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  1. CalmedByFish
    Whew! ❤️
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    Best. Quote. Ever.
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    Sounds fun and looks good! Is the idea that it be like a sandbox - a place to play, rather than "set up" per se?
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    Interesting! I recently added Equilibrium to a tank that has hornwort that's not doing well. I did it for the critters, but maybe it'll help the hornwort!
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    @Scrum Fish Forgive me if you've already thought this through and taken every precaution, but I can't not mention: It sounds incredibly dangerous to me to have a 45 gallon in a young child's room. I can visualize doing a 10 gallon safely, but even a 20 sounds sketchy to me.
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    This is largely what *kept* me connected. I know I originally found it on YouTube. I'm pretty sure I was researching info on endlers.
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    Welcome! I'm very interested in medaka... although I don't (yet) have any. 🙂
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    Keeping up with these tanks at the same time you're keeping up with college is likely to be hard. I think it'd be smart to put a screeching halt to the plans for more fish. Several months from now? Maybe, maybe not. None of us want to see you fall face-first with the fishkeeping, nor with college.
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    It sounds like this might be your first semester? If so, it would be good fishkeeping advice to wait and see how much time and energy you'll actually have to spare.
  10. CalmedByFish
    This is how I end up repeatedly battling green water in my fry tank. Like you guys, I'm not making you a brisket, c'mon.
  11. CalmedByFish
    You accidentally have a pet tadpole? I am so jealous! ❤️
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    Interesting. I haven't dared touch the light since the top side is so hot. Since I needed this to be clear to me, I offer the same to you: People are using the word "warm" to reply to you, but both of mine are scalding hot. So just making sure you know, it's not just your light that gets pain-in-one-second hot. I'm sure 3 seconds would leave a blister. Mine gets there less than 2 minutes after being turned up to full strength. Good to know.
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    I emailed Candi about this after buying mine. Sent me a new one, which I now feel bad for, because it's every bit as hot. Turns out they do regularly run so hot they'll burn your hand after a second. I wouldn't leave mine on at full strength when I'm out of the house, for sure. Seems dangerous. Edited to add: Make sure it's not touching the glass, and not close enough to plastic to make the plastic warm. The guy who made my acrylic tank told me heat will mess up plastic, and my personal suspicion is that the heat from direct contact with a Fluval 3.0 could break glass.
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    I've sometimes found that the earthy/dirt stink was coming from above the water surface - like mildew or algae growing on the underside of the lid, or hiding under the top black rim of the tank.
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    Have you tested the GH of the water from the tap? I'm wondering if it's high.
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    Interesting and helpful! Thanks for doing this, and thanks for sharing it.
  17. CalmedByFish
    Except in cases where silence is complicity. Then you direct message.
  18. CalmedByFish
    Reminder to everyone: Direct messaging is available when you want to give help that's not permitted within a public thread.
  19. CalmedByFish
    Surely I'm not the only Illinoisan on here?
  20. CalmedByFish
    In case you're actually interested in fish that have a wide temp range, check out medaka.
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    Yeah, I'd heard that from some sources, too. But after finding quite a few sources that did seem to have experience with endlers, I ended up putting this in my notes, "Safe at 64-85. Not a bad species to have if the AC or heater goes out." I also found an article where someone had tested gender ratios of fry who spent fertilization to birth at different temps. 77 was the 50/50 male to female temp. The lower the temp, the more females. The higher the temp, the more males. Anyway, you've definitely got some wiggle room.
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    I don't even remember hearing about those until this thread... nor a tea thermometer. I should learn this little trick! It seems so obvious, now that I hear it. I make a point of keeping adaptable species, so I don't really need perfection.
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    I bought about a dozen of the glass floating thermometers, then lined them all up in the middle of a large tank. Several had the same temp, which was near the middle of the other temps. I took them out and put them in separate tanks, with a post-it note on the black rim by it that said "within 1 degree." The others got put in labeled ziplocs to use if needed. The labels are things like "real temp is below this thermometer."
  24. CalmedByFish
    My only input is that it needs to have Murphy's derpy rabbit-smile.
  25. CalmedByFish
    Welcome! That main decoration vaguely makes me think of Skara Brae. Pretty cool. 🙂
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