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  1. KentFishFanUK
    Thanks all, I reported back to him on Reddit with your info and some links/pics from the internet. Other people there however had already convinced him it's a carinotetraodon irrubesco (which to be fair was also my first guess before I spoke to you guys) so he doubts it being a pao abei 🤷‍♂️ but he did say he would post more pics and keep me updated as it gets bigger. I'll let you all know when he does!
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    Thank you so much! I will let him know. Hopefully mystery solved! Will know as it grows up. Is it likely that it could come in accidentally with a batch of pea puffers? Assuming it was live caught, could they be caught at the same location or something?
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    Hi all! These pics are posted from Reddit (with the owners permission). This person got this little puffer with some pea puffers but they don't think it's the same as the others and noone seems to know what it is. Anyone know? I think it's currently the same size as the pea puffers but otherwise looks very different.
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    Didn't even realise I could float it, that's a much better idea I'll try that! Thanks
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    Thing is - and this sounds a bit dumb I know - I want it to work without really changing much, my other plants are growing well and I have a nice mix of algae without getting too much of any one type and it seems kind of balanced so don't really want to rock the boat as such. Are plants not good with temperature swings then? I know it can stress fish but I just assumed it wouldn't affect plants.
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    Ok so I've tried before and failed miserably with a pink flamingo crypt - it's not easily available in the UK but it's available again from an eBay seller I trust but only in a tissue culture (same as the last one I failed with). I was wondering, would it be worth potting it up with some soil and growing it in a mason jar or something with sunlight or something like that until it grows to a decent size and then transplant into my tank? I am thinking of trying this method with alternanthera reineckii 'mini' if it doesn't take off this time (another plant I've failed with a couple times before) but then with crypts I know they don't like being moved so not sure if it would do more harm than good? At £10 plus shipping for a tiny tissue culture (around $13? Plus shipping) I can't really keep buying more just to kill it again 😅 but I really want some! Thanks in advance plant gurus
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    Well that's me out of ideas 🤷‍♂️ Maybe try draining the water a bit so there's less space to hide and... cursing some more? 😂
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    Thanks I'll give them a go!
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    An app that automatically corrects reflections on glass so I can finally take decent photos of my tank!
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    Thanks for all the replies/input. Ill briefly explain why I was pondering it in the first place - I'm setting up some zero tech small garden patio ponds soon to keep Medaka rice fish in - in Japan it is common to keep Medaka all year round in this way without any filter except for plants (and algae and the bacteria etc). I was basically just wondering if this style would work for anything else year round, now I can find a few species that are hardy and cold tolerant and small enough not to need a huge amount of space like say goldfish would but most of them apparently 'appreciate' some flow. If it's just an oxygen issue then with enough plants or maybe something like a sochting oxydator (i.e. no power supply required) could possibly provide the necessary oxygen but if it's literally the flow itself they need it isn't possible without some sort of filter or pump or whatever.
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    Maybe African Violet? It can apparently be grown out of water and is cat safe? (Not that I've tried it or anything)
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    I've been reading up on ricefish a lot recently (or at least Medaka rice fish - oryzias latipes, there are other types that might have a different answer) and basically from what I understand is that they will survive under ice as long as it doesn't freeze all the way down. You can get small pond heaters designed just to warm the water a few degrees just to stop this from happening if necessary but pretty much yes you can most likely keep them outdoors all year round - it's what I will be doing and what possibly millions of enthusiasts in Japan do. In fact I read in one book that going through winter outside actually extends their lifespan as they slow their metabolism etc down, I think the common consensus is to stop feeding when water temperature drops below about 50 or 60 as they will stop eating and it will just foul the water. Of course if it does get cold enough to freeze all the way to the bottom then nothing could survive that and heating or bringing them inside would be the only way.
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    Thanks for the reply! Actually it was rainbow shiners (amongst one or two others, e.g white cloud minnows) that I had in mind - much of the literature I've seen say they 'appreciate it' just as you said. I suppose was trying to understand why? What is meant by 'appreciate' it? I assume there must be some specific reason for it so I was just wondering if we knew why? If it is to do with breeding processes could this be achieved another way without the flow? Or is it one of those things we don't really know why we've just observed it to be so?
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    Ok so I get that flow rate is important for oxygenation/gaseous exchange, plus plays a role in filtration. But hypothetically speaking, if oxygen level and filtration was taken care of by other means unaffected by flow - is flow still important? Do fish that 'prefer high flow' actually just prefer higher oxygen levels or is there more to it? Do any fish require the flow for breeding? Or feeding even? Get stressed without it?
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    Ok so not sure how easy it would be/how well it would work but technically I think one option you could consider is an above tank sump? So the water is pumped into the sump above, flows through it then overflows back into the tank - meaning the sump tank would be drilled instead of the display tank? Kind of like a giant hang on back, except it would need a big shelf or cabinet or something above the main tank instead of below which isn't as easy to install/hide.
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    Hi guys, was wondering if anyone could help identify what killed my neon tetra? I think it is probably neon tetra disease but was worried it could be columnaris or something else? I removed him as soon as I saw and I think it must have developed quickly as didn't notice any problems last night. Had my neon tetras for almost a year if it makes any difference. Either way are there any steps I should take to avoid my other ones getting it? Thanks in advance!
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    Will try to remember to get a picture tomorrow morning for the confirmation!
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    Thanks! I did not know that. Will leave the nerite where it is for a while! Oh ok I thought detritus worms were bigger for some reason! Might add some to my main tank then and see if they go for them. Do they make good live fish food? I don't have substrate in that tank and no fish food other than the dried spirulina powder, could they still be detritus worms?
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    I have a small tank set up just to keep my nerite snail in whilst I medicated my tank with non snail safe meds. So anyway I had the bright idea of using it to culture some dapnia whilst I had it set up (got some to feed my tank anyway) and feeding them with small pinches of dried spirulina powder. I also threw in some driftwood and salvinia and some brown leaves I had cut off my java fern and have a slow trickle of air via airline tube without a stone. My daphnia isn't doing that great but that's another matter, I noticed I have a bunch of these tiny worm like critters all over the bottom on the tank, they don't seem to move much and are probably not even 1 cm long and finer than a human hair so really really tiny, what could they be? I thought detritus worms and planaria and things were a little bigger, like these are probably too small to even get a good picture of - like skinnier than bbs. I wasn't even completely sure they weren't like dust/clothing fibres but I'm sure I've seen them move in a very life like manner. Might try feeding some to my fish via a pipette but to be honest they might be to small for anything but fry. I think they look a lot like vinegar eels from the pics I've seen online but obviously they aren't in vinegar just tank water. Any ideas?
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    Post some pics! Someone here will be able to identify it for you
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    Wait brown and stringy? I think diatom is normally a brown dusting like coating surfaces but stringy makes me think maybe it's something else? 4 Otocinclus and a bunch of bladder snails would make short work of brown diatoms I think.
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    I think diatom algae is the favourite of many algae eating fish/snails/shrimp so maybe add some algae eaters? I actually wish I knew how to grow it because of that, once it was all eaten in my tank it never came back. Also, how comes your pothos is dying? Had some issues with my pothos but even after all the roots came off it didn't die and is now growing really well. You know to keep the leaves etc out of the water right? (Sorry if you already knew that, don't want to be patronising or anything but can't think how a pothos would die off otherwise, thought they were bullet proof!)
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    Love them! I love my humble neon tetras too but one day I dream of a big blackwater tank with a whole bunch of sparkly diamond tetras! So gorgeous.
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    When I first set up my tank my substrate also lowered pH considerably for the first 4-6 weeks, had to keep doing water changes like twice a week until it stopped doing it. Lowering pH will in turn lower KH. You might find after enough time you don't need to worry about adding KH or doing so many water changes as the substrate will stop lowering them so much.
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    From what I hear most corydoras stick to their own kind. I have 6 of my pandas and wish I could fit more as seeing them school together and root around munching on stuff like a fluffle of rabbits is so rewarding, I'd definitely recommend you choose one type and get more of that one instead of 4 of each. Save the other type for a future tank!
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