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    This was deemed "Meme of the week" by Joel.
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    I hatched brine shrimp for the first time about two weeks ago. I tried straining them straight from the hatchery with a reusable coffee filter over a jar and then rinsed them over another jar to dump them into freshwater for feeding. I've since changed my method, but I left the saltwater with a few of the hatchlings that somehow made it through the filter. I remembered it earlier when cleaning around the kitchen and noticed that the babies are not babies anymore. So I decided to take a look up close.
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    When friends and family know what "the forum" is even though they don't participate in it. That's the next level.
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    @gardenman$4.99 a month
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    I have had this orchid for about 2 years. This is the first time it has bloomed since I brought it home.
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    @Will Billyand anyone else that is interested, there is a section in the back of the Innes book referencing other books on page 311. You can try searching for any that pique your interest on Biodiversity Heritage Library
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    I don't know if it's the best, but it's full of amazing pictures and useful breeding information. Every page has at least one glossy picture on it depicting some aspect of breeding.
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    I've seen the use of a vaccum former in prop replication to get exact, detailed, and light weight replicas of different items. It makes me wonder about using one for 3d backgrounds. It seems like it would be an ideal application. Just lay out some flat stones and wood pieces and form the plastic around them. I'm not sure about the plastics you would use and if they would be aquarium safe though. Or maybe you could use the form as a mold for use with aquarium safe materials. It's something I would like to try if I had a work space.
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    My mistake. Lol
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    We see here the Skunk Cory, Panda Cory, and Laser Cory. What other Corys exist?
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    I don't know anything about them really, that was just my best guess.
  12. Aubrey
    Caddisfly larvae?
  13. Aubrey
    Agreed. Mason jars and window screen were hot commodities when I was a child. I had a teacher call my parents on more than one occasion to come pick up whatever critter I decided to take to school for show and tell.
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    2007 was when I first got a tank on my own. I kept it for about 3 years before moving and passing it on. At some point in the 90s my parents got my brother and me a tank, but I don't recall really wanting it. Not that I wasn't interested in it, but it wasn't something that I solely cared for. I got back into keeping aquariums in 2016 or 2017. This was the first time that I had multiple tanks.
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    I would like to attend another one. I went to the one in Dallas in 2019 and had great time. It was the first fish event of any kind that I had been to. I went all 3 days and spent most of my time there at the talks being given which were very much catered to hobbyists. It was pretty cool to me to view all the shrimp entered into the shrimp contest, the first time I saw a live purple neo. It was also neat to be able to meet all the quasi famous fishtube people and see how they interact outside the frame of their videos.
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    Neocaridina are able to climb out of water, but not as well as amanos. The one pictured below tried for several minutes to climb up the glass, but was never successful. I sometimes do find dried up shrimp around my aquarium, although it is rimless and has floating plants as well as hydrocotyle that grows along the surface and over the side of the tank. I think some shrimp might be scaling the hydrocotyle and others may be getting stuck on the mats of floating plants and flipping themselves out of the tank. I recently watched a video about shrimp on parade. It makes me wonder if neos might have a similar instinct since I usually see mine climbing the cascade of the HOB and trying to climb the glass near it.
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    I think the topic of the real fish police is interesting. I know I've purchased house plants from overseas and had to pay for a phytosanitary certificate. Do aquatic plants go through a similar process? I know Cory mentioned a tetra he wanted to import from Peru was classified as a "food" fish and was not able to be imported. I would enjoy hearing more about all the laws, permits, and ethical reasonings involved in the global fish/plant trade. It might seem boring, but ultimately they do effect us hobbyists too.
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    They are a pain to remove. I haven't had nerites in a while, maybe a year, but their eggs are still all over the driftwood and even some Malaysian trumpet snails.
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    Do you have a nerite snail in the same tank as that pot? Those look like nerite eggs.
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    I recieved a plant from the Co-Op today after it spent about two weeks in the mail. I decided to take a qiuck look at what was in the water squeezed from the rock wool. 64x and 160x with 3x zoom on the camera
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    That's the only reason I bought it. I will probably never drink it.
  23. Aubrey
    I prefer to keep my fish on the cooler side during transport. Turns out this is the perfect size. Coincidence?
  24. Aubrey
    I was searching through my fishes of Arkansas book for orangethroat darters and came across the information that it is a clade. My Peterson's field guide backed this up. Anyway I just thought that was interesting. Last fall I decided to get into life listing and microfishing, and I am not looking forward to trying to identify darters.
  25. Aubrey
    They look like cyclops and detritus worms. Nothing to worry about.
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