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Those are the ones I see most recommended on here and other sites. Do you ever see any that survive and establish in your tanks? That’s the end goal for me. I’ll do my best lmao and the end goal is to establish them and have them as a stimulation source for my fish to hunt but also as cleaners. I also have a Betta and worms are the only thing I can get him to hand feed with. I’m sure his moody butt would love it to be open season on worms.

Thank you @nabokovfan87 I’ll definely take a look at his journal. @Chick-In-Of-TheSea @Lennie I’ll make sure to never mention 🪱 again haha.

@nabokovfan87 did you have a bad experience or something? Do you have a recommendation on where to get cyclops and rotifers?

The easiest you can have if this if your first time growing reds and not worrying about CO2 and fertilizer even though you have it would be Ludwigia super reds and scarlet temples. I had Ludwigia pantanal before but it sheds way to much for my liking and lillys grow way to much for a 20 gallon. Scarlets get a dull pink top but vibrant pink with green veins on the under leaves. Once you get them going they form nice dense growth. The only issue is they get so dense they pull each other out of the substrate. Super reds are nice as it’ll grow fast and I’ve not ran into the issue that the clippings eventually grow smaller and smaller after so many clipping and replanting. I’ve had them about a year and I’m probably 20+ clippings and replanting in and they’re just as dense and strong as the day I got them. Pink flamingo and bacopa colorta are some other suggestions. The pic shows my super reds on the left and scarlets on the right. I just clipped and rearranged the super reds so they don’t look as dense as usual.

I used to have them when I had stratum media but switched to hth pool filter sand for the plants. After that I still saw them in the filter and they didn’t bother me but I eventually got plenaria and had to treat the tank. It’s been a year now and I haven’t seen anything since. I’ve been considering adding them back for a food source for my kuhlis and Pygmy cories as well as a potential food source for chili rasboras I’m planning on getting and breading. What’s your opinion on purposely adding them or an alternative as well as suggestions on suppliers? I’ve considered black worms but they’d be hunted to extinction in a matter of days if not hours by my the kuhlis. Also the reason I haven’t gotten them since is after the plenaria I’ve been quarantining plants as well as hosing them with peroxide so no more sneaky buggers getting a free ride.

I recently freed up my 29 gallon tall tank and I’m now concidering trying my hand at breading chili rasboras. Currently there’s about 6-10 kuhli loaches, 4-5 cardinal tetras, 1 harlequin rasbora, 5-8 Pygmy cories, and a bunch of rams horn snails. The tank is heavely planted and is over 2 years old now. I’m using a search 55 tidal and a sponge filter as well. How many would you suggest and how difficult are they to breed? I’ve read up on it and 2 per gallon is what I’m seeing and they’re easy to bread just hard to keep the fry alive.

I’m starting up a cherry shrimp breading tank and was wondering about come reputable breeders. I currently have 10 reds with half from my LFS and half from Petco to spread the gene pool but wanted some better stock. I’m also interested in some emeralds as well but haven’t found any in my area. I’m in West Virginia.

I had something like this except it’s their colors. None of my original guppies had any got the blue and orange marking with black spots like endless but 10 generations in and I have a bunch of guppies of different types with those markings either obvious or faint on their front half. Looks pretty though. The really colorful one is what the pattern looks like when not mixed. None of my originals looks anything like that. These were tuxedos, Kobras, and the yellow bodied ones with red or orange tails.

@nabokovfan87 I was actually going to get some more this weekend or next. I’m restocking a 29 with some green tetras and was going to grab a few while I was out. Glad I didn’t now.

I can’t possibly be the only one who has ottos that disappear for weeks on end to the point I write them off just to appear like they were never there. At this point I’m more sure how many Kuhlis I have then ottos. I just moved everything in my 40 gallon breading including the one decoration that’s a pirate ship sonó could trim the plants and vacune the sand and only saw 2. I just now found 4 perched on a plane. I haven’t see. This many in months. Sorry for the blurry pics. The guppies thought it was feeding time and kept swarming in front of the glass and the camera kept losing focus.

@Biotope Biologist I have issues with swimming in pools with chlorine so that’s why I’m considering getting a SW pool. Now that you’ve mentioned it I wonder if I’d have the same issue with SW tanks. It happens when I’m just cleaning up the tank or feeding them. I’m leaning towards chemicals in the water for me but could be other things.

Gotcha. So beer bellies. I can relate.

@dasaltemelosguy no mines not like that. More like mosquito bites or light poison ivy for an hour or so. That is interesting though. Didn’t know that was a thing.

I really haven’t found a divinities answer online about this so figured I’d ask here. I just did a 50% change and noticed some of my khulis are sporting bellies and in the like their bellies are dark. I’ve read that this means those are females and possibly are caring eggs. My question is does this mean they’ll be laying soon or that’s just how the females look?

@Guppysnail @TheSwissAquarist it might be. I get it all the time in little bits but on big change days is when it sucks the most.

After I’m done working in my tanks I have to wash my hands and arms off in ice cold water and soap. If I use warm or hot water then after that I feel like a stuck my arms in pile of poison ivy. Does anyone else have this happen to them? my tanks are fresh water and I have the normal plants everyone else does. Swords, frog bit, wenditti, Ludwigia, Rotalia, Java ferns and moss, scarlet temples, and stuff like that. The fish are guppies, cardinals, Cory’s and a betta. It happens with either fish tank. All parameters are fine except nitrates are usually high. Like 40-60 but that’s before water changes.

So extra spicy.

Thank you. Probably like catfish lol 😂

Thank you. That’s why I chose not to take the eggs out or separate pregnant female guppies from the tank. If some live then great but I don’t want so many fish that I can’t get rid of them fast enough. Yeah. I travel for work and I’m only home on the weekends. Until now they’ve only lasted eggs on the last day I’m home but this time they did it a day before I got back. Looking at the eggs I can see about 50 of them but only about 5-10 are fertile. Another problem is the guppies are eating them from time to time. I do see a few hatched eggs though. Fingers crossed I’ll get a few out of this.

@TheSwissAquarist thank you. So far I only see the one but every weekend I come home I see a new batch on the side of the tank.

I got a baby Cory!!!

@JMP yep. That’s what the tank looks like.

I have a few were the eggs are piled on each other. Any hope for them or they’re fine? It’s like a pile of 4-5.

@JMP I’m not going to for this batch but in the future what’s the best method you’d found for removing the eggs off stuff to put them in another tank?

@Theplatymaster okay after looking more into mulm and ditritus, I now realize I was confusing it for something else. I have a good bit of mulm in the back of my tank. Every week when I top off the tank I pore a heavy amount of water in the front and sides to push it all in the back under the plants and next to the sponge intake of my HOB. I’ve always thought of it as simply fish waste and used it as fertilizer and didn’t think of the organisms in there. I still have a lot to learn. Thank you.