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  1. Fish Folk
    Others have already mentioned it, but Eheim Jager heaters work well for us. We sometimes struggle with thermostats sticking on lots of other cheaper brand heaters.
  2. Fish Folk
    Well . . . not sure if this is anywhere close to helpful . . . but here's what's actually going on in 6 of our 10 gal tanks: (1) 4x Tangerine Painted Lyretail Mollies (2) 2x Apistogramma Urteagai, 12x Glowlight tetras (3) Colony of Firecracker Guppies, Colony of Cherry Shrimp, 1x young Bristlenose Pleco (4) Colony of Blue neocaridinia (5) 10 gal tall, with large piece of driftwood stood sideways, Anubis attached, and Bristlenose Pleco growout tank (6) 3x Fundulopanchax Scheeli (Emerald Killifish) We've found that a 20 gallon (long or tall) is a lot more fun to stock than a 10 gal. Honey gourami could make a nice centerpiece fish in a small tank. Threadfin Rainbows are attractive. Celestia Pearl Danios are really sharp . . . but we never get them out where we live.
  3. Fish Folk
    So... a pair of rams we want to trace out a genetic line from _finally_ spawned... a really small spawn... in the substrate! So, used a soup ladle to pull them. Kind of awkward, but there’s a few fertile ones that are beginning to wiggle! Hopefully we can raise up a batch.
  4. Fish Folk
    In general, I think it’s preferable to keep them at spawning tank temp or slightly warmer ... but we’re new to these 😅 We do this — suspend a Lee’s large specimen container inside of the tank with an airline and about 1/2 ml. of 3% hydrogen peroxide ever 12 hrs for 3x doses.
  5. Fish Folk
    Very excited to find a few Fundulopanchax Scheeli eggs last night. New species for us, and first killifish eggs ever...
  6. Fish Folk
    Agreed with Fonske — the main concern I’d have is keeping fry alive with Rams. We’ve raised lots of both, guppies and rams, but never together. As for guppy temps, they can go high, but not constantly. Our mini pond outside on the back porch would rocket up to 90-degrees in summer heat, but would settle back down too overnight. We had tons of guppies born in there - but it wasn’t like a home tank where heat was constantly on. Might be time to buy a new tank! 😅
  7. Fish Folk
    First off, best wishes to you on your move. Tearing down tanks sounds a bit sad. There are a handful of factors that contribute to a “seasoned” aquarium. Substrate and filtration are key, along with chemistry balance in water parameters, plant health, heat and lighting. New tanks are notoriously unbalanced — too much of this... to little of that... beyond not being “cycled” is the problem of not being “balanced.” Fish generally respond well and will breed readily when there is a balance in a tank / tub that they like. But not all fish are alike. Sometimes the seasoned tank that one species loves is not preferred by another. So, that being said, if you happen to have substrate in a seasoned tank that you’re tearing down that you could bag up in some tank water, and filter media or sponge that you could bag up as well, that may help as long as you set it up right away and it doesn’t sit around for a long time. When we set up a new tank, we often use filters and substrate from seasoned tanks. You do have some anaerobic bio gas release to be cautious about, but it should settle quickly. The problem is that your water where you move may be totally different than your water where you currently live. If in the end you just have to set up from scratch, just be patient, finish the cycle, and enjoy the process. Shellies / Multies sound fun! Maybe the water where you move will suggest another species too.
  8. Fish Folk
    You might consider giving them a 1-2 day "fast" and then feeding with Omega One Kelp Flakes to get them into greens. Most "veggie" foods still have a load of protein in, if you read the ingredients. We have our mbunas feeding on different foods almost every day -- but always incorporate veggie foods (pellet and flake form) into their diet regularly -- daily, or every other day.
  9. Fish Folk
    I’m guessing green spotted puffer (??)
  10. Fish Folk
    Saw this guy’s video who inverted a bunch of 2-liter bottles, and screwed a pipe line on the end of each, then drained / refilled by flipping a switch. That’s how to do it! 😂
  11. Fish Folk
    Wow, those look really neat!!!
  12. Fish Folk
    Water changes will be some work! Have this idea of running airline tubing out to a small capped PVC pipe, with a valve on one end that can be attached to a python. So, attach the python, turn the valve to “open,” turn on, and _in theory_ water can slowly be drained through airline tubing and replaced by reverse method (with much lower water pressure). Mocked up a picture...
  13. Fish Folk
    Thanks so much! Great tips. We’re going to give this a try. When it comes to actually breeding either species, we’ll separate to their own tanks. Do you run a chiller on them at all?
  14. Fish Folk
    We’re planning to start breeding betta splendens here in the next month. Biggest challenge is deciding in advance how to prep for growout. One of our friends works at Chick-fil-a here locally, and can get us these clear 1-gallon plastic jugs that they sell tea in. So, as proof-of-concept, we set up a couple yesterday. Used cycled tank water from female Gourami aquarium, added 3x marimo moss balls to each, floated water lettuce, and clipped pothos portions to grow emmersed. Stuck a light airline in, but ran it through the jug handle so that the bubbles can be limited, leaving water surface tension undisturbed so males can build bubble nests, etc. put in 1x alder cone, and a thumbnail-sized piece of Indian almond leaf - both for boosting tannins. I can fit 14x along the edges of this rack we built. Figure the females can grow out in the breeding tank, and males can mature in these for sale. Kind of quirky, but materials are free!
  15. Fish Folk
    Cool! Thanks. Yeah, it’s awesome to just find stuff going on. The discus is just an assorted. We keep 6x in our 55 gal Amazon tank. Paid about $25 for each one. We actually exchanged a ton of stuff we’ve bred and raised for them. No one in our region keeps discus. So... the one LFS who orders the discus basically just sells them to us at cost, because no one will buy them. One came through a Florida supplier, and the others came from a California supplier. We’d never be able to make money selling these discus to our LFS, because... they just don’t sell! But the bristlenose Plecos will sell like hot cakes.
  16. Fish Folk
    Doing big water change on my 55 gal mbuna tank today, and found a baby pleco. Then another. And another. And the male ancistrus would not leave the conch shell. So I moved him in the shell out into a little plastic tote using water from the tank. Pretty soon a bunch of baby Plecos started scooting all around. So I lightly boiled some zucchini slices (which helps them sink in aquarium water), added a couple to the bin. Later added heater and sponge filter to the bin. And... having extra zucchini slices... I shared with my discus & rams, corys, Goodeids, and guppies.
  17. Fish Folk
    Looks great to me! Good job sticking with a line. I think it was Greg Sage who said he doesn’t ever sell down below 40 fish of a selectively bred line. In other words, make hundreds of these before selling them so that you’ll really be able to keep the line going. And even more importantly, if you’re able to make another line, it becomes important to “cross out” the lines so that they keep some genetic strength.
  18. Fish Folk
    For 1-liter, we mix 3x tablespoons of API aquarium salt with and 1x tablespoon of eggs (we ordered 1-lb can from brine shrimp direct).
  19. Fish Folk
    I'd like to set up an aquascape with some medium sized, rounded black / dark gray river rocks like the photo attached. Some I see for sale online are artificially polished. I'm interested in learning: Are polished rocks always a no-no for hardscape? What safe source(s) would you recommend for purchasing them from? Is this as easy as going to a landscape supplier and buying some stones, boiling them, and voila!?
  20. Fish Folk
    Awesome! Kribs are usually great parents. Sometimes they’ll share the guarding work, and sometimes just one parent or the other will take control and chase off the other. Early on here, don’t be shocked if you see a parent sucking fry into its mouth. They’ll spit them out someplace else. You’ll probably want some sort of fry food. Live baby brine shrimp are best, but you can use Sera Micron, Co-op fry food, New Life Spectrum fry growth starter, etc.
  21. Fish Folk
    They’re lively!
  22. Fish Folk
    Gotcha! Well, maybe spend $25 for a young discus, and name it “canary.” If it thrives in your coal mine, then you’ll be stoked!!
  23. Fish Folk
    Let me explain this for y’all: (1) “Hey look Mom, my pizza’s gone already!” (2) “Um. Ok. Now eat your salad.” #oldserarules
  24. Fish Folk
    There’s always some scenarios where things may work out. But Apistos all tend to align around the same lower-third of a tank for long periods of the day, and will invariably come into contact. If you see them sparring a bit at first, that may be just cichlids establishing a pecking order. However, if they’re fighting too aggressively, too constantly, and without dialing back after a few days, you’ll need a new home.
  25. Fish Folk
    Awesome! We got up to 90 in sunlight back porch mini pond with guppies last summer. Too hot! Do you think a nice small school could do OK in a 20 gal (tall)? Or do they need larger tank?
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