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  1. I would suggest using crushed coral ethier under the substrate or in a hang on back filter this would raise your GH slowly over time and would probably be easier and cheaper in the long run then wondershells. The wondershell will work and it will also slowly raise the GH over time , which is what you want. (we are talking weeks not days depending on how drastic the change.) The more water changes you do the longer it will take to adjust, because your source water will drop it down a little each time you add fresh water (this is why I think crushed coral would be a better fit). If you really want to go all in you could get a large plastic garbage can and put crushed coral in that and fill it with water cover with a lid and use that to do your water changes, but that seems like overkill in your situation.
  2. I was just wonder at what point it makes sense to move to a piston air pump? I have a very small "fish room" with six aquariums (four 10 gallons, one 20 long and one 29 gal). The spare room I'm using really doesn't have space for more. I currently have sponge filters on each tank . I currently have a mix of old Whisper 40 (very noise and old) air pumps and version 1 Co-op air pumps. I am waiting on the version 2 Co-op pumps to replace the (4) Whisper pumps. I'm thinking about adding a second air pump to the 29 , which would give me a total of (7) pumps. Is it worth the expense of moving to a small loop? Would it be to much over kill for such a small set up? I have two other tanks a nano and a 125 gal ,but they are not in the same room as the others. I would love to have a larger deadicated fish room, but that would only happen if we move to a large place. Thanks for any input.
  3. I have successfully grown green water with just having the light on for 10 hrs ( on a timer). I started culturing daphnia out side in 5 gallon buckets and was using the green water to feed them. I quickly learned that the 3 soda bottle size cultures of green was growing inside wasn’t close to being enough. Now I have a 30 gallon plastic garbage can near my garden. I just use the waste water from water changes and add few garden scraps. Much easier than growing it inside and I have more then I need to feed six 5 gallon bucket’s of daphnia spread throughout my backyard.
  4. I’m looking at it in the light of day and did a double take. 😁
  5. Yes looks like Amano Shrimp to me. They will produce eggs, but the larva that hatch require brackish water. They don’t reproduce like cherry shrimp or Crystal reds, they go through a larval stage before becoming tiny shrimp.
  6. I suggest added a calcium block of some sort. I suggest this, because you mentioned you had 2 deaths in the past do to molting issues. I could be do to a lack of calcium. Even if calcium is not the problem adding a wonder shell or 2 won’t hurt.
  7. If you keep your temperature closer to the 75 temperature your loaches will be fine. My 125 gal runs anywhere between 72 to 75 in the non summer months and my group of 6 to 8 do fine.
  8. This looks like a Nerite snail to me. If you find many white eggs on your glass that do not hatch then that is likely what it is. They have many different pattern varieties. The eggs will not hatch in freshwater.
  9. I know you are asking about carpet, but I’m redoing flooring in my house that was built in the early to mid 70’s and the carpet was really bad. I started the upgrades when I flooded my office carpeting, when I failed to seal my canister filter correctly after a rushed maintenance job. (Costly hard lesson learned). I decided to redo most of the house with hardwood flooring (yes including my office with my 125 gallon Aquarium), I left three areas as they currently were (the aforementioned carpet in the master bedroom and one of our extra bedrooms, and the 70’s vinyl flooring in or kitchen. I am just now finishing the project by putting new carpet in the master bedroom and new vinyl tiles in the kitchen and the extra bedroom that serves as my fish room. This fish room has 6 or 7 random Aquariums and various live food cultures scattered about all sitting on old 70’s carpet that has had numerous oops moments of water spills. When I was looking for options for kitchen flooring the vinyl flooring had numerous upsides in cost and better water resistance. Just a thought.
  10. I would add both Black Neons and Glow light tetra’s to your list of easy to breed.
  11. I just recently decided to buy frozen food online in bulk, because I couldn’t always find the variety I wanted. I purchased blood worms, cyclops, rotifers, daphnia and brine shrimp (that were feed spirolina)
  12. I love sparkling gouramies. I have kept them in various tank for many years. I always provide them with lots of plants and have had them spawn once in my 20 long. ( unfortunately I lost the tiny fry when I tried to move them to a separate grow tank. In the future I will probably leave them with the male) I currently have small group in my 125 gal heavily planted community tank, they are fascinating to watch.
  13. Here in California I have a good local source of black worms , I treat my fish every so often with live black worms. I use to have a local shop that during winter months would have live glass worms from Minnesota (I was told they were harvested from under the ice of the Great Lakes). I have never seen live blood worms for sale, but I used to collect them along with mosquito larvae in small temporary pools here in California (unlike mosquito larva the would gather near the bottom of the pools).
  14. Fishfolk I love this idea. Any reason you that particular tea?
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