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Interesting. The eggs have certainly slowed down in the last week or two. It’s in a heated room but I’m letting it seasonally swing, middle rack is 72+ currently.

definitely a consideration

Yes, I have a couple in the tank. Negative just the rice fish. I’m probably just gonna move eggs to separate tank or specimen cup.

Shouldn’t daisy rice fish be pretty easy to breed? I have what i think is 2 males and 5 females in a 20 long with multiple spawning mops and guppy grass. I haven’t attempted to pull eggs but I know they are laying. Are they known fry or egg eaters? Is it my best option to remove parents or eggs?

No kidding he’s only a couple years older than me. Life is fragile.

Just found out Jake Adams of reef builders tragically passed away. Thoughts and prayers for his family. What a great individual who inspired thousands and shared so much positivity!

That’s right, I may have asked you this before lol. I live an hour and a half south of the coop but I’ve only been twice regrettably.

Beautiful tank!

This is great information. I intend on getting a big garbage bag of them and playing around with it. It’s mostly for aesthetics and possibly Cory breeding. With so many tanks up and running with no fish or inverts in them I have a little room to experiment. Good to know! Not sure if I’ve ever seen one of those That’s my intent too! On the thought of pesticides it would make sense to be careful where they are collected. I’m gonna give them a shot and I will report back. Any chance you are the Andy that helped build aquarium coop?

I’m gonna grab a garbage bag of them and give it a shot. I have 15~ aquariums that don’t have fish in them so I have some space to play around.

Always exciting!

I don’t think either or is going to provide more benefit but if you run two it would be easy to start another tank in the future

So fall is somewhat here now in the PNW. My question is can I use dried maple leaves for leaf litter?

I like it but I’m not into aquascaped tanks myself. I do more of a jungle style if I make any attempt lol. I think it looks great but I don’t have a artistic eye. If I was to guess that’s a 45 tall? I kept one for years but they do have a strange foot print and that might be a limiting factor.

I haven’t but they are a nice full body. I think dans fish has a couple different chunky tetras. I’ve kept a large group of diamonds, holy cow they are beautiful once they are grown. The males are like disco balls

How about a school of some chunky tetras. Maybe congos, diamonds, bleeding hearts. Something of that nature?

That is one idea! Thanks for the good wishes. I documented the build process quite thoroughly not sure if you have seen it. You can find it in my signature. I wouldn’t mind documenting something else in relation to the room for the forum but not sure what.

Huge fan Cory! I love when it’s cold and I step into a warm room. I spent a lot of time last winter in my boxers out there with a cup of coffee in hand. Eventually I’d like to chase down more rare tetras and corys to stand apart. I’m an hour and a half south of the coop maybe one day it will be worth documenting. Life and wife willing! Lol

Initially it was livebearers but we have really soft acidic water here and I don’t particularly care to mess with parameters. The 20 longs I had dreamed of doing strictly cories. I have a few guppy strains, white clouds, shrimp, rice fish, lampeyes. I might lean more into diminutive tetras and rasporas. I live in a rural area so my motivation for breeding for profit isn’t really there. I tend to give stuff for free. I have no interest in shipping. funny you should mention that. One of my things the last few days is I started breaking up my huge masses of guppy grass and putting it in the cloudy/green water tanks. Over the years I’ve thrown buckets of pogo out but I’m gonna start floating it in the room. I actually want algae. I have film algaes in some of the tanks and even string algae. The pea soup is great for my fry but I negates my level of interest for viewing once it turns. last couple days I’ve been going out there with coffee and giving it a good stare!

Just checking back in. Life got a little crazy since I built this tiny fish room back in august of 2021. It’s footprint is 7x7 and houses 21 10 gallon aquariums and 6 20 longs. I had great ambitions initially but between starting a new job and adding a 4th child to an existing young line up the progression came to a standstill. Fast forward to the last week or two I’m slowing regaining control. I had a significant problem with green water and I took half measures trying to fix it. Primarily the issue is with the 10 gallons, the immaturity even with low bio load seemed to still spark quite a muck. I have really low light leds that originally were on only 8 hours a day. I’ve tried long black out periods and water changing. I’m back on the water changes and adopted the siesta method. 4 hours on 4 hours off and then 4 hours on in the evening. Only about half the aquariums have livestock. I’ve been drooling heavily of all the listings on dans fish, I’m sure everyone can relate.

Interesting! So no care at all. I think trying two different matches should yield some results

How did you hatch them? I pulled a bunch and left a bunch in the mop. They don’t appear to eat them.

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I don’t know much about apistos and temp but you can do a lot of stuff under 70. I keep corydoras paleatus and rabauti pretty cool. I had the paleatus breeding at 61/62 during the last storm.

Not sure if this helps but I use nilocg GH booster. I have soft water, I just aim for a specific tds and it works for me.