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    Do you currently have any tanks? If you do, are they planted? If so, what plants are the most successful for you? I'd suggest doing more of those. I wouldn't want to add up all the plants I've tried and how much money I have spent, but I find plants fairly sensitive to water parameters and I don't know that we talk enough about that, honestly. I *assumed* that water is water as far as plants go, but I no longer believe that to be the case. Now I have a handful of plants that do pretty well in my setups and just let them infest any tank that I want them in.
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    I vote for a 20L personally, but really defends what fish you want and if you want them to stratify. So a 20H might be a better option in that case. Then start your "I am not going to use these" tank pile and wait a few weeks before you find a totally fabricated reason to start using them again.
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    I think these look fertile. They had decent spawns for two days and I harvested about 40 or 45 eggs. Have taken out a couple eggs that got white, but the majority seem to be developing.
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    As you can see, this bucket is a catch all for plant trimmings and as the water evaporates I top it off at water change time from the tanks nearby (and it has its own light). I've recently moved plants from QT into the bucket after it was occupied by pencilfish for three weeks. And I've also pulled some plants from CPD jungle tank into here fairly recently. It's unheated and I think the temp probably sits somewhere between 65 and 70. Which do you think these are? It's almost got to be CPDs, but I have no idea how pencilfish lay their eggs so maybe it's likely that there would be eggs in a floating mat of hornwort. I will say they are right at the surface, so I think that's one point for pencilfish. I've never seen a CPD above the midpoint of the tank they're in unless I'm trying to net them. Just the two fry so far (both in first picture).
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    I struggle to keep my dying java ferns tied to ill placed driftwood and someone on the same forum does something like this! Wildly impressive, @Mmiller2001... that's absolutely beautiful!
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    To be fair, this aquarium lily seems to send up leaves and let the old ones melt and it seems like they mostly are eating those. Maybe it's my management. It's made a few new plants so it can't be too unhappy. Or maybe it's a tiger lotus, honestly I don't know how to tell the difference.
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    Mine seem to be fine in basically straight RO in my apisto tanks. Shells look good. The pH is still relatively high, though. Mine eat plants, particularly aquarium lily. Agree regarding hydra though. Tank with them no hydra. Tank without hydra farm.
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    @Guppysnail Do you experience your spixii dying after they laid their clutches? Mine laid a couple of clutches and then died. I still have about 8 of the babies who have grown up quite well even in my apisto tank. The other set also died at the same time. When the clutches hatched I moved about six of the babies to a new tank and they too all died. I have no idea what in the world it would have been that took them out. Didn't have anything else going on. I would like to move some of the survivors, but I'm scared they'll die.
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    Females have kind of been going crazy, the male was actually swimming with them a bit tonight. Maybe he's worn out. 🤣
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    Got something like 25 sterbai eggs. I don't know if they're fertile. I think I only have maybe one male.
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    I have 100 gallon/day RO Buddie (from Chewy or Amazon), they're about $80. I haven't had any issues with it, but I'm making something like 30 gallons or so a week. Nothing too crazy.
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    Got a picture? Because that sounds like duckweed.
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    I'd assumed that you were looking into this for this exact purpose... reading the... oak leaves from your other posts. There's suggestion of keeping spawns down at these temperatures or artificially pulling eggs and chilling them?
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    I have never shipped fish, but have shipped live queen bees quite a bit. I think the hesitation comes from a good place typically. Usually it takes some hand holding and it helps to find then right person that knows how to do it. There's one lady at our PO that knew what to do without a lot of fanfare. Stinks they took it and just left it on your porch. There was some discussion on another forum talking about higher rates of fish theft in boxes labeled as fish.
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    Can't help with the CO2 question, but I'm jealous of your moss!
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    @Odd Duck I hadn't seen your video, but I love how the corys come crashing in like "oh, did she put food over here?" 😄
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    I got the first decent pencilfish picture so far.
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    Hopefully they spawn for you soon! 🙂
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    I'd take a pheasant over seeing a mountain lion where I'm hunting. I totally understand that they're always there and always have been. But the rational part of my brain departs the rails if I see a mountain lion behind me in the dark... or even in broad daylight. Even if the odds are very slim, and yes... they are. That said, I'm a nice, tasty snack for a mountain lion.
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    Technically this was last night, but it's been less than 24 hours. Four water changes!
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    I *think* that's what mine look like and it's off scale high.
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    Ahh, I misunderstood, I thought you meant that you wanted to use the 3.5 gallon for the breeding project. I'd make the argument that breeding shrimp in the 3.5 would net you significantly more money than just selling the tank, but maybe there's a really hot used market for small tanks like that in your area? What are you hoping to breed?
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    There was a mountain lion roaming the area not too far from our house. The last city we lived in someone had one in their tree in their backyard and shot it. There's been rumors of them around here for 30 years, and we're part of their historic range here in Iowa. But they're getting more prevalent, or at least that's the perception, though it could be bias because of all the cameras everyone had on them at all times basically. Either way, this deer season I have been very jumpy walking to/from in the dark. In fact, the last time I walked in in the dark a hedge apple fell randomly from the tree I had just walked under and I spun around and my heart went crazy. Some of the most frightening things to encounter in the dark is walking through thick grass and stepping close enough to a pheasant that they flush because in the dark you basically need to come in contact with them and they usually fly just about straight into your face.
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    I can't think of a breeding project that would work well in that small of a tank except for shrimp. 🙂 Now, I'm not sure what your local market would work for selling them. But that's very local and probably even seasonal.
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    Shrimp!
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