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Edit: I’ve found the amano shrimp and it’s normal that I sometimes don’t see the fry for days.

I’m a little confused with what happened. (My daughters tank) Here are the tank specs: Cycled since March 26 gallon Temp 78.7 Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0 Nitrate 10 Ph 6.8-7 Stock(as of yesterday): 3 APISTOGRAMMA SP. VIEJETA GOLD + 1 fry 5 neon/cardinal tetras 2 Amano shrimp MTS snails Plants...

Oh I had a feeling seems most of us are kindred spirits with many tanks. I have had that issue with livebearers fry. Any o that survived to adulthood I always had room in my tanks or friends who wanted. I also had a cousin with a pet alligator that always needed feeder fish. The main reason...

Love that mental image from the shining!! I noticed a cave or well a hiding spot under the driftwood and one baby coming out. I figure for now I’m going to see what happens. If there is another batch I might try and setup another tank for them. The issue is the wife is not happy with me...

Great sounds good. If you think they’re about a month old that explains a lot. The mom seems completely disappeared somewhere in the tank for a couple weeks. My daughter and I gave up hope that she was still alive and then magically reappeared. There are a lot of hiding places in the tank...

It’s the orange little fish at the bottom of each pic I’m going to try and get a better pic later. It resembles a fully developed apisto not like a fry at all

Thanks I’ll run out in the morning and grab some. I finally caught one for a pic don’t think there are more than a couple in the tank. Hard to see exactly dad was photo bombing

Hi I am not new to the hobby but have never actually bred apistos. At the end of March I setup a 36 gallon bowfront for my daughter. We used seeded material and plants from my tank. We slowly added some neon/cardinal tetras. After a while and much water testing I let her choose what the next...

Well I thought this morning it was looking better but I was wrong it just died. Had what looked like bloodshot eyes before he went fins up Not sure if I need to worry about the rest of the stock. I did a large pwc

I guess that’s always a possibility, I have not really seen and aggression. I turned the lights on and got a pic of what it looks like

Hi I added 2 angel fish a few days ago after a 14 day quarantine. All seemed perfect during those 2 weeks and for the first couple days in the main tank. Now one is perfectly fine the other is not doing well. It is vertical and is just resting on a leaf, at times it makes it closer to the...

Thanks just weird took all of my java moss out 6+ months ago and this just showed up a couple days ago

Hi I have a feeling this is some leftover Java moss that possibly started to grow months after removing it. Just wanted confirmation

I “accidentally” got a 5 and 10 gallon last week from someone leaving the hobby. I felt terrible for the fish when I saw their living conditions. (4 cardinal tetras, 3 black neon tetras, 2 glow light(I think), 2 that look like glow lights but green) The water was filthy and smelled like...

Actually I believe it was when I was adding some water after a PWC. I had the tubers under a a centimetre or so and knocked it out. It seems the anchor roots are what is holding it, the plant seems to be growing well so figure going to leave it and not disturb it. I’ll weight it down if it...

I have had 2 banana plants in my 55 for a few months (not actually sure when I got them) all of a sudden after a water change a couple weeks ago one started to float a bit. It is still secured to the sand by a root or stem that grew on its own. I don’t want to disturb it or burry the tubers, I...

Well we are going to see what happens my kids got me to cave and we now have added 4 platys.

Here is the update on the tank. A couple days after my last post I realized there were only 3 rosy tetras left and they were not looking good to say the least! I sucked it up took them out temporarily and did a full tear down of the tank, I washed and sifted through the sand (and actually added...

So yesterday I did a large pwc now this morning I’ve found 5 dead rosy tetras. Those had been in the tank since end of March. So I’m down to just a few rosy tetras not sure what to do. My parameters all seem perfect but I’m afraid to replace as I can’t keep anything alive. If the last few die...

Oh I know the money not the issue we went down that road a few years ago, I always turned the QT tank into a stocked aquarium the bought another for QT. I’m recovering from MTS and she’s afraid I will relapse. I know I would still want a dwarf puffer, African cichlids and the few salt water...

The last few have been from a chain store near my house, I think that might be one of the issues. There is a better shop I am going to start going to. I need to setup a quarantine tank! Now just to convince the wife it is not me just trying to get another tank...

So no idea what is going on I found the pleco dead this morning. All parameters are perfect ammonia 0 nitrite 0 nitrate 10ppm (all tested with API master kit). Temp is stable at 76. I am at a loss the 8 remaining rosy tetras are perfect. I did notice some fin rot on the pleco yesterday and...

I agree hobs shouldn’t cause it but I figured go back to what I know. I think between the defective test kit and the snails it all started to snowball out of control. Here is what it looks like today waiting for the plants to grow in

Oh for sure was not dumping in entire stock overnight! I added a few fish per week checking my parameters always keeping up on water changes. As I said was just a bunch of crazy setbacks in a row. It was also the first hob I’ve used in decades and after reading up on it (probably too late)...

I have been keeping aquariums on and off for the last 30+ years, I’m no expert but I do know my stuff. I started this tank with my kids the first week of March to get back into the hobby. It has been a comedy of errors (not a single funny one). Here is he shortened story, I started to cycle...