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Highly awesome to see this. I really enjoy my clowns. Fish. definitely not people clowns. Just fish. For me: 1. Cyprinidae species (Specifically things like RTBS, SAE, Barbs, etc.) 2. Corydoras (and Otos) 3. Amano Shrimp 3B. Bolivian Rams and Dean's Rams. 3C. White Clouds and so many "river species" .... oh and loaches.

Watching the video, but this might be a tidal 35 thing. Yeah. I can't tell from the video. What tank is this, what filter? I ended up getting a skimmer just for the sake of running the tidal 35 on a tank, testing that whole process. It's just a normal oil film that can build up depending on things like food and other factors. You have good flow, it's broken up. The real concern is when you get that haze and it seals the top of the water.

Leaning towards not Venezuelan, but these guys. Very hard to tell with the glass. https://www.planetcatfish.com/common/species.php?species_id=34 Technically speaking it's actually Schultzei "black"

They will likely eat them. No real issues. Just try to be a bit vigilant with the substrate siphoning and you'll slowly get rid of them. Adding additional air will help. Welcome to the forums also!

Looks like detritus worms. What else is in the tank. How is your filtration setup?

This seems like a well written guide. https://fishtankadvisor.com/mexican-dwarf-crayfish/#Natural_Habitat Hopefully that helps. A lot of the guides will recommend livebearers and top level aquarium fish. Temps are going to be one issue though, as mentioned.

Final dose of meds in for the first treatment. I'll keep an eye on the fish tonight and try to get some updated photos to view the change. I am going to give it a few days, let the fish rest if need be after a big WC and then decide if I need to go into round 2. I replaced the lid on the aquarium and temps are more stable now. I have towels on gaps to keep the warm humid air inside and the glass itself is slightly thicker. I also added a bolbitis plant (spelled correctly this time) and hopefully that gives some reduced stress as well for the tank. It was from the big box store, kind of short, but I really do like this plant. It came in two bunches with 3-5 stems wrapped up and 2 "bunches" which was cool.

I am pretty certain there is enough out there elsewhere. It's a popular species. Just expect the price to go up... 😞

Are you using tongs or your fingers? Sometime the biggest thing is letting the substrate fall back. You pull the plant underneath, slowly release the tongs, then let the substrate fill the void, slowly repeat that until it's back. Once you get the substrate to settle, then go ahead and cover up the surface a bit if you need to. I have the same substrate and it can be pretty fickle without a lot of roots. If you're using your fingers, same thing, just a little more difficult.

If she wants to use feeder species. I would suggest setting up a 20G Long for ghost shrimp or RCS. Cheap, easy, and the teacher can keep them without much fuss in the class. Then use that in the jars instead of fish.

Definitely interesting.

Isn't this how you breed corydoras!!!???? You did the water changes right? 😂

That is exactly what you want to see. Good circulation and the CO2 on all parts of the tank, not just the diffuser.

I've definitely had my share of issues with this. Depending what plants you might do better with letting them float for a little bit or leaving them in a pot to acclimate. Question though, what is the substrate you're specifically trying to plant in and having the most issues with. I often find my mistake is not going deep enough, or just having way powerful flow on the tank. I feel like almost everyday I am replanting something. Start with 6-8 hours if that (less is more) and definitely be sure to update the light and go in and turn mostly everything down. Pretty much no matter what the tank is, a good starting point is 30% on pure white, blue at 1-5%, and 20% on everything else. Then slowly do research and learn about it. Try a chopstick or dowel from the sides.

It would be an epic one for sure and I really enjoy that your first thought is to share the cool new plecos. This is the part where we all wonder what corydoras you have had success keeping previously! 😂 Alright, just me then.... Lol I think everyone could use a pleco, or a few. One of my favorite things to add to a tank is a few pleco species. It would be! Those apisto were amazing though.

I like Jimmy's Method.

Understood. And it's likely very young. I can't say how bit it'll get, but it might get a much different mood when it's bigger! That's all. The dwarf crayfish we had was about 3 inches and it passed when it was about 5-6. EDIT: Yours sounds like a Cambarellus species. The one we had I think was a Procambarus species.

They are separate things 🙂 for separate processes on water. You can also do both. RO first, DI second (RODI water) which helps improve the lifecycle of the DI system by filtering out some of the harsher things first, lowering TDS.

I would look for a "whole home" filtration system. I first saw them watching Jeremy Clarkson work on his doing water testing and then realizing how bad his water was on the farm (you can imagine how the farm would lead to that, especially on a well). The filters he had were wall mounted, about 3 feet long or so and his system had 3-4 on there. I think 3 filters is about the standard (sediment, carbon, fine filter) and the common setups for specific situations would be to add 2x fine pads or 2x carbon blocks as you need to. I don't know if that helps, but hopefully that is a nudge in the right direction. There are undersink systems you can use as well, I would look at something by 3M as they generally know what they are doing when it comes to filters. I trust them to have a reliable product and availability long term. I can't post the link here due to swearing, but the clarkson's farm clip is on youtube. "Clarkson farm water test" is how I found it. UV is mounted on the wall horizontally it looks like and then that goes into the filter tubes. One in his hand is obviously very dirty. In the clip he stated that this is 3 months of use. Old one on the right. new ones on the left. This looks like a filter floss of sorts.

Alright so there's a few things going on here and the BIGGEST one is going to be compatibility in terms of predation, but the other one is temperature compatibility. Betta wants a tank right around 80 degrees. A Panda Corydoras I wouldn't put long term over 78, I keep mine in the 72-74 range optimally. A Crayfish wants cooler temp. For this random one I found they are listing ~65°F – 75°F but it will depend on what species you have. They usually have heaters to keep them above 65, but they typically are kept say 70-78 degrees leaning towards cooler often. Now. A crayfish will grow and it will use it's claws to eat. That means corydoras are a no go with that species. Secondly a betta is a slow swimmer, often wants to lay somewhere and that's just inviting trouble. You can probably keep the betta and the crayfish in their own containers (be it a tub, or whatever) until you have a tank. A crayfish, from what I have researched, will want to have a land section and a wet section with access to move back and forth. Again, all about whatever species you have and their own care requirements. Other articles and videos I see don't include this. I can't speak to your own setup and your own space requirements, but just about everything mentioned I would try to give is a 20L or 20H aquarium if possible. If you have room, give the betta a 10-15G aquarium and that should be sufficient for the one fish with plants and so forth. It's not a ton of weight, but might be small enough where you can keep them in tubs / buckets now, and eventually give them a tank when space and sales make sense. Sterilite tubs are commonly accepted as safe for QT / Animals in a bind. I always try to find something labelled as "food safe" when I need to find something. I used 30G Sterilite tubs (grey with green handles) we found at target.

Yeah... I had the same reaction when I saw that "what's this" thread and it was a snail clutch. Eyes got all big and the camera zoomed in and I got lightheaded. 😂 Some things in our tanks are just little aliens.

Here is the "Testing results from last week" that I missed. I went back in and added those. New lighting, nitrates are very low, Awesome to see. I cannot wait to FEED MORE to this tank. I'll be happy at that point. Because of some issues with my other tank I am going to try to keep PH a bit more in check and on the 7.0-7.2 side of things as opposed to the 6.5-7.0 side of things. It's not a big adjustment, but because of the shrimp issues I saw this past week with cold water and PH slightly crashing, yeah... I need to be better about it. My WC regime will be 2.5x 1/8 tsp scoops instead of the standard 2 I've been doing for each 5G bucket. ALRIGHT. Now for the fun stuff. @TheSwissAquarist you had asked about fry color. This is about as young as I have ever seen them when colony breeding my corydoras. This is when I am doing something major and I look real close and go... "alright, that moved" and I realize I can't change out decor or substrate because there's fry in there. This is about a week or so before they get color, I would guess. Maybe two weeks. This is about 5 days old? We can check the tape, but that feels about right. You can see a fully formed fry now, they have internal organs, but it's just clear and translucent. Some will get some pattering, but mine I think just go from this to black slowly. And then I tried real hard to give you an idea on number of fry right now. First a close up. And then zoomed out slightly a bit. This was right before dinner for the fry. It was good to see them excited for the late night snack 🙂 Fingers crossed all of these ones make it the full distance. *knock on wood* and all of those superstitions handles as I typed this.... Seriously. I just can't wait to see more corydoras all grown up. Right now, they are about 1/4" long, maybe slightly smaller. When they get to about 1/2" I stop worrying about em. Sidenote. 50mm lens makes it a lot easier to take photos with the right focal length. Sony Xperia 1 II phone for me, but just a tip for someone who wants to have a better time than me trying to take "macro" shots up close.

What a great photo.

How is it going @tolstoy21?