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Well don't jinx yourself, lol. Let them clear waters flow and enjoy!

What you have to ask, is how he reacts to you? You, too, can be your fish's friend :)

Cataract surgery lately? ;)

Thanks. Reasons... Well, like I said, I read several posts/threads on a few forums, plus those snippet google answers to questions. It seems split between meds vs temp increase. And seeing as how I don't have any ich meds, I did the first thing available to me. I raised the temp (hopefully 6-7...

Mine have been self-destructing. But I'm pretty sure that's a result of not liking the water they found themselves in. Lucky me :)

The local glass shop has been cutting me several custom pieces of glass to arrange for what works with my tanks. Pretty cheap, too. Even though I requested 1/4" thick.

Silly fish. I fed the fish in my new tank some thawed brine shrimp just now. Aside from the Apisto, I was watching the Serpae Tetras attack this stuff and the Glass Bloodfin Tetras swimming around wondering what all the excitement was about. Then I noticed. Apparently it was more fun to swim...

So yes, I read through a bunch of threads already. And I've decided to try the raised temps first. Which due to the nature of aquarium heaters might take a few days to hone in on 86F. I have one new (six days in my tank) fish that I saw some spots on tonight. From both sides (same spots). But...

January 8th? Christmas tree lights? ;) It looks nice.

Well... maybe this is why snails don't like my tanks. Except the ones I'd like to get rid of.

I thought I was the only one seeing that. I recently had my Cacatuoides go through this age. I was told here they were both females at this age. Then one turned into a male, but I still had this one, who I was told was a female. And then a couple weeks later And by this time he was really...

I looked it up before when I saw it mentioned. Too much work IMO. I'd rather make cookies for myself :)

Luckyyyyyy... :) [extra words]

Monitoring temps. I have no heat. So off to Wally World a few hours ago to buy some electric heaters so the tank rooms don't drop more than what they already have. Temps in the tanks are still fine, water being what it is, but I doubt the rooms will warm up to normal temps. Not with space...

I went out to my RO unit and switched buckets and such around, then fed the fish out there. While I was at it I decided to rinse off the prefilter in the one tank's sump. And sure enough, there was one of the missing pencilfish I did not see earlier, under the filter pad. Good thing I got there...

Thanks. I'm debating on whether or not to try to fix him up with a female, but I don't want to end up with another male. I might have to try one of those places that sells them when they are a little older.

I just finished a 7-8g WC in the Tributary tank. I wanted to drop the water level a little bit, keep feeding it RO and pull some of the tannins out. I accomplished all three :) The fish are all out and about and didn't seem bothered by the WC at all. I'm really liking the Glass Bloodfin...

What a bummer. Do shrimp turn that color when they die? It looks like she was cooked.

This tank is still very much a work in progress. But here's a little video after adding some more fish today. And yes, it does look like that in person ;) The fish don't seem to mind the color. And my Apisto's fat lip has healed :)

The flow is what it is. It's in a sump tank, so I am constantly playing with water in vs water out vs trying to maintain low flow and a constant tank volume (surface water below the lip). But the probe (I use an instant read food thermometer) lets me take the temp here and there quickly. And...