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  1. Ben Ellison
    I'm sure you will have plenty soon.
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    @PennyThe tanks are really coming along nicely. Atm I think the ammonia test really only tells you what you know. If you are making nitrates and nitrates then ammonia has to be present. Until you have fish/shrimp the levels of ammonia and nitrites is a bit unimportant. I think I'd avoid water changes to keep the food for the bacteria in the water. Once they all the ammonia and nitrites are staying at near 0 then I'd say start keeping the nitrates >40. Also I agree with @Jessica. On the matching of the betta and shrimp colors or at least complimentary. The first step I might start with is bladder snails and maybe one of the more fancy snail types. The longer you wait to add fish and shrimp the easier the process will be. You are totally going at this the right way for minimum stress on you and your fishy friends.
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    I think I'd try getting window repair resin. I also feel it's probably just a cosmetic thing.
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    I'm guilty of 1 and 2. I had never really nwirried about quarantine until I had a massive battle with camallanus worms....... Twice. Now I do most all fish who don't come from very very reputable places. Cycling is something I do with fish not before fish 😉
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    Can I?

    Ben Ellison replied to Jay's topic in General Discussion

    I have ran guppies with betta often and guppies with shrimp. I think the shrimp will be fine with the betta. May lose some shrimplets but should still grow in numbers.
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    How far is tacoma from the coop?
  7. Ben Ellison
    I would say your tank is cycled now. Can you special order more of the CPD? They will really prefer to have more of their own kind. They won't school with other types to my knowledge.
  8. Ben Ellison
    Thats nuts. I do have one neon who chooses not to school with the others. I have 12 or so and 11 school
  9. Ben Ellison
    I'd love to get Cory's to breed. I want to get some lasers and try 🤔
  10. Ben Ellison
    I've ran nirite snails with shrimp a lot . I ha e read those snails put benifical bacteria for the shrimp in their waste.
  11. Ben Ellison
    I love cpds my fav or the nano fish
  12. Ben Ellison
    Maybe honey gouramis?
  13. Ben Ellison
    I don't know much about feeding brine shrimp but I do see you too have a bit of duckweed lol
  14. Ben Ellison
    Woohoo that's awesome
  15. Ben Ellison
    Welcome. Post us some pictures of your tank when you get it all set up 🙂
  16. Ben Ellison
    Cyclops seems to be a fair alternative to baby brine shrimp.
  17. Ben Ellison
    This is an amazing job. I am super impressed and wish I had done more reading on the current state of the aquarium hobby before input together my new aquarium build. Oh we'll just means at some point I'll be able to redo it 🙂
  18. Ben Ellison
    Im gonna guess internal parasites.
  19. Ben Ellison
    Ok ill look into getting some tommorrow
  20. Ben Ellison
    I know loaches are known to eat snails. Does this include mystery snails?
  21. Ben Ellison
    I now have a new goal thanks @Lynze
  22. Ben Ellison
    That's a pretty hard question to answer for every situation. If your local water has all the trace minerals the plants need and your fish are making enough nitrates I'd say no. That being said that's kinda like a bit of a hard mark to hit. I feel without ferts u will always be a building block short. This will give algae an advantage cause it can use a wide variety of things as food. It only needs one nutrient where a full on plant will be waiting on 3-5 to be present at once.
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    I currently run several planted tanks and constantly seem to have above the desired Nitrate. I run around 80-120 PPM. I can obviously water change it off and do but I feel I am kinda wasting my ferts by reducing the Nitrates only to redose. I am under the opinion that just because the nitrates is high the other building blocks the plants need can be low. What id love to do is get nitrates consumed so that when I go to add more I dont need to change out 40% of my tank to be able to put a squirt or 2 in. I run mostly Anachris, Swords,Frogbit and Crypts. Does anyone know of some nitrate hogs I could add in?
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    HAHAHA thats epic
  25. Ben Ellison
    From what I've seen bettas often live in glass bowls with no air or heat. I feel that if your house is kept comfortable for humans the betta would probably be fine. Second thought adding a light and filter would even keep it a degree or two warmer than the room so that might be a factor too
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