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Yes, but is it safe for shrimp?

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@Colu any photos to update how your great green water battle is going?

A 'Corum'...Quorum...get it? No, I didn't think so.😒

@team fishes and shrimps the first rule of the forum is: I am an old guy and I had to look up what 'flexing' means and it turns out that word is neither kind nor helpful. I am not sure what @Rakkasan00 intended with the non-fish photos, but one shouldn't assume malice when a mistake could also be the answer. Especially on someone's first post. Anyway, nice Kribensis!🙂

I vote for Pythons.

Yeah I just checked it and it was private

@Aubrey, Your micro-photography is always a pleasure!

I have kept sparking gourami in community tanks including several 40 breeders recently. The even breed successfully in one of the tanks! They always had plenty of floating hornwort and water sprite to lurk in, in all the tanks.

Med Trio didn't cause the die-off. See this post @Brandy made the first week of the forum: This can happen for a lot a reasons even to our generous host:

Ionization of hydrogen is one way to think about it, but a more productive way is to keep your eye on the carbon. That is why your are adding CO2 right? It is a back an forth equilibrium CO2 + H2O ⇌ H2CO3, then H2CO3 can lose one or both of its hydrogen ions yielding H2CO3 ⇌ HCO3- + H+ …. HCO3- ⇌ CO32- + H+ When you add plants to your aquarium, they rapidly consume the carbon in the CO2 during photosynthesis and give off oxygen. Here is what that looks like pH-wise in one of my planted aquariums: The pH is lower first thing in the morning as the plants have been taking in oxygen all night and giving off CO2, but as soon as the lights go on and photosynthesis starts, this reverses and the plants start taking in CO2 and giving off oxygen. A normal pH swing of greater than 1 happens every day. I have seen daily swings greater than 2 with absolutely no distress at all from the fish. If you add CO2 to a planted tank during the day time, your swings should be even less. Therefore even less cause for concern.🙂

I know don't if this will help yours, but in the wild here are their native conditions:

I have grown both and in my experience baby brine shrimp take less effort.

The parasite is Ichthyophthirius multifiliis, so I guess 'Ich'.

Probably just pumpkinseeds.

I'm sure it needs to be big. I wouldn't do it in less than a 225 gallon.

Imagine this...Sell the discus and put pumpkinseeds in here.

That sounds like E. Zonatum. Also, aren't pumpkinseeds beautiful (the fish in your picture)! They are popular in Germany, much more so than here.

If they got to be 2 inches, then most likely not pygmy sunfish. I think the maximum size is about 1.75, but maybe so as you did say 'about 2 inches'. 🙂 Most are smaller and live in still waters.

centrarchids, Yes, when they were first classified some ichthyologist thought they were cichlids, but the majority thought they were centrarchids, like the larger sunfishes. That debate was only definitively solved recently with DNA and they are indeed centrarchids. So therefore related to pumpkinseeds.

Here is the range map for the various species: I have wild collected E. zonatum in ditch off the side of an interstate highway, E. boehlkei in a swamp, and E. okatie underneath a railway trestle. All were about the size of guppies.

The name 'sunfish' for Elassoma makes it sound like they will be big fish like a pumpkinseed, but pygmy sunfish only get to about an inch. I do think they are vaguely related though.

I have had this inline heater for more than a decade and have been very happy with it. I don't remember what I paid for it but my guess is that it was alot. 🙂

Pygmy sunfish, genus Elassoma. There are several species. All are happy in water from about 40 - 90F.

8 feet long by 3 feet tall by 3 feet high. There isn't any equipment at all in the tank. Underneath is a pump to circulate the water and heater to keep the tank warm. All the sand and rocks and wood can house far more beneficial bacteria than the tank will ever need, so what would a filter even do? Here is what is under the tank. Everything comes up through the bottom of the tank. The tank also has an automated water change system that also comes up through bottom and an overflow that goes down through to bottom out to one my outdoor shrimp pools.