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  1. Daniel
    I think my love affair with Apistogramma started when I got my first spawn from agassizii and the eggs were so, so red. @FrostiesFishes congratulations! On the sideways pictures thing, one device seems to have more of this than others, that is iPhones. See @Cory's post below: Posts like yours are my favorite kind. You are having success with healthy fish. That leads to breeding, then fry, then free swimming cute babies. It is my favorite part of the hobby. And when you post photos and give frequent updates, I get a vicarious thrill. Thank you!
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    Great idea! I think I get the gist of how this works, you are dosing rotifers, etc. into a fry tank right? @Cory has thought of doing this with an IV bag. And @Preston John kudos for the post with the largest number of tags yet 🙂
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    My method of adding trace elements is to feed baby brine shrimp. Instead of aquarium salt, I use Reef Crystals to make the saltwater for my baby brine shrimp. These marine salts are full of trace elements. When I feed the brine shrimp to my fish, I siphon out a teaspoon of shrimp and saltwater from bbs hatching cone, and then squirt the shrimp and saltwater in the aquarium. My hypothesis has always been that this adds whatever trace elements were in the hatching water into my aquariums. I call it a hypothesis because I really don't know if this is true. At the very least it doesn't appear to cause harm. I think @Cory has similar theories on this also.
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    I have 3 hatching cones. I start a batch (1/4 teaspoon) in the morning and 1 in the evening. It takes 2 to 3 minutes to rinse the cone and start a new batch. I harvest from the ripest cone by pulling out the rigid airline tubing and letting the Artemia nauplii settle to the bottom. Then I siphon 2 feet of airline tubing worth of nauplii out and squirt the whole thing saltwater and all into whatever tank I am feeding. My baby brine shrimp are always just hatched (or within a couple hours) and at their peak of nutritional value.
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    Has your aquarium settled down? Are the plants growing and the fish happy? Share photos of your seasoned tank.
  6. Daniel
    @Aubrey what a great hiding spot! No one will find you there.
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    I wouldn't be afraid to try it just because it was grapevine per se. But I would have one concern. If the grapevine was from agricultural setting, commercial grapes get sprayed with a lot of agricultural chemicals so that is a possible issue. But there is one way to find out. Try some in an aquarium and see if there are any ill effects. I think the chances of it working out are very good.
  8. Daniel
    @Maggie, @Lizzie Block did a nice tutorial on how to post videos to the Forum. Turns out it is pretty easy. I look forward to seeing your snail video.
  9. Daniel
    I was scooping out duckweed from my greenwater/sparkling gourami aquarium this week and I noticed every scoop had multiple sparkling gourami fry in it. This one was hunting a cyclops.
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    Here is what @Cory said to an earlier similar situation: He doesn't want it to get out of hand, but he doesn't want to completely ban it either. If it comes up naturally in the course of a discussion a little sharing isn't totally prohibited (yet).
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    Be patient, there is likely a female in there somewhere. Argumentative is good, croaking is good (love that sound). I didn't have any breeding until there was croaking. I left the sparkling gouramis alone in a green water tank that I am growing Daphnia in. There are swordtails and endlers in this 40 breeder also. Yesterday I moved about 2 cups of duckweed and about 100 sparkling gourami fry out of the above tank into this other 40 breeder below: There are a lot of baby Daphnia that came over also (you can just barely see them in this photo). Neither tank has a filter or a heater or even an airstone. They are just big boxes of water at room temperature. I will post photos of the fry tomorrow on the 'Fry day Friday' thread.
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    I have used this It can be pretty thin and support the rimless tank just fine.
  13. Daniel
    The fish gasping at the surface was probably not O2 crashing. How much O2 that is dissolved is mostly related to temperature. What you saw was likely hypoxia caused by the ammonia and nitrite in your tank. Ammonia is excreted through your fishes gills, it is kind of how they pee. When ammonia levels are too high in aquarium water, ammonia cannot be exchanged through the gills. And then as the ammonia is oxidized to nitrite, the nitrite begins to oxidize hemoglobin to form methemoglobin which results in hypoxia and possibly sudden death.
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    I think maybe he just took too many of his prescription pain meds.🙂
  15. Daniel
    Number thing one is Light. Number two is lighting. Number three is almost any camera will work (especially if you are like @MickS77 and take a moment to learn about your camera) as long as you have good lighting. Here a two cellphone photos that used bright lighting to shorten the exposure time and this helped make the photo sharper. And cellphones have macro lenses available now so you can also get good close ups.
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    It holds a little more than 500 gallons, it is 8 feet by 3 feet by 3 feet. I started it in 2007. It has always been either discus or angelfish. It has no filter or sump, but it does have pump below the aquarium to recirculate the water. There is also an inline hot tub heater below the aquarium that keeps the tank at 86 °F.
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    Looks like Ferrissia sp. to me. Some consider it a pest, but hey, it eats diatoms! For me, I love all the little stuff like that in aquariums. Other than aesthetics I think most the 'pest' invertebrates just added interesting diversity to the aquarium ecosystem.
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    @KoolFish97 what kind of light do you have on your refugium? It is a Kessil?
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    Here is my discus tank from 2008 And here is the same tank from last week
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    What did your aquarium look like at first and what does it look like now? Thanks to @tfwvusa for these photos!
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    Driftwood in the discus tank
  22. Daniel
    @Garren B Looks happy, looks impressive to me.
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    As much as I like the original fish I obtain, the next generation is always special. They have grown under my system and are adapted to it (since they grew up). They eat the food I can find and in general are even healthier than the parents. And usually there are so many more of them than the original fish.
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    It looks cool.
  25. Daniel
    So cute! So healthy looking! You must be a proud papa.
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