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    I agree with @AllFishNoBrakes on the tetra 150. I switched to using these from the already pretty quiet battery backup ones just because I had to many running. I run 5 of them and they are even quieter than those. I run 8 lines powering 4 tanks each very easily.
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    As for the microfauna as your tank matures the microfauna appear. The my come in on plants, eggs come on food. I always start with adding ostracods seed shrimp. Then along come copepods and daphnia. The detritus worms will find their way in after that. I am the oddball I enjoy several types of hydra. They are fascinating predators that hunt the microfauna. It is an entire micro universe in our tanks. If you have access to a microscope it does not need to be high powered, scoop up a drop of the debris in the substrate. It a soap opera going on down there.
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    Snails are so awesome. I would get Leroy a friend or two. They lay eggs on the glass above the water so population is easily controlled. As far as Nerite type. Choose the ones you like the color of. Some very fun snails that you can see have babies without getting overrun with babies are livebearing snails. There are rabbit snails @Lennie . Japanese trap door snails. You can click on the links in my signature to see more on Taia naticoides Piano snails Filopaludina martensi White Wizard snails My recommendation if you are stocking the tank with other snails avoid the ones that are labeled “pest” bladder, pond, ramshorn or Malaysian trumpet. Snails need to be offered their own food not just algae and whatever the fish miss. Blanched vegetables, algae wafers, calcium foods to keep the shell healthy. When you are Feeding Leroy and whatever others you decide on that food will get gobbled faster by the “pests” than your pet and the “pest” will over populate. I love all snails including “pest” snails. I’ve run enough snail tanks to know the outcome though.
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    I have 1m-3 f. I originally got 14 very young. All were girls so I swapped 5 f for 3 m with a friend. My gertrudae do good 2f-1 m
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    I forgot how young danios start going at it. Added a bunch of pogo to the tank to fill it in yesterday. Today I saw the boys sparring. I put in a collection cup and they were checking it out the minute my hand left the tank.
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    This is what melini look like just emerging. I just watched this one’s tail Pop out.
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    there are many types of pond snails all look a bit different but the point goes down or to the right. Bladder snails are one of the few snails whose whorl-point goes left.
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    They spawn all day long. Only a few eggs at a time and are egg eaters along with the Aspidora spilotus in the tank eating eats from the mop. To collect enough I would have to use 2 mops a day each day for a week. It’s just not practical for me. If I were doing large outdoor tubs though that’s exactly how I would do it.
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    @jwcarlson this helps. It’s my old folks egg collecting gear 🤣
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    Breeder box. I drain the mop and collect the eggs. I can’t see the eggs at all unless I drain the mop they are invisible. Once the mop drains I can see them. I’ll take collection pics today on the mop if I remember
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    We have eyes today. The video was yesterdays
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    They seem robust. However when they arrived to my friend who held them for a week or so, 1-DOA, 1-lasted a day only a day, 1- fell a few days later. Im taking no chances with these because I’m not certain how hardy they are. I’ll be swapping collection cups as soon as I see them spawn each time to try to maximize the yield. The hardiness may be getting reported as less because these are still being mostly wild collected is my understanding vs tank raised like Beckford ms. 🤷‍♀️
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    These guys settled in very quickly. They inspected inside the moss collection cup. One boy claimed it and would not allow the other in. I may need to put 2 separate cups in. They have started sparring for dominance and mating rights. These guys are so fun to watch.
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    I was keeping these in my main journal. I started collecting eggs last week for the breeder program at the club. I’ve found it much easier to keep each critter in a separated journal to track the hatch and growth times on fry for writing my spawning reports. These are a CARES species. Ive had these since last summer. I did try floating spawning mops but they avoided them or so I thought. They hunt the substrate all the time until I walk in the room then they are upper mid level swimming immediately. I started checking the mops anyway but saw nothing. I was frustrated and pulled the mop laying it over the edge of the trash can deciding to give up. Roughly 20 minutes later I grabbed the mop to rinse it out. What did I see but eggs 😳 These are tiny and crystal clear. Impossible for me to see against a wet mop but show up easily once the mop drains a bit. I also find running my fingers gently down each strand many eggs I miss seeing just stick to my fingers. I think these are even stickier than corydora eggs. These take 10 days to hatch so wish me luck.
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    I have a few just hatched melini cory and a few more eggs about to hatch. Very cool to see.
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    @Rube_Goldfish at the beginning of this video behind the two new hatch melini Cory fry to the right are some of my seed shrimp. You can’t see them up close but you can see their movements. If you blow the video up full screen you can see the fairly well
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    Got some half decent photos today after switching the light
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    Thanks. I’ll let you know when I get plenty of babies. Maybe I can hook you up.
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    It had me second guessing until I realized I was looking down on it rather than it on the glass. The point goes right so you are correct. Pond. Bladders go left. Nerites cannot reproduce in freshwater and even the small ones are larger with hairlike antenna vs the bat/ yoda ears.
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    Hi. I feel your pain. I had to have serious help learning how to use the forum. I’m not techy at all. here is the process to get to photos and journals. Start your journal the same way you started this topic.
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    These have been a someday fish for me for a long time. I finally picked up a group of 12 at my LFS last week. The tank they are in was a temporary hold for unpaired Laetacara curviceps. It’s ugly and needs cleaned. Goal today or tomorrow is to get these plants into tanks. Cold is kicking my butt though. These are just babies. This is what they look like as adults. They are close cousins of Danio margaritatus-CPD that I’ve bred for years. Once they grow up I should easily get lots of babies. I do wonder why they are called emerald because their stripes are royal blue???? New kids in ugly tank
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    I actually just remembered at one point I move an aco sponge to a new tank. 2 weeks later I had CPD babies all over the new tank. The parents had spawned on the sponge filter. That was about 3 years ago.
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    No. The adults have lived with canisters, HOBS, and coarse sponge. They like the flow. In this hatch tank I have 2 HOBS, and 2 coarse sponge filters. I can say I have never found a perished fish or baby in any filtration or moss. Part of this batch hatched in the 15 when I moved the parents to the 40. It has a penguin pro 125 with coarse sponge prefilter and 2 aco coarse sponges. The fry glide right through the flow even at the eyelash stage.
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    Your small funny moving speck search videos of daphnia or copepod. The great thing about the forum is it connects folks so between all of us we can usually hit an answer for almost any questions. I have some larger seed shrimp scurrying about my melini Cory hatch ring. I’ll get some video of those for you. If my new purple pencil fish have not wiped them out already I had a fabulous copepod colony I’ll try to video for you.
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    I’m not even certain what they are made if. I’m just always leary of recycled stuff in tanks because often contaminants can be present from what I heard. @Sarina may know more. This is their wheelhouse.
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