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    Why find a cure, just lean into it!
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    Research and plan ahead for filtration, heaters, drainage, water supply, air systems as in using a linear piston air pump. With that many different sizes of tanks it will be difficult figuring out shelves or racks that along with the tanks flow for a dining room setting. Not impossible but achievable. Like @lefty o said a carpenter would help if you wanna keep it cheaper side or a custom cabinet maker if able, would be best. I am a finish carpenter and custom cabinet maker I’ve never built this kind of project before (except cheap racks) but would love the challenge of doing custom cabinetry around a fishroom. This is a wall of tanks in my first fishroom using DIY racks.
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    Very impressive fish, water quality, plants, I mean everything. I’ve been growing pothos and lucky bamboo with fairly good success the bamboo is slow growing but seems to be healthy. My Oscar tank has the oscar and a full grown bristlenose in a 75G was very hard to keep nitrates under 50ppm, after adding pothos and bamboo I keep it around 20ppm easily. I’ve just started another Oscar tank and have a African cichlid tank both will be getting both plants. Thank you for sharing the video was great. nice to have some plants that are easy to use with bigger cichlids.
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    Mbuna fry

    Atitagain replied to Brennan's topic in Fish Breeding

    IME when she stops collecting them in her mouth constantly. The fry will tend to roam further away, it can be a fine line. But if the fry are free swimming you can pull the mother anytime. The Co-op fry food will work fine, I like to target feed by putting the food in a small container, add water, swish around mixing well, then using a turkey baster hover over fry when releasing food. You can also do this with repashy foods.
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    @JL316 not sure I’ve ever needed to think about how long they take to thaw. I would say 24 hours-ish (maybe even no thaw needed?). I will always refill the fridge container before needed, so I’ve always had 2-3 days between uses back when I needed so much. These days I don’t have as many fry but the can has been in the freezer for over 6 months and I’m still getting 95%-⬆️ Hatch rate.
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    You certainly have a lot going on . That can be daunting and exciting at the same time 🤣. I agree with no preemptive meds (long observation period) and feel the same way when I do have to medicate 😟😡. Sweet!!!
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    Congrats on the successful move and the new fishroom. It will be very interesting watching the build and seeing all your new set ups. Also being in driving distance from the coop …nice! Will be an amazing store I’m sure.
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    So beautiful, such an amazing species. I enjoy mine so much, I’ve moved them into a 55G and they are loving it. Still waiting on a successful spawn but now that they have had a chance to get comfortable in the new environment shouldn’t have to wait long. 🤞 Such an interesting journal thanks for the updates and advice.
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    I keep my can in the freezer then a small container (enough for 3-4 batches) in the refrigerator. I figure I’m only letting in fresh oxygen 1/4 of the time into the can.
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    Are you asking if you can just feed eggs without hatching? (I think so, don’t think the nutritional value will be there tho) Or are you asking after the hatching, don’t separate the hatched shells? ( same answer I think so but now I think no nutritional value or very little) But I am a carpenter and have no knowledge of nutritional values. I never strain BBS from salt water. I drain into an old extreme food container (being careful not to get any of the hatched shells) and use turkey baster straight into the tanks. I have holes poked in the lid and I refrigerate for 4-5 days depending on how much I need. Right now I’m making a tablespoon twice a week.
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    Maybe try plant weights and add 1-2” stone around the plant base atleast until the roots get welll established. Could also plant in a pot or easy planter maybe getting them off the bottom will prevent a lot of digging.
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    I only have a medium ACO sponge filter in my 29G and it’s all good. Mine has guppies (lots of babies) and plenty of plants. Like @Flumpweesel is saying just take precautions when removing the HOB.
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    I got a $150 discount on my 125G because it has a chip just like yours. I’ve had it set up for a year with no issues. I found in my research to see if it would fail in time was if the chip is not to deep as in into the silicone (that would obviously be way to deep) and as long as there are no spider web cracks ( it has to be only a chip) you should be fine. It was time consuming and a bit of a waste but I did a full water test for a couple days before I put any substrate in. I wanted full pressure.
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    Sounds like you know the answer to your dilemma. Buy more tanks. Then you can have everything you want. $3000 later when you come out of this MTS episode and your here posting about it saying “I don’t know what happened” someone WILL post a pic of the cutest fish you have ever seen…
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    Everything looks amazing. So this is new shiners? He looks great, such bold color! If they are a new line are you gonna cross with your others? Good luck with the F. scheeli !
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    8 months in and still going fairly strong. I have the two cultures with some vallisneria and pothos under the water and both totes are covered with duckweed. I feed my pea puffers(2) 3-4 times a week and each feeding I’ll pick another tank, usually the one I’m trying to get some breeding happening and give them a portion as well. I’m hardly changing water mostly top offs nitrates hover around 50ppm.I started with RO water mix with my tap 3-1 if I remember correctly. And on top offs I do the same. PH 7.2-ish and no heater (68-71 F). Feed plant scraps, krill flake, pellets, algae wafers, and other if I’m feeding something else to fish. started with Now collecting and feeding
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    Mine definitely focus on mopani but they also get on spider wood and some rocks.
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    Congrats, I’ve got WCMM in a tub as well. Seen some fry but I have mostly floating plants so it could be 20 or 🤷🏻‍♂️
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    I totally agree glowlights seem to be the least active tetra I’ve kept. But I only have 6 of them I’ve never kept them in bigger groups like I have/ do cardinals and rummynose.
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    This is definitely a task I have been procrastinating about. Every morning I say tonight I will do it, 🤷🏻‍♂️This weekend?
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    I do have plenty of rasp and file type of tools I’ll definitely give them a try. But I’m gonna have to remove the wood to do so, there are way to many to remove to do it bent over the front of an aquarium. 39 nerites that’s nice. I’ll have to keep up on cleaning after them if I do all this cleaning and let any back in other tanks. 🤣😂🤣
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    Yes nerite snails are amazing I love all the variety and the benefits of keeping them. But I’ve been collecting all I have to condense them down to 1 tank. That tank will have absolutely no wood in there that I’d ever use again.(maybe a little dramatic) BUT…. I know on glass the eggs eventually fall off but it seems to be lasting forever on my logs/ wood, these two examples are the ones that are not so bad. Most of the others are turned in positions I don’t necessarily want them to hide as much as possible. Most of them look like this⬇️ I am planning unless someone has a better option, I will remove one piece at a time and tweezer, pick, scrape, even if I have to bite it off I will remove all them eggs. I am desperate to find a better option, it seems like such a daunting task I probably have 6 larger pieces and 10 smaller to small pieces.🫣🥺😟😔
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    @Killi Me Softly I would assume you haven’t had problems before And they did hold you a pair as promised the problem IMO is obviously the store associate attitude. I would be willing to say if owners/ managers were to hear this they would reprimand for this. Sounds more like the associate was super excited about the fish as well (and doesn’t have a good communication filter) also to me doesn’t matter if they are going to breed or not in reality you both had a pair on hold and he had first pick. Should they have handled the situation different, probably. Need better training, definitely All I’m saying is could they use a talking to, talk to a manager about them, or something along those lines? Yes if that’s how you want to go about this, but to not go back or to have walked out really only hurts you.
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    @QBNOD blackworms work very well for me. I started to breed them around 8 months ago. I only purchased 2 portions from my LFS and both cultures are still going strong, I feed my 2 pea puffers 3-4 times a week and hit a tank or two throughout my fishroom. I haven’t updated in a while but I have a journal about my set up in my signature if your interested under “ Live food cultivating “ My blackworms are now in 2 different 3G totes but if you don’t have space, tank, or desire to keep them like that you can always buy portions from your LFS rinse them and feed them out for a couple days keeping them in your refrigerator. Their special foods are an extra chore especially if like yours it’s a picky eater. Having to do the extra maintenance to keep snail shells cleaned up is another reason I give them a bunch of blackworms.
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    It’s always the ones who have an expensive hobby/ pastime of their own: motorcycles, antique cars, rare coin collection, ect… Them ” how much did all this cost?” Me ”a lot” Them “I don’t understand how you could spend that much on a fish” 🙄🫤
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