[Cloudy water- nerite egg culprit?]

I have never once known nerite eggs to cause cloudy-looking water, but I'd love to hear if other people have different experiences. 

 

How long have you had your tank set up? 

[Mystery Plants]

Looks like Amazon frogbit (Limnobium laevigatum) to me.  👍

[Propagating, dividing, caring for Madagascar lace plant (aponogeton madagascariensis)]

@BrandyAbsolutely gorgeous plant!  😍

Completely understand about needing to thin it out though. Hahaha.

[Plants and Filters?]

I've also heard of people using airline tubing suction cups on the stems to keep the plant in place... but I just haven't gotten around to trying that yet. 😅

[Plants and Filters?]

15 minutes ago, Sandra the fish rookie said:

If people put these on their hang on back filters, do they just live without the cover?

 

I tried adding pothos right into the filter, but couldn't bear not to have the cover on it. I tried weaving the roots down in the cracks, but that didn't work very well, and ended up being a pain.

Eventually I decided just to kind of wedge the plant between the side of the filter and the lid. 

It works decently, and the roots get down into the tank nicely.  Only downsides are that you need to be careful if you ever have to remove the lid. Your pothos will slip down into the tank or fall out behind depending on the balance. Overall, it's worked for me, but everyone's going to be different. 

Overall, I love having the pothos. I don't know how much nitrates it's eaten up for me personally (woe is my testing), but I love the look of the plants coming out of the top of the tank.

[Ramshorn over population]

How much are you feeding the snails? 

I think the best method would be to remove a bunch manually (and give/sell to a local fish store if they'd take them, or another hobbyist).  You don't need to kill them. To limit the number of new snails, you likely need to drastically reduce the amount you are feeding them. Snails tend to boom when food is plentiful and numbers recede as food gets more scarce.  

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1 minute ago, Maggie said:

This would have been a lot more fun if we'd had to think of a fish beginning with the letter. Scientific names only, or it would have been way too easy. 

 

Nothing says we can't start now. 😁

Apistogramma cacatuoides

 

[Shrimp question re stable temperature]

Agreed, A 2 degree swing from time to time shouldn't bee too detrimental.  In nature, there is that kind of shift (and more) going from day to night and back.

What is your pH? Do you know what pH they were raised in?  Like @Will Billymentioned, it's very possible that there was a difference in parameters that those shrimp just couldn't overcome.

[Local Fish Club NYC]

@BruceHave you tried contacting the Greater City Aquarium Society (in Queens) and asking them if they know of one closer to Manhattan?  Even if they tend to overlap a little, they might have more info about one closer to you. 

That said... I wonder how hard it would be to start a local club. 🤔

[Local Fish Club NYC]

@Cory

Like @Socqua, I too recently had an issue where I couldn't get a contact link for the website. The only thing I found was if I had an issue with a previous order (asking for an order number, etc.). There wasn't a decent free-form option, and I didn't see an email listed anymore (I assume you all probably took off the site as it was being overwhelmed, which I can't blame you for 🙂).  

[Mystery Snail New Shell Growth or Problem]

Nah, that's just the angle of the picture. You can also tell by the way the shell comes to a point on the side. Ramshorns kind of tuck their circle in.   It's a mystery snail. 

[Cory Group Name]

I don't think I will ever hear anything other than Cory Gang.  

Thanks for absolutely nothing @Chrissy 😉

 

[What is this?? Does the tank need to be broken down & restarted!!?]

This isn't mulm. Mulm of that degree would take faaaaar longer than a couple of weeks to accumulate. 

I agree that this looks more like a cyanobacteria or a fungus or rock snot like @Aubrey mentioned.

[Alum treatment test on Marimo moss balls]

I'm always happy when someone tests something I am too afraid to do.  😂😂

I am interested to see if the alum dip works well for marimo.  Good luck! 

[Aquarium kits vs piecemeal (for quarantine/growout)]

People hate on the kits, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with them (especially for a QT/grow-out tank).  

[Your thoughts on Mystery Snails]

I've always considered mystery snails to be more of an ornamental snail than a worker snail.  I believe I've read that their radula are much weaker than say a nerite snail which is why they have a tougher time scraping algae off glass and decor. 

They are beautiful, but they don't seem to be all that good at keeping algae at bay, etc. More of a pet than a pest.

Also, don't be afraid of snails. Snails are awesome. 😃

[10 gallon plant tank]

23 minutes ago, MAC said:

Also, in my experience, those larger striped leaf plants do much better grown terrestrially, out of water. 

Yeah, it looks like that plant may be some Dracaena silver ribbon or "sandy plant" I think it's called.  It's not a true aquatic plant and grows more like lucky bamboo where only the bottom should be in the water, and the crown/leaves should be above. I don't think it will grow well fully submerged.  

 

[Trio medication question]

I'll repeat what I wrote here: 

 

 

I think this is fairly common.  Anytime you are using antibiotics, you run the risk of upsetting the balance of your beneficial bacteria.  This cloudy water is likely just a small bacterial bloom and should clear up in a few days.

I recently had the same exact thing happen. Waited it out and cleared up wonderfully after the water change at the end of the cycle. (I would definitely not water change before the maracyn cycle timeframe is up though.)

[Plant Melting]

6 hours ago, Martin said:

the leaves it arrived with have spots/patches of brown.  I've provided root tabs
   per recommendations, but there doesn't seem to be any change.

I don't think you should really expect to see improvement in already damaged leaves.  Just that new leaves will be healthy and won't have these issues.  Once a leaf is damaged, I don't think it "recovers" like you may be thinking it should.

[Should you quarantine shrimp and snails?]

You're probably supposed to quarantine them... but I never do.  😅

[Are my snails okay?]

How old are the nerites?

[Tank parameters i need help]

What sort of plants do you have, and what sort of fertilizers do you use (if any) and how often?

[MEDS TRIO BEING USED PREVENTATIVELY CAUSED WATER CLOUDINESS]

Agree with @Squeegee79. I think this is fairly common.  Anytime you are using antibiotics, you run the risk of upsetting the balance of your beneficial bacteria.  This cloudy water is likely just a small bacterial bloom and should clear up in a few days.

I recently had the same exact thing happen. Waited it out and cleared up wonderfully after the water change at the end of the cycle. (I would definitely not water change before the maracyn cycle timeframe is up though.)

[Neon Tetras in 10 Gallon Aquarium]

There are many people online that will say that neon tetras shouldn't be kept in a 10 gallon tank at all, that they need at least a 20 gallon. I don't know if that's true or not, but as always, generally the bigger the better.  I echo the other posters above and say you could probably do somewhere around 7-10 and increase to 12-15 if things seem to be going well.  Neons don't necessarily have to abide by the mythical "1 inch per gallon" rule. I've kept almost double that previously. It's not ideal, but it can be done.  

Is this your first tank?

[Cory's new video on cleaning sponge filters]

15 hours ago, Aubrey said:

a tiny churro

🤢🤮  Hahaha.