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    @GaaraThe shrimp I took to the store I took out the ones that were not up to my standards and I put them back in this tank to be culled later so this is a random average of what I got. @AJEI breed them outside but the photo was taken inside in a 10 gallon under artificial light. @Cory I plan on trying amonos next year and slowly adding salt to the tank to get them to breed and produce you said you tried them outside but they got to cold were you trying to breed them?
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    I think it would be doable you would have to have another tank for fry to grow out I think. But is you put some good line of sight blockers in the middle of the tank and put your pleco cave on one side and your apisto cave on the other. in this picture you can see the rocks in the center and swimming space on both sides if you give them both their own space in the tank I will help and you will have a higher chance of success
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    I was thinking about trying it this year I can report back in the spring. Have you tried the blues outside? Do you know if there color is affected in a positive way in the sun light?
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    This is what I got from my first time doing shrimp summer tubbing. I put 40 shrimp into a 110 gallong stock tank with a bunch of crypts and a few water Lillies I have brought about 200 to a store to trade in for store credit and I still have hundreds left. This is a holding tank for them until I can bring the rest in to be sold. I would love to see some of your shrimp tubs. I will not be shipping. I'm just selling local in the twin cities area to stores for credit I'm still trying to stock my 300 hill stream 😅
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    In my experience you could breed them in a breeder box lol they really just need a pair that like each other and a cave to go in. If you want to keep them long term I would do a minimum of a ten so a 20 will work great. I had some good success pulling the cave a few days after spawning and dumping the wrigglers into a 10 gallon tank with a sponge filter to grow out
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    I love blackwater tanks and with your sword as a center piece to the tank with lots of wood and roots from a floating plant. The spicies you are keeping will work really well for this type of tank. These are not my pictures but some good inspiration. I look forward to what you decide
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    simple answer for the 175 if we stick with Asian species And we need to keep plants and If you are not in the US snake heads or the Asian Arowana are super cool
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    I would pick a few areas of the world that you like and focus on those areas so for example Asia I would do shrimp in the 5 gallon, a betta would in the 10 gallon I would do a hill stream in the 25 or the 35 with hill stream loaches rhinogobius and danios, the other tank I would do a nano schooling fish like rasbora and a few small loach like chain or zebra hovering loaches with a gourami As the show fish, in the 75 I would do a heavily planted rainbow tank with barbs and a mid size loach, and the 175 I would do a school of clown loaches with a large number of barbs like mascara barb or tiger or ruby it would be a very active tank. What area were you thinking of doing South America or Africa or North America. this is fun I can Do more if your interested
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    Bubbles my gar but not a good pick for a pet pond. I would go with rainbow shiners first pic not mine the second is
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    For me I had a fish tank on day one my mother thought a 20 long with two gold fish would look nice. I had those fish until my 7th birthday when they both died in front of me (it was a rough 7th birthday) I didn't get fish again till my family moved into a House on the lake. I had reptiles starting from the age of 9 and my parents said no more pets( I only had like 8 at the time) but they didn't count fish as a "real" pet. They regret that mistake as I quickly had hundreds of gallons of fish tanks in my bed room. Then the rule was "Fine just keep it in your room" so now I'm in my own house and the wife now has the rule of "Keep it in the basement and no alligators" I still have plans for a pet barn for my animals and maybe then I can have a crocodilian 😉
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    The Minnesota aquarium society is doing online meetings with zoom and they are also doing online auctions. We had someone from Hong Kong call in and they were able to talk about what they we're doing with fish over there. We have people from around the country able to participate it's a good time. this is the link to next months meeting about swimming with cichlids in Zambia with speaker Pam Chin https://aquarium.mn/aqua-news/monthly-meetings/lake-tanganyikans-pam-chin
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    I think a pair of angles or rams would be fine but I probably wouldn't do both in that tank. I would also have some corys and group of small schooling fish with the pair of good looking show angles or rams. You would have to pull the fry or eggs if you wanted to raise them
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    I'm still waiting to grow out my group to sex them and breed them. I have them in a 300 gallon at the moment
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    @Brandy it's not the size of your wood it's how you use it. Your piece has a lot of cool structure to it and looks great in your tank. My problem is when you have a big tank you need big things to make it look right. You also run into the Weird problems Like you can't boil Your wood to take the tannins out
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    I had a dwarf frog with guppies and he worked pretty well at eating babies. He was also fun to watch
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    If you can than boil it a lot but if you can't soaking it and changing out the water in the tub frequently. In my case the wood would have been to heavy to lift wet as it was about a 100 pound piece so I have to do a lot of carbon and 50% water changes to keep up on it. that is doing pretty well at keeping the tank clear but I'm on month 5 and it still doesn't sink lol. Here are some before and this week
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    Neat that is a cool idea. I have few but large tanks so my water change system is to put a pump in my 450 gallon snapping turtle tank and drain it outside for the garden then I will start a siphon from my 300 gallon hill stream tank to my turtle tank I want the hill stream to have the cleanest water. My 800 I have a filter that I can back flush so it makes water changes easy I just pump the poop water to a drain. To get water back into the 300 and my 800 I just use the same pump that I use to drain the turtle tank and put it in a bucket in the sink run the water and let the tanks fill
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    I'm thinking of doing a giraffe catfish or a ripsaw catfish for my big tank but tank size is a big deal with them. I have a feeling the snails are going to be your best friends in that tank.
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    What are your 4 tanks? If I was you I would trade tanks after a year so you have the chance to get all the things. I have the limitation of space I can only use the basement for my pet room and I get one "show" tank in my living room. I went big so I have a 300 a 450 and an 800 in the pet room and 90 as the show tank. If I were you I would get one "big" tank for your planted community a 125 or 180 Would do fine and give you the chance to have some bigger tetras, rainbow fish, corys, and all the plants you could ever need. Then you could have the three others be between 10-75 depending on your space and when you got broad of a tank you trade it out for the next cool thing. Once a year or so take the tank that you don't like the most and trade it for something you like more at that time. My 300 is a hill stream community this is a few pics I think you might like.
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    Some algae wafers but it's mostly a mix of pellets that I grind into almost a powder and frozen food like brine and bloodworms. The dace don't eat the wafers that much That is mainly for the stone rollers and stiphodons
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    I'm still working on it after 5 months. That is why there is the bag of gravel on it.
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