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All my female guppies eventually develop that sway. I assumed it had something to do with all the pregnancies. The males never develop any sway, but the older females who have been pregnant a lot always do. I take it that is not normal?

No Problem, and glad I could help with what little experience I Have. Even if the shrimp don't ever pick at it, I think the leaves look rather lovely in the tank.

Thanks for the advice! I'll lower the temp on the tanks and see if maybe that doesn't encourage a few more males to show up (although I will say these endler-mix females are quite beautiful in their own way. Some of them have lovely spots on their tails).

Sure! I don't know the exact father, because I have four males. So, father would look like this: I only had the one female in there and it was this lucky lady (now in with the guppy tank and as prolific as ever):

I put catappa in with my CRS, I'd leave it in until it started to look like it was coming apart and it never had any ill-effects on the fish (four endlers livebarers). I don't think I noticed the shrimp eating or browsing on them until the leaves had been in there for a while. I think mine...

I'd be concerned about using RODI water, won't it affect my PH? Or is that not something I really need to be concerned about?

25 - 40%, depending. I admit that this time it'd been two weeks between water changes, so that might be why the nitrates were so high, but even so, it seems excessively high.

Don't know if this will be helpful or not. But I tanked my tank's cycle once and it got really bad. Last time it happened I had had to do three or four weeks of constant mantinance. But last time I added a bottle of Tetra Safe Start and within three days the tank had stabelized. I've used it...

As an experiment I tossed a female guppy in with some male endler's live bearers. One of the males born is just, well, he's really special! He's got a very neat fringy end to his tail that, combined with the orange-red coloring, looks a bit like he's on fire. I'd very much like to try and...

My high-fin spotted pleco. For a monster he's really good at hiding, but when he's around he's spectacular and has great personality. Plus I love how my little herd of peppered corys follows him around the tank. At feeding time it looks like he's herding them along the bottom.

It's PWC day here at my house and I noticed something odd. I've three tanks, two 10gal, one with guppies, one with endlers, and a 47gal bow-front, mixed community (threadfin rainbows, zebra danios, harlequin raspboars, peppered cories, golden panda mollies, and a pleco.). Both 10gal tanks...

I have three tanks: A Ten gallon planted guppy & black phantom tetras, A five gallon planted with endlers, and a fourty-six gallon bow-front community tank. All parameters are normal, all fish healthy. The 46 gallon is a little overstocked, but I'm religious about keeping an eye on my water...

Today, after spotting what looked like eyes in my square-shaped female guppy I had to admit what I was denying: she's very, very pregnant. I've now moved her to a breeder net and I clipped some plants from an overgrown spot in my tank so she's got some greenery to hang out in (and the fry have...

I have ~10 CRS in my 5.5 and, honestly, I think I could triple that population with no problem what-so-ever (the bio-load on these darlings is so low I feel silly doing my weekly water change). I've been feeding them Azoo Maxgrowth (ordered on Amazon). I feed them half a strip twice a week...

I have a planted 5 gallon tank with about ten crystal red shrimp in it (they are really really hard to count!). I was doing my water change today and it occurred to me that maybe I don't need to do it weekly the way I do my normal tropical fish tank. How often do you change the water on your...

My husband and I have purchased a 46 gallon bow-front tank. So far all it has in it is lights and nothing else. I was hoping someone would have some suggestions for the best equipment to buy as we start setting this sucker up as a tropical community tank. The largest tank I have is a 10 gallon...

I feed the RCS Azoo max growth every few days. Usually they eat up what I put in in about three hours (which I told is what one's supposed to watch for with a shrimp tank and that if it takes longer I need to feed less). My other tank I feed once a day in the morning, a little flake food and I...

I've never tested my tap for Nitrates, so I did just now. there's apparently 5ppm nitrates in there. This does explain why, when I was cycling my tanks, I always saw Nitrates before i saw Nitrites.

One a week. 20% each tank.

Probably because tomorrow is water change day is why the nitrates seem high. I've never noticed that plants do anything to lower nitrates in my tanks. Both tanks always spike up to around or just under 40ppm nitrates by water change day. Perhaps because they aren't heavily planted? The...

What do you mean by dosing nitrates?

My shrimp have been settled into their tank for about two weeks, maybe a little longer, and the whole time they've been a super mellow bunch. Today, though, they are going insane swimming all over the tank and I saw what looked like two shrimp chasing another one, which seemed really unusual...

I'm sharing this here only because if I say this to anyone I know they won't understand what I'm so excited about: MY TANKS HAVE CYCLED! WOOOO!:dance: Came home today and grabbed my master test kit and did the tests, already mentally preparing myself to haul the five gallon bucket across the...

I am doing this tank with crystal reds, I do know that they are expensive. If they prove to be just too much and too delicate, I'll order a batch of cherry. I have some American glass shrimp in my community tank that started this whole "I need a shrimp tank!" nonsense. I do love the little...

Thanks! I think I will do a shrimp-only tank. I can't wait for my tank to finish cycling!