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    An updated photo of the small fish room now that I have all of the tanks up and cycling. I might add 1 more 20 down low and I can squeeze a 5 gallon where the brine shrimp hatchery is.
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    My apistogramma macmasteri momma brought her babies out of the cave today! First time breeding them!
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    Here is my boy boomer. Hellboy HMPK. I love him.
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    Trident fern. Grows pretty fast for a Java fern and looks amazing
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    You could try buying a long vinyl tube for siphoning water out to your lawn so you don’t have to deal with buckets. I hate buckets.
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    So I have an aquarist fail, but I’m sharing this out of my amazement. I received 6 black schultzei corys in the mail today. All alive. Acclimated them to temp and went to do the plop and drop. I put them in the tank and they all scurry like normal. I come back an hour later and can only find 5. I’m looking everywhere and can’t find the last one. I deal with my kids and get dinner started and I’m like I know I saw 6 in the bag, where is that last guy. I throughly check the tank and only see 5, so I go to the trash and look at the bags they came in, and I was expecting a dead fish that I didn’t see when emptying the bags, well THIS LITTLE DUDE WAS STUCK UNDER THE TAPED EDGES TO MAKE THE BAG SQUARE. And there was a little bit of water, but he was ALIVE. I couldn’t believe it because it had been 3 hours at this point since I put them in the tank. I hurried and put him in the tank and he did fine, it’s now been 3 hours since he was out in the tank and he is still breathing and moving around. I will monitor. i feel terrible about this. I should have caught it. The only thing I can think of as to why he is still alive is because corys can absorb oxygen through their gut. it’s either that story, or when I was losing my red tuxedo koi colony to something that I couldn’t figure out. Meds and everything wouldn’t save them. So I put a sick momma in a breeder box and hoped she made it long enough to give birth. She did and then died a few days later and now I still have that colony of guppies.
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    Hello! mom going to be starting a L134 pleco tank in the coming months and was wondering what is the best size caves for these epic fish?
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    I love Jimmy’s photography. And if they made high quality prints for your fish room of fish jimmy had shot, I bet it would be a hit. I’m dying for a high quality L134 picture for above their tank. please Cory!
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    My honey Gouramis are male and female and the male can be a little of a turd when he wants to breed and the female is out of his league.
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    Hey all! I’m currently towards the end of my small expansion to my small fish room for breeding. I’m getting into it for fun, and a way to support the hobby. I’m currently breeding red tuxedo koi guppies, red cherry shrimp, and sterbai Corys. What’s the most fun/ rewarding fish or invertebrate that you have ever bred? I’m curious about the responses.
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    I cut out the carpet since it’s in my laundry room and I really don’t care. It was cheap stick on anyways. And I made sure the tanks were sitting level. I just want to be cautious before I fill them and start cycling to get season tank time.
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    Hello, does this work with a little gap if all 4 corners are supported, or should I buy another block and just be 💯 safe?
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    So I have an aquarist fail, but I’m sharing this out of my amazement. I received 6 black schultzei corys in the mail today. All alive. Acclimated them to temp and went to do the plop and drop. I put them in the tank and they all scurry like normal. I come back an hour later and can only find 5. I’m looking everywhere and can’t find the last one. I deal with my kids and get dinner started and I’m like I know I saw 6 in the bag, where is that last guy. I throughly check the tank and only see 5, so I go to the trash and look at the bags they came in, and I was expecting a dead fish that I didn’t see when emptying the bags, well THIS LITTLE DUDE WAS SRUCK UNDER THE TAPED EDGES TO MAKE THE BAG SQUARE. And there was a little bit of water, but he was ALIVE. I couldn’t believe it because it had been 3 hours at this point since I put them in the tank. I hurried and put him in the tank and he did fine, it’s now been 3 hours since he was out in the tank and he is still breathing and moving around. I will monitor. i feel terrible about this. I should have caught it. The only thing I can think of as to why he is still alive is because corys can absorb oxygen through their gut. I wish corys were more distinct because I will keep this guy forever. He is the smallest of the bunch and a huge fighter.
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    Wife keeps buying me stickers for my for profit rack haha.
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    It’s not an auto water change system, but I connected a drain to my washer drain so I don’t have to carry buckets everywhere full of mulm over the carpet and I can drain directly from siphon to that drain. For the tanks that are lower I plan on just pumping the water to the drain for water changes
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    Do any of you know where dean and Cory get these screws that go into pvc for the fry system and general water taps? I can’t find them.
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    I think I’m going to leave the 20s bare bottom and use a power head to pump for water changes, and it will be about 8 inches off the ground which is high enough for a 2.5 gallon bucket to be lower than the tank, that way I can spot vacuum. I think that should work.
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    Hello, I’m planning on having a mini stand built to hold some 20S below my work table. How high should the tanks be off the floor so I can gravel vac and change water okay?
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    One more question, what size tank should be dedicated for GBR grow out? I’m planning for a 20 high.
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    Okay I checked my Tap water parameters: Ph 7.4 KH 4 GH 7 TDS 302 i think this could be doable with German rams. Idk y my tds is so high with a gh of 7.
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    Yeah I’ll have to try. I’m really getting into the whole breeding game and I just wanna do it right.
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    Yeah that’s where I get confused. The coop test strip says 300 my api says anywhere from 7-10 for degrees hardness. Those two are very different.
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