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  1. nabokovfan87
    First off, the biggest distinction here is do you mean rainbow shark or a proper RTBS? (A Red-Tailed black shark and Rainbow shark are cousins, alongside SAEs, but they all have very different temperaments. A RTBS has the bright orange fin on a black body, while a rainbow shark will have all of the fins as colored and is much calmer in terms of temperament.) Alright so I want to start with the following video from consolidated fish farms. They are a breeder / wholesaler in florida and they have the single best, most accurate video about rainbow/RTBS out there. I would suggest that as a general rule avoid RTBS unless it is a fish you are certain you prefer the look on over the rainbow shark. The biggest piece of advice is that you *MUST* have the care requirements front and center because of how this fish behaves. They are nocturnal, which means they will spend all day generally hiding and they are out during the night, dusk, and dawn. Siamese Algae Eaters are much more active, but also are from the same family. they are a beautiful, unique cypranidae fish, but they are much more forgiving. SAE = 3 foot tank, you can have multiple Rainbow Shark, 4 foot tank, 1 only RTBS = 4 foot tank minimum, 1 only. As far as the question itself about what they can be kept with. I have not found a fish apart from other Cypranidae fish (SAE, Rainbow shark) that my sharkminnow will not tolerate. Yes she has had some "issues" with other fish, but over time they do understand where her area is and then that leads to the aggression being tamed. Mine is nearing 10, or over 10, years old and she is a wonderful, amazing fish. She is pushing every dimension of 6" long and she has a tank dedicated for herself. You can see her behavior in my tank that I have setup exclusively for her. This is a tank with a piece of wood that is "her cave" and her territory. They absolutely must have a place to run and hide into and that keeps them from going crazy on anything an everything in the tank. Water parameters are going to be the other critical issue that you run into. A lot of cypranidae fish want cooler (low-mid 70's) water and will want higher flow and oxygenation. They do extremely well with other cypranidae fish which include danio, rasbora, minnows, and barbs. I hope this helps. Please feel free to ask questions and I will respond when I get time to check back in. Thank you @knee for the heads up! This is her territory on the tank. She absolutely loves it. Raises corydoras fry for me (keeps the adults away) and she has been with a variety of different species of fish. T
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    Absolutely breathtaking photography. I love seeing that side of the hobby from your eyes in that way. Thank you so much for taking the time to produce content like that. I love the color of the leaf and the depth in this one especially.
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    Those tetras..... such vibrancy. I just did "some work" on my 75 and it feels like i can "see" so much better when sitting and watching the tank. De-jungled it? 😂 I love seeing the color on the cherry barbs and the ones that are bright sunburnt orange in contrast with the cherry tomato red ones that are also there. It's so fun to see the pops of deep color on the black background. The fish are loving that tank!
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    Congratulations! It is awesome to see success and to see others enjoying the content you're making. 🙂
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    Yeah. For sure.
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    I'll have to get a video and post some photos. When I first saw it I legit was happy because nI assumed it was literally just a fish swimming with an egg in its mouth and they were spawning on the moss ledge I had added to the tank. It's some form of a cyst. I've seen all sorts of IDs from a virus (L something), to NTD, to columnaris. I am pretty sure those last two are the same thing just a certain strain. I did some research and found that it's sometimes due to having a fish in the wrong pH and it's something where they just need better conditions. Third picture is one who had the cyst "pop".
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    This is the best time for me too. I'll make a post on it when I can and have to tag you, but I've started doing "extremely slow feedings" with fun results. Beautifully said. 🙂
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    I do enjoy videos like this! I like being able to see the habitat and what's around it. It's a bit of a "zen exercise" because you just sit, observe, and then read the subtitles while the action happens. It's a break from all of the things and a narrow focus on just this moment.... I appreciate seeing the vegetation, how it's growing, and the context for the surroundings of the water that he is about to show the fish in. I chose this one specifically because of the color of the water. Green being a favorite color and seeing this habitat, I can only imagine it inspiring someone to scape a tank with a similar aesthetic. The green-blue can't help but add to those tranquility sensations and trying to zone out a bit. 🙂 It reminds me a bit of the kelp forest with the colors as well.
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    April Selection, another one off of Netflix, simply because I think that one might be "easy". Show Title: Night on Earth Episode Title: Dark Seas (safe for all ages)
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    Basically babysitting puppies all day. Getting bit and scratched and barked at a lot. 😂 The other dogs got parvo, so I've been by their side almost all of last month. Life stuff, just busy. That's my absolute favorite feeling. Seeing them zoom around and just like little hunters burrowing all around.
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    For sure! I like having the tap outside of the tube. It helps with just moving things around.
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    Salt+Kanaplex right now. It's going to take at least two treatments. I see some improvement, but not what I would've expected so I might need to order in some other meds.
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    Lots of work to do, but it's not happening today! 😂 Grace was being very chill. She's accepted the new shark as a non-annoyance, which is a great sign. BBA is definitely going to have a fight on its hands against that new sharkminnow buddy. And those barbs are just so enjoyable. So beautiful.
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    I need to catch up, but I see the photos and all I can think is... "I'm so excited because I know how much you're going to love this tank." Awesome work!
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    ......all of the white clouds are now in QT being treated for cysts and some issues of "stuff" on the mouths. Hopefully I have the right treatment and they rebound. I hate to see this. Symptoms started about 7-8 days after arrival. I was able to change water on the tank and clean the filters a bit. Still too many worms for my liking, but progress is progress.
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    Very sorry for you issue. I have been there and it's tough. It's really tough to get subtle details dialed in when you're seeing an issue over time like that.
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    Yes and no... I have years of experience, but I am still trying to fully tackle/stop this monster. My suggestions on what to do is to "fix everything" which is a short way of saying to go through a checklist and fix a variety of potential issues. One of the big ones I had an issue with the light spread (light too close, not covering the tank fully). Light strength, first too high, then too low, now we're back up to higher %. Light duration slightly too long. Not enough circulation of CO2 when dosing CO2. Poor circulation in general due to filtration setup. Dead spots = home for BBA, regardless of light. If the flow is too high in one spot, it loves that too because water pushes the spores on that spot consistently. A tip Bentley Pascoe gave me on a stream was to set the light for normal % and limit the window to 4 hours max. Run that for a few weeks. It helped SO MUCH to contain the algae and let the plants sustain. Light is the key here, but there's a lot going on. Clean the filter, clean the tank more, get rid of waste and debris in the substrate. Make sure pumps and filters are adequate and up to the task. More is more..... More filtration is often used on high tech aquascapes for a reason. Hopefully that helps.
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    I love how the rock compliments the fish so well.
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    Note of difference between yours and mine. I'm running fine sponge. Maybe abrasion of "stuff" in the water column is causing it as the air lifts the water through the chambers?
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    Just a fun watch. Enjoy!
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    Looks great for barbs! They have places to swim through and around. Perfect setup. 🙂 Try to get yourself 3-5 pots of a foreground plant and start a carpet. It'll help and potentially be a place for some eggs to make their way to.
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    They are doing well so far. 😁
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    That's an interesting one, tough to say. A lot of people keep their tanks with no filters and very little aeration. Something like soap residue on a cup could've caused a contamination issue with the shrimp. Even with the temperature drop, I would fully expect the shrimp to be fine, if not just try to escape out of the tank. I'm not sure why you would have losses like that in that scenario. I have no doubts about this! They definitely can go cold, but it's just a situation where the recommendation is to keep them at that temp as a floor. There's two things that happen as temps drop, talking neocaridina here, they can have muscle death and necrosis and the gender of new shrimp will turn towards more females being hatched as a means to try to sustain the colony. I can point to the studies and you can review the information if you'd like. One of the more interesting ones was studies of neocaridina released in the wild and doing population studies up in Canada or Germany where they shouldn't survive due to temperatures and the impact that has on native species. There's other studies where they take the same shrimp, keep them at varying temperatures and see how well the colony grows over a period of time. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0119468 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ramazan-Serezli/publication/322007591_To_what_extent_does_temperature_affect_sex_ratio_in_red_cherry_shrimp_neocaridina_davidi_The_scenario_global_warming_to_offspring_sex_ratio/links/5a3d1f23aca272d29442f957/To-what-extent-does-temperature-affect-sex-ratio-in-red-cherry-shrimp-neocaridina-davidi-The-scenario-global-warming-to-offspring-sex-ratio.pdf Here's a study on how cold they can go. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331090439_Occurrence_of_non-native_red_cherry_shrimp_in_European_temperate_waterbodies_a_case_study_from_Hungary
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    Going to have to see how this one grows up to determine the gender and decide on a name. But I'm excited to have this new sharkminnow in the tank. Went right behind the grate with the suss, lots of snacks behind there, and likely waiting for the end of the day to go around and check things out. I watched right as I put the fish in as it crawled along the wood and started grazing along the hardscape. I will always enjoy these guys (sharkminnows).
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    Not sure how the shrimp will do with this over time. There are some brackish shrimp
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