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  1. Andy's Fish Den
    I have not witnessed any other species that the fry feed off the parents like discus do. You might have a fry or two occasionally nibble at the side of a parent or something but I've never seen or heard of any actively feeding off the slime coat of parents.
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    If you want action and color in a 75 gallon, I would do a planted tank and have rainbows in it. Unless you want to breed them, you can get a variety and stock them in there, plenty of color and action!
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    Being that the pond is 600 gallons, as long as you arent putting a ton of fish in there right at the start, I would not worry too much about it. I have put in one of those pre formed ponds before that was around 250 gallons, filled, put the pump and filter in and put a couple goldfish in the next day. No issues. It's all relative to how much water volume you have versus the fish load. If you wanted to be extra safe, get a bottle of the Fritz zyme7 and put in. One thing I would recommend though, if you have the pond running already, and the water is in the 50s, I would just let everything run, and wait to add any fish until the water is up to mid 60s. When the water is in the 50s, they won't eat much if at all.
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    The one I am a member of it Neofish, NEOfish | Northeast Ohio Fish Club (neo-fish.com) The Ohio Cichlid Association also is in Cleveland area, and there are several other smaller and specialty clubs over that way as well.
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    As others have noted and provided links to find clubs. I am over in Northwest Ohio, but I am a member of a club in the Cleveland area, and I know that Pittsburgh has a nice club, there are several of their members always make it over for auctions and other stuff in the Cleveland area all the time.
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    If you want something tall and will spread on its own, vallisneria would be good, I would stay away from jungle val in a 20 long unless you want leaves that reach across the surface from one end to the other. I would go with a corkscrew or Italian val. If you want something different, pogostemon stellatus octopus would grow tall, but you would have to pinch off stems and plant to have it grow more.
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    I am the same way. I have been in the hobby for over 30 years, and so much has changed in that time.
  8. Andy's Fish Den
    It is always nice getting a larger tank, planning it in your head over and over. I would go with angelfish myself, they are my favorite fish. Good luck getting your new tank and getting it set up.
  9. Andy's Fish Den
    Yes, Easy Green will up the nitrates.
  10. Andy's Fish Den
    When I bred discus years ago, I kept my pairs in 20 gallon high tanks with sponge filters. Keep up on water changes, plenty of rooms for the fry, I would pull the fry and put into a grow out tank after they had been feeding on the parents slime coat for a couple weeks. Anything longer than that I found that the fry would get a little aggressive with feeding and could actually cause damage to the parents scales and sides of their bodies.
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    If you don't want to go through the hassle of switching the substrate and like the look of the sand, you can keep it in there. Plants the hairgrass or monte carlo, and use root tabs in the sand to give the plants the nutrients that they need, along with easy green liquid fertilizer. I dont think you will have a problem with growing them in the sand if you use root tabs and you say you want to use co2 as well.
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    Most plants are grown emersed out of water except for the roots at farms, and will melt back when put into a tank and grown submerged. Some plants that I have gotten and not had much melt back or losing leaves when put in an aquarium are anubias and java ferns.
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    Here's a pic of my leopoldi angels.
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    Usually get my packages from the coop in two days, this time it took a week, but plants and everything was no worse for the wear. I love the insulated bag that they put plants in to protect, I am putting it in the styro I keep in my car so when I buy frozen foods at the LFS I can put in to keep frozen.
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    I have a group of six wild caught ones, Ive kept all the different kinds of angels, altums, scalare, now these and I think the leopoldi are my favorite.
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    A LFS I went to and would help out at when I was a teenager and early 20s had racks built similar, he had all 20 longs on the racks, the top of the bottom row of tanks was right at the bottom of the top row. It was nice because you could have two rows of tanks at close to eye level without having to bend over too much or needing to get on a step ladder to catch fish out of the top row of tanks.
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    Mysis shrimp is usually used for saltwater fish, either by itself or in a mix with other foods. They are a larger shrimp and would need cut up, other than that, I am not sure if freshwater fish can handle or digest them because of their shell and maybe that is why you don't hear about freshwater hobbyists feeding mysis.
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    I would give your idea a try, I think a group of honey gourami would be neat, and since the tend to hang out at the top of the water and the EBA stay around the bottom for the most part I think they would work. You may want to think about having one more spotlight over the tank since it is 5 foot long, I think if you just had the one light in the center that the ends of the tank would be quite dark, but maybe that's what you are going for? Good luck with the tank build.
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    Here is the sink and sump pit setup in my basement. You can see the sink and it drains into the sump pit and the water is pumped out. You can see several of my tanks are at or below the level of the sink, so I just run my python hose into the sump pit. I don't use the pump thing that is part of the python system to drain my tanks, I just use the hose as a standard siphon, just like of you would be draining into a bucket, I just have my hose running into the sump pit.
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    Something to think about, if you are doing racks of tanks, any tanks that are at the same level or lower that where that drain connection is will drain very slow or not at all. My suggestion would be if you are going to use a Python system, make sure you have plenty of hose, when you are draining it, run the hose to the sump pit in the floor. In my basement fish room, my utility sink sits higher than several of my tanks so they wont drain or drain slow, I just run the hose to the sump pit, not in the sink. I can take some pics later when I get home and show my set up.
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    I don't either, and I would bet a lot of the others on here feel the same.
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    Yes I love sharkbite fittings, too bad they are so expensive! Just if anyone is planning a build or anything, make sure that any valves are where they can be easily accessed, not hidden in a wall or anything.
  23. Andy's Fish Den
    Nice write up and canopy build. It's simple but it still looks nice, and with some trim can be made as elegant as you would want.
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    That was a cool video. I have found baby plecos in the sump on my one tank, as well have had small fish such as neon tetras go for a swim down into it.
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    Yep, been there. It has happened with what was supposed to be a temporary quarantine tank, ended up turning into a permanent home for those fish. A temporary tank set up to grow out some fry ended up staying.
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