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  1. laritheloud
    I... did not know that special consideration needed to be made for acrylic? I got a metal stand with metal supports cutting across the center to hold my 29 gallon acrylic. EDIT: Now I'm purchasing a piece of plywood to add underneath just in case...
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    Did you keep any filter media from the previous filter? I'd think the cloudy water would be bacterial bloom for the nitrifying bacteria.
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    Since there's no improvement I'd probably bomb the tank with antibiotics. Whatever it is, it's really virulent. I'm sorry this is happening 😞
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    It looks like staghorn algae. I currently have some in my tank, too, mostly on my Java Fern. Not many creatures eat it, unfortunately. You could try nerite snails but mine won't eat it. You could also try Amano shrimp, otocinclus catfish... spot treating with easy carbon or flourish excel... I know it's a sign of an imbalanced tank but I don't think it's very well-understood how to get rid of it for good. Try and play around with water flow, lighting, and nutrient levels (which is what I'm doing).
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    I treated my tank with a full course of maracyn, and I did see a setback in my biofilter. It was about a week and a half of monitoring ammonia levels, performering every-48-hour water changes and dosing Seachem Prime. I would focus on treating the disease first and monitoring water parameters throughout and and the end of treatment. With Maracyn, I did not see nitrite levels affected, but my ammonia rose marginally -- never exceeding 0.5 ppm. Keep an eye on it and be prepared to do a lot of water changes if you need to.
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    There are ways to safely cycle with fish, especially with a planted tank. Just do it smart, take it slow, and add only a few fish at a time along with bacteria starter. Dose prime as necessary and change the water as needed. I chose to cycle fishlessly, but all of that kind of went out the window when I set back my cycle with an antibiotic treatment and had to do a fish-in cycle anyway. @Jaybfish lefty o and Ken both have great advice. Start with your plants. Get some bacteria bottles, have them ready. Keep Seachem Prime closeby for any emergency detoxifying for ammonia/nitrite. Monitor your water parameters as you go and don't add more than one or two fish every week or two. Establishing plants first will help the cycle tremendously. Good luck!
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    I have a 29 gallon and usually refill with the Python attached directly to the tap. I dose the full tank volume (about 3 ml to a capful, I guesstimate).
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    https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/help-white-stringy-stuff-on-oscar-and-jag.717052/ This is the one place where I found it. Take it with a grain of salt because I'm not highly experienced, and I'm not a vet! I just thought the stringy stuff on this oscar resembled the stringy white stuff in the photos of OP's ember tetra.
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    I tried to do a google search on it, too, and there was some discussion that this kind of white stringy stuff could be over-production of slime coat in response to some sort of injury. Either physical or internal (with parasites). You can try a parasite treatment like General Cure or Paracleanse and if there's no response I'd move on to antibiotics. I'm so sorry this is happening, I would be incredibly stressed out and anxious. It's tough when it's all guesswork like this.
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    I just looked these up the other day. They're freshwater limpets. Really tiny, don't really cause harm, similar to snails. I just let them do their thing.
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    I recently treated my tank with antibiotics and had to deal with a mini-cycle afterwards. I chose to keep an eye on the parameters and throw in some beneficial bacteria during treatment, but I'm not sure it made a difference. Just be prepared to stay on top of water changes once the treatment is over, use seeded media from another tank if possible, and keep up with dosing prime and stability/bacteria of choice. It took my tank a little over a week to stabilize again. Good luck, hope your fish get better!
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    Now that my tank is stabilized again and my quarantine tank is nearing the end of its cycle, I'm back here, dreaming about what to add next. 😄 Thinking we might add one more mystery snail since we love the little guys (we have only 1 right now). And then maybe.... male endlers or the rasboras. I have two LFSs I am trying. One I've been to already and it has an enormous selection of all sorts of fish, the other a smaller selection but exceptional customer service and lots of locally-bred fish (that he quarantines before putting them up for sale). They have honey gouramis and guppies/endlers that were locally bred, but expressed some reticence about pairing diamond tetras with the honeys... then proceeded to say they have angelfish. Which I admit confused me a lot. I never heard of diamond tetras being a problem with gouramis (and have seen videos of other tanks with honey gouramis and diamonds coexisting peacefully), and so far, they don't bother any of my other tank inhabitants at all. I also have 0 plans of putting an angel into my 29 gallon, and I firmly believe that I would need a bigger tank before even considering them. Otherwise, the owner seemed really friendly and welcoming, and I'd love to support locally-bred. Maybe I'll add a small top-dwelling fish -- maybe 3 of them at first -- and see how the tetras respond to them. I don't see any reason to be concerned as long as I make sure everyone gets fed.
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    Apistogrammas are dwarf cichlids! Beautiful fish, usually peaceful and work just fine in a community setting, often territorial when in breeding mode.
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    You can try nerite snails, but my nerites won't eat the staghorn algae I have. Sigh....
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    Yep, I got hitchikers and find them fun! But the population is definitely getting controlled now that I have cories. Very few little ones make it when them munching on the eggs.
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    Just a minor heads up since you like inverts -- if you get little bladder snails or pond snails, they will snack on snail eggs (not nerite eggs but they don't hatch anyway). 🤣 Caught one of mine slurping them up after a water change last night.
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    They're going to be so adorable!!!
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    Seeing them in person helps, too! You might like one over the other more strongly when you see them at your LFS. 🙂 Enjoy!
  19. laritheloud
    Get the bilineatus. I have a close relative to the San Juan cories -- the Corydora Elegans -- and the shimmer and sheen to the scales is beautiful. They're also utterly adorable and a little different from the more common Cory species. Enjoy!
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    Nevermind, I figured out that it is a freshwater limpet. Cool!
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    Baby bladder snails in comparison
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    I have seen this little guy on and off for a week and I have no idea what it is. Baby bladder snails (I have a bunch) don’t look like him. Anyone have any idea if this is another bladder snail or something else?
  23. laritheloud
    I have soilent green and my mystery snail really enjoys it. Tetras sneak bites, and I can't tell if my corydoras are a fan of it. They seem to like the hikari sinking wafers better. No plecos, so I can't tell you how they would like it!
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    I have a 29 gallon with 6 cory cats and they are sooooo worth it. The most adorable little bumbling sweethearts ever. But the mystery snail is one of my faves to watch. I only have one, but I definitely want to pick up another color the next time I'm at my LFS! I hope to start a neocaridina shrimp tank someday, but I don't think it's a good idea to throw tiny shrimp in with hungry tetras. 🤣
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    Thanks for the reads! I don't think I'm ready to start with injecting CO2 because it would invite a bit too much anxiety for me to be comfortable with as a newcomer. Right now, I think it's wiser to perfect my lighting/ferts balance. I'll stick to low tech for now and see what I can grow with strictly dosing the water column.
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