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Lovely colour and shape, worth the BBA 🙂

They are great little fish and pretty shrimp friendly, they may snatch a tiny one if it swims. I had equal amounts of males and females, the males are so busy with each other that they didn’t seem to bother the females, the females choose so the males have to impress but extra females would be...

They look like they have been heavily photoshopped if not completely an artists creation. This close up is a tell

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That is a lot, they seem to boom and bust from what I have seen, I think they must compete with the baby shrimp for food but I don’t think they do any real harm. They seem to like cucumber so a slice will soon get covered in them, the shrimp jump off when its removed from the water but the...

Limpid snails is the common name, harmless clean up crew.

Regular aphids and then whitefly I expect, I would brush off the aphids, some fish happily eat them. The fish has a great little grumpy face, maybe the stuck sand helps them to camouflage in nature, or maybe the slime coat thicker if the fish is irritated by something and the sand is then...

They can get pregnant at one month old, so Zozo may be right. As she has no colour on her tail she might be an endler Guppy.

The little loaches are just great. :)

I have come across reports that assassin snails will kill leeches, you have snails so maybe thats not an option for you. Are more shrimplets surviving now that you are catching the leeches?

The non filter feeding ones do eat spinach algae wafers and nettles, just about anything shrimp will eat. You can spot one on the nettle here with a baby shrimp.

Great journal and a lovely looking tank. I would agree about the rosy loaches, they are fearless,active and social little guys, they use all levels of the tank. On the threadfins they fly about at all levels especially when they are breeding.

Pretty certain it’s blue green algae, Cyanobacteri. You can brush it off or siphon it off the plants with a small hose I have used airline tubing at water changes, if you keep doing it it will diminish and disappear eventually. It often grows where there is less water circulation. A 3-4 day...

One smart cool cat.

Eheim mini UP says it does 300l/hr and you can adjust the flow. I use it on a 15 litre and it is very quiet.

Thats amazing, I wonder why there are so many. I have had a lot of ostracods in shrimp tanks but never that many copepods. They seem to eat anything I give the shrimp so I expect they do compete with the shrimplets. If you ever get any chance fry they would thrive in that shrimp tank. You could...

Lovely looking tanks, welcome to the forum. :)

Looks great!

They might be Micropoecilia parae if they are not endlers. The male looks too colourful for them but I expect they are being selectively bred and hybridised so may be them. You could check google images.

The tank and filters will probably catch up with the extra load. You can increase surface agitation so it gets mixed up in the water and into the filters, you could add a surface skimmer or an old method use paper towel, put the paper flat on the water and it will take the film with it when...

No the pH change wont bother CRS.

The Esha shouldn’t be a problem for the fry. Sorry about your fish, you are doing the best you can,

Not sad at all, they are such cool little guys. 😊

Great shots especially with a phone.

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The ones I kept were not shy at all they were always out and about. Your tank will make a great home for them.

Not ick I’m pretty sure. Ick looks like tiny grains of salt and will be on other fish and anywhere on the fish. Some sort of infection but I don’t know what. Super clean water is always a good idea so extra water changes may help.

I don’t think it’s Ich so raising the temperature may only stress the fish more.

Look like Corydoras eggs.

I used to keep these Malaya shrimp, I never had much success with breeding them. The Sri Lankan dwarf shrimp are colourless but interesting little shrimp, they were easy to breed. The other pic is one of shrimp I have now they are ‘Australian Amano shrimp or Caridina typhus, they have the same...

Lovely tank, the angels are beauties.

Looks like a female and male endler or perhaps guppy.

Yes the planaria do live in any body of water so they may be in the tubs. You could try a planaria trap in the tubs to find out if they are in there.

Yes they are called coir pellets on Amazon. They work for all the diving spawners. Here are a different species I had years ago they are bigger than your fish, the pellets work quite well, they will scatter some of it. I always had multiple pairs of the same species with enough room and lots of...

When I kept them and other substrate spawners I kept them in planted tanks with aquasoil or sand and used coir pellets for them to spawn in. They know not to try spawning in the hard substrate and will use the pellets, the pellets work even for much bigger killifish, it’s easy to take the...

Ramshorn snail I like them in a tank, wont harm the plants

I have had successful transactions with the different ebay shops all at the same Glasgow address most of them were about 10 years ago I recently had a good deal with them. I have had no complaints, the guy running the shops is a fish enthusiast he used to sell mostly killifish. He is not a con...

Thank you, Plants are in excellent condition.👍

They would eat dwarf shrimp when they are adults, even amano shrimp might not be safe.

Sorry I wasn't clear, I know they are not mosquitoes, but they end up in buckets that have been dry, I fill them with mucky water to attract the mosquitoes. That's why I expect that they are eggs of flying insects. I thought that they might be drone fly eggs but I can't find an image of the...

Eggs form outer space, :) I expect they may be eggs of a flying insect, I find those eggs in containers that I use for growing mosquitos, there are no snails in the buckets and the gel is a softer jelly than snail eggs.

I wouldn’t know what to suggest, a moult should take seconds, they usually take a minute or so from start to finish, dwarf shrimp and large amanos do it this way, large fan shrimp can take up to two minutes. To moult properly the old shell should be separated from the body before the actual...

Once the daphnia are in a pond they can survive drying out by laying resting eggs that have a protective shell like brine shrimp or annual killifish. They can colonise new ponds in times of flooding and it is thought likely that the resting eggs can be transported on the feet and legs of...

Re: CBS tds in low tech??? You can use ‘stability’ as opposed to a shrimp specific GH booster. It is what a lot of people used before all the shrimp specific additives were available. I use an African cichlid conditioner to get the tds to about 120 it just adds GH and lasts for ages. In...

I have kept them for years and the biggest I have seen had a shell a little over an inch long.

Malaysian trumpet snails are generally considered useful as they burrow and turn over the soil. They don’t eat live plants and eat leftover food. Ramshorns don’t eat live plants and do a bit of cleaning up so if you like them you could add them too. I don’t know what worms would survive with...

Some lovely pics and vids, the first pic of the new betta is very striking. Very nice tank he has too. cheers Peter

It may not be anything to worry about, sometimes some of the eggs don’t hatch and are left stuck to the shell and got rid of with the moult, if the shrimp does not moult soon after the eggs have hatched she will remove them herself. I have seen once or twice a shrimp moult with a full lot of...

You may have spotted them just after they were born, they tend to stay where they landed for a few hours they need to have one or two molts before they can start feeding then they spread out and it is very hard to see them so if the water is good they should be fine.

The boraras won’t trouble grown shrimp but they will eat baby shrimp, they can eat glass worms so a baby shrimp will go down just as easily, as the boraras are so small they can get into all the baby shrimp hiding places. They may eat small planaria and control the population. Genchem No...

Maybe through the livebearer association you could get some that are as pure as it’s possible to get. Most if not all in the hobby have guppy genes according to this PFK article. http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/c ... p?sid=2733

The plants look lovely and lush. As already said there were lots of reports some years ago of a species that look the same as amano that do breed in freshwater, it’s surprising that they have not been marketed as a separate species, I for one would buy them. They may breed like Sri Lankan dwarf...

This time of year I would not use any heat packs, amanos are fine with cooler temperatures.

They look great and have such interesting behaviour for a tetra, another one to keep some time!

A bit late, but thanks for the comments George. Thanks Darren yeah that’s me. You may like this species its Boraras naevus, they were scientifically described last year. Guess they are still rare enough. They are quite different from other boraras sp in that the males and females are quite...

The body shape is very cherry shrimp like, a cool looking shrimp whatever it is.

The shrimp in the pic is an amano, but the seller says they are green shrimp and as they have 200 I would check first, not many people are breeding amano.

Thanks, yeah I did, its a bit of a hobby of mine, taking fish pics. Cheers Peter

I got them in Wholesale Tropicals in London a couple of years ago; Kesgrave Tropicals sometimes have them and do mail order. As for the water, don’t think they are fussy, they were in local hard water and now I have them with crystal reds pH6.5 GH GH4 and less than 1 KH at 23C. They need very...

These tiny fish (Danionella dracula) are not so common, I keep them with shrimp as they can’t eat baby shrimp. Danionella-dracula-1 by Peter M4, on Flickr

Lovely shrimp and photo, I doubt the shrimp can actually eat the snail in either photo, unless it was already dead, it is probably picking the food off the shell, guess the snail gets a shock though.

You don’t give the settings you used so it’s a guess as to what you can change. It would be hard to improve on these without an off camera flash, they are pretty good for these hyper little fish. The more light you have on the tank the better, you need a fast shutter speed, the F number needs...

Yes sounds like nematodes, they don’t do any harm, yes fish would control them but not get rid of them, you would have to treat the tank to be rid of them, don’t know how they get into tanks but they do. If the other worm is flat then it is likely to be planaria, a google image search should...

Lovely shrimp they are the yellow colour form of cherry shrimp so treat them the same and they will breed lots. Of course better not to keep them with red or orange cherry shrimp if you want to keep the colour.

I keep them with tiger shrimp, they are pretty shrimp friendly as much as the microrasboras, maybe even better as they won't root about in moss looking for shrimplets, though if a tiny shrimplet goes for a swim its toast.

Great photos and the tank, a pure delight for the eyes. Cheers Peter

There is no harm in taking a bit of plant, as Graham said you will get a few guests with the plant. If you put the plant in some carbonated water for about 10 minutes that should kill most of them. Hitchhikers like dragon fly or fish lice are not something you want. I put the sparkling water in...

Sounds like something is poisoning them, I would change half of the water. I don't think it is the ferts. If you have put the adults in brackish water then that is the problem. The adults are freshwater, it is only the larvae that can live in brackish water. Peter

I am pretty certain they are nematodes, about the width of a thread, they move like blood worm and only come above the substrate at night. They are totally harmless, nothing at all to worry about. They cannot cause you any harm at all. When your fish move in they will have a nice treat. I have...

Really lovely macros, Cheers

Some I can think of are, aponogetons, (some of them) Bolbitis heudelotii, Crinum natans and Nesaea crassicalus and N. pedicellata. Cheers

They hold fertile eggs for up to a month, depends on the temperature how fast the eggs mature. As they are only holding them for a couple of days the eggs must not be fertile. Maybe you do not have males, they are much smaller with slimmer bodies and as you said less colour. The other critters...

It can be used on its own but it won't raise KH so some tap would do that, i.e. if the bottled water does not have enough KH

The consensus seems to be that crs like a little KH 1 or 2 and a GH of about 6, I use Hagen African Cichlid Conditioner to get enough GH, it will not raise the pH. You would need to do some testing to get the amounts right. The bottled water is likely not to have enough minerals in it on its...

The Amazonia 2 can be a real pain lots of people including me have had milky water and filter pads full of the broken soil. For a tank that small you could do bottled drinking water most of it has an almost neutral ph, a 5 litre supermarket own brand doesn't cost much, you could mix it with some...