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I have several 10 and 20 gallon tanks with 1" of mixed dirt and dry cow manure (I have cattle, so I collected it myself instead of buying it) capped with 2" of either pool filter sand or Black Diamond sandblasting sand. As you might imagine, the cow manure caused gasses to bubble up for months, but the fish and invertebrates didn't seem to mind.
Plants are doing very well in it, and I wouldn't hesitate to do it again for display tanks. The only drawback is that when I remove plants to sell invariably some of the soil winds up on top. It doesn't cloud the water, so that's not an issue, so while I don't really mind, some people probably wouldn't like the way it looks.
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On 4/17/2024 at 11:38 AM, TJ _isme said:
Duckweed is a fast growing floater that can help remove lots of nitrates and other waste
But make very sure you want duckweed before getting some. It's much more difficult to get rid of than it is to acquire.
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Mine turns brown before it drops needles, so if you keep cutting off and discarding the parts with brown needles there shouldn't be an issue.
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On 4/8/2024 at 5:42 PM, pomlady7 said:
Here is the other one I think is a male. What do you think?
Also I just ordered a TDS meter today from Amazon, so hopefully see how much TDS I have when it arrives.
Thanks everyone again for all your help.
I do believe that one is a male.
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On 4/7/2024 at 11:38 AM, pomlady7 said:
Thank you very much. I think I found one that is a male. The others do look like all females, what I have found anyway.
He seems to swim around the tank a lot when he is on the move, compared to the others too.
Thank you very much. I think I found one that is a male. The others do look like all females, what I have found anyway.
He seems to swim around the tank a lot when he is on the move, compared to the others too.
I think that's a female also, but I'm not 100% sure. I know it can be difficult, but can you post a picture looking at the shrimp more from the side and less from the top?
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All those are females.
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On 4/4/2024 at 11:19 AM, pomlady7 said:
So much conflicting information out there. I am not saying the baby shrimp are dying because of high nitrates in my aquarium, I just don't see any. Like they are not breeding.
Are you sure you have both sexes? The males are smaller, and usually have less color, so it's not difficult to buy all females.
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On 4/4/2024 at 1:37 AM, Tony s said:
Sounds like you can go find some swaps or club sales now 😀
Or sell some to me. I have a 40 gallon breeder tank with ten or so, and I'd love to add at least that many more.
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On 4/4/2024 at 1:11 AM, Tony s said:
. . . ooh, this one has a bunch of inconsistent ranges. One breeder says 72-82. Another says 65-76. And it’s not just those breeders. There’s a ton of breeders saying both things. But mine are doing good at 78.
This reinforces my belief that many fish don't need the narrow range of temperatures that many people struggle to maintain.
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This is a wild guess (and so I get notified of replies), but maybe a killifish of some kind?
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On 4/4/2024 at 11:02 AM, Misterpotato said:
i got him from a local fish store that just so happens its 3 hours away from my house. Hmm not too sure about their parameters
Is it one of the chain pet stores, or a locally owned individual store? I'm asking because I've struggled keeping commercially raised guppies alive longer than a few weeks, and I've seen numerous reports on this and other forums of other people with similar experience. Hopefully this one will be okay, but I always encourage people to buy guppies from hobby breeders, or from locally owned stores that buy from hobby breeders.
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On 4/3/2024 at 10:53 AM, mynameisnobody said:
I wonder how this will work out since it is a conflict of interest for Cory who also sells plants.
Aquarium Co-op is only one of Aquahuna's customers, so I don't see why they shouldn't sell plants also.
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On 4/3/2024 at 11:19 AM, pomlady7 said:
. . . I was just reading on many sites to keep the nitrates below 20ppm to get the shrimp to reproduce more and to keep baby shrimp alive it should be below 15ppm, so I am presuming that is the issue.
That is not the issue. Baby shrimp will not die with nitrates at 15 ppm (or even considerably higher).
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On 4/2/2024 at 11:18 AM, pomlady7 said:
. . . I read on different websites from people who raised Neo Shrimp that my Nitrates should be below 20ppm and if I wanted for the shrimp to breed, then it has to be below 15ppm!
Don't believe everything you read. Using Easy Green according to the directions shouldn't be a problem, and I strongly suspect the shrimp and snail deaths weren't related to the fertilizer or the nitrate levels.
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On 3/30/2024 at 10:26 AM, clownbaby said:
. . . I have algae wafers, baby brine shrimp and once they get bigger I'll get bloodworms too; my mystery snail has honestly done a pretty bad job overall eating algae because I spoil him and give him lots of green beans and kale treats LMAO
I just wanted to point out that algae wafers really aren't very good for corys. They need more protein.
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On 3/19/2024 at 12:48 AM, nabokovfan87 said:
If you have a tank that the ambient temp isn't ridiculously cold. yes you can. Studies show that the lowest you really want to go is about 68 degrees. I run a heater in mine because ambient temp is ~55 degrees during winter. The tank gets really cold and the heater struggles to keep the tank at ~70 on some days. For most of the year I do pull heaters on all of my tanks.
60 should be fine. When shrimp get too cold they basically have muscle failure.
I don't know where you got that information, but I keep neocaridina shrimp in tubs outside year-round in southeast Texas. This past winter the temperature got down into the upper teens, and the top of the tubs were iced over for several days. The shrimp were fine when it thawed, and they're still thriving.
Maybe that's referring to caridinas?
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I agree with the others who said not to feed while you're gone. I'd much rather come home to hungry fish than the mess that could result from an auto-feeder malfunctioning and dumping all the food at once.
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Some of my best looking crypts are in the 5.5 gallon tank on my desk at work that doesn't have any mechanical filtration or water movement, so maybe. On the other hand, in my other tanks I'm disrupting them occasionally to pull plants to sell, so maybe not. I'm interested to see what others have to say about it.
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On 3/7/2024 at 9:19 AM, KaitieG said:
. . . Frogbit, red root floaters, water spangles, etc. have all died.
I tried red root floaters in several tanks. It died a horrible screaming death.
On 3/7/2024 at 9:19 AM, KaitieG said:. . . I also had duckweed take over the 95 at one point. Cleaned out most of it and the rest died off.
Duckweed also did very well for me. I didn't mention it above because I'm trying to forget the experience. Every time I think I have it eradicated it rears its ugly head again.
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On 3/6/2024 at 1:19 PM, KaitieG said:
. . . Floating Plants...I have the HARDEST time with these. Either overrun or all gone.
All this to say, I think it's a good idea to try to work with what you have unless you have a very specific fish that is known to be touchy and needs very specific conditions. My local fish stores use RO water too, mostly because they have it and they also do salt water. They say they have few issues with people transitioning fish into the almost all hardwater setups around here.
I have very similar water, though maybe not quite as hard, and I've also struggled with some floating plants, and most the ones that do well seem to only do so in one or two of my 10 tanks.
- Dwarf water lettuce did great everywhere I put it, but then I learned it's illegal to keep in my state so I got rid of all of it.
- I recently got some variegated frogbit that I introduced to about half of my tanks. It's doing great in one or two, growing and expanding slowly in one or two, and just hanging on in the rest.
- Hornwort does well, if it can get past the initial period of being introduced to a new tank. When I do that it seems to either keep growing without missing a beat, or drop every needle in the first two days.
- Guppy grass and pearl weed do well, but they aren't classic floating plants.
- Anacharis is finicky, but once established it does well for me. Oddly enough, it's doing best in a 5.5 gallon tank with no mechanical filtration or water movement.
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As mentioned above, color and fin shape don't matter, but I would like to mention that some guppy strains will ignore fry, and others are relentless fry hunters (looking at you, albino koi guppies). I'm not familiar with the female you mentioned, so I don't know what would happen with yours.
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On 3/6/2024 at 11:15 AM, lefty o said:
they are becoming semi common. im in mn, and remember when i was a kid in the 70's it was extremely rare to see one. as a kid i never saw turkey vultures, and now they are all over. many people have no idea eagles are just as much a scavenger as they are hunters.
Turkey vultures were very common in my area years ago, but have just about disappeared. The black headed vultures (I'm not sure of the correct terminology) have migrated up from Mexico and displaced them.
Turkey vultures wait for an animal to die. If an animal is too injured or weak to get away or fight back the black headed ones will just start eating.
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My well water is 8.2 pH, and harder than OP's (gh and kh both close to 300 ppm), and I keep a wide variety of fish, plants, and invertebrates. Unless there's something going on with your water other than pH and hardness I don't see why you couldn't use it as-is (other than adding conditioner to neutralize chlorine of course).
There are some things you wouldn't be able to keep, of course, but here is a list of some that have done well for me. There are probably others that I'm forgetting.
- Guppies
- Lake Kutubu rainbowfish (turquoise rainbowfish)
- Pearl gouramis
- Green corys, panda corys, and Corydoras trilineatus
- Serpae, pristella, lemon, and black neon tetras (though the black neons started dying off after about four years)
- Amano, along with red cherry shrimp and several other colors
- Several crypt varieties, corkscrew val, several stem plants, guppy grass, pearl weed, susswassertang, hornwort, and anacharis
I see no reason African cichlids wouldn't also do well, but since I enjoy the plants about as much as the livestock I haven't tried them.
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On 3/1/2024 at 2:31 PM, Whitecloud09 said:
. . . I am about to test ph, but does it matter? I mean because ammonia is showing up, i test it but
Ammonia is less toxic with lower pH, so yes, it might matter.
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My first piece of advice would be to make sure you have a market before you get too far along. Many stores will only give store credit instead of cash. You can't go buy groceries or pay your electricity bill with fish store credit.
The second piece of advice would be to bring the plants in ready to sell, so all the store has to do it put them on the shelf or in the tank. Have bacopa cuttings in bundles of at least 5 stems, with a plant weight at the bottom. Have the Java moss in clear containers (I like the 5 ounce clear food-safe containers you can get at the grocery store), with a printed label.
The regulations regarding whether or not you need to register as a business will vary from one location to another, but I doubt that you would need to. Taxes are another issue. If you're using Paypal for payment they will send the info to the IRS, so be sure you track expenses along with sales for when you file your income tax.