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My shrimp do not touch cyano-bacteria. Best course from my experience is to reduce the nutrient load if high, but also, paradoxically increase the nutrient load if it is very low. For me I reduced the light from 11 hours a day to 9 hours and kept with weekly 50% changes. It took about 3...

Could be a pro-lapsed anus. I had an angel fish with this condition and it seemed to occur when he ate too many bloodworms. Nothing you really can do about it other than wait and see if it gets better, in my case I limited the number of bloodworms given at one time. Of course, it could be...

I have had some for a while now, but they don't like to grow under glass, from my personal observations. The leaf tops seem to be very sensitive to too much moisture. I have had the roots extend 15", I find for me they don't work well in shallow tanks. Without a glass cover they seem to grow...

In my shrimp tank I do something similar to you. I put a 5 gallon bucket within reach of the tank and take a about 5' x 1/2" hose for the syphon. On The bucket side, after the syphon is started, I put my thumb over the outlet to control the flow, and use the 1/2 hose near the surface of the...

Looks like this to me as well. I thought all of them armored themselves with little pieces of wood or rock but when I search online a number of species do not armor themselves with debris.

Like it.. "Less is more"

I really think you should. Actually, an ugliest fish competition would be great. Looking for the ugliest fish, that is so ugly it is compelling to watch. Your fish are always top notch and you have such a large variety. You must put a number of hours in each day/week to do the papers, breed...

As usual beautiful fish. To make the rest of us feel better you need to post some of your most horrible fish. :)

I used them many years ago to look at Dissolved 02 in lakes, to assess the lakes for trout stocking potential. At the time they had a very sensitive probe that needed to be calibrated daily. Likely they have improved the technology but honestly the only way the O2 will drop significantly in an...

From what I can tell you will either need to up your RO water production capabilities or switch to maintaining a hard water tank. I mix water for my small shrimp tank but even that is a pain. If you go the route of pre-conditioned water for a 75 gallon tank you are looking at purchasing a lot...

From what you are saying you are working in the correct direction. It is not cyclic and by your description what ever is affecting the fish eventually affects everyone. My next thought would be inline I think with what you are suggesting they have some sort of disease, that is getting passed...

I have a mix of neocardinia shrimp varieties in one tank, yellow, red, and the blues. They have interbred and are generating a number of color patterns, some of which look very similar to your shrimp. I suspect it is a poor, for color, but otherwise healthy cherry shrimp.

Any chance your water is not being treated for Chlorine, Chloramine, or some other water treatment, ie Floride. The symptoms you describe suggest that the fishes mucus membranes are highly irritated and perhaps damaged. Chlorine and other water treatments affect the more delicate tissues of...

Thanks. I came across a few types of devices that work on the principles you discussed. Thinking about it you could almost design a canopy that would simply drain the excess moisture back into the aquarium, i.e. vented moisture controlling hood.

I am curious about the Vapour pressure eliminator. Do you somehow cool the tube to induce the condensation within it, or does it depend on the temperature difference between the water and the surrounding air.

I suspect the issue was from the deep clean. I have seen pH fluctuations in my tanks after a deep cleaning. I suspect there are dissolved mineral salts at saturation levels within the undisturbed sections of the tank, cleaning releases these into the other sections of the tank. When I do a...

I pay for my water supply but I have a septic field. The only reason I got a Python is that it was just as cost effective as any other long 50' tank siphon. I would never use the venturi device to pull water from a tank when you can use gravity. Plus the Nitrate is good for the plants. The...

Where's the fun in that. Collecting rocks is a hobby for me. I live in Canada, so I am not too worried about being shot, but even in the US you are typically allowed to collect 25 lbs + 1 rock (say it's a boulder you really want that is 150 lbs) on BLM lands. Unfortunately for the easterners...

Use python with 50' hose to drain tank water into garden, and standard garden hose with plastic spray nozzle to fill (I don't use the python for filling because the fittings are not up to our water pressure). I draw the new water from a utility sink, using a Y on the end of the tap with one end...

I wouldn't recommend it at all. You might get glue into the mantle area of the snail, and you are handicapping the snail's movements from then on. Anubias is a larger plant than the algae that may naturally grow on the shells. Taking a risk by gluing a broken shell is different than taking a...

Don't think you are over-thinking. A few things to consider: 1) Calcareous Rocks will affect the pH and buffer, typically not an issue in hard water tanks but can be in softwater tanks such as many South American biome type tanks with tetras and south american Ciclids. That said I have placed...

What is the duty cycle of your humidifier. 750 watts at even at a 20% duty cycle will require 3600 watt hours of power storage for a 24 hour period. I don't think there is an inexpensive way to provide a backup for this.

Plexi is quite expensive but so can tempered glass, it has to be cut to size before it is tempered so I cannot see it being much cheaper. I will admit it has been a long time since I have gotten any glass tempered. You might consider thinner plexi which can be scored and snapped, easier to...

vampire tetra, Hydrolycus scomberoides, I still don't like vegetables and I am more of a live and let die kind of person :)

Doesn't look like ick to me. Looks more like he has been roughed up a bit. Is it possible that he is being picked on, or maybe had some sort of episode, i.e. swam into a narrow opening and had issues getting out.

I am not speaking from firsthand experience but one of the staff at a LFS stated that their Fluval CO2 kit would sometimes dump a larger amount of CO2 into the water when the canister was nearing empty. Other than the expense of the canisters that is the biggest issue with them that I have...

I would recommend a heavy water change like 75%, you will need to monitor your water quality until the nitrites, and ammonia are both at zero consistently.

Not very good with fish diseases, just don't have the experience. I will say that any nitrite is bad and suggests that the cycle may not be truly established yet. My experience with nitrite is limited as well but I had a fry tank that had elevated nitrite and I lost a number of fry before I...

I view the frozen food as a treat for the fish, I don't know which is more healthy but my fish prefer Brine shrimp to Mysis shrimp. Literature on the net suggest that Mysis has more protein.

I have magnetic scrapers but for whatever reason they freak my fish out so I don't use them anymore. If I clean the glass by hand the fish nibble on my arms but if I try to use a magnetic scraper, they start dashing around the tank trying to put as much distance between them in the cleaner. I...

I had purchased some clear silicone air tubing from amazon a couple of years back that had the same issue, it would work its way off the junctions, on the other hand I also had some other silicone tubing from a different vendor which did not have that problem. I wish I kept the original...

Looks like cyanobacteria to me.

Is that a freshwater clam shell in the photo?

Get better soon. Trees can be vicious.

For vals you don't need aquarium soil. I have in the past used Tropica soil and I will admit my plants really took off, but after it was in the tank for a year some of the soil structure started to break down and I started to have issues with keeping the tank clean.

We have used AI at work for a number of years now, but mostly simpler models, not the deep language models like ChatGPT. We use it for classification purposes on vision and range datasets primarily for problems that have difficult to develop algorithmic approaches. AI has made our...

This is my 75 gallon tank: Fish: 9 - Angels (all related resulting from previous breeding efforts, 3 generations, most are actually culls, but had nice personalities so I kept them as a group) 2 - Black Neons 1 - Ember (the only remaining ember that was missed when I re-homed a number of them...

I have a shrimp tank that I have allowed the introduction of different types of snails and other invertebrates, my main tanks have always had sterile introductions, ie bleach dip on plants, sterilized rocks and gravel. In addition, I have not had any additions to my main tanks for a couple of...

Its personal choice really. I like the wild forms best but I have to keep my wife happy too and she likes the albinos and blue types. Agree with Gary, I see a lot of angels now that don't seem to have balanced or functional proportions.