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    First attempts at swimming
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    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.
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    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
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    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. 🤷‍♀️
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    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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    We have wigglers 🥰
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    Use the club finder link on the coop shop page. Contact local aquarium clubs. They can usually tell you everything going on in your area and often host a few of their own.
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    This is normal. Most of my nerites sleep buried under substrate throughout the day and are mostly nocturnal.
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    Looks good. Depending on the type of crypt is where I would place it. My shorter crypts prefer lower or indirect light. Other wise they grow algae.
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    I warm water by placing a dish of water in the microwave and boiling it. Then add it to my ingoing water to make it a closer temperature. When I use my hard water line.
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    Amazing footage. Thank you for sharing. Hatching African dwarf frogs was definitely one of the most joyous babies I have raised. Their transformation is simply astounding. I don’t think I could handle the road migration. I would be the tree hugger holding up traffic to ensure every single one made it safely across.
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    Where did this come from. I would love to access the full guide. It’s not selling aquarium products so you can post the link if you do not mind please. I must admit I will be sad if George does not continue to thrive. Maybe make a 1 gallon jug tank with an airstone and some bright red or orange neocaridina
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    Because of my experiments a few years ago I’m the proud owner of a great mixer I don’t use and 2 food processors 🤣 Yes it can handle raw but for my tiniest fish like Heterandria formosa I noticed there were still a lot of tiny veggie particles that were still just a hair to large for their mouths. These would make a mess in the tank and it took 24 hours for the particles to soften enough for my snails and shrimp to clean up so I started microwaving just a touch before purée. Good point on the salmon vs cod protein fat ratio. I was asking because my Mikrogeophagus altispinosus colony is out growing their 20L growout and I still can’t sex them. I was hoping to get salmon into their diet so they would color up and hopefully be easier to sex so I can sell off the extras and keep a pair.
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    Great job. I used to do similar for my pleco and snails minus the seafood. questions: Why cod and not salmon? I always hear so much about the nutritional benefits of salmon. Do you think there would be a benefit to microwaving the vegetables from raw with no water vs boiling to soften? I microwave raw veggies to soften and put in the tanks now. Most of my fish love them. I always hear boiling veggies the nutrients leech into the water.
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    I’m so sorry for your loss. Using prime to deal with ammonia affects dissolved oxygen levels. My guess would be you hit just the right amount of ammonia combined with the prime to lower it enough to adversely affect fish. Coupled with this being done at night plants respire co2 in the the dark and consume oxygen. This explains how the cory survived.
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    Also interesting tidbit. At sunrise this reddish patch on the tummy turns really red. That’s the girl’s signal to the boys it’s time to get busy. It’s hard to see when they have just hit sexual maturity but easier at this size. The slight red in your girls tummy is also a sign of sexual maturity. If you can be in front of the tank at sunrise and if there is natural sunlight near the tank you will see the spawning.
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    🤣 I’m sorry. I read egg bound and I thought you were asking if she was having issues passing her eggs. She is definitely carrying eggs. My CPD spawn daily once they hit sexual maturity. It always seemed to each girl would participate every other day if there are enough girls. If there are not enough girls each girl spawns daily. Your little girl is definitely sexually mature. My girls start participating in spawning as soon as there is a hint of color in the fins.
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    If they are swimming normally they are fine. In CPD the swimming will be altered with any illness. It will be slower, slightly jerky and they will hang stationary more often near the surface.
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    Ich?

    Guppysnail replied to EcstaticTiara's topic in Diseases

    I can’t really see it that well. If @Colu thinks it is I’ll go with that.
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    Rest assured what you are experiencing is completely normal. You lost a great deal of bacteria in the move. You are doing very close to a fish in cycle with a fully stocked tank. It will be “ugly” for awhile. The ugly is all the new bacterial and micro life growing bringing the tank to Life. Doing more frequent water changes to keep the ammonia at or below .25 will keep the fish safer and the worst of the green ugly away.
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    No clue what the sticky stuff is but from forgetting to remove stickers from terra cotta I can tell you it did not hurt anything.
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    I’ve only kept 1 betta and that was long before they were so weakened in the hobby. Just this past November I almost pulled the trigger at a swap. This dude came right to my finger in his tank. I wised up and put the emotion away and walked away. This thought is not limited to new folks.
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    I’m speaking of common kribs Pelvicachromis pulcher. 10 liters is roughly 2.5 gallons. That is too small.
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    You need at least 30 liters for the small corydora and at least 75 liters for Kribensis. Kribs are parental care fish. They need caves or the ability to dig out their own and an appropriate environment that includes substrate to raise their young.
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    @Colu has it correct. That is a limpet.
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