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  1. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    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
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    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.
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    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
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    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
  13. 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.
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    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.
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    10 days in fry have some size now
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    Short opinion : I would get fish bags, fast the fish for 48 hours, bag them like I was shipping them to myself, and bring them and a temporary set up with me in a personal vehicle. Detailed: Depending on species and size of tanks I would try moving my fish family with me. Assuming the military movers will move the tanks with your household goods, I would prepare for the tanks to arrive in an unusable damaged condition in a worst case scenario. I bet there is a higher risk of busted silicone seams on a big glass tanks post moving to a new home but I have no personal experience on that. If moving the tanks with your household goods move, for a CONUS move, I would consider setting up a few temporary tanks out of something like Irene's video (below) on quick and easy quarantine tanks, My attempt would be to 1. Put the fish in those temporary tanks and then break down the big tanks for moving prep. 2. Run those temporary tanks with the fish in them until ready to move in a personal vehicle. 3. Keep those tanks with me along with filtration heat and food due to the possibility of a delay between when I arrive at the new place and when the military movers deliver a useable tank to me and it has cycled. 4. If I tried this I would fast the fish 48 hours before bagging them individually in fish bags and put those bags into cooler with Styrofoam peanuts layered throughout to insulate and probably a 72 hour heat pack on the inside top of the cooler. 5. I would put the cooler and empty temp tanks along with supplies in my vehicle and drive from the old place to the new place. 5.I would be reasonably willing to try a two or three day drive with my fish in this type of set up, essentially self shipping fish in my car. There would be the possibility that something could go wrong and I would loose some or possibly all of the fish. I think this may be tougher for any move outside of the Continental United States where you would probably want to make sure the species was allowed there and that you did not require some sort of import license to bring them in. I once considered getting a chinchilla in Schofield Barracks, Hawaii and got the license to do so; I know mammal pets also required a ridiculously long quarantine when they arrived as well. I imagine it is the same for almost all locations outside of the lower 48 but could theoretically be done for your fish family members.
  18. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    my C.regani are tending to their first fry ever, c.lateralis coloring up, flagfish starting to prep to spawn, and a male golden wonder killifish has decided that a female variatus platy is in fact just a very colorful female golden wonder killi and is courting her
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    If it were me I would go with the livingroom. At our house that would be the location that was the most enjoyed and the most maintained tank due to its location.
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    Any advice is greatly appreciated. I am curious if it is worth it to try and move some of the fry for the Dwarf pike or just let the parents do their thing for a while. I'm assuming they are similar to other cichlids with parental care and they are pretty attentive so far. This pair formed in summer 2019 and relentlessly attacked the subdominant pair until I removed them. After a month of regular runs of COOP BBS for the fish room this is the first time they have produced. My plan would be to use a few ziss breeder boxes for easier observation and feeding of bbs etc. Seems like a decent size group for a first time pair but I am a pike rookie.
  21. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    SUCCESS Crenichila Regani Tapajos pretty cool way to kick off the fish room for 2021. Looks like the coop brine shrimp regime has paid off and we just went from a pair of happy dwarf pike that arrived in may of 2019 to a successful spawn being escorted around the tank. 50 gallon with the pair and now first spawn is mostly the MTS farm for puffer food. I was a bit concerned the snails might prevent eggs from surviving but looks to be not the case. The triangle pleco cave from the coop was the spawning cave this first run.
  22. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    7.0 ph 300 TDS (community well up here) nothing crazy on ammonia nitrate nitrite lots of plants and easy green both tabs and liquid as needed. In theory my barometric pressure is 29% of sea level which probably helped me unintentionally end up with a school of 250 panda corys out of a group of 6 in a heavily planted 55 gallon 3 years ago. I believe the lower pressure helps with encouraging spawning when fish initially arrive since it really tends to kick off those first 7 days in quarantine. With the mountains and woods impacting my natural sunlight for all tanks, the sun cycle likely makes my fishroom a bit more seasonal than others. Pretty fun to learn up here.
  23. mountaintoppufferkeeper
    Aspiring Goodeid nerm here since 2017. Fish room is 1/3 puffer tanks and 1/3rd goodeid tanks, and 1/3 puffer food tanks of snails,shrimp, and misc other live foods usually. Currently have Characodon lateralis Los Berros and post holiday USPS shipping slow down will start out on Limia Perugia, Boca de Cachon. I did try the X.doadrioi but did not have success with them up here on the mountain. They were very seasonal, at 9200 feet in woods, breeding wise and I ended up moving them on when my ratio left me with all males and 1 female. Cool fish, kept the duckweed down, and ate all the plant based flake I could feed them for 2 years of learning. All the goodeids are interesting. I have had the most longer term success with the Characodons and hopefully the limia moving forward.
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    I have never been to the Georgia Aquarium but want to at some point. I grew up at the New England Aquarium in Boston the center ocean tank mertle the turtle is great and the bottom tank which was basically the whole floor below elevated walkways it had sharks in the 80s and last time was a penguin exhibit with dozens zipping around. I visited Denver Aquarium a handful of times lots of freshwater exhibits there, cool amazon stuff and a restaurant with the ocean tank as a wall, Shedd in Chicago was amazing. Denver has some of Shedd in its design. Monterey Bay Aquarium every weekend when at the language Institute. I missed the baby great whites but the open ocean tank is very cool. I did a cross country move from Virginia to Colorado post Army and stopped at every zoo and Aquarium along the way that I could. Public Aquarium road trips are pretty fun if ever an option; if I am in a city for any length of time the public aquarium and zoo is on my list. I would also throw in zoos with aquatic exhibits in here. They have probably been the introduction to the hobby for many. A zoo aquatic exhibit at the Sonoran Desert Museum in Tucson AZ is where I first got exposed to how interesting native North American fish are. They had an awesome desert pupfish habitat and probably are the reason why I enjoy keeping the flagfish, killifish in general, and goodeids so much. What exhibit have your taken the most out of for your hobby?
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    Dwarf chain loach loach school of 16 with khuli loaches,amanos, and a neocardina colony in a coop planted 50, Malaysian trumpet snails, ramshorn snails and assassin snails in another 50, flag fish in 40. Snails and shrimp double as mostly inexhaustible supply of shelled food for my small faakaha puffer. The snails also serve as food for the chain loaches occasionally. I like them all for their different skill sets. Amano and flags for algae, neocaradina and khuli for all small foods in tough spots, snails for general maintenance food cleanup, decaying plant consumption and plant health from soil turnover with MTS
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