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  1. Daniel
    I don't want to be slum lord trying to calculate just how many more tenants I can squeeze into a tiny apartment before the breaking point of filth and disease take their toll. Here is what I do. I stock the tank as if there were no filter and no airstone (almost as if the aquarium was a big betta bowl). You are guaranteed not to overstock that way. Why use this method? You have happier healthier fish in cleaner water. As you can read on this forum, sick fish are no fun.
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    I had good luck with Angelfish in a very similar setup. The tank was large enough and well planted enough and very few of livebearers were eaten or harassed. This is that tank with discus, but later it was angelfish and they were easy keepers.
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    I wish my Val looked like that!
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    I should have a Felix in hand shortly. I am very skeptical that it will live up to hype. Products like this rarely do.
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    Vallisneria seems like it can go a week or two floating before it expires, but it does not like being a floating plant.
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    In my 10 gallon aquariums I usually put in a pair of Apistos. I have 11 discus in a 500 gallon. So that works out to something between 5 - 50 gallons per fish. Like @MickS77 and @Mr. Ed's Aquatics said, it is based on bioload and what is good for the fish. How many fish per aquarium does it take to achieve happiness? The fish are much, much happier if they are uncrowded, and in the end happy fish are what makes me happy. @Patrick M. Bodega Aquatics you mentioned having a way. What is the way you do it?
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    My tank below is lit with sunlight and gets the normal day/night pH swings just like @Streetwise demonstrates. In a planted aquarium pH tends to drift down as organic acids build up over time. Water changes can bring the pH back up because this dilutes the organics acids. It doesn't sound like you are having any problem with your water chemistry. Your plants are growing and I assume your fish are healthy and you are otherwise happy with the tank. pH also varies over the course of the day, so it depends on when you measure it. As you can see from last week in one my aquariums the pH is lowest in the early morning everyday. This is because during nighttime photosynthesis runs in reverse and plants take in oxygen and give off carbon dioxide with the peak build up of CO2 being in the early morning thereby lowering the pH. Once the lights are on (or the sun is up in the case of the graph below) plants begin to photosynthesize and thus begin to consume carbon dioxide and release O2 again. As you can see below, my lowest pH occurs at 8 am in the morning and the highest pH occurs at 4 pm in the afternoon just like clockwork. It sounds like your plants and fish are doing well, I would not be concerned about your pH.
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    Since you do the water changes all the time, and the water is from a seasoned tank, your water changes are very likely beneficial. Only if the tank you were getting the water from was nasty would there be a problem. How do the babies look? Did they look happy, are they growing? That’s the real key. Post photos. Congratulations on the spawn!
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    In the wild here it grows in sandy mud. It my tank it has grown in sand and fine gravel so I think you are okay on the substrate. I agree with @Brandy that you might want to boost it with root tabs. Jungle val is a classic root feeder.
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    Hit or miss with Vallisneria. For some people it grows like a weed, but for many others just impossible to grow at all. I have had both experiences. I think the trick is getting it established before it runs out of gas.
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    @Preston John I have not looked at this under the microscope yet, but they look like rotifers to me. Here is a video of a sparkling gourami fry eating a 'rotifer'. Do you think that is a rotifer?
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    Wow! At 6 inches that is one gorgeous fish!
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    I am feeding rotifers and paramecium to my sparkling gourami fry. My system is way less sophisticated than yours. The greenish 40 gallon breeder tank (the one in the background with 2 pythons) grows rotifers like crazy. Fish excrete nutrients and there is plenty of light and for whatever reason this tank (hallelujah!) stays cloudy green and full of rotifers and other micro fauna. The tank in foreground on the lower left has baby sparkling gouramis and is thankfully downhill of the green water tank. Also, uphill of the green water tank is an even bigger aquarium. That is why you can see a second python (the nozzle with a clamp in the upper right) that replenishes the green water tank. The foreground aquarium with the baby gouramis goes clear everyday as the daphnia, rotifers and cyclops filter out all the free floating algae. Is isn't automatic as I have to flip switches, but I don't have to carry any water. The brown tank in the middle is a holding tank for recently wild collected aquarium plants. I stole it's Finnex and added it to the baby gourami tank.
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    As suggested by @Jessica. here is another Sunday theme photo opportunity. My baby sparkling gouramis have progressed a little bit from just being hatched To hunting rotifers and baby cyclops
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    I am inspired by @WhitecloudDynasty. I spawn fish. @WhitecloudDynasty breeds fish. I love baby fish, but breeding would add an additional dimension to the game. I would need more than just a few fry, hundreds would be better for selection I might have to keep separate breeding lines to keep breeding options available Everything we have in the hobby was developed by someone like @WhitecloudDynasty Setting a goal, working hard and then reaching the goal is one of the best things in life Setting a goal, working hard and failing and then trying again is pretty good too This is why I love the Forum. It is a source of endless inspiration.
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    Aquariums hold many more living things than fish. What is in your tank? I caught this grass shrimp last week in a ditch while collecting banana plants.
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    I have kept a setup similar to what you are describing and everyone lived to together just fine. The angelfish and the endler populations both increased exponentially, and my Bolivian rams and Corydoras were breeding also. The key was the heavy planting.
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    I have had very good luck with red wigglers. Big fish love them. Discus love them. Angelfish love them. Even small fish love them. Just dice them up like an onion (but clean the cutting board before you spouse sees what you have been doing with the kitchen utensils).
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    Welcome, so glad to have you here! Are you a dog trainer?
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    @Streetwise what steps did you take to cycle that tank? Do you measure any parameters while cycling?
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    Welcome! Your profile photo makes me smile!
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    I just took this photo. Because of the foreshortening it looks like he is a little more than 2" measured by the ruler, but in reality it right at 3". I moved him in to this tank (with a female) a couple a days ago to see I there might be interest in spawning. That tank is the opposite of a seasoned aquarium. I take a 10 gallon aquarium and add hornwort, water from a seasoned tank and add a pair of breeders and whoosh, insta-tank. I think the hornwort deals with any nitrogen issues. Usually there is no filter or airstone. If I add a heater, I will add and airstone.
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    It does kind of look like A. borelli. It is a A. nijsseni male enjoying sneaking around and through the hair grass.
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    Nice tank. Love the layout.
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