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  1. JoeM
    My mentality when I got my first tank this xmas 2020. Was this.. Ive waited 33 years to finally get a fish tank... I can wait 2 weeks to cycle a tank and make sure all is well. Now I have 7 planted tanks and I dont know how many fish..MTS BAD! Lol worked for me. One day you'll wake up and it'll be clear. Small water changes if any.
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    Patience, It will clear no need for purigen imo. But that might help. I would keep the used media in. Mabeye do a thin layer of sand to cap your substrate. And just do some 25% water changes or more every day until it clears. Or just give it time and add some poly fill to your filter media cheap and gets all the fine particles out. just make sure 100% polyester no fragrance. But i think time is all that's needed really. 🙂 good luck
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    Here's my tank all live plants with a female half moon betta named Mimi. Ember tetra and black neons. Salt and pepper cats and a neon goby..hes in there somewhere I know it!
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    Ok its a shrimp parasite but i have no shrimps? I do have snails that came from a shrimp tank at petco. I used to have shrimp like 4 momths ago but they died, mabeye it came from that? Either way it appears to be vorticella. I just read a good article. Apparently pimafix , aquarium salt ,ich x and ,Indian almomd leaves are all effective at killing it. And guppies supposedly eat it. So I'm going with pimafix almomd leaves and endlers live bearers because i have them. I have plants and dont use salt anymore. I habe ich x too that'll be secind option. We shall see what happens.
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    Strange jelly fish looking white stuff sticks to EVERYTHING! no idea what it is. I cant find anything that identifies it . Almost like little jelly trees,they have a trunk like thing then it rounds off like the top of a jelly fish. Anyone have this in thier tank. Is it Harmful? Im stumped
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    I wouldn't stock anymore until you have a quarantine tank setup. get another 10 gallon used somewhere cheap and get it cycled. when its ready, get your new fish, put in the quarantine tank ,medicate them and observe for a couple weeks. If all look healthy go ahead and add to your main tank. Nomatter where you get your fish from they could have potential sickness some won't show up for couple months. best to medicate and give your fish a better chance. check out corys video on this topic. i do this to all my fish no problems since. Hope it helps good luck.
  7. JoeM
    I've had the same success with golden wonder kilifish.
  8. JoeM
    Wow. Awesome advice, ill check the video out. Thanks.
  9. JoeM
    😓 Great now i need to explain to my wife why i need to buy 60 more aquarium plants..Nice knowing ya.
  10. JoeM
    Cycling my new 29 long. Im loving me one big school of Rummynose tetra. or celestial pearl danios. Whats the max # of those you would put in a 29? i know one inch per gallon blah blah...😏 any exception to that rule with more frequent water changes, planted tank? Other species ideas? One big fish? One tetra school, cichlids, discus? Talk to me
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    I have a 20 long with 4 female betta, 9 neon tetra, and 6 zebra danio. I use just one medium sponge filter and take the plastic tubing off the top. Having bettas LOW FLOW is a must, so No HOB for me, works fine, waters clear. (Medium is a little tall for the 20 long), but id rather use one medium sponge filter than two small ones. Id say go with your personal preference. A small or nano sf would definitely have a much lower profile and hide easily behind plants. But you would need two of them, or one small sf and one nano hob filter in addition would be fine.
  12. JoeM
    ...just don't over feed they'll just keep eating.
  13. JoeM
    I have one badass and he eats frozen baby brine shrimp and i mix in Easy Fry and small fish food from aq.coop every few days. gobbles it up.
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    Update on the sorority: I removed one highly aggressive girl she kept going from fish to fish attacking, and moved her in my community 29 gallon. She's chilled out with 5 bigger golden wonder kilifish, fat ms. molly, and 5 corys. unfortunately one betta swam to the bottom of tank and didn't move much in the sorority. she died the next day.?? and another looked like its gut was hanging out all the sudden??she died as well. So there are 4 blue bettas in there now. They chase each other once in a while but no actual fighting. So id say i was mostly successful. Mabeye ill add one more betta to make it 5 and some neon tetras or something in the 20 long.There were some black neon tetras that looked cool i saw the other day. Any suggestions?
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    I got easy green, iron, carbon , and seachem products pot. phosphates, micronutrients to give an extra boost if need be. Just started dosing extra , so we will see what happens. my crypt looks good after two weeks. Mabeye some of melted plants will come back i didn't rip any out for that reason.
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    My "unkillable" java fern turned black, Anubis disappeared and amazon swords all the leaves melted it has a little green left on the shoot mabeye it'll come back , but im not hopeful.Water sprite and hair grass all melted I have an octopus and dwarf sag on the way. We shall see.
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    Nice, high iron where i am. limestone bed rock runs throughout the area. Im only 4 months in myself. i actually just planted a crypt a week ago seems ok so far and some tall hair grass. My lily bulb like i said is going nuts but that's after a 3 months of slowly growing roots in my tap water.
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    Looking to get some more plants. The first round of mostly died or is melting back? im not sure. Instead of fighting my water parameters im looking for plants will survive (most likely) in my hard water. I have liquid rock well water lots of iron, and a tap water softener. I started with just conditioned tap water. NOT GOOD. no minerals. added equilibrium that helped. Now im mixing in the well water with water changes. My lily bulbs took off. Like inches per day its crazy. . So what other plants will thrive in almost liquid rock?
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    @CalmedByFishlol i hope not for the frys sake . My kilifish would love a nice molly fry snack..i think shes just fat. Ms. Piggy is what we call her sometimes never stops eating.😁
  20. JoeM
    Hi @Randy the golden wonder kilifish. I have two males 3 females
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    Hello from Fingerlakes New York. I started this crazy hobby at xmas 2020 with a ten gallon. I now have a 3 gallon with a scarlet badis and snails. A 29 with 5 kilifish that im breeding, A fat molly, and 5 albino Cory cats. And my 10 gallon has 1 female half moon betta named Mimi. Accompanied by 8 ember tetra and 2 zebra loaches. My most recent tank is a 20 long that i just set up a betta sorority with 7 vieltail females. The bettas are fighting a bit but its been less than 24 hours. I'll watch close but I might be taking two back to the store. So that's it. 4 tanks and 30 fish later here I am. Hooked.
  22. JoeM
    Ember tetras ,nice and active stay small but tight schooling and soo puuurty. Or harloquin rasboras. Or Cherry barbs
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    Scarlet badis all day.
  24. JoeM
    Just give it time your water will clear. Bacteria are growing and blooming. Dont add fish until your ammonia and nitrites are 0 and nitrate 40ppm or less. If your nitrates are higher than 40 at the end of the cycle do a partial water change. The cycle process could be done in two weeks or a month from now. Just keep testing water every Other day. Other wise your fish will start dying, or getting sick, and you'll start doing a bunch of crazy stuff thats unnecessary to fix it. Get really sad because you killed your fish and sell all your stuff lol. When all you had to do was wait for the water to be ready. Patience is a requirement in this hobby,especially in the beginning. Good luck
  25. JoeM
    I love these golden wonders fish and I see my first baby fry today! Swimming in the breeder net basket with a couple cherry shrimp as babysitters. Anyone whos breed these before have any advice? Next steps?
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