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    I don't remember seeing the Shop tab after Browse and Activity yesterday. Cool!
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    Oh! @RovingGinger I just spewed coffee on to my computer monitor!🤣
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    If it were me and I had a 29 gallon, I would do a trio of rams with a school of smallish tetras and skip the lone angelfish. Angelfish are social creatures and just one could be lonely (or not, it might thrive being boss of its 29 gallon world). Or just do multiple angelfish in the 29 gallon tank. If the angelfish pair off their breeding behavior is fascinating. They can be very good parents and watching them shepherd the little school of babies around is a once in a life time experience. Sometimes baby angelfish will pick a the sides of their parents similar to the way baby discus feed. You can bond with an angelfish in a way you never could with a tetra 🙂. But a nice school of neons or cardinals shoaling back forth is pretty sweet too!
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    My favorite way on both fish is to get juveniles. I would get at least 6 of each if possible. That way they grow up in your tank and eating your food. This makes for happy healthy fish. Eventually pairs begin to form and territories are set up. At that point you will have to remove the less dominant non paired fish and re-home them but the remaining fish will be a joy to behold.
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    I love this new forum because I have met so many interesting people here. People I would never know that existed otherwise.

    The only draw back is that this forum is so interesting, I find myself reading posts instead of doing water changes 🙂

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    I have had that combination and it worked fine. When breeding happens Rams and Angels can get protective of the nest site but wouldn't that be cool if breeding happened?
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    Random angelfish greeting this morning!
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    World class photography. What is the secret of getting that rich black background while keeping the subject illuminated in the foreground?
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    Bill, you work? I thought your job was contributing good content to this forum! 🙂
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    There is no perfect way to feed your fish...except for maybe baby brine shrimp. Hopefully the Ziss Brine Shrimp Hatchery from the Co-op will arrive soon. Your fish will thank you for it.
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    Apparently Amazon Alexa can directly control the Apex controller now. I haven't tried it yet, as it seemed like gilding the lily so to speak. Me: "Alexa! Raised the temperature in the baby discus tank to 90 degrees Fahrenheit!" Alexa: "Raising the temperature in the baby discus tank to 190 degrees Fahrenheit, starting now."
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    Totally, Walk over, pullout rigid air tube, dump into sink, rinse cone, refill water, add a little less than 2 tablespoons marine salt, add 1/8 teaspoon eggs and done. 1 minute or so usually.
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    I think I got them from Brine Shrimp Direct. They might be called Imhoff cones?
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    One of my all time favorites is the the 1936 version of the "The Complete Aquarium Book The Care and Breeding of Goldfish and Tropical Fishes" by William T. Innes. I think I picked up my copy from ABE books for $20. (Just now checked ABE and this book runs from $19.96 - $50 depending condition). It is amazing how little has changed in the last 86 years! The illustrations are gorgeous! The section on fish food is still up to date in the summer of 2020. Pretty much every section in this book is still up to date. Don't let @Cory see this but he has a rant called "A Word for the Pet Store Man" "Let us regard the pet store man 'more in sorrow than in anger.'" LMAO From the inner cover, who wouldn't want this tank? Angelfish, goldfish, killifish, zebra danios, Harlequin Rasboras, blackbanded sunfish, Jungle Val, Cambomba, and Anacharis. Nothing really ever changes. Just think, no heater, no cannister filter, no LED lights, and no internet to tell you that you are doing it wrong! All in the deep dark part of the Depression. Maybe especially because it was the deep dark part of the Great Depression. Like now when the world seems chaotic and stressed, your little aquatic world was/is a refuge from the outside unpleasant realities. It is not just nostalgia though, if you can get your hands on one, the information in the book holds up very nicely because the plants and the animals haven't changed.
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    I always consider it a bonus when I get little critters living in the tank. Most the time it: It is a sign of a diverse established system Something else cool to watch Potential fry food
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    I have been using this setup for the last 13 years. I dump the oldest of the 3 cones everyday and then setup a fresh batch. That way I always have brine shrimp in one of 3 categories. Too old Too young Just right! If I was starting now I would probably go with the Ziss hatchery. @Bill Smith's hatchery setup above is absolutely mind boggling!
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    Like @Streetwise I got an Apex system because technology like this definitely adds fun to this hobby. Thanks Jason for starting this topic. This technology is amazingly versatile and I don't use 10% of what this system can do. This shows the value of this forum as I know who to ask if I want to try something new or if I want what see what another freshwater user is doing. I have the full Apex Classic that I purchased in 2015. At that time I was trying to breed Heckel discus and needed the PM2 module to monitor conductivity. It would be easy to get water into the Power Bar so I mounted everything to a board. This also allowed for better cable management. It is also pretty cool that the Energy Bar 8 measures and displays power consumption. As far as calibrating ORP for freshwater, I don't care about the precise value. I am really just monitoring ranges, trends and large variances from those trends. Back in 2015, the Apex system was useful for controlling lights, but now lights have their own controls so I don't use it for that anymore. My most used probes are pH and temperature. I have 2 of each. One set is permanent stationed in a magnetic probe rack in my baby discus tank and the other set I move around to other tanks within reach of the probe cables. Like @Streetwise I also limit heaters to a specific range.
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    Daniel replied to Cory's topic in Off Topic General

    Wink, so called because as a feral kitten he was chewed on by a coyote and lost an eye. He has always had trouble drinking water because he can't judge where the surface of the water is. Wink's solution is drink out of my angelfish tank. He jumps up on top and slaps at the water with one of his paws. Satisfied that he knows where the water is he finally can take his drink.
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    I would like to give to another forum user some of my nicest fish (no charge for the fish, just shipping costs if they are interested). I need to re-home these fish and because of the pandemic, donating them the local club is not currently an option. I love these fish and I also worry what will happen when the next fish keeper gets them. I want them to go to a committed aquarist. There is a user in this forum who has made comments indicating that they are the fish keeper who would love and respect these fish. Is there a proper channel in this forum for letting the other forum member know my intentions? Even giving fish away seems perilously close to 'buy, sell, trade' so I can understand not wanting to open that can of worms, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask the question.
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    Today I asked the forum for ideas on keeping records in the fishroom. @Lynze and @Irene, both like Excel spreadsheets. @Ryan S. and @Jon G have had a good experience with the Aquarium Note app (looks like it is Android only). @DaveSamsell and @Exit31 prefer good old paper (paper wins when it come to sketches and illustrations). But what caught my attention was @Bill Smith and his suggestion about Trello, a free project management app. It lets you make lists and keep track of your upcoming tasks and your completed tasks. @Bill Smith's implementation of Trello looks impressive. I might end up trying paper, Excel and Trello just to see which one works out the best for me in the long run. I am on IOS so I am unable to try Aquarium Note. So, later this afternoon I will run some water quality tests and enter the information into a notebook, a spreadsheet and Trello. Let's see which one I can keep up with the longest.
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    Definitely pro snail. Not sure exactly what they do, but daphnia grow much better in containers with snails, which is all the reason I need to like snails. Fun to watch in their own right too.
  22. Daniel
    Like Bill, I don't sterilize. Doesn't mean that is the right thing to do, I just don't. I have unintentionally spread hydra (and duckweed) from 1 tank to another but not disease.
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    On the advice of a friend I downloaded Trello a couple of weeks ago to keep track of our mutual machine tooling projects but I have never entered anything into it. Just reading your entries in Trello is educational in itself. Looks like the earliest entries are in February? How many tanks are you tracking with Trello? One of the cool features is that if you and I needed/wanted to share information we could do that just by one of us inviting the other into the project, right? Thanks for the tip!
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    I am monitoring the pH and temperature and conductivity in the 40 gallon baby discus tank. I have second pH and temp probes and I rotate those among the other tanks that are within reach of the probe cables. I am not using it to controller anything currently other than heaters. A while back I used to use the Neptune to dose phosphoric acid into my 500 gallon freshwater tank when I was trying to get Heckel discus to breed. I kept the pH mid 4 and the Heckel's seemed to like it but I never had a pair lay eggs.
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    Ryan S. I will check it out. Thank you!
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