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    It all depends on the blood parrot. In a 36 gallon my little guy was honestly a little too aggressive for any companions. He stressed other fish out even though he couldn’t hurt them. Now in a 75, he is reigning tank boss over some angels, some Yoyo loaches, a polar parrot, and a severum. He can’t really pick on any of them because if he’s off chasing the severum the yo-yos are dancing on his bed, etc. So the challenge is do you have enough real estate for 2+ more fish (my tank was a bow front and not very wide which didn’t help) and what will be assertive enough to handle your parrot while not being too aggressive? If I had to chose one from my current mix it’d be the angels or the polar parrot. They are not as large but they’re still able to hold their own provided there’s space for everyone.
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    I mostly use Hikari guppy food, goldfish pellets, Xtreme krill flakes (a lot), vibra bites (a lot), and Co-Op fry food. Also frozen bloodworms and frozen baby brine. Everybody likes either the krill flakes or the vibra bites, so those two get grabbed the most.
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    Goodwill and other thrift stores are haphazard with selection but I get my best prices there for terrarium containers.
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    Congrats and thank you for your contributions!
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    Yo-yos are great, I have 6 or so and they will eat flake food, etc. - they get right up to the surface for krill flakes. Another option is a pea puffer although those are hard to find right now. I have a pea puffer in my 40 and yo-yos in my 75 and I grab bladder snails from my other tanks for them. Cichlids and other fish will also eat snails when they can. It sounds like most of what you’re dealing with is the natural fallout of having to feed heavily, I don’t know that I’d worry a ton about correcting it unless you’re seeing symptoms beyond “I have lots of baby snails and some hydra”. Both of those populations kinda explode and wax and wane from what I have seen.
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    @Daniel would you say this is accurate for outlining the difference? Male - shorter internal organs visible, female, longer organ (ovaries) visible? This is really an obvious difference in looking at my fish. Turns out most of my larger fish are female so far. This may explain why the overall population has been fairly conflict free.
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    A lot of fish seem to eat these. Honey gourami loves them. Mollies as well. Betta doesn’t touch them. I don’t see issues with them in my community tanks or tanks with adult guppies - only fry and single species tanks where the single species isn’t interested. I still have yet to witness them harm a fish, snail, or shrimp.
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    Check valves for your airlines. Get the big pack of root tabs, for that footprint you’ll want it if you end up adding more plants. If you’re sticking to what’s listed small is fine, but more plants is always my vote.
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    Replanted the hair grass my darling angel derps pulled up for the umpteenth time. The first day I planted it I woke up to it all gone. Took me a few to realize it was all floating, I thought the little pigs ate it all!
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    If they are the only fish in the tank, you could probably do a careful water change stopping above the eggs. I wouldn’t dehydrate them. if they are not the only fish in the tank, there’s a good chance the eggs get eaten quickly unless removed and you’re in for a decent amount of work (but rewarding and doable! Just harder than guppies) to raise them. They may get eaten by the parents regardless, most seem to have mixed results at best with first batches. Good luck! Baby angels are adorable. I have not yet raised them myself but hope to. There are lots of good videos out on YouTube about their stages and different breeder practices, as well as many experienced breeders here.
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    Yes, they will likely eat fry but I assume you’re used to that with your current mix and rely on plant cover to provide safety. The Kribs are more likely to cause issues I would think but if they can’t get along in 350 gallons that’s kinda on them 🤣 you may have territory issues if your angels pair off too, but I feel like you should have the space to handle it. Share a pic! I’d love to see the big tank.
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    This is a kinda happy accident tank that’s turned into a fun messy place for my sparkling gouramis and (temporarily) kribensis. The sparkling gouramis are nearing full size and the kribensis are a little over an inch long. They move very similarly and have somewhat similar shapes and stripes so they make an interesting blend, each with its own level of aquarium turf.
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    Wow, that is a gorgeous sword tail. Never owned any before but I might have to consider it. Am I the only one who just finds it adorable when baby fry try to take on food that’s far too large? Keep reaching for your dreams kiddos.
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    my baby fish could steal your baby fish’s lunch 😝 Little balloon molly babies from my summer pond.
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    What are you using for glue? I have acrylic and acrylic glue (the kind that kinda melts it together) and have wondered if that would be strong enough for small tanks. Superglue works great but looks like crap.
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    I have a honey gourami and some Pygmy corys in a 12g. I think they’d be fine in a 10. Pygmy corys are very small and adorable and you could easily fit 6 + honey gourami.
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    I think dwarf chain loaches are the most common one recommended for this purpose? Yoyo loaches will also do this, but they get larger. Zebra loaches don’t get as big and I believe they also eat snails. Pea puffer is another popular choice that stays much smaller but may not always do well in a community. I am not sure about egg eating. I have a pea puffer in my 40 and yo-yos in my 75 and both are low on snails and I don’t see eggs, but I assume some make it through.
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    I would start with salt going with the co-op’s lowest suggested amount to start. If you have plants you may want to remove him. From what I have heard spots on the fins only would not be ich. And it would normally get worse over time not stay constant I believe.
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    I have two canister filters, a variety of HOB, and a lot of sponge filters. I really like sponge filters. They have never sucked up a fish or flooded my living room or made ungodly scraping noises while I’m trying to sleep and they’re like, $10 for years of service. My HOBs are mostly used and I find them just so-so, I don’t like having to buy a sponge for the intake, cramming soggy stuff into slots and worrying about the motor burning out from me not thinking. My canister filters.... one has worked well from the beginning. The other from the get go has had issues from flooding/leaking to air bubbles in the pipes to just being loud and annoying. Same brand, upgraded model. Like you I am cheap so the brand is not Eheim or Fluval (it’s Polar Aurora) and maybe that factors in more heavily than I thought. But for the price, I think I’m done. I’d rather sink the same cash into plants and lights and sticks and rocks. Your 135 is large enough to make a sump a worthwhile idea, and that has the perk of being able to also hold your heater, etc, for improved aesthetics.
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    You know you're moving slow when the hydra hitch a ride.
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    So cute! What kind? I want birds but my cats make that somewhat impossible.
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    Looks like little trumpets to me. I love ramshorn and MTS. I’m so so on bladder snails mostly because they overpopulate compared to the other two due to their ability to self-reproduce. Luckily I have a tank with a puffer and a tank with loaches so I can selectively prune and leave my favorites. I use MTS snails in most tanks to help stir the sand. They seem the best defended so far - at least, those are the fewest empty shells I see. And they don’t leave sticky egg patches everywhere which is nice.
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    Behold the lords of Atlantis.
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    CallRail. This is a bit of a weird one but it popped to mind listening to a livestream where @Cory had issues with too many phone calls. I’ve purchased it now at both agencies I’ve worked at and hands-down, they have the best customer support in the digital marketing world that I’ve ever encountered (along with introducing new functionality spurred by customer feedback regularly). They provide call tracking numbers, with some nice capabilities to help you link phone calls to a given marketing channel (google ads got you this call, google organic got you this call, some weirdo on yahoo got you this call, etc). It also lets you build call flows with routing logic - phone calls from this area code go to this number, phone calls from this area go to this number - and neat features like call whispering, recording, keyword tagging, etc. It’s one of those neat tools I’ve gotten immense value from and know I’ve barely scratched the surface of use-wise.
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