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    If you have any fish big enough to eat them, I prefer that. Otherwise, I believe clove oil euthanasia is the most humane.
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    TIL!
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    https://www.reddit.com/r/AquaSwap/comments/lve4ko/fs_brooklyn_ny_10_hydrocotyle_tripartita_japans/
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    Thanks everyone for the input! Thank you @Brandyfor the dragon scale info. I'll research more about that for any future Bettas I purchase. I've been searching around for different disease pictures, and I'm pretty sure it's a tumor as @James Black mentioned. He's still swimming and eating normally, but the tumor is still getting bigger. I came across a post on Reddit where someone had a Betta with almost the exact growth and location on the body. In that case, the fish was reclusive and not eating much. They were told to euthanize it, but did not, and a month later posted that it had burst. It was pretty gruesome looking. I did find a video on YouTube for tumor removal. It looks pretty straightforward but obviously risky. In the video, they put the Betta to sleep with clove oil, cut out the tumor with a sterilized blade while keeping the fish wet, then woke it up by spraying clean water into the gills to remove the clove oil, and finally moved it to a tank with salt to recover. It seemed to fully recover from the surgery in 2 days, but I can't find any info if the tumor came back or not. Would you operate on a fish? I feel like otherwise I'm just waiting for it to burst, which seems like the worst outcome given the other options of surgery or euthanization.
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    Drywall is almost finished, just a few tiny touch-ups/sanding spots and then I can begin adding trim and caulking/prime before painting. I’m hoping painting goes quick since the entire room will be a single color, so no need to carefully edge. There are a bunch of spots where I dropped drywall mud on the floor. They’ve been popped off and are now flush, but I need to either hit them with water and a wire brush or leave them be. The center of the room will have rubber mats but the tank racks will be bare underneath. I will put plastic down before painting.
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    Thanks everyone! I’ll give him a break and water change the Fungus Cure over the next week and then try Maracyn + Salt. Otherwise, after that treatment would it be safe to reintroduce him to a community tank with Embers/Otos or do you think I should just let him live out his life in a separate 5g? @Brandy Thanks for the info about dragonscale patterns!
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    So I moved it into the 10g tank on 1/4, with 1 Tbsp of salt per 2 gallons. I let that sit until 1/12. On 1/12, I dosed API Fungal Cure, and then again on 1/14 per instructions. Today (1/16), I'm supposed to do a water change and then remove it with carbon. Here's a photo from yesterday (1/15). I think it's the best resolution photo I've gotten so far of the growth. It doesn't appear to be getting any better than 2 weeks ago. Should I let it rest for a week or immediately try something else? Should me next attempt be a medication or salt at a higher level?
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    Yup! I've been doing electrical in our homes for a very long time, but this was my first time working in the panel. I was always scared to do plumbing until I had to tap into our water supply for water changes and drainage via a sump pump in a bucket in our basement. After that, I felt confident enough to replace our hot water heater when it failed this past summer. SharkBite fittings are a lifesaver!
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    @James Black I think this is the episode of that you're describing: https://aquaristpodcast.podbean.com/e/ep-70-aj-meyers-on-creating-an-impactful-fish-store-experience/ But there was another fish store one, called "The Nano Tank": https://aquaristpodcast.podbean.com/e/ep-47-scott-peets-owner-of-the-newest-local-fish-store-the-nano-tank/ Ryan Kinney (also known as Wild Fish Tanks) has been on the podcast a few times and sells out of his house: https://www.wildfishtanks.com He also has an active Instagram and YouTube presence.
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    @Andy's Fish DenMakes sense! I could see how you hang it affecting how long the project takes and how the finished product turns out.
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    I set up a 10g QT tank and dosed 5 Tbsp of salt.
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    @Colu Thanks! Ah yeah I did forget to mention the cloudy eyes too. Thank you! I will set up a 5g or 10g tank today and dose that salt level.
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    Happy New Year! Current status is: still working on drywall. I've been working about 2 hours at a time 1-2 times a week to get to this point. This is my first time taping drywall. It's not fun! I would definitely hire someone to do this in the future, but we didn't want someone working inside of our house for extended periods of time during COVID. But it's close! I think I have 1-2 more mud sessions, and then sanding, and then I can begin priming and painting. I did pick up a sink and sump pump/bucket this weekend. This will drain the short wall in between the doors on the right side of the layout image. The other walls will drain to the existing sump pump that's on the other side of the wall. I have a bunch of stuff picked for automated water changes, but waiting until I get painting done to move on to that.
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    I have a Betta is in a 25g planted cube. I noticed this week that he has a growth or protrusion on the back left side of his body. He also has a partially white lip, but I can't tell if that's extraneous or just his coloration. I did quarantine everything that came into this tank with the med trio for a week. He seems to be swimming/acting normally and eating. The tank also has Ember Tetras, Otos, Amano Shrimp, and potentially some Corydoras Habrosus but I haven't seen them in a while. I don't see any growths/etc on the other fish, but they're all so small it's difficult to tell. Ammonia 0 Nitrites 0 Nitrates ~10 pH 7.4 Temperature 77.9F Thanks for the help in advance! Here's also a video of him:
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    @umfalconThis is the Husky rack from Home Depot model #HBR782478W4. It's working out pretty well for now, but I don't think I'm going to use them for the new fish room. The shelves are 3 or 3 ½" thick, which means I can only have 2 rows instead of 3 with our basement's low ceilings, and I'd like more flexibility with shelf widths so I'm going to build some. I've also heard the Edsel or Gladiator versions of this rack design are a bit stronger, so do some research there if you decide to get one. I think both @Randy and Jadren Aquatics use similar metal stands.
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    I’m also curious when you do testing, what does that look like in terms of recording results/etc.
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    Cory, can you talk a little about your productivity habits? Do you use a task system? Paper or digital? Or maybe just what your daily routine is like. Thanks!
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    One other thought I had was to wait for this initial ammonia to process, and then add fish assuming that the sponges will catch up to the bio load quickly enough.
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    @AleshaThanks! I hadn’t considered adding water too, I’ll try that. I did move an Amazon Sword but it’s only 1 plant. @DaveSamsellThanks for the suggestion. I do have a lot of other planted tanks that I’ve done that with successfully, but I’d like to keep this one bare-bottom (aside from a few pots or Easy Planters).
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    I picked up a 40 Breeder from the Petco dollar-per-gallon sale, painted it, cleaned it out and dried it. I filled it with tap water and a capful of Prime (5ml or 50g worth). ~20 minutes later I took 2 sponge filters from established tanks and added them: Medium sponge filter from a planted 40B with 8 Boesemani Rainbows and 1 Bristlenose Pleco, which also has an AquaClear 70. Medium sponge filter from a 10g tank with no fish currently (fry system), but it has 2 breeder boxes with Bladder Snails and Ramshorn Snails for Pea Puffer food. I added 1ppm Ammonium Chloride (Fritz powdered), and then 24 hours later... nothing? Ammonia shows 1ppm still, Nitrites are 0. I did not test Nitrates as I don't think I'd be able to tell the difference of the ~10ppm Nitrates our tap water has vs a small increase over that. Would you expect 1ppm Ammonia to process with those 2 sponge filters? Is it possible that the AquaClear has so much capacity that the sponge filter wasn't doing that much, and the snail tank is also a very low bioload? Or is it just that the tank needs to grow biofilm on all of the surfaces and not just the sponge filters to process that much? I'm debating continuing with the fishless cycle like it's a brand new tank, or trying something like Fritz Zyme 7. I've had so-so results with other bottled bacteria brands, but I don't really want to wait 6+ weeks to move fish into this tank, as I have 6 juvenile Angels in a 20H which are not doing great in the confined space (I'm planning to separate them after they pair off). Thanks in advance! -Justin
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    @PhinnyIt’s still chugging along in the QT tank, but still seems pretty thin. It’s not hiding anymore, which makes me think it was reclusive due to being bullied. I’m hoping to put some weight on it, and then try moving it back.
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    Thanks! Yes I'll definitely need a good rolling chair or stool in here. Thanks! I'm planning each rack will be 3-high for 12" tanks (10G, 15G, 20L) and 2-high for 16+" tanks (20H, 40B). But, I think on the one wall without the soffit I might be able to fit two 40 Breeders and one 30 Breeder on top. A lot of this depends on shelf construction. I might start with wood shelves and then experiment with welding some custom/thinner shelving.
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    I roughed-in all of the wiring that next weekend, took a few weeks off, and this past weekend I got the drywall up! There will be 6 outlet boxes around the room, behind where the racks will go. Each box will have one 15A GFCI for heaters/power filters, and two switched GFCI-protected outlets for lighting. 3 of the 6 heater outlets share a 20A circuit each, so maxed out it can have 1800W/rack, 2400W/wall (3 racks), or 4800W/room. We removed a double-pole breaker for an old hot tub, so there was plenty of room in the panel for the new breakers. Here's a diagram of the old and new circuit: Old: New: The GFCI outlets for heaters/pumps have an audible alarm, so we'll know if they get tripped. I'm not sure yet if they're loud enough to hear throughout the house or how close you have to be. Our kitchen is right above the fish room, so hopefully we could at least hear it from there. I'll do some testing once they are wired up. This was my first time hanging drywall, but it went pretty well. I have a few things to adjust where I didn't account for the thickness of screws behind the drywall and it bulged a little, but other than that I'm pretty happy with it. I also removed the old room lights and added 2 new lights, one for over the sink, and a wall light for over a work surface. Both are wired to a motion sensor, so they'll turn on when someone is in the room and turn off after they leave. I still have some ceiling drywall to hang, and a LOT of drywall repairs after wiring, and then the next step is drywall taping. It's the part of this project that I'm the least excited for, so hopefully I can muster the willpower to get it done sooner rather than later. I can't wait to wire the outlets up and start on the drain/drip system. I've also been thinking about where I can fit racks to maximize space. Having so many doors in the room makes it difficult to use all of the floor space, but I still think I can get way more than I need in there. Here's what I came up with so far. The 20L along the back wall will be a fry system. I might try to fit some 5.5g above it or somewhere else.
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