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Here is the same tank, his recent cull video. Who has their coffee ready... He calls the black ones "royal blue dream" in this vid. But those are specifically dark blue and not black. Black is usually when the rili / wild type neo get in there.

Silicone the brackets to the inside of the canopy? R.I.P. little Pineapple.

He pulls basically everything that isn't blue. On the ones that are black he mentions that usually they are a dark blue. If you don't see any blue, he pulls me. He has a good amount of videos working with his blue dreams, but the one linked he says the same thing. He pulls ones that look like carbon rili (that causes the black), reds, chocolate, and others that just don't look right. When moving fry he does drip acclimate if he needs to. He also says that most of his tanks have identical parameters and he's changing water every ~3-4 days. Always fun to watch him do his stuff. 😂 Looks a bit like a carbon rili shrimp. This is the same black one as before or a new one?

Yeah... Brown is one to cull. Good choice. I think he (Mark) culls the blacks but he's got some serious vision issues and that's why he always jokes about people watching that can easily see the difference and then he does his best. I'll check out the photos, on a slow signal so it's taking a sec.

Potential dumb decision #1.... Modifying a fish that can already eat humans. Potential dumb decisions #2... Modifying a fish that humans use as a food source in some regions Potential dumb decision #3.... Modifying a fish that humans eat because it lives in bacteria ridden toilet waters. Potential dumb decision #4... Someone releases one to the wild, a flood happens, etc. (Movie being deep blue sea) Or this.... And then there's this....

Yeah, I understand that.... Max is ~7. What about the kabutai rasbora instead? Up to 7.5

Hm. Maybe undergravel is the way to go then? Just rely on the siphon itself, not actually having to remove the filtration. You can pull the sponges out via the attached airline without too much fuss to clean them, that also is another point towards those ones. There is also some fluvial or other brands that make finger grabbers for tall tanks. On your python, do you have the larger tube on it to reach the full height of the tank? It might be a solution, but potentially side mount the HoBs? What about making your filter a sump?

Did the leaves appear very translucent? Agreed. Will do.

We have a section for plants, fish, but can we get one for inverts?

I would consider treating with kanaplex and salt right now. I would use things like tannins as well if that's an option. I can't say if something like erythromycin might be a better choice here. cc @Colu @Odd Duck

Status today. Looks a bit more cleared up, but not enough to where I'm happy with it. I'll give the fish a little bit more time, but contemplating putting in some kanaplex. That's the bacteria med I have on hand.

Also fits on the aqueon quitflow. Remove the maintenance indicator, use it to add a plant to your HoB.

You need to use a med that will work for gram negative bacteria. Specifically try kanaplex as a start. You want to do a few water changes to clean out the salt, but the erythromycin works for gram positive bacteria issues, not gram negative. That's likely why you have ran into a hurdle here. The specific disease you're fighting might need a bit more focused medication for fin rot. After you have 3-4 water changes, then go ahead and dose in salt. If you're confident in your ability to dose in salt and keep it the right dosage from change to change, the keep doing that. If you're not, I usually opt for 3-4 50% WCs.

Agreed. I do think one of the best "beginner tools" might actually be a microscope and having the "API MASTER TEST SCOPE" kit. Something where you can understand what to do, post photos, get some help.

Pun intended in the title there. 😂 Maybe someone can give me a sanity check here. This is from my "low demand tank" meaning that I am not going crazy with CO2, lights, etc. This is meant to be a blackwater type of tank (mostly in visual and tannins) and so I am opting for plants that do well with shade or low light in this setup. Lighting is a fluval planted 3.0 and it's pretty low but runs an 8-9 hour duration. Dose is easy green (full dose) and seachem iron (1/4-1/2 dose) once a week. The plants came from the big box store down the street and they were ridiculously dried out, resulting in the plant basically sending out shoots right away. The parts that did blacken right away have started to gain some color but you can see every leaf has sent out another plant. Please let me know what you think and if you can offer any insight. The main concern here is simply that the new growth is very translucent. Does look pretty cool though... Ignore that anubias to the left there. I did clean off the dying leaves today, yet again it got knocked off the glue on the wood, but that's fine. It's been rearranged and held in by the mopani and was growing right on top of a field of BBA which caused the leaves to grow the junk as well pretty severely. the anubias to the right you can't see is doing pretty ok. Plant in question is bolbitis heteroclita

Email support, but it might be ok. 50-50 shot.

Definitely used a lot. Definitely not fish safe. Petroleum based.

Consistency is really easy to use, that's why I like it. Normally used for dive equipment is how I first heard about it. Kind of reminds me of taking silicone from the tube, curing it, grinding that to a paste.

I've used "super lube" and silicone grease. I'd recommend the second. Food Grade Food Grade Pure Silicone Grease, 2.0 fl. oz. (59 ml) Jar https://a.co/d/fOG5xuR

Agreed. Python tubing is good stuff and it works. It's perfectly fine. Can be improved, but it's pretty decent compared to a lot of other products.

Green neons should be fine. There's a lot of fish like that, in terms of mouth size, that almost prefer to have flake food over anything because it's easy for them. The other side of the coin here is to have places for the shrimplettes to hide and.be secure. Usually this is going to be moss, rocks, etc. The goal being that if they can hide and graze, they would, and that increases survivability more than worrying about anything else.

I think Salvinia is the same way here in California. Not entirely sure if it's all of it or just the bigger of the species. Salvinia minima is one I want to get here soon. There's a lot of bad issues with people flushing things or releasing things in the wild when they decide they can't care for it. Plants go to compost and livestock doesn't go to the lake/river. Found this... Pretty cool little tool. https://www.invasive.org/browse/subinfo.cfm?sub=2785

😂 Reminds me of this video. Maybe some useful tips in there for you. If you haven't seen it, be sure to check out all of modified lung's awesome journal on live cultures.

1. What was the first fish you ever kept in some sort of an aquarium? Not really sure, I remember having a 20H/29g taller aquarium for about 2 years as a kid. We had gourami as the centerpiece with other fish in there. It was something my mom and I took care of and that's ultimately why I felt comfortable to get a tank when I was older. When I was in high school I had a 5G hex that had 4-5 bala sharks for about a day, yep... Terrible idea and I had no clue what was going on, but was told by the big box store that I needed X amount so they didn't kill each other. 2. What tank are you most proud of and why? Honestly, not really sure yet. I would argue it is the tank I have now or the one I will have fleshed out shortly for another project. I am glad I had the tanks, but being proud of my tank simply means to me that I wouldn't change anything. Ultimately, even with my best tank(s) I have always been working through issues and trying to get a bit happier with the scape or plants. I think my favorite stocking was my 75G community before I had to tear it down. 3. How did you get here, specifically to these forums? I had my black cory back up in it's current form for a little while. Probably 6-9 months. I wanted to figure out plants a bit better and I needed some guidance with that. I was fighting issues and wasn't having success. 4. What is something you think you do to make the hobby easier for yourself that others can use? Put a small "hallway table" next to your tank or something like a plant stand. Have a spot for the stuff you use every day out and open so you don't have to use the cabinet every time. Just that reach for the door with wet hands causes so much work not to be done. I couldn't tell you how many times I've used the TV tray or bucket lid or whatever I had next to me as a table. Just cut the wasted time and get a nice table or even a nice fish cart! 5. What is something you specifically wish for guidance with in the hobby? Honestly, plants still. I have a lot of experience with species of fish, but I need a plant class. I need to learn so much more about them to be successful. 6. What fish do you miss most? My barbs and my ram. Both for specifically the same reason, I feel like their deaths were simply because of things I didn't know how to fix (tidal skimmer) or because I completely messed something basic up (temperature). Those fish I had a wonderful connection with and cared for. Losing one every few weeks from the barbs or watching the ram just freeze until it was gone after I moved it to the community tank was intensely tragic for me. 7. How often do you change water? Is this the same for all of your tanks? Weekly or biweekly, 50%. The bigger the tank, the easier it is, more often I'll change water. I try to shoot for 50% and sometimes it's 40-60% but that's all good. I try to keep species that enjoy that sort of drastic influx of fresh water, like barbs, minnows, corydoras, shrimp, rasboras, etc. 8. What is better, one big tank or a rack of 20Gs, why? One big tank. If you force yourself to experience a decent size tank instead of a lot of smaller ones you get to see a lot more natural behavior. Firstly, you can actually see things, but you're also giving the fish a much bigger area to explore and interact with. That leads to so much more interest for me. 9. When was the last time you spent 30 minutes staring at a tank? It's been a busy week. The last time I sat and watched the tank in that way was probably 5-7 days ago. I was setting up QT and was just watching the fish do it's thing. This was a corydoras fry and it was the first time it ever got to interact with sand. Very fun, stressful (because sand on the sides of the fish looks like ich), and it's been nice to have that one on one time with this fish while it tries to recover and be diagnosed. 10. What is your favorite food to feed your tanks? Frozen brine probably. I wish I had smaller worms, the fish love them, but all the local stores only have very large bloodworms for sale. I enjoy it when I feed and all the corydoras have tails in the air and just go crazy darting around the substrate, especially a group of them cruising around.

😂 I'm building a file cabinet! Haven't had time to sit today and sip coffee and type. Reading through everyone's #9 is fun. One of the more interesting questions I think. It says lot about the group of people we have here... Love it. That's awesome.