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  1. Hobbit
    Aww they’ve grown so much! 🥰
  2. Hobbit
    Nice! Where are you selling? Online, fish club, fish store?
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    Haha most of the forum sees fry in their tank and says, “Eeee baby fish must raise them! 😍” @Mmiller2001 says “Um… 😐 well I guess my fish get free food!” I totally respect that though. 😄 You’ve got to stay focused on your goal!
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    Aww! I’m thinking of knitting my cat a sweater to see if it will help during her “outside time” during the winter. Right now “outside time” isn’t happening at all because she doesn’t want to go out. Which honestly is fine, because I don’t necessarily want to go out either 😅 She’s pretty good at letting me know what she does and doesn’t want, so I have confidence I will know if she doesn’t like the sweater. 😆
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    “Temporary” livebearers… sure… 😏
  6. Hobbit
    Even your temporary bench looks amazing. It’s inspiring me to clean up my fish area. 😅
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    Oh yikes!! Who would have thought? I had no idea ghost shrimp could do that. Do you think they didn’t have enough food so they were scraping the fish? Or were they being intentionally aggressive?
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    Oh my goodness what a cute dragon! I didn’t know they made harnesses for them. He looks so happy!
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    The video idea is brilliant! And I think the conditioning with food has to help at least a little bit. You could be a fish psychologist. Bummer about the driftwood. They make fake driftwood these days (not sure if it’s ceramic or plastic or what). Maybe something to consider?
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    I’ve used white sand in some of my tanks, and over time it just turns into brown sand. 😄 I’m not a gravel vacuumer though, so it might be possible to keep it white if you try.
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    You can use a siphon hose (without the gravel vac attachment) to slurp out all the gravel. I think doing it with the fish inside will work just fine. When I changed substrates in my 55 I ended up taking all the fish out, but that’s because it was a soil tank with a terrible gravel cap. I also had to take out all the plants and driftwood. It made a huge mess. If you want, you could put a bunch of the sand in a filter bag and plop it in the tank a week or two before you change the substrate out. That will give the bacteria a chance to seed the sand.
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    ^ Baking soda works great if you want to use something you have on hand. I’ve used it quite a bit in the past. A little goes a long way. If you’re okay with purchasing something, you can buy potassium bicarbonate powder on amazon. Any plants you have will love the potassium, and the bicarbonate will raise your KH and pH. Neither of these will raise your GH at all. 🙂
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    Wow! You are a busy busy person! The Sad Bowl is looking great. ❤️
  14. Hobbit
    Remember, this survey is for EVERYONE! Whether you breed fish or not! Well maybe not *everyone*—I think you do have to own or have owned a fish. 😅
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    I have a blue LED light next to my platy juvenile tank. It’s the charging light of a lamp I use for brine shrimp, so it’s on all night. I haven’t noticed the platys acting strangely and I haven’t had any losses, so maybe platys aren’t as affected by this sort of thing as guppies are. Still, I wonder if I should cover the light just in case!
  16. Hobbit
    Hilarious!! What a great idea!
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    When I first got our kitty, I sprayed her with water every time she sniffed or batted an electrical cord. I do the same thing with the kittens I foster (if I develop enough of a bond with them that they won’t interpret the spray as “humans are evil and scary”). I have an old mac charger that I lay on the ground—unplugged of course!—and I play with them with a string nearby. Try to play with the cord? Squirt. Try to play with the string? Yay! Doesn’t save their future owners’ shoelaces, but it’s better than getting electrocuted! Kittens are a lot more prone to chewing on cords and things in general when they’re still teething. You can try to give Poof some plastic straws to chew on. Bonus is she’ll be able to carry them around! Cardboard boxes can also be good for chewing. It’s tough though—if I wanted to chew on something I’d totally pick co-op’s squishy airline tubing. 😄
  18. Hobbit
    Glad things are going well!
  19. Hobbit
    @Torrey that sounds like a really fun place to grow up. ❤️
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    That’s a really good question, and I’m not sure of the answer. I’ve tried looking it up, but most references in the literature discussing specifics of platy color genetics are articles from the 60’s-80’s, which aren’t free online unless you have a university research login. From what I can tell, it seems like what matters most is what type of cell produces the black pigment. They call these cells “melanophores.” So if the black pigment on fins is produced via melanophores, I think the fish would need the same regulatory gene to keep those cells from overgrowing. I do have a line of blue platys going right now in which I’m breeding blue wags to blue spot-sided. In their offspring, I’ve only found one fry out of probably 200+ that’s developed a tumor. (The other blue platy fry in the pictures above was being culled for a different deformity. ☹️) I’m assuming that one fry got a random unlucky mutation rather than inheriting problem genes from its parents. Of course, I could have gotten lucky with the parent genetics, but from my very limited experience, hybrids of wag + spot-sided parents seem fine.
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    The platys pictured above were between 2 and 4 months old—unfortunately I don’t have exact ages because I don’t have room to keep each drop separate. 😄 I’m not sure if some platys may develop tumors later. I haven’t kept many platys past that age.
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    Beautiful as always!
  23. Hobbit
    So sorry for your loss. I’m glad the other ones are looking fine though. And I hope you get to talk with the vet face to face at least for a little bit.
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    I totally understand that. It breaks my heart a little bit every time. 😔
  25. Hobbit
    Well, when working with a single mating pair and a single-gene trait I’d put it this way: if more than one is weak, at least 25% of them are weak. 😄 If just one is weak it could be a random mutation.
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