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Another equilibrium vote. I also use either Kent or api liquid calcium for my Livebearers and snails. I do occasionally throw in a wondershell my shrimp love them

I have used them. Remove chemical filtration. Test daily I only ever have them cause nitrites to spike for awhile and once ammonia. But my q tank recovered quickly on the bio filter side every time. ParaCleanse says on the box it may disrupt bio filter but the harm from ammonia and nitrite if you remove bio filter will hurt your fish more meaning more water changes and more meds and more expensive

Steamed, blanched fresh green beans or NO SALT ADDED canned green beans. Mystery snails go nuts for them. If your nitrates are over 40 they will display like that. Also if there is ammonia or nitrite or water is too soft lacking minerals and calcium. Wonder shells do wonders for them. They also become less active if they are alone.

Ps guppies jump when in uncomfortable space put cheese cloth or lay cardboard over your bowl.

Guppy clamped fins is also commonly a bacterial infection and if it is parasites it opens them to secondary bacterial infection and fin rot from weakened immunity I would definitely use ParaCleanse and Maracyn (not Maracyn two). You can use them together at the same time. ACO has YouTube instructions listed as I believe quarantine trio med.

Mystery snails for fun you can watch the clutch mature and hatch. They love fresh steamed veggies so feeding is inexpensive supplemented with wafers. Bladder snails fascinate me to no end. Check your water before doing a shell dweller tank. Most shells need higher ph and hardness if you have it naturally it’s a breeze.

Agree. Let it run its coarse. I very lightly vacuum all exposed substrate each time....I’m very heavily stocked in most of mine but all are long term established. each time I pick one section to deep vacuum and make my way across the tank. Add some ACO carbon filter pad or any activated carbon in the hob for the smell and poly filter pads for small particulate debris. The cloudiness will only get worse and stay cloudy longer with excess water changes on new tanks. Add an extra air stone to replace the oxygen the extra bacteria are using. After a month or two you will notice it looking cleaner and clearer Mother Nature has this down to a science our involvement usually messes it up. Test your water daily let the test tell you how much water and how often/much to change. The floaties and such will go away. When adding water after water change do not dump it stirs up tons of floaties diffuse the stream with your hand. Fast growing stem plants will also reduce smell. Adding a canister will not help with either of these issues. I add hobs to the tanks I use cans on to improve clarity of fine particulates stuffed with poly filter pads.

I quarantine now for 10 days...I had Damselfly larvae hatch in my shrimp tank.

Do you have driftwood or Indian almond leaves. The yellow would be tannins leeching. Boil the driftwood rinse repeat until water is clear Cloudy white may be bacterial bloom if recently established

I use them and my mystery and bladder snails reproduce fine. My neocaridina shrimp are ALWAYS berried and overpopulate my guppies well if guppies arein the same building they are pregnant no matter what lol

Bladder snail. I would never have a planted tank without including them. I have hand picked the prettiest of them clear shell with honey caramel spire and breed them in my plant grow out tank. Everyone gets excited when they see MY plants and how perfect they are they ask to buy them....until they know the snails are my gardeners...ROFL

My tap water is so hard you need a jackhammer...my guppies adore it. ACO strips turn a fluorescent purple that isn’t even close or between any colors. API is alway 13-15 drops out of the tap. I rarely test gh because all my babies are thrilled the harder the better.

My cherry shrimp overpopulate! I bought a few from a local lfs they did awesome same water then got some from a very reputable online source all but a few kicked in 2 weeks due to molting issues they didn’t adjust at all. Went back to local and all did great. They are fun and easy.

For each type of fish or all together ROFL 3 types repashy 3 tropical flakes 5 algae wafers hikari first bites northfin fry starter freeze dried brine shrimp freeze dried bloodworms hikari fancy guppy food 2 sinking shrimp granules shrimp baby shrimp dinner bacter ae shrimp fit shrimp mineral snowflake shrimp food shrimp lollipops seaweed sheets dr Tim Hawaii’s spirulina powder i also make my own spirulina wafers and snail lollipops geez 27 yup food collector typing it out it seems like a lot yet .......in my defense my longfin lemon blue eye Plecos refuse to eat 3 of the wafers. All the flake is ground up together I don’t use bacter , fit, mineral or snowflake because it makes the tank nasty or shrimp dinner NOONE will eat that and having a plethora of snails I don’t need it. 🙂

Jurassic park when all the cute baby Dino’s were looking so adorable begging for food..then feed them and voracious ferocity....that’s my guppies.

Throw a Mystery snail or two in your tank. Their digestion is poor and their waste is natural infusoria for small fry. My microscopic CPD fry thrived without live foods or anything other than first bites. They were my first fish in this hobby and I was clueless and still successful thanks to snails.

I always feel mean quarantining so start adding plants to make them feel comfortable...then more plants....then driftwood...then yuppers new aquarium because my qt loves it and seems cozy so....new qt tank and the cycle begins again

I use inkbird temp regulators. Like 30$ stick probe in water plug heater into inkbird you can plug in two on the cheap model. Temp hits a certain temp it cuts the power. When temp falls below it turns power back on. Also alerts you it’s running too hot

So thankful for this post. My 2 lemon blue eye longfins will only eat fresh steamed green beans. I even tried canned and no go. Sometimes they will eat broccoli fresh steamed frozen never. But nice full round bellies so I’m not over worried. I use plant weights and drop them in their food dish and aquas cape tweezers to retrieve the weight. No green bean means I have two sad eyed puppy dogs sitting inside their food dish making me feel heaps of guilt but funny to see.

Thank you for your help. Yeah I got told never to downgrade endlers by cross breeding keep them pure etc.....it’s not like I’m mass producing them just for me and my friends but no one was helpful about cross breeding.

*sigh* nope can’t do that each of my pets is a family member to me. Will it at least make them a bit stronger and healthier? Had previously thought to go the Endler route but so much internet bashing to even ask those questions like it is mega taboo. ?.. l am a home hobbyist nothing more. I used a magnifying glass to sex them and separate at 4 weeks but 3 are pregnant I can’t see them any younger I looked everyday. My boy is in the community tank so it wasn’t him. They had no color at that point either sex.

Sto clarify different male second gen different male third etc

Having gone through all the heartache of new guppy ownership prior to finding ACO quarantine trio it just should not have to be so rough. Guppies used to be the 5 year olds indestructible pet. After I got on the right track I became serious about guppies...not to line breed or make profit but rather to try and retrieve some of the healthy indestructibility. I don’t care what color they are or how their fins are shaped but rather that they are no longer delicate so folks I know and run across can begin the hobby without the tears and heartache I went through. So 2 questions... i started with 4 unrelated different color guppy girls and one boy all from different sources to attempt to get as genetically diversified as possible. I separate sexes as soon as I can tell with a magnifying glass what sex they are. My first batch was not successfully separated in time it was 4 weeks to the birth day I separated and half my sorority tank is pregnant to their brothers. So next several did great. Goal is to never ever allow related guppies to mate using only my boy to father offspring. He is a tank I want that strength. So my question is am I kidding myself that the evolution of my guppies genetics down the line will strengthen as Mother Nature intended or has line breeding bred out all the strongest genes so far they are not coming back....am I on the right track? second question is...seriously I have found no reference to guppies with no color at 4 weeks old getting pregnant. I do not want inbred guppies how soon do I really need to separate to ensure virgin girls in my sorority tanks. Thanks for the help

The only way i get java to grow is attaching it to the glass above the gravel with airline suction cups then it goes wild. Any other way for me they die no matter what i do. Here id a pic of one in my community tank and one in my fry tank so you can see ehat i mean

I have 9 mystery snails one nerite and a bunch of bladders. My first aquarium I bought as a dedicated mystery snail tank. I love them so much if you don’t have a bubbler get one every one of my snails play in the bubbles and then parachutes across the aquarium and then goes back to play in the bubbles more they love bubbles.