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  1. Tory
    You need to cap the soil with more sand than that to keep the soil from leaching nutrients into the water column and causing bacterial blooms. Soil is a really incredible way to do a fish tank, but you need at least 2 inches of sand on top of 1 inch of dirt. Check out Father Fish on youtube if you're interested in dirted tanks!
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    Gotcha, thanks! I wasn't sure if they'll break down and foul the water like other foods or if they're made not to do that - the packaging doesn't mention anything about it.
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    I think the shrimp lollies are super cool and my shrimp seem to agree. But I'm wondering how long you can leave them in the tank? It's harder to tell than with regular fish food. Thanks!
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    I put in some plants and decorations when I started cycling it from my main tank but still have nitrites 😕
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    Thank you, Daniel! This is kinda what I was thinking as well, but I know how strict the Aquarium Co-op family is about quarantine so I wasn't sure which was riskier lol. But yeah I'd guess that the potential for a complete tank crash is riskier than putting healthy looking new fish (from AquaHuna) with my other fish. Was hoping the tank would be cycled in time but fish are coming a bit earlier than expected. Hopefully it'll be done cycling soon so if any issues do arise, I can separate them.
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    Yes my display tank has fish in it already. And yeah that's what I'm worried about, that it's not fully cycled
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    I've been cycling my 10 gallon as a temporary quarantine tank. Fish are arriving today. The quarantine tank still has nitrites - it was about 5ppm, then I did a 50% water change and it went down to about 3ppm. Ammonia is 0ppm. What's my best bet for the fish coming today? Will they be okay with the nitrites? Or should I just put them in my established display tank?
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    Thank you!! The endlers started doing their mating dance while they were still acclimating in a specimen container and had spent 3 days in the mail in below freezing temps 😳 so I have no doubt they're gonna breed beyond what I can deal with haha that's a good idea to have a backup to separate the males and females! I'd like to eventually add a slightly bigger fish that might help population control, but still figuring that out. Since it seems that I do have more room in the 20 gallon, I probably will use the 10 as a grow-out / shrimp tank. And ugh pea puffers are so adorable I would love to have a puffer but I'm nervous that it would die I'd feel terrible!
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    Thank you so much, this is helpful! I know I'm over filtering, I'm just kinda in a "better safe than sorry" mindset after losing a betta to fin rot while I was just starting learning about proper fish keeping. Also someone in a facebook group (I know I shouldn't listen to them 😂) told me a couple weeks ago that a 20 gallon wasn't enough for even just my kuhlis which made me super paranoid. AqAdvisor says I have plenty of space, but then I heard Cory say in a video that he doesn't trust AqAdvisor so I was like ahhhhh what do I do! Haha so thank you for the input, much appreciated!!
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    Currently have a heavily planted (and always willing to add more plants 😉) 20 gallon long tank with 7 kuhli loaches, 13 cherry shrimp, 1 nerite snail, and 5 endlers (they're new and will obviously reproduce) I have two separate sponge filters running - a co-op medium sized one hooked up to an Aquatop Ap-50 air pump and one from amazon that has a chamber with media balls hooked up to a Tetra Whisper 20-40. I'm wondering if I have space to add a school of celestial pearl danios? Or any other nano species? Before this tank I've only ever kept single bettas, so I've fallen completely in love with seeing all the life & different species in my tank lol. There's lots of cover and hiding spaces. I'm also currently cycling and working on a scape in my empty 10 gallon. My plan for that as of now is for it to be a shrimp tank / nursery tank for once the shrimp & endlers start reproducing. So I do have that as a backup. Also am considering getting a 5 gallon for the shrimp instead so I could use this 10 gallon for something else. Thoughts, comments, concerns?? Thanks y'all 🙂
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    Just here to follow the thread. I have the exact same problem, realized it's my tap water that's causing it cause my tap water has really high gH and really low kH (higher and lower respectively than your numbers) and I end up with pH swings sometimes. I've tried googling this before and it seems that lots of people have this problem but I've yet to find someone with a solution lol
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    Someone else might've said this (I didn't read all 15 pages of comments lol) but my dream product would be a full test kit that's the equivalent of a digital pregnancy test. So instead of trying to decipher the colors it just reads digitally as "0ppm ammonia, 0ppm nitrites, 20ppm nitrates" etc
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    Someone in a facebook group said the same and after looking up some photos, I think that's what it is! Thank you!
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    Yeah, Google isn't helping much 😓 I'll definitely update if/when I figure it out!
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    Here's a close up of one on a leaf, unfortunately this is the best quality I could get - they all ran off and hid when I turned the light on
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    No visible legs but in one video I took it does definitely seem like it's holding on to the glass, no split feather tail - the whole body seems to be about the same shape just slightly bigger at the head and thinner at the tail. I will try googling that, thank you!!
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    It's definitely rigid, the way they were moving really seemed like a shrimp but I've had several people in different groups say it's not shrimp. I can't find many pictures of really young kuhli fry to compare... I'm not sure how to figure out what it is lol
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    is it really?? omg I've only had them for 3 weeks
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    Something hatched in my tank tonight that I have no idea what it is lol some kind of hitchhiker from a plant from my LFS I'm assuming.
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    Video of mysterioius fry: Just noticed a few of these swimming around after I fed frozen brine shrimp to the tank. Could it be baby shrimp? They move like shrimp but they don't really look like them, and I've only had my shrimp for a couple weeks and no one looked pregnant. The only other things in the tank are kuhli loaches but they're juveniles and no sign of them making babies. The other option would be something hitchhiked on a plant from my LFS. But what on earth is it??
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    That's a good idea about the rocks!! I do have a rock pile in there now but changing the amount according to what's going on in the tank is a great idea. I'll definitely start doing some more research on gouramis!
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    yeah I'm more worried about the endlers / if I have an explosion of both lol
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    Gouramis are definitely on my wishlist already, I think they're gorgeous fish. Do you think a small Gourami would eat adult shrimp though? Or are they too small/peaceful?
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    I use Flourite and my blue shrimp look great on it!
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    Angel fish scare me lmao I'm not sure why, I think because a friend of mine when I was a kid had some and they were mean to each other 😂 thanks for the response though!!
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