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    Just found these pond snails(lymnaea)in a quarantine tank, gonna move them some where with more calcium:
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    I started my two capped tubs indoors around the end of winter, I've been afraid to move them. don't want to mess up the cap and cause a tank crash or something, so they never went out. have you moved your ponds in and if so have you had any issues?
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    This is a 40 gallon tuff stuff, some blue hygro and scarlet temple growing out the top. They were emmersed grown when I got them so I just planted them like that. Have white clouds in it: This is a 50 gallon rubber maid stock tank, white clouds and guppies, maybe some shrimp both of the above have dirt with a cap and I use them for storing trimmings/growing out roots this is a 100 gallon stock tank I had setup outside for the summer and brought in. Had mosquito fish in it, but took all of them out when moving it so nothing in it currently as far as I know. With moving it I’ve been holding off putting any fish in it, also not sure what fish I want to put in it, thinking about moving some gold/orange rice fish to it. when I first brought it in 9/23: 10/11: Been skimming duck weed from other tanks into it incase I pick up fry with the duck weed but now there is too much.
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    Jack Dempsey fry in some red root floaters
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    I use 1 inch poly shield, it’s about 15$ for a 4’ x 8’ sheet. cut it slightly larger and cover the edges with duct tape to look nice
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    I think the biggest hack is to get slow fish, after that id say high aperture, shutter speed where your not getting blur, turn the ISO up to where it is bright enough, and use noise removal in Lightroom later. If your are trying to take a photo of a fish darting all over the place, shallow depth of field is going to give you that nice Bokeh, but every time the fish gets a mm closer or further away you have to refocus. following it, continually refocusing on the correct object in a busy aquarium, and taking the photo at the exact moment everything is perfect, it takes a lot of practice and patience. No hack for that. Up the aperture to 8 and maybe the same fish can now swim an inch closer to you or further away from you with out a noticeable drop in sharpness making the whole thing sooo much easier to get a nice photo. Also to note, due to crop factor and the relation between aperture/depth of field/and distance from subject, most phones are starting off comparable to an F8 aperture, which tends to make it a bit easier for the average person to take decent fish photos with a camera phone than with a top of the line DSLR and lens.
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    saw your thread earlier, watching random live stream, 1:51:00 ish Cory mentions rabbit snails were eating his dwarf sagittaria, figured i'd share:
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    Makes me think of an Aquarium Coop live stream, where Cory say's something about how there are no such things as soft taco's, only burritos.
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    This piqued my interest so I looked into it a bit * Note all the numbers should be sub script but I am not sure how to do that. Nitrate is a chemical, NO3, Potassium nitrate is also a chemical, KNO3. When you dissolve KNO3 in water you get K + NO3, so you have a liquid fertilizer with K and NO3. When fish poop, nitrifying bacteria go through a complicated process of turning the Ammonia in it into Nitrite and then different bacteria turn the nitrite to nitrate, NO3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrifying_bacteria it seems the NO3 produced from the nitrification process and the NO3 produced as a result of dissolving KNO3 or other nitrates in water, are both the same NO3, but with the poop, you are getting what ever other minerals are in the food you are feeding while with the fertilizer you just get the minerals that plants want.
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    Wet Dry Vac string/zip ties cup hooks
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    Baby Brine Shrimp in a sieve
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    I have a pair of jack Dempsey's raising their third set of fry, I didn't get any from the first batch, and I have 20-30 from the second batch, the third batch just got to free swimming 2-3 days ago, I have 200-400 of them currently and am hoping for 20-50 to get to sellable size.
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    I had a 10 gallon in a non convenient location and my work area was not using space most efficiently: removed the shelf the tv was on, moved the book case over and got that set up as my work area, then where the bookcase was I set up a wire rack with space for 6 X 10 gallon tanks along with storage space above and below: Now I can light the tank properly, see my young Kilifish a little better, and I know where my next few fish tanks are going
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    The MX mouse from Logitec is wonderful for productivity. Once I got the MX 1 I was hooked, don't think I could own a mouse with out hyper scroll, really enjoy how well it works on their newest version the MX 3.
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    Maybe, there is Alocasia and Colocasia, they look alike, I believe the one I have is colocasia, I am not sure about the one they plant in the ground, but I do plant mine in soil. I purchased mine at an agway with it sold as a marginal plant in a small plastic pot. I used a large stainless steel freezer basket from a chest freezer, lined it with coconut fiber mat, filled it with miracle grow organic potting soil and planted it. I found the top inch of dirt needs to be out of the water, this kinda weighs down the dirt under the water firming it up, if all the dirt is submerged it is too loose and the roots have a hard time supporting the leaves. I have a cinder block laying down with 2 paver stones laying on top of it, the stainless steel basket sits on this. The 2 pavers were needed to get it the inch or so out of the water.
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    Thank you I had gotten word of some hail coming through back in July, ended up using a tent foot print as a temporary tarp to protect it, worked well. I am not sure what is going to happen with it now that it is indoors, I expect some melt back, but I’m hoping with the light I have it won’t melt back too bad.
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    Moved my pond inside
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    565/47.08/12
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    API makes just nitrate and just ammonia test kits usually for around 10$, too bad Aquarium Co-op doesn't sell them, but they do have the High PH if you are looking for some more of them.
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    got back into fish keeping late last year after about a 10 year break, found my API kit from then with all the lids on tight, expired 2014 ish, so I got a new kit. Tested the 2 kits side by side and found the old kit as reliable as the new kit, so I used the older kit first. Also, I like the playing card style color charts the older master kits had than the all in one card the new ones have.
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