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I just use YouTube 🙂 I think you have 2 males and 2 females. Either way, you definitely will have more soon! On the underside anal fin you can see the edge has a curved edge. That's a female. She's also slightly bigger than the others. In this photo, I think the front and back one are females, based on coloration and size the middle one is a male. Just saw the one on the right. Definitely another male! Very thin and narrow body shape.

Flow adjustment is on the pump, but the actual intake is always going to be 75-90% from the skimmer just due to the design. The intake tube at the base has a half circle cutout which means it's already starting half covered. The rest of the intake is from the pump housing cover itself that had a grill all along.the bottom section and cutouts along the sides. (The gaps on the bottom amount to the surface area of just over half the skimmer. The intake tube is about half of a small coin. The skimmer is a large gap and long opening that constantly feeds water to the pump. Usually that "other sound" is from water level or something on the impeller. Have you taken the pump apart to clean it before?

I don't think the RTBS will do well with an angel. Angels are slow, they hover, and they themselves can be aggressive. I think a 40B will work fine because you have the front to back room as well as plenty left to right. I didn't like mine in the 55 because the front to back was too short. After adding hardscape and such it's not a lot of room. The jump to a 75G tank was a great change and the fish really enjoyed it. If the fish feels comfortable, they can be generally mild mannered. Caves, etc. Is how you achieve that. I can only speak to my fish, not to every fish. That just means the common advice is to have X size tank. The reason for that is because they swim very fast and they do move quickly. More room is better for that safety margin and helps them to burn energy.

Literally just waiting for the "fancy" ones to come in stock. The color I want (all my stuff is black or darker) has been out for a while. I can't say I'll be happier, but I still spend every morning replanting things. It's frustrating. I popped in root tabs and hopefully things take hold or I'm going to end up with plant weights at this point. We'll see what happens when they turn up. Another thing I've heard for the "budget" options is that the welds on the back mean they don't last or have good tension. Which potentially explains my struggle and reason for the original post. I'll be very interested to compare and looking forward to seeing things once I can get my hands on them and test the tools side by side. I wish I could find some generic fluval or seachem tools to add to the pile for comparison, but yeah.... Why seachem gates their stuff I won't ever understand. It's not my fault I don't have a local shop.

Please list out everything you can test for, Temperature, and let's talk through your tank setup. PH and Temp are often the triggers for jumping. Please check the sides and back of the tank, under the stand, etc and see if they happened to get out that way. Secondly, I would remove all hardscape, artificial decor, and then go ahead and check substrate. Sometimes you'll siphon up a chunk of something and not realize what it was. It happens, especially on large tanks, unfortunately. Once we understand what things look like, then we can try to figure stuff out and explain potential solutions. If there's any way I can help please let me know.

If you want any help with ID just take a video and try to show them all off or photos. Sometimes they can be finicky. Usually females are slightly longer, bigger body shape. Best of luck with recovery. If need be add some aquarium salt, extra air.

Very nice work. That information and studying cultures like this will be so useful to hobbyist. I can imagine using it for amano breeding among other projects. Have you ever tried to breed any with your outdoor ponds?

Finally done. Water change is completed. This was my morning moments. Enjoy!

You can keep the water below the skimmer inlet and it's above the min fill line. That's one way to handle it. Option 2: Option 3: Foam internally. You remove the blue locking tab, then you can lift off the blue knob and chute cover. Then you should be able to slide in something to stop the duckweed and allow the water to pass inside. This video gives you an idea how to disassemble things. Let me know if you need anything. People also use quilting mesh, airline hoses to make barriers. That's another way to handle it. Check out etsy for some of those things too.

Nice find. Woot woot!

I just did this on mine. Minimum 1". Recommended is 2-3 for bigger fish or more "jumpy" species. SAE and shrimp can get pretty far. You can get one of those net covers too.

Yeah just a molt. Leave them in the tank, they tend to eat the shell so they can regain some calcium back.

Definitely interesting. Can you show the stalk or rhizome part? It looks like 2-3 things. Honestly.

Very nice. Looking forward to seeing the setups!

Try to track down some aquarium salt. It's generally cheap and used to treat a lot of illnesses. (things in freshwater tend not to like it and it helps fish fight things off, especially externally, and recover). It's something Cory mentions a lot on his trips to peru and how some places only use that for a lot of their disease treatments. If you don't have it on hand, it's one of the things I use regularly. I highly recommend it!

Question. What temp are you keeping them at? What does your filtration look like on this tank? ORD. Awesome comments and conversation on this thread. I really enjoyed reading through all the great advice.

Sometimes it happens. Dropping the water level is always a stress for fish, but sometimes that's how you can even trigger breeding! Alright, so I will start by saying, NO, you're not terrible. There is a few things I do in WCs to keep things going and I am someone and I know many others who often do 60-80% WCs when you really need to clean out a tank. It might not be every single time, probably best not to, but doing that every once in a while isn't a bad thing when you have an issue. Keep the water level above the dorsal fin of the fish so they can swim and get away, hopefully reducing stress and their tendencies to scrap or scare themselves getting away from hands / siphon. I have an airstone I keep in most of my tanks specifically for WCs to keep things cycled and flowing. I have had tanks sit for a lot longer than 30 minutes without issues. Not a requirement, but it does help. They will often crowd wherever flow is as a sort of "safe haven". Whenever you're doing a big WC, double dose your dechlorinator just for the heck of it. Pour a little extra, whatever you want to call it. If you're vastly shifting parameters that's one cause for concern. Temperature is another one, but the major thing is just there's a big shift of stuff and dechlorinator helps with that type of thing, heavy metals, etc. For shrimp tanks this can be especially important. Generally 2x dose is very safe. 5-10x is "over dosing" Depending which you have it should list it on the back. I genuinely doubt it's toxin release. If this was the case you'd have a lot more dead fish. You would see a white cloudy water and then you'd see fish dying withing 30 minutes or so. There is a members talk specifically on this toxin and research. I highly recommend it! I think the fish was simply stressed and probably ran into something. Or.... PH and temp played a role here. It does happen, unfortunately. Sometimes fish can take months to acclimate from old home to new home and your water might not be "perfect". This isn't to say don't change water, but just try to test, match parameters and avoid "old tank" syndrome. This can happen in new tanks, or from the perspective of the fish.... long term acclimation issues. Diseases might take weeks to show up. Months even. Always, consistency is key.

Yeah, clown plecos and BNPs love to do that to me. They were sleeping and I always end up scaring them. I try to check the mouth now for movement. Very weird, lol.

@Chick-In-Of-TheSea @Odd Duck Finally able to take a decent photo. LOL. As promised, the top down view too. Still editing the video. Upload takes forever on 4k / youtube.

This stuff is literally part terminator / part zombie. It's nuts. Moss will also do that too sometimes.

Step 1, Wake up... check the tank. Step 2. Notice a panda party. Giggle a little bit. Step 3. That point when you notice the one panda had a bit too much krill flake and it is just laying on the wall. 😂

That's awesome. Do you know any divers with asthma? Very cool bit at the end hearing them talk about the process of trying to film that.

Looks like staghorn. I genuinely think they are always around in pairs. Hard to have one and not the other. Maybe this will help: I watch this from time to time to try to motivate and center my thoughts on how to stop this stuff. Either one, BBA/Staghorn are caused by similar issues and will act/behave similarly. The real issue is removal, but getting rid of the spores.

Thank you I wish I had some cover for them. I have been moving the moss around and stuff to clean and they have calmed down a ton. They are still sensitive to light, which is probably why they seem so frantic. At the point above I think it was 48-72 hours old? There were some with yolk sacks still and they seem to have mellowed not they are a bit further along. Probably double the size? I wish ACO still sold the "nano twigs" and stuff like that. I need to get some salt and I'll get some stuff to have on hand too. How big are yours right now? Be sure to share photos when you can 🙂

Totally makes sense. That's awesome. Alright. Editing video for you now! 🙂