Revaria

I wrap my pothos around the rim of the aquarium, when it starts getting too long I just trim sections to root in other tanks and then spread them around the fish room or give them to coworkers.

I really like your set up, its quite pretty for such an enclosed space and I think the light is just fine for the plants you have. I would also like to note I'm part of the if its not broke don't fix it party; unless its really really time for an upgrade. I actually had moss balls before in my fluval flex, but I got lazy with the rotating and it mostly disappeared over time. I have also messed around with riccia before and I grow plenty of christmas moss in my other tanks. Overall from my experience most of your plants should do just fine with the light as they are not high demand plants, but over time the moss and the riccia might take over everything and over shading from other plants might become a concern and if you don't realize it some species might wither away.

Best of luck with the next batch you get and the last straggler. I personally feed super tiny fry the 5-50 micron golden pearls from brine shrimp direct using a interdental brush for braces if they can't eat bbs when they first hatch. If the lone jar is too big and you want to get quickly use it, you can also mix it up with flake food to feed your other fish.

I have anubias barteri, anubias golden and java fern windelov in mine and they seem pretty bullet proof. All of them survived the initial few months, but the tiger lily and crypt wendtii wasted away over time. I believe the hood held in a lot of moisture and the flow may have affected the floating leaves of the tiger lily, so I can't recommend it; no idea what happened to the crypt though. Currently though the windelov is out of the tank as they are housing the fry in another tank, but they are quite large. Just a heads up you can actually disassemble the pump that comes with the flex to clean out the sponge that is right behind the cap, it took me a year to realize that and I probably shaved a few years off of mine, but its been 3 years, since I set up the tank it and its still quite strong.

Welcome from across the river in NY!

Its good to hear that you had success rearing the fry, I'm surprised they take baby brine already as they are quite tiny. I'm just feeding mine the 5 - 50 micron golden pearls I use for my Boesemani Rainbows, I'll just transition to live baby brine and flakes later on. I'm not sure how well egg tumblers would work for you, they work well enough the times I've used them for shrimp, but it was always a pain getting them into the actual tumbler for me mops or plants was always just easier as no one seems to get enough free time nowadays. A mass of eggs also didn't seem to bother the eggs much as long as the rate in the tumbler was good. Also if your fish are out swimming your pipette, get the turkey baster lol.

Huh this is an interesting project; I didn't realize you could strip the eggs of rice fish and still have them be viable. I don't know what the average hatch time for rice fish would be, but I don't think temperature variations would change the hatch rate for more than a few days. Your fish seems to be developing quite nicely, but if they aren't hatching or are disappearing that means somewhere along the line they failed. How large is the container you are using to hatch the eggs and are you using air circulation as well to circulate the water. My experience with smaller containers is that the water would foul faster so the batch would have an increased chance of going bad if a few eggs went bad. My hatching tanks are usually in a 2.5-gallon tank with a fast air bubbler and a small heater, if necessary, higher temps increase the hatching speed, but I usually try to keep it around 77-78 unless other fish keepers mentioned some pertinent information. There is always an extra mop to break up the flow of the water as well, to prevent the new born fry from being taken over by the wave. And I don't know if this matters, but the environment of the tank is usually naturally dark as well due to the nature of my fish room.

I never tried a capsule of daphnia; it seems easier to just get them live from another hobbyist or from an online seller on Aquabid. I tried both magna and Moina from aquabid and they did just fine, granted the maintenance of the colonies is quite tedious.

My ricefish have been breeding in my Java fern, but Java moss or home made mops should work just as well. Best of luck the fry are super tiny!

Ahh don't give up! I would say transitioning fish from the store to your home for the first 3-6 months is quite hard, but if you are successful then your fish should live a long time with care. If you aren't successful multiple attempts might be needed before you are successful, it’s just part of mastering that particular species in my opinion. Besides you can always breed more once you get the hang of it. Your tank seems to be doing fine as all the other fish are surviving, it may just be the guppies themselves. You can go back to the store and see how the rest of their stock have fared. Guppies tend to move from arrival to the store to someone's home sold quite quickly, so if a batch is bad or the weaker individuals have not been sorted out you may end up with them. Just an idea, but your local fish club may also be a good source of locally sourced guppies which would be hardier as well. For some reason in my fish room new guppies have a high chance of crashing within a couple of months, like yours they tend to do fine for a little bit, but end up shimmying and refusing food. It seems to happen to everyone, Stan Shubel was a famous guppy breeder who passed away a few years ago had individual guppies that would occasionally stop eating and start shimmying and that behavior would spread to the other fish. His solution was to stop feeding and also isolate the individuals before it affected the colonies. As for tail rot, he thought it stemmed from too much food being put into the aquarium increasing the likeliness of a bacterial infection. For me sometimes increasing the hardness of the water with shrimp minerals helps and they recover, but it doesn't always work. Regardless my workaround has been to breed them quickly as the babies will be much hardier and more conditioned to your water than the parents, so if I lose the parents the colony will survive!

I personally think that most fish keepers have similar hobbies to other fish keepers. If you watch some of the other fishtubers out there you might find other hobbies you enjoy such as gardening, keeping reptiles or tinkering. As for myself I also play the guitar granted I started learning a year ago so I'm just reaching that point where I may be able to learn a song, put together warhammer figures, play video games, workout, participate in paddling dragonboats and nowadays travel when possible.

Welcome to the forum, also are you by chance a anime fan as well?

Hi everyone, I just thought I would introduce myself instead of being a lurker on the forum. I'm currently taking it easy with the hobby, but I've probably been in the hobby for at least a decade at this point and have bred a small variety of fish and crustaceans. Currently I'm mostly focused on keeping the number of my crayfish, shrimp, rainbowfish, pencilfish, otos and plecos steady. I wish I had more time and space for more species, but its not possible at the moment. Regardless its always fun to learn from other breeders and hobbyists, not to mention the genius ideas they have of spawning and raising fish. I hope to see everyone around.