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  1. Andy's Fish Den
    With the softer water, you could look into caridina shrimp if you wanted shrimp. Crystal reds, blacks etc.
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    I've stayed with the old school timers for my lights for now, because I have been afraid of issues like all of you have described. I'm out in a pretty rural area, and only have a choice of one internet provider and my internet will go down randomly, sometimes for just a minute or two, others for hours at a time. It was a real fun time this past spring doing virtual learning with my kids.
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    Check out a local landscaping supply yard, they usually have pallets of various rocks. They will a lot of times let you dig through to find the sizes you want, and its a lot cheaper this way as well. I've never boiled rocks, just wash good, scrub if they have dirt on them and put in tank. I've heard of rocks exploding when boiled, but I've not had issues just washing them off. I would stay away from the polished rocks myself, I don't think they look natural, and not sure if there could be any of the polishing material left on the rock.
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    If you want a good quality furniture grade stand, and are willing to pay for it, there are a lot of custom stand makers out there. Ask at a local fish store, they may know of one, or look online for a local fish club, maybe they have a Facebook or website and you could ask on there.
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    Yes that too. It's a smart idea for anyone who's using CO2 to secure the tank so it cant tip over.
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    Good idea, definitely don't want it tipping over, although most co2 tanks have that protective guard by the valve like yours does there.
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    I have had it both ways. I'm not sure what is the cause, but I had some once that if I trimmed the leaves cause they were long it would melt back, and I've had others that I could trim all i wanted and nothing ever happened. What you can do to get it to fill in certain areas, when you notice runners forming with a couple little plants formed, don't cut them from the mother plant, but try to move them towards the area you want them to go. I've dont that before, when they started growing towards the front, I'll pull the little plants and runners up, then plant them where I want them, and they will continue growing that way.
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    Repashy gel food Morning wood.
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    I agree 100%, I have kept and bred discus several times in my fishkeeping hobby. The only time I did water changes more often than weekly was when I was raising fry. As long as you keep them warm, start with good quality fish, feed them properly and have good filtration you will be fine. Once the weather warms up some and all the shippers settle back to somewhat normal, I am going to be getting a group of wild discus, I've been wanting some for a while now, I had some years ago and I like them a lot better than the domestic strains. I wish that Dean shipped, I would buy some of his F1 in a heartbeat.
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    I have a few 20 longs set up, I use two of the medium size sponge filters from the co-op, one in each back corner. There is plenty of filtration between the two filters, plus if you are planting the tank, you'll have the plants to help with water quality. You ask about having a group of tetras, another group of rasboras, some shrimp and a betta. Can it be done, yes it can, more so if you use some of the smaller species of tetras and rasboras, such as maybe ember or green neon tetras and chili or green kubotai rasbora. I would recommend putting the shrimp in and one of the groups of schooling fish, let the shrimp establish for 6 months or so, then add the betta. You may find that you like just having the one kind of schooling fish, sometimes in a smaller tank one nice school of one species looks nice rather than having a couple different species.
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    That's a nice brine shrimp hatching station you built there! There are a couple ideas I may put to use soon making one myself.
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    If you think about it, a lot of fish are imported from overseas, and live in bags for several days if packed correctly. Some stores if you tell them that you have several hours before you get home will have oxygen that they can use to pack the fish. I have a couple different sizes of the Styrofoam boxes that fish are shipped in that I carry in my car when I go out of town and planning to stop at a LFS or two. As long as the fish are bagged with plenty of air and you keep the bags in the correct temperature range, the fish will survive a couple days in a bag.
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    I was just going off what the ice making people told me, I just know that the ice blocks we would get to carve were crystal clear. I've never made ice myself with distilled water. I'm sure there's also some secret to temperature and process as well.
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    No, you'll be fine.
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    Corydoras will swim to the surface and gulp air and go back down to bottom. It's a normal behavior for them. I have actually had a cory end up out of the tank from swimming to the surface so quick and it jumped and landed outside the tank, so make sure there are lids on your cory tanks.
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    I agree with @Preston John L444 a rubberlip species. they only get about 4" long, eat algae as well as some meaty foods. I feed zucchini, cucumber, green beans, sinking pellets and frozen brine shrimp
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    Distilled water will make perfectly clear ice. There is an ice manufacturer where I grew up that makes the big blocks that are used in ice carving and they use distilled water to make the big blocks perfectly clear. They told me that the haze or cloudiness in ice is the impurities. As someone pointed out earlier, ice will form on the outer edges first, then push the center upwards. If anyone here is in a northern climate and owns a swimming pool, they probably know about putting a inner tube or air pillow in the middle of their pool when they close it down for the winter, the ice will push against the innertube in the center instead of pushing against the pool walls.
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    I have well water so mine varies throughout the year, but mine is usually between 15-20dGH and neos go crazy in my tanks. I don't treat the water that is going in their tanks with anything, only do a 25% water change once every other week.
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    The only real difference between drilling the back pane of glass and having an overflow box is that you no longer need the hang on overflow box. although you need more than just an hole drilled in the glass, you'll need at minimum a bulkhead and some pvc pipe and elbow to set the water level in the tank and for the water to overflow into, like you can find in lots of videos and tutorials on installing an auto water change system. Best scenario is an overflow weir, there are several companies make ones that you can either silicone in or that are held in place by the bulkhead. The return from sump to tank is the same, a pump returning it to the tank, although you can also drill a hole in glass, use a bulkhead and either make or buy a spray bar to spread the flow out. The drilling and overflow and even return is the same no matter if salt or freshwater, the only difference is in the design of the sump.
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    That's cool that the sword is flowering in your tank!
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    That is a nice view to look at when you're lying in bed. I have a tank in my bedroom as well I love laying in bed at night watching it, it relaxes me before I drift off to sleep
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    Sound like a fun project, I'm interested to see how it works out for you.
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    I keep both along with other color varieties of Neocaridina and have no issues myself. But, I have had a few people that I have sold shrimp to have problems with the blues that I have sold them. I've sold a lot of shrimp over the last several years, an fit hasn't been every batch, but it has had me wonder at times, especially when it is someone that has also gotten one or two other varieties as well. I had one gentleman buy a "Skittles" group of shrimp from me and for some reason, he lost the three blue ones that were in the group, but none of the other colors. It's just weird sometimes how things are.
  24. Andy's Fish Den
    I just got this book for Christmas today! Already through the first chapter, which is an accomplishment for me, as reading books is not one of my favorite things, I fall to sleep quick just reading.
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    Around my area and others I've been, the ones called peppered or salt and pepper corys are the paleatus species.
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