Brian Marshall

I believe that they need a brine or salt water stage for the eggs and baby shrimp period of their life. Good luck with the attempt.

Welcome to the "I'm waiting for the drift wood to sink club", Crash. It's a pretty big club. You pretty much have two options. Weigh it down, or wait. I'm currently got several large rocks sitting on top a lovely bit of drift wood soaking in 4 foot custom tank. They'd been soaking for a few months and one of the two pieces was still floating. Another thing I have done is to screw on to the bottom of some of my drift wood some Lead fishing weights. Some people don't like that idea of putting metallic Lead into their tanks, but I have pretty neutral PH water and am unlikely to have Lead go into the water. Very acidic or high PH water might react with the metal and if you're not comfortable with that, don't do it. Fish keeping should be about making it less stressful, not more. Another trick I have done and also seen others do is to screw large plastic pot saucers on to the bottom of the wood. Then you cover the plastic with substrate and that will keep it from floating away. Really large bits of wood may not work like that until they're already half water logged though. Good luck.

Sad to hear that Hannah. I have a super big Yoyo loach in my community tank. They are such an interesting fish, and as the biggest fish in the tank, he or she is the tank boss. I haven't had many fish jump out of any of the my tanks, but did lose 4 Borneo loaches climb out of the tiniest gaps in one tank. That hurt and I wasn't even close to them like I am to my Yoyo.

Hi Guppy Guy. I believe you want Cast acrylic as first choice. The extruded acrylic has some drawbacks and I think it can't handle the continuous pressure of water as well as the cast acrylic can. Good luck on the acrylic tank. I'm looking at getting a custom acrylic tank made for myself too.

I wonder if it's Epistylis? It can be confused with Ick but is bacterial and not protozoan.