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If you are buying a pre made unit just get one with a tank

I had a half barrel pond with medaka this year and the water temperature didn't get over 15°C until mid June and barely got up to 25°C until the first week of July. I don't think putting in direct sunlight would be a good idea so would some kind of solar panel heater combo work to start the...

I finally found an egg on a mop and there is a cluster hanging on off one fish.

Some fish and shrimp need soft low PH water that is achieved by using RODI water and a TDS meter is a great tool for maintaining it. It sounds like you have hard tap water which is much easier to keep stable because the minerals buffer the PH and the mixture of minerals remains fairly...

The number itself is not useful without context from past readings and other water tests. It can't tell the difference between salts, minerals, nitrates or other things in the water but you can quickly check if the number is going up or down over time.

I picked up these medaka from a local pet store in June and I have not seen eggs yet but the water has only gotten to 25°C in the last week or so. Is the one in the front a male and the one to the right a female?

If there is a hydroponics store in town they might have the right size.

Your pic isn't showing up. If you don't have fish that will eat duckweed then moving surface water will slow the growth so you can pick out any surviving duckweed.

Home - Project Piaba They live in flooded forests and die in the dry season if no one catches them.

I have not seen a clear plastic tub I would trust to be filled with water inside a building. And I don't know about the UV stability for outside.

I left a the light off a planted tank for about 3 months once. The stem plants where mostly melted away while the crypts growth slowed and they looked scraggly. Moss took over.

If the substrate and filter stay wet it is not really %100 and the colonies will get established.

It is normal practice for betta breeders to do a %100 water change every day or every other day in the bare jars or bottles they grow them out in. Water changes are only a shock to fish if the temperature and parameters of the new water is close to the old water which they should be if you are...

Even if you drain the tank and let it dry up they might come back

Water sloshing in a tank can make it very hard to carry.