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    Here is yours.... Here's mine: Definitely little corydoras. In about ~24-48 hours you should start to see the full body shape and the head and fins start to form. You'll start to see a bit more of a defined fish. They do. But, they can just lay a very small cluster of eggs. Spawns could last a few days or you get one big one.
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    I don't know if you've seen my tank (link in signature), but I generally prefer the look of the log or bigger branch with moss on it. Might be cheaper. My first real planted tank had a chunk of mopani with moss and it was epic. Right now I have a piece of ghostwood. I have seen people make buce trees, really unique. You can also do it with stems or other epiphytes like anubias nana petite and others. Really unique options depending on what kind of leaf structure you're looking for.
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    Nah, id run a sponge. Especially with floaters. Tidal 35 I didn't even realize. I'd probably only ever use my 35 on a moss only for profit tank or stems or something. Plants only.
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    The higher you are as far as the output ramp, the less the skimmer will clog meaning nits quieter. In general with these, without anything stuck anywhere they are basically silent. Hopefully yours is working better after the cleaning?
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    I don't even know where you can get them in the US. They are barely getting into germany I think. Very cool. Is that DHG I spy @Minanora? Let me know how it goes for you. I have never had success with it. well.... ever since I disassembled the 75G We should definitely not go down this rabbit hole, but yeah... they should do fine in your water 🙂 https://aquadiction.world/species-spotlight/tigris-sulawesi-shrimp/ This is the Red Orchid Version:
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    I found Geppetto's new tank. 😍
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    Welcome to the forums! Let me try to find a video, but you would gently rest the siphon on the plant. don't crush it or anything, but you just get as close as you can to the substrate to get the much out. It will get food and stuff stuck in there and it can be important to siphon it out. The segment is about halfway through. Same technique, but a little easier with a siphon. Here's another one on a big planted tank.
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    Have you seen saluwesi species? I probably butchered the spelling, but I think they work in your water. (runs to go double check) Congrats though. Best of luck on the next purchase. I appreciate the witcher reference 😂
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    Things are on hold for right now. I have to "reset" everything so so speak right now. On the right-hand, low demand tank, I do have an illness that is causing me to need to dose meds. I also swapped out the light because I saw some pretty severe issues with my anubias (probably from salt, but that's not anything I can control). Previously the anubias was stagnant and it looks like either the leaves or rhizome is starting to die off. It was a bright yellow color similar to what we saw with the moss when it was directly treated with a very heavy dose. On the other tank, high demand, I did go ahead and verify the CO2 was working and tried to alleviate a discrepancy between the working pressure, bubble counter at the solenoid, and the "bubble counter" at the diffuser itself. I still might swap the diffuser, but I know my current problem is that the spraybar isn't quite strong enough. The tank was treated with methylene blue due to a spawn of the corydoras and I have been caring for the corydoras fry. At this point I genuinely don't want to risk any of them having issues and so I've opted to only dose the spot dose when changing water and leaving things as constant as I can. When I last checked the nitrates on the tank after a lot of heavy feeding the tank was at 5 or so ppm of nitrates. Needless to say we are definitely in the lean dosing category. I added in some root tabs and will keep an eye on how those help with this method. BBA is returning. It is growing, and I do have a few things I'd like to try specifically for treating the rocks and I can do this side by side which is cool. Further research:
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    I had dosed everything today. (Note to self it was about 4 PM) I'm officially out of salt : 😟 I am seeing a bit of the upper part of the tail regrow. The lower section where it was slightly worse still looks a bit cloudy (not really fuzz, but still has some off color to it). I'll keep an eye on it, hopefully this clears the final push for the tank.
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    Check this out.... Very awesome microscope stuff showing the whole process. For food, this is the method I've seen used on the larger scale. daily they would flood the tanks (vats) with the algae / rotifer water.
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    I might have to send you some of the panda horde one of these days! 🙂 @tolstoy21 Very cool though. Hopefully your friend is happy with them.
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    Well it's definitely not detritus worms causing excess ammonia spikes and weird nitrate issues. As long as nitrates are low, that has worked better for me than having them 20+. I try to stick to 10 or fewer ppm. I don't think it's too much flow. I would try to get the output of the one on the right (trying to picture it in my head) so that you have the output on the right 1/2 of each section of the tank and then the inputs would be left wall and "center brace" so to speak. With the HoB on the right all the way you might have two circles of flow but a calm/dead spot in the middle. The main thing is just that you don't have dead spots, so if you see mulm in the middle piling up, then move that right one to the center somewhat. The output would hit the front glass and go left/right (mostly into that corner). Because of the setup as well, it'd be awesome with pressurized CO2. I can try to make a video if you need to, but just make sure any carpeting plants aren't stuck with organics floating around in the tank. That's partially what led me to worms on my side was I didn't realize how much crap was in the S. Repens. Not rough or anything, but the typical method is to just stick the siphon gently into the bushy plants to remove anything. THIS is actually pretty critical to remove the sports and chunks of BBA / Staghorn that floats around and gets caught on things. I don't see any issues. I was just asking because KH can lead to some plant issues. What plants would do well in this water? Very awesome to have this type of knowledge on the forums! Yeah, hopefully the bentley and the above video helps as far as how to treat it. I have been doing it just one water change day in the worst spots after I get all my maintenance done before turning things back on or refilling. The wood sticks out and I have been choosing a few spots. I pump my dose into the ACO measure / shot glass and then use the pipette. about 1/3 of the pipette per section and try to hit a few of them. I did one yesterday, it's not dead by any means, but it's definitely red and the amanos and whatever else can start to get rid of it. It also should grow slower after dosing that spot. I say should.... all just starting these methods, but literally nothing else has done as much so far.
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    Yeah, the ones I have are rectangular from plecocaves. I didn't know about plecoceramics until recently. I did see some people use ceramic logs, potentially that works too? Get a piece of mopani or malaysian driftwood and some 1-1.5" hole saws. Might be exactly what you needed. Oh i definitely think they want more puffers! But you'll get a spawn. Best of luck, keep trying!
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    😂 The corydoras didn't mind the bourbon, but yeah definitely a way to go. They sell mats / cork wood for reptiles and turtles. I couldn't tell you if the big box stores or where to get it, but I've seen cory use it and others use it for betta things. Does Geppetto have an aquarium lily!???!!!? you're definitely waking up to a bubble nest.
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    I think most just ignore the skin for me (when I was trying blanched veggies. The skin is just the thing that holds it together so they can tear it off. Definitely try mixing. Question though, how did your corydoras like Igapo? I have been wanting to get some to try with mine.
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    100%
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    Some people use cork too I believe.
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    Instead of dosing it into the water. You use it like a direct treatment. Turn of the filters so the water is stagnant and then you directly put your dosage for the day on the problem areas. First time I did it I put way too much and toasted a section of moss. Some plants won't like it so err on the side of more treatments in an area compared to one big one.
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    Very cool. It'll be a fun project. Best of luck! Hope all is well.
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    You can see the progression and timeline in my journal. Maybe mine are just quick to grow. First thing you should see is the (pectoral?) fin forming. I don't think it's corydoras of it's been weeks from eggs to now.
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    This is an exaggerated photo but gives you an idea. The direction is on the right, the plug shape is on the left. Mine don't let air flow backwards but they are not from ACO.
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    You can see it move on the end of that video. I'll try to get more. As long as it's not parasitic to fish I'm ok with it. The corydoras were surfing the tank and the moss and you could see the thing move away. I'll try to get my eyes to function and look up some photos to compare things to. It also might be something predating on the other things. (Meaning, it might not be a bigger form of the mites I saw, but something different)
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    Just saw this. Yes. Just make sure the tank is above the "minimum fill line" on the filter.
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