HH Morant
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Lots of algae is good for preventing or softening ammonia/nitrite spikes, as well as keeping nitrates down. Plus being food for the otos. For over a week now I have had 4 new otos in a quarantine tank that is full of plants and overrun with algae. Water quality has been perfect. The only problem is that I cannot always find the otos in an aquarium full of plants and algae.
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OK, so if I open the breather bag at the top and clip one side to the rim of the aquarium, that would be OK because air can enter from the top.
But if you don't open the breather bag and there is no air inside, it won't float. So if you just drop that into your aquarium, at some point the the oxygen in the bag will be exhausted and the fish will die.
I want to ask if anyone has ever really done that, but someone probably has.
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OK, I have read all the posts above, but I still don't understand. Why is it bad to float breather bags? What might happen?
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When a plant breaches the surface as yours are doing, does it begin to get CO2 from the air?
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More and smaller bubbles move more water. That is the conclusion in a Cory video about sponge filters.
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They definitely look like mosquito larvae. Many fish love to eat them. They would not last 30 seconds in my aquarium because the angelfish would hunt them down.
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Welcome! Being a Texan myself, I am of the opinion that we can always use more Texans! Your beta looks great with the white substrate.
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Your patience is admirable. I am sure you will be rewarded with a beautiful aquarium. Have you decided on angelfish?
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Beautiful tank. Pogostemon stellatus octopus is great because it is big and appealing, but does not really deny the fish much swimming space. They can swim through it.
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You might test your tap water. The water company sometimes adds ammonia to make the water safer for humans to drink. My water sometimes has about 0.5 ppm ammonia. Prime binds the ammonia (makes it not toxic for fish) for 24 hours or so, giving my plants/bacteria time to convert it into nitrites and then to nitrates.
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To keep zucchini from floating I stick a lead plant weight through it and bend it until the ends meet. My bristlenose plecos love it. Blanching is not necessary for plecos, but maybe for otos it is.
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Putting plants in pots allows you to use soil without dirting the whole tank, I put dirt in the bottom of the pot and some substrate on top. You can use root tabs in the pots as well, You can move the plants easily, and you can remove the pots if they cause an ammonia problem.
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I like your tank, by the way. It's a chaotic jungle like mine.
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If I have an ammonia problem, I stop feeding until it is resolved. I don't know why your tank does not seem to be processing the ammonia. There is often about .5 ppm ammonia in my tap water, but I use Prime to bind the ammonia for 24 hours. Within 24 hours, the plants and bacteria in my tank turn the ammonia into nitrites and then the nitrites into nitrates so that I have zero ammonia and zero nitrites. The only thing I can think of is that there may be something in your tank that is decomposing - something that is not obvious.
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An adult spotted hoplo (also called marbled hoplo) is about 5 inches long. The brown hoplo can get as big as 8-10 inches.
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Those two catfish are the same species - spotted hoplo - one albino and one not. A brown hoplo is a different species.
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Brown hoplo or spotted hoplo?
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My peppered corydoras. Since I switched to a black lava rock substrate, they are so perfectly camouflaged I can't find them.
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Feeding 2-3 times per day is too much. The food they don't eat rots and the food they do eat is converted to poop, both of which create ammonia. One feeding per day is enough, and even then it can be good to skip a day occasionally. When you have an ammonia or nitrite problem, you should stop feeding your fish until the ammonia and nitrites are zero. The ammonia should reach zero first, then the nitrites. It is not unusual for fish in the wild to be without food for several days, so they can handle it.
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Soylent Green is a 1973 futuristic dystopian movie set in 2022. Charlton Heston finds out that the popular food Soylent Green contains a surprising ingredient. I hope Repashy has a different formula.
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Test your tap water.
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Wow, that is a beautiful tank! Eight angels in your tank, plus the 4 new angels would be 12. I have 13 angels in a 6-foot long 120 gallon tank. They spar regularly for rank in the pecking order, but never seem to really hurt each other. One pair laid some eggs twice, but my angels are all young, and most are less than a year old. My experience has been that aggressiveness waxes and wanes, but there are enough fish in the tank so that the aggression is not focused on any particular fish. I think the aggression would be worse when there is an aggressive pair and only one other fish to beat up on, as it was in your quarantine tank. As pointed out above, lots of plants and other sight barriers help, as long the plants are not so dense that the fish cannot comfortably use the space.
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I agree that beginner fish, like Steven Seagal, should be Hard to Kill.
Chlorine will evaporate if you let water sit, but your well water probably doesn't contain any chlorine. Most contaminants will not evaporate. Particulates, of course, are not going to evaporate.