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  1. nabokovfan87
    Went to bed last night and one of the heaters was hot. 76 deg on a 72 deg tank showing on the display. I had the big tank flashing hot temperatures. Because of that it's officially the start of summer and all the tanks have their heaters off to allow them to get cooler during the morning to try to stay colder through the day. Temps are fine now, but it's definitely going to get hotter! Here's a photo of one of the newly hatched shrimp. Hopefully this helps someone get an idea for how big/small they are upon first hatch.
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    Checking on the shrimp tonight. Feeding day, powder and a few pellets. You can see the adult there with all of the new baby shrimp and their size. This was basically gen 1. There is a new batch growing up in the back of the tank that I need to keep an eye on as well. I added a dash of equilibrium to the tank. I read online (someone said it basically) that the shrimp based buffers have more calcium than something like equilibrium does. Cannot confirm or deny this, calcium is cheap so that would make sense. I want to use equilibrium because that also helps out the plants in all of my tanks. I also added a bit of a "night light" to my lighting for the shrimp to give them a little time in the red spectrum and encourage that color to develop. Because these are bloody Mary, it might not need to be there, but if you have some blues or greens and a fluval light, this might be an easy way to encourage stronger colorations. This was verified from a research paper with normal red cherry shrimp under different color lights.
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    Hm... Interesting. Not sure! It might be a color variation of poecilia wingei
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    Definitely a unique fish! Very beautiful. By shape it looks like a Borneo loach type of species. All I know of is the striped and normal pattern versions of those loaches. Rachel O'Leary has some very good videos on the species.
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    Best of luck. 😞
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    I change gravel pretty often compared to a lot of other hobbyists and I haven't had a lot of issues doing so. The bacteria I want and save is in the actual filter itself. You can also have a bottle of bacteria on hand if you want for the sake of a safety margin. I would also recommend running carbon while you transition the tank to the new substrate. It will help with clarity as well as removing some excess things from the water column. You don't need to save any of the old substrate. If you want to preserve the old substrate you can move it to a bucket, rinse it, and then lay it out on a big towel to dry. Every afternoon, rotate it around and after a week it should be dry enough to bag. I use a net I don't care too much about to scoop out the old substrate as well as a small plastic cup.
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    Check this out.... It might generate some internal discussion. 🙂
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    What does this mean? "Dutch street" Very nice new plant!
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    I would start with a med called no planaria. If you don't have snails or can move them, also add salt.
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    The saddle basically means the shrimp is ready to lay eggs. Usually means that those have been fertilized and then when it gets to a certain point in the progress the female will deposit the eggs into her swimmerettes. After that, you're looking at a few weeks (time varies) and then she will go into a spot of flow and release the eggs and hatch them out. @Chick-In-Of-TheSea what did I do!?!?!? 😂
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    You're allowed to show off your tanks! 🙂 They both look awesome. Nice work.
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    Can you get a side photo?
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    It does! You can basically use either one, but the more "modern term" is to use the longform version as opposed to the s-set letter. It's due to trying to modernize the printing/typing of the language. 's' is a lot more common these days for machinery, electronics, etc. They will likely end up updating a lot of signage and stuff with the new printing, but it's the same thing. wasser = waßer = water. strasse = straße = street We used to have to remember all the alt codes to try to type things out. Here's another view on it... there are use cases 🙂 https://hinative.com/questions/2059336
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    IDK How but we gotta get the bossman one of these.
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    4-6 weeks of treatment should be pretty effective.
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    No. Not necessarily. They could be going after calcium. Just sort of is what they do. As long as the shrimp isn't diseased it's fine.
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    Me too. I have the nana in my shrimp tank. The nana petite in the big one.
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    Shouldn't cause any issues. It's smooth. It also is generally inert. Beware that bare bottom tanks can cause erosion. Hopefully things start to turn around.
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    What is the substrate in the tank?
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    Yep! I have 3-4 on that piece of wood recovering right now. They are still fighting this algae.
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    Congratulations. Nice!
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    Minor update on the tank today. Moss is growing in nicely. There are some spots I need to fix, but generally its looking better post trim.
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    So per the GH kit, it's about 100 ppm.
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    Yeah. They have flat mouths so they like your diatoms and stuff like repashy. For the first couple of weeks I would feed just the powder. Once they get a bit more developed then feeding the full gelatinized food form. Yeah. Once they are fully formed they should be doing better. Usually it's 4-6 weeks. @Odd Duck Any tips? Have you seen these as fry before?
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    Have you tried using a specimen container? It's an easy way to get some stubborn fish as well as difficult to net ones like plecos, hillstream loaches, and potentially corydoras. Toss a bit of food in there and let them go into the container. Beware of shadows across the tank spooking them as well as vibration. Then, simply close off the end of the box with your hand or a net or a sheet of plastic, and gently lift it up. Corydoras also like shade. Just something to keep in mind.
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