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I just got a bunch of blue velvet shrimp and I kind of have no idea how to take care of them. They've been doing fine in my planted tank with seiryu in it. Im wondering if the seiryu will be too much for them though in the long run. I just tested my water and tripped out when it went from 6.5 to 6.7 ph area to 7.4 to 7.6 ish after the seiryu went in I mean they seem ok, they're molting and getting along great with my 16 guppy fry that juat were born on Saturday. Is this gonna mess with them breeding? I kinda wanted to turn 10 into 100 with these guys theyre cool as hell. Also I have 3 bloody mary shrimp. If I put em in the same tank will they have blue or red babies or will it be like mostly ghost and wild colors?
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Stoca Zola posted:These shrimp are all neos, ie they are colour varieties of neocaridina davidi so as long as your tank is stable they should be fine in pH higher than 7. Blue Velvet colouring, if the naming is accurate, come from blue and black coloured colour lines, whereas bloody mary shrimp come from brown colour lines. So I think you're more likely to get brown, black or other dark wild coloured shrimp if the two strains interbreed. That's if the colour line charts I've seen online are in any way accurate and the names you've been given are accurate. Ghost shrimp are a different species, not just a clear-coloured shrimp so you won't get any of those, and in any case I think it's unlikely that you'll get completely unpigmented shrimp from those breeding stock. I don't think it will hurt to keep those shrimp together as long as you have another tank handy to cull your unfavourable shrimp into - you remove the colours you don't like to the second tank, and let the colours you like remain in your breeding tank, keeping in mind that a young shrimp doesn't get full pigmentation until it's older. There's a fair chance that the blue shrimp will breed to other blue shrimp so at least some of your baby shrimp will be blue, but shrimp don't care about colour and are opportunistic, whichever male gets there first will try to do the deed when the female is ready. Useful info thank you
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Mar 24, 2021 21:15
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https://youtu.be/nPA4tA9pRQM https://youtu.be/nKMJImlVIkc So about a month ago, I started up my first planted tank and I was wondering after a month in whatddya guys think? Any tips on what I should do with any plants. Like are any too big to be where they are where it'll mess with everything. Any specific tricks to get certain plants thriving. Stocking, too much? I don't know just wanted a few pointers or something. Also anyone know what kind of plabt that is with the five leaves and stripes in the shrimp tank.. My friend gave it to me he has no idea. I think it might be sometime type of cryptocoryne wendtii. Videos are a little long but I wanted to catch as much as I could. Bonus: daughters peapuffer eating: https://youtu.be/JJIpelkyZ8A
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Mar 28, 2021 19:04
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candystarlight posted:Beautiful! I think they both look great. I have the little buddha in my shrimp tank and they love crawling all over it. I noticed the biggest difference in my plants around 3 months in, but I am also cheap and use fertilized sand so YMMV. Thanks I've been fishkeeping for a little over a year but I never took that leap into planted tanks. Now that I have, im so hooked. I already know my next step is probably gonna be breeding shrimp. I've been breeding local pond guppies for some practice for when I get some expensive guppies. If anyone has tips on breeding shrimp or guppies, I will take all the information, tips, and tricks. I just been reading and watching aquarium co op on youtube and they are pretty helpful.
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Mar 29, 2021 06:10
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What plant is this? https://imgur.com/gallery/U3d9eaO I wanna say its a cryptocoryne wendtii of some sort pepperchomp fucked around with this message at 08:39 on Mar 31, 2021 |
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Mar 31, 2021 08:07
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nunsexmonkrock posted:So I posted picters of my fish and an old friend wants me to now take care of his fish while he was moving - I agreed because he took my neons when I was moving and will put them into my 29 gallon tank. His options before me were some other person that he knows and craigslist. I said come to me before craigslist. Warning about Chinese algae eaters....they're sons of bitches. The ones I had used to haraass all my fish and even ate the fins off of my albino cory. One hosed with my gourami who was like 5 times his size and got fuckin killed but yeah. Chinese algae eaters r mean as gently caress once they hit about 1 to 1 and half inch. They get a taste for protein around then and they love fish slime coat
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Apr 11, 2021 22:36
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https://youtu.be/V0VSMZRz5_8 https://youtu.be/ZMFls92n-nQ https://youtu.be/LKK5vwCp76E https://youtu.be/C0r8vDp1mTc Just feel like dropping some vids Edit: some more https://youtu.be/nPY43FkpQFo https://youtu.be/T4uK08WN-rc pepperchomp fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Apr 19, 2021 |
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Apr 19, 2021 13:37
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One more, https://youtu.be/WZppbUlHg8w Ok ill stop. Im just kinda obsessed with my new breeding projects
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Apr 20, 2021 10:13
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B33rChiller posted:Strawberry rasboras are freaking neat. I've got one that's way more coloured up than the rest, and he's gotten pretty territorial about the areas underneath the foliage. He'll dart out and chase any of the other strawberries that get down under there. The rest of them mostly cruise around together, or join in schooling with lambchop rasboras. Oh hes ready to make babies haha. Yeah strawberry, phoenix, chilis, spice, I like all those tiny guys. Been trying to figure out a way to breed them. They are extremely hard to find in Hawaii so I kinda wanna try to get more out into the market. Their eggs are so loving tiny and the water here is pretty hard so I am about to give up before I really get into it. I got those new metalhead high dorsal red laces to play with to get my confidence back up. My pond guppies were multiplying too fast for me, my main mother is giving birth literally every 20 days which I didn't even know was possible. Plus my 5 female blue velvet shrimp are all berried. Plus I'm pullin Miyuki white medaka and orange medaka eggs.hopefully I can get better at this and move to the rasboras next. pepperchomp fucked around with this message at 04:44 on Apr 21, 2021 |
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Apr 21, 2021 00:41
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nunsexmonkrock posted:Ah thanks, yeah come feeding time or well basically whenever I'm near the tank he keeps swimming as close to me as possible. If I drop the food too far away from him I have to dip my finger into the tank and lead him over to it. But yeah I always make sure he gets and eats enough food before I have to remove the excess. You ever try feeding him live brine shrimp? They chase em down and you can watch em eat em easy. Mine loves to hunt brine. The movement triggers em into eating right away. It is kinda annoying tho getting brine shrimp every 2 weeks or so tho. If u hatch baby brine they love that too. You just gotta stay on top of hatching every few days
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Apr 21, 2021 04:46
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Apr 24, 2021 12:10
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Bulky Bartokomous posted:I think I am fish murderer. So I noticed that tetras like to spawn right after a water change. Like rainfall triggers it or some poo poo. They totally coulda harassed her to death. I have 2 males with a female in a small community tank. After water changes they chase her into a bush where they proceed to spawn. So it totally xoulda been that. My betta tends to chase em away and eat the eggs before anything else happens. It's kinda hosed up but its working and they don't harass my girl to death. So I let the tank go about its nature business.
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Apr 24, 2021 20:25
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: After my big black tetra died a few months ago I think I ended up with 1 female and 4 males. Nothing seemed wrong until 3 days ago when I did a 50% water change before starting the treat the tank for my eye-infected angelfish. Yesterday I noticed the males chasing the female pretty aggressively but I figured she'd just drop her eggs and everyone would chill out. This morning she's dead. I wonder if they harassed her to death. I feel awful.
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We all go through fish murder. It really sucks, we just gotta learn from it. I housed big fish with small fish, let fin rot kill, all kinds of dumb poo poo as a newbie. Im still learning everyday. Sorry bout the fishies tho. Forgot to say that above.
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Apr 24, 2021 22:09
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https://youtube.com/shorts/dtHrEYtEFgQ?feature=share I got a snail problem and a snail solution.
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Apr 29, 2021 23:29
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https://youtu.be/J1dd8iujqng Soooooo many babies https://youtube.com/shorts/LgoNL6jLr-w?feature=share
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May 8, 2021 04:34
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My wife is never into my fish tanks and didn't care about all my pretty little fish and plants. Then we walk into a store with a bunch of fish that my wife has never seen and she falls in love with one fish. I get everything I need for this one fish all brand new (75g, stand, heater, air pump and large sponge, bio mediathe whole nine yards) and we go back. Today, we finally brought home our new family member and named him. My daughter wanted banana, I wanted Ganesh. My wife named it Banana Ganesh. So guys and gals, meet Banana Ganesh the two tone king kamfa. https://youtu.be/7EmZZ5yzTn4
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May 9, 2021 04:34
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Schwack posted:I'm really struggling to choose between a flowerhorn and a congo puffer for my next tank. I'm consolidating my smaller tanks to end up with something in the 55-75 range and really like the idea of a big "wet pet" fish. My gourami are pretty friendly these days, but the behaviors I've seen from puffers and flowerhorns make them super appealing. My flowerhorns a little shy right now but when there's food he really opens up and hangs out. I've seen people play with their flowerhorns. Hopefully I can groom him right and he'll be a little playful, colorful friend.
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May 10, 2021 23:19
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https://youtu.be/mPPeiQTPkuk Still shy but opening up
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May 13, 2021 00:09
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Aerofallosov posted:Ganesh is a lovely flowerhorn. Thank you he really is a pretty boy haha.
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May 13, 2021 08:37
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What are they eating? I love when my blue velvets pile on top of food and are just a mass of movement.
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May 14, 2021 08:27
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BONGHITZ posted:A dead guppy. It died and they went to town. I feel like a monster Hahahahaha yeah I been there, I came home to a bunch tearing up my rasbora that died one time.
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May 18, 2021 12:26
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Is that black beard?! HOLY SHNIKES. I snipped any stem that had a trace of that poo poo goin on in my tanks and started applying liquid carbon and that poo poo never showed back up I never seen it get like that. I grabbed Ganesh a little grooming toy on the j4 flowerhorn site. This dude is goin ham. https://youtu.be/oxBIOmRed-4
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May 21, 2021 03:30
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Aerofallosov posted:He's nice, and the shrimp chilling are cool. Those shrimp are his monster turds lol. I have to vacuum every other day hahaha Edit: Nevermind I think you're talkin bout the actual shrimp in the other gif haha Edit 2 I just looked in on my shrimp and ....They're going. Almost time to sell half the tank https://youtu.be/aZL7MiszUSo pepperchomp fucked around with this message at 11:35 on May 22, 2021 |
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May 22, 2021 01:23
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B33rChiller posted:Big announcement time! We have our first generation of tub born guppies! Niiiiice. Now comes the part where your tubs multiply like your guppies...
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May 22, 2021 20:08
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https://youtube.com/shorts/PKjL1fgTeSU?feature=share Grooming is kinda workin I guess. Dudes kok is gettin a little bigger already.
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May 25, 2021 23:21
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Aerofallosov posted:So I was watching aquarium stuff, and aquarium co-op has those sponge filters that look handy. I run hobs and sponge filters and while I prefer the hobs, sponges are pretty good at building up beneficial bacteria. I dont even run chemical filtration on any of my poo poo and I never ran into an issue stemming from that. Plus I always wonder if chemical filtration fucks with my fertilizers and poo poo. They tell you to take em out during med process so I feel like it filters fertilizers but I don't know. I always wonder if my sponges are actually doin anything or if they're just moving water I don't really see any build up on them ever but then again I clean my tanks kinda obsessively. But I do see build up on my intake filters on my hobs sometimes. But yeah, sponges seem to do the job, my buddy only runs sponges and he never has problems.
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May 26, 2021 10:45
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Mozi posted:I regard a sponge over the HOB intake as an absolute necessity. Yes, this. If you want you can buy aquaclear filter sponges and cut em. I do this for all of my hobs. Saves me a lot of money by just buying an ac70 sponge and cutting em smaller and puttin a hole in the center to fit my intake. 1 ac110 sponge will work for all your filters probably, they're huge
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I had to.... https://youtu.be/lA5KtSu_Ulk
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candystarlight posted:LOL that's amazing! I have no big fish to play with but now I want one! It looks like you just get booped, or is there any nipping involved? Yes his teeth can get you but if you keep your skin tight they can't grab and just boop ya. Really fun guy. Big fish are so different, way more personality pepperchomp fucked around with this message at 02:08 on May 29, 2021 |
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May 28, 2021 21:27
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Schwack posted:Ddd fish behavior question for more experienced gourami keepers. On March 24th, I brought home 3 pearl gourami. Two boys and one girl. They're currently the only inhabitants in a heavily planted 40 breeder. They were shy for a week or so, but eventually came around and would hang by the surface waiting for food and eat brine shrimp straight out of a dropper. Everything seemed to be going well. They were healthy, eating and generally hanging out all over the tank.
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May 31, 2021 08:29
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Hillstream loaches also need a lot of water movement i just read recently. I was thinkin about gettin em but I don't have any more room haha.
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I only headcount certain things now a days. Shrimp and guppies not part of that regimen. Sometimes my plecos and otos disappear for days and then I get all paranoid and pull out a flashlight just to find em in the caves or under a log. Video time: Gayle the snail skimming the surface https://youtube.com/shorts/SFzSUMGzabE?feature=share Ganesh playing nice https://youtu.be/jAcHipC2GeM Slomo bonk https://youtu.be/Ww2-9GoTdPg
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Stoca Zola posted:Kuhlie loaches are a good example Lmao I literally forgot about my 4 kuhli loaches til just now. Haven't seen solid, liquid, naked or big boss in a week so I lifted my driftwood after reading your post and there they were hahahaha.
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I got tons of blue velvet and yellow goldenbacks. Shrimp are fuckin awesome. I always get so excited whenever they get berried. It's always weird when they throw an oddball color out though. I get the occasional green from my blues. Im gettin in some orange eye blue tiger shrimp this week. I hope I can keep em alive and breed em up. Here in hawaii orange eyes are super rare and they usually run 15 a pop. Im grabbin the load as a part of a deal for a fully stocked planted 55g and stand for 300 bucks. I just saw this today and I have no idea wtf I am going to do..... https://www.instagram.com/reel/CRCt_WUHQif/?utm_medium=copy_link I hope I can keep these alive. And I hope they're as purple as the parents. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CQDWRsunum6/?utm_medium=copy_link Any advice? Bonus : update on Ganesh...he gettin biiiiiiig https://www.instagram.com/reel/CQvaCKonfmx/?utm_medium=copy_link
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DeadlyMuffin posted:I'm looking for a new fish to breed... Do you think there's a market for neons which are well bred and healthy? Neons are a little difficult to breed. Gotta trick em using ro water or rain water. Something softer than what you got established in the tank theyre in. U trick em by pouring in the water makin em think it rained. They usually breed early morning when the lights come on. Watch for them to "dance" over thick bushes of plants or moss. I get mine to breed but the babies are so small they need like infusoria or some poo poo. Plus my betta will never let the eggs hatch lately. He decided they are amazing snacks. This same tactic is good for rasbroas as well and cpds. But keeping the eggs and babies alive is the hardest part. Also regarding tank crashes: I just had my 20 gallon crash cause my large gourami decided out of nowhere to terrorize everyone and stress deaths started happening, at least thats what I'm guessing since my water parameters were g. Lost 10 tetras, a yoyo, a platy and 4 corys. Once the first 2 tetras died everything else just started goin with them. Every other day I lost a fish or 2. I know how it is losing a load of fish all at once. Im sorry bud. Just try to keep observing and learning I guess. Also you really put a scare into me. I quarantine my fish for about 5 to 7 days before puttin em in. Now I feel like I should be waiting a lot longer..... Edit: are mystery snail eggs supposed to be rock hard? I moved mine from my tank lid to an incubator and they were rock hard. I feel like I just killed my first clutch by letting em hang out on my lid for 1 day. They were so soft yesterday I didn't wanna touch em. pepperchomp fucked around with this message at 00:49 on Jul 9, 2021 |
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DeadlyMuffin posted:I understand that part. I've had limited success with glowlight tetra, and I'm not afraid of dedicating tanks to it or spending a lot of time. My real concern is doing it and then not having someone to sell fish to. I can sell CPDs for $3-4/fish pretty easily. I think with neons I'd either just be giving them away or getting <$1/fish Yeah no money in neons. Cpds at 3 or 4 bucks though.....here in Hawaii theyre eleven bucks a pop.
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DeadlyMuffin posted:I'd offer to ship you some, but I'll bet that's really hard Oh yeah, its 25 bucks just to get a one time permit to even import live fish. Then we both gotta go through some hassle with customs so gently caress that. I really appreciate the offer tho. 3 to 4 dollars is unreal.
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Bulky Bartokomous posted:Hawaii must be kind of annoying as an aquarium nerd, but on the flip side, you live in Hawaii. I heard you can catch your own invasive cichlids, though! It is really annoying, I cant just order any fish or shrimp online and have it sent. And yes we can catch our own invasive fish in the lake I go to. Red devils, clown knife fish, jewel cichlids, peacock bass all available for easy catching lol. Matter of fact last time I caught a peacock I was using a ci hlid I caught as bait lol. pepperchomp fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Jul 11, 2021 |
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https://www.instagram.com/reel/CRQzwPvnD9C/?utm_medium=copy_link Made a new tank for the daughter's night light. Wanna put a couple more fish and its done. 1 or 2 platys maybe.....
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