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You could go more if you just do one gender - focus the males. Mixed with that many, you are looking at potentially hundreds of guppy fry a month. Set up a 10 gallon and put in a single pair/trio if you want to enjoy breeding and come up with neat combinations. Having that many breeding...

That sounds pretty good from what I understand. Once they are adults - not sure how fast these guys grow - they are fine being fed once a week. Probably don't want to go two week in-between too often but shouldn't cause any issues. Humidity is good. Males live for approximately 4 years...

I find it to be hit or miss. My bloody mary colony started with an order of 30 - didn't lose a single shrimp, have well over 1,000 now. Blue dream starting colony of 20 - lost about half of them in first 2 days, slowly rebounding now. Just started a zebra babaulti colony this past week and...

Thank you for the info richiep !

Was able to finally get some caridina babaulti. Very excited, shrimp arrived healthy and active. I do have one question, a lot of pictures I have seen have some that are quite a bit more opaque and often with a stripe down the back. Is that something they develop as they mature or are there...

If you don't have experience keeping Discus, I would suggest start there before trying to breed. If you are able to keep your discus alive and healthy, and they do breed, your fry will need daily 100% water changes, parameters have to be spot on. multiple 5+ feedings per day. Those fish you...

Do it. You didn't come on here to actually be talked out of it! You have everything ready to go! We would love to see pictures of set up process and updates.

Sharks. This is exactly how you get sharks in the house, and nobody wants that. Well. some of us want sharks. I would like a shark some day... so I think you should do it.

I agree, in my opinion entirely unnecessary and a money grab.

I do have a pressurized DIY baking soda/citric acid set up. Basically a steel cylinder I can just dump in my mix together with water and full reaction will take place but can hold the CO2 pressure for about 10-14 days before I run out. Works pretty nice but at the point where I am tired of...

Agree, 100% staged, the area they are catching them is a walled off pool from the river as well, its fully enclosed little area they are netting them out of.

That's a super cool set up! I saw the glass flask there and was guessing that was your CO2 set up. Very creative, haven't seen it done like this before.

You need to dig it up to the side of your house, where you can put a large 6-7 foot tall glass viewing window in your basement to see into the pond. A mix of the below set ups.

I agree with all of this. A lot of your beneficial bacteria are in your filter cartridge. Removing that this early on and you will remove most of your cycle. A smaller siphon will allow you to vac up the gravel a bit, I am guessing its larger gravel chunks that waste can settle throughout it...

I was thinking it looked very clayish to me. That would line up. If you google images "broken bricks", they look like an identical match to me.

Haha yeah, that's my curse too. Don't think to clean or do something when its not in use, only when its not available. Two hours is fine in my opinion, even longer. Ceramic diffusers are not the most efficient, plus it takes about two hours for a drop checker to adjust to CO2 levels, so you...

Ceramic diffusers are the least efficient way to inject CO2 in my experience, they will need frequent care and cleaning. The larger the bubbles/mist coming out, then the more CO2 will just instantly degas at the surface. Your bubble count or how much CO2 you are putting in is probably a...

Glad things are working. Curious about the solenoid on a DIY system though. Do you have an emergency pressure release valve on the bottles or are you using more then just soda bottles to contain the pressure while the solenoid is off? Even a DIY yeast system can build up the pressure to...

Hey! Very cool idea, I really like this. My plan was to someday make some 'faux' bottom with sand and epoxy, but this is much easier, cheaper and cleaner looking. Fantastic idea. Honestly not sure why I never thought to spray paint bottoms for bare bottom when you can do the same with...

Really strange to have low pH with hard water. Can you get a GH and KH reading for the water so we have numbers? What kind of substrate do you have in the tank? It would take a lot of acid build up to have that low pH depending on what your GH and KH is.