nirbhao
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It really is gorgeous. Hopefully your snails are getting enough.
The Nursery
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TMaier
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Omg planaria are creepy. Treated twice with fenbendozole. Still seeing them. Added some young Khuli's to keep worms and general pop down. 
It's a Khuli/shrimp tree now.
It's a Khuli/shrimp tree now.
You have some great root growth visible in the pic! Funny Kuhli.
nirbhao
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The kuhlis live inside the branches of my tree. It cracks me up.
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I had one Kuhli go missing and it was at the time I was making the change gradually to a planted tank it was a resin type pseudo "real" looking tree branching thing and there was a Kuhli went into it - little hole in bottom and it got a little big and couldn't get out - too chubby, (not like T's though lol) and I ended up breaking it open to get it out of there. I still don't know how it went under the sand and up into the smallest little hole in the bottom.
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TMaier
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PWC and vacuum today. Haven't seen any planaria for a week! Yeah!!!!
Khuli's are growing fast.
Khuli's are growing fast.
Great news about the Planaria
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TMaier
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I was finding dead shrimp and removed the Khuli's last week and did my PWC, vacuum and canister rinse. But I am still finding shrimp bodies.
Probably a 50% loss and it all started when I changed the substrate.
When I got the first 10 shrimp I had PFS and had pregnant females in the 10g. I moved them to the 20Long with the garnet sand and their numbers kept increasing.
I added the black diamond a month or so ago. Planaria surfaced and shrimp started dying. I wonder if there is something in the black diamond the planaria hated? I had never seen them on the surface of the garnet. And shrimp keep dying. I'm gonna trust my instincts on this and remove the black diamond over the next few days.
Or perhaps it is due to stress from the meds? Gotta try something....
Planaria info is here:
http://www.aquariumadvice.com/forums/showthread.php?t=357005
Probably a 50% loss and it all started when I changed the substrate.
When I got the first 10 shrimp I had PFS and had pregnant females in the 10g. I moved them to the 20Long with the garnet sand and their numbers kept increasing.
I added the black diamond a month or so ago. Planaria surfaced and shrimp started dying. I wonder if there is something in the black diamond the planaria hated? I had never seen them on the surface of the garnet. And shrimp keep dying. I'm gonna trust my instincts on this and remove the black diamond over the next few days.
Or perhaps it is due to stress from the meds? Gotta try something....
Planaria info is here:
http://www.aquariumadvice.com/forums/showthread.php?t=357005
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Just thinking out loud. Maybe losing the microscopic food source from the substrate.
Temp changed up somewhere along the moving things around?
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TMaier
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Ya know I mulled that over too. When I moved the shrimp from the 10 to the 20 it had all new substrate. All of the same plants and many more were added too. I'm pretty careful about the temp.
All the moves when changing the substrate last month could have stressed them overall. But even now a month later?
And, they aren't eat nearly as much as they were. I am feeding less pellets to less shrimp. But they aren't flocking to it like they usually do.
All the moves when changing the substrate last month could have stressed them overall. But even now a month later?
And, they aren't eat nearly as much as they were. I am feeding less pellets to less shrimp. But they aren't flocking to it like they usually do.
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TMaier
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Just stick a fork in me I'm done. No idea what to do.
Ammonia 0, Nitrite 0, Nitrates 40, ph 7.4, 77.6 degrees, Kh 4', GH 6, copper 0.
Did a PWC 4g and removed about 10% of the substrate.
Ammonia 0, Nitrite 0, Nitrates 40, ph 7.4, 77.6 degrees, Kh 4', GH 6, copper 0.
Did a PWC 4g and removed about 10% of the substrate.
Too clean of a tank, maybe more time to develop more biofilm. Don't know. Argh, it is the worst not knowing.
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Ok I added 5 plants and rock from other tanks and some fir leaves from my tree I know are clean.
And then I had an egg salad taco.
And then I had an egg salad taco.
Fresh2o
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^^^ That post is a combination of random and yummy.
Hope things look up in the nursery.
Hope things look up in the nursery.
Hard work requires sustenance. Never had an egg salad taco but I like the sauce and egg salad and tacos, so yum! Chile Rellano burrito with green Chile, yummy!!! Might have to go get one of those for breakfast.Fir leaves like fir as in evergreen tree???
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TMaier
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Geez not fir. I meant Ash. We have a White ash tree in our yard.
