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  1. Planarians do not start out as the thin hairlike worms. They just look like mini ones. Detritus worm is my guess and your loaches will find them to be a fabulous buffet.
  2. Looks great. Good luck. Share baby photos when you get them.
  3. Thanks for sharing in action shots. I’ve seen them but never assembled
  4. My friend Jen from Smallworld Aquatics gave me 8 of these to put in my ADF tank and breed for BAP points. I’ve only had them for 2 days along with a terrible cold 😣 so I do not have a lot of info on them. she sent me this photo which shows a momma with eggs. You can see them as she carries them around to deposit. Pretty cool. Neither her photo or my photo show the beautiful blue in the body. Once I get well I’ll play with lights to see if I can get some good photos and videos.
  5. I’ve not tried but I’m very interested in your results.
  6. They are larger than my beckfordi. So far about the same personality with a bit higher activity level. I’ve only had these in the tank for about 3 hours. I love the intense wiggle sparring of the beckfords as well as the color change and personality. I can’t give any more comparisons yet. These are way too pricey for me. But hey if someone gives me free fish and asks me to try and breed them I’m all in!!!! Here are my Beckfordi.
  7. Command home from the swap with these guys today. My friend got them from Dans Fish and asked if I would breed them. https://dansfish.com/catalog.dive/3 These are so gorgeous in person. Absolutely stunning. Looks like 2 boys 3 girls. I put them in a 15g with a collection cup. Wish me luck !
  8. I’m so happy for you. Right now I’m participating in my clubs Breeders Awards program so my tanks are packed full of eggs and fry of many types. I do not have a tank to hatch a large group of Aspidora. They have a few that survive in the tank. It’s oddly planted with large lotus bamboo that forms a fence along the back wall. They hide behind that fence as soon as the net hits the water 😖 As I get them I can send them in small groups. If you would want that. If not I’ll make time and space to hatch a dedicated batch before winter to get them to you. I hope you still have my phone number. I lost yours when I got a new phone ☹️Call or text me or direct message me your number so I can stay in contact with you. These guys do not breed until around a year. I think yours are just now reaching that 1 year mark. Worms trigger breeding. I’ll send you some worm cultures with the first small group. You may start getting breeding. They like to lay in flow on the glass. If you have a small powerhead not too strong maybe point it at a wall near the top of the tank. 🤗
  9. Put it in the garden. It’s so nutrient rich my flowers go crazy. Worm castings are the best fertilizer…even better than used tank water.
  10. I find gut loading my worms not necessary. As long as I feed high quality to them always I see no issues. Some folks feed just bread on the regular which is not high nutrient. In those cases it may be beneficial but otherwise it’s probably so negligible a difference as to not matter. take small portions of your main culture and put into 2 dishes and try both ways. I would love to see your testing results. I personally would not just experiment on my mother cultures and risk crashing them.
  11. I agree with this normally. Being a new tank that is not yet alive with micro life there will not be much grazing to be had. In a well planted well established tank I have gone for 3-4 weeks between feedings for my CPD groups to clean up out of control microfauna tanks. Having just purchased the CPD and at the size I’m guessing they are the lack of microfauna and added commercial food may weaken them. Using an autofeeder on a not fully cycled tank is asking for trouble. You are in a tough spot that requires a less than ideal judgment call either way you go. If you feel they are healthy add them to the main tank. If you have even a hint out doubt that even 1 is not acting quite right do not. Another option which is a half way you can take a lot of plants moss preferably but any plants the bushier the better and add them from the main tank to the qt to get the microfauna to the qt so they have food for your absence
  12. Monumental DUH I AM AN IDIOT day yesterday. I have been trying to get Psuedomugil luminatus eggs for a year. They hide from any spawning mop or moss hanging clump I put in the tank. I did see them spawn on the intake sponge of s HOB. I tried the mop again 2 weeks ago. Everyday for 2 weeks I checked the mop for eggs AGAIN. Nothing 😣 Yesterday I was so frustrated I pulled the mop and laid it out so I could clean it. It laid there for 20 minutes. I picked it up to clean the now drained mop and almost fell over. 20 eggs. How??? They hide and won’t go near the mop. I plucked the eggs off and returned it to the tank. Certain I killed these eggs I contacted a friend @SJ fishing who breeds these and he assured me he has left his eggs out and these should hatch just fine. They also explained the eggs are crazy hard to see if you don’t drain the mop a bit. My old lady eyes have probably been missing hundreds of eggs over this past year I never drained the mop before to look. I will know in roughly 10 days if I killed the eggs by drying to much I know when I’m not in the room the luminatus hunt the substrate. As soon as I enter they dart to the top. They won’t hunt the substrate when I’m in the room. I sat peeking around the corner for an hour and sure enough they spawned again in the mop. Maybe not going near the mop is a defense mechanism so potential predators do not think there is anything in the mop worth checking out. 🤷‍♀️
  13. For shrimp population explosion it’s not a big concern. They produce very little bioload (waste). Many babies will get eaten as @Lennie said. Ramshorns are a different matter. They produce a lot of waste and will degrade your water quality. I’m a snail lover and find them beneficial to planted tank but I speak from experience on that. I recommend removing some of them as you see them in an easy spot on the front glass to help keep the numbers in check. it won’t seem like they are a problem until they are. They multiply exponentially.
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