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Moss is the best plant for shrimp tanks. The other plants you said would be good too. But you really need moss for baby shrimp. I have some African water fern. I love thus plant it's very easy to grow in a low tech shrimp tank. The tank you want would be good for cherry shrimp. As a shrimp...

I use a mesh bath sponge to tie down my moss and I have a few differeants kinds. Singapore moss is very easy and fast groing compared to some moss. Here is a photos of my flame moss and Fissidens fontanus that is very slow growing but looks great. The moss is on the rocks on the left of the...

I have a dark substrate so the blue pearls don't look as nice or don't stand out. But I do love the way they look. Just don't mix the reds and blues you will end up with poor color.

Shrimp are awesome. They clean tanks well do not hurt plants. They are fun to watch and addictive. I breed cherry shrimp, tiger shrimp, and CRS. I love them all. So just watch out you might want to set up a planted tank just for shrimp. Your guppies could bother the shrimp but they will be ok...

I use Eco compleat In all my planted tanks. It works well my HC grow like a weed in it. You are off to a good start with picking a good plant substrate. It will help. But light and nutrients are needed and all have to be balanced in order to grow plants well. As for putting sand on top. It will...

That pleco is amazing.

Just keep the tank clean. Don't move her that will stress her and she could drop the eggs. they will hatch in time.

Yeah cherry shrimp are the best. They breed quick and easy they are not picky. Bee shrimp can be a bit more sensitive I would not start off with bee shrimp. Tiger shrimp are pretty good. They are my fav shrimp I have a small breeding group. I love them.

Sell them on fish forums. I sell plants on fish forums I shrimp them around the country. Snails would be easy to ship so just start selling them and try shipping them.

Don't slack on WC. Shrimp to not do well with being neglected. Make sure you feed them well. More food means more babies. But don't over feed there is a fine line here. I kind of neglected my shim tank for a few months. It also got a bit hot in the house. Shrimp don't like heat. I lost a few...

Thanks inchworm you are like the Cory godmother. I see now the season is off. I have been looking to up my Pygmy Cory population and can't get any. I will wait get the tank ready for them. Yuk cutting up worms I will give it a try I am sure they will love them. I am so happy my lfs has...

I have live blackworms. My other Cory cats go crazy for them. I just thought they might be kind of long for them to eat. I will try feeding them a little bit. I think I will do WC with cool RO water more often.

Ship one pair to me.....?

I have 3 different types of Cory cats in my 80gal. I love collecting the left over Cory cats from my LFS. If I see 2 of the same kind I buy them both for my tank that already has other Cory cats. I find they enjoy the company of their own kind but are happy following other types of Cory cats...

I have 5 of these little guys I love them. They are the only fish in a 20gal long they share the tank with shrimp that's it. I want to breed them. I have bred bronze Cory cats before easy. How do I put these fish in the mood? The tank is planted it use to be very heavy planted but I moved things...

He looks good now. The color will change over time as he grows. Good luck with him. They are cool fish.

Photo of the tank now will help.

I had this algea too. God I have had it all over the years lucky me. You need to manually remove as much as you can try to too let any float around your tank. Cut infected plants and remove. Raise the light up high if you can this will help lower the light intensity. Get a timer for the light...

Rams horn snails are the best cleaners you could ever have? I keep them in all my tanks and they are spotless I don't even clean the glass. I have mastered the art of a balanced tank it took years but I get it. With the help of my snails my tanks stay beautiful.

Killing it will not cure it. You have to find the cause of the algea. If you kill it off but don't change anything it will come back. I had this nasty blue gree slime get the best of me. I gave up and let it take over. Then one day I was over it. I took the whole tank apart. Replaced the...

I have dwarf Cory cats with some DHG they don't like it. They rather dig around in dirt and sand. I had these little Cory cats with HC and they did dig that up pretty good. I had a great carpet and they help up root it all. I gave up and moved on. I think they would have a hardest time up...

Oh no I would rehome the third wheel. 3 is s bad number of cichlids. If you do have a real pair just keep them and rehome the others befor you lose another. Rams can be mean little fish. I had a male kill another male. Sorry for the lose.

They look awesome really nice fish. It looks like a bar fight is about to go down. Great photo. Well the blue ram on the left I say is female for sure that pink belly is a sure sign. The blue one on the right looks like a male. I think you have a pair. The gold rams is no as easy to tell...

A good quality flake and worms. Blackworms these are great for discus if you can find them. Mine eat algae waffers.

The blue rams looks like females the pink belly and they look round females tend to be rounder. The golds are color morphs and they tend to be a bit harder to sex ime. My guess is they are males but I don't know. They all look very healthy and happy. You are doing something right and if you...

Guppies do not need salt to be happy. Leave out the salt and you would have more options. Mollys would be good. If you want shrimp that are good with salt make sure you get Amanos or ghost shrimp. Amanos are hardy active shrimp that need salt to reproduce. The only brackish type fish I can...

Yeah If the fry w on the ground and the Cory found it they would eat it I know. But fry normally are fast enough to get away from fish that get close to them. It could have been a sick or weak fry that you saw get eaten. It happens not all fry survive dispute all your good efforts. Yes Cory...

I have fancy guppies they are always close to the surface. They are in a planted 80gal with discus. Some people don't like keeping guppies with discus but I don't have any problem.

If you want to buy and sell fish set up a fish room and sell online. Don't pay for a store front. Selling on forums and online you would have a chance to make your fish pay for them self but I don thing you will make much money. If you want to sell goods you could do that online too. I have a...

I did 80-90% WC weekly never had a problem. Discus keepers do huge WC daily some do 100% WC. I have done 100 % no problems. I did have a huge bacteria bloom when I did a 90% WC and cleaned the filters then replaced some media. This was bad. The bacteria bloom made my water cloudy and bacteria...

I keep dwarf Cory cats with shrimp. I have seen them totally pass by the tiny shrimp baby. With Cory cats they have to be right on top of the food to eat it. They are not hunters. Tetras are much more a threat. If you have a sickly or slow fry yes a Cory might get it. Most healthy fry will be...

I had one. It lived 3 years never grew much stopes growing at around 3.5". They are sensitive and often become deformed with age. Some people have been lucky and grew out some really amazing fish that turn out to be short lived. I had one and would never buy one again. Not worth it.

What are you talking about? you are kidding right? Green terrors are very similar to acaras in fact they are both in the genus Aequidens. Those are blue acaras. The young one has silver tips The common blue acara has the orange tips like your larger one.

Second photo looks like a dominate female maybe. Looks like there could be some markings on the gill lates. Lighter color one looks like a male. The worm like markings on the gill plates are a sure sign of a male. Lack of the worm like markings means it's a female. The color change is due to...

Looks to young to tell. Do you have a side shot of the one you think is male? Because in that last photo it looks like a female.

Yeah that's why I did not buy it. The pair I had was nasty.

Thank you. That's what I was looking for . Short and sweet.

My lfs has some awesome angles I almost bought one. Should I? My stock is this Planted 80gal 6 guppies with fry 4 discus 1 ram 1 apisto steel blue 1 clown pleco 1 BN pleco 7 Cory cats Should I add a angelfish? I had a breeding pair and loved them. I want another.

My LFS has live black worms. I bought some my fish unsure at first but now they love them. I want to know how you keep them alive? I have been reading up on it. What have you fed your fish these? What was your experience? How did you keep them?

With cichlids it gets tricky. 2 males can and will kill each other with a pair they can also kill each other. With keeping 1 male to 2 females the third wheel gets pick on bad. In that size tank there is no room for more then one. I don't see anything wrong with keeping one male. A lone male...