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    If you read the ingredients list of most “algae” wafers you’ll see more fish byproducts than in the shrimp food sometimes! It’s why algae wafers tend to be pleco food (for the “algae sucker fish” ie plecs) more than oto food.
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    Certainly wouldn’t hurt to do them both. The nice part about a clean population is that if it stays a closed population, you only have to do this once.
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    Eventually, but why rush lol? It’s an interesting concept, but much money and time has been spent by people trying to accomplish it with minimal success. All to save about 30 mins a week with a Python or similar
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    Not sure I loved mine. I did a 20 long on a 90. Beananimal overflow on a coast to coast. VERY expensive to setup correctly, with all the plumbing, overflows and pumps. A little fussy to tune at first, then okay. Pain to keep fishing small animals out of the sump, even getting creative with weir guards etc. Many dead otos for example. Servicing the sump was about as much, if not a little more work than a canister filter. The stable water level in the display tank and having basically unlimited media room were nice, but the money to do it wasn’t worth it. Plus then you lose all the utility of the stand for storing things. I don’t think a “normal” (ie, 125 gal or less) tank can be effectively setup for annoxic filtration such that it reduces water changes. Would be happy to be empirically proved wrong.
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    I certainly wouldn’t fault you for doing it. Those are nasty. Levamisole could be argued to be doing the same job as the general cure used to in the trio. Cammalanus won’t kill anything immediately, so if you can keep proper bio isolation from your other tanks (separate nets and water change gear, do them last, wash extensively after working in it) I’d use the other meds first. Give them a couple of weeks rest to feed up and recover, then the levamisole.
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    Floating inverted means he has a dysfunction or infection of the swim bladder. First, change water to keep nitrite at 0.25, not 1. 1 is toxic. If that’s a long term situation, change something. Your filter or tank may be dirty or undersized. Long term nitrite poisoning will be contributing to this. Next, check if he’s passing waste. If not, you have a constipation issue. Just because he’s eating doesn’t mean it’s coming out the other end. Long term pellet only diets are prone to this. Not a fan of peas, there’s nothing special about them, fish rarely take to them well, and they don’t have a ton of nutritional value. Last, about the on,y medication I’ve ever had success with with swim bladders is kanamycin (kanaplex). You can try that, but it may not help.
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    Sort of. The nose to peduncle (short) line is actually more useful though, because you can compare long to short finned fish more usefully. Long flowy fins don’t really affect mass (or turning distance) much.
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    Still in curing phase, but cured enough to move out of the bedroom closer to where it’s going to live (the fans in the bedroom are handy for getting rid of silicone fumes). Added the Flourite I have on hand so I can see how much I need to add, and ordered a bit more. Temped to do a layer of peat on the bottom, but we’ll see how it goes. Went to Lowe’s to pick up some filter parts since I needed some stuff for the house too, and returned with my usual load of pvc bits. Going to plumb my FX5 in I think, and then I’ll see how much extra flow is needed (have my eye on a Maxspec Gyre). The bits for the gratings should be here this week, and then I can start making those up. Plants should start arriving too, so hopefully it won’t be too long until I can start moving things over.
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    I’d be a little surprised if non solid wood furniture would be reliable. We have a couple of apothecary tables that hold 29s with no issue, but they were $350.
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    Purple if someone is trying to sell you the fish, green for standards and competition ie https://thegoldfishcouncil.org/product/can-am-all-goldfish-show/
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    A computer ups if you’re only hoping to run air, otherwise a generator. Running the capacity calcs to power heaters and power filters is humbling
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    The biohome material claims to be able to do this, but I’ve never seen anyone prove that it works in small scale. Most hobby size aquariums have too much flow and oxygenation. Lots of people make claims, but it always seems like mentally justifying the substantial price increase. Very little objective data. The pond baskets make more sense, but even there it’s arguable that plants are doing most of the heavy lifting
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    I like the Tetra 5:1 strips plus the liquid API ammonia test. The ammonia test strips aren’t great and the tetra multi strips are a bit more consistent than the API ones
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    Yup, he sold his “magic hands” army of tiger barbs a while ago. It wasn’t because they all died. Some people just like to cause trouble, so good of you to question the statement
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    Most window screen is fibreglass nowadays, so should be okay. Plastic crafting mesh or stainless steel mat (what the scaping guys use) are other options.
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    Everything has to sleep eventually, so the tetras might have become frog lunch then. Quick Google search has other people reporting that happening.
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    Yup, some will just take longer than others to root on their own
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    Nope, just mildly annoying when they root into the filter. Heater might scorch a leaf worst case, but that’s not the end of the world. More important is good flow over the heater. If all you have are sponges as filtration I’d put the heater in the bubble outflow to make sure it has good water movement over it.
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    I really like magnolia leaves. Not as much tannin, but last a lot longer
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    Depends on how often and much you change water. If you almost never change water, top up with distilled. If you do 50% weekly changes etc, top up with whatever is easiest
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    Super, thanks! I happen to have both a bone folder and a glass slick from leather working, so I’ll dig those out. Thanks!!
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    Ooh @KaitieG, bubble preventing tips appreciated!
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    You have a Fluval Q1 or similar I’m guessing? If so, You can route both outlets to the same gang valve. It’s only a single vibrating diaphragm driving both outlets, so there isn’t the risk of fighting itself. You wouldn’t want to run the output from 2 different pumps to the same gang valve, because the diaphragms on both pumps would be out of sync and you’d have the issue Cory describes.
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    I’m not sure, but what I’m remembering is from at least a couple of years ago. I’ll poke around . edit: of course he did
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    That’s not quite the same thing, this is just a mechanical thermometer (in the picture).
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