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  1. Daniel
    Don't worry it is nothing a little salt won't fix.
  2. Daniel
    Yes, that is parrot feather. The one you circled is the one growing out and above the surface of the water in the photo above. It closes up at night and then opens up again in the daytime. I didn't know it did that.
  3. Daniel
    @Jessica. has set a high bar graphically So I will do my best to follow in her footsteps in labelling the plants
  4. Daniel
    Usually honey bee water collectors have little interest in stinging 🙂. Interestingly the role of water collecting is a genetic trait and these water collectors have no interest in collecting nectar or pollen.
  5. Daniel
    @MattyIce I think the life part is what we mean when we say seasoned. Once your tank has an interconnected web of biology the aquarium always has the tools to right itself. Cycled traditionally means that a colony of ammonia and nitrite oxidizing bacteria are well enough established in the aquarium to allow for the addition of fish without concern for toxicity. Seasoned to me extends eco-system to include various algaes, rotifers, paramecium, other bacteria, microscopic worms and crustaceans all living in the water, on the glass, on and in the substrate and on plants in a way that supports a micro food web mostly below the level of visibility (except with a microscope). In other words it is like a creek or a pond.
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    Yes, every time I see that I feel like I am over the hump and the future looks bright.
  7. Daniel
    Don't reduce the salt/soda and water as that provides hatching water of the proper salt/soda/water ratio or even if you trimmed everything proportionally there is little to be gained. Also I get further hatching between the 24th and 36th hour, but I start using the newly hatched shrimp at about hour 24 for 2 reasons Newly hatched baby brine shrimp are still mostly nutritious yolk By removing some baby brine shrimp the water is less crowded/polluted for those yet to hatch
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    I always have a lot of hydras in my aquariums and sometimes they can try my patience as you will see here. I am trying to feed the baby sparkling gouramis but the hydras can seemingly eat their weight in baby brine shrimp or baby Daphnia. But I have never seen one injure even the smallest fry and they are fascinating denizens in their own right. I seem to have at least 3 species of hydra in the tank. Green ones, black ones, and pale orange ones. Or maybe they are just morphs of the same species?
  9. Daniel
    @Cory recommended
  10. Daniel
    Wow! I learn something new on the forum everyday!
  11. Daniel
    Sorry, yesterday was a busy day🙂 How are the fish doing in the tank? What is your overall assessment and or goals for the tank.
  12. Daniel
    Great user name!
  13. Daniel
    @quirkylemon103 To me this just seems like a fun quirky way to think about what goes into a well established tank or what is different from a cycled but new tank vs. an aquarium that has been going for quite a while. Kind of like the concept of basic vs. applied science. The benefits may not be immediately obvious, but you never know.
  14. Daniel
    Are we ready for math at this point? Or might this be as elusive as trying to create a mathematical formula to describe 'good art'. Can substrate types can be ranked mathematically What method would you use to determine the ratios of heterotrophic bacteria to autotrophic bacteria and would this even matter (I like your ammonia challenge idea) A seasoned tank presumably has the resiliency to accept changes without losing its equilibrium, so total time between changes to the aquarium might not yield useful information But the challenge @DaveSamsell proposes is productive even in its proposing. It makes me think, just what is a seasoned tank? What characteristics or benefits would be expected from a seasoned tank? So, here goes my first characteristic of a seasoned tank. A seasoned tank has the resiliency to accept challenges/changes without losing its equilibrium. Once we have defined the scope of what we think a seasoned tank can do or not do then we can bring in the big mathematical guns. Kudos to @DaveSamsell for starting the ball rolling on this.
  15. Daniel
    Sadly yes, it often starts with gateway fish like a 'free' goldfish but very soon moves on the hard stuff and next thing you know you are hiding your spending on your 'fishroom' from your spouse. My name is Daniel and I keep tropical fish.
  16. Daniel
    Multi-Tank Syndrome (MTS) despite all the money poured in to hobby, all pledges at the MTS telethon and we are still no closer to a cure than we were in 1930s.
  17. Daniel
    Test strips. I think the Co-Op is trying to find a way to stock these so it is not lack of desire on the Co-Ops part.
  18. Daniel
    There is still time. Most sophisticated shippers will check the weather in your location and put in a heat pack if needed
  19. Daniel
    It is always good to start off with a male and female. I have had success with discus and angelfish, but they are very hard to sex and I usually just take a group of juveniles and let them sort it out. Once I tried to breed Heckel discus (which at that point in time had never been done in captivity). I setup a 500 gallon aquarium on a commercial RO system with a Blackstone automatic dosing system to dose phosphoric acid so that I could keep the pH at a stable 5-ish. They were fed an appropriate diet but I was never successful despite a strong attempt to match their wild water parameters. In the end I have concluded water parameters are a secondary issue at best, and definitely not a deal breaker. And not because of the Heckels. It is because healthy fish that want to breed don't care a lot about water parameters for the most part. The 3 most important issues for me are Young, but mature healthy fish Comfortable setup for the breeders A large amount of nutritious food readily available, typically some sort of live food Yes, clean water is a given, but it doesn't necessarily have to match their home waters. I don't think I have encountered breeding conditions that were detrimental to raising the fry. Unless you count green water. Often I will breed the adults in seasoned but not opaque green water. But after tiny fry hatch, like gourami fry, I will switch the fry tank over to a green water tank until the fry are large enough to eat baby brine shrimp, or cyclops, or baby Daphnia.
  20. Daniel
    The first time I setup my 500 gallon in 2006, I spent about $15,000 (not including plumbing and concrete pad). The second time I set it up after the house fire in 2013 I spent about $25,000. I can provide more details if you are interested.
  21. Daniel
    And I have a couple of blue spotted sunfish females who are liking the new planting arrangement
  22. Daniel
    Hot weather is tougher than cold. I don't think is too cold yet, but some of that depends on where you live?
  23. Daniel
    I planted the plants in the aquarium yesterday. I love sunlight. Nothing fancy, just plants from the ditches and fish from the same ditch. @Joseph Ferdenzi predicted the parrot feather would emerge and it did.
  24. Daniel
    Nice tank, love the bare bottom! Very clean and elegant.
  25. Daniel
    And it is not a flash, it you watch the subs overtime it advances like the ticking of a clock. Slow and steady wins the race.
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