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    You can use a pipette to remove the gravel. I would recommend doing so to keep them as clean as possible. It shouldn't be a major issue, but it might. Congratulations on the spawn. That's a dream fish for me!
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    The stone (especially the right piece) gets lost in the tank due to color but also placement. The wood is fantastic! I would try to orient the rocks in such a way to show some texture / contrast in texture The way you have the wood over the rocks reminds me of branches growing "through" a pile of rocks.... as such, what I tend to do is to setup the rockscape first, then add the wood. Maybe that helps, but maybe not. I would play with orientation (or even type if you can). The wood is what I would say is 90% perfect. Just need to play with rocks. sidenote: see how you feel about the tank without that piece of wood on the right.
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    I watch Kenji on youtube. Fills a need for sure on people wishing to learn some skills. I find a lot of my own skill lacking. I can't even chop using the claw grip (big hands) but I can shop up everything with speed and efficiency. Lots to learn! But that's the fun part. Give me a recipe and I will totally cook the heck out of it! That is very cool that you mentor (or are up for) prospective cooks. Maybe you should make a channel for videos on that!
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    @JettsPapa here is mine.... Just for clarity. View /camera angle can make them look pretty dark. Good view, but a darker amano One that is more clear Camera showing a pretty dark one, female that is releasing her babies and about to molt soon. The wild Neo types definitely can look like amanos, the big difference there is just size.
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    Yes it's fine. My amanos have been on CO2 for years. They focus on spending time in the HoB output flow.
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    I used "a few" AC70s. I think each time they lasted about 3 months. Wasn't great. I've had the tidals, all of them, running for over 5 years. Please be sure to let us know how the pump hold up. By no means do I advocate one vs. the other. I think they all have issues. Turning on the 75s and having to replace parts the way I did was something I seriously was not anticipating. Thankfully, just some old magnets.
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    It is definitely good! I really enjoyed it as well.
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    In my case, I removed the fish that were being picked on (third male swordtail that was a late bloomer added to a tank with 2 established males) and gave them about a week to recover from any issues. The wounds healed up, I let them just sort of breathe and relax a bit. When I added the male back into the tank he was the tank boss and defended himself. It was refreshing to see. I definitely had hoped, but was apprehensive about the method working out successfully. It really can!
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    Netflix, there is a movie called burnt. Check it out if you haven't. I decided a long time ago not to pursue cooking in a professional kitchen, but to keep it as a hobby. Blame it on the Ramsey affect as opposed to what I grew up watching.... Emeril, Jamie Oliver, Tyler Florence, Mario Batali, Alton Brown, and so many others. There is a tv show on HBO simply called "Julia" that I seriously recommend anyone who steps into a kitchen watches. There's a lot of good and a lot of bad stories from kitchens and it's really unfortunate. Especially locally, here for me. Seems like the dozens of "your restaurant is going to fail let's make a tv show about it" and the shouting chef things just really pushed me away from wanting to ruin what I cherish so much. I choose to cook and use that skill for people I really care about. That's just how I wanted to keep things.
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    @Colu They do sell spirulina tabs, no binders or anything like that for human consumption. You can use powder or that as a base for what you need. They also sell the other ingredients you're looking for. Best case, I am sure repashy will respond if you email them asking for the specific %. My suggestion is going to be to start with repashy super green. It is very likely, exactly what you're looking for.
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    I cannot find the article / statement where I gathered the information doing my research on the same question. I assume it was a Facebook post. The recipe is very similar but super green has more spirulina content. Soilent green has krill, squid, and fish meal while super green does not and is vegan. In terms of what has the highest amount I have found two options, one with and one without spirulina. The first is NLS Algaemax (with) and the other is Northfin cichlid veggie (without). Might be your best option.
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    Agreed. Peppered Cory. https://www.planetcatfish.com/common/species.php?species_id=271 @TeeJay has some.
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    Much larger and better than the ones I got. Nice find. The ones I got I could fit "100" in my hand without even trying.
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    This is where you have to let the bread sit and rest so to speak. Let things fill the space and make sense in the day to day. I can imagine that having 3+ shrimp tanks is about similar work as having 1, but for me I am always very aware of getting one too many tanks. I have had a large amount and then set myself up to fail because I was doing it all myself. The only advice / caution I would share is that I wouldn't set up a new tank if you aren't enjoying the ones you already have regularly. Make it easy on yourself with the rack system (which you are) and just work on the day to day efficiency with everything (which you are) before you end up with 20+ racks and a "noah's arc" style room. 🙂 I enjoy my 1+1 tank setup. It's beautiful. Especially when the one big tank is so jam packed with life. I can only imagine how many wonderful things that started from the cuisine there. That's an awesome place to learn a few things in the cooking world.
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    They turn a mahogany color when they are closer to molting. They can have this dark color for an extended period.... longer than most people think. Especially if it's a female amano, she will have that color for quite a while until she releases the zoeys. One thing to check / verify is if you have Australian or Japanese shrimp. There are a lot of people buying the JP ones that mistakenly end up with the AU versions.
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    I still need to run a second round of testing for the GH adjustments I've been making. Tonight I pulled all of the anubias and I have proceeded to treat that with the algaecide. It will take 3 days and then I will likely move this to either the Neo tank or give the amanos one last shot to keep it clean or algae. The initial tubs where I had all my plants when transferring them, I probably lost about 2/3 of those plants. The anubias took a hit and I do have some varieties trying to recover. The pieces in the main tank are my last bits of the nana petite that need to bounce back so I can utilize them for a future aquascape. I have big plans for the anubias whenever it decides that it's ready for the task. The big tank is having algae issues, but I realized today that the anubias sitting in the flow isn't helping. It would be nice if the HoB had a digital adjustment on the pump (not a dial but an actual hardware adjustment) that I can dial in remotely and monitor performance. Test. The goal being, I need to get more plants to help diffuse flow. The Hygro is planted and I am monitoring how the shrimp recover it and handle the algae. I am monitoring how much I am feeding to reduce the organics as well as just how much I am limiting the plants with CO2, GH, and ferts. I need to find something local. A place to get stems and maybe trade some fish or shrimp for some plants. Hopefully I hear something soon regarding that or am able to track down a replacement. I need to run an errand to double check that, but time will tell if and when that happens. Maybe I can find some myaca or something that works well enough for what I want in this tank. I need to hang the light as well to ensure the spread is right as well as the intensity. For now, it's fine, but I just don't trust the ceiling to hold the hooks in place. Sadly. Might be the project for this week. 24 hours old: spawned on 5/8/2023:
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    OH SNAPS. Thank you for this!!!! Lexan would work.
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    I highly cherish my 75G lids. Glass on those is.... 5/16" thick 10G I measured is only 3/16" thick. (I believe the 20G lids are the same, but I didn't measure mine) I can if you need the difference. 30" is a long span, that's where the thicker glass really helps.
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    Hygrophila pinnatifida
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    I would recommend getting a sheet of thicker glass cut or a thick piece of lexan (not acrylic)
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    You can always make a retirement tank. 29G or something off to the side for older fish. Low stocking, just a place for them to swim around and enjoy their time with low stress. My decision to keep them there or move them would be based on how densely planted the tank is. Some of the feistier species like barbs and danio might go after smaller ones like rasbora or tetra when the numbers go down.
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    all of the aqueon versatops are basically cut to "not fit correctly" based on a weird issue. It's a long story, but you would have a 1/4" gap across the whole length of the lid as well as the plastic strip to work with. They will all work fine with any hob or canister hose fittings, assuming you can attach them to the glass or potentially the fluval canister where it has the mounting brackets you attach on the rim to keep the correct bend radium. Welcome to the forums @Shrimpee! 🙂
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    First thing is going to be that it's 8.2 PH out of the tap, but what is it after 24 hours of off-gas testing? How stable is that water at that new PH, what is the KH change going to be? I would try to store as much water as you can in some sort of covered container with aeration, so that you can acclimate the shrimp as slowly as possible to new hardness. If that KH is sky high, then you're going to run into mass molting issues. Make sure you're always slowly adding water into those tanks for water changes while all of this is happening and for the time following that change. (let's say at least a good 4-6 water changes thereafter. When I have issues with the tap I monitor two main data points until they equalize. A. What are the parameters at the tap, after off-gassing B. What are the parameters of the tank Then it's just a matter of time and balancing what need be until the parameters fit the species that are sensitive. In this case it would be the Neos I think. Once you have the new water test it for GH/KH/PH. It may not come all at once, but in waves. I've experience shifting water that has been happening over months. Take the water in Can 1 do your water change. Fill that back up with water from the tap. What that does is slowly mix/shift the parameters of the old and new water. Repeat that again. Let's say you use 15-20% of the can each time..... First change: 0% new water in solution Second: 15-20% new water in solution Third: Less than ~30% new water in solution Fourth: Less that ~40-45% new water in solution etc. (maybe at this point you add more of the old water from the other can into the solution to dilute it back, all determined by water testing analysis) You'll be slowly diluting over to the newer water. This allows you to keep a can of the old water at original parameters and then you have what amounts to a mixing station in the other can.
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    Beautiful!
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    Would be too funny to edit this with a shrimp, but yeah... One of the best intros ever created.
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