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  1. Odd Duck

    Snail ID

    Odd Duck replied to Dria's topic in General Discussion

    Measure your fingers while you’re measuring! 😂 I can do every inch from 1/2” to 8” all with one hand. 😆 🤣 And both hands span 8” apiece from pinky tip to thumb tip spread wide so I can take that as far as necessary. 🤣 I’ve measured fish, furniture, windows, etc, etc, etc. 😜
  2. Odd Duck

    Snail ID

    Odd Duck replied to Dria's topic in General Discussion

    I use my hands to measure lots of things (yes, I’m a complete nerd) and my fairly average hands have 1” from the tip of my pointer finger to the middle of my first finger joint, 2” to the middle of my second finger joint, 3” to the start of the big knuckle swelling, 4” to the back of my big knuckle. I could go on but it would get too boring. But it’s very useful for me to know the measurements of various parts of my hands because I can get rough measurements of many things very easily. You may find that you CAN estimate things well once you know your HANDY measurements. 😂 🤣
  3. Odd Duck

    Snail ID

    Odd Duck replied to Dria's topic in General Discussion

    Ramshorns do come that dark, but I’m a little concerned you may have a giant ramshorn there. Is it a trick of the light or does that snail have lines running around the shell? And what is usually referred to as “ramshorns” are Planorbis corneus, and they usually max out at 3/4” across, fairly uncommon for them to get bigger but can make it to 1” sometimes. They don’t have lines running around their shells. They can be solid colored or have leopard spots, but I’ve never seen or heard of lines around the shell in this species. Giant ramshorns AKA Colombian ramshorn (Marisa cornuarietus), do have stripes around their shells and get much bigger, up to 2.3” across as adults. My concern is these guys can be invasive in certain areas and are more likely to eat live plants vs. just decaying leaves. If fed well, it’s less likely to be an issue. Again, I can’t quite tell from your pic and it may be just a trick of the light on the shell. You should be easily able to make out stripes on giant ramshorns in person. There are many other species of ramshorn snails, but most haven’t made it into the aquarium trade.
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    How exciting! Plus a lot of work! I wish I had a mostly empty room to move my tanks into. I’ve got to move so much stuff out of my Offish before it can become my Offish that I’m still mostly stuck in idle. 😂 You can still install a sump that sits under the utility sink so your sink drains into it. Keep the tanks all on stands and you can still get a decent drain rate with your python or generic equivalent. That’s what we’re going to have to do for the Offish.
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    So sorry for your loss. That’s an especially tough one!
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    You are far too hard on yourself. I know it isn’t what you’re looking for but it’s still gorgeous. You always seem to manage to pull it together and I have complete faith you will again!
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    There are at least 6 species called “Kuhli” loaches. Let me see if I can find the good article. Found it. This article has some very good information and info about the individual species of “eel loaches” as they recommend they be called since only one has the species name P. kuhlii and as @doktor zhivago mentioned, is now thought to have never been imported into the US and possibly never exported from its home range. Funny the tidbits my creaky old brain has collected! 😆 https://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/features/keeping-kuhli-and-other-eel-loaches-in-the-aquarium
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    Came here to say this. I’ve used some old tanks many, many times before, but I wouldn’t use that one, sad to say. 😢
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    I need to get pictures off my quite old camera (phone pics aren’t that exciting). Will post up once done if they’re any good. It’s not a fancy camera so don’t expect too much! It was very different at totality than even seconds before or seconds after. There was barely any difference than what would happen with light cloud cover immediately before and after. I did have intermittent light to moderate cloud cover throughout partial and some light but very transient cover during totality. Here’s my best shots of totality along with a shot with a crescent shaped sun dog during partial. My phone couldn’t even show a partial since it was so bright it overwhelmed the light sensor and camera. My only good partials with the camera were with light cloud cover to help the camera light sensor to cope.
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    I would consider it great good luck getting an L276 instead of a rubbernose. L276 plecos are collected from a few different rivers and where they were collected makes a difference on their temperature ranges listed. Most resources are listing their ideal as 76-82. Rio Xingu runs warmer but they’re supposedly not as common in Rio Xingu as they are in some of the other rivers where they’re found. If you plop a heater in the 20 with the hillstreams and set it at 76 to keep it from going lower, you should be pretty OK for both species. Make sure you have plenty of narrow hiding spots too small for the pleco so the hillstreams are encouraged to hide someplace besides the pleco cave. The pleco cave truly is not to be messed with when a male is getting territorial. Mostly plecos are otherwise very peaceful towards other species as long as they don’t look too similar to themselves.
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    I’ve had bristlenose plecos in with cories and never had a cory show any fin damage. It likely is something else entirely. Bristlenose plecos (the usual species) are very large for that size tank, by the way. There are species of pleco that have bristles on their noses that are smaller but the hybrids we usually call bristlenoses can get 6-7” long for males. I have 2 that are about 6.5” in my 100 gallon, mostly nanofish tank. That tank also has about 20 cories of 2 species and I’ve not seen any of them show any fin damage so far. The plecos have been in there close to 3 years now (I’d have to check pics to give you a date). The oldest cories have been in there longer and the youngest is only a few months old - hatched in the tank. My big boys are territorial to each other and occasionally scuffle a bit (shoving match only) but they don’t even bother to do anything to the cories except occasionally push them off the bit of food they want. Do you have any other fish in the tank? Of any sharp edges on any decor? Whoops! Just looked back at your pic and saw the goldfish. They are kind of notorious for randomly nibbling at whatever catches their eye. I once had to remove a dead cory out of a fantail’s mouth to save the fantail. Those goldfish are far more likely to be the culprits for fin damage on cories.
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    He doesn’t look too bad and does seem less stressed than when he was in the breeder box. I would add the lowest dose of aquarium salt and just monitor for now.
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    Floaters are more problematic as most don’t like water on their surface. I’ve found salvinias to be particularly sensitive to it which is why I don’t have them anymore. I haven’t tried reverse respiration on them at all but they might survive a short treatment of 30 minutes or so. You would have to enclose them in a mesh bag and weight it down to sink them for the treatment. That would eliminate *most* if not all animal pests like snails, hydra, Planaria, etc. It would not clear algae but they typically grow fast enough if they’re happy to outgrow algae as long as you remove dead and dying leaves promptly.
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    I think @Fish Folk must have missed the first tag as he’s usually quick to answer. I would consider him our resident expert in shiners. Tagging him again to see if he has further thoughts if he’s available.
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    I think @nabokovfan87 is on to something. He does look like his spine may be a bit bent. And the idea of a bonk is very valid. Could have gotten startled and run into a side or the lid, etc. I would add very low dose salt which is safe enough for nearly all plants and snails. The aim is just to get some electrolytes into the water. I use 1 tablespoon per 10 gallons for this dose. Most can also go up to 1 tablespoon per 5 gallons. If you can do the Epsom salt soaks once or twice daily with minimal stress it might help a bit. But mostly for these guys I do supportive care which means leaving them in an internal breeder box to help keep the temp steadier but an external one is fine if it recirculates quick enough or if your fish room is warm enough. It will also help to make sure they’re eating OK and not outcompeted by other fish. It also helps by keeping them closer to the surface for better oxygenation and I often add an air stone, too. It may takes weeks or months but some do recover, some don’t. Only time will tell on that one. I had one badly bent pea puffer (was fine at the store then was bent in the bag from a 10 minute drive 🤦🏻‍♀️) recover well enough I couldn’t tell him apart from the others until he got much older and his bend started to show again.
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    I don’t typically like to use multi-drug meds because any bacteria that survive it are going to be resistant to multiple meds and much harder to kill or control. I lean much more towards using individual, more targeted meds. The antibiotics in Polyguard are not necessarily considered very strong or broad spectrum (which is why there are so many in there). I would much rather use Kanamycin (Kanaplex) for external or superficial infections or one of the Maracyns for internal infections. Levamisole (Expel-P) works better against the more common internal parasites but praziquantal (PraziPro and Paracleanse - which also has Metronidazole) has its uses, too, and hits a different class of parasite. There may come a day when I would use or recommend Polyguard but it hasn’t happened so far because it has more potential to cause big problems with resistant bacteria.
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    Chilis are very tiny and if you haven’t seen both in person you might not realize how different they are in size if you’re only looking at their length comparisons. They are great in a good sized group with appropriate tank mates but most gouramis have a large enough mouth to eat a chili easily. Harlequin rasboras are both longer, thicker, and deeper bodied and should be safer with a honey gourami if the harlequins are not too small when put together. Adult chilis are probably just a bit less than 1/4 the body mass of an adult harlequin to give you a better idea of size. You might get crazy lucky and raise a honey gourami with chilis but chances are your chilis would gradually disappear at some point. The risk to harlequins would be minimal even if you got the slightly smaller species.
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    Both julii and trilineatus have notable black spots in the dorsal fin. I’m not sure what species this one is but I don’t think it’s either of those. Try posting it on the Planetcatfish forum and see what they say.
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    Meh. Tannins are good for the fish. They’ll water change out . . . eventually. 😆 Tell her it’s a blackwater tank! It’s supposed to look that way! You might change your mind at some point just for her. Then when it water changes out she’ll know you did it for her.
  20. Odd Duck
    I just noticed you’re in Texas, Howdy and welcome to the forum. You’re only 6.5 hours away from me. 😆 I also see both gold and ivory ramshorns in your pics. What would be the chances of you shipping some of each color to me? Or maybe you’re planning a trip to DFW for the eclipse? 😉
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    Same, @jwcarlson, same.
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    Some of the plastic ones are OK but if you do much adjusting, they wear out quickly. Plus the metal ones tend to be a bit more precise.
  23. Odd Duck
    Yes, ramshorns. And yes, blue leopard and pinks. I’ll attach a basic chart of colors.
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    Looks like more ramshorn snails. A couple (or maybe a trio?) of larger ones (much smaller than the biggest one in the pic) plus a couple more tiny ones hanging off the “medium” ones. Ramshorns look quite flat and proportionately wider when they are smaller than pea sized. They get a bit less “square” looking as they grow and you can start to see that one side of the whorl is indented further as they grow.
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    I see that you said pandas, you posted pictures of pandas, and my silly old brain still was thinking pygmies. 🤦🏻‍♀️ 🤷🏻‍♀️ Sometimes I wonder where it’s wandered off! 😝 Most pandas are sold large enough to be OK with all but adult angels and they grow faster than angels so usually if juveniles are put together you would be OK with pandas and angels. I would guess that particularly cantankerous angels might pick on very young juvie pandas so I can’t completely rule it out although it's certainly much less likely an issue than pygmy cories would be. They are so tiny and adorable! Pandas are adorable, too, and I would have a shoal of pandas if I had a tank right for them. I’m hoping that once you get everything in the tank sorted and everybody dewormed that your fish will show you nice, robust health!
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