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Thanks! I didn’t realize they got so big and could be such vastly different sizes. Hopefully I can find someone who wants to give them a good home.

Maybe? Haha so many corys look similar and I truly don’t know. They don’t have the bronze sheen that I can see anyway. Do the two photos look like the same type of Cory to you? The first picture is easily double the size of the second fish but I think they look the same otherwise? She swears all the fish have been there for over a year so it’s not like one is a baby or something.

I rescued a super neglected 20 long today and these 2 corys and some other fish I can identify were in it. They’re vastly different in size but look similar. Anyone know what these are? I want to rehome them to someone with a school already but don’t know what to call them in my local groups. edit to add: they’re currently in a quarantine tank while I breakdown the 20 long to start over.

I’ve had them about 6 months ish, they usually eat great - they love blood worms, brine shrimp and spiralina flake- and yes I run a tidal 55 on one end of the tank and a sponge filter with an air stone in it on the other end.

I had 6 hillstream loaches in a 40 breeder with a school of neons and a few guppies and a female betta. Yesterday I found a hillstream upside down, extremely pale and gasping and aside from gill movement appeared to be unable to move its body. I moved it to a hospital tank but it was dead in 15 minutes. Today it’s happening again. One more is extremely pale (pic attached, can’t move its body). I expect it to die soon. water parameters: 77f 0/0/20 ammonia/nitrite/nitrate 7.6ph 250 ppm GH 120 ppm KH 0 chlorine/Chloramine No signs of ich, or fuzz of any kind on any fish. The other 4 hillstreams are zooming around eating baby brine (but so was this one yesterday). All other fish seem normal. No new additions to the tank. I did a 20% water change just now. what should I do? Dose bacterial meds? Do the trio? Just wait and see if any others show symptoms? So far just 2 hillstreams so maybe something specific to that breed? Idk. Help!

Do you run it 24/7 when hatching?! I’ve not considered a light but this seems like a very viable option!

Do you happen to know the brand you bought?!

My brine shrimp are taking over 36 hours to hatch (ziss system with aquarium coop brine eggs and fritz salt). I think it must be the temp. My house is very cool (70f) and the water in the brine shrimp tank reads 68ish. what heater do you guys use in your brine shrimp hatchery? I tried a 10w aqueon preset and it heat the water to 100.4… so clearly I need something adjustable. Ideas?!

Dang! Hmm. Okay. Trying to come up with a low budget rack system but between the price of lumber and all of these junky particle board racks I don’t know what to do!

Hey guys. Looking to put an actual fish rack in my apartment (ground floor, concrete floors). I want to have a 40 breeder, a 20 long, and a couple tens on it. Looking at the gladiator 36x18x72 that has the “laminate” shelves instead of the particle board. Anyone have this same shelf? Do you use it with tank directly on the laminate shelf or did you still do plywood? Maybe just a rubber leveling mat on top of the laminate? Also, does a 40 breeder fit on this shelf? thanks guys! https://www.lowes.com/pd/Gladiator-EZ-Connect-18-in-D-x-36-in-W-x-72-in-H-5-Tier-Steel-Freestanding-Shelving-Unit/1000197475

An aposto would look awesome. The Guorami might also eat the shrimp so I think either way you run that risk.

Yes, you have tons of room and honestly your tank is probably way over filtered (not that I think that’s necessarily bad but a single sponge filter would have likely been enough biological filtration. You could totally do a nano schooling fish. 12 cpds would be a fine addition. The shrimp and endlers will reproduce for sure. In the community tank there will probably be snacking on shrimp and endler fry but if it’s heavily planted you’ll get some that survive. If you want more endlers then remove the fry to the 10 gallon tank to grow out. Personally I think shrimp in the community tank are awesome and I wouldn’t set up another shrimp tank unless your goal is to breed and sell for profit. In that case it makes sense to keep them in the 10 and also use the 10 for fry grow out. Keep the 5G as a hospital/quarantine tank. those are my suggestions 🙂 good luck!

I totally get that they can help with algae and whatnot but they literally cover over 50% of the glass surfaces in the tank. I can’t even view the tank without scraping mass amounts of them off. I’d be happy with some but there’s just sooo many and they reproduce soooooo fast 😅

I agree with Hardeep. I’d add a few more neons (I’d add 3 more) and the Honey and reduce your mystery snails to 1. 3 adult mystery snails is an insane bioload that you could use elsewhere and make your other inhabitants happier. 12 embers 8 neons 3 amano 3 ghost (when these die I wouldn’t replace them) 1 honey 1 mystery snail

I have a 5.5 gallon shrimp tank with freshwater limpets that I HATE. They constantly cover the glass and look awful. I had been told that they boom and bust and that if I ride it out they won’t be as bad. Well it’s been a year and they’ve been crazy forever. Doesn’t matter if I starve the tank or feed a ton the population stays at the same insane level. I’ve tried manual removal, I’ve tried feeding the shrimp in a dish and removing after an hour to make sure there’s no leftover food for them. Nothing works. I’m at the point where I might try to remove all of the shrimp and heat the tank super high to kill them? Anyone had limpets and gotten rid of them successfully?