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  1. Judging by the way Dean feeds his fishroom on youtube I’d say the answer is definitely no! lol (Just keep your water quality up) I see nothing wrong with spoiling the fish as long as you enjoy making more BBS. I personally like to feed a variety of baby brine, powdered fry foods and have a culture of microworms. Since one batch of baby brine is more than I can feed my few tanks I just end up freezing them in mini ice cube trays and feeding them out over time to tanks with fry. (Just make sure you mark the trays as baby brine or someone might be having an interesting drink)
  2. When I have netted them out of sand substrates they almost always turn pale, if yours is staying that way and it seems to be acting normally.. I wouldn’t be too worried, it may just be blending in with it’s surroundings without being stressed? I’m by no means an expert when it comes to fish diseases but as long as it’s acting normally and eating with the others I would think it should be fine. They do tend to be happier in slightly warmer water than other fish but nothing pops out to me as needing to be treated.
  3. I have done a lot of moving around Kuhli loaches and they tend to look washed out when they’re stressed. I have also seen it more so on sand substrates, not sure if it’s an attempt to blend in.
  4. It looks like you have planaria, I just see it as a healthy little ecosystem and snacks for the fish to munch on. ^^
  5. I've kept pea puffers with already established colonies of cherry shrimp, in heavily planted/plenty of hiding places tanks. They will definitely "examine" shrimp to make a meal out of them but usually in that process the shrimp has time to get away. The shrimp are most vulnerable to attack after a molt. I've actually fed my pea puffers dead cherry shrimp and they gobble them right up but I've never witnessed them catch and kill a live one (not that it hasn't happened). I'm also 100% sure that they catch and eat shrimplets as there's not nearly as many babies being produced. That being said I've never had pea puffers wipe out an established colony of shrimp, I know my dwarf cichlids would if given the chance. Anyways, I think you'd be taking a big risk throwing a bunch of expensive shrimp in with these little terrors. I've had the luxury of producing so many shrimp that I could experiment with this. I should probably also mention I feed mine with plenty of bloodworms and snails, so maybe that's why they never wipe out the colony. If you wanted to play around with shrimp and pea puffers I'd probably go with ghost shrimp. They're inexpensive, the females get pretty big and you can breed them in the aquarium.. however, it may be difficult with the puffs. ^^
  6. I have kept them for years and they've been in many different tanks/setups, while I have lost a few, I have found them to be hardy enough. I haven't raised any of their fry, but in the time I've had with them I could've pulled eggs or put them species only and raised more. One of my favorite setups was a 10 gallon pygmy rasbora and pygmy corydora stocking with cherry shrimp.
  7. My Kribs definitely sift sand but rarely dig because I offer them plenty of the coconut and cichlid caves that the Co-op sells. Although, I have a donut-shaped air stone and I saw a female keep disappearing down the middle of it that was flat against the sand, so she must have dug a cave several inches into the sand and raised her fry there. While it's not a walstad tank, it is pretty low tech with a jungle of süßwassertang.. so I imagine you could find a way to make it work ^^
  8. This is coming from someone who has never kept SAE but I'd probably start with one and see how it goes. It sounds like they're pretty voracious eaters and I'm constantly growing hair algae in my tanks but then I read they may eat my shrimp so I decided against keeping them. I heard they get upwards to 6 inches and that seems a little big to keep a group of them in 20 gallons.
  9. The Kribs should get better at taking care of their fry with each spawn, I have 2 pairs in a 30 gallon both protecting fry now, with other juvenile kribs as predators. It took awhile for my 2nd pair to figure it out but now they raise 4-6 fry successfully from each batch. I'm happy with that output as I'm not breeding for profit or anything.
  10. Maybe a small group of chili rasboras or ember tetras. You could also do some colorful neocaradina shrimp. You are more limited what you can do schooling/shoaling-wise in 5 gallons. If you wanted a bottom dweller pygmy cories are pretty hardy and cheap. Not the most unique ideas but just some fish that stay nano sized.
  11. I hear ya, the bigger the companies get, the more they tend to lean towards automation and less towards human interaction. However, my experience with Aquarium Co-Op customer service was surprisingly quick and they resolved my issue in one email. I do understand that feeling of writing a text/email and not knowing how it will be perceived or if your message is truly getting across. Even as a younger guy who grew up with all this technology, I still see it as a double edged sword. There's many benefits, knowledge is more readily available, we can communicate quickly but I think it contributes to mental health problems and takes away from "being human" whatever that means anymore.. Anyways, that's why I keep fish, needed more nature in my life. 🙂
  12. Just spending more time watching my tanks, maybe keep a fish journal, I'm always breeding something and taking note of things. Otherwise, in a planted tank that big it will be hard to keep track of those nano fish. I have lost track of a whole shoal of pygmy cories in a 10 gallon and I never know what's going on with my 14 kuhli loaches in my 20 gallon long. 😅
  13. I use tums and usually within 24 hours I see a bunch of shrimp molts, so from what I can tell it helps them. I used to breed cherry and ghost shrimp by the tons in a 100 gallon and this was always part of a varied diet. If it's too messy for you just feed it the day before a water change and you can clean up the excess tums powder when vacuuming.
  14. I cut out some egg crate from home depot to make lids for smaller tanks and it works well, granted there's evaporation. I'd say the standard 10 gallon glass lids they sell at pet shops is still probably the best. Sorry, I have the lid ajar in the picture because I'm working on the tank.
  15. I've kept my shrimp with rasboras, neon tetras, pygmy corydoras, white clouds, endlers, pencil fish, otocinclus and even pea puffers in a heavily planted tank. I have multiple tanks and I am always changing things up every 6 months, but the one thing that remains consistent is my cherry shrimp. 🙂
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