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My ph is at 8

Ya as you can see by one of my posts I already read that

Substrate is ada I'm using bater ae ss gh+ that's it I was thinking of geting some mk or salty shrimp products to help the cycle

Here's a picture for those who entered to win my roak and want the axolotls instead of the other packages or maybe just one axolotl. Here's my juvinile albino axolotl in a ten gallon tank with play sand and large rocks for him to hide under. The plant is pothos.

I'm two weeks into my cycle here's the parameters ammonia is 5 ppm nitrites are 0 ppm nirtate is at 0 ppm This was not the case a few days ago did my bateria colony crash? The only difference I did was add plants and my nits went 0. What do I need to do?

Yup can't load pics to my jurnal kinda sad

More would help give you a darker over all population

This is my 55g African chiclid tank. I have 6 3 inch to 4 inch chiclids, a nice size algee eater, a molly, and a pleco. Also there some pics of one my red cherrys I've been trying to selective breed. I got one berried don't know where she went but she's my darkest And largest.

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No worries about wilds if you don't want to cull your tank will be just fine with all the different rillis in one tank

Grats on the babies if I'm right and you have blue rillis then yes your going to end up with some red rillis. You might get lucky and the babies might have the same tiny bit of red or none at all.

Put some plants into my cycling tb tank

I don't think they are blue velvets but instead they sre blue rillis and some just have a little red left sometimes that red turns to black.

I'm also in the process of putting a bell syphon in the grow bed of another one of my ponds. I'll show pictures in the spring when it's finished. Currently it has 100 koi or so in the top 1000g tank, a 2 ft pleco and 1 ft pleco and two 1 ft cat fish. Then that flows into my grow bed roughly 300g(it was just a flow bed but I'm in the process of adding a bell syphon) I have mint, sage, kale, cabage, and some angle trumpets in the grow bed. Then that flows into another 1000g tank where I grow my tropical lilly and some cherry shrimp. However this year I'm going to add platys into the bottom tank. These are my platys and their fry.

I've got a lot of new and exciting projects coming along and one I'm about to get started on is a a little over flow water fall pond. I'm going to have this pond behind my tikki bar and want it to go with the tropical style the rest of my back yard has. I found an old John boat propped it up on a cynder block. I'm then going to put rock around the base hiding the cynder blocks and making it look nice. The boat has three sections already in it, I'm going to line each section with liner and turn two of them into small 80g or so ponds and one grow bed. Here's the fish for those ponds The first two pics are of my fancy guppy tank. These will go in the bottom of the boat pond. Also in that tank I have some skunk and peppered cpry cats waiting for their racks to be built as well As the two female beta fish waiting for their rack to be built. Next picture is my molly tank. These will go in the top of the boat. Also in that tank I have one of my blue crays waiting for his rack to be built as well. The mollys and the guppys will be food for my snapper turtle.

I think your worried that with 20 shrimp in a 40 will never see each other. Well I currently have 10 shrimp in a 20 prity much same thing they will do fine if your really worried just get more then 20 shrimp no problem

Well I wouldn't risk it chlorine kills

As long as you take the chlorine out the tap water is fine. That's all I do usually but I recently got a bunch of remin and I'm seeing if it's going to make a difference in color

I always use declorifier

I don't use tap water any more but I use too had no problems just seen more suscess with ro

Are the snails smaller then the scuds?

I'd imagine they watch them the whole time then once the act is over they just remove them back into separate tanks. While we're on the subject of crays here's a marble cray I got from^soothing. So I have 4 cpos now as well got one at a lps on v day. I have 7 alleni and 1 marble and that's it for my crays. I'll update once I build a cray rack. Currently all of my alleni are in my living room but they are going in my fish room when it's done.

Soothing said they have a craving for protien so they eat babies shrimps, I believe this to be true because I had scuds in my tiger tank and only one babies was left before I found out and put him in a scud free tank. Your best bet is to net them I constantly went to the tank looking for them they come out a lot during feeding and I usually see them when I turn the lights on trying to get away. They hide in rocks and if they get away I crush the rocks they go into kinda like squishing snails.

I'm going to do 5 tanks all together with the diamonds and chocates. I'm going to do a black blue diamond tank and a blue blue diamond tank. I'm going to do a brown chocolate tank and a black chocolate tank. the last tank will be the culls from the other 4 tanks. I keep my crays separate in 5g apartments. Once I have a clear breeder tank I select my brightest blue male and female and put them in a 20g with a bunch of hides for a day or two or once I see them in the act I'll wait till I see them separated after that then I remove the male back to his apartment. The berried female will then stay in that tank till the eggs hatch. Once the eggs hatch she goes back to her apartment. if the pair does not take and she doesn't show any eggs I'll select a different pair. This is what works for me. I'm trying a different method soon where the apartments I made for them in the ten gallons I have a male on one side and the female on the other. The diver is removable. Only thing is I don't like the lack of space so I haven't tryed. I feel my crays are safer together on a bigger space. So I will be doing this on a day off where I can observe very closely.

After I posted that I looked into my diamond tank and fiund my first berried female. Hard to get a close up shot sry.