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  1. Ben Ellison
    I believe my val has died back and some slivers of the old plants floated in my anachris and rooted. I now have two small plants that where just floating at the top and the original melted back and didn't make it.
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    I have found two sprigs of what looks to be val floating in my tank. Not certain if it's a propagation of the my plant or what.
  3. Ben Ellison
    Epic! So when covid is over you gonna let us all crash at ur place while we spend our days shopping?
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    I normally go nuts and do about 30% more than the setup can handle. Then I complain about changing water 3 times a week. Then I move a couple to other tanks and boom stocked!
  5. Ben Ellison
    Im pretty sure that's just her armor plates. Especially since they are in a line
  6. Ben Ellison
    Java fern does really ever take off. It's extremely slow growing.
  7. Ben Ellison
    You could try garlic guard. It is supposed to enhance flavors.
  8. Ben Ellison
    Looks like a great start! I think you are definitely on the right track.
  9. Ben Ellison
    I currently have a thriving community tank of red cherry shrimp. I have a couple of tanks I suspect shrimp might would be eaten. Do the amano shrimp do a lot better in a tank with say rams and other chiclids? Is it due simply to their increased size they do much better? Should no avoid shrimp all together and just go with a SAE and otto's?
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    I can't seem to notice anything abnormal about him.
  11. Ben Ellison
    According to the site I found : Vegetables Plecos can eat vegetables. Romaine lettuce, the tops of celery and other leafy vegetables provide a good plant food source. Slices of cucumber, parboiled zucchini and parboiled peas are welcome in the pleco's diet. Meaty Treats Once or twice a week, provide cut up earthworms, shrimp or bloodworms for your pleco to munch on. If you don't want to deal with live food sources, feed shrimp pellets, freeze-dried bloodworms or frozen bloodworms. These are OK as treats, but plecos are mostly plant eaters. You should never feed them protein on a daily basis.
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    Welcome to the community! Sounds like a great plan you are definitely on the right track.
  13. Ben Ellison
    Hey Mitch. I'm a volunteer as well. I'm near Morristown.
  14. Ben Ellison
    I am kinda feeling she might suspected these fish were not 100% healthy At the fish store. Maybe her supplier tends to have sub par fish?
  15. Ben Ellison
    I totally agree it may require some work to get a pair to live together. They are also territorial. You may want to look into a powder blue female. If that style doesn't work out honey gouramis seem much more robust and passive.
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    What are your water parameters at? Also gouramis are a bit more difficult to get established in my opinion. I've had all conditions be right and they still just sulk and die. Their color is one of the best indications of how they are settling in. Any stress and they go pale. From the picture nothing jumps out to me as being the cause. So I'd either say just simply stress or water problem.
  17. Ben Ellison
    Well I think there is a few prevention "meds" out there that are doing what you want. #1 salt. Dependant on what plants you are running you can safely run a bit of salt 24/7 and it will be very therapeutic. #2 tannins. Driftwood and various leaves you can get release tannins which are very helpful in keeping fish healthy. #3 diet. A widely varies high quality diet goes a long ways to healthy fish.
  18. Ben Ellison
    I think I would place the algae ball in another container being careful to get all of it and nuke it there or experiment with fish to see who will eat it.
  19. Ben Ellison
    So I've dealt with these worms three times now. Levamisole has been somewhat successful. I believe it has always paralyzed the worms, however I had one case where the fish couldn't pass them. I have mixed up fenbendazole flakes and fed them to guppies and had 100% success with that.
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    @BreeMarie the only thing I can think of is if she has over years found a bit of salt to be a key in her mind to keeping fish in general healthy. I personally run about a tablespoon per 10 gallons in most my tanks. Doesn't seem to bother the plants and I feel it really helps with live bearers specifically.
  21. Ben Ellison
    So if you drain 50% and refill it u have 50% of the original salt. 50% more water change and you have 25% of the original salt. At this point incant see the salt harming anything. Getting rid of all the salt is kinda a fools errand once ur down to that level.
  22. Ben Ellison
    I did some reading on other forums and a SAE was recommended to eat it.
  23. Ben Ellison
    The corner of ones don't look to bad imo. But I've had good results with just a oversized sponge. I don't run a hob in that tank atm but it's only like 8 gallons and has 100 or so shrimp atm most just shrimplets
  24. Ben Ellison
    I'd probably lean towards the 70. Also you might consider a matten filter over a sponge. Most shrimp keepers love em. I've never used one though
  25. Ben Ellison
    I believe you will need the ones with fenbendazole in them.
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