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Brita filter runs carbon right? That should be removing chlorine, chloramine,fluoride. So the water in there probably isn't going to be killing any algae. Just clean out that sucker once a week. 😁

Do you guys just haul a net through from the shore or do you need to get in deep? When I've tried from shore, I haven't been very successful at all.

Don't use normal window glass that is 3mm that stuff chips so easy on the edges and corners. I've played that game and wished I didn't :p

I like making tanks with a "floating" bottom., meaning the sides are siliconed to the edges of the bottom pane. This means that you can make very minor adjustments up and down on the side panes to get the top edges to match just so. If the sides are sitting on the bottom pane, this is much harder.

Concept Aquatics has starphire in stock. You can also get it special ordered from a few glass shops. I've had some work done by New Glass Industries and the old guy there is pretty good to work with, but if you want starphire you'll have to wait for the special order. It seemed to me that concept would rather build you the tank than just cut and sell you the glass when I got glass for my last diy custom tank

Nice breeder box too.

Looks like http://collar.ua/en/aPUMP-USis only 30 CAD shipping included for the single outlet model. The dual outlet one works out to 34 CAD.

I'm getting one.

SKA used the led strips for his shrimp rack.

I got a few of these from SKA and I can vouch for their amazing appetite for algae. I have my lights running pretty bright and long to grow algae for my Sulawesi Cardinals to graze on. Unfortunately the Cardinals only seem to like new/young algae and not mature algae so I dropped 3 of these guys in there and after 3 weeks my tank no longer has patches of old algae. I'm now in the process of moving some to some of my other tanks.

So much faster than my PRLs.

Check with Shrimp keepers anonymous (ska) Hung is really into the buce.

I added an annotation on the youtube video that starts at 10 seconds to point out the little baby. You can only make out the little white gloves doing their ninja thing.

I suspect that neos are better algae eaters but I haven't kept neos for some time now. The cardinals don't seem to eat the more mature algae. I picked up some sun snails to hopefully clean out the older algae.

I wouldn't mind one of those guys for my air driven protein skimmer. The one I have is a bit noisy too.

So far I've counted up to 24 baby cardinals at one time out grazing. I have 3 pregnant mommies at the moment. These little guys seem that grow quite quickly. The biggest one I've seen from the first brood is probably about 6mm in length now. Let's hope they make it into adulthood. I may have to spin up another tank to hedge against catastrophic failure.

Can you find the baby in the video?

Of the batch I got at the same time as Claudio I had 10 survivors. The first few days are pretty disheartening. I was having one or two deaths a day. Things stabilised after a week or so. Just when i thought you got things figured out, they started moulting and with that came another round of deaths. Every time I saw a moult I was looking for a corpse. That was nerve wracking. Eventually there were 10 left.

But now after Claudio's success, I've followed suit. We've both got different setups. I'm very grateful that there are babies.

You can just make out the little guys hiding under the moss rock.

Darn you Hung. Why you so fast on the replies?!

Since you are going ugf, I would avoid sand because it tends to work it's way down through your coarse first layer and starts to clog things up. I'd pick something with a larger grain size.

I have been playing around with using black lava gravel recently.

If using an active substrate is not s usually not recommended to vacuum the substrate. And with sensitive shrimps you want to keep things as stable as possible. Vacuuming tends to kick up a lot of crap. Depending on tue substrate, water parameters, and water change schedule, people seem to redo the substrate from 1 to 2 years.

For the UGF, I found that cutting slots gives much better flow than drilling. I wouldn't mind finding out how the others decide how much more flow to put at the ends vs nearer the upflow. With the coarse gravel/matrix on the bottom layer it mat not matter as much?

Keith, I was concerned that it was Eurasian Water Milfoil as well (I was at that website too ) but the images that I've seen for that has the leaves looking more feathery. But of course we know that aquatic plants grow in so many forms in different conditions. I may be building a mini pond or container water garden this year. Unless I know better, I probably won't be adding this in.

Kinda fun, none the less, to see stuff in the wild.

Any other members wise in the ways of plants from ponds?

I pulled it out of a pond while out and about. I was actually catching the gammarus at the time. I thought milfoil also, but didn't want to colour opinions.

Can anyone ID this plant?

The crazy blur is a gammarus. They are kinda creepy.

Thanks!

There we go. I run a syphon that I start with that airline tubing. To get it going, I have to close the ball valve downstream, otherwise you just suck air :P

That explains the dumping 1 gallon of RO. In aquariums that big, it is only 4% of the total volume taking into account substrate. I'm only running 10 gallon aquariums and a gallon is more like 15% of total water volume and would be a bit more risky.

Nice stability bonus for the larger aquariums.