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    I have a 2 cup container I keep for dips on the shelf under my 75 gallon. I haven't had to use it in a long time but I'm ready 🙂 !
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    Salt dip, then remove any molts for a few weeks after treating. Might have to do it a few times. Taken from Michael @ aquarium breeder. He has some really good articles Take 1 tablespoon of salt and add it to a cup of aquarium water. Dissolve the salt in the water by stirring it. When it is completely dissolved, take the infected shrimp out of your tank and put it into the cup for about 30-60 seconds. Then remove the shrimp and put it back to your aquarium. Remove molts for the next 2-3 weeks. I have personally done this and it works. None of my shrimps were as bad as yours though. I have actually kopt them in the dip for around a minute, but that's pushing it.
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    those are awesome!
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    I don't even want to try and count em... That would be admitting I had a problem.. lol
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    I used a bath towel to catch my 20+ in channel cat. Drained the tank down to about 1/4 first of course. Wet heavy towel helped control the fish. Never tried it on a fast swimmer however, and channel cats don't have scales..
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    Very inspiring set up! Can't show this to my wife, or her 55 will be a goldfish tank lol
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    My emperor tetras do the same, no injuries they are just doing tetra stuff. Heavy planting, things that break line of sight can help if the chasing is relentless.
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    I've done the same, looked like a volcano erupted in there for a couple hours 🙂 The fish get all exited by the floaters...
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    Male dwarf gouramis.... mean, ruthless, bullies.
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    welcome, and wow what a collection of tanks!
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    Forgot to add, nice artwork!
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    Love the updates! Those mystery snails... ugh... when they get big they can throw a tank off pretty quick when they die. Lost almost a whole blue dream colony before I discovered a few and a rotting egg clutch.
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    Congratulations! Success stories always make my day, thanks for sharing.
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    I think the key with the anubias is removing it without damaging the rhizome.
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    Welcome to the forum. Always nice to see people getting in to the hobby. I like the 55s, really nice size and enough room for some interesting set ups.
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    Holy crud @Bill Smith, this is cool! I know it's been said before, but you sir are a genius! I've got to make one of these for my 75. Not a big fan of dunking my armpits in the tank for root tabs. I have discovered an effective way of removing duckweed from my tanks however... just dunk my hairy arms in there. Way faster than using a net.
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    I love this thread! Moved my powerhead sponge combo from the 55 to the 75 and replaced it with a much smaller pump for less movement. Forgot Corys advice about bagging the sponge before lifting it out. what a mess. The other power head was too much for the chilis but the glowlights really like it and are busy surfing. My wife surprised me with some Cryptocoryne wendtii, a couple tiger lotus, and a melon sword Friday. So I did the plant shuffle and moved some monstrous jungle val runners out of her 55 to the kubotai tank in the other room. I am again reminded what a pain in the neck eco-complete is...
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    Never had honey gouramis, not sure. I have 2 female dwarf gouramis in with some emperor tetras, and they do ok during feeding time. I've kept swordtails (long time ago) and they seemed to get along with my other fish. Not sure how mollies would do with kubotai. I'm sure someone here has tried it. I'd have to say besides the shrimp my kubotai are my favorites.. so I'm a bit biased 🙂 Mine got along great with my shrimp when they were in the 75. They would even take turns in the feed dish full of shrimp. They'd do a little swish to get the pellet particles to float, then grab those in stead of the pellets. The glowlights just knock the the shrimp out of the way. I'd compare their activity to nippy tetra behavior. They are pretty though, and do have some very interesting spawning behavior, which they do a lot.
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    Just a heads up my glowlight danios are very boisterous and fast. They may outcompete the gouramis for food. I have around a dozen in my 75. I moved my kubotai school to the 55 because the glowlights were hogging all the food and stressing them out.
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    I'm rooting for ya!!
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    Pond snails. Awesomely illustrated by H.K.Luterman 🙂 I have few pretty good sized ones out back in my pond.
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    Not sure if anyone has mentioned it yet but add a pothos to the tank. You can get small ones them cheap at lowes or home depot. usually for anywhere from 4 to 8 dollars. take it out of the pot, rinse off all of the soil and hang the roots in the water with the plants outside. Pothos are great nitrate reducers and you fish will like swimming around in the roots. I have one growing out of the back of my 75 gallon, it's probably over 8 feet long now.
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    Those Amanos are not afraid to roam, that's for sure 🙂
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    To me.. The rostrum on yours looks different than the Orange Bee image Patrick_G posted.
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    Wow, sooo many... Having an amano shrimp run up my arm when cleaning the HOB on my 75 gallon. Moving the 75 gallon from my shop where i leak tested it to my house. Hate moving that much glass, paranoid about leaks. Waking up in middle of night and hearing water spraying onto the wall . Long time ago when I had a metal framed slate bottom tank. Trying to remove a channel catfish from my 100 gallon tank. I had drained the tank down to about 10 inches and wrapped him in a towel. This guy was huge, he could barely turn around in the tank. Anyhow I got him just past the rim of the tank, and he exploded out of the towel, smacked me in the face and proceeded to try and escape out of the living room lol. Finally got him in a large cooler and to a display tank in a local fish store. No worse for the wear I might add. That feeling of him being airborne and getting smacked in the face is funny now, but pretty scary when it happened. Moving an all glass 100 gallon tank 3 times... as a youngster my worries were mostly losing the tank or the fish. As a homeowner there's no greater fear than water damage... 100 gallons is a LOT , heck I freak out if I think a 10 gallon tank is gonna leak. Having my Oscar break the aquarium lid in that 100 gallon (also home of the channel cat). that was the point I had to rehome those two
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