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  1. laritheloud
    HAHAHAHAHAHA I wish. It's 1 ml per gallon of water and I usually just dose a capful (5ml). I'd rather over than underdo it and it's too much trouble to measure to 1ml! I hope you have no more losses now. I'm so sorry!
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    What the heck??? You have to double dose to remove chloramine??? That's nuts. I've never used this product, I usually stick to Seachem Prime. I guess it's double doses from here on out.
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    This is great news! I really would love to add honey gourami to my community... planning on getting three of them. Waiting for my quarantine tank to get all set first!
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    You should be proud!!! Crypts are awesome!! As a reference this is what my crypt tropica looks like after 1.5 months in the tank
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    Eh, I'll just try not to worry about it. The next fish I'm going to add to the tank are endlers and honey gourami, anyway, and both apparently eat hydra up. I'll see if I can hold back on the BBS while also making sure the fry is getting what it needs. It's hiding very well in our mosses, and this morning I just made sure to drop some repashy near his hiding spot and hope that the corydoras sent some bits flying his way. The little guy appears to be picking food bits I can't even see out of the mosses so it must be doing all right!
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    I found my first hydra in my tank, and googling gives me nothing but doom and gloom. How much should I be worried about hydra? I have one tetra fry I discovered in my community tank. I have snails, too, so I'm not interested in pouring a de-wormer in that will kill my snails.
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    How about a peacock gudgeon or a sparkling gourami? EDIT: Or an American Flagfish (or two at most). Not sure if they would play well in a community, I'd have to research. Never owned one.
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    I treated my tank with a round of Maracyn a few weeks ago and did get a bacterial bloom at the end of treatment. Mine was a bit different from yours. My nitrite-consuming bacteria appeared to stay intact, while the ammonia-consuming bacteria was reduced. I have moderately hard water and a high pH without CO2 (pH 8.0-8.2, amm 0, nit 0, nitrates 5-10ppm, 10 dkH, 10 dgH) and had to go through a mini-cycle after maracyn. I never really saw nitrites elevate to a measurable degree, though!
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    I'll crush up some flakes in the morning and by the afternoon tomorrow I should have a round of baby brine hatched and ready. Thank you for the help! I might go and pick up some fry food from the LFS, too, just in case!
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    Good luck! I really hope she turns out just fine.
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    I definitely saw him picking some bits off the moss in the tank and eating it, so I think he's getting by all right. I should have some brine shrimp ready to go tomorrow just in case. What a fun surprise! Couldn't come at a better time after I felt like I had a bit of a rough start with a round of antibiotics and a mini-cycle to endure!
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    I'm no expert and I unfortunately don't have much advice, other than wait-and-see or some aquarium salt in the tank just in case. If she isn't getting worse I would wait, try to take pictures to remind yourself how it looked, and monitor. I AM seeing some pictures on google of platy with lighter lips, so it might not be abnormal for her. It's hard to tell from the photos how intense the white discoloration is on her face! I know for my tetra it looked like he had a fuzzy white mustache while the infection was active.
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    So today I spotted a free-swimming fish fry in my tank with my son. I'm shocked, because I didn't think my tetras were mature enough to breed. But it's survived long enough to be about half an inch, I'd say? Maybe bigger? It's hiding now! I have some baby brine shrimp in a hatchery right now, but is there anything else I should do for the little guy? I had no idea it was even in there!
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    Has the mouth rot gotten worse or spread during treatment? Does it look inflamed at all? If not, I'd just observe at this point. I had a tetra with mouth rot a month ago, the 'fungus' went away but the scales/skin are still healing up. He acts completely normal and looks a lot better, but it takes a good awhile to close up.
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    I have two crypt tropicas in my tank from Aquarium Co-Op and they are two of my best-looking plants in the tank. I experienced some meltback but not a lot. The new leaves should be much more crinkly than the emmersed-grown leaves. According to tropica's site, that variety of crypt wendtii does well in harder water (which I have at 10-12 dGH / 10-12 dKH). I've had mine in the tank for about a month and a half, and they don't grow super quickly but there was noticeable growth and fullness after a month in my low-tech tank. For ferts I used root tabs, Easy Green and some extra Easy Iron once weekly. Do you have any water column fertilizers?
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    Hi there! I have alkaline water (8.0 - 8.2 ph), and it's only moderately hard (10 dGH, 10dKH). High pH is typically a sign of a higher amount of buffer in the water, which means our water is.... very resistant to pH changes from tannins. I have driftwood and indian almond leaves in my tank and there has been no effect on the pH whatsoever. I don't really think that the pH is causing your honey gourami issues and suspect he might just need more time or a friend to keep him company. BUT... I'm not really an expert. Just a guess, and what I've found through my research when I worried about my 'hard' water!
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    I agree, it looks like a columbian tetra. No red eyeshadow on that little guy! So happy for you for getting your diamonds, though. Mine seem to color up more and get more color every week. We have one "alpha" male that is the biggest and most mature of the bunch, and his fins are already lengthening and getting gorgeous. I hope you love your school of tetra! EDIT: You should also be able to sex them pretty easily as they get their colors! Males tend to be a bit leaner, longer, and their stripe is less pronounced. They also have a pink tint to their top fins. Females have smaller fins, rounder bodies, and clear/yellow-tinted top fins.
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    Absolutely! Good luck, my husband measured and cut, then sanded the edges down nicely. Luckily picking up some decent plywood from home depot is no big deal, though I certainly recommend doing it *BEFORE* stocking your tank than two months after like I did, lol!
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    UPDATE: Definitely recommend the thick plywood! Works perfectly under the tank, still perfectly level. 🙂
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    I'm not putting any mat under it, just the plywood. My stand is leveled and we'll check the leveling again after adding the plywood, which we are planning to do tonight.
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    The same thing happened to me! I did not do any water changes, but I added a bottle of Tetra Safe Start at that point and... it might have boosted my cycle along, or it was already headed that way, because 3 days later I had zero nitrites and my cycle completed. I did fishless cycling with plants and none of my plants suffered greatly during the process. A lot of brown diatoms showed up near the end, but it was easy to clean off the leaves of plants and it became really great snail food. No big deal.
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    This is wild. If the Kanaplex isn't knocking it out, maybe it's viral? I have no idea. I'm sorry this is happening, it's so frustrating and sad. I hope you can stop the spread soon.
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    My Aquarium has only been set up since late March. I'm picking up the plywood (3/4" hardwood) from Lowe's today, and we'll add it underneath the base of the tank with the next PWC. Hopefully that'll give me peace of mind. Thanks for this thread, I had never heard of this in spite of my research.
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    I use Purigen instead of a carbon filter to no ill effects! I'm relatively new but haven't had an issue so far. Googling is telling me it shouldn't be an issue.
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