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    Yasuhikotakia sidthimunki- skinny disease?

    You need to figure out a way to get them the food, turkey baster with brine, put the food in the caves, feed them at night etc.
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    Yasuhikotakia sidthimunki- skinny disease?

    You need to simply feed them more and more frequently. I've had dozens of of them come in, only to fatten up and do well nicely later on. Brine, RCS culls, feed 2-4x a day.
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    Anabantoidae, Polpteridae and CO2

    CO2: Larger the fish, the harder it it is, the higher their MET rates, the harder it is, the Warmer the Temp, the harder it is. You should NEVER have to gas your fish to provide optimal CO2. I have elephant nose and they very well and grow well, eat from my hand etc. They are in my 120 Gal...
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    Rummy nose tetras and cherry shrimp

    The rummy's do eat the shrimp..........smaller ones particularly. After a molt etc. I still have plenty in my 120 Gallon, but the production of shrimp dropped down to near zero. Before I had an extra 30-50 a week. So they will eat every last one.......but they do eat them.
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    Celestial pearl danio

    SOB's hide like ghost.
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    F1 altum angels

    Be skeptical............unless you see tiny eggs and tiny fry as evidence..........and in their tanks, not some other "tank". I've seen tiny imports, roughly 2 cm long being imported before. Any breeder would show the parents and the eggs, then the hatching and then the fry and their...
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    EI & breeding fish

    I thought NO3's and ferts are the root of all evil? I cannot accept it!'haha
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    EI & breeding fish

    Remember, many cannot breed fish with plants or without plants.......and it has little to do with plants or the dosing.
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    Nitrogen Cycle & The Planted Aquarium

    I've never needed to, or ever lost any fish due to "cycling". The cycle is silent if you use plants, or a mature filter, or mulmy filth from an old sponge media filter etc, old sediment etc....... Plants have bacteria all over them.
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    Osmotic Shock

    Seems KH plays a larger role than just TDS to me.....I'm speculating.........but that would be my hunch. I agree, that TDS alone/salt ppm does not explain everything. The type of salt/TDS does I would argue. Some ions fish have an easier time keep in/out, same for plants.
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    EI dosing impact on fish breeding and Fry

    Figured out what was killing the fry prior to this method........fungus. I took some of the Fry and added them to the Q tank to see if the same thing woud occur(Another control). I noticed 1-2 had fungus. Added anti fungal meds and the lost and disease seem to have stopped. I'll wait and see...
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    EI dosing impact on fish breeding and Fry

    You can plug and chug using a dosing calculator modeling program: http://ei.petalphile.com/ Dosing Cal: http://calc.petalphile.com/
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    EI dosing impact on fish breeding and Fry

    The TDS sits about 350ppm even with the soft water. I spent a lot of effort messing with the Q tanks in the garage, I've raised a lot of fry over the last few decades, it's something I've done a fair amount of.......but........still had issues. Hard to say what it is, success and then going...
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    EI dosing impact on fish breeding and Fry

    I did as well. The methods are the same however for catching, the fry food, etc. The water is exchanged more often, but volume is 10-20X less than the 10 gal. I typically did 2x a week 50% water change in the Quarantine tank with Tank water. I also tried pourified tap and then plain tap...
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    EI dosing impact on fish breeding and Fry

    Could be, or simply more salts increasing the TDS. Hard to say what is causing something, it is....much much easier to say what something is NOT doing :mrgreen:
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    EI dosing impact on fish breeding and Fry

    I've had some folks long claim EI is bad for fish and bad for fish fry, bad for soft water fish, on and on........well time for them to eat some humble pie: Most of the fry gets eaten by the rams, checker boards, cardinals, so I have to stand around and net them as they hatch...
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    Cardinals with EI + hard water

    Isn't easier to blame EI for everything? :mrgreen: Why deduce? Why really know? hehe........... Come on, it just feels right. :lol: regards, Tom Barr
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    F2 Sturisoma on the way

    They bred again, but the eggs got eaten by the larger goldie pleco.
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    F2 Sturisoma on the way

    Sturisoma panamese as far as I know. This is what I've called them for the last, 20 years? Nice semi diurnal high current fish my mom use to find in streams in Panama growing up. Feed them well, they lay eggs every 2-3 weeks on the glass typically, male guards the eggs which hatch in about...
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    F2 Sturisoma on the way

    I have some F2's from these F1 Sturisoma. This is my 180 Gallon community tank. The adults have never seen another aquarium. This completes the entire life cycle on 1 generation. Regards, Tom Barr
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    Botia Striata - will it eat shrimp?

    Mine never ate shrimp, they love them a snail though :thumbup: Dwarf loach same thing, but less on eating the snails. Regards, Tom Barr
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    Discus in a proposed co2 set up

    Here's the client's tank with 45ppm CO2 with a calibrated method for measurement: 45ppm is the upper range I'd say. 30ppm is a good target. Problem is folks are bad at testing, worst at being impatient and gas their fish in their haste. That's the horror, not the CO2. At night you stop...
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    Why mature tank?

    If you do lots of water changes, use zeolite, carbon etc, none of it matters much, problem is, many do not do that in the initial stages. Most breeders and bare bottom tanks use this many water change approach. Even if the filter is mature. Want a mature filter? Tank some old sponge material...
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    Yasuhikotakia sidthimunki + Cherry Shrimps ?

    I kept them with CRS's for about 1 year. No issues, the CRS went from 12 to about 50 or so. Regards, Tom Barr
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    Botia Striata and Nerite Snails

    Specifically, I use B. striata for snail eradication in most of my tanks, they will eat the small snails, MTS, Physa and pondsnails, the Ramshorn etc. They do not eat the much larger Nerites, I've yet to here of any confirmed reports that they do. Having personal experience with 4 tanks and this...
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    Botia Striata and Nerite Snails

    Never an issue between these two species.......... Regards, Tom Barr
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