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What is your temperature?
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Sorry to see this. I am not sure if your tetra will recover. Whether or not it is mouth rot, the damage may be irreversible. The longer you keep fish, and the more fish you keep, the more you will run into things like this.
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On 4/8/2022 at 5:53 PM, arielroxi said:
So my mystery snail just left me a clutch of eggs. Not sure how this happened since she's the only mystery snail in the aquarium. Unless the pond snails have been having their way with her. My question is how to I get rid of them? I don't have the capacity to raise them and I don't want them to cause a imbalance in my aquarium. Can I just scrap them off and toss them. (Sorry it sounds so cruel.) Thanks for any help.
That can be done, yes.
Female Mystery Snails can lay batches of infertile eggs. Moreover, they can save sperm from a male Mystery Snail for over a hundred days, and lay fertilized eggs from that prior spawning.
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An aquarium almost always shows some sign of Nitrate if it is properly cycled. "0 - Nitrate" worries me that you do not have adequate cultures of beneficial bacteria built up.
Here is how I always set up tanks to ensure a strong cycle-start:
(1) Use a biologically activated substrate like Eco Complete — or, transfer substrate from a cycled tank.
(2) Use Wood or Hardscape from inside a cycled tank. We buy wet wood from our LFS.
(3) Use a primed sponge filter already full of bio.
(4) Use tank water from a cycled tank.
(5) Buy tons of live plants. They bring in bio.
(6) Dump in Dr. Tim’s bio starter fluid -- or FritzZyme 7. This may or may not help . . . but definitely won't hurt.
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Are the snails harming anything? You can try setting up a snail trap, or removing them manually (you could use a “snail catcher"). But bear in mind: that they are balancing factors in your current tank. If you remove them, the tank may lose its balance.
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On 4/8/2022 at 4:46 PM, Jimfish98 said:
Curious as to thoughts on stocking level for a tank. The calculators just don't match the set up. I have 110g tank with 20g sump. Tank is bare bottom so no volume is consumed by plants, rock, etc. I am cycling water at about 700gph through felt rollers. I also have nearly half a cubic foot of Cermedia/Marine Pure in the sump.
I am thinking of just going with a tank full of tetra, molly, platy, danio type of small fish.
Are you planning on any substrate? Plants? Hardscape? Just curious. Nitrate build up needs to be managed eventually if you've got a high stocking. Do you change water frequently?
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Unless you can either link a video, or take a clearer photo, it is very hard to tell. There are two places where coloration seems a bit off...
This may just be ordinary pigmentation. However, if it appears "fuzzy" I'd be worried it may be fungus.
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This may just be an orangish hued normal brown algae. There is orange algae, but most is only found in salt water. Look up red algae to learn some common types.
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@Seattle_Aquarist this is instantly my favorite post on the forum since I've joined. Beautiful! Thanks so much for the details. I have never kept any of those plants, but definitely want to look into working with them. My discus are stable at around 83 degrees. Amazon swords do fine with root tabs for me. Valisneria americana is not very happy at present. Hygrophila polysperma is does not appreciate my lighting.
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On 4/5/2022 at 9:18 PM, CT_ said:
I'm in a hurry to boot up my tub again this year. last year I threw a heater in early but the fish mostly huddled around it. I think part of the problem was that the heater brought the temperature up too high relative to the air temp and so part of the tub was cold and part of it was warm. Besides buying a temp controller, which I'm too cheap to do, has anyone found a cheap heater that I can set to something like 60F/15C ?
I tried this last year. Things went badly with my little outdoor ponds. I used a used heater I'd gotten on a bargain / used "as-is" shelf at my LFS. Like you, I think it didn't provide balanced heat.
The last Club meeting I was able to attend featured Dr. Ted Coletti as the presenter. All about outdoor tubs and ponds. I learned so much. I'm going to be patient this year, and wait until the window is right - from June through September in my region. I've also learned not to use sponges, and to build terraces in the tubs for plants to rest on and grow emmersed (out of water). Balancing sunlight is crucial, as is managing high-temperature days.
I'm hoping my eldest son will take over the ponds as his summer project.
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On 4/5/2022 at 8:49 PM, Bailey said:
I was looking into corys, I really like both pygmy and salt n pepper, but I was reading that corys need sand? I have fine gravel but not sand...is that a problem? I had read that pygmy corys tend to occupy both the middle and bottom, would that be a problem with guppies/endlers occupying similar space? Would I do both corys and otocinclus, and how many? I want to make sure everyone is as happy as possible. Sorry for all the questions, thank you!
They'd be alright with your substrate. Sand may be preferred by some aquarists, but in the wild, they're not just on sand at all. They'll all get along alright. As @nabokovfan87 says, with Guppies, you'll be seeing loads of more fry. That's for sure! Here's a couple 10 gallon stocking videos of ours from the years past . . .
Platys:
Mollys:
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I'd love to learn bit more how you keep your Discus. What maintinenece practices? Stocking? Fertilization plan? Water Changing? Just curious how other Discus keepers roll. (I'm definitely not the "rules committee" with Discus! 😆)
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Well, during the night, even fish that often are up out of bottom waste end up down there anyway all night.
I'm working on German Blue Rams, and (knock on wood) I've not cleaned up a thing from the bottom. Snails eat waste and leave behind molm, which I suspect is less problematic for fish fry than decomposing food.
But my container is a DIY flow-through, so ammonia / nitrite / nitrate is sorted out by the overall aquarium filtration.
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On 4/5/2022 at 4:46 PM, Henry Li said:
Hello everyone! I am having some trouble keeping molly babies alive. Please give tips and advice any help is appreciated.
I'm sure everyone has different ways. Here's how my son did it for his final BAP project...
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Wow! For a beginner, you’re off to a well-informed start.
Every aquarist has a different view of how to populate an aquarium. Since you’ve got hard water, you might consider investing in some beautiful guppies. Get two males and four females from the same line, and you’ll have a tank full of babies before you know what happened.
Forum guidelines prohibit us from selling on the forum or from naming aquarium fish sellers apart from AquaHuna. But (without saying where from) these are all guppy lines available that you could order in the mail delivered to your door today…
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Great! Swords are my favorite plants.
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Doing this again! “Cometh the hour, cometh the Betta” or some such…
Atta-boy…
Mmm Hmm…
Courtship is a wee rough 😬
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@Odd Duck and @Beardedbillygoat1975 I never new until now how badly I need a new tank 🤓
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Hooah! We’ve got wigglers!
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I know the craze has passed… but today made me smile…
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On 4/5/2022 at 2:28 AM, Beardedbillygoat1975 said:
Is this a Festivum (Flag Cichlid)?? I’ve never seen them in stores out here. Colors are amazing. Do they get huge? Like… 8” long?
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On 4/4/2022 at 10:41 PM, ange said:
Awesome upload! I really love the baffle you made for your sponge filter. Have you made any posts about it before? I've been playing with my own builds and somehow never thought to use the airline on my sponge as one of the possible anchors, mostly acrylic dowels or bamboo skewers attached to suction cups and then sealed airline tubing with jump rings.
I love wild bettas but have never been able to bite the bullet on one because importers scare me and I can't get them locally lol.
I've been keeping a journal about the Betta Imbellis on the Forum here...
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My most photogenic fish…
What are yours?
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Is this how Full red albino guppy looks like?
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I'd have to have some more shots, or higher resolution . . . or better yet, a video to gauge whether there's a problem here.
A guy in our fish club sells these albinos. You can compare her tail in this photo below.