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  1. Socqua
    I'd also be concerned about food. Fry need very small food and several feedings throughout the day.
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    Culling of children also was frowned upon in certain small circles 🤐
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    Awesome post. I may have missed it but I'm curious, have you tried this recipe multiple times with different store-bought otos since the first batch? Would be great to see this reproducible on different shipments of a variety of otos!
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    Great advice all around, just want to add two things: 1) Especially because your tank is brand new, make sure you're feeding the shrimp and snails. They're often overlooked because they're a "cleanup crew," but they require feeding on their own. Algae will help especially for the snails, but shrimp will want some variety of food and powder, in my experience. 2) I would go closer to 6 neos, not 3. If you want baby shrimp, and who doesn't, then you have to make sure you have at least 1 female and 1 male. If you only get 3 then you have a 25% chance of getting all males or all females (and likely no babies). And even if you get a mix, if one passes that could be your only female. Enjoy!
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    Yeah I googled it after and found a forum mention from 2008 about it being popular in the 1970s. They were equally baffled by it lol. http://www.city-data.com/forum/house/236159-kitchen-cabinets-handles-center-panel-ugh.html
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    No judgement I love odd designs. Thought maybe it was some common style I wasn't familiar with or or served some other purpose. Interesting.
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    Listen to Cory, I'll just add that you want to get that ammonia to 0. Do you have it in your tap? Because I'm surprised you have any readings unless you're tank isn't cycled or it's from the soil. I would think the plants would help remove it too.
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    Yeah I saw some mention of that but I thought I saw more talk about dark mode after. Understand the decision though and maybe it will re-merge with your roadmap again in the future.
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    Great news!
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    Thanks @Bentley Pascoe, that was my plan. One option is get the 48 and put a bunch of floating plants in that corner to shade the bottom. Another thing I thought of was to do the 36 then get some mini led strips/individual lights to further customize lighting, color, etc. And possibly use it to "spotlight" certain sections of the tank, if that makes sense.
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    I'm really surprised the Nerite isn't devouring it. I dropped one in a little 2.5 I have that had brown algae on every surface, and it was like new in just over a day. Certainly you want to get your parameters in check, and another Nerite might be too much for that size tank but maybe something to consider, especially if you can re-home it to your bigger tank in the future.
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    That's awesome! It's a great hobby to start and everyone here will have nothing but kind words to share I'm sure. I have to ask: why do you want to limit the numbers? Is it aesthetics or are you just concerned for their safety/health? If it's the latter, I wouldn't stress. Let them do their thing and enjoy them. If it's the former, read on. If it's something else, do share 😁. The easiest way to limit the numbers, but would end up decimating then eventually (though 500 would take a very, very long time) is by adding a pea puffer. I think you would really enjoy one in your ten gallon. Another way would be to limit their food. They will only reproduce (and survive) if enough food is available. If you're feeding them you can cut it way down, like once a week even. If it's mostly algae you can cut your light time, move the tank to a darker area, etc. Would love to see pics if you want to share. Oh, and a larger size tank would just repeat itself but with 1,000 or more.
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    @Nick H.I just have to ask, what's up with that handle in the middle of the cabinet door? I can't say I've ever seen that. Also, on the subject, I'm migrating to a 48" x 12" x 18" deep tank. Will have a wide variety of plants including wisteria, octopus, buces, anubias and hopefully the banana and swords I have now that aren't doing great. Could I use a 36" fluval 3.0 off to one side to provide a darker low light corner? It would sit right on the current tank lid (replacing the current hood). Would love your thoughts @Bentley Pascoe. Thanks!
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    I mean you could go with OH 😆. I think he's even asking for you to teach him so he can help with the maintenance! You got one tank "for your students" and now you can get another "for your husband."
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    I was trying to be nerdy and combine Hydrogen atom (red) and Oxygen atom (white) into some name, but the best I got is HO which is pretty lame. Maybe your students will have better ideas! Beautiful fish and tank, has to be just about "complete" right? (No tank is every complete)
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    Yeah as I understand it the benefit of higher grade (in addition to the pure red look a lot of people want) is that their line is more pure and are more likely to provide all red shrimplets. Lower grade is more hit or miss. Personally I agree that the wild form looks really cool too. I have every shade of blue and brown in one tank. Some of my wild ones look more like a mini version of my bamboo shrimp than blue neos imo.
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    Yeah I would definitely pat that fish down before letting it through the front door.
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    Nice! Would love to see a tutorial with more info, if you ever put together something definitely tag me! Sorry to hijack this thread, I agree the inkbird is great for a heater controller and there is a wifi/smart version as well
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    I built my own that does the lights, heat, monitoring over wifi, filter on/off (for feeding). Do you have a build thread or more info on your diy controller?
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    You can also try to promote algae growth: increase lights, increase (or decrease) fertilizer nitrates/phosphates, add a little extra food, etc. Just be careful your other parameters don't go out of wack. Also, I'd start introducing algae wafers early on with them so that hopefully they will start transitioning. good luck!
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    Z is for Zebra
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    Didn't see this posted, issue with pages in dark mode on Firefox 78.7.1 and Edge 88.0.705.63 and mobile Chrome. Unable to see any page for a forum topic listing page other than the first page on dark mode theme. Tried clicking where the numbers should be, but no luck: Works fine for white theme:
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    f 🤐
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    The three big ones that are probably most common in freshwater aquariums are bamboo shrimp, vampire shrimp, and amano shrimp. I think all three would be fine with discus, but I've never kept discus so I have no personal experience. From what I've read they should be fine. Add them at night to let them get established. You could also try some neocaridina "cherry" shrimp as they're fairly cheap. Buy 5+ and add them at night, and hope that they reproduce faster than they're eaten, though it may slowly decline because rope fish and discus WILL eat them. Keeping the predators well fed will help abate that.
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    Was this your first time adding fertilizer, or have you been doing that for months or longer? Fertilizing with easy green will definitely increase nitrates as it has Nitrogen in it, unless your plants consume it all. If anything you could fertilize with something with low Nitrogen to see if that helps your plants consume the nitrates while still growing. And then of course water changes as normal.
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