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I have an in ground pond on the back of the house that’s in mostly shade. Temp usually stays in the mid 70s all summer even when it’s 90s here. I put 20-30 of the mutts out yesterday, hoping this cool weekend isn’t going to kill them. (Lows in the 50s for this first weekend of June).

How did you breed yours? Did you remove eggs and hatch out separate or did you leave in a brewing tank and just let however many hatch and survive?

Pearl gouramis are really pretty and are peaceful

My favorite is a tie between angelfish and apistos. And I have them together in my 75 planted with tetras.

My goal: keep my tanks balanced and my plants thriving. Keep a semi “scaped” jungle look. Keep my community tanks thriving and pull fish out to breed to spread them around the fish room. Love dwarf cichlids, angels tetras and Corydora. Been successful with cacatoiudes, angels, and glolight tetras so far. Have had a bad run with corys but going to try and get some bronze (nice and hardy and easy to breed) soon from Aqua huna. Going to order 12 with the hopes I can breed 30-40 to put groups of 10-15 in my 75, 40b and 2 55s.

Northeastern Kentucky. I put my guppies out late may (when highs are usually 78 and above and lows are low 60s). Last year though we had a week in June where the lows were in the low 50s and I had to put out a heater. Mine is a shaded in ground ~80 gallon pond. Gets 2-3 hours of late afternoon/evening sun.I’ll probably put them out in June this year. I usually pull them back inside mid September. If I could do it over I would move it about 2 feet over so I could get just a little more sun.

I would suggest getting a light that you can ramp down (for slow growers) or ramp up (if you decide later on you want to add medium light plants). That way you buy one light and it’s flexible to any of the plants you want to try.

So would anyone suggest in a tank with not too many plants start with like half the dose recommended once a week and as they grow in do it biweekly? Like a 15-20% water change and then dose 1 pump in my 20g. Then as it fills in add another pump after 3 days and do it like sundays and Thursday’s?

Yay. I have done well with Val in a few of my tanks but have not done all that great with other background stem plants. Have not been able to get it to grow in how I like. Excited about pogo

Just bought some from the coop. Got 2, 1 is going in my 40b with finnex 24/7 and the other is going in 20 tall with a stingray 2. Should I keep them in their pots for a bit until they adjust? Also got some easy green, should I be dosing 1 or 2 days a week?

I have no idea. I had a pair that breed 2 times in the first year. No more after and the female started getting aggressive and fins started growing and I took the male out and now she looks like a male (see above photo) The weirdest thing since I know there can be sneaker males but it’s clearly not a male since I have raised 2 sets of babies but it def has extended fins and trailers.

And lucky it was a 10g and not a big tank

I must be lucky then. I have one of my younger pairs in a 10g and they have breed twice for me. The first time they had about a dozen fry but I didn’t pull them quick enough and after the female laid eggs again 3 weeks later I was only able to save one. She also for some reason ate those eggs or they were not fertile. Fast forward 1 month and she has laid again. Hoping to get more saved this time. Just want to keep my apistos going. I have 3 different generations (from two different pairs) mixed and matched into new pairs in 6 of my tanks. Love dwarf cichlids