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  1. nabokovfan87
    Yeah, exactly. I am finding a lot of misinformation when it comes to advice on keeping shrimp. Especially well known names, I see their tanks and they have the rings on a few shrimp. It's pretty normal from what it appears to be.
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    First, I'm very sorry for your struggles and losses. It's weird and unsettling when things like that happen. I hope things improve for you. I would try to swap out the media with something a bit more porous. I would recommend something like lava rock over the default stuff, but there's about a billion ones you can try. Scintered glass being "the best" followed with others slightly above the biomax. The more ceramic you can get into the sponge, the better your stability will be. As far as modifying the back, there is some aspects you can mod to make it a bit easier to fit more or to simply make it easier to clean. If you want details on that second thing I can try to sketch out how I would set it up. Maybe One of these works for you. https://www.amazon.com/Substrat-Biological-Filter-Sintered-Pearl-Shaped/dp/B0002Z7VAK/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1JTGOYRCXF44K&keywords=aquarium+sintered+glass+media&qid=1681784973&sprefix=aquarium+scintered+glas+media%2Caps%2C168&sr=8-2 If you don't have a media bag you like to use you can try the tidal 35 media bags (it's a good size) or you can always make one out of the stuff you have on hand.
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    Looks good! That hairgrass is dying to spread all over. It's really nice to see someone can grow plants and to see that progress. One of the things Pecktec mentioned in his similar tank was having algae until he had enough bioload in the tank. The shrimp look good! Black rose, Black tigers or something like that that. Very dark and it's hard to tell without being there if it's a deep blue (desired) or that more black rose coloration. The line of shrimp you have, they all have a lot of traits. It's interesting to see all of those expressed a bit more and what comes of each variety that you decide to colonize up. It will be very, very interesting how things look in a month or two when you have 2-3 more generations. This looks black ^^ This one looks more blue:
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    Feel better @Miska
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    If you find it remotely interesting I can send you my light settings (trying to make it not yellow) and see what you think. Like you mentioned, there's basically no way to "fix it" based on the way the spectrums are setup. I posted the breakdown here for anyone who is interested: I was able to find an old marketing thing on an EU ad for each LED channel with the spectrum of each individual LED. I went and verified the LEDs per channel to the light and adjusted some things on my end based on that. It's a puzzle, but when I setup mine I tend to want to push red (which we both agree it doesn't do well) and try to balance out the spikes a little bit. Once I can finalize things I'll try to post an update in the appropriate thread. I don't have other lights to compare it to. I have 3 lights and each light looks different. One tank has a tinge of tannins which does give the tank a skew. It is much easier to push red on that tank. The substrate is a white/warm white sand. On my main tank, the big light it's a very white/pure/cold white and the substrate is black. On the other tank I have "the bad light" and white sand with red lava rock. It skews more towards the pure white spectrum. The aquasky lights are pushing much more of that fluval yellow spectrum that you indicate. I didn't realize it until I started to try to tune my setups a bit better.
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    Could be full of anything, good or bad. I would clean up algae as best you can to let the plants grow as best they can.
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    You might grow some algae, but no. The tank will be fine. Just fill it up for evaporation before you go.
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    They have soy sauce dishes for sushi and small petri dishes. 30-80mm
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    Found these guys in 2 additional (new tanks) and that definitely means having one siphon and all that isn't enough if I end up sharing a bucket between tanks! Anyways, I found this and wanted to share it for the sake of anyone trying to handle these worms.
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    @Odd Duck Yes they can. A lot of plecos are cave spawners and will use caves to spawn. While I have seen corydoras lay claim to a few pleco caves and use it to protect fry, they do tend to get out of the way when the plecos come home to roost. The plecos will also eat eggs off the glass when they get to a certain size, so that's a win-win for you 🙂 Which species are you trying to breed?
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    Nope, those are all perfect foods for your corydoras. I fed repashy powder (~2-3 times per day) for the fry for the first 5-8 weeks. Following that, they were moved and put in the main tank. I feed them a mix of omnivore foods, pellets that are ~1mm or smaller, vibrabites, and xtreme flake foods. Fluval has bug bites for bottom feeders that are on my list to try as well as Lennie's favorite NLS Algaemax. I have recently added in Northfin Cichlid veggie 1mm pellets and they are doing really well with that food now as a staple. They go nuts for it and really enjoy it. Repashy super green / soilent green is probably the only thing I'd recommend adding next when you purchase food again. They also enjoy bottom scratcher, which is very similar in ingredients to the fluval bug bites food. If they corydoras are small I crush the food in my hand to break it down a little bit and then feed it. Something like vibrabites I will essentially turn into a 0.5mm granule before feeding. The goal being to just get them a food that is easy for them to eat. Most foods are pretty big for them and difficult to eat, especially a lot of frozen bloodworms. Some of the favorites for my corydoras are repashy (add just a little extra water to make it looser for them, usually a 3:1 ratio) as well as frozen spirulina brine shrimp. When you have a good amount of corydoras, say 20+, then I tend to split up the repashy, wafers, and other foods into 2-3 sections so that groups of them can feed and smaller fish aren't too afraid to get a bite. One of my old favorites was the Sera O-Nip Spirulina tabs. They were wonderful! The binder in the recipe has changed though and the food powderized a lot quicker. This isn't bad for corydoras, but for whatever reason they don't tend to enjoy it when I purchased it last. Hikari has the mini and standard size of wafers for them in a carnivore version and a veggie version (orange vs. green packaging), but I will caution you to simply be aware of the ingredients list and know what you're feeding. Sometimes the label says veggie/algae, but it is mostly based on fish meal as a main ingredient. I would encourage anyone with corydoras to find pellets/granules for them, something like the hikari discus Bio-Gold granules might be wonderful food for them! There's a lot of different foods out there, but in my experience, just pay attention to what they have ease eating and feed that. 🙂
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    Yes please, I was about to DM you a list of questions on the CO2 diffusion chat we had going on. I am seeing nothing on the drop checker and I do believe circulation is "acceptable". Still dialing things in on the new tank.
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    Sicce has their Ultra Zero pumps that work well and you can basically empty a tank with them. They are commonly termed "sump pumps". @Chick-In-Of-TheSea has one that was used for water changes. I don't know if that is still in use to a few rogue bucket accidents. I have a sicce syncra nano that is slow enough for smaller tanks and it could be used in that scenario as well. Most pumpheads, as long as you keep them submerged you can run them. Here's another video showing another use for the pumphead style of setup (in the aquarium as opposed to running it dry.
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    That's the best. 🙂 Last conversation I had was cleaning up the egg casings from the corydoras. I showed them the fry and stuff "oh cool" and there's always this sense of awe when there's fry or just a lot of interesting things going on. I showed them the egg casings first and there was a good amount in the container. They were confused at first at what it could be, but once I explained they were fascinated. 🙂 ...always funny when you talk to someone and you can tell the first thought on someone's mind is that they want some massive fish. 😂 Nah, these are plenty big enough, I'm sure!.
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    Identifying cichlids, well fish really, can be difficult. Is there anything on the finnage or other features that would help with the puzzle?
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    What did the testing indicate? Anything? Is there a drinking water testing kit you may be able to use to verify anything in the tap water? Typically for those you'd send it out to a facility for testing and they email or call with results.
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    I only, typically get diatoms I should say, when I have things out of balance. Either too many nutrients too fast, plants not feeding due to CO2 issues, or simply too much light in a certain spot. I would think your setup avoids a lot of those issues. You had mentioned the improved CO2 reactor design. Was it revised due to noise? If you were to do a smaller version do you think it makes more sense to just use an in line diffuser and a spraybar or is there something very specific about this setup that has overwhelming advantages?
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    @modified lung I've been trying to find a video, does this movement help at all with an ID on this species? Edit: so trying to find the right terminology.... I found a video of rhabdocoela, definitely not them. These are a type of annelids, detritus worms, etc. Grindal worms and others fall into that category as well as this list. Fully aquatic ones, I am not sure where that list is.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annelid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enchytraeus
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    I would expect the bamboo shrimp to be up in the flow and the rams below on the substrate. I don't think rams would really bother them. Depending on the ram species, they can be pretty mild mannered.
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    That is a very, very creepy thing. Imagine going for a hike and you see that chasing you, 😂 Yeah, this definitely isn't what I see. Uniform body shape.
  21. nabokovfan87
    Do you still have the 3.0 somewhere or did you get rid of it?
  22. nabokovfan87
    They have things called worm feeders that work well. It holds the food at the surface so the fish can bite through the holes in the feeder. If the food is really fine, id imagine it would be messy still but that might be something to look into. It's fun though, you got to feed him with the tweezers. 🙂 It could be just his way of chewing. That's just how some fish eat and chew their foods into smaller sizes. Hopefully it clears up!
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    Thank you for the diagram. 🙂 That's really cool. I wish I had some to plant! It's one of my favorites.
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    Looks good! I know it seems like a mess but that's entirely normal. You can just replace the water as you need to siphon it out. Common technique is to fill it as you drain it, but usually that is just with RO or prepared water I would imagine due to chlorine.
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    All if needs is some tide shifts and some lo-fi. 😂 Love it. Bacopa? Moneywort? I might just be confused at which one you're pointing to.
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