toxins will begin to build up once more. I recommend a freshwater liquid test kit by API. You can get them on Amazon for cheap: Amazon.com WWW.AMAZON.COM They run higher at Petco, but you have the convenience of getting it immediately. Test strips will work in a pinch, which you can get at any big name store. Being able to monitor the cycle daily is a good idea, doing water changes as you need them. Ammonia and nitrite should always be 0. Here's a video by Aquarium Co-Op about the nitrogen cycle:
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    *Eyes the old sewing machine stand she has...* Hmmmmmmm Anyways, yeah I've used nightstands and other sturdy furniture often as nice-looking stands. My 75 is sitting on a custom built log shelf.
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    Just checked in on this little guy. Slowly getting bigger! That belly lump is breakfast.
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    I'll be ordering some fire red neocaridina shrimp after the holidays. I want to wait until the mailing system has a chance to recover from the xmas rush. Maybe some anubias nana petite pots.
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    Welcome to the forum! Cute little guy you have there! Have you bought any sort of water testing kit yet? Since only a week passed between setting up the tank and putting the fish in, it may not be cycled yet.
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    Caught the tail end of Dragon being flirty with my female, Pyewacket. She never puts up with him long. And then Gertrude chases him. Good times. This tank always has so much glare from the windows in the morning. Pyewacket has some sort of weird short body deformity and so looks strange, just FYI.
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    Man, you just reminded me I really would like to keep sparkling gourami some day. :3
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    Cory's melodious voice in the background.
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    They're really shy when they're small. Be sure to give them somewhere to hide, and try feeding with the lights off. Might take a few days for them to settle in.
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    All of my display tanks are just a big carpet of duckweed from the top down, so I took a pic of my plastic quarantine bin. Currently housing a baby albino senegal bichir, growing out to be eventually added into my 75 gal.
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    I call these aquarium farts.
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    What are you feeding them? Have you tried Repashy gel foods? My idea would be to makes a lump of Repashy and put it in, wait and see if the Mysterys get to it. Or maybe a big piece of blanched cucumber. Thinking bigger food would last long enough for them to have a go. Putting them in with the betta would be ok as long as the betta doesn't harass them; just watch them and see how they do. You could also just get a cheap tupperware bin and use it as quarantine if you're really worried. Or a 5 gal bucket from Home Depot. That all being said, I've never quarantined snails.
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    I pick up the generic brands of "Magic Erasers" for a dollar each at Walmart and have used them for years. Really great at getting what the Magfloat scrapers won't.
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    I had some for a while. They like to be in big groups, and if you have caves or driftwood in your tank, they will spend all their time sitting upside down inside/under it. Cute little boogers.
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    Was looking through the photos on my phone and found this. Thought it came out pretty nice! The limias are so hard to photograph.
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