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    It was a bit of a discouraging morning. The fish seemed back to their old selves and hiding. You wouldn't even know there was fish in the tank because of how well they can hide! I fed some of the krill flake and then some of them started to eat. I fed some repashy soilent green tonight. The big female was swimming up and down the glass just checking things out. Males weren't around, but she was "scouting" so to speak. Maybe that's a good sign. There was some water in the air, no rain last night, so that big final wave from the storm never happened. I went ahead and did the large water changes with good temp water for them. We'll see. I really hope to see eggs soon. In the big tank I also added some GH due to the way that tank ends up working out. Not a ton, but we'll see if that tank triggers while the other one with the adults doesn't.
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    There might just be some adjustment. What was his territory got cut off a bit. The same thing happened to @Chick-In-Of-TheSea with their betta fish. Hopefully the fish calms down a little bit. If you don't see improvement after 10-14 days then potentially remove one of the side covers and see how that helps.
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    I've got some research studies that advise against it. In the garage or something might be fine most of the time (insulation on the bottom to keep the floor from freezing it out). One thing to keep in mind is de-icing and surface movement as well as the layers of temp on the tank. Even in your aquarium the bottom is going to be cooler than the top. Taller tanks can work a little better when it's warmer because they have a chance to hold in the cold a little easier than something like a shallow tank. A lot of those concepts you can use and apply to keep that pond as stable as possible long term. Getting into the mid-low 50s though is about as far as I can recommend taking neocaridina shrimp though. A lot of the ability to do so questions are going to tie into the construction of that pond.
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    have you ever used the ziss ones?
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    Yep. That's the BBA. I recommend checking out the Reverse Respiration thread on the top category on the forums. It's very, very simple which is great. It's a really good place to start. Barring that, here is method 2. (most often, and explained in the video is that you need to have multiple sessions to get rid of BBA). The reason being the first treatment will often, only weaken the algae and start the process. To get rid of it, a second wave is pretty common. In my case years.
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    The sponge is moreso what I was referring to.
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    Yes, this is pretty normal. Moss actually can take a lot of light and will grow pretty quickly towards that light source. As long as there isn't algae also on the moss, then you're doing good. Adding iron into the tank can also help the moss a little bit.
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    Yep. 😂
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    @Cinnebuns ^^
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    It appears to be a type of flatworm called a rhabdocoela. They are pretty common. It may not be planaria. They would be removed in the same fashion using traps and manual removal. Pecktec has a good video on the process.
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    A lot of the concerns for me would purely be around effectiveness and buffering. The media in question dissolves over time because it's becoming dissolved in the water column the same way that crushed coral (same thing as the dry rock) would do. That affects water parameters and it can also contain things that we don't test for. That's Ultimately the choice there. Media is often "best" as being something inert and something affordable. It can be sand even, but the goal is to have something that gives the tank and the bacteria stability. I'm the first post there's the pieces of the biomedia inside of the basket. It's good and all, but it's about the equivalent to using eheim mech or similar hard media to remove large debris. That placement makes it mechanical and not biological. Missing the sponges and the mechanical filtration before the biological is going to lead to very clogged media in the long term. This won't encourage "the full cycle" as pondguru calls it, but it will just result in clogged media. The media also isn't in bags which makes cleaning it a bit difficult to combat this over time. I would make sure you have some sort of prefilter and mechanical filtration on the setup, essentially.
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    Any time during the first week of September. And the selection goes to @AquaHobbyist123h because you were first to post thoughts for this month. 🙂
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    Agreed. 🙂
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    A lot of the foods I feed are omnivore and algae based. I understand what you mean though. Potentially you're able to find something based on krill meal and that would work pretty well. Nope, the glass should be fine. I would try adding a second air stone though. You do want to have some method for the air to exhaust off the top though, leaving ba crack exposed or something. If you have a glass cutter you can cut a 45 degree piece of the corner and use that for the cables and airlines as well. One that I think might do well but have to try is the hikari discus bio gold food. Ingredients don't seem too bad. The main thing for me is to avoid fish meal as much as I can. Fish oil as well. It's taken a lot of time to find methods.... And wait for new products to exist. Sometimes is just unavoidable. Avoiding those two things has to do with shark byproducts for me. It's a personal choice, hopefully a good one for the fish as well. Mine do really swell on stuff like frozen brine shrimp too! Overall the setup is really beautiful and pretty perfect for corydoras. They have open space, cover, they have a low light scenario. All you're really missing is a good bit of air. Sometimes they like to lay on flat broad surfaces too, but I would think they have plenty of choices. As they learn the tank my guess would be they lay a lot on that central large anubias.
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    Nice work. I imagine the fun part is maintenance time.
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    The main foods for me personally: -Northfin krill pro pellets (planned to use) -Northfin cichlid veggie pellets (same recipe as their algae wafers) -aqueon nutrinsect tropical granules (newly found this, should work well) -xtreme flake foods, currently community crave -repashy soilent green, bottom scratcher, and community blend (I'd like to try spawn and grow and some others) Feel free to share a photo of the setup and the fish to help ID if you want! Sometimes they can be picky. Just feed something like repashy a few times a week after lights out and see how they respond after 1-2 weeks.
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    TLDR - Shrimp Tank edition Feb 9th - 7 shrimp added to community tank (it went badly) Feb 23rd - I found one shrimp, maybe 2. Community fish removed from shrimp tank. March 2nd - I found 2 shrimp, then 3. March 5th - Ordered shrimp batch #2. March 7th- Arrived DoA, 1-2 survivors added to tank. March 12th - Moved the tank due to room tank moving things March 16th - Final group of 7 shrimp added to the tank. March 21st - Feeding dish added April 3rd - First berried female shrimp April 13th - First real deep clean on the tank April 19th - First loss due to molting issues, ordered secondary test method April 30th - Discovered GH had severely crashed due to new testing kit May 3rd - First colored up Shrimplet (female arrived berried) May 31st - Actually had a decent method for cleaning the tank established. June 8th - Between Adult and Shrimplet ~60 shrimp in the colony. June 21st - First culls sighted, Amano shrimp added to colony June 21st - Found Scutariella Japonica parasites, Prazi meds added June 26th - Salt treatment #1 June 28th - Rili female discovered July 9th - Salt treatment #2 July 14th - Amano Zoes released in the tank July 19th - First Cull (11 shrimp) July 23rd - Tank returned to normal service post treatment Aug 8th - Switched to new food
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    The main eye of the storm went way "off course" and went west by a few 100 miles. It changed pretty dramatically when it hit land. We do have a wave of weather coming towards us with one more big piece of rainfall coming in from about now until around 3-4 AM. I have the window open in the room because the cool breeze is quite delightful after the swampy day we've had. The tanks should cool off, fish are just waiting. It's such an interesting sense they have. I'll keep an eye out for activity and drop in some repashy tonight if they need any more food.
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    Somehow this is an actual photo for an actual product and totally made it past everyone in the process. Someone giggles at this every time they see it, I'm sure.
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    ^^ Yep! 😁 Are you planning to set up one for each colony or are they just also in a fish tank setup? My apologies, I am just trying to understand the setups. You're not the first or the last person to do it! They make great hides too. Essentially 20H, 20L or larger. Dilution is a big factor here. It can be done in something smaller, but the general methodology is to have something large enough for the colony to thrive into a good size. A 10 would work, but eventually the colony can really outgrow that pretty quickly. A 20, 29G, 40B, etc. Those seem a bit more appropriate in terms of the long term health of colony. Surface area for algae, plant health, a 20L is a good fit, but of course there's some wiggle room there.
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    Leopard shark! 🙂 You should check out some of @Chick-In-Of-TheSea's dives and adventures.
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    This is a great point. Sometimes people forget this for the sake of trying to protect sales or someone interested in the same species. Even reputable breeders need to be able to vary genetics and understanding where the fish came from is a huge part of the battle.
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    It will be a lot of flow. Mounting it on end (single) would be good. I wonder what kind of deal you can get on a 407 or something.
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    Oh man.... that's awesome!!! I need 2 please. 🙂 That's wonderful. I just saw pics of some on Dan's website and they are a beautiful pleco. Very unique pattern. So.... when we had the last quake we have waves in the 75G and thankfully it wasn't full to the brim. I can only imagine... Woah! How many braces are there?
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    Same here. yes. I need to get some swords and bigger plants. I had a big fern, but it's likely non-aquatic even though information is very conflicting. I've been working on stuff. Selling some shrimp shortly and hopefully that helps things out in the tanks a bit. Ironically, the male shrimp are going a bit nuts.... slightly more than usual as well. Update: current status
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