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In March 2022 this 5.5 gallon tank was started with 9 red cherry shrimp, amphipods, rams horn snails, bladder snails. The variety of colors in the ramshorn snails is fascinating. At the beginning of November 11 Thai micro crabs joined and besides the day I acclimated them and introduced them...

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Rachel has been through a LOT of personal stuff in 2022. Rachel had knee replacement surgery and recovery took longer than she expected. Her husband and daughters helped with the fish room. Then her husband was in a motorcycle accident and broke many bones, unable to care for himself while he...

I look for these little guys daily and so far have only seen 3 at one time. I have seen the one with only one leg on one side of its body. I think I’ve seen the yellowish one that was holding onto the shipping net and didn’t want to let go. He is usually seen in the hornwort hanging out...

I am sorry that you lost Fred and I know it may take some time before you’re ready to repopulate the tank. Looking for new fish is a lot of fun though.

The snakeskin is my favorite guppy colorations, any color snakeskin.

All crustaceans are sensitive and must be acclimated slowly. I use an airline with a knot in it to slowly drip 1 drop every 2 or 3 seconds into the shrimp bag and after an hour, I pour the shrimp into a net and release into the tank. Before I even start the acclimation I make sure the tank...

Welcome to the forum. Very nice aquarium and fish. I love all of the plants. I see you are also a pet lover like myself. You have a lovely menagerie. :)

Spirulina powder and dry yeast. Get a water bottle and add enough dry yeast to make it appear milky. Then add the same amount of spirulina. Shake the bottle very well to mix all the powders and feed your daphnia a small amount each day. How much you need to add depends on how large your...

They all look like java fern to me.

Very nice guppies.

Yes, welcome. Now, let us see some pics of your aquarium. :D

I often change around driftwood when I do a thorough gravel vacuum and water change. I carefully remove many pieces which have plants attached and set them either in a bin with tank water or off to the side on a clean towel (depends on how long I intend to be servicing the aquarium). If the...

I just wanted to mention that I love the Fluval 3.0 plant light and my plants have done very well. There is a person on Etsy called WaterWerksSolutions who makes risers for the 2.0 and the 3.0 Fluval lights. I bought the riser for one of my open top tanks and have been very happy with them also.

It is said that a molly is getting close to dropping the babies when the body goes from a round shape to a more square shape. It may be hard to tell unless you have another pregnant molly in the tank to compare her to.

Amazon swords can get that tall and they don’t require a whole lot of light, but would need some root tabs stuck into the substrate nearby.

Here is a picture of my shrimp tank. There are between 40 and 50 shrimp in this tank although I hardly see any in this pic. I just took the picture and the lights are just starting to come on. As you can see there is a lot of hornwort. I always see shrimp and amphipods in the hornwort. I...

If it is a bacterial bloom it should resolve itself in a few days. If this has been an ongoing issue, it is likely due to the need to vacuum the gravel and do a partial water change (excess waste and/or over feeding issues). With your parameters looking at 0, chances are it is a bacterial...

A lot of energy is usually needed for a pet sitter. I am one. The income is great if you are a busy pet sitter. There is no sitting around though, I am playing with dogs and tossing balls until my arm wants to fall off. I’m scooping boxes, washing dishes, cleaning up diarrhea on white rugs...

Bring a chair and be a Walmart greeter. I know it is not the greatest idea, but it is what came to mind. There is always text to speech for typing. Where there is a will, there is a way. Try concentrating on what you CAN do, not what you can’t do.

I think they look like a cross between a guppy and a badis badis. LOL.

I am sorry to hear that you lost your beautiful fish.

There are several reasons your water could become cloudy but when it happens following a water change it is possible you removed too much of the good bacteria. That is why it can be good to do your water change on one day and then a few days later squeeze your filter sponge in some tank water...

You know, if you add the sticklebacks you may continue to have difficulty raising baby shrimp. Those sticklebacks are micropredators and need live and frozen foods. Newly hatched shrimp will likely be a coveted treat. Are you going to culture your own live food for your sticklebacks? I would...

What beautiful little fish.

You are right, there is no guarantee that the birds will get along and any time a new bird is adopted you must assume they will need their own cage. As far as cage aggression, that usually happens when a bird is never let out of its cage. Some species are more prone to that also, generally...

Gorgeous fish!

Same here, surface floating plants in all of my tanks. Dwarf water lettuce and duckweed in all of them, plus water hyacinth in my open top aquarium. The other two aquariums have lids.

LOL, yes, when I retire I’d love to move further south and have a covered area outdoors where I could have many tubs of water with a water change system and filtration system to make my job easier and breed fish and grow aquatic plants.

I agree with the others, I like your underwater jungle and also believe that your fish are probably quite happy there. As far as adding more fish, I wouldn’t worry about that either. With what you’ve got now, those fish may end up filling up any unused fish space in your aquarium all on...

Your red tiger lotus may not stay very red because if you dose additional iron you could kill your shrimp. If you use a regular all-inclusive type of fertilizer which contains some iron, your shrimp should be OK. The red colored plants generally need more iron to maintain their color though...

Do what makes you happy and you’ll never work another day in your life. So how many of us would like to have a little place in a warm climate with a backyard full of tubs for breeding fish? :D I guess some of us already have that.