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  1. Daniel
    Here is a video of the ones I just caught. They sure are cute! I think this one just molted and is eating its carapace.
  2. Daniel
    @Wisnasky-tank what did you end up doing?
  3. Daniel
    That's another name for them. They are nearly invisible.
  4. Daniel
    Definitely native. I always run into them when collecting.
  5. Daniel
    Do you submit photos to the contest?
  6. Daniel
    I went on a collecting trip yesterday to get stock for the 1930s Historically Accurate Planted Aquarium. I visited several eastern North Carolina roadside ditches and ponds and a collected a lot of nice plants and fish. I also scored scores of 'grass shrimp' or whatever these are. They were found in soft, warm, acidic freshwater mainly in grassy areas. The water was tea colored from all the tannins. Has anyone spawned them?
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    No lids mostly, I am never a 100% on anything. Some lidless tanks are stocked with classic jumpers, that is swordtails. I haven't had any jump yet because I use hornwort as a pseudo lid, and I also keep the water an inch lower than normal in tanks with swordtails. Still could happen as swordtails are very athletic. I did have jungle val jump out of my big tank once. But it wasn't fatal
  8. Daniel
    Wow, wow! I think @MickS77 knows what he talking about when it comes to growing plants.
  9. Daniel
    @TheDukeAnumber1 what kind of fry?
  10. Daniel
    Wow! That is the healthiest banana plant I have ever seen.
  11. Daniel
    Once a fish has a 'caved-in' stomach like that, it is rare for them to make a come back. I don't know any treatment unfortunately.
  12. Daniel
    There was an early discussion that mentioned a lot of useful and inexpensive racks
  13. Daniel
    @StephenP2003 in my experience the mean time between failure is a few years but there is a lot of variance. The best heater is one paired with a separate controller. Heaters go on and off constantly and eventually fail so it is prudent to plan for this to happen. Otherwise when the inevitable happens and if it is stuck on, you will cook your fish. How many people on the forum have had this happen? This last happened to me in the early 2000's. I received a panicked, tearful phone call from my then 10 year old son that all the Heckel discus had turned ghostly white and were gasping and dying. I lost my pets and lost over $1000 dollars that day. I've used JBJ controllers since then, but somebody mentioned in another thread a much more affordable option called an 'Inkbird' I think.
  14. Daniel
    I would go with fewer water changes and more live plants. There needs something to compete for the nutrients until they are exhausted and that's where the plants come in. I had to wait 10 weeks once on a tank that I had put a little too much fertilizer in and it tried my patience, but it did clear and has been clear for the last 13 years.
  15. Daniel
    @BlackLabelCarling said above, go for what you like. The biggest and strongest are often fetching to my eye. More room is better if you have the tank space, and high quality rich diet is helpful in encouraging breeding.
  16. Daniel
    I am likely going to take road trip to tomorrow to look for native Vallisneria americana as that is probably what the 1930s aquarist might have had to resort to if they didn't live in a large city with a well stocked pet store. I wonder if the native stuff is stronger, weaker, or no different from what can be obtained from a retailer. Are plants like fish and do they become more adapted the longer than spend in captivity. Or are they only becoming more adapted to being farmed?
  17. Daniel
    I would defer to @Dean’s Fishroom as I have never tried mate swapping.
  18. Daniel
    I like the before and after shots. I would buy whatever product made that happen. 'My aquarium looked this until I started watching Aquarium Co-Op twice a day and now it looks like this'
  19. Daniel
    @Aubrey Did they bounce back, and if so, what was the secret?
  20. Daniel
    I believe so. At the time I was more dimwitted when it came to buying invasive species. I just found my order invoice from Liveaquaria.com from March 8, 2014 for the clams. Liveaquaria currently stocks Corbicual sp clams so I am starting to connect all the dots. No wonder they are invasive, apparently if an average aquarist, of average intelligence and below average powers of observation cannot successfully kill them over a period of 6 years, then what possibly could kill them? Kryponite?
  21. Daniel
    @pedrofisk Any update on the Daphnia project? Did the Easy Green help? I think we should call it 'Adventures in Green Water' because that is the key component.
  22. Daniel
    Okay, I feel a bit better on why I missed seeing the living clams present in my aquarium (1 inch from the glass and in the open) for the last 2190 consecutive days without me noticing They are &!?$ near invisible unless your are specifically scanning for them. Here is what I mean: Sure, I can see the dead ones in the background, but the live ones are slivers of yellow similar to the color of some of the sand. They are 99% buried happily filter feeding. What I missed was that even though I put in a dozen live clams 6 years ago, this aquarium has about 60 dead clam shells scattered about. I should have done the math realized that they were breeding. All I knew was my clams were dead and all I saw was dead clams shells, case closed right? Not even close.
  23. Daniel
    @Ben_RF Here is brief history with water parameters at the end. Let me says again how stunned I am to find live clams in this aquarium. How long do clams live? Are these the original clams I put in years ago or are they the great-grandchildren of the founding group? How could I not once in the last 5 years notice a colony of clams in an aquarium with almost no plants that I look at everyday.? The aquarium itself is 500 plus gallons and has housed a group Leopoldi angelfish all born and raised together over the last 5 or 6 years. I am now using this aquarium as a grow out tank for a group of 11 juvenile discus. The discus were nickel sized in July and are hand sized now. They get a pound of blackworms every week usually just thrown in all at once, and multiple dry food feeding daily. This is what may have kept the clams alive...this aquarium has no filter. It is fed by a reverse osmosis system and overflows out to a pond. I don't gravel vac this tank and there is lots of mulm and lots of free floating particulate matter too, and yet I would describe the water as clear with a slight hint of cloudiness from time to time. The water parameters in the tank are: General hardness 0 Carbonate hardness 1.13 °dKH Nitrate 10.14 mg/l Phosphorus 110.5 µg/l 84 °F (now) used to 81 °F from 2015 until 2019 pH 6.55 today, floats around in 6s Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0 Dissolved oxygen 7.9 ppm I think what keep the clams alive is tremendously good water flow and high levels of floating gunk. All the other water parameter probably are bad for clams. You can see clams shells scattered about, which is one reason I thought there were no living clams, and the fact it had been 6 years.
  24. Daniel
    We going to the chapel, And we're going to get berried...
  25. Daniel
    Thank you @Streetwise for organizing this, and @MickS77, @Brandy, @BlackLabelCarling, @ADMWNDSR83, @Patrick M. Bodega Aquatics, @Ben Ellison, and more for helping with this!
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