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Welcome!
You have more experience than I do, but I'm thinking livebearers would work with that water. I just got some dwarf red coral platies, and I like how easy they are to see from a distance. That's a nice perk. I think endlers are among the hardiest livebearers, and some colors of male are really pretty.
A lot of us have limitations on tank size for various reasons. You're not alone there!
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Just to help others answer: Is a little heater in the garage tank an option? Just to keep it at 60 instead of 55 maybe?
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On 9/7/2021 at 12:30 AM, Hobbit said:
I will never forget the day my cat hunted a living, moving object and presented it to me because she loves me—and because she understands how important it is to me to collect crickets under glass cups.
This is beyond adorable! 😂
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Transitioning from a fish hater to a 75 gallon sounds like that fish hit the jackpot. 🙂
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On 9/6/2021 at 11:28 AM, Odd Duck said:
If all shriveled, cut above them back to healthy stem and start over with the cut end in the water.
Yep. And if the end of the vine doesn't look as healthy as the rest of the vine, I'd say to cut that off, too. My experience has been that when the tip starts looking rotty, the rot always keeps growing up the stem.
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On 9/6/2021 at 1:38 AM, KentFishFanUK said:
if I do that will new roots start to grow out the long section on the left that would be placed in the water?
Roots can grow from a variety of places on the vine. I'm guessing if the part underwater is at least 3 inches long, it's very likely roots will grow from it.
On 9/6/2021 at 2:18 AM, KentFishFanUK said:Most of the roots look ok except where it joins the stem, about an inch or so has gone brown and shrivelled
Just checking. Does "shriveled" mean that it got very thin, like a thread? Or does "shriveled" mean it stayed thick, but became brown on its surface (could be smooth brown or crusted/scaly)? When roots grow, but don't find water, they stop growing and cover themselves in something like paper-thin tree bark.
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Not all of each root needs to be underwater. You can even let a few completely stay out. They'll either grow longer to touch the water, or they'll become brown stubs (not shriveled thin though).
It's normal to submerge the vine, where the roots come out. You're right that the leaves and each leaf's stem needs to stay out.
I'm having trouble visualizing 3 leaves growing out of 1 spot on the vine, like in the drawing. If all the leaves and all the roots are coming out of 1 condensed spot, I might try cutting the roots off, and turning the vine vertical. Looking at your drawing, that would put the long section on the left in water, the leaves pointed horizontal, and the spot you cut the roots off of beside the base of the leaves instead of under the leaves.
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Bacter AE is a food intended to feed shrimp - particularly the youngest shrimplets. It's a dry powder. The container says it "adds important microorganisms... and improving the development of biofilms."
Would that provide nibbles of food for livebearer fry?
Any risk in trying?
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@MollyMomma I'm no expert on plecos, but I do know their salt tolerance is at least much lower than that of scaled fish. I'd make sure to get a definitive answer before adding a speck more.
I once had a pleco die just hours after I added salt. It was a long time ago, but I don't remember other factors. I think it was just the salt that did it.
Maybe you can separate the scaled and scaleless fish into 2 containers? That way, at least the ones with scales could get a helpful amount of salt.
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By the way, ammonia is more harmful when the pH is high. Just aim to keep it as close to 0 as you can.
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You might be able to get better answers if you list the species you have.
Mine is 7.8 out of the tap. What's doing well in it: angelfish, livebearers, neocaridina, snails. What doesn't do well at all is plants that have tissue-thin leaves, but I don't know if the plant problem is pH.
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On 9/3/2021 at 11:29 PM, Odd Duck said:
Now I’m on pins and needles waiting for this! No, really! It’s true! I’m that nerd!
I know right?!
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On 9/3/2021 at 11:09 PM, Biotope Biologist said:
That's another "depends" don't you just love science!
So one of the studies I looked at actually held angelfish and discus at a constant 6.0pH and introduced them to extreme acute stress by putting them into water as low as 3.8. They were studying how fish adapted to blackwater actually adapt to life in acid pools. And they are actually able to inhibit their sodium uptake and excretion almost entirely to combat drastically low pH.
I have a video in the works that I'm in the process of editing on how chemistry works and interacts with fish physiology since it's a niche that has not been occupied yet. Life has just been getting in the way lately.
I DO love science!
That helps explain how my angelfish has continued to do well in my care. He's 4-5 years old, and I learned that nitrates exist less than 2 years ago. (No really, I do love science. I swear. 😂 )
What is this about fish living in acid pools? I've heard of bacteria living in acidic goop, but there are fish that can take a very low pH?
I'm intrigued with fish living in unique conditions - particularly the endangered species isolated to only a cave or two. (Movile Cave is cool, but it needs a species of fish to be *really* cool.)
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On 9/3/2021 at 10:58 PM, Biotope Biologist said:
While the R value is only about 0.92 heating water directly is still preferable.
... and now I've googled "R value." The things we do for our fish. smh
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On 9/3/2021 at 10:39 PM, Biotope Biologist said:
A swing in pH of about +- 0.5 is not enough to pose any long term harm as fish are quite adaptable and can contradict the change of ion flow across their gills in a matter of sometimes as little as 30 minutes. When you notice high mortality is with pH differentials of at least 1.0. It can shock the gills and make it harder to breathe and for ion exchange.
I'm trying to make sure I'm seeing the numbers right in my head. So, a fish could probably adapt to a change like pH 8.0 to 7.5, or 6.5 to 7.0. But they probably could not adapt to a change like 8.0 to 7.0, or 6.5 to 7.5. Is that accurate?
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"Cranky Franky." 🤣
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After siphoning all the gunk off the bottom of my shrimp tank, I found my first-ever baby shrimp! (I likely killed some while cleaning, not knowing they were there. But I'm happy that my shrimp are finally making babies.)
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I was recently battling green water in a tank for well over a month. Someone here suggested I add a sponge filter to add surface for bacteria. I got it, but my pump didn't work, so I just let it float in the tank to grow bacteria for weeks. 48 hours after I finally got it hooked up and running, that bacteria had taken my water from green to clear. So even if you never have fry or shrimp, I can vouch that additional sponge majorly helps with water quality!
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On 8/31/2021 at 6:23 AM, Littlefish said:
Does anyone think that using stainless metal to hang pots of planters over the back edge in any way is harmful to the fish?
I'd be concerned about the (slight) possibility of them falling and busting the tank. I don't know of other potential problems, unless harmful plant ferts fell into the water.
I'm glad this is coming together. 🙂
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I have dwarf sag in gravel with root tabs. It took months to do anything, and still grows very slowly. But I can at least tell you it can grow that way.
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I've got 2 ideas.
Facebook doesn't allow money exchanging hands for animals within groups, but there's no such rule for private messages. I'm in groups where the norm is to post a pic of animals, a zip code, and "PM for details." Comments on such posts are usually just "sent a message," but everybody knows what the conversation is about. Those groups are not *technically* facilitating the buying or selling of animals. They're just facilitating private communications between individuals. So it might be worth looking again for a local FB group.
The other idea, though it may be too late: I bought an angelfish to deal with a never-ending stream of molly fry. It worked. He gulped everything small enough to gulp, so the result was that the larger mollies simply lived out their lifespan alongside him, gradually decreasing in number until the tank was back under control. I'm sorry if it doesn't help the current situation though. Maybe the idea would at least make the future easier. There are some "gulpers" that would fit in a 6 gallon.
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On 9/2/2021 at 8:38 PM, Guppysnail said:
they don’t leave one another’s side and I don’t have the heart to split them up.
Your admirably good heart is gonna paaaaay. 😂
Perhaps you can soon let each parent live with some of the babies, so they at least won't be alone.
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I actually try to keep nitrates at 20-30 instead of 20. If I understand right, they don't harm the animals below 40. Like someone else said, that'd be more Easy Green.
Also, it often takes plants about 3 months before they do anything besides live. If you haven't had them long, it may partly be an issue of time.
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Platy Fry
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This raises another question for me. (I just got platies for the first time.) I thought platies tend to eat almost all their fry. No?