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Doing daily water changes, or maybe every every other day, on this small of a tank isn't that big of deal. You wouldn't have to if you had a filter of some sort but that's the reality. Temp is harder I guess if your room temp can't keep it at the temp it needs to be, but looks like you have a...

As the tank is already very small, I'd at least fill the tank water up a bit more to the top. You could get a catappa leaf for pretty cheap.

I think I spent about 15 to 30 minutes picking out duckweed from one of my tanks the other day. I think there's a few bits still floating around but they hid before I could take them out.

Congratulations!

I would think that if the dirt is low enough below the sand/rock subtrate that the cory wouldn't be able to really distrub it. They don't really dig, but rather sift the top layer. If you had something like a kuhli loach then that would definitely dig into the substrate.

You can see that it's a platy becuase the body is shoter. Molly fish have a more enlongated body while the platty body is shorter.

I acutally just purchased some additional amanos but they appear to be what they were sold as. How would I know if they were not amanos?

Is there a specific types of shrimp? I do have some red cherry and amano shrimp.

Oh, also I don't think I ever mentioned it, but I used about 2 drops of Methylene blue in the mason jar when I first put the cory eggs in there. This helps prevent fungus on the eggs.

Little update, corals still doin' good. The mushroom coral as sprouted a small head near the base. The zoas have retracted a bit more but still haven't opened up as much as they where why I first bought them. A few zoas have disconnected and floated elsewhere. There is one that floated away from...

Great, I'll take a look. I keep them with a small air stone in the mason jar and do daily water changes, adding the main tanks water as the new water. I've been feeding them Hikaria first bites. I'm working on getting a 3 gallon cycled for them and once that is ready I'll move them there. I've...

No, first time. And yes I picked a few eggs out of my main tank to try and spawn them. Wanted some more for a couple other smaller tanks that don't have any yet. The cory usually will eat all the eggs in the tank before they hatch so unless I take them out I've never had them hatch. Only other...

Here's a pic from today. You might not be able to see a big difference in size but on the first pic I was zoomed in more. They are pretty easy to see to the nake eye now.

I'm not sure what price emerald green cory normally go for. I don't think I spent over $10 per fish.

Oh intersting, looks like you may be right. They are sold at Petco as emerald green cory.

If you can afford it, get battery backup units... Like the ones used for desktop computers. But, even those only last so long, depending on how many pumps you are trying to run. The ultimate device for this issue is a generator.

The fry have gotten bigger! I'll get pics tomorrow of them. For now, here's a few of the proud parents , with photo bomb from my panda garra.

I moved my cory from a smaller tank to a larger one a while back. They did kind of squat in the same place for a while until they got more comfortable. They like hanging out on the bottom underneath plants or decor/overhanging rocks. Sometimes they sit in place but definatly move around actively...

Fancy Guppy (Male) Obtained on 10/24/23 Tank: 55 gallon Tank mates: Tuxedo Guppy (4), Emerald Green Cory (5), Zebra Danio (3), GloFish Danio (1), GloFish Tetra (4), Golddust Lyretail Molly (2), Hemigrammus levis Tetra (1), Neon Tetra (3), Panda Garra (1), Rummy Nose Tetra (3), Tiger Nerite Snail...

Just hatched the other day

I have plants so I really only vaccume the top of the substrate. Depends where though if there is no plants near the area I will go a bit lower into the substrate with the vac. If you have a deep substrate with some sort of dirt or nutrients enrhiched I would say not to go down too far into the...

My pH and GH are the same, 7.6 pH and GH 175ppm.

Ok, GH seems good then. I would try water changes and the salt treatment. https://www.fishforums.net/threads/what-to-do-if-your-fish-gets-sick.450268/ @Colin_T might have better advice.

This fish looks like a platy, not a guppy. Please post your water parameters, Ammonia, Nitrates, Nitrites, pH. You are measuring GH in degrees, I assume it's in dGH numbers what you are posting. 7.0 - 8.0 dGH is good for platys. Is this upgrade tank cycled?

Calcium: Ocean water is typically 425ppm pH: The optimum pH value for a reef tank is between 8.1 and 8.4, and preferably as stable as possible. Salnity: 35 ppt is same as ocean water. Reefs should have 32 ppt to 35 ppt salinity KH (dKH): Seawater is typically 7 dKH. Reef alkalinity should...

I'm listening for other's advice on the hair algae issue. I have a 5 gallon with a bad issue. I've been manually removing alot of it and using API CO2 booster everyday. It has helped but the hair algae is still there. I also use Seachem Flourish twice a week for about 2 months now.

Not API brand specific. Nice little tool! https://apifishcare.com/calculators/universal-calculator

I think the regulation is in relation to how much food is available to them. So if there's a lot of algae or extra fish food they will propagate more. I feed my betta dried blood worms and he always eats all of it. So there's never any left for the shrimp. I occasionally give the shrimp unsalted...

I've converted my 10 gallon quaratine tank to a female guppy tank now. Going to try and separate the males and females.

Not unlike starting a freshwater one. Need the same nitrogen cycle to happen. Main difference is you need a saltwater mix (used with RO/DI water) for water changes and to top off you need RO/DI water. Now maintaining is a question that depends on what you plan to keep in the aquarium. I think...

I've never tried to give any excess of anything yet to a LFS. Although, I have a load of guppies now, so maybe they will take them? IDK, the male guppies I bought from one LFS said they were locally bread so maybe they will. Those males are the ones that caused the explosion. haha

Well, plecos are a bit larger than red cherries so I could see the concern. Perhaps my betta has maybe eaten some smaller baby shrimp. I don't think betta could eat the more grown ones though.

I put 3 red cherry shrimp in my 5 gallon about half a year ago now. Then another 3 about two months after the first 3. I now have many shrimps in the tank but very reasonable numbers. There a single betta that's always been in the tank too. Heavly planted.