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  1. Daniel
    I bought mine as sparkling gouramis, but they make a loud croaking sound. They are so small that my guess is they are Trichopsis pumila. I have referred to them as Croaking Gouramis also, but if they are what I think they are, then this is incorrect as they are probably not Trichopsis vittata.
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    Fingers crossed, I have been told the repairs on the 1930s Historically Accurate Planted Aquarium will be complete tomorrow.
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    Here is my take on Foo
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    Definitely love Foo the Flowerhorn videos. I just discovered him. I love his video style and I intend to shamelessly borrow that style if I can.
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    I think @TheDukeAnumber1 had it right with suggesting Wonder Shells. At $3.99 it is very inexpensive and has the advantage of a long track record of being safe to use in your aquarium. And yet another @TheDukeAnumber1 suggestion related to snail shells was to use argonite as a substrate.
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    That is a tough question because so far the ones I have are very resilient. They don't seem picky about temperature or water quality. They do like having plenty of plants (especially floating plants) so that there is a place to retreat to if their fellow croaking gouramis are getting territorial. @Nataku, @RovingGinger, and @Wmarian all seem to have or have recently had Sparkling (Croaking) Gouramis. I am curious about their experiences and their setups. I also curious who else on this forum has had experience with them? It is one of the wonderful things about this forum that it has the power to encourage the trying of new things. I 'knew' about Croaking Gouramis since forever, but it never occurred to me to keep them. Now that I do keep them and can see how easy and fun they are it makes me wonder about all the other fishes that I have never kept.
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    I have had an RO system for 10 years and I like it. It has given me soft de-mineralized water that apistos and discus like. Even though it was spendy, in retrospect I would do it again. But in the 40 years of keeping fish prior to the RO system, I also bred discus and apistos. But I bred Jack Wattley discus that were acclimated to harder water and apistos that could breed in harder water. Fish keeping was just as much fun prior to having RO, so having it isn't absolutely necessary. It comes down to money really. If money is an issue, just keep the fish that work for the water you have now. It will be just as much fun. If you have some money, get the RO. Side projects like RO can be entertaining in themselves and then you can keep all the soft-water fish you have been dreaming about.
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    They are feisty amongst themselves, but do not bother the other fish in the tank at all. The number you can put in a 10 gallon might be a little dynamic. I might start with as many as 5 juvenile fish in a 10 gallon tank. But once they mature a bit, they'll start to get territorial. At that point one or two will probably be the max. If there are a lot of plants and the less dominant fish can hide, maybe more than two perhaps. I wanted to watch them breed and listen to them croak, and they've done both already. The aquarium that they are in has hydra it and though they are reputed to be very good at eating hydra, so far I've given them lots of mosquito larva and Daphnia and I don't think the hydra rate a second look. They are in the same family is about as bettas, and everything about their demeanor and activities totally reminds me of bettas. And because it's still so novel, when they do their little croaking sound, my heart sings.
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    The temperature fluctuates between 72°F and 76°F daily and clearly it doesn't bother the fish (and if it got 82°F, I think they would like it).
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    They seem pretty happy. One of the males made a bubble nest yesterday and today there are eggs in the nest.
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    I haven't been to the Fish Room Cary, I will try and check that out soon. The manager at the Fish Room Raleigh has been a pleasure to work with.
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    What is your favorite fish store in Raleigh?
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    Just came in from working the honey bees and my wife said "what is that on your head?" It was nature in the form of a big robber fly that had just assassinated a honey bee on my head enjoying a meal while I enjoyed looking at my new sparkling gouramis.
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    Yes, most definitely, but only small ones.
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    Most fish larger than guppies will eat baby guppies so you have a lot of choices. My personal current new favorite is sparkling gouramis. They don't get very big, but they are constantly on the lookout for movement and food.
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    If it were me I wouldn’t worry about the + or - 5°F temperature change. I just got some sparkling gouramis also and they are the cutest little buggers! So curious, and that little croaking sound is wonderful! I can’t wait till they breed. They are definitely a strong candidate for the 1930s tank. They’re in the book, so they are legal.
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    Your guppies are super unlikely to go brown any more than if you let free range chihuahuas breed for 20 generations that they would revert to wolves. What ever the results of your breeding program it will be both fascinating and colorful. There are books on guppy genetics but I have never owned one so I cannot vouch for this one. Genetics for Guppies by Bryan Chin. The guppy genetics would follow the same basic rules as the white cloud genetics being discussed in this thread: @WhitecloudDynasty might know some good resources.
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    I must be scanning posts too quickly because at first glance...I thought this was a coffee maker.
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    I would do what @KBOzzie59 suggests and siphon into a bucket (preferably white for high contrast shrimplet hunting). The just hatched shrimplets can be pretty small. Here is one I saw today on a hornwort leaflet. It was not much bigger than the period at the end of a sentence! I can never find them all, so I put my waste water into an outdoor pond and there has built up a nice colony of shrimp in the pond also.
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    Probably not the answer you are looking for, but I would wait a bit longer before cleaning. If you cleaned, most of the items you would remove would be items the fry, shrimp and shrimplets really like, i.e. algae and detritus. In a tank with babies I would place their needs above aesthetics at least temporarily.
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    @Chandra I saw a cherry shrimp near the side of the aquarium by my desk just now. I moved a desk light over near the shrimp and then used an iPhone to take a video. Here is a screenshot from the video. Thanks to the lighting the clarity isn't too bad.
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    I hadn't noticed this until now, but the amount of Dissolved O2 in aged water is almost double that of well water. Fascinating! Source: Reverse Osmosis water at my home in central North Carolina pH - 6.9 Nitrate - ~1 ppm Nitrite - 0 ppm GH - 0 ppm Chlorine - 0 ppm KH - 0 ppm TDS - 28 ppm Conductivity - 43 μS/cm Dissolved O2 - 9.4 mg/L All my water goes first in to my large aquarium from the RO unit, then any water for water changes in all the other tanks comes from the large aquarium.
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    I hadn't noticed this until now, but the amount of Dissolved O2 in tap water is only half of water that has aged a bit. Fascinating! Source: Well water from my kitchen sink at my home in central North Carolina pH - 7.5 Nitrate - ~1 ppm Nitrite - 0 ppm GH - 300 ppm Chlorine - 0 ppm KH - 120 ppm TDS - 166 ppm Conductivity - 219 μS/cm Dissolved O2 - 4.8 mg/L
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    When my house was damaged by a fire, the damage to my aquarium was covered my homeowners insurance. The insurance company didn't blink and promptly wrote a check for $29,000 to restore the aquarium.
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    So far does one pond stand out for good or bad? Do you have a favorite? Any particular fish that you like so far?
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