AudreyB
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Any idea what possible pest this is? It’s at the top of the aquarium on the glass out of the water.
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Just saw a video from Foisy Aquatics on YouTube where this might be a natural occurrence??
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Any idea what this brown spot is on my bristlenose pleco’s back? It just kind of appeared about a week ago. It doesn’t appear to be getting any larger. Included an image from my macro lens. All other fish in tank healthy. He appeared to be scratching his back this morning. First time I’ve seen that happen. 80 degrees 0/0/20 (ammonia, nitrite, nitrates) pH 7.2 kH 2, gH 10
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I have 3 male endlers, 1 nerite snail and cherry shrimp in my 5 gallon.
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I am really enjoy watching and learning about their breeding behaviors.
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So... while spending my daily hour with my tanks, I made an amazing discovery. My first sparkling gourami nest. At first I had no idea what it was. I’m so lucky I didn’t destroy it while I was doing maintenance on the tank. So now I have to remember to look before I put my hands in the tanks! I had frogbit and the nest is at the base of the frogbit. The male is guarding his nest in the last photo, he is to the right. There are a LOT of eggs in it. its so rewarding to see.
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How many times can I water change in a day????
AudreyB replied to Myznada08's topic in General Discussion
Are you using Prime or something else to detoxify the ammonia while you get your cycle back up and running? I crashed a cycle once. So I did the water changes daily ( maybe 25%) with Prime and added a sponge filter to one of my other cycled tanks. I waited two weeks then put the sponge filter in the crashed tank. In a few days the cycle slowly started back up again. Now I keep a spare sponge filter in both my tanks. also when I test my water out of the faucet, it tests positive for ammonia. -
🤦🏼♀️ Found them all dead this morning. Have no idea what happened. I changed some water yesterday, feeding spirolina. Will try again. It doesn’t seem by all comments that it should be this difficult. I’ve set up my hatchery again. Going to give it another try. 🤞
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🤦🏼♀️ Found them all dead this morning. Have no idea what happened. I changed some water yesterday, feeding spirolina. Will try again. It doesn’t seem by all comments that it should be this difficult.
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Thanks! I’m going to grow them out and feed them to my fish. I’m still hoping I get that far considering I have to keep them alive for the next 2-3 weeks. And I know that “smell” that Cory mentions if you don’t keep the water clean! My next task will be to work on a water change tomorrow. I plan on using a flashlight to get them all in one area, then siphoning out some water and replacing with ready to go salt water.
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- brine shrimp hatchery
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So I used both the brine shrimp net and the paper towel and they both worked nicely. Thanks for posting the videos and guidance, a couple weeks and they’ll be ready!
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Thank you everyone!!! I appreciate your help.
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1st time working with brine shrimp. Got a great hatch with the Ziss hatchery. A little confused on what to do next. They are so tiny, can I strain them with a brine shrimp net to go in my grow out tank? How do I get them in there with out taking all the nasty Ziss water with them?
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So this just happened to me this week. I’m moving my betta into a larger 10 gallon tank because his 5 gallon spring a leak. The 5-gallon has been cycled for over a year and I’ve had 0 nitrates and 0 ammonia that entire time. Luckily I could lower the water enough to stop the leak. So while my new tank is cycling I began moving plants from the leaking tank into the new tank. When I did this, I pulled out some vallisneria that was doing extremely well and had roots everywhere so when I pulled it up, a LOT of detritus stirred up with it. The next day the leaky tank had a major bacteria bloom. A day after that I noticed my betta was not behaving “normal” and tested the tank. Ammonia was present and it was >0.25. Im still dealing with the ammonia 3 days later, but my point is that I had the exact same problem you experienced when I stirred up my gravel. Somehow it affected my good bacteria. Didn’t know that could happen.
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I Put a sponge filter in a cycled, mature tank to get it started so that I can move it to a new tank and get the cycle in the new tank moving along quicker. About How long should I leave the filter in the cycled tank before I move it to the new tank?
