chibikaie

SQUEEEEEEEEEE
Please stop making me want more tanks. Please please please. I'm running out of room!

SQUEEEEEEEEEE
Please stop making me want more tanks. Please please please. I'm running out of room!

Just run both at the same time for a while (maybe a month) before you remove the old one. And then keep it so you'll have something for a hospital/quarantine tank on short notice.

I love how they insist they're not suggesting that you set up a new tank expressly to test just using a sponge ... and how they are like "it's actually a drawback that they are so cheap to set up, you feel like you can set up too many tanks" - hilarious. Love it.
I'm a big fan of keeping it simple. The more stuff you have that can break, the more WILL break. I don't think I have ever seen a sponge filter break.

Nice! I have given up on amphibians. Rabbits and aquatics ONLY from now on. The rest is too complicated for me!

I'm reasonably certain the brand doesn't matter.
Definitely get some little cups to use. I almost spilled all of the solution the probe came with, as I realized at the last second that putting it into a shallow food dish was not going to work.

At least you have a sense of humor about it!
Examples why I should not be allowed to name anything: "Unholy Terror" and "Yet Another Bunny"

the "Ugh" sums up the conclusion perfectly!

I enjoy some of what I do. I do feel like a crazy person most of the time, though. I think my boss needs to hire more people. I feel like I have three distinct jobs and I'm expected to cover a fourth and fifth position as the people doing them get time off.
What were we talking about? Oh, tanks. Yeah. I paid my taxes so I am officially broke until next month. If I PM anyone about an order, please yell at me for being financially irresponsible. (This is probably going to backfire in a spectacular fashion when I have a freakout and set up a new shrimp rack next month, isn't it.)

I've done a permanganate bomb (both with and without fish; unlikely to try it with shrimp). Pretty harsh yet still won't kill everything.
To be honest, I am still keeping my fingers crossed that my tanks will thrive this time. It is a gamble as I use tap water. I was much less stressed when I had fish. I knew what I was doing!

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So perhaps I should have clarified - when I said I ran it for 36 hours, it was because after that time, I handed the bucket of fish off to be sent to a pond, and not because the batteries died.

Ugh, just figure it out, build a bunch of extra, and we'll buy them ...

Wait wait wait? Purple?! I haven't seen purple before, do you have any photos?

I ran that model for about 36 hours once, so I'll be interested to see how many days you get out of it.

There are people who go to great lengths to tie riccia to rocks to get that look. Then they have a fit when it grows too much and parts of it break free and float around.

If you are taking the step of using RO water, I would not take chances with putting it in anything that has touched soap. Five gallon containers are cheap enough that I would just buy new ones that have not been used for anything else (and then mark them so no one else uses them - I can't tell you how many buckets I've lost to my parents "borrowing" them and then giving them back covered in *paint*).

oh my gosh we are a bunch of enablers!
... I want one now. Maybe a stack of two tens. Oh my.

Malawa Shrimp $1.95 ea (10 for 29.50 shipped)

Pic is of Malawa on a 12" leaf.  Often they have tiger stripes, and colors can range from reddish-brown, greyish-black, blue, to greenish-clear. [Please don't ask for specific colors since they all have the same genetics.] Keep in mind, to my knowledge no one has bred a color strain of these yet, so the opportunity is there- especially since these will pretty much outbreed cherries any day!
 
Here's another picture taken by Mayphly of one of the various looks.
 

 
Shipping is a flat $10 to anywhere in the continental US, and covers priority insulated box, and breather bags. 

Ugh, just figure it out, build a bunch of extra, and we'll buy them ...

If you are taking the step of using RO water, I would not take chances with putting it in anything that has touched soap. Five gallon containers are cheap enough that I would just buy new ones that have not been used for anything else (and then mark them so no one else uses them - I can't tell you how many buckets I've lost to my parents "borrowing" them and then giving them back covered in *paint*).

I have *A* baby!!!!    Day 35.   She is still berried but there is one baby in the breeder box with her so I guess she is starting.   It looks pretty clear so far but then, its only a couple hours old.   

Also, make sure you pH pen is calibrated. Don't trust the API test kit.

Columnaris.

Elodea can grow floating, so substrate is not a concern.

Good reads. If I remeber correctly Chris L. is going to discuss shrimp diseases in the 3rd issue of breeders n' keepers when ever it comes out.
have a gneiss day