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  1. Fish Folk
    Me on YouTube: “All the fish in this community tank get along GREAT!” Threadfin Acara: “🐟💭” Me the next day: “Now where are those tetras?” Experienced Aquarist: 😂 —————————— 🧙‍♂️“... if it can fit in the mouth, it will eventually go there!”
  2. Fish Folk
    Yepper! Western Maryland. Hillbilly country. I'm counting at about 188 species this year for our state.
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    Irene, you make the best videos! I always learn so much. That chopstick trick is really awesome. If you’ve got an established, planted tank, with floating plants, maybe 1x partially decomposing catappa leaf, you can probably make it over the initial half-week or so. You can take sera micron, tap it over a cup filled with tank water, and then vigorously mix together. The resulting “green water” can be dripped into fry tank for early food. Vinegar eels will work eventually. Be sure to counteract the vinegar acidity with a pinch of baking soda.
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    🤭 🤩 Daniel is officially a man of aquarium legend! Check out his interview with Randy Reed over on the Aquarist Podcast, Ep. 93.
  5. Fish Folk
    Birding! And bird photography. Probably even more a passion right now than being an amateur aquarist. I used to compete at a lot of regional chess competitions. Love playing the beautiful game. ¡¡¡Visca el Barça!!!
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    Thanks for sharing! We're interested in breeding some dwarf gouramis in the new year. I assume you've got a confirmed pair in the tank? No really experienced feedback, but I'll enjoy following this thread. If they're like other anabantids, the eggs are collected by the male, and spat up into the bubble nest until fry hatch. I know with bettas, the eggs can be tricky to make out in among the bubbles. In a couple days, if there are fry, they'll be tiny little slivers along the water surface. Check around and see if other gourami breeders remove the parents to ensure fry survive. Good luck!! Honey gouramis are wonderful. We bought 2x of them the other week. Not sure if they are a pair or not.
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    Boesmanis are awesome! No advice for you on that... but someday, you should definitely enjoy a tank full of discus. Daniel (elite poster here) shared a photo of a huge tank he had with discus. It’s over on the forum under plants... title was something like (Valisneria + Discus + Easy Green = ??). Anyway, his photo will make you want to tear down your tank, and start all over 😂
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    Beautiful aquariums! Thanks for sharing. We like breeding smaller freshwater species. But a goal of “aquascape light”... that sounds very nice! Hope you’ll share your tips. Cheers from western MD.
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    Sorry to hear... it happens. Keep some quality food in their diet, keep water changes up... they’ll go for it again. A slate piece might sponsor a better try.
  10. Fish Folk
    Here’s how we set up ours... pothos in hob...
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    Here’s what we do for easy DIY bbs hatchery: (1) buy 2x clear 1-liter polar springs water bottles. They have a narrow neck that works (2) after emptying the water... using a sharp utility knife, cut one of them straight around the outside about 1/3 of the way down (this will be the base / holding bottom) (3) after emptying the second one, cut off the bottom about 3/4 of the way down in the same way just by the ridge that bows the plastic back out. This will be the cap that is then fitted back over the top of that same cut unit — it will be squeezed o we exactly where you just cut it (4) leaving the cap on, take the 2nd bottle and invert it into the 1st section (5) take the bottom you cut off (which will be the “cap” and with a large enough drill bit (we just twist by hand) work 2x holes in — one for airline in, another to allow air pressure out Buy the aquarium co-op bbs eggs by the can. Store those in refrigerator until used. We mix 3x tablespoons of aquarium salt in the inverted 1-liter container with room-temp water. Then add a rounded 1x tablespoon of artemia cysts. insert an airline with fairly rapid bubbles into one of the holes, and fit the cap on. Set by a light for 36 hrs. Then remove the airline, allow to settle for 2-5 mins, and draw out bbs from bottom with fishroom dedicated turkey baster. Brinecshrimp should be orangeish colored. Squirt this through a fine mesh brine shrimp net. Then dunk this into a separate small container of clean water to lower salinity you will be adding. you should be able to see all the bbs swarming. If it’s just brown eggs, then something went wrong. if you want to see more, move to the 6:35 min on this video:
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    Thanks! We just cut to size and fold large pieces of filter sponge in half around pothos roots, jam it into the open tops of two aqueon 75 hob, and then . . . . fuggedaboudit . . . 😂
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    We've done this for a few tanks. As gardenman says, be sure to trim the light diffuser paneling a bit smaller than the exact footprint of the tank bottom so that it doesn't dig into the silicone. I will say though . . . if you're going to have African mbuna cichlids in there . . . they'll probably dig down and expose the light diffuser paneling. If you look in the attached photo, zoom in under the large piece of Texas holey rock (ca. 80-100 lbs), you'll see that they've dug down to expose it.
  14. Fish Folk
    Very kind words! Thanks so much. Glad you're enjoying your favorite fish too. They're all wonderful.
  15. Fish Folk
    Beautiful Plecos! No experienced advice here... we’d probably just be sure to stock with lots of aged wood. Leaf litter may help some too. Competitorslink may be able to set you up with native pods, etc.
  16. Fish Folk
    If you’re an aquarist with some decent experience, you should not be afraid of keeping discus. These are some of the most beautiful fish in the freshwater tropical hobby. We have slowly been adding young discus to our aquaria, learning how they like to be kept. In the final analysis, they really are not difficult. Hope this video encourages you to give them a try!
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    Some BNPs will gnaw on Amazon Swords. Not sure about Banana plants. In general though, if there's an easier source of food for them, they'll go for that before hitting plants. Per your stocking question, you may find that those Kribensis will get extremely aggressive when they're ready to spawn. I doubt you'll have any guppy fry survive in the aquarium with Kribs around. They'll eat baby guppies. You'll also need to keep a watch on where the Kribs spawn. they like caves . . . but so do Bristlenose plecos. If there's a competition, someone might get injured.
  18. Fish Folk
    Congratulations! We've raised up a few hundred rams . . . but never enjoyed the pleasure of seeing them successfully raise up a brood of their own. Best wishes. Looks like the fry have source context for lots of good infusoria in there. They can probably be fed live baby brine shrimp soon. That can help their development. We found that getting them on to bbs early rather than nursing them along on infusoria, vinegar eels, etc. really helped move them over the 2-week development hump. Take care not to over feed though. They may only be able to eat 2x bbs per day each. Little bit goes a long way! Also: don't be too discouraged if the parents decide to reconstitute protein and eat them all . . . that happens. If you have another aquarium set up, you could move the parents if they start to predate on the fry. Hopefully you'll have an amazing cloud of happy Rams though! Best wishes! So beautiful . . .
  19. Fish Folk
    We use H2O2 for two purposes: (1) Remove hardscape covered with BBA, and douse it _outside_ the tank with H2O2. When returned to the tank, after a couple of days, it turns rusty-colored and then dies. (2) Instead of using methylene blue to protect against fungus on eggs we pull, we use over-the-counter 3% H2O2. It is a very light amount . . . 1 ml. / 1 gallon . . . every 12 hrs, for 3x times (36 hrs).
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    Yes! Piorkowski does have a nice video series on them, and some nice articles written.
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    Makes sense. Storm fronts moving through lower BP, and triggers spawning. Just did a simple science experiment: (1) boil water in pan on stove (2) pour into large mason jar and cover with plastic wrap (3) just when bubbles stop rising, place a frozen cold pack on top outside surface of plastic wrap... the jar begins to boil again! Cold air drops pressure, and pressure from heated water responds. I think it’s the same thing on a micro-scale with fish. They are used to certain pressures at certain barometric levels in aquaria, but when low pressure on air surface draws out (on a micro level) their organs, they are triggered. So... one way to trigger some fish to spawn may be to lay cold packs across lexan / glass lids to simulate storm... just a random idea!
  22. Fish Folk
    Root tabs added! 🌱
  23. Fish Folk
    We hatch a small amount of Artemia daily in 1x liter hatchery (we run two, and alternate days). We turn off the air, let the settle towards light or bottom, draw out with a turkey baster, then squirt through a brine shrimp net back into the hatchery. Then we dunk the netted bbs into a 1/2 gal. Lee’s large specimen container filled with tap water. Then, set by a light, wait for the bbs to congregate by the light, and draw out with a 10-ml. syringe from WalMart with airline tubing on the end. As Daniel says, it may not matter. However, if you’re feeding certain fish / fry, the increase of conductivity via salinity can eventually pose some problems when fish (or fry) are kept in very tight quarters.
  24. Fish Folk
    If we're successful, we may end up moving our colony of doadrioi up to a 40 gal breeder. I think they'd do better, as you describe, in a larger tank with lots of plant cover. Would love to see some photos of your splendens and toweri.
  25. Fish Folk
    Yeah, it's tricky to catch all of those eggs when they fall off of surfaces. Yes, we just go to WalMart Pharmacy and ask if they happen to have any oral medicine syringes available to children's tylenol. They have just given them to us when we ask -- and even the we offer to buy, they just give them. There may be some for sale too, but those blue WalMart ones work very well. Yes, we just attach normal airline to the tip. Works like a charm! You'll want an adjuster on the air. It shouldn't be too rough, but enough to give a gentle flow in the container. We use the Lee's large specimen containers, which hold about 1/2 gallon (if I remember correctly). Be careful about the H2O2. 0.25 ml. is right for the smaller container . . . but it's always touch and go. What we do, is add it only 3x times, once every 12 hrs (morning / evening / morning . . . DONE). As long as the eggs don't turn white, they're potentially fertile. I bet those angels were NOT happy when you pulled those eggs!
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