It's daphnia and green water edition. Aka you're luck you're getting text edition.Tank Cycling:>www.modestfish.com/how-to-cycle-your-aquarium/Stocking and Water Change Calculator:>www.aqadvisor.com/AqAdvisor.php>https://finscape.us/>www.hamzasreef.com/Contents/Calculators/EffectiveWaterChange.phpArticles and Care Guides:>www.seriouslyfish.com/knowledge-base/>www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/>www.aquariumcoop.com/>www.theaquariumwiki.com/wiki/Aquatic Plant Database:>www.aquaticplantcentral.com/forumapc/plantfinder/all.php>www.flowgrow.de/db/aquaticplants>previous>>5100431
Copepod set up. Siphon the mulm, squeeze it through a tea bag and rinse.
>>5111478how much copepods do you have with this setup?
View the dawgs, 2 Atlantic Sea Nettles
i only have seetheopods in my tank :c
>>5111489How many hairs are on my head? No idea lol 1000s? 10000s? I siphon the mulm, spray it through a tea bag (cheapest fine mesh bags available), and then rinse water over it. Shake the bag out in the tank. The fish act way differently than for flakes or pellets. Something about the lateral movement>>5111500Checked. Those are cool. How much work is it?>>5111503Kek
>>5111507haha fair i meant more like a densitydo you manage to separate the mulm and the copepods
>>5111510It's fairly dense. I shine light near the top and siphon them up. I usually have another cup I dump them into. Then I transfer from the bowl to bags. When I'm cleaning, I put a few baster fulls of discard mulm and a bunch of the water into crystalizing dishes (anything glass works, just that size) and put it on a warming pad (5-10 above ambient). Then when each dish fills up to the point of where I can see the dots, no magnifying glass, I strain the copepods out and discard the rest. Without the warming pads it's actually kind of slow. That's why I added daphnia
I ended up adding a starter culture of both copepods and seed shrimp to my sump mechanical filter section. I can no longer find either but it's a relatively small number in about 5 gallons of packed k3 and nylon cleaning pads so I don't know if that means anything.Hopefully they help process the brown gunk and occasionally have some swept through the filter to feed the fish. If not, oh well, I'm only out like $20.Next step is going to be adding a few ramshorn to it to see if they survive. And then maybe some cull neos, though I'd really like about 100 of them or ghost shrimp in the main tank. My lfs has ghost shrimp for 3 for a quarter but the owner told me he's pretty sure they're predatory, so not willing to roll the dice and risk losing any fish to them.Tank has been cloudy since I added some dried oak leaves about a week ago. The ich symptoms have been fairly quickly disappearing, continuing to dose 40mg/day of ich-x but it's down to two fish I can see any dots on. Three of my four albino corys I bought from LFS died but such is life, I'm pretty sure they brought in the ich. All four hillstream loaches, two garras, and two BNPs are doing well, the Wubenmuster (sic?) has even started grazing leaves during the day.Lights just went out I'll post a Pic in the morning. Rainbows are coloring up and growing, even the dwarf neons are looking decent now.
>>5111538sounds good anon! IIRC ghost shrimp live about a year and while they will spawn in fresh water, they die afterwards.at least two, maybe four weeks left before I can add any feesh to my own tank. in the meantime the exploding snail population is keeping me entertained.
>>5111545Problem with "ghost shrimp" is there are roughly 30 species that fall under than umbrella, and another 2x that could easily be confused, several of whom also live in brackish FL fishing zones and get trawled up together. Including some prawns that end up like 5" long and predatory.
>>5111546Not him but for this sort of thing it's almost always Palaemonetes sp.
>>5111538Seed shrimp are mostly filter feeders. Copepods both eat film and filter feed, but they are lazy bitches and will filter feed first. I'd try the ramshorn or bladder snails. Hiw big is your main? And how do you feed in the sump, does it tube in through the bottom or do you have a hob powerhead?
>>5111558Display tank is about 60 gallons, sump is about 25 gallons with 18ish sectioned off as moving bed, overflowing into 5 gallons of static media, which flows through the bottom of another wall into a ~2 gallon partition with the outflow pump and a few bits of static media that made it through the separation. Water flows to the sump from near the top of the main tank via two gravity-fed 3/4" pipes, and main tank has circular flow with one wave maker pointed roughly at the front, center substrate of the tank (has removed all the mulm from the substrate) and one pointed toward the back top of tank to increase aeration and create the circular movement. I have 2-4+ clams filter feeding in the main tank, but the static media section of the sump has started to accumulate brown gunk/mulm (not nearly enough to impact flow in any way) so I figured it could support detritovores to maintain equilibrium.
How fussy are captive-bred fish to hardness levels? Would the common kinds of tetras be seriously upset in, say, 240ppm water at 7.4 pH?
>>5111591Depends fish to fish but for the common trade fish that technically come from acidic water like neons, cardinals, black neons, embers etc there's no problem keeping them in hard water and I've done it myself with Embers. My understanding is that they don't need low ph to survive it's just that the acidic environments help keep prevent bacterial infections and they can suffer in harder water but you should be fine with good maintenance. The only caveat is breeding, many fish can live fine in the wrong ph but it prevents their eggs from being fertilised. The other question is "should you?" but it really doesn't matter I think for these kinds of fish. Though many fish really can't survive in the wrong ph, and it's much more common for hard water fish in low ph to struggle where they can suffer gill damage and stuff.
>>5111606I'm not looking to breed, just to have fish that are healthy and displaying good colour. Unfortunately it seems like everything that's fine in harder water (bloodfins) is also too big/not shrimp safe.
>>5111759Neons, black neons and embers are shrimp safe, I think cardinals aren't. All of the diamond body shaped tetras are a bit risky I think like you said, bloodfin, black widow, phantoms etc they're more aggressive.
>>5111838Do you think head-and-taillight tetras would fall in the latter category?My shortlist so far is black neons, H&T, cherry barbs, hatchetfish and danios (but I'd have to get a lid)
>>5111848My dad kept hatchetfish and he doesn't know anything about ph levels, I think they're pretty hardy and won't bother shrimp due to being top feeders. I think they look weird and inbred though so I never got them lel. Danios and cherry barbs are always a big risk, people say they're fine but eventually they can get a taste for adults and will probably mop up shrimplets, you'd need really heavy planting. I had zebra danios before I had shrimp and just the way they act I wouldn't try it. But they're great fish otherwise, all the danios are pretty underrated and don't get talked about a lot anymore in the era of nanotanks. Maybe because they kill shrimp I'd guess which everyone wants now. Black neons will be fine, hardy and shrimp safe but you should still have lots of plant cover to make sure you don't lose too many shrimplets. I've not had head and taillight so can't comment. I think it's just the same advice as always, with the absolute smallest, passive fish your shrimp will be okay and with anything else you'll lose shrimplets without heavy cover and most fish can get a taste for shrimp so you're just running a risk. For every "look at my massive RCS colony in my community tank" post there's another "I added 6 cardinals to my tank and all my shrimp disappear???". With heavy planting and letting the shrimp establish for a generation of breeding first you can still get a self sustaining group even with the occasional shrimplet loss.
>>5111852Zebra danios are the king of the sub 55 gallon. By far the best fish you can get, bang for your buck. Fearless and the fastest swimmers in the tank. Hardy as fuck. Everyone knows you can cycle a tank with danios. They make the other fish come out too. As for shrimp eating, yeah they do that, the juveniles specifically. I have 15 in my main tank. The shrimp do outbreed them, but it's gotten to the point that the danios won't even touch flakes or pellets. I'm literally feeding my shrimp fish flakes so that the danios can eat their babies. If you want to get a shrimp.colony established in the display tank, it's a numbers game. You have to be prepared to dump something stupid like 2 shrimp a gallon. That's what I did. I put 50 shrimp in a 40 gallon. It got down to like 10 at one point, but a couple of successful molts and the colony explodes.
>>5111852Hatchetfish do look fucking weird but I kind of like it, gigachad chin fish. They remind me vaguely of African butterfly fish, which I had way back in the before time.>>5111865Interestingly zebras are out of stock in my area (for now at least) and it's more giant danios, CPDs, some other species I haven't heard of. I don't mind if some baby shrimp get eaten but I don't want something like tiger barbs that will shred all the adults, too. Guess I should've mentioned rasboras, they're a possibility
>>5111759In addition to the others mentioned, Ember tetras, CPDs or Emerald rasboras, Daisy's rice fish, guppies & endlers, dwarf fireball platys, any of the microrasboras or espei (lambchop) rasboras are all shrimp safe, as are otos, stiphodon gobys, dwarf plecos (the 2-2.5" ones) and corys. You may lose a few of the smallest babies now and again, but if you feed the tank and include some dense moss, large pore volcanic rock, or cholla wood, you'll have plenty survive.
>>5111867If you want a true danio with shrimp, glowlight (d. Choprae, not the glofish zebras) are a bit smaller but otherwise essentially the same. In general any true danio (not CPDs) will actively hunt juveniles so you need hard cover (not just moss) to outbreed predation. White clouds are another similar option, bit smaller than zebras but not quite as active. They're great fish though, as another anon said they basically never stop moving and are lightning fast, plus will school fairly tightly with regularity.
Thoughts on white clouds?
>>5111983Easy fish. Good for tubbin'. The males can get very colorful. Do best in high 60s to low 70s. Once they're comfortable they're pretty lazy and just sorta hang around unless the males are displaying at each other.
Promised a pic then forgot. Sorry for the glare - plant light behind me is causing that.Just added some buce yesterday, from some guy on r*ddit that sold me a ton of it. We'll see how well it takes, it was hard to get it all jammed in somewhere.Gonna do a 30% w/c today, first since filling it, because tds has crept up due to the ich-x
>>5112021I like buce a lot but it takes ages to grow in meaningfully.
>>5111759I've high hardness, almost 8ph water. I keep guppies, tetras(many), pleco, shrimp(amano and neo), endler, puffers, rasboras, snails, an aquatic frog, corydoras... no issues. no real breeding, but everyone lively and colorful
>>5111759pretty much if it is living in your local fish store you can probably run it
I wanna pour bleach in all of these and watch the stupid beasts slowly dissolve alive
My new bell siphon/ebb&flow rack.This one will be all Bucephalandra.Around 250 Browine Ghost 2011 to be specific.I’m not so much a fish guy but an aquatic plants guy.If you’re into the nano plants and others for your tanks, I’m the guy to know.
It may be a common aquarium plant, but I have that Grandaddy Purple Ludwigia cut.It looks insane if used correctly in your aquascapes.
My anubias nana petite is no joke. Zero meltGrips anythingSpreads fast.I also have it in Snow White.It looks like flowers.
>>5112030>>5112133We should have a chat.
>>5112021*Buys his buce from a Reddit fag.
I’ve got a tank full of hornet shrimp.Call them my Killa bees.Just ordered pic for the tank.Going to do a Wu Tang aquascape.
Finally got a hold of some green kubotais and they're great little fish, very active and curious and they're actually brightly coloured not memed under ridiculous light filters. Very happy.
>>5112145For $2 per plant, I'd buy buce from Hitler or Bibi
>>5112191What buce did you get?
