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Hey y'all. I'm itching to get a new betta since my last one passed several months ago. I've gotten into endlers and guppies since then and I just started a new 10 gallon tank with a few endlers with the intention of starting a colony. Could I keep a betta (one with a good temperament of course) with them? Or would it eat too many babies for the colony to take off? Some baby eating is fine - maybe even a good thing so I don't end up with too many too quickly, but I don't want the betta to over eat and get sick / I don't want the colony to be too thin. It is a heavily planted tank with lots of hiding, but in my experience of having endlers and guppies breed over the past few months, the babies are kinda dumb and don't use the hiding places lol.
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This is my first apisto. he was sold to me as a cacatuoides double red male from an LFS, unsure of the age but he's about 2 inches long total and I've had him a week. I believe he is indeed a male because of the longer spikes at the front of his dorsal fin, but I'd like to know what others think.
I'm also wondering is he really a double red? He has that one spot on his tail but otherwise he seems to be starting to color up orange. Could he be an orange flash? Or is he just still getting his coloring? If he is a male double red, when should I expect to see more color? Currently he's alone in quarantine
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Are these things on the glass of my tank eggs? And are they CPD eggs? Fish in the tank are CPDs, guppies, neo shrimp, and kuhli loaches.
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13 hours ago, CT_ said:
Same guppy looses its yellow if something is wrong. His "default" is no black but the black comes and goes seemingly randomly. Those photos were 4pm and 430pm. pretty centered in their photo period. It's the blackness thats so "alarming". I've heard of loosing color but gaining black is weird 😉
This is purely speculation but I would guess that if his default is the paler color and the darker coloration only shows up sometimes that it's a mating display. My males definitely get more contrast in colors when they're showing off for the ladies
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I got a pair of panda guppies yesterday and I'm absolutely in love with them
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Definitely my earliest fish keeping memory, only my favorite because my mom loves to tell it to everyone 😅
When I was a toddler my family had a fish tank that they'd successfully kept all the fish alive in for a few years. Well I was going through a phase of really loving bubbles, and I knew that you could make bubbles with shampoo like in the bath. So I decided to pour shampoo into the fish tank and "wash their hair." My mom had no idea what to do, so my family just watched the fish die while my cousin pointed out each one and said "that one's a goner" 🤣
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I have a pretty basic light and my pearl weed is thriving. 🤷♂️
Employee at my LFS told me I couldn't grow it without high light and/or Co2, clearly that's not true lol I've had it over a month and it's grown substantially
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How high is high nitrates? My tap water is hard with 10-20ppm nitrates and I don't have any issues with it in my tanks. But lots of live plants could be a simple solution
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Just now, Brandy said:
Yeah it is really hard to undo the fitness nature has baked in over countless generations. It takes applying a hard selection pressure of your own. In dogs they speculate that the "ancestral" or wildtype dog is mid sized, with upright ears, a medium length coat in a yellow-brown shade, because that is what mutts commonly revert to.
Oh wow that's interesting. I had never thought about the reverting to wild type thing in relation to dogs, but you're right mutts do tend to have those characteristics.
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I think others have already explained that it's not like mixing paint for the most part. Just wanted to add something I found interesting - I heard from someone that they started their colony with only red cherries but didn't cull at all and still ended up with almost entirely wild types.
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I think my favorite is pearl weed. I love how versatile it is and I think it's cute. And it's done really well growing for me
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30 minutes ago, Ryan F said:
Re-doing the silicone is achievable with time an effort. So long as the glass is not too thin that it can't hold the depth of water. The paludarium is a good idea too. You may want to reinforce it a lot because a square glass tube is not very strong if you have to take it off to fiddle or maintain the tank.
Thank you! Any resources on how to do this to get it to hold water? I've tried looking it up but everything seems to be the opposite - turning tanks into terrariums lol
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I bought it at the thrift store for cheap, got too excited without checking to see if it'd hold water lol after I bought it I saw the sticker saying it will not. I'm thinking maybe there's a way to add it to the top of a tank and create a paludarium? But open to ideas lol. I think it's 20 gallons, similar size to a 20 long
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Thanks y'all but I went against the poll and got some pretty guppies lol. The guppies I have are kinda ugly so I wanted some color in the tank. Might get a couple more endlers too, we'll see, I already have a few endler fry though so I'm deciding still.
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4 hours ago, Kirsten said:
Haha whatever floats your boat tbh! I adore my endlers, the first fish I thought "oooh, I want those, what are they?" But they aren't too different from guppies. Males are a bit smaller and more psychedelic than guppies. Females are plainer than guppies but are darn good at having babies. They're a little more hardy, too, being closer to their wild relatives. But the care is pretty much the same.
Shrimp are also colorful, fun to watch and breed, but they're more specifically scavengers / bottom feeders. They're seen as food by many fish, even smaller ones like bettas and gouramis, so it depends what else is in the tank with them.
Endlers or guppies would both get along well with neo shrimp. But I wouldn't recommend both guppies and endlers in the same tank since they can crossbreed.
Yes I already have all three species lol I have a trio of endlers, trio of guppies, and about 20 shrimp. I just want something in a different color and am indecisive lol
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An ebay seller fell through so I got a coupon and a refund - what should I get with the $? I already have a trio of endlers, a trio of guppies, and about 20 shrimp, but I'd like a different variety of one of these species.
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Cardinal and neon tetras - I think they're so ugly and so boring lol (sorry everyone I know this is an unpopular opinion)
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38 minutes ago, brandon4456 said:
they like water on the acidic side and super soft, most the other fish prefer closer to neutral and medium to hard water
I have kuhli loaches in 8 pH and very hard water, they're thriving and they're always out and about in the tank, I see them every day
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imo Father Fish on youtube is the king of dirted tanks - his method is 1 inch of soil capped with 2 inches of sand. You can use potting soil or even soil from a garden. Check out his video explaining
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Anything with a mouth big enough to eat a shrimp will eat a shrimp. That's also a lot of fish in a small tank, you could easily be having ammonia or nitrite spikes if you're not checking it frequently.
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My first fry were born yesterday! Endlers livebearers. I thought it would be a couple more weeks so they were a nice little surprise 🙂
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1 minute ago, Kirsten said:
Full speed ahead then! 😄
Your plan on using your 10g for your best shrimp is probably wise. If your 20g is heavily planted and your mollies aren't hungry, most shrimp will probably survive, but it sounds like you're pretty attached to them, so go ahead and protect them. the snails and any remaining shrimp should be fine for cleanup, though you could add some trumpet or ramshorn snails if things start getting a little gnarly.
Thank you this is helpful!! Maybe when I switch the mollies and shrimp, I'll leave a couple ugly shrimp in there just as an experiment lol and if the mollies aren't mean to them I'll try out my original plan 🧐
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Just now, Kirsten said:
Depends on how committed to mollies you are and your natural water parameters. I love livebearers and have a happy group of endlers and platies cavorting through all the crushed coral I can manage, but I have soft water and I don't think I'd be able to hard it up enough for mollies to thrive. I have been thinking about starting a brackish tank with mollies and nerites, though! But yeah, probably not going to find a plant that survives long-term in brackish.
While endlers would be happy with hard water, most of the other fish wouldn't as much. If you have naturally hard water and want to boost it up even more, I'd make up a separate tank (the 10g could do in the short term, but would be better in a 20+) with the mollies, the endlers, and snails. Leave the loaches, danios and shrimp in their softer water, but you could probably introduce some larger tetra if it's feeling bare.
100 gallons is a huge, awesome tank! I'm jealous! If you get into mollies and want to use the 100g to start a hard water tank, this video has some great ideas, or you could even venture into african cichlids.
My tap water is super hard, so my tanks are already hard water tanks haha I know the kuhlis would probably prefer it to be softer but I've had them about 2 months and they're doing great despite the hard water - super active, gaining weight, always out and about swimming around looking for food. I'd have to work to get my water softer, I'm not even sure how to go about that. Do you think it'd be worth it? Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated 🙂
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So I made my first impulse fish purchase today 😳 nothing crazy, just 3 mollies. (edit: they're poecilia sphenops mollies for reference) The only problem is that I was thinking of them going well with my endlers, but forgot to check to see if they'd eat adult neocaridina shrimp - turns out, yes they absolutely will. 😕 The mollies are currently quarantined by themselves in a 10 gallon.
The plan before was to move my prettiest shrimp into the 10 gallon for breeding, and keep some culls and skittles in my community tank where they currently live so I wouldn't care if some cull babies got eaten. I like having the shrimp as a cleanup crew and seeing how they interact in the community tank, but I don't want any adults to get eaten.
Current setup is a 20 gallon long community tank. Heavily planted (like actually, about 70%+ is planted). Over filtered with two sponge filters on different air pumps that are both for 40-50 gallons. Fish: 7 kuhli loaches, 6 endlers, 8 juvenile celestial pearl danios, 1 mystery snail, 1 nerite snail, and ~20 neocaridina shrimp. No one's bothered the shrimp so far and they're comfortable enough to be out and about most of the time.
10 gallon is medium planted, deep substrate, sponge filter, just the 3 mollies in there right now.
My father-in-law is giving me a 100 gallon tank soon, but it'll be a hot minute before that's all set up and ready to go.
What would you do? I'm thinking of my options as:
1 - Move all the shrimp into the 10 gallon and the mollies into the 20 (after mollies are done in quarantine), potentially put a divider in the tank so I can have part of the tank where I'm selectively breeding and part of the tank for culls/skittles.
2 - Keep the mollies in the 10 gallon, potentially moving them to the 100 gallon when it's ready. Get another 10 gallon or a 5 gallon for shrimp breeding and go with the original plan of culls & skittles in the 20.
3 - Move the mollies to the 20, move my breeding shrimp to the 10, and get another 10 or a 5 for culls & skittles.Shrimp tank will also likely be a grow out tank for fry.
Endler colony with a betta in a 10 gallon? Can it be done?
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This is helpful, thank you! That makes sense that they only hide when they need to - my community tank with guppies and endlers doesn't have anything predatory (just them, CPDs, shrimp, and kuhlis) so I guess they feel safe enough to hang out with the other fish when they're small.