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Yes, get levamisole (and the measuring spoon) from selectaquatics.com. There are full dosing instructions on the website, and it totally works. Best of luck!

I got the Eheim Automatic Feeding Unit from Amazon.com and love it! If the smallest opening size is still too big, you can put a piece of tape across the opening to let even less food out. Learned that trick from an old Aquarium Co-Op video. 🙂

Haha, there's actually a black poster board taped on the outside, but then I decided to let green, flat algae grow on the back pane for my algae eaters. I should probably clean it off one day and shock my viewers. 😉

Jurijs the aquascaper has a pretty cool tutorial, if you haven't seen it:

I'm so sorry to hear that! When my fish have had red spots/streaks in the past, I usually suspect bacterial infections or chemical burns (from chlorine, pH crash, ammonia, etc). Aquarium salt is definitely a good route, especially in a bare tank like that. If you haven't seen it already, here's the official salt dosing regimen recommended by Cory. Best of luck with your killifish.

I love all these photo updates of what's going on in the warehouse! Thanks for the behind-the-scenes glimpses.

Hmm, you can probably just check your water quality for ammonia and nitrite spikes or high levels of nitrates to determine when to change water. When I was raising honey gourami fry (which are a lot tinier and more sensitive than livebearer fry), I used to do a 15% water change every 1-2 days until they got a little older and hardier. My current grow-out tank is chock full of plants though, so I hardly detect any nitrogen waste compounds and I just do weekly water changes out of habit. It's also become an algae farm, which is great for the fry to snack on but unpleasant for pictures. 😅

Yup! I just dip the end of a chopstick in the powdered food, shake off the excess, and then tap the chopstick over the tank. If you have fry from bottom feeders, then it helps to swirl the chopstick in the water so that the powder sinks faster. My dwarf red coral platies gave me 59 fry in the past month or so, so I'm also feeding and hatching out BBS right now as we speak! 🙂

How fun! I always love new fish babies. If you want to get them growing fast and big (so that they'll have less chance of being eaten), I highly recommend hatching out live baby brine shrimp (BBS). Lots of good protein and fat in their yolk sacs, and the fry can't resist the wiggly, swimming motions of the BBS. Other good fry foods include Hikari First Bites, Repashy gel food (even just the powder), Sera Micron, and Easy Fry food. I like to feed several, tiny meals all throughout the day (really, whenever I'm near their tank) so that they always have access to food. Keep up with the water changes, and you shouldn't have much trouble! P.S. What kind of guppies are they? Would love to see a pic if you get the chance. 🙂

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Yay, welcome to the forum! Incredible setup outside. Looking forward to seeing you share more pictures and your experiences in the future!

Ah, I have high pH with soft water. Interestingly, Wikipedia does say, "The rate of decomposition increases with rise in temperature, concentration, and pH, with cool, dilute, acidic solutions showing the best stability." Maybe next time I should try drying off the plant leaf with a paper towel before spraying with H2O2?

I haven't had much luck with hydrogen peroxide on BBA, despite a) dosing the entire tank with the most popular recipes listed online, b) directly spraying leaves outside of water and letting it sit for 5 minutes, and c) buying fresh bottles to ensure their potency. But many people swear by it, so maybe something in my tap water is interfering with it? However, one time I spot-treated my heater using Easy Carbon / Excel while the top of the heater was out of water during a water change, and all of the BBA disappeared! I'm not sure how safe that is for plant leaves, so I may experiment with a fast-growing stem plant next week. Let us know what ends up working for you!

Hmm, maybe anubias nana petite? Really, any type of rhizome plant you have lying around I'm sure would look great. 🙂

How beautiful! I love the mix of planted and salt water tanks. Welcome to the forum and looking forward to hearing your experiences. 🙂

I'm so glad you figured it out!! That really warms my heart to hear that I was able to help a little. Yes, pH that is too acidic can potentially burn a fish's fins, gills, etc. It usually effects the "thinner" organs first, so that would make sense.

I'm sorry to hear that! Hmm, when I see hard breathing and lethargy, I often think of environmental factors (like chlorine in the water or pH crash) or internal organ failure from a long-term disease. Depending on how weak he is or how long he's been sick, it may not be possible to save him. I'm not a professional vet by any means, but if it were me, I would probably try doing a water change to clear up any possible environmental issues and redosing the medications since he's in the middle of treatment. If the meds didn't work, I would try aquarium salt next. Let us know what happens, Lynn.

It looks like a peacock gudgeon or Tateurndina ocellicauda. I have one in my community tank who is well-behaved, but I think I heard in an Aquarium Co-Op video that @Cory and @Dean’s Fishroom don't like them for some reason... 🤔

I'm so glad the levamisole seem to be working! It's so satisfying to see the worms drop off and vacuum them out of the tank.

I've heard that fenbendazole kills camallanus worms as well, but unfortunately I've never used it so I'm not sure about the dosing instructions. I also don't know about mixing medications either, so I would probably just stick with one type. With both fenbendazole and levamisole, make sure to do a second treatment on the fish 2-3 weeks after the first treatment so that you'll get rid of any new worms that hatched from eggs. Best of luck to you and let us know how it goes! 👍

I use Excel. It's easy to search when I can't remember what treatment I used in the past for various kinds of ailments. 🙂

Beautiful tanks and plants! They look absolutely wonderful, and the betta fish are so lovely as well.

Ah, watch Cory's latest video on livebearer disease! I believe there's a whole section at the end on prevention.

Aquarium salt is what Cory recommends if you can't get a hold of the med trio. Check out this article, start with Level 1 concentration, and then go from there. Best of luck with the new Jack Dempseys!

Nope, I haven't. Cory says he hasn't finished testing yet, so he's not sure what the correct dosage is. However, Greg has been dosing his version of levamisole for many years, so I trusted his method. 🙂