PattysAquatics

I’m assuming the low GH is from the potassium Chloride taking out the trace minerals from the water in the water softener but yes stumped on the shrimp dying fast. He has had issues with other fish dying lately as well. Not all but certain species he can’t keep alive. Has to be the water in some form causing it is all we can think

@JettsPapaHe told me they died during drip acclimating them @evilgeniushe doesn’t use salt for the tanks he actually uses potassium chloride salt substitute for his water softener for his house water.

@Guppysnailno he has not but definitely something to look into. Thanks

My cousin needs some help so I’m posting this for him. He can’t keep shrimp in any of his tanks. They typically die within the hour of adding them. He has multiple tanks and breeds rams and those are fine. I attached the test strip results. He has well water, which we are thinking is a cause because they die in multiple tanks not just one. He thinks maybe it’s the salt he adds to his well water and plans to go to RO water but any ideas would be helpful.

This sore popped up on one of my male Bosmani rainbows like over a month ago. Some of the males were going at it in assuming fighting for the dominant male and noticed this on my one male. He acts fine and eats and everything but the sore seems to be getting worse. Not sure what to treat it with if anything. Any ideas?

Well my pvc trick worked this time . Got them to breed in it by sticking in in the woods crevice they were breeding in. So I will pull them in a couple days . I have a 2.5 gallon with probably 20 fry from the last 2 spawns that I scraped some off the log with the pipe cleaner. 🥳

Got my first summer tub today, 100 gallon and have a question on stocking. The wife wants koi but told her long term that it’s not practical so she wants goldfish. My question is does it matter what type of goldfish? I live in Wisconsin so there can be some chilly nights for the next few weeks and hot days in the future. Just wanted to get some answers before buying any. Thanks

@SJ fishing i put a 1/2 piece of pvc in the exact spot of the log they keep breeding on in hopes they would go in it but decided to squeeze right behind it and do it on the log like usual lol. I scraped a few of the eggs off last batch with a pipe cleaner and put it above an air line and they hatched in a 2.5 gallon I bought so I scraped a large portion of these and am currently doing the same thing. I don’t want to remove the log cause it takes up almost half the tank . @Fish Folki thought of that but don’t have extra tanks to place them. At least not any it would be easy to get them back out of I think I will get a few more pvc pipe caves made and keep trying to block their current breeding spot in hopes they go into a cave.

Hello Nerms, I have a pair of peacock gudgeon in a 20 long and they keep breeding but the male keeps eating the eggs after days of caring for them. I know this is common but I wanted to give them a while to see if they would by chance let them live. Unfortunately it hasn’t happened so I want to try removing them. The problem is the male decided his breeding spot would be a nook on top of my big piece of mopani wood. I have a pleco cave and piece of pvc in tank hoping they would breed in there but that apparently would be to convenient for me . So if you are familiar with peacock gudgeon eggs the female has them on like a spider web type material . So what I did today was used a long wood skewer and tried to scrape them off but they did not stick to the wood so I had a pipe cleaning brush with plastic bristles and tried that and I got a few of the eggs off with it so I put that in a Aquarium co op specimen container with water on the inside of the tank with an airline with just a slow drip of air for circulation on the eggs. Does anyone have a better idea of getting the eggs out that doesn’t involve removing the wood? Any suggestions would be appreciated

So I have some anubias that something had been eating parts of the new leaves after they bloomed. I figured out it was my rabbit snails. My question is can I trim off the half eaten leaves or would it be better to keep them on?

So I have a start of a colony of rabbit snails in my 75 gallon and something has been eating my anubias and I don’t know if was them but they definitely have been uprooting my stem plants that I keep trying to propagate and it’s getting annoying. So my question is if anyone knows if they eat fish eggs? I want to put them in my only tank with no plants but it’s housing my neolamprogolus caudopunctatus colony that I’m hoping to breed and don’t want them interfering with that once they start.

Could try some cut up talapia or shrimp. Mine always loved that

@Patrick_G I was thinking the same thing then just tested with the API kit and it said .5 nitrites I debated doing a water change but I thought with that small an amount and no ammonia I will ride it out till hopefully it rights itself or I figure out a cause or it gets worse

I have a hex tank think it’s in the 20 -30 gallon size newly dirted with pea gravel cap about a month ago . With the seeded sponge filter and there were no nitrites or ammonia after 24 hours and like 10 nitrates so I added my shrimp ( about 30 cherry shrimp) also have ramshorn snails and an Endler trio I got for a swap meet a couple weeks ago. As far as plants I have red root floaters , crypt tropica , dwarf sag, tiger lotus bulb I just planted, and a few stems of ludwigia Repens . Now the last 2 weeks I have been having nitrites according to the Co Op tests strips at 1. Nitrates at around 10 and 0 ammonia. Anyone have any idea why the nitrites have popped up? Could it be the soil?

I have had this plant for years. You can do either with it. Plant it or float it. It grows like a weed

Well I found the culprit that has been eating my plants. An Odessa Barb…. 🤬🤬🤬🤬 so anyone know how to make it stop? Lol

Yeah they are not holes. Legit looks like bites. I will add a pic when my lights go on.

So I have a pretty heavily planted tank and some inhabitant has been eating some of my anubias leaves for months and not sure which it is . The inhabitants in my tank bosmani Rainbows, Congo Tetras, Odessa Barbs, cardinals, Ember Tetras, hillstream loaches, Cory’s, green fire tetras, neon green rasboras, rummynose rasboras, Siamese algae eater, peacock gundgeons, rabbit snails, ramshorn snails, Nettie snails, and Malaysian trumpet snails. who do you think is eating them? I have seen the rabbit snails eat on a sword I had but have never seen them on the anubias before.

So I set up a dirted tank capped with gravel and transplanted some of my plants into it. My crypts all melted. I know they are known for melting and coming back I just never had any of mine melt in any of my tanks with just sand substrate. I wanted to redo my 75 gallon planted tank to be dirted but don’t want all my crypts to melt I have had for over a year. Anyone else experience this? I’m sure they will come back it’s just heartbreaking since one was a pink flamingo crypt

So I have one of those hexagon tanks and is I think around 25 gallons and moved my shrimp colony into it and wanted to add a centerpiece fish if there is one that’s not going to eat all my shrimp or a lone school of something and wanted some suggestions. I watched some videos and got some ideas but wanted to see if anyone had anything in their shrimp tanks and if so what .

A cycled tank will have nitrates and no nitrites . That’s a good thing 😁

I thought I would just share the surprise flower from my dwarf sag as I opened the lid to feed the fish! 😁

So question, I have a new dirted tank set up and have .5 ppm of ammonia and no nitrites and nitrates. Since liquid fertilizer( easy green) has nitrates in it would dosing the tank with it speed up the cycling process?

@Streetwise, I was looking at your journal this weekend. There is a lot of good info there and made it about half way through. Need to finish this week. Thank you for all your tips and everyone else’s. It’s greatly appreciated

@Streetwise, gravel does make a lot of sense but do you have issues with the soil releasing into the water? @_DiAm0nDs_, I as well like your take on making it your own and agree. I’m very excited to start this. Hopefully in the next few weeks.