[Heater for brine shrimp hatchery?]

On 4/29/2024 at 8:13 AM, StevesFishTanks said:

It was from amazon. LED Clip Light

 

Would this light put off enough heat for the baby brine shrimp?

 

[Heater for brine shrimp hatchery?]

On 7/20/2021 at 10:59 PM, StevesFishTanks said:

I moved my dehumidifier so now the brine blenders sit right above it.

 

I know this is really old post but do you remember where you got that light for the brine shrimp hatchery?

[Cladophora algae problem]

Hey, all 3 of my tanks are getting covered in stringy cladophora algae, its like normal green hair algae but super tough feeling and does not come off plants and other surfaces easily. When I try to remove it from plants no matter what the plant comes with it and every time I grab a piece it breaks off into tons of little bits of algae that float everywhere. On the good side of things non of my plants are suffering, they all are still super healthy and growing fast but so is the algae.

Does anyone have any advice on how to kill it? Preferably a shrimp and snail safe option because 2 of the 3 tanks have shrimp and snails.

[What crypts grow taller or how do I grow my crypts taller?]

I have some crypt lutea in my 10 gallon tank and I want to put some in the background to replace some stem plants but I want it to be as tall as the tank (12") How do I grow it taller? any tips? or what type of crypt would reach the top?

[Shrimp not moving]

On 1/25/2024 at 10:31 AM, nabokovfan87 said:

I have tanks about 2 foot apart and I have what is generally a strong line of genetics. They aren't sensitive and I do large water changes without issue or losses often.

This isn't an established colony. So that's where the main advice comes from. If I was ever taking a colony and splitting it, I would always recommend and drip them.  If we are talking culls, then I almost never do.

Yeah its not a super established colony but they have had tons of babies in my other tank and my friend that gave them to me had them for years in the same tap water as me.

Thanks for the advice @Guppysnail@nabokovfan87 I'll just give it some time and post an update once they settle in.

[Shrimp not moving]

On 1/24/2024 at 7:09 PM, nabokovfan87 said:

1.  How did you acclimate the shrimp / move them to the new tank? Did you drip them, or just move them?
2.  Can you turn up the airstone on the sponge filter? The air output seems a bit lower than what I would prefer to see.
3.  When it comes to the shrimp themselves, how long have you had them in the guppy tank?

For the sake of full clarity, if you can take a video of the shrimp for a few minutes it might help to understand their behavior.

I just acclimated them for temp and in a specimen container and then dropped them in. no drip acclimation because I didnt do that before and they were all good last time I used the plop and drop method.

 

I have the air on max, I'm using a dual outlet airpump so its not as much air because its being used for 2 tanks. But I feel like its enough for my  shrimp.

I've had the shrimp in the guppy tank about 2 months.

 

here is some video, sorry if its bad quality.

 

[My first guppy tank]

UPDATE: Shortly after posting this I noticed some of my guppies was acting strange, Then one started getting a bent spine and died. Also I noticed after a female guppy gave birth she was super week and then died a couple hours later. After a couple weeks of trying to figure out what was happening and fish slowly dying I figured it was probably an internal problem so I treated the fish with paracleanse and salt.

This worked super well and the fish were doing amazing! They were all super active and breeding tons, the females could give birth without dying afterwords, The overall health of the fish was great.

But there was a new problem, all my plants took a really hard hit from the salt and meds. Almost all my crypts melted completely back and my anubias died. The only plants that I still had a tiny bit of was my crypt lutea and hornwort. So I decided to rescape the tank. I just removed everything, found some hardscape in storage and bought some plants from a guy off facebook.

 

The rescape day 1:

The tank a couple months later:

The tank a couple more months later:

Some more recent pictures of the tank:

About 6 months later my friend asked me if I wanted some of his orange neocaridina shrimp for free, so of course I said yes, he gave me 20 shrimp and they settled in very quickly and started to breed a week later. Now the tank has just been running very smoothly, balanced out very well with no almost zero algae. I do a 25% water change like once a month just to be safe even though it could probably go 3 months, I trim the hornwort in the back about every week and try to fertilize the plants when I remember to.

All the original 6 guppies have past away, but I have tons of new ones and I continue to get new fry every month. I've started to work on getting all my males to look the same because I got a male I really liked and I've been trying to get all my guppies to look like him and I've almost done it! I don't know if that counts as making your own strain but its a pretty cool looking guppy, they have short flame tails with tons of blue and green colors on the body with a tiger/snakeskin looking pattern. It still needs quite a bit of work but its getting there. I also am starting to get more color on my females so I'm gonna be working on that for the next while.

 

 

The shrimp:

baby shrimp:

Amano shrimp:

Amano shrimp molt:

The guppies (its hard to capture the color on video but in person its amazing):

[Shrimp not moving]

@Guppysnail so are you saying it will just take some time for them to settle in and then they should start acting normal again?

[Shrimp not moving]

I recently moved 10 of my orange neocaridina shrimp from my 10g guppy tank down to a different 10g tank that had nothing in it anymore.

After moving them I noticed that they weren't really moving around or grazing constantly like my other shrimp, they kinda just sit completely still and move very slowly. After I noticed this I tested all my water parameters and it was identical to the previous tank they were in, and in that tank they were doing really well and constantly breeding.

Then the next thing I tried was adding a filter with carbon for 24 hours to remove anything that might be in the water that I'm not able to test for. But still no difference in behavior.

3 of the shrimp have molted well so I feel like there is not a water parameter problem but I still can't figure it out. Also the tank was running for a bout 6 months prior to adding the shrimp because I was raising some cichlid fry in it so its decently well established.

I also have lots of java moss, ,wood, indian almond leaves and I put a little Bacter AE in the tank before they went in, so they have plenty of food.

If anyone has any ideas on what this could be I'd love for some help, or if you just have any other ideas on things I could try it would be greatly appreciated.

WATER PARAMETERS:

PH: 8.2

DGH: 13

DKH: 7

NH3: 0

NO2: 0

NO3: 5-10

TEMP: 76F

 

The tank that the shrimp were previously in, doing very well and breeding.

 

The new tank that I moved them to where they aren't moving around much.

[What are these bugs in my tank?]

What are these white bugs on that hop around the top of my aquariums? are they spring tails? Ive seen them in both my tanks usually in floating plants or plants that grow to the top. they seem to be harmless but I'm just curious if anyone can identify them?

 

[Finally got some Kuhli loaches!]

I gotta get some! they look so cool! your tanks looks really awesome, I really like the dense growth.

[Deep substrate beds?]

Ive seen people have lots of success with deep substrate in their planted tanks but I don't understand how they work or even the point of deep substrate.

Could someone explain to me how they work and your experience with them because I'm really interested after seeing lots of people with super successful planted tanks using that method.

[Is oxygen related to algae growth?]

I was just watching the aquarium co ops video on ocean aquarium in San Fransisco they have some really amazing and really clean algae free Planted tanks. The owner says that big filters cause algae to grow because they create high amounts of oxygen and fast flow. Ive also heard other people say high oxygen and fast flow helps prevent algae problems.

what has your experience been? have you noticed a difference in algae growth depending on the flow in the tank?

 

[Is this a snail?]

thats just 2 ramshorn snails on each other

[Hair algae eating fish?]

whats a good hair algae eater that would be able to hold its own with my julidochromis marlieri and neolamprologus caudopunctatus in a 65 gallon tank with high ph and hard water?

[breeding apistos in hard water?]

@Guppysnail @anewbie thanks!

[Plant Suggestion to that corner - water flow is high]

java fern would do well

[breeding apistos in hard water?]

I'm gonna be building a breeding rack and one of the fish id like to try and breed is apistogrammas but I have hard water and high ph.

is it possible? Ive seen people keep them in the same water as me but I'm not sure about breeding.

if you have experience with this please let me know.

thanks 🙂

[eheim wifi canister filter]

@Cory I know you were interested for a bit in wifi canister filters that tell you when it needs to be cleaned as well as other features and I just saw that eheim is selling one now. Will you be testing or importing some of these in the future?

[Bacterial die off]

@AllFishNoBrakes@Galabar I just tested and my ammonia and nitrite are at 0 and low nitrates

[Bacterial die off]

I just put some Fritz Para Cleanse in my cichlid tank to help with a couple fish that were showing signs of internal parasites but then the next day it looks all foggy and I think a bunch of bacteria died off. Is this something to worry about? Should I just leave the tank alone or could this harm my fish?

[Guppies not active or breeding anymore?]

On 6/19/2023 at 6:08 PM, PineSong said:

I have never seen anything like that in my guppy tanks, so I’m not surprised you are concerned. Have you tested for ammonia? Since you said water changes are a time when they reactivate briefly, I’m suspicious that your water may have a problem that’s not showing up on test strips, if that’s what you’re using to test parameters.

I’ve tested with a kit and strips and I don’t have any ammonia or nitrite, I added a hob filter with carbon to see if that will remove any impurities from the water but I can’t figure out what’s wrong, I tested my tap wAter straight from the tap and after aerating it for 24 hours and it has no ammonia, nitrite or nitrate and has a ph of 7.6 and a gh of 12 dgh and kh of 8 dgh.

[Guppies not active or breeding anymore?]

On 6/19/2023 at 12:56 PM, TheMosster said:

alright, have you added anything into the tank recently?

Even your hands after messing with certain chemicals. Its possible there is a case of poisoning happening, that would be untestable. the solution would be running some carbon on your filter  to remove whatever it is, then it should improve itself.

No nothing that I can think of

[Guppies not active or breeding anymore?]

On 6/19/2023 at 12:49 PM, TheMosster said:

alright, just checking.

 

are all the fish acting weirdly or is it just the guppies?

 

I only have guppies in the tank and all of them are acting weird but all my other fish in other tanks are acting normal 

[Guppies not active or breeding anymore?]

On 6/19/2023 at 12:19 PM, TheMosster said:

age?

IDK how big the guppies are, but its possible someone brought them in older, so when you bought them you only had the few weeks to breed them anyway before they started succumbing to their old ages.

They are young guppies, I got them when they were just juveniles and I grew them up to adults and i don’t think it’s age because the fry and younger fish are acting the exact same way