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I believe those are Striped Raphael Catfish. I saw them in person and they are neat

@brandonnaturallysounds like you need a new tank! 😜

Not sure about your setup but if you are worried about water quality, it helps to remove the unfertilized and fungus eggs daily.

I leave them soaking in it until the eggs hatch and I get free swimmers (for rams).

@Fish Folkthank you for showing the crosses! The blue flame one is the moon dragon ram that I was referring to. Someday I want to breed those but my tanks are all full at the moment. It is the best looking ram for me!

I never had a ebr pair that made it to egg stage. They either DOA or arrive skinny and die weeks later. Someday I'll get my hands on a healthy pair. Find it a bit hard these days when these strains are quite inbred.

Sorry to hear about that. Midnights are extra finicky. I am surprised to hear that you actually had more luck with electric. Those ones never make it for me and I have a put a pause on getting new ones.

Do you know what is causing your eggs to not spawn? If it is fungus, I had a lot of luck using methylane blue. I wrote a ram breeding post on my setup. Feel free to check it out. https://forum.aquariumcoop.com/topic/15561-newbie-breeding-journal-black-rams/

Forgot to mention, one of the possible outcomes would be a midnight ram with more "sparkles". A guy was breeding it and coined it sapphire rams and sold it at Aquarium Zen (no longer does). Maybe if you dig deep into their insta, you can find a picture of it?

Just pitching in on the midnight, they can come from gold too. Mine is. I would say test out your midnights first to see what they yield - (gbr or gold) + midnights. Depending on the strain, you will get different color cross with ebr. I heard that you can get the moon dragons from midnight (from gold) X ebr. Moon dragons are the gold faced electric blues.

I heard good things about the Neo diffuser. Personally, I only used GLA/atomic ones since I have bigger tanks.

I am hoping they are worms too but so far I haven't seem the baby puffers take a bite at them. I will look into fungus bloom just out of precaution. I do have the normal kind of detritus worms in my tank. These don't move and grow out from a clump down from the substrate.

Thank you all for your input! Siphoning does kill them so I'll keep on trying that option. So far, they don't seem to harm the inhabitants. Fingers 🤞

Hello fellow Nerms, Can you help me identify these pink clumps growing out of my gravel substrate? My puffer and super red plecos don't care for them. I don't feed BBS or other microscopic foods in this tank. I feed a lot of pleco pellets, repashy and frozen foods (daphnia/bloodworms) daily. Water gets changed daily or every other day. Other tank inhabitants include ramshorn snails and cherry shrimp. These things grow in clumps. When I gravel vac, they didn't like to be sucked out and died quickly (color changed very quickly to this yellow, dirt color). This is a freshwater tank. Thank you in advance!

I got my fingers chomped on once or twice by my gal when I was holding a live shrimp to feed her. Felt like human teeth tbh. Didn't break my skin. Now I use tweezers to feed those live shrimps I haven't had any accidents yet during my snail-clearing sessions. My puffs like to swim around my arm when I am cleaning, for potential treats xD