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My Zamioculcas Zamiifolia v. Raven and Scindapsis Pictus v. Silvery Ann. A close up of the pattern on the leaf of my Alocasia Poly
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I don't have the Murphy flex fit, but I have blue meshback flex fit. Mine could use a good cleaning too, and you're right, there isn't any kind of care instructions on the hat. Is the Murphy one a "Richardson" brand? I looked them up and found this
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I don't know what kind of wood it is. It is soft and light. It came from Hobby Lobby. I initially bought it to transfer a photograph onto. I found that using the Dremel is much easier and more precise. I have seen that Dremel does have some router like attachments, and am curious about the applications for it. I have never used my Dremel for carving or shaping wood, mostly I use it for light sanding and polishing.
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I think it could depending on the type of fish, size of fry, and the rate of flow. I don't think it is an apocalyptic fry slaying machine. The pores are large enough that you can see the inner chamber. I have witnessed baby shrimp, baby snails, and even pygmy corydoras fry entering and exiting the sponge. Clearly it doesn't suck them in, but I think if they ventured far enough into it that they might not get back out. In the picture below you can see small Malaysian trumpet snails inside the sponge.
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I think that frantic swimming could be from pheromones released by females before breeding. Red Cherry Shrimp WWW.AQUARIUMCOOP.COM Over the past few years, there has been a great deal of interest in keeping dwarf shrimp in the... Depending on how old they are. Maybe they are old enough to start reproducing.
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What's your setup look like? Are you mounting the feeder to the rim of the tank or can you set it on the lid?
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So I've had a pair of bristlenose pleco for over a year. I bought a trio as juveniles and eventually after about four months two of them started growing bristles. The third one stayed much smaller and never developed any bristles, I figured it was a female. I separated the largest one from the other two. The larger of the two would always chase and charge the female so I put a cave in the tank and the male soon claimed it as his and left the small female alone. Months later now and I hadn't seen the male out in several days during feeding. I could see his tail in the cave and checked to see if he was alive in there and I found fry. The fry were huddled up and some were swimming around in the cave. They still have visible yolk sacs. I put them in a hang on breeder box.I really have no idea what I'm doing. How long do they feed from their yolk sac? Can they fungus while their sac is exposed? Will algae wafers work for food? I put some spider wood twigs with them because I think I saw in some fishroom tour that someone was doing that so they could feed on that. Advice?
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Wouldn't the coarse sponge filter out finer particles as it begins to clog? I have both kinds. I use them more for water movement than for filtering anything. I also use them with HOBs. I will say that I'm part of the not really maintaining the sponge filter group. It's nice that it takes the coarse sponge takes a while to clog. I once did not service the coarse sponge filter for several months and when I did, I found 3 medium sized Rams Horn Snails in side of it. It was odd because I removed all the Rams Horns from that tank. I'm guessing when they were tiny baby snails that they could actually make their way through the sponge into the hollow part under the air stone. Their shells were all beat up like they had been tumbling around in there.
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Damselfly Nymph?
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Just curious, where are you abroad? Are the stores you are going to private businesses or a chain? Did you buy the sponge filter in the photo? It looks like you could replace the sponge on it.
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Shrimp and Snail Sunday - Show Off Your Invertebrates!
Aubrey replied to Daniel's topic in Photos, Videos & Journals
Once upon a time I had a crazy amount of shrimp.
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What I've learned so far is that cheap tools give cheap results. I was almost finished doing what I thought would be a first pass on removing the surrounding wood when the chisels stopped cutting and started chipping the wood. This left a deep pit in one area. So after seeing that Cory said the original was made with an electric chisel, I decided that a dremel was fair to use. Plus the sizes of the tips of the chisels I have could not fit the size of some of the letters or spacing. Anyway, this is what it looked like after about two hours and before I dremeled anything. Notice the pit.
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So a while back, well over a year ago, I ordered a small wood carving chisel set from Wish. It was one of those "free" items but you pay shipping. I don't know why I bought it, I've never carved anything in my life. Anyway, I've been inspired to make use of it. As an homage to Aquarium Co-Op, I've decided to try to replicate the Enjoy Nature Daily carving(put that on some merch please). Although it will much smaller and more crude with this being my first foray into wooden relief carving. So far I've sketched it out and tested some of the chisels. If I don't post an update just assume it resulted in a failure.
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I used to have one. I called him Pistol Pete because he would always come out from where ever he was and confront me with pinchers blazing that reminded me of finger guns.
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Working the old identification muscles
Aubrey replied to Taylor Blake's topic in Photos, Videos & Journals
Caught in a tributary of the White River in NW Ar. Looking for second opinions. Creek Chub Semotilus atromaculatus?
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I would say try the cherries out since you have a thriving colony and could always "make" more, while Amanos might mean having to buy more since they are not easily reproduced. I have an Amano that lives with 5 whiteclouds and I have seen it defend itself by jumping at them when they get too close. Although the Amano is the same size if not bigger than the whiteclouds and I don't think they are trying to eat it or could eat it. Any time I've tried cherries with an aggressive\curious fish, like a betta, the cherries just hid. In my experience shrimp don't do much in the way of getting rid of algae, maybe they help prevent some, so you might have a better experience with the SAE or ottos. The only cichlid I have ever kept was a Firemouth, and I used to get him feeder ghost shrimp. So to me shrimp are cichlid snacks.
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Fry day Friday - Show Us Photos of your Baby Fish
Aubrey replied to Daniel's topic in Photos, Videos & Journals
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The new fish room and studio build thread.
Aubrey replied to Cory's topic in Photos, Videos & Journals
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I don't know all the ins and outs of import/export 😉, but it seems like things get rather complicated with islands. Also I found out while doing a little research that Oryzias Latipes is considered endangered in the wild in Japan which I'm sure could make things complicated and difficult, but could not find a clear answer if that has anything to do with being able to ship the aquaria strains overseas. Then there are the trans-shipping fees if you could import. Which I found out can be around $20 per fish on top of the price of the fish, shipping price to the trans-shipper, and then shipping price from the trans-shipper to you. At this point I've decided that it is not worth it economically for a common hobbyist such as myself, that has no intention of breeding for profit, to import any fancy strain from Japan. Although I do think that it could be an economic win for a breeder. I'm going to keep researching while I wait for @Cory to go to Japan, get some eggs, start up his urban fish farm, and then hope he ships fish.
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Working the old identification muscles
Aubrey replied to Taylor Blake's topic in Photos, Videos & Journals
@MACand @Taylor BlakeI'm not 100% certain, but I think it is a banded sculpin. Based on I collected it in northwest Arkansas, it has a full lateral line, and the dorsal fins are not joined.
