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  1. nabokovfan87
    It came up in another thread. How is the KH in your tank compared to your tap? Over time, it gets higher and higher if not enough water is changed. Not sure if that's what you mean about RO usage.
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    In which sense...? PH could be slightly higher. Let me try to track down some care guides. I think it should be fine, but that's the only thing that sticks out. (Edit: Range I found is 6.8-7.5 so you're fine) KH/GH are fine. Ammonia (and others) are all fine. Food is usually what molt issues mean, but not sure that's what this is right now. Temp?
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    Could be. I would avoid most / all decor in the big box stores. Especially fish with finnage you'd want to stick to rocks and wood for decor. Most of those premade decor items kill fish compared to giving them a place to hide. They drill holes and all kinds of issues that can result in cuts / nicks like you've seen. Just a note. The store should have some mopani, rocks, and other items you can use that would give the fish places to hide. Plants help as well, but start with wood and rocks, find something you like. If it's rough to your finger, it'll tear some fins.
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    I'd recommend 120-240 FPS video, downmixing that, then pulling out frames. Downmixing, meaning... it's recorded at a higher framerate, but published / "mixed" at a slower standard like 60 FPS. Easy way to make Gifs too.
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    Very sorry. Unfortunately it does happen. PH and Temp? (I know it's likely a random thing, but just curious what you're at right now) Often when shrimp die of "old age" it's similar to what you just experienced. It just sort of happens. 😞
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    Go ahead and dose that in as well. That is basically equivalent to adding in some Indian Almond Leaves / Botanicals into the water. It's beneficial, but not going to be the single thing to resolve the situation. I used Kanaplex to treat it in my tank. It took 2 full treatments. I redosed salt on the second treatment as well. (I had dosed it initially, dosed in the meds, then given a few big water changes and days off of meds before starting the second round). To give you an idea though, for people who keep tiger barbs, it is often recommended to keep erythromycin on hand for the sake of "battle wounds" and it's definitely come in useful.
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    I would look into fin rot meds and start looking at adding some salt tonight. Heavily planted tank? There is also some redness right by the end of the tail (top right) where there is a little redness on the fin ray. Either something went after the fish, it damaged itself, or it's a disease. You'd want to make sure to avoid infections and monitor it closely.
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    Zoey has had some anxiety today, thankfully they had a nice time while I was doing all this. I got them laid down, proceeded to move, and they immediately ran to follow me. 😂 Somehow the algae decided to grow here. See below, perfectly fine, but this one.... NOPE. Trying to show some more BBA. These I wanted to show off how strewn with moss and rhizome plants were knocked around. I could see myself going through far too much superglue if I had this as a job or was doing a bigger tank. Terribly blown out photo. My apologies. This is before. Kind of looks like someone took the clippers and there's a lot of spots. That branch in the middle was that segment I had re-glued 2 weeks ago. Here is everything empty. Gives you an idea of how much this tank relies on moss to be considered a "planted tank." Each one of these rings is one tube of glue I went through. Some sections were definitely lacking in moss, but I do need to get a headlamp or something next time I do this. Or a pair of helping hands. On dark wood you can miss out on some of the stuff you just laid down. Wearing black gloves, it does stick (which is why I usually end up with moss hands) and it's a bit harder to "feel" when things aren't squished in all the way. One of those things where the dry start method with moss makes things a lot easier. Wood soaked for this long has a pretty fragile exterior. I am hoping this time the moss is able to hold on a lot better. It'll grow. We'll see a bunch of bright green on the next couple of updates. Edit: just a sidenote. If you buy the "super glue gel" compared to the Flourish glue just know that it's literally half the size. 0.7g per tube. One pack of the flourish stuff is equivalent to 2 of the super glue branded stuff. Smaller size because you typically want to use one tube at one instance to minimize waste and loss. So yeah, I used a ton, but these are also very small tubes. If I had to guess, one tube could glue an area of moss about 2" x 2" without much hassle. Going a little thin you could probably get it up to the size of a playing card. This seemed to be half decent. It worked, but then I went to rinse things off and it was still there. Yet again, I need an extra pair of hands to get some light and to have the rock submerged. I think those two things will really help with that removal technique. Works well on wood / rock as in.... it works to remove stuff. We will see if it really matters long term. After:
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    Right above that. The "top left" so to speak fertile egg has some fuzz on it, perhaps.
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    Usually this is because of the parents, not amanos. Interesting. Is there cover for the fry?
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    I see 5-6 healthy eggs. I don't know if they will all hatch, I do see a little touch of fungus on the middle there, but I don't know if it will actually matter given the time to hatch is going to be pretty soon.
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    Things to do today: 1. Calm the pups down and make sure they have a serene atmosphere while I work. 2. Pull the wood and rock from the tank 3. Pull the moss that is randomly scattered around in everything 4. Stare at the clown pleco for a moment to see how it's doing 5. Set up the moss station and try not to get moss fingers 6. Cut all the moss to the appropriate size and then get it setup for placement. 7. Use the toothbrush to remove all the algae I can (hopefully this actually does something) 8. Rinse everything that was brushed to remove any potential algae / contamination 9. Glue a crap ton of moss to things 10. Figure out how to scape and make it look nice 11. Reglue all the anubias and stuff I knocked off 12. Put the wood and rock back in the tank, scoop out what fell off to reglue that to the wood in the other tank. 13. Repeat that for the other tank. I'll update this with photos and progress.... I had to roll my eyes. I found BBA on the underside of a suction cup on the CO2 diffuser because that's how stupid this stuff is. 😩
  13. nabokovfan87
    @Chick-In-Of-TheSea was it a molt or....? Don't leave us in suspense like this.... 😞
  14. nabokovfan87
    I would encourage to rehome if you want longfins or something. You could also just try to spawn yours to get more 🙂 There isn't any issue with mixing the two, but as mentioned above genetically it's not the best situation. I almost always default to keeping one species of cory per tank. I have two tanks so I can get two. I would love to have more, but it's not something that will happen soon or possibly ever. Maybe someone will trade with you?
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    When you say "attacking" what does that mean exactly? Were the amano shrimp darting around and ran into the fish or were they trying to clean the fish or? Keep in mind, angels eat shrimp so it might be a defensive reaction or something? Even then, I think they tend to run / hide as opposed to attack. I would move the parrotfish as opposed to the amanos, but lets dig into what's going on. Please attach a photo of the tank if you can.
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    Yeah, makes sense given all the circumstances.
  17. nabokovfan87
    Yeah, that looks like molting. It might be just the shell and not the shrimp in there? Keep an eye out, keep us posted. Making sure molting is going well is literally the one thing to do with em. 🙂 Very nice new additions. Vibrant colors!
  18. nabokovfan87
    Very true. I vote it's staghorn, but it could be a fungus of some kind. I would assume the shrimp eat it, but doesn't look like it. Try to boil, then soak, see if any others in your pack have similar issues.
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    Maybe @modified lung or @Biotope Biologist or @Odd Duck or @Guppysnail or @Cinnebuns have some ideas on what it is. At first I thought it was either actual hair (it happens) or a weird root that shot up from the substrate. It doesn't look like worms or anything like that, as you said. Very interesting
  20. nabokovfan87
    I would put in the most territorial fish either first or last. Let them settle and have their boundary and then the other fish will learn to avoid that. The tetras and Molly I would put in all on the same day just to diffuse any weirdness. They all should focus on each other and ignore other things. Likely spend their time exploring. I would probably start with your 15G, then the 5G+second 10. Once that is done you just add the last 3 and move all the hardscape around to reset the tank and then add in the last tank. Keep the 15 cycled and going until you have it all done and are content with it. I did the same thing with a 55G tank. You might have one fish that shows some aggression or one that gets picked on. I used a Hang on box last time to move the fish for 3-5 days and then reintroduced the fish and it started to defend itself. Just have to see how it goes.
  21. nabokovfan87
    Either one is fine. 72 is where I keep mine.
  22. nabokovfan87
    That's really weird. Interesting.
  23. nabokovfan87
    Looks great, stand is nice and it fits well in the space. I can't foresee any issues. Worse case you'll get a lid cut and add that to the tank. Not a big deal.
  24. nabokovfan87
    Photos aren't showing up for me. Can you please reload them? @Vod
  25. nabokovfan87
    Very cool. I totally understand that!
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