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Those are angelfish eggs. Your angelfish is a female and sometimes when there is no male, the female will lay unfertilized eggs.
You can tell the eggs in your photograph were unfertilized as they have turned white and are in the process of fungusing over.
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Is there any water in the aquarium in the photos?
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@Tratanu From your photos that looks like a very small gap, not the sort of gap that would be a cause for concern.
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On 8/8/2021 at 8:13 PM, Water Box Dreams said:
Yes local biotopes help greatly for sourcing materials. I find rain filled ditches on the sides of public roads in the country side the best for this purpose. If you are lucky you may find some local natives (aquatic plants).
Ditches are the best, this ditch had a lot of good plants:
Myriophyllum among others
And nearby in a fresh water pond:
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On 8/8/2021 at 7:54 PM, Stacy Z said:
Also I guess it’s more about keeping them alive long enough more than producing enough huh! Well thanks for tips though.
They seem to live indefinitely if I either put the blackworms in my refrigerator and rinse them daily
Or keep them under a drippy faucet.
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On 8/8/2021 at 7:40 PM, Odd Duck said:
@Daniel I bought 4 ounces about 8 months ago. I don’t use them everyday since I’m mostly feeding them to pea puffers (and now a Betta) and I’m also feeding whiteworms, snails, amphipods, and some frozen bloodworms to them also. I was feeding some to everyone but realized I was going to run out before my source got back from a 6 month trek up the Sierras! I need to buy a pound! That would keep me supplied for a looooong time!
I get mine from Eastern Aquatics. I usually order on a Friday, they ship UPS on late on Monday and then I get them before noon on Tuesday. They are always in good shape.
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On 8/8/2021 at 7:25 PM, Odd Duck said:
@Daniel You’re definitely running on a whole different level than I am! 😆
Not really 🙂, I am buying them by the pound. I just cannot make enough.
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A couple of gallons of mud might yield (or might not) a child's fist sized clump of worms. Rinsing can take 10 - 20 minutes.
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Wow! Piranhas! The food looks wonderful! Sign is a nice touch.
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On 8/8/2021 at 7:14 PM, Odd Duck said:
How do you collect the worms to feed when you have a mud bottom?
I scoop out clumps of mud and worms and then rinse the mud away in a small plastic concrete mix bin. Eventually the worms clump up and these clumps can be removed.
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Lizzie Block has good tutorial on uploading photos into your posts on the forum.
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How large a gap? Small gaps don't bother me.
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I have grown blackworms in kids wading pools with leaves as a food base:
And in bigger pools with mud on the bottom. The worms reproduce okay, but not at the rate that I need blackworms for my fish. In the end, I end buying them by the pound and feeding them until they are all gone. More costly, but better than not having enough blackworms on hand when I need them.
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This tank is dirt from the garden, and gravel from the creek in my backyard. Like @Water Box Dreams noted above the substrate was a little gassy at first, but that settled down quickly. Since then it has been great for growing Vallisneria.
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My day job is beekeeping. I don't make honey but instead I sell bees to other beekeepers. Every summer I add some outside genetics to keep my honeybee gene pool high quality and diverse. This year's addition just came FedEx on Thursday. She is artificially inseminated and is part of a pure bred line of honeybees from the Caucasus Mountains in the Republic of Georgia. I got her from a entomology professor at Washington State University who has a permit to bring in genetic material from outside the US. This is pretty special because there has been a ban in place since 1923 on importing honeybees.
Introducing a new queen is a delicate business and has significant failure rate, usually resulting in the death of the new queen. Currently she is under a protective cage in order for the bees in her new hive to get used to her odor and begin to accept her as their new queen.
My goal is to release her tomorrow, but I am nervous about losing a $1000 queen if it fails. Here she is in her cage. She is the one marked with red 26 disk. The other bees are her attendants.
I am totally on pins and needles until this is resolved.
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On 8/8/2021 at 2:43 PM, Slick_Nick said:
Wow crazy odds that I happen to stumble upon one that got assigned a picture of my tank! Makes sense though! I appreciate them using my picture
Well....it is not completely random. 🙂
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That wouldn't worry me.
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And just for @Hobbit since you are in Maryland, apparently its grows luxuriantly in Chesapeake Bay and even in the Potomac as far up as Alexandria. 🙂
Almost all the hornwort I have seen in the hobby is Ceratophyllum demersum.
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On 8/8/2021 at 2:41 PM, Hobbit said:
Ooof. Yeah, I should probably start rinsing given the amount I feed… just have to find a system that’s easy enough I’ll actually do it. Maybe this is why Cory can never get hornwort to grow!
There is a lot hornwort growing in the brackish intercostal waters here in North Carolina. Also Vallisneria, Bacopa, Myriophyllum, Anacharis, etc. I was a little surprised when I first saw it, but there it was.
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@Lizzie Block had a good post on how to add photos:
Rotated photos are something that iPhones do sometimes. I don't remember the solutions but there is a solution (sort of). I will look for it and post it when I find it.
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I went back and looked at my records. I thought I grew Monte Carlo last fall but it turns out it was baby's tears. And it grew better in course sand than in Eco-Complete.
Here was the progression:
Didn't look good for a few weeks:
Then, new growth yay!
Then it began to take off.
Eventually it really filled in nicely to point where I was composting some of it.
So not exactly the same thing as your situation.
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In my experience even in a good situation it can look a little rough at first. Assuming all things are good eventually it begins to take off slowly at first and then very fast later. It looks like you have some new growth, so be patient.
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It definitely looks like a dragonfly larva to me. @Guppysnail's point about there being hundreds and hundreds of varieties in North America alone is well taken. Dragonfly larva also go through different shapes at different stages of growth, which just creates even more variety.
The one I videoed above is in the family Aeshnidae.
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Not inexpensive, but rolling tool chests are my favorites. This thread had a lot of good ideas.
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Please Help With Identifying Eggs??
in Fish Breeding
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Probably a once in a while thing like you said, but you never know for sure until you see what happens.