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    I feel pretty certain I’ve read that plants have a marked preference for ammonia uptake over nitrate and in fact have to do some conversion on nitrate and expend energy to use it. Pretty sure Diana Walstad writes about it. Not sure on nitrites at all.
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    Here are some photos of my most beloved fish, Sloane. He is the boss of all fish and perhaps all animals in the Ginger household. Chuck Norris asked Sloane what he wanted for breakfast one day and Sloane said “you”. Then he ate Chuck Norris. once upon a time substrate was even and flat. Then Sloane dug a giant hole. Why? Because he wanted to and he can. Sloane’s most hated nemesis is Blue Scrubber. Someday he will destroy that long interloping landlubber.
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    I would do endlers with the bright green or blue coloration. They would love the tank, would do great with the hardness, and would be fine with the temp. AquaBid.com - Item # fwguppies1605939067 - PR JAPAN BLUE ENDLERS / FRY / SHIPPING INCLUDED - Ends: Sat Nov 21 2020 - 12:11:07 AM CDT WWW.AQUABID.COM AquaBid.com: Item # fwguppies1605939067 - PR JAPAN BLUE ENDLERS / FRY / SHIPPING INCLUDED. AquaBid.com - Item # fwlivebearersw1605915069 - PR GREEN LIGHTNING ENDLERS / FRY / SHIPPING - Ends: Fri Nov 20 2020 - 05:31:09 PM CDT WWW.AQUABID.COM AquaBid.com: Item # fwlivebearersw1605915069 - PR GREEN LIGHTNING ENDLERS / FRY / SHIPPING. Something like those? You could do just males for color if you wanted.
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    Definitely don't give up and throw them out at that stage, they can recover from much worse. I agree with Brandy that your lighting probably needs an upgrade.
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    What type of light, and what type of fish? I don't really think much looks wrong with the plants in your photos - they are a little "lived in" but that's normal for plants. They may be throwing a bit of a fit while they acclimate or something. Are you sure they are dead dead? When it comes to plants... if there's green, there's hope.
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    They are really fast when they want to be as well. I think a molly would need to be pretty motivated to eat one. Looking at your aquarium it has tons of wonderful hiding spots so I'd assume the rest are alive and chilling out.
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    It's retro Cory! Love the "showstopper" guppies that look fairly normal for today (those were definitely aspirational when I was a kid...).
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    I agree with @Ruud about needing photos! What a neat hobby. Your puffer is adorable. Love him peeking around the corner to see if the corys have anything good.
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    I’m annoyed that there apparently aren’t enough of us locally 😞 or is it just a fact of life that the best fish store is always an hour away?
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    What kind of goldfish? The big fancy fat ones have slightly different environment considerations than anything slim-bodied. What I’ve heard and seen is that you don’t normally see the full aquascaping thing with goldfish. The goldfish is the highlight and the plants are a secondary accent. And the plants may get munched.
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    It’s an old person trope. They used to have to walk to school five miles and up a hill both ways in the middle of winter. 😝 Kids these days just logging into Zoom have no clue what it was like when we each got one piece of slate and one piece of chalk and had to learn our 3 R’s before going home to milk the cows. At least this is what my Nebraskan mother tells me. That is clearly a computer room. Much like Dean and that sewing room.
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    That's awesome! I would love to see some of the judging to understand the judge's POV on what they are looking for. And there's another side of me that would fully welcome a remake of "Best in Show" for guppies, but hey. That might be a tall order.
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    Testing some longer-form tiktok videos that focus on a singular fish. It would help if TikTok didn't for some reason now lighten the crap out of the videos I upload. Maybe it's optimizing to make look people look good, but it makes orange fish look crappy indeed.
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    Guppies. Platies. Mollies. But I’m biased. It’s basically endless fish if you get a herd of any of the above and let them go in reasonable shelter. They don’t school but I find the individual behavior and interactions fascinating. I also just like a lot of fish that look very different and that may or may not be your thing in a community (it’s only in one of my communities currently).
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    Sibling when I ranted about mystery of algae in one tank next to the other: maybe those fish just eat all the hair algae. me: they’re not meant to eat hair algae. sister: they’re not meant to eat all the little surface plants either but they do (referring to duckweed) Maybe this is an occasion to bring out Occam’s razor and scrape some algae manually.
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    I thought I maybe had killed all of the shrimp by moving them to a new tank. To be fair I couldn’t see half of the tank for algae so... and then suddenly a lot more shrimp.
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    Welp I think this thread just inspired me to go out an air stone in one of the few tanks that doesn’t have one yet.
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    Is the difference in ability to communicate much more impactful than the difference between cichlids and for lack of a better word, “dumber” fish? For instance I have yo-yo loaches with angelfish. They clearly don’t communicate beyond the basics of “I could eat you” and “I want to eat that thing you’re eating”. No real social intricacies between the two groups at all. But they seem to work because of compatibility in overall size and ability to cause harm and aggression/boisterousness.
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    They’re not a fish but what about an amano shrimp to help clean? That or a big mystery snail would be cool. I don’t know all the fish options but I’m struggling to come up with something that would be happy on its own and wouldn’t be an issue with the betta, for that tank size. If it were me I guess I’d try some guppy fry I wasn’t very attached to.
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    That was a bit of a joke but from what I’ve gleaned from a variety of sources is that the mix is a no-no. I just don’t see a reason (beyond basic compatibility in size and water)
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    I have NICREW lights with blue mode and some additional spotlight grow light LEDs. Makes for a fun evening combo.
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    Oh, you have to search on Facebook. 🤫
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    I would do two smaller sponges on either end to help ensure consistent water movement, but I think you’d also be fine with one - I only use one in my 20 talls.
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    ELI5: Explain Like I’m Five From what I have read the rule is definitely never mix African and American cichlids. Don’t mix African cichlids from different lakes. Don’t mix central and South American Cichlids. Some of the logic is water parameters which makes sense to me, and some of it is just some of these fish are more aggressive or can fit in each other’s mouths. That makes sense too. I wouldn’t try to breed discus in the same tank as like, an aggressive rock-hard water cichlid. But for instance, I have multifasciatus in one tank. I have kribensis in another. And I have another tank with hybrid parrot things, a severum, and angelfish. The tanks are basically identical aside from occupants. Is there any reason like, the kribensis that don’t pair up and the angels that don’t pair up can’t be housed in the same aquarium at some point? Derp tax.
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    From what I have seen a lot of people have mixed meds and salt with no issues, and I have done so too. What’s wrong with the two? Both dropsy?
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