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  1. Andy's Fish Den
    I have a large container I combine several dry foods into, flakes, pellets, granules and then feed my fish from it everyday. With it being mixed up, there is a built in variety. You could try doing that. Or the easy solution....but more tanks and fish!
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    If you don't want to refrigerate the BBS to feed later, you can freeze. I will hatch more than I know I will be feeding, strain, feed my fish and then I take the rest, rinse, and put in a ice cube tray. I got one of the silicone trays that has small cubes that are about the same size as the cubes you can buy at the LFS of frozen foods.
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    @Daniel how long does 3 pounds of blackworms last you? I got a half pound when I go them and they lasted me a couple weeks, but I wasn't feeding them heavily, just as a treat mainly, and to a couple kinds of corydoras to try to entice them to spawn.
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    I did a some water changes last weekend because we had a front come through last Sunday and Monday, and I got eggs from Aspidoras spilotus, Cory weitzmani and Cory venezuelanus. Unfortunately, the venezuelanus ones might not have been fertile, they all fungused over the next day, but they are still young fish.
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    I have done similar stuff in past, and still do once in a while in my fish room. What I do is, drain water into buckets or whatever you have to hold. Out of the 29 gllon, you should have somewhere around 20 gallons. Put fish, plants, livestock in water. Transfer substrate, rocks whatever into tank. Be sure to keep filter media wet while doing. Once you have that stuff in tank, add in the water and fish, then add in fresh water to top up tank. Put both old and new filters on tank and get them running. It is just like doing a decent size water change on the tank. I wouldn't add more fish at the time you do the switchover, I would wait until the new tank is settled before adding more fish.
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    To be honest I don't know for sure if any chlorine will harm the worms or not. I have seen that people who live in the south whose tap water isn't cold especially in the summer will have a jug of water sitting in the fridge to use to rinse their worms. I imagine you could do something similar, but treating the water with Prime or whatever your dechlorinator of choice is. The key is making sure that the water is cold, I believe it puts them in a dormant state.
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    I keep them in the refrigerator, I dump them out in a fine mesh net everyday, let my cold water tap run a min or two so it gets cold, rinse the worms under a gentle trickle. Put fresh, clean, cold water back in container and cover loosely with lids and back into fridge. I use a shallow tupperware type container, and use a container that's large enough that the worms aren't all clumped together, can spread out. I have a well for my water so my water is not treated other than going through a sediment filter, and even in summer comes out of tap cold. I know @Danielgets blackworms regularly for his fish, we can see what he does as well.
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    This is one of the reasons why sometimes a LFS will get in an order of corydoras and there might be a couple different species in a bag.
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    Be prepared to go without paying yourself for a year, possibly more. Work in the business to learn what you like, don't like. There are lots of wholesalers out there, but you will want to find one that has similar water to what you have. If you have hard water, like a lot of the midwest has, you might want to shy away from a wholesaler that has soft water, and work with one in Florida since they have hard water as well. Down the road, possibly look into getting an importers permit, so you can import directly from farms and wholesalers overseas. Be present on social media, make videos and posts about new fish you have got in.
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    I shot a short video of my Leopoldi angelfish chowing down on some live blackworms and frozen bloodworms. Also making an appearance in the video are some Apistogramma baenschi, siamese algae eaters, ember and green neon tetras, red beckford pencilfish. Leopoldi angelfish enjoying worms - YouTube
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    If the bulbs are labeled 6500K they aren't for reef tanks. Reef tanks typically use bulbs in the 10000-14000K range, and have a blue look to them, as well as actinic bulbs which is definitely a blue color bulb. Blue moonlight LED are just decoration, mainly just so you can see in the tank at night.
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    @CorydorasEthan if you add some root tabs under that sword plant, it will thank you! You could start out with just a couple tabs under it, you'll start seeing a difference in a week or two, but then you will have to start adding tabs regularly, maybe one or two every couple weeks.
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    I would get the carpeting plants in first, let them get well established before adding the corys. It will give the plants a chance to get some roots down and established before the corys possibly disturb much.
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    You are referring to a semi DIY kit that is available, has a jelly like substance that you add water and some yeast to that makes co2. Amazon.com : Neo CO2, Aquarium DIY add Co2 Diffuser : Pet Supplies
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    Yes the octopus plant would grow fine without root tabs. It is a stem plant, so it will also take up nutrients from the water column and since you said you are dosing easy green, it would get what it needs from that.
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    That's actually a saltwater snail. There are some strange, scary creatures in the marine world. Huge bristleworms, that grow several feet in length. If you want to see something freaky, look up the bobbit worm.
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    Or just use plain brown cardboard boxes, so that when a package arrives and my wife sees the co-op labelling on the boxes, she isn't saying to me "more stuff for your fishies?"
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    Congratulations to everyone that got lucky to receive a package this time! It is so great to see Cory and the Aquarium Co-op giving back to the community.
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    I would suggest neon dwarf rainbows, aka praecox rainbows. A nice blue on sides and then the reddish orange or yellow fins. They look great in a group in a planted tank.
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    I am sure that some of the crypts and sword plants that stay smaller would be fine without root tabs if you are using an enriched soil and there is enough fish poop etc in the substrate. Back in the early-mid 90s I had a beautiful 180 gallon tank that was planted, this was before LED lights, enriched substrate, root tabs. It was all regular aquarium gravel, sand and fertilized with fish poop. I grew sword plants that were huge, tons of jungle val, and crypts like crazy.
  21. Andy's Fish Den
    I'm wondering if one of the tools made for a shop vac would fit onto the end of a siphon tube easily? I might have to do some measuring and compare dimensions.
  22. Andy's Fish Den
    Good luck opening the restaurant. I was a chef quite a few years ago and opened a restaurant, so I know the work that's involved.
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    Once the roots are long enough that you can plant them in the substrate and they would hold you can cut them free and plant. Or you can do as @Kirsten said she does and just let them go and see what happens.
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    I agree with @Cory more root tabs! Sword plants are heavy root feeders. I have a couple large ones that if I don't put a couple tabs under every couple weeks will start to show deficiencies in their leaves.
  25. Andy's Fish Den
    I picked up a flex 15 gallon at an auction last fall cheap, but had no light. I haven't got it set up yet, but I am going to use a Fluval nano on it.
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