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That I can do. I fed them in the evening since you scared me, they are still hanging around on the leaves and the filter, but not as many Will see today, will do an extra water change over the weekend, just in case.

I wouldn't want to mix asia w south america though ofcourse call me a hypocrite cause both the bamboo shrimp and snail are asian. also i had harlequins past five years and never ever would i mix them with hatchetfish They are a nightmare

Diamonds were also in the run and they are available, but i would have to go like 4 males 10 females top and i got conflicting messages about the nipping too. Tank is 120cm long and 50cm wide. Not sure if i want to risk it

I dont think it is a particular problem yet. I fed in the morning half a cube of frozen cyclops and two days before fluval bug bites. Their bellies are not sunken, barbs are not damaged, no discoloration, no sluggishness. I cut the feeding cause my embers are too fat and 'exploded' Temp is...

Back to my corydoras. Not sure what exactly happened, but since last week my corydoras started behaving more strangely. The juveniles have been in the tank for almost three weeks now and like 6 of the older corydoras started hanging at the surface areas. One sits on a filter sponge, two in...

I guess 20 rummynose tetras Hemigrammus bleheri makes the most sense.

Nope this is going to bug me for a while Black neons wont do, I think I still have too bright light for them. Lemons are very finnicky, not sure if I want to go there. The glow tetra looks pretty much like the ember, same for the silver tip, also same body type, might be good to mix it up...

The shop i will be visiting next week currently has: Hemigrammus bleheri, Hyphessobrycon flammeus , phyocharax anisitsi , hyphessobrycon pulchripinnis, Moenkhausia pittieri, Hyphessobrycon sweglesi, Hyphessobrycon melanostichos, Phenacogrammus interruptus, Inpaichthys kerri , hayeria boehlkei...

I changed my mind about the live-bearers anyway. I do have pretty soft water and i was aware guppy needed hard water, didn't realize it is true for most. I think i narrowed it down to black neon or lemon tetra Which would you pick?

Also a side question, what if I went for some smaller livebearer. would the embers and the hatchetfish and heck maybe even the corydoras reduce the fry to a manageable level to not have overstocked tank? I am not talking about guppies as they live too close to the surface to not bother the...

So, it has been over a year with the setup. I increased some numbers, am quarantining few more hatchetfish as we speak to add to this tank but sometimes, when I look in the tank, especially comparing it with my other tank with the white cloud minnows, that never stand still, this tank is slow...

Ok, so artemia, after hatching, doubles or triples its size and needs constant food supply (green algae water I would say) within few hours. That is why people store freshly hatched baby brine in the refrigerator. They separate the shrimp through the net to a different shallow containers but use...

I am not having much luck breeding the shrimp as is anyway, so it wont be a big difference. I started with 20 in april and I can see like 12 now, 2 of which are second gen. I see a lot of berried females and I only recently removed the amanos I blamed for the lack of juveniles, but I only feed...

So, preparing this tank for the new fish which should be available in a week, Indostomus paradoxus aka Armoured stickleback. This tank has weird dimensions, 56 cm x 25 cm x 36 cm and since april, was turned into a shrimp only tank. The shrimp are doing sort of ok, I see berried females, I see...

Yup, nori is technically algae but used in feeding and in sushi :)

Will do. Two days feeding break now and then every day half of what i fed before. Or will do every other day feeding if i can't manage that.

I only do feed once a day with a day or two breaks. The wafers go in every third day, in combo with smaller flakes (like hikari micro bites or sera vipachip baby), once a week the vegetables, otherwise i do the bug bites or shrimp pellets or half a cube of frozen Daphnia or cyclops. I try to not...

I know embers are particularly prone to overeating but I have a second female die on me in a span of month or two. All looked similar and third one is gasping at the surface. I cant take a good picture of this particular one, so posting one of my other females that are also particularly fat and...

Omega One is not available here, I have Söll Organix Kelp which looking at it, is a lot of protein for an algae wafer. But the ingredients sound similar like Omega One but not sure about ratio

They already seem to readily accept sinking pellets (spirulina) and vegetables, but still. I will look into maybe spirulina and chlorella tablets from the pharmacy, and combine

Sadly it was not. I am considering treating the tank with something preventative, but I dont know what, so I did my daily 5l water change but this time I have added salt to the new water. Small dosage I need to consider maybe it is the food quality that I am providing? I see them grazing on the...

Is this happy-fat otocinclus do you think?

I want to know your tips on increasing plankton presence in a tank. I know there are several articles about raising it in a jar, with manure or other forms of fertilizer, using wild caught options or breeding own in a specialized jars from lab grown cultures. However since people often battle...

So it has been over a week since my 10 corries from the quarantine with the 10 in my main tank and they are behaving quite oddly still. Since the beginning they sort of deparated, the main ones are sitting under log, some of the new ones and some of the old ones are sitting on the right side...

Yeah it didnt make it :(

I would beware of the bamboo shrimp. They are static and have fans out and gourami are known nippers and shrimp eater and they could try eating the fins. I wouldn't risk it

I won't help you with the proposed stocking because I don't like it, but that is me. What i consider is, barbs are nippy and don't like long fin fish that are slow and that they can bully. Slow fish and fast fish don't combine. I also tend to stick with fish from same county at least, but...

Now onto the judging. You have the space and you chose to get the minimal recommend amount of shoaling fish where the rule is 'more is better'. Why?

Side question. How do you prepare and cycle a tank without knowing what are you preparing the tank for? I always chose the main fish first and based on their need, their requirement i prepare the environment before cycling it. Are you planning to adjust the tank based on that what you pick? Just...

Multies are a personality. But can be a nightmare :)) they are a nightmare with a personality. Case in point my remaining multie, that i moved to my asian tank, who claimed half of the rocks in there up to 60cm mark and chases my minnows :) despite it being a female and more mellow :)

I need some advice please. The LFS is going to have some fish i want including the minnows. Since it is a trip for me getting there I was considering getting the panda garra as well. Isnt it too soon for the tank? There is no real algae and biofilm growth there since technically it has only...

In theory, if i immediately remove the plant that also eats microplankton, add leaves in larger quantities i should get some microflora to appear automatically in the tank, all the hobbyist that have shrimp only tank have issues with zooplankton that is not being consumed. I also have n option...

I checked with a supplier, they have Indostomus paradoxus available. I was considering them to my shrimp tank, no heater (but 23°C), low flow, lots of plants. The only thing that worries me is the Utricularia gibba, that may make a food conqurent for the fish but I could remove it. Not fully...