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5 minutes ago, Struggle said:
I leave them in until they’re gone and haven’t noticed any adverse conditions.
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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1 minute ago, H.K.Luterman said:
You could always put filter media from the main tank into the quarantine for an instant cycle. A lot of people keep spare sponges around inside their tanks for when they need to put bacteria in a new one. That's what I do for my quarantine bin; I set it up when I need it, rather than having to worry about keeping it cycled.
I put in some plants and decorations when I started cycling it from my main tank but still have nitrites 😕
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Just now, Daniel said:
If it were me, and this might be only me because I am okay with some amount of risk, if I trusted the source of the new fish I would rather put the new fish in the best most cycled tank I had, that is, my established tank.
To me this would be better than putting new not yet sick fish into an uncycled aquarium where they would soon become actually sick fish.
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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6 minutes ago, Daniel said:
Does your established display tank have fish in it? It sounds like your new quarantine tank may not have cycled yet.
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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17 minutes ago, Kirsten said:
I'll second everything @Howfie_03 says. CPDs would make an excellent addition to that 20g. But be prepared for your endlers to breed like whoa. I'm sitting on at least 50 lil endler babies in my 36g that uh no one's eating...So start thinking about stores or friends to gift them to 😄
A 10g would be great for a grow-out or quarantine tank since most meds work in multiples of 10g. 10g or 5g could work for the endler males if you're like ENOUGH with the babies, please. 5g is also enough for a single pea puffer and a lifetime supply of trumpet snails and ramshorn snails, just sayin.
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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51 minutes ago, Howfie_03 said:
Yes, you have tons of room and honestly your tank is probably way over filtered (not that I think that’s necessarily bad but a single sponge filter would have likely been enough biological filtration.
You could totally do a nano schooling fish. 12 cpds would be a fine addition.
The shrimp and endlers will reproduce for sure. In the community tank there will probably be snacking on shrimp and endler fry but if it’s heavily planted you’ll get some that survive. If you want more endlers then remove the fry to the 10 gallon tank to grow out. Personally I think shrimp in the community tank are awesome and I wouldn’t set up another shrimp tank unless your goal is to breed and sell for profit. In that case it makes sense to keep them in the 10 and also use the 10 for fry grow out. Keep the 5G as a hospital/quarantine tank.
those are my suggestions 🙂 good luck!
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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1 hour ago, Daniel said:
When I see a swimming tube like that, I think caddisfly larva.
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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1 minute ago, MAC said:
Hmm... interesting...it looks more like a fish of some kind in that picture. Fun mystery, you might just have to let em grow and see what they turn out. Keep us updated!
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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6 minutes ago, MAC said:
Do you see any legs or maybe a split feather like tail? You could try googling aquatic nymph images and see if anything looks similar.
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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11 minutes ago, MAC said:
...I don't know, but that doesn't look to me like a baby kuhli. It looks too ridged and appears to cling on the glass at one point.
To me it looks like some sort of nymph.
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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Just now, Colu said:
Congratulations you have kuhli loach fry
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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1 hour ago, Brandy said:
I wouldn't call them peaceful, haha! More thwarted...Sparkling gourami's are on my wish list too.
I think you should absolutely exploit the size differential here--set up a pile of rocks that has tiny little crevices that shrimps of any age can get into, and fry can get into, and once in a while stick a catappa leaf inside. The size of the pile dictates how many hiding places you will have, so if you have too many survivors take out a few rocks.
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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31 minutes ago, JettsPapa said:
I wouldn't worry about controlling the shrimp population. A small tank can hold a surprisingly large number of them. Their bio-load is negligible.
yeah I'm more worried about the endlers / if I have an explosion of both lol
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31 minutes ago, Mansoboy said:
+1 on small gouramis
I have Honey Gouramis and Sparkling Gouramis and they seem to do a good job with endlers frys in a 44g. Specially sparklings, they are micropredators. Both of then are beautiful fish and have social/inquisitive character.
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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Just now, CT_ said:
An angel fish probably would. Buddy of mine has one for guppy population control
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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Advice please?
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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!