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  1. Alesha
    It's all fascinating, @Daniel. Thanks so much for sharing it as you go along!
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    Cuuuuuuuute!!! 😊
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    I'm sorry to hear that you're sick, @ange. Hope you are recovered soon! I've been following this topic...it's really all brand new info for me, so I'm paying attention. All the different live foods are things I've never heard of and had no idea people "raised" them to feed fish. So...yeah, it's all very interesting. Although I have to admit that it seems a little gross. And I have issues with "gross". So, I can't see myself doing this any time soon. However, if I fell in love with a fish that I wanted to raise and I had to raise something to feed it, I could probably talk myself into it. So...that's why I'm paying attention. You never know when the "I just have to raise that fish" bug is going to bite you!😆 Alesha
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    My husband's a teacher, so today's his first day of Thanksgiving break. We tried to take advantage of his days off, so we hit the ground running: Pulled a couple hundred guppies & endlers from our main 55-gallon. Added the endlers to our 20-gallon plant tank out on our front porch. (No worries - we're in Florida. This is like your spring time. It's finally below 90* every day.) Added the guppies to a 40-gallon pond that we've set up out on the front porch. These will both be my husband's "babies"...I rarely go out there, so we'll see how it goes. He was inspired by so many of the summer tubs you all shared, so this is going to be his fall/winter project out there. Added 13 male guppies with orange tails to the 20-long, to see if they get along with the 13 green tiger barbs. I loved how Peek-a-Boo's tail and fins with their dark orange coloration matched the barbs noses and fins, so I thought I'd play out those colors a bit further with the dark orange guppies. We'll see how they interact. I really hope it's not a blood bath! Did the last set of meds in our Quarantine tank where we have 12 white clouds. They will be going into the 55-gallon along with the other guppies, endlers, loaches, algae eaters, shrimp and snails that are already there. We will probably continue to pull guppies and endlers over the break until we have just a select group of same-colored guppies left in there. We'd like to try to breed out the black/dark purple colors that we have going on in a few of the guppies. You know...just for funnzies! 😉
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    And I'm willing to bet that if/when you add more fish, you will see another cycle similar to this. Probably with shallower peaks & valleys, but similar. At least that's what I've experienced.
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    When I do this sort of "auto-cycling" (for lack of a better term), I do a couple of other things too: I add water from the established tanks along with the sponges. I add plants from the other tanks as well - even I just let them float for a while. It seems to kickstart it all a little bit faster. So...maybe give those things a try? It might help. 🙂 Alesha
  7. Alesha
    @Brandy - I had no idea the difference between the two! Thanks for the explanation that even I could understand. 😉 ...leaning something new here every day!
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    Yes. They are constantly pregnant. The best way to not be overrun with fry is to just let them survive on their own. True story - we started with 14. (I didn't know any better.) And ended up with over 500. Literally. We counted each one as we took them from our 20-gallon to the new 55-gallon. We've given them away to friends, LFS, etc. Had a bad tank-wide case of wasting disease. We still have over 300 guppies. They are incredible! 😃 And as we come out of the disease/medication/recycling season, they are having babies again. Several batches in the past 2 weeks. So...proceed with caution. But enjoy! Guppies are truly incredible fish. ❤️
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    He's a stunner! Love the title change. Welcome, Emperor!
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    Welcome! We're glad to have you here, @sparklymoonshrimp.
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    So sorry, @Mudkicker. That really stinks! I had to euthanize several of my shrimp last year. They developed ellobiopsidae, for which there is no known cure. It was really hard, but I was glad it was a painless process & that they would not continue to suffer. These are the difficult parts of being pet owners. I'm glad we can talk it out with each other when we have to go through it. Alesha (akconklin)
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    [Insert embarrassed face here] Never mind. As I was backing out of the app, I found the settings for it.🙄😊😬
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    When using the app, I'd like for it to jump to the unread posts on each topic. I know on the computer, there is a setting for that. Has anyone found that setting on the app? Thanks, Alesha (akconklin)
  14. Alesha
    Aw, so sorry for your loss @Joshua14. I can sense your frustration & concern as you are struggling to understand what is happening in your tank. I'm sorry I'm not knowledgeable enough to help you out. I'm hoping @Cory or @Brandy or someone else will pop in & give you some advice. Just hang in there, we'll try to help you figure it out.
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    There are actually some updated meds & instructions for quarantining your new fish. This is the med trio: https://www.aquariumcoop.com/collections/fish-medicine/products/quarantine-meds-trio And a more in-depth video here: https://youtu.be/LrRhfOYfXns I hope that helps! If you have more questions, please feel free to ask them! 😁
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    @PotatoFish, I've got a 55-gallon FULL of guppies and endlers...literally hundreds of them. That wasn't really my intention, but once you get a few guppies, it's a slippery slope. 😆 I also have a red-tail botia loach and green tiger barbs in a 20-long tank, and in the Qtank right now are a dozen white clouds and a mystery snail. I also have dwarf chain loaches, siamese algae eaters, nerite snail, pond snails and rams horn snails in various numbers in all the tanks. Oh! And skittles shrimp in the 55, as well.
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    Yay!!! 👍🥳 😄 (I've run out of emojis for today)
  18. Alesha
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    Yessss! Thank you! 👍
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    No problem at all to keep them in a bucket until you're ready for them. I'd treat them like I would a fish I was transporting - add an air stone with a small pump to the bucket, give it some light, make sure the temps are reasonable, put it somewhere it won't get kicked over. (Learned that last one the hard way!🙄😬)
  21. Alesha
    Really nice tanks, @David W! Welcome to the forum. We are happy to have you here. I know the learning curve is pretty steep when re-entering this hobby. We experienced the same thing as we hadn't kept fish since the early 2000s. Amazing how much new knowledge there is in less than 20 years! And I totally agree that Cory and the team from Aquarium Co-Op do a great job getting that info out to us. Jump right in when you feel comfortable!
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    Oh wow...that would be funny! I've noticed Meadowlark doesn't move around much since his adventure. I'm wondering if he was injured in some way while out and needs to be resting/healing. He seems to be ok, just doesn't move around the tank like he did at first.
  23. Alesha
    Aw...so sorry, @teenage fish. That must've been really upsetting...and gross. 😢
  24. Alesha
    It really IS intimidating the first time you decide to revamp those HOBs, isn't it? I remember the trepidation I felt too! I'll answer your questions to the best of my (limited) knowledge. 1. I believe the carbon has been replaced with water testing. When we weren't testing, because we really didn't know we should, the carbon absorbed some of the things we didn't know were in our water: ammonia, etc. 2. Bio rings are just lots of little surfaces for biomedia to cling to. They aren't a chemical element, but rather a physical surface, if that makes sense. 3. This should help: 🙂 hope that helps a little, Alesha (akconklin)
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    Oh, I agree - they are fabulous! I always keep extra on hand. And the Co-Op has made them extremely affordable so that there is no room to complain. 😉
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