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On 3/21/2022 at 5:25 PM, Guppysnail said:
Yes. My panda Cory cause me worry all the time. I don’t have great eyesight so keep a magnifying glass right next to their tank. They forever have tiny particles of hikari sinking wafers stuck to them that drop off when they zoom about. I still look at each particle to be certain (worry wort mom 🙄)
Yes, I'm pretty sure that's what's going on with mine as well. Like I said, after the water change today I didnt see any spots on them. Then an hour or so later I went over looked again and one of them close to the front glass had a spot. I tapped the glass to see what happened and then the spot was gone like he shook it off when fleeing. I dont believe ich would suddenly appear within an hour and then fall off shortly after.
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I have a group of 5 peppered corydoras in my 10 gallon QT tank for 10 days now. Ran the med trio last week. Yesterday I seen what appeared to possibly be ich on one of them so I immediately did a water change and added ich x. Today when I woke up, all five looked fine with no white spots on any of them so I decided to feed them before doing a water change and redosing the ich x. Shortly after feeding Hikari sinking wafers I looked them all over again to find one of them has two or three spots like before, not the same cory that had them initially, I can tell by their size. So my question is with them eating the way they do and stiring small particles of food up into the water column could that be what it is sticking to them? I'm thinking it is because after the water change I just did they are all clear of spots again. Strange
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Picked up three pieces of driftwood at a mom and pop shop today. Can anyone identify? Owner wasn't in and employee said it's a wood from the United States but couldn't remember what it was.
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Picked up five of these corydoras at pet supplies plus labeled mixed corydoras. Anyone ID exactly what they are? In my research I came up with Paleatus but I'm no expert. Lol
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On 3/14/2022 at 4:23 PM, Odd Duck said:
I can also add that a clown pleco with cories is a non-issue. They get along fine. I actually just saw my clown pleco again for the first time in several months. It took a hot minute for my eyes to convince my brain that’s what I saw since I see him so seldom. Good to know he’s still alive in there. No picture of him this time. Last time I got a pic of my glimpse down into the rock stack. It’s an amazing picture of him/her. Wait for it, . . . . . Wait for it, . . . . . . . Wait, . . . . . . . . You’re going to love it! . . . . . . . It’s amazing! . . . . . . . . . Here it comes! . . . . . . . . And it’s sideways. 🤦🏻♀️ Just tilt your head to the right, squint just right, and you can see the edge of a light brown/dark brown striped pectoral fin. If you really turn up your imaginoscope you can almost make out a head and eye towards the right side of the hole. It looks a little like the rock fell on him, but it didn’t, that’s actually all him. He wedged himself in there. This was taken back in very late September. So just over 5.5 months ago. New record for him.
Lol. Do they really make a mess with the wood eating?
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On 3/14/2022 at 3:20 PM, Fish Folk said:
Hard to say. Those kinds of wood look rather similar.
Is there an important reason why you’d like to know?
Not really besides I was thinking about getting another piece and wanted them to be the same.
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Can anyone identify this type of wood? I bought it a long time ago and now have a clown pleco and reason to use it.
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I bought a clown pleco yesterday with only doing limited research, not a mistake I usually make, so here I am. Lol. I picked up 4 salt and pepper corydoras on Friday and then went back to get more on Saturday. They had one left so I got it and a clown pleco. All of these are in my QT tank and all day yesterday the clown pleco just hid under my sponge filter which I know they are hiders. But last night after the lights had been off for awhile I went over with a light and looked in. The clown pleco was out and very active while the corydoras where just laying around on the bottom. So my question, is this gonna be an issue with him being so active at night and disturbing the corys? Also, could the clown get very aggressive about territory on the bottom of the tank?
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I run 1 tablespoon per 5 gallons in my mollies/platies/variatus tank. Would a small group of corydoras be ok with that low of a salt level?
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On 2/25/2022 at 1:50 PM, Colu said:
I think you will be fine you would be better off getting a young group of EBA and adding them all at the same time that should cut down on aggression instead of gradually add them
Yeah. My only issue with that is my quarantine tank is only a 10g. And my local fish store has them at probably around 3 inch size and it seems like they only get around 3 or 4 at a time.
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On 2/25/2022 at 1:04 PM, HH Morant said:
You won't have any problem with unwanted fry surviving.
EBAs will find them all and eat them up. No prisoners.
I don't know of any reason you couldn't keep adults together. EBAs will be much bigger and will definitely boss the mollies around, so there would have to be enough mollies to spread the aggression around. But 50 sounds like enough.
How about some pictures of the tank?
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I have a 125g tank with 50 mollies/platies/variatus, one bristlenose pleco and three mystery snails. After seeing electric blue acaras at the pet store today I've been researching if I can add maybe 5-7 of these over time to my tank. Haven't really seen a list mixing these fish but I did come across a video on YouTube where someone has electric blue acaras with mollies and platies. I believe the video was by multi tank addiction. Thoughts??
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On 2/6/2022 at 8:29 PM, Fish Folk said:
How long has your tank been running? How large is the aquarium? What water treatment do you use when changing water?
It's a 125g with two fx4s that's been running for over 4 years. I use seachem safe.
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Has anyone else experienced cloudy water after using ich x? I started treatment on Friday for ich using ich x. I had already done a water change on Thursday and noticed the ich on Friday so I immediately turned the heat up a couple degrees from 78 to 80 and added ich x. Saturday I did the 30% wc and redosed the ich x. Today I did the 30% wc about 6 hours ago and I'm noticing the water is looking kinda cloudy/milky. Which is very out of the ordinary for this tank which is normally crystal clear. Anyone have any thoughts on this? Also I just tested Ammonia and Nitrite. Both 0
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On 2/5/2022 at 6:52 AM, quikv6 said:
I would use the Ick-X. I have used it successfully with livebearers. I didn't go past 81, as I didn't want to introduce too much additional stress to the fish. They already had Ick, and now they are subjected to a med. To me, 81 was enough, and then I treated for 7 days after last visible signs disappaered, just to be sure.
Ok. I'm currently sitting at just over 80 and normally run at just over 78.
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I run aquarium salt at 1 tablespoon per 5 gallons all the time in my mollies/platies/variatus tank. Can I use ich x with aquarium salt?
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On 2/4/2022 at 12:59 PM, ScottieB said:
You can heat as an adjunct to treatment but yes, its safe for all your fish and snails. At least in recommended doses according to the manufacturer.
If you move anything they are contaminated and will spread ich to any other tank that shares fish, water, snails, nets, etc.
Cory has a blog post on using ich x
ttps://www.aquariumcoop.com/blogs/aquarium/how-to-treat-ich-on-freshwater-fish
Yeah. I'm leaning towards just turning the heat up to around 82 or 83 just to speed the life cycle up and using the ich x. Never used any kind of ich meds in this tank because I have a quarantine tank. My main concern now is my universal rocks that are a grayish color being stained. We'll see
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Can I use heat alone to kill ich in a tank with the fish listed in the title? Also have a bristlenose pleco that i can move and two mystery snails that I would like to leave in there. Thoughts??
Also is Ich X snail safe if I decide to go that route?
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I just purchased a blue mystery snail to put in my 5 gallon betta tank. Do I need to put him in my QT tank along with the platies i bought before adding him in with my betta? The other new fish will go in my 125g after QT in the 10g. I think my issue is that I run aquarium salt in my QT tank and 125g plus I'll be doing the med trio. Thoughts?? Also when they bagged the snail up out of it's own little tank they used water from the tanks on the wall (all one system). I didnt like that but wasn't thinking about it until it was too late.
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I have the Kasa app and turned them back on from work and I'm still here. I was planning on a water change tomorrow anyway so should I just hit it with a dose of Seachem Safe when I get home and then do the water change tomorrow as planned?
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I have two fx4s on my 125. I usually turn them off to feed because the nozzles are pointed at the surface. I accidentally left for work without turning them back on. So they have been off for 8 hours. Did I lose alot of beneficial bacteria or cause and ammonia bomb when I turned them back on?
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On 9/15/2021 at 2:58 PM, Colu said:
Hmm. I'm not really sure what to make of it
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On 9/15/2021 at 2:52 PM, Colu said:
It difficult to tell off your pictures are the spots raise or flat
Raised like an ich cyst. Also, they go away and come back such as an ich cyst dropping off, hatching out and then reattaching wherever. Does epistylis behave this way?
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On 9/15/2021 at 2:29 PM, Colu said:
Mollies are fine up to 85 platys.i wouldn't go above 82 if the ich medication isn't working you could be dealing with epistylis
can you take a picture of your sick fish
It's on the tail of the top fish. That's a bubble in the pic on wag platy. Another fish has it on the tail though too. From what I just briefly researched on epistylis, I dont think that's what it is.
Shipping/Picking up plecos
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I placed an order on Aquatic Arts for two juvenile bristlenose plecos and I'm going to be picking them up instead of having them shipped since I'm fairly local to them and will be passing through there next week. My issue is that I wont be returning home until 48 hours after the pickup time. So what should I do to ensure they stay alive? Just leave them in the bags and maybe kinda package them as if they where going to be shipped or take a bucket and a battery operated bubbler to transfer them into along with maybe some seachem safe in case I need to add any more water. Any thoughts on this matter would be greatly appreciated.