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  1. yannachka
    @Grizzly if you don’t find any locally i can ship you some out, just cover the shipping. i have plenty in my tanks. edit: cory doesn’t allow giveaways on here for good reasons he mentioned. hope you can find some local to you, try posting a looking for ad on craigslist/fb/offerup etc asking for some.
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    hey all, not sure if this is allowed but the coop doesnt sell floaters so no conflict of interest? i cleared out a bunch of floaters and would really hate to toss them, if anyone wants them just cover the shipping cost and you can have em. its mostly dwarf lettuce but there is frogbit and some other plants mixed up in there. ill ship them out tomorrow morning. maybe we can start an act of kindness thread? if anyone has any plants/trimmings that they don’t want they can post them in the thread to giveaway to someone who may have a use for them but maybe can’t purchase plants at the moment. might be a good place to share in our extras, thoughts?
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    i have read this as well, especially for catfish. i have my lights run red for an hour every night and it is the only time i see all of the cats and nocturnal fish come out so im personally inclined to believe it. the fluval 3.0s dont actually have red they have pink which does look weird. you get used to it after a while. the ai prime has a more true red.
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    no problem! as long as you heavily research the breeder (he was an import and an impulse purchase so no research was done) and they have good reviews you can feel confident buying one. im seeing fish with these types of colors/fins becoming more commonly available which is both a good thing and a bad thing. he was from aquabid and i should have read the shop reviews before buying.
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    some of my tips: -good lighting is important. i always up the brightness on my tank lights before taking photos, your camera will never have the same dynamic range that your eyes have so the tanks/fish will always come out darker in the photos than how it appears to your eye (this is very basic, if you’d like me to go into depth on it i can). -a flash will help freeze action and will help isolate fish in motion, great for fish that are active and hard to photograph. -keep your camera as parallel to the glass as you can to help reduce distortion through the glass and glare. -turn off all of the lights in the room/block windows so there are no reflections on the glass. you can also use a polarizing filter on your lens to help remove some glare and reflections as well. -throw in food to attract the fish to the front of the tank. i like to spot feed in one part of the tank and that is where i actively take the photos instead of chasing the fish around the tank with my camera -you dont need a high end camera with a macro lens, your phone should work just fine for most shots. a macro lens is very very helpful for getting really nice close up shots though. i wanted to expand on using a flash a little bit. here is an example of a non flash photo and a photo taken with flash in the same tank. different fish but same lighting/tank. you can see how the flash freezes the fish and really brings out the colors in the background that are very difficult to bring back in post. the image is also a lot cleaner since there is little to no noise from needing to bump up the iso to compensate for the lighting. i find myself being in the 2000-3500 iso range a lot of times when shooting photos in uncontrollable environments (like in the store tanks or where i cannot control the lighting). this high iso leads to lots of noise in the photos. by using a flash you can drop that down very low and you get a cleaner image overall. no flash flash
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    his upper body that appears more orange/faded turned a deep red. other than that he looked like this for his entire life. unfortunately he was definitely bred for looks vs color and he came in sick with lots of internal issues. he passed after about 6 months of me trying to keep him healthy.
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    im seeing signs of ammonia burns and redness on the fish that died. how much air do you have going in the tank? can you double check that nitrate test as well to make sure it is actually 0, some of the signs im seeing are pointing to nitrate poisoning but it’s difficult to diagnose exactly with the photos. id up the water changes and add some salt + an air stone or two for now.
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    treat with erythromycin and salt, it looks like it may be the beginning of an ulcer or an injury that didn’t properly heal. what are your water parameters so we can make sure those aren’t the culprit of it not healing?
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    did you add all of the fish to one tank or were they kept in separate tanks? how large is the qt tank? how often were you doing water changes? what were the parameters at when the fish died? we need some more info to really identify the problem but im leaning towards water quality issues + stress
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    you shouldn’t have any ammonia or nitrites in the water. it looks like the cycle crashed or was never properly there to begin with so take the steps to cycle it. in the meantime i would be doing 20-30% water changes every few days to keep the ammonia and nitrites down. how large are the fish? you may need to upgrade filtration and do more water changes if the bioload is too high. you may also consider rehoming or moving the parrots and the pleco to a different tank, the pleco gets too large to house in a 55g long term and the parrots may bully the angels. all of the fish you have seems like a high bioload for a 55g in general and will cause issues long term. experienced keepers can definitely pull it off but unless you are dedicated to keeping those fish in that tank, it would be better to give them their own set ups. in the meantime raise the temps gradually to 85/86 and dose with salt + ich x to treat the ich.
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    where do you live so i can make sure to never visit? 😂
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    this was my little nano tank when i first set it up a few months ago and it a couple days ago
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    my spider kevin i also have a couple dogs and some other random critters. my hobbies include setting up terrariums/jarrariums and then finding something to live in them 😂
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    this was gucci
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    post photos! id love to see!
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    i appreciate it! just wanted to give some perspective on the layout 😊
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    thanks! @Streetwise all of the photos are phone shots taken from the front, a couple are from the front-left corner. the top has a metal mesh and 75% of the sides + back are covered with window film.
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    i am a big fan of banana leaves and guava leaves. i bought both from an asian market for a few bucks for a large pack. the shrimp and snails enjoy both of those in my tanks. i found the guava leaves break down slower than catappa leaves.
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    she has been exploring and really utilizing all of the wood and plants which is fun to watch. i need to grab my macro lens and shoot some nat geo style hunting footage 😂
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    lots of new little buds that are forming to flower. this plant is taking over my nightstand i never thought it and creeping jenny would take off like this.
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    it’s hard to photograph this tank
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    the last few days have had me going a little crazy. i kept thinking there were two babies in here. sometimes when i’d spot the baby it would like 25% smaller but i wasn’t sure if i was just imagining that. today i spent a good 30 minutes camped out front looking for the baby (it hides in the plants a lot) and watching my spider hunt in the terrarium next to the bowl. i glance over at the bowl and finally caught both babies together so i can stop thinking im going crazy now. maybe there are a couple more surprises coming along
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    adding calcium for snails is a great idea, i may start doing that. i find a bit of spirulina powder really helps color up fish.
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    to me it sounds like maybe the eco complete has depleted what nutrients it had and isn’t absorbing the fertilizer you are putting into the water column as well. root tabs would be what i recommend to help replenish that. crypts are pretty heavy root feeders from my experience as well.
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    i personally run some form of extra air (sponge filter, air stone, etc) in all my tanks with co2 just in case i was fiddling with the needle valve and accidentally set it a little too high. i havent seen any negative effects in terms of the plants and the positives far outweigh the small amount that may gas off. i find extra air also helps circulate the water better in the tank (depends on the size/surface area of course) which helps with dispersing the co2 and making sure any ferts added reach all of the plants. i actually have a small powerhead above the diffuser in my goldfish tank to push the gas across the tank as it comes out, over the months of doing this ive seen better growth in my plants on the other side of the tank. i think people are too scared of air, potentially needed to refill the canister maybe a day earlier doesn’t offset all of the positives that air adds to a tank in my opinion.
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