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Hi all, So I got myself CPD-s and one of them is separate from the group, doesn't eat and looks definitely sick. Do you have ideas what can be wrong with this little fellow? I keep him in the aquarium so far but I doubt he'll be alive tomorrow. Any advices appreciated.

I also had impression I saw CPDs- like that before, in a completely different store. That got me thinking maybe that's how they look like...

Thank you, that is what I thought but I got confused that all of them look like this

Hi all, I went to the LFS yesterday and saw suspicious looking galaxy rasboras. Does anyone have a clue why are they so "hunchbacked"? It is not just one specimen, all of them look like this: Are they sick or hungry or something else? Will they look more like this when they grow up? Mod...

in practice you will quarantine them :) the only risk is that if you need to cure for anything then you will use more of medicine since you dose them per gallon/liter of water. Dedicated quarantine aquariums are usually smaller than the main tank so less medicine goes for the treatment

Hi! Thanks for sharing picture in the welcome post, nice aquariums

Thanks for sharing the story, i learned something important today!

what a day you had! as for the glue, usually they recommend glue that contains only cyanoacrylate (i.e. gorilla) while scotch has additionally PMMA (aquarium safe) and traces of hydroquinone which I know nothing about. But you need it for lid so I'd use it

what I'm sure about is that you care for your fish good as there is a water conditioner and safestart on the shelf below :)

You may double your neon tetras and corys to end up with 12 and 10 correspondingly. Both species are social and like to live in bigger groups. One inch of fish per gallon of water rule is sort of an indication but not perfect in your case. You have social fish and tetras occupying top/mid...

check out those: Echinodorus tenellus Eleocharis Parvula Sagittaria subulata Marsilea Crenata/Marsilea Hirsuta they should be fine with low/mid light and no co2 but still i'd recommend some root tabs

Hi and welcome! Good idea with live plants, your future shrimp will appreciate them :)

How I would do it: Change 50% once and see if nitrates went down. If next day still above safe levels (50mg/l) change again. If around 20 mg/l then see if I can extend the water change interval By the way, think if you can add some floating plants, they tend to lower nitrates

No it will not. Of course do it in a somehow ventilated area but amount of smoke you'll get out of the process is close to nothing. Just prepare a glass of water so you can quickly cool the screwdriver tip after you are done with using it and be careful don't burn yourself please Use a gas...

To answer second part of your question bacopa isn't primarily a root feeder but ludwigia and rotala are. I'm curious what others will say about those rotting stems