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You have to wear a mask, gloves and have a shot passport to go to most of the world these days. Intrepid? We have become, if anything; tepid to an extreme.

Which fish will it be tonight, Ripley? Have you selected from the live buffet selection over there in that glass box?

I have one. Beautiful fish, but he's a crazy fish 🤣🤷🏻‍♂️ Exhibit 1. Upon arrival, he decimated floating plants in 5 to 7 days, only to then cower and hide in decorations because now he has the entire tank surface exposed. Exhibit 2. After doing so, started to go down in the tank, bothering the...

Thank you for the note. I love how ottos look and behave and I want to give the guy I already had from the start a happier life, and you guys here have taught me that includes having company of his own species. I'm going to keep adding plants to my main tank, and after the ottos I won't add any...

Unfortunately I haven't yet found a conclusive answer as to how it does it, but the brita does lower GH and KH, and as an extension pH goes down. I have tested filtered water 24 hours later and the lower pH holds. One thing I read about the ionization (which @Essjay mentioned a few comments...

No, they looked healthy, if a little shy, which is the case with ottos no matter what, from what I've seen anyway. The lonely guy I have is by now well established in my main tank, and I hope that the others "follow his lead" when it comes to feeding. I have algae and good biofilm on that tank...

Since I get all OCD about these things I just had to dig. It seems other hobbyists have experienced this before (brita apparently lowering pH) and the consensus reached was that it lowered KH, not GH. And after a few hours or a day the pH goes back up, not as much though, so it is somewhat of a...

Thanks, I got it. So, the sodium carbonate is the issue, I assume at some point recently they upped the dosage because I clearly remember that from the start my pH off the tap was not an issue. I mean it was around 7 and I was told it'd be better for my fish if I could lower it, but it never was...

@Byron I can't find a report with specific pH, GH or KH values. All I found so far in the 2021 report is a paragraph mentioning that since 1996 they add sodium carbonate and carbon dioxide to combat corrosion and lead traces in the water.

Hunting down the towns water report, I've found older ones and the only clear thing I've found so far is that they add chloramine. Tested for GH and KH using api strips. Tested all the tanks and tap water (right off the tap, and filtered on the brita). Here are the findings, all expressed...

So, 2 weeks ago I tried to get 3 ottos to keep company to the lonely one I keep (had 2, but one died about a month in and this one has been lonely ever since). All 3 died in days in the quarantine tank. I went back to the shop with water and pH test showed off the chart blue (api kit, same one...

Looks like a bandit cory.

Damn you, dream crusher.

I'll take 4 of each, please 🤣🤣

OP has not yet posted water results. It was my comment about pH on my tanks and how some of my cories have reacted in a somewhat similar way to what OP is experiencing after big water changes, which I've now stopped (reduced the volume) because by chance I found that my tap water is literally...

It's not! It's a serious condition and all of us here suffer it. We need more visibility 🤣🤣

@DoubleDutch is the expert here on cories. He'll be able to give a more knowledgeable opinion. AFAIK females cories are all absolute units compared to males, in my case they're nearly twice as big. I'd say you need to test your water, I can't think of anything else that could be bothering...

Looks like a "regular" bronze cory, female at that if I'm sizing it up correctly I've got a mixed cory gang too, I've got 2 pairs of bronze, 2 albino bronze, and 2 salt and pepper. Same boat as you, I didn't know they prefer company of their own class, but they all bunch up together most of...

BIG BRAIN moment here: GET MORE ASSASSINS

Useful, but seeing how that's easy to "update" and change the meaning of words, I have a special place in my heart for physical copies of books I love. Not to mention that some truly become unobtainable at some point.

A big book with lots of words in it. Sounds like ancient, lost knowledge.

Fishing, biking, hiking. Paintball. I love reading but that one is feast and famine. I might go on a reading binge for 2 or 3 months, then stop for about the same time. Lately, podcasts are taking a lot of my time too.

They never seem to want that 🙂 While the "patch" is still there, if he's eating and behaving normally, I'd say he's OK. If all water params are whwre they need to be and he shows no signs of stress or disease, maybe this is some sort of "scar" at this point. I love tetras, it seems so hard to...

The The pH wasn't right, and the ammonia levels were off the chart

This is something everyone can agree with. Darn kids, get off my freaking lawn already.

I don't believe anything that comes out of the mouths of billionaires telling me to eat less meat and live in a pod, the prostitutes in the "press" who amplify their message, or their puppets that I allegedly "elect" to "represent me" who then entrench themselves in power for decades and come...

"the science is settled" until it isn't. I'm old enough to remember that by now all the glaciers should've melted, that the ozone layer should be completely depleted, that the acid rain should've skinned us all alive by now, that oil should've run out 20 years ago and that we should've had a...

I'm sure google in their infinite wisdom figured it'd be useful to you to sync your devices. Not knowing what model it is or what version of android you have, I can't offer much additional info/help, but the point is the phone is now linked to your account. The only way to undo this is to sign...

If it's a Gmail address, then I'm 100% sure you have an android phone, and you signed in during setup, or with any of google affiliated services, like maps or youtube, for example. If it's any other email service, you still had to have signed in from the phone, either via an app or browser...

You mentioned you had email access on it, it's either an older "feature phone" or a smartphone. And both had browsers, as far as I remember.

Unless someone is going to be there to monitor ammonia and add as needed, I would wait until you return, otherwise the cycle might stall and you'll have to start from scratch anyway.

hi! I have duckweed and giant duckweed, as well as water sprite.

Some people would call me paranoid about my info and how I protect my privacy. Then again, I am paranoid about these things. 🤷🏻‍♂️🤣

There you are! I knew I had seen this somewhere else in the forum before. All about "completing the circuit"

Just use cleanup tools like CCleaner, it won't take anything vital to your regular usage, and if passwords are an issue (who can remember more than a handful and these days every little crap app and site need a password anyway) I'd personally recommend bitwarden. It allows you to save all your...

Damn. I would love to see the technical explanation about how the fish were ok but you were put on your back. I think I've seen it elsewhere sometime before, something akin to how birds are able to just line up on big powerlines without becoming feathered popcorn, but if a human touches it...