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  1. Andy's Fish Den
    The only plants I have had a bristlenose munch on what a particular variety of sword plant. If you have hair algae, I have not had BN eat that much, some fish that are better at eating hair algae are flag fish, or siamese algae eaters.
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    Have you tested your tap water? If you can't get the levels to go down even with water changes, there is a good chance that there is some in your tap water. It's not unheard of to have nitrate in tap water.
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    I have put mine on one of the front cross pieces of one of the racks in my fish room. I do have a couple of the big green old school co-op stickers on a couple tanks as well.
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    I'm with @Danielon this
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    All m y shrimp tanks, both neo and caridina are kept at room temp which is roughly 70-72. I'm not sure what would happen kept at the higher temps, shorter life span, less babies, or what.
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    I don't mind doing water changes on the tanks in my basement fish room. Everything is right there, sink, drain water into sump pump crock to drain outside. But, my big display tank upstairs is a pain and I don't do as often as I should, because I have to haul my python and all the stuff upstairs, hook it up to sink, drag 30 feet of hose through the house, etc. the tank is 24" tall, I have to stand on a step stool to scrape the glass all the way down to substrate, or to trim plants and put in root tabs.
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    I would say no. I have had fish doing similar issues as yours and not had any others start with same problem.
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    I've kept shrimp in containers as small as one gallon. Just remember that the smaller the container, the faster water parameters can get out of whack.
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    I haven't bred this particular species, but it is a Hypancistrus species so, I would guess that like others of the same genus, they take a while to reach sexual maturity, sometimes a couple years, feed well, don't move them around much. Hypancistrus like a lot of meaty food in diet, bloodworms, brine shrimp.
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    Currently I have to goodeids I am working with, Ameca splendens and the Blue Tail goodeid Ataeniobius toweri. I have both in 40 breeder tanks that have a lot of plant cover. After I expand/ remodel my fish room here after new years I am hoping to get a couple more goodeid species, I was thinking of the Lyonsi or doadroi as one of the groups.
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    I don't see why you couldn't as long as you have enough room on the side of the tank
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    I would agree with @Lynze that its Corydoras leucomelas. also goes by the name false spotted corydoras. Corydoras(ln9) leucomelas • Callichthyidae • Cat-eLog (planetcatfish.com)
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    What size tank is this? that is one huge swordplant!
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    I've never kept them, but they are definitely an interesting fish. When I worked in an LFS we would always have people come tell us that one was dead, but they were just laying there. Just make sure there is nothing in the tank with them that can fit in their mouth.
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    Welcome to the forum, fellow Ohioan here, I'm up in NW Ohio near Bowling Green.
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    I've found some varieties of swords are slow to take off when they are converting from emersed growth to submerged. I have a "Kleiner prinz" one that was partially converted when I got it in September that is still not fully converted, and I'm giving it plenty of root tabs. Just make sure you got a root tab or two under it, good lighting and it will grow, Leave it alone, don't move or mess with it and it will come back.
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    Root tabs will do wonders for valisneria and making it take off!
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    I have trimmed leaves that reach the surface if it gets to be more than a couple. It seems to train the lotus to grow more compact and keep the leaves down low in the water
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    I have hard water from my well, and I grow all those plants listed in my tanks with no issues. A lot will also depend on the nutrients available to them, so be sure to use liquid ferts for the anubias, and some root tabs for the sword plants and val plants
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    I use the terra cotta plant watering stakes you can get on Amazon. Six pack of them for under $15.
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    @Daniel I have read and heard from several top breeders of fish that there are pheromones released into the water when they spawn and it will trigger others to start spawning. I even saw a video either on the co-op's YouTube or someone else's channel of a tour at Eric Bodrock's fish room and he has a rack of tanks plumbed together on a central sump that he keeps corydoras species in for this reason.
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    Looking good there. Where did you get the foam cutting pen? At first I thought it was a soldering iron, but then read it again and saw you mentioned that.
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    Figure out what size the baffles need to be, go to a local glass shop or ace hardware and have glass cut, be sure to ask them to sand the edges, or get some acrylic cut instead and silicone in place. For media, usually first you have some sort of poly pads or filter socks to catch debris, then for biological filtration, you can use any of the ceramic medias available, pot scrubbies from the dollar store, bio-balls, lava rock.
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    I've never had any issues with spiderwood in a tank with corydoras, or any other types of wood for that matter. For the floating plants, I would do as you said, make a ring out of airline tubing or something and put the plants in that. Be warned though, once that area gets filled, they will keep growing and you will find them outside of the ring, so you'll have to thin them out when it starts filling up.
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    Some guppy strains seem to be more likely to eat their fry than others, and myself and some others have noticed that any of the albinos are in that group. You won't have any problems getting them to breed again, they're guppies. Some suggestions would be make sure that there is plenty of cover for the fry to hide, if you notice and fry, remove them as soon as possible and put in a breeder box or separate tank to grow out until they are at least too large for the adults to munch on. another idea I saw Fishboy on YouTube do, he takes a female that is large and close to giving birth and puts in a breeder box or one of the nets that hangs in the tank, with ton of plant clippings until she drops her fry and then takes her out and leaves fry in the box or net to grow. I am going to try this the next time I have guppies.
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