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  1. Hey all.  Life's been pretty busy but I recently got a bunch of rice fish eggs (now tiny fry) and want to get them sized up quickly so i can put them in my pond with the other fish.  Anyone had good results with frozen or freeze dried bbs?  any other alternatives that work well?

  2. I used to do this.  I just strained and put in a tray with tap water.  They do stink when freezing but I'm not hurting for freezer space and don't really care about the extra water in my tank.  I just throw the cube in too.  Basically I did what was the least work.   After I stopped raising baby fish I gave up though as that was even easier ;)

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    On 3/3/2023 at 9:02 PM, nabokovfan87 said:

    It looks like a bit of spinal damage to me.  The body is bent.

    yeah okay I was wondering about that too.  I think the spine bend may have always been there and is why its always looked sunken on the stomach too.  If its deformed then I assume that could cause a bad swim bladder too 😕

  4. I've had this tetra about a year now and it has always had a kind of sunken belly.  but lately its been swimming "up" like its trying not to sink.  The flow in this part of the tank in minimal so he's not fighting that.  I also noticed that its adipose fin as kind of white.  2-3 others (out of ten) also have that white spot but otherwise look healthy. 

     

    Here's a video of the fish swimming

    https://streamable.com/b6in3k

     

  5. How hot do you want the aquarium?  The biggest factor is how much hotter than room temp you want and if you have a lid.  I'd start with a smaller heater and add a second if you need it.

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  6. Yeah that'll be fine.  You can adjust the brightness by changing the distance.  For a 5 gallon 800 lumens is plenty but if you want more you can easily get brighter lightbulbs.

     

    Edit: to add to this I have plants and a pothos growing on just a lightbulb in a cheap lamp in my garage tub.  I chose a really bright bulb (1600 lumens) and ended up having to raise it 2 feet above the tank

  7. I've noticed the automatic closed captions on YouTube have been weird lately.  One creator I know kept being demonitized because it thought he was swearing too much but he wasn't even saying words that sounded (to a human) like swear words.

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  8. They probably use pwm dimming and what you're hearing is the switching frequency.   Some electronic components can mechanically vibrate with that switching frequency though it's the designers job to make sure that it's either inaudible or doesn't happen.   It usually becomes audible when a component isn't held down as well as it's supposed to be. 

     

    That's all a long winded way of saying it's probably defective

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  9. On 1/3/2023 at 1:16 PM, Pepere said:

    Actually I just looked up directions.  It is KH that is initially yellow, and turns blue in exposure to carbonates.

    I was going by memory before as I am not at my house with tanks and test kit…

    GH solution is green and turns orange in presence of general hardness.

     

    if your GH solution is yellow something is clearly wrong

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