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  1. Daniel
    I second what @CT_ says above. A UPS system doesn't hold up for long and heating is more important than bacteria. The ultimate solution is a generator if you have multiple tanks and any sort of extended outage. My two industrial sized UPSs didn't fare well during a recent outage for me:
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    Almost all plants have hitchhikers. The Co-Op keeps snails in their plant tanks. So I would say the odds of hitchhikers is nearly 100%.
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    If it were me, and this might be only me because I am okay with some amount of risk, if I trusted the source of the new fish I would rather put the new fish in the best most cycled tank I had, that is, my established tank. To me this would be better than putting new not yet sick fish into an uncycled aquarium where they would soon become actually sick fish.
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    Does your established display tank have fish in it? It sounds like your new quarantine tank may not have cycled yet.
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    And as a bonus - Tested to be Fish, Shrimp and Snail Safe! (Just on the off chance anyone would ask?)
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    My package says 3 - 4 months But for very heavy feeders it might only be a month or two.
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    I have used an USB nano pump to run a sponge filter in a 75 gallon, so it will definitely run an airstone in a 55 gallon.
  8. Daniel
    Welcome to the forum!
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    Lighting

    Daniel replied to Dk127's topic in General Discussion

    One of the oldest and most venerated topics on the forum, @Streetwise posted this early on the first day of the forum.
  10. Daniel
    I have 3 cones going at all times making a fresh cone every 12 hours so there are always just hatched napulii. It is not as hard as it sounds once you get a system. These days I usually end up letting my fish breed in community tanks. The few surviving babies have fitness out the wazoo.
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    If you want to learn it for real, nothing beats MIT's Open CourseWare. This is an actual freshman biology course on genetics that you can work through at your own pace. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/biology/7-01sc-fundamentals-of-biology-fall-2011/genetics/ For a hobbyist, the best way to learn is to do what you are doing, which is breeding fish and talking to other breeders. Every species has it own quirks. I remember learning about 'pleiotropy' when trying to maintain line of black bettas back in the late 70s and early 80s. You couldn't get viable black females because the black gene was fatal to them. The black gene was pleiotropic meaning it influenced two or more seemingly unrelated phenotypic traits which was fatal in females.
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    Yeah, I would put my money on blackworms over a full moon any day. 🙂
  13. Daniel
    Dominant and recessive genes are very rare. Most traits are influenced by 100s of genes if not more. Genes are elements in biological 'programs' that usually have quite a bit of redundancy. Gene aren't always 'on' and are very sensitive to environmental conditions. Sometime color or even sex ratios are controlled by temperature or even pH which means epigenetics are possibly involved. Punnet squares are a good place to start, but they are just the beginning of the fascinating and complex ways genes (and non-genes) work.
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    And the moon is waning gibbous. 🙂
  15. Daniel
    Fish regularly travel 3 - 5 days in fairly small bags, so a few hours will be okay. If you are still concerned, you could put them a larger volume of water, say a 1/3 filled 5 gallon bucket with lid.
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    I feed a lot of blackworms so they end up lasting about 10 - 14 days. Discus are a bottomless pit, so I might cut the discus blackworms back a bit just to save on the expense and to get the blackworms to last a little longer.
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    Guppie

    Daniel replied to Carl-N-Kim's topic in Fish Breeding

    What other fish do you have?
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    If I don't aerate mine, they sink to bottom and suffocate. But if the density isn't that great they will last quite a while and even begin to grow.
  19. Daniel
    I feed baby brine shrimp out of the cone they hatched in over the course of about 8 - 12 hours. I dump any remaining shrimp out down the sink at 12 hours and start another batch. My preference is to have bbs that have just hatched.
  20. Daniel
    Nice snails! Good to see a post from @DaveSamsell!
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    There many things that seem to be broken including the above. Every topic and every search are now just 1 page. It is no longer possible to move to page 2 or beyond on anything.
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    They are almost 1 inch at the point. I ended up with a 50 from that batch.
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    At first they ate 'green water' which had a lot of rotifers and paramecium in it. As soon as they were able to eat baby brine shrimp I started feeding them with that.
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    I moved them to a fry grow out tank.
  25. Daniel
    The inch a gallon rule is somewhat imprecise. By this rule: Three 6 inch goldfish in a 20 gallon Fifty 1 inch neon tetras in a 20 gallon would say the goldfish tank is stocked properly and the neon tetra tank is overstocked, when just the opposite is arguably true. The more likely answer to any stocking question is 'it depends'.
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