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    water quality

    I always use a de clorinator even though my water contains NO clorine but as a saftey thing to use the conditioner today it seems kinda better but not as good as it was. i just find it to be so very strange. and a little unnerving since i am planning my first time away from my tank next weekend...
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    water quality

    ok everyone is accounted for I rinse my filter in the WC water to get rid of crud but am careful to keep it wet and i rotate which one I rinse and I didnt change the filter the last time it looked pretty clean I picked off 2 little snails and dropped them back in. otherwise it was the same as...
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    water quality

    ok I have a 20g fw (occupants in sig) and it has been doing well nice and clear ammo and trite holding at 0 trate at 10~15 planted tank gh 75 kh 100 ph 7 all holding pretty steady. been 2 days since a change and water went from ultra clear this morning to white clody tonight filter seems clear...
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    Just needed to vent about poor pet-ownership!

    Snakes *shiver* I dont do snakes EVER but I cant imagine leaving pets like that. I would guess since it was winter that the snakes survived by hibernating as they would in the wild during colder months I luckily live where there really are NO wild snakes bears coons and coyotes are plenty tyvm...
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    preping for vacation

    Ok I will try to chunk up some wafers and see if i can ge consistent amount to drop during the week I guess I was getting at is there an algea food that isnt the disc sized wafers. They dont seem to care much for the flakes when they fall (the fish happily hunt down and munch long after feeding...
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    preping for vacation

    Ok I will be leaving on vacation in a week and a half I have a timer set on my lights and a feeder to dispense the fake/bloodworms to my fish but i also have snails and ghost shrimp I need to care for I will be gone 5 days and I really dont have any algae in my tank. I feed them algae wafers and...
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    ok so snails?

    hmm a thought but she doesnt really fight just lots of redecorating and i will NOT name him Martha. So maybe a name in that range?
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    ok so snails?

    Yah Yah with the whole laying of eggs I guess I will have to but bulldozer just doesnt sound like a she and the name fits her style of decorating soooooo well and dozette sounds corny I would love name suggestions that appeal to a havoc wreaking female though if anyone has an idea. I figure...
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    ok so snails?

    Ill take a look. I just got my new bulldozer proof decor a pretty little bubble river lets see him get under that it has 3 1/2 inches of gravel piled all around it and I replanted my micro sword infront of it between it and the tank glass so hopefully he wont pull it up any more. I also got my...
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    Just needed to vent about poor pet-ownership!

    oh well one of the cats came with us and became an indoor cat since we have coyotes and coons here it wasnt safe for spark to be outside. Of course the one time she did get out didnt last long lol we had just gotten a foot of snow and she didnt like that white stuff one bit one bit ;) cant...
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    Just needed to vent about poor pet-ownership!

    I will say that the last time we moved we had to leave a few pets behind about a week before we where ready to leave we caught and put our 3 cats in the bathroom (they liked to disappear for a day of 2 at a time so we wanted to keep them safe) my sister came and took her cat and unfortutuantly...
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    ok so snails?

    oh are apple snails and mystery snails the same thing? i had thought they where different since i hace seen a few addicts specify they had one or the other and even both. Learn something new everyday. So I brought he/she home on the 1st and today the eggs where laid being the 11 does that sound...
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    ok so snails?

    ok I have some little stow away snails (I am ok with that) they lay eggs (also ok) the fish eat the eggs (still fine) I also have a large myrstery snail his name is "bulldozer" because of the havoc he has reaked against my decor (I dont complain it means I getto buy new stuff he cant turn over)...
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    Soooo.....i'm pondering starting another tank...

    hmm coveringthe sides is something I wouldnot have thought of butis a very interesting idea when I brought my fish home they where going at the sides they are fine now but if I come across that again coverig the sides hmm I like it
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    dusty guppy???

    I am really hoping it isnt ich. I dont think I can deel with that atm. Of course if it is i will. The spots tend to be on his sides and tail as he "sleeps" nose straight up, I guess that is good since there havent been any spots near the eyes mouth or gills to interfer with those vitals. This AM...
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    Soooo.....i'm pondering starting another tank...

    so when are you planning your firsttrip????????
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    dusty guppy???

    hmm he does decolor when the lights are out. and it isnt quite the same to be honest at first I thought he may have ICH the first time i say the spots but then they where gone so i didnt think that was it. thanks for the response i will simply keep an eye on it and see what happens
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    dusty guppy???

    ok peaked at him during my lunch break hs is swimming around and no "dust" tried to tell me he was hungry again the little pig:p
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    ok divin in with Q's

    ok 2 months i can deal with already been running a month so they should be gone by end of summerish? that woorks
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    I'm a Dad!

    if I end upwith males I will other wise like i said I will most likely take them to the school as they dont have female mollies it make it an issue
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    I'm a Dad!

    yes but i wouldnt be able to expalin that to the landlord or the cats when I have 20 gallons in jugs lined up on the floor along side the bed..... very classy ;)
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    dusty guppy???

    ok this may seem strange but I have a guppy who is acting very odd? I had gotten usd to him sleeping when the lights where out and being in very strange contortions when I find him but the last 2 day when I check on him after work (lights on) he has been sleeping nose in the air straight up and...
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    Soooo.....i'm pondering starting another tank...

    ROFLMAO ok krackle you know where I stand on this keep me updated
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    Fry coloring

    ok I was just wondering I know i am jumping the gun but I really just want to know who or which fish and as each fish was in a separte tank at the lfs though I was told how to id males verses females (after I gotthem home and found the babies) I am fairly sure that I have 3 females.
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    Fry coloring

    ok I have wekk old fry (first noticed last mon) i dont know who the mommy is at this point but it seems to be one of my 3 mollies that i brough home 2 days before i found my little surprise bundles of joy:rolleyes: (my other fish are male) so tonight i notice that one of them looks to be turning...
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