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  1. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    Probably going to keep 6-10 fry for grow out and future projects then move the rest out at 2 to 2.5" . They seem to be fairly common wild caught but who doesn't like a tank raised pike raised in harder water that can be kept in a community tank. In the off chance some don't move out or have issues to remove from the line I also have my hairy puffer colony for any culls or etc. Puffers mostly get frozen krill with vitachem and livebearers or whiteclouds etc to keep in condition but they do not mind variety when necessary. I imagine it could get harder to maintain a stable colony size now that the adults have figured it out and are excellent parents.
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    I will be shipping using breather bags in the next month or so. I have read the horror stories of breather bag seams busting. Would you re-seal the factory seam with an induction sealer prior to adding water and fish to try and avoid that risk? Would that be likely to solve the problem or cause some other issue ? v/r Matt
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    Yes functionally acrylic has no seams in that the when assembled the panels are chemically bonded / welded together and form one continuous piece. There would not be a way for a leak to occur that I am aware of. I wouldn't say safer exactly because there are many ways to get leaks from airline siphoning back water without check valves to filters and hoses leaking but I am confident the acrylic tanks themselves will not leak from seams because there are none. Primarily I wanted tanks I could move without help and the weight savings made acrylic the choice there. I also seem to have more stable temperatures with the acrylic. They scratch easier than glass and are more upfront to purchase but for me but the it was worth the tradeoff.
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    If you aren't too set on the snails and shrimp I would look at a few Amazon puffers
  5. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    Sorry for you loss. Here's to the great times shared with Pixel.
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    That started tiger lotus in the wool and plastic mesh pot would just drop in. It is what the easy planter is made for they have been great for me even better if I put an easy tab in the wool with the plant
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    Floating plants should be fine probably even see more growth in them with the close proximity to the light source.. Not sure on the signs of imminent silicone failure but I would make sure there is a full solid bead of silicone on the inside corner of each pane, avoid scraping algae near it, and if I saw anything under the bead like algae I would not personally be comfortable with its integrity. I have not yet popped a seam and did have 4 x 40 breeders and 4 x 20 longs for a few years with no issues. Once cracked the bottom of a 10 gallon when I was 12 years old and still remember it vividly 38 years later. That is indeed alot of water on a floor. I decided to go with acrylic tanks in this version of the fish room since its a small amount of tanks and my main tanks are a 20, 3 50's and a 75. Large volume of water for a floor if any break so I decided to have no seams to bust and chose acrylic for my situation. Acrylic has its own problems scratches easy etc. If I were trying to contain water in a situation like that, with a glass tank, I would add a 1 inch lip around the top of a stand and cut a hole in that lip to insert a python hose or two in that lip on each back corner. run those hoses down to a container in the bottom of the stand that would hold all the water of the main tank above. It would almost be like the wash systems of Arizona cities that direct heavy rains water flow to were you want it. That hose deal would not work for a total catastrophic seam bust but if it were a slower leak that may contain all the water for you.
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    I would say now, looking back at the first 57 days, that splitting the brood at day 20 resulted in the fry with the parents became a bit more outgoing and a bit faster growing than the fry only tank. Both tanks fed well on same schedule with same foods and same temperatures. I suppose there could also be a dynamic of gender as well since the males grow significantly bigger; it is possible I netted out majority females into the fry tank and more males were left in the parents tank. Should be a great fishroom year. Matt
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    Day 57 , approximately 120 fry some still with parents. The Crenicichla regani has definitely seemed to enjoy the room so far. I may end up with a few staying in the parents tank as they are pretty wise on how to avoid nets and use the bottom 6 inches of tank space covered in caves tunnels and driftwood.
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    Crenicichla regani day 22. 25 ish in blue back 20 gallon, 75 ish remain with parents in a 50 gallon. We have progressed to occasionally eating bloodworms and vibra bites already. Mostly bbs, krill flake, extreme mini pellets, and possibly some hydra
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    Day 22 update. On day 21 I moved appropriately 25 fry to a 20gallon for grow out remaining 75 ish with parents in 50 gallon (not the easiest tank to catch from). I Quickly tried sparkling gourami as dither to keep down the hydra a bit but they were a little too interested and effective in grabbing fry tails. Sparkling gourami now in ziss breeder box in parents tank to get the benefit of the dither on parental care without risking fry getting tails bit. Matt
  12. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    Id say grab the Dennerle Snail Catcher. I pull MTS of all my tanks with the snail catcher wand thing and feed them but the handful to my 6" adolescent fahaka puffer. The catcher would make short work of your excess pond snails and doesn't involve a chemical and you wouldn't need a backup plan if the living snail remover options decided your mystery snail was food. If you want living solutions I use 2 My tanks have assassins mostly because they are cool and aerate the soil. They kill their share of MTS and most ramshorn but I believe my group would rather eat blood worms etc than actively hunt live snails if given the choice. I also have a group of 12+ dwarf chain loaches in one of my 50 gallon tanks. They are highly entertaining snail eaters in the smallest snail eating loach that I know of. I havent seen them bother a mystery snail before but i suppose I would have a backup plan if I had one and was concerned. Pond snails out in daylight would be gone pretty fast with them and they are fun to watch. Simple fix for me would be the snail catcher off the coop store.
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    Thank you pretty interesting 14 days so far. I'm probably going to hedge my bets and move a portion at least. I would hate to miss the opportunity to learn with the growth rates etc but would be a slight trade off of risk since I have no idea how long they need to remain with the parents in nature to properly develop.
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    It threw me the first few times nothing crazy like discus but just enough frequency to ask everyone
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    Yes just curious. It is definitely not an active feeding discus style it is more a few fry a few times a day; just enough to peak my curiosity on it and put this one up to the collective.
  16. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    Soft water well planted I might try a tank of the world with a group of amazon puffers or a schouldenti puffer for all levels of tank. A school of dwarf chain loaches middle and down low and a school of Forktail Blue Eye Rainbowfish up top. Any of them are pretty entertaining by themselves though.
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    Curious if anyone has any thoughts or experience to share on this. I definitely have noticed the C. Regani fry occasionally giving a nibble the parents side over the first 10 days or so outside of the cave. They also seems to enjoy hydra, green algae, scavenging off the bottom, baby brine shrimp, bloodworms, cyclops, and krill flake. The skin nibbling is not like what I've seen videos of discus doing but it happens enough that it is noticeable. Both parents seem to allow it and not have any problem with it so far. The fry are getting pretty close to moving to a 20 gallon grow out and or possibly the 2 Ziss breeder boxes in the parents tank. I have them for such a surprise fry appearance. We are now 14 days in and about 1/2 inch long x 80 or so fry. Half way to submitting my first ever breeding report to the Colorado Aquarium Society 🙂. Hopefully we get there learning each day either way though.
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    gotta know that tipping point
  19. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    If it were me at the current moment I would probably try and get a smaller carpeting plant in there and use neocaradina shrimp of whatever color I prefer and a group of Strawberry Rasboras pic included or some other nano rasbora. They are pretty tiny 3/4 inch adults and school pretty decent throughout the tank. Male front center Female above Male behind. The males get pretty red when displaying.
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    I had a group of 6 pandas in a planted 55 one of the first water changes I noticed a free swimming fry. It pretty much went crazy immediately after that and they had grown to a group of 130 when I finally broke that tank down and moved everyone around. Once corydoras get going it can definitely be an issue. I feel your pain on that one it was so cool initially and then it was like an explosion of corydoras that no one wants to eat when they hatch out. If it were me, post panda cory learning experience, I would try a two pronged attack 1. add some more snails to the tank to hopefully eat eggs, and 2. if I were only interested in keeping the group a certain size I would attempt to catch the entire school so I could pull out the females. I would move the females and any extra males on to a store or friends or some other option. I believe I would try and make that school a bachelor group of only males in the amount that I chose for that tank.
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    Congratulations that is pretty awesome
  22. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    The one piece of advice is to use and contribute to the forum by asking, reading and reacting, and replying where possible. If you have a question you will get a response fairly quickly from this resource. There are many forum members who will share their experiences and advice freely you could never attain it all alone. The more of us that do that the better for everyone. I have improved my knowledge with each interaction here. I take in the information and decide for myself and my fish how to utilize it in our situation when it can be applied.
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    Sure thing if I make a video in the phone and play it back I have a gif button in the video I can and hit to make one. I just found it though these were my first 2 tries. I would guess it is something specific to the phone but I'm sure others have it in the video playback somewhere.
  24. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    I add temperature correct water from tap to tank by python then additives to tank as its filling. No issue for me doing it that way. We are on a well so the only other thing I do water treatment wise is put one of the one way RV hose style carbon block filters between the python hose and the python hook when adding water. I do that for insurance to keep the new water as close to consistent as I can even if something is slightly off of standard with our water supply.
  25. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    10 days in fry have some size now
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