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Try on Reddit r/Aquaswap, they're all home breeders and have been vetted and publicly reviewed by the community. They also post pictures of the fish they're actually selling. Lots of different sellers of shrimp, fish, plants, and also people selling used equipment and tanks etc

I did a little bit of research into blue tangs specifically. Do you have a reef in your tank? Is it aged? I read that blue tangs are reef fish and are generally wild caught, if you're lacking a reef in your tank (or at least live rock), it won't know where to go or be comfortable. In the wild...

No problem, although I don't think I helped much! Also, I looked under find a guru on the bottom of the page, you can find members who have been recognized as being very knowledgable in specific areas there. Jesterrace might be able to help you more if you have any questions still

Hmm I'm not familiar with how saltwater tanks cycle, i recommend searching the forum for info on how to cycle a saltwater tank. Your water parameters might be off. I'm really out of my element here so maybe try reaching out directly to a member well versed in salt

Try adding some boiled, baked, and crushed eggshells to the water (or seashells if you have them) to provide an immediate source of calcium carbonate. Did you quarantine your new shrimp? Is your phone camera good enough to take a close up of a live or dead shrimp?

I will do some research on blue tangs and see if I can help. For now, keep the light on maybe? I don't want to give you any suggestions that could be detrimental as I know next to nothing about salt. I would consider keeping the filter off so you can sleep but again I have no idea if that would...

If it doesn't turn out to be dead fry, consider maybe it's your test? Mine recently started mostly giving me .25 readings except sporadically it won't, perhaps when I shake bottle one just the right amount of times. The change coincided with bottle 1's liquid becoming more "goopy" for some...

Following, this is sad. I wish I had an answer but I have no experience with saltwater fish

Why do you think they have parasites? The chances of them having parasites in any harmful capacity is slim if they're young, well cared for, and tank bred.... But all animals, humans included, carry parasites. It's just a fact of life. They won't cause problems unless your fish has a weakened...

That's a great drawing! And thanks for giving me creds haha but honestly I just tell as many people as will listen about that site because I think it's such an amazing resource, there's like a library's worth of knowledge on it. That's really clever of you to figure out about the bacteria...

Yay I love a good success story it's really gratifying to see someone actually take the advice they get and everything turns out for the best. that's diatoms and they just grow in first in a new tank. It's a good sign, that means your cycled. You can get some snails or eventually some cherry...

I sadly don't have many old pictures of him, I only recently got a phone with a decent camera. Here's one I could find This was after his fins starting curling and rotting, not long after this initial post Then a long break from the paparazzi new pics unfortunately, he has recurring...

I'm sorry i honestly couldn't read the whole thing because it's very difficult to read, can you please add punctuation and such next time? Not trying to be rude, I'm just not sure if I missed anything so I wanted to add a disclaimer. I did skim it. Not sure if you've solved this yet, but...

Whooooo boy, what didn't happen with this betta is more like the question? I spent pretty much the whole summer treating him because he kept getting secondary infections. Honestly I'm surprised he made it, he's such a trooper! So the scale missing thing, I wish I got a better pic but it...

I think you probably won't see much for nitrates because of your plants, at least not until you have more fish in there. Nitrites will go down when bacteria grows to eat it. I would keep it at the same temp, personally, but I don't know if it makes a difference. That's weird your ph dropped so...

If you really like the plastic shell, you can get this spray stuff called plasti-dip that is basically just a spray on plastic, it's completely safe for fish tanks and you can use it to make anything safe because it literally just coats it in plastic. It's awesome

No thank you, I've honestly had a rough couple weeks so this whole thread was so wholesome for me to read. I've been kinda hard on myself because I lost 10/14 of my CPDs, the last 4 are barely holding on. It all happened so fast, they weren't acting sick even. Then all of a sudden 10 died within...

Ah sorry, I meant that they should be dead but luckily the ph is low. I read the thread! Lol Also, "Haha! Fool! This isn't even my final form c:<" Okay good, I just wanted to rule out tap water and also make sure you were able to get a low reading with the ammonia test to rule out defective...

The strips are pretty inaccurate ime, and not really worth using. I would just go off the liquid kit. You can get a liquid KH/GH test as well if you're wanting to test those more accurately Can you test your tap water? It would help paint a better picture of what's going on. Is there a...

Unless I'm missing it completely, I only saw the ph test for your tap water? Did you test it for ammonia?