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All of that is up to you. My shrimp tank has natural coloured aquarium gravel, drift wood, wisteria, moss, corkscrew vals and an amazon sword I constantly trim because it's too big for my tank I love sand substrate, but always had an issue getting plants to root - others don't have that problem. Some people use kitty litter, clay, dirt...etc. it's all a matter of choice.

Another Fort McMurray - welcome! Only the one store up here, but people often order fish and supplies this way and combine shipping. There's a small group on FB called Fort McMurray Fish Keepers if you're interested in joining. People buying, selling etc...only about 70 people, but all in McMurray.

Thank you! It's weird, the one in the solo pic is 2-3X bigger than the other 2, I got them all at the same time. Am I correct assuming the big one is my female?

I found the eggs on Mother's Day, scraped and saved as many as I could. Hatched out over 90%. Only had a few die (not sure why), but most are growing, and quickly. I had asked a friend for moss, and he gave me some - a few days later...I hatch out his rainbowfish fry. So now I'm growing out a bunch of corydoras and about 6 rainbowfish fry. Pretty neat to see them grow, feeding everyone hikari first bites for now, seems to be working well. Corydoras are reaching over a CM already, not even a month in. First time trying to raise fry from eggs, only ever done it with mouth brooding cichlids, which is pretty easy...don't let the fry get eaten

Food! Growing Still growing Searching for food

Free swimming Being watched... New digs

I have a bunch of corydoras hanging out in my 29G, and thought it was my orange venezualans that were doing the deed...but as the fry are growing out, it appears I was mistaken, and it's my 'assorted' corydoras that were breeding. Pet store called them assorted, I think they are peppered, any corydoras experts want to ID mom and Dad for me? Assuming these are my males. My female I'm assuming Artwork

Most people who are actively keeping shrimp do so in a species only tank. Almost anyfish will find shrimp a tasty treat. As for breeding, depending on the type, they breed readily, although, in a community tank, odds are no shrimplets will survive predation. I keep my shrimp in a highly planted 10G with a betta - he is the best fed betta in the world, as he picks off the occasional shrimplet. Personally, a small 10G shrimp and plant tank can be very nice, in addition to your community tank.

Alright, sounds good. Thanks! I was more curious if anyone else used the product, and noticed a change.

They called me about me thera A, and I asked them to sub the smaller container size for those, so they likely did the same for the wafers as a courtesy. I appreciate them swapping the 2 smaller for the one larger, and they did so at the same cost...which was nice. My issue being the product itself is different, regardless of the quantity I ordered of it.- thats the weird part.

So I always get my plecos NLS H20 Stable wafers, I generally get the 250G container. I always order my food from Petsandponds.com This last order, they didn't have the 250G, so they sent me 4 of the 150 to make up for the 2 I ordered. All 4 containers of them look different in size then the others, they are much fatter. My plecos wont eat them, and my buddies plecos wont eat his either. Did they change the recipe on NLS? Has anyone else noticed anything weird with theirs?

For those concerned with canister filters draining out on the floor, you can drill a small hole on the intake tube, 1" (or more) below your water level I worsed case, it does leak, and start pumping out of the tank, it'll only pump to that hole before it pulls in air and breaks the seal.

Hello, and welcome. Lots of cichlid owners on this forum.

Neither creature seems to be impacting my shrimp colony (that I can tell). I'm just curious about them. My guess is most tanks have bugs, and fish eat them...guess my betta prefers shrimp to bugs?

So... yeah... I have a 10G tank. Snails, shrimp, plants, a betta, some weird looking little bugs all over the sides of the tanks, and a few of these snake looking things. so... I know what the snails, shrimp, plants and betta are...it's the other two that have me stumped. Been present for quite awhile, they don't seem to do much. Was trying to catch a picture of the snake thing when one of my adult shrimp swam up behind it and grabbed it by the tail and started to try and eat it. Picture 1, snake tail while it's cuddling with a leaf. Picture 2, Punisher Shrimp attacks a snake. Picture 2 also shows a bunch of the bug things. I'd toss a goby in to eat everything, but he'd eat my shrimp, then my betta would eat him...

Damn. Just tossed out a massive moss ball yesterday...

Well, we took down the 30. I cut the leaves the eggs were on (glass eggs got eaten) and put them in a hangon quarantine box. Placed it under the filter so current would get in the box. Woke up to a bunch of swimmers today, more by the hour. Seems i have dozens of corydoras. I crushed up some nls pellets and put them in the box. Should that be good enough for them to eat? I did that with my cichlids, but they came out bigger.

Thats nice to hear. This tank was a qt tank. Funny thing, we were About to tear down and our apistos had swimmers, so we left it running. Was about to tear down tomorrow when i noticed these eggs. Think they are telling me they like the 30

I was hoping for a different answer, like snail on snail death.

Good day! Corydoras, apistos or snails? http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o786/flash_oesc/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20140329_175253_zps7164acbb.jpg http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o786/flash_oesc/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20140329_175309_zps1e5b825d.jpg

My cories love it. Cichlids dig under wood in it. Easy to clean, easy to vacuum. Doesn't bother my filters.

Ontario. They do ship. That's where I got my mini moss balls, pellia and starter colony of shrimp. Packed so well they survived Canada Post losing them for a week...not one fatality.

Until you get some nls - crush up whatever your parents ate, make sure the babies have access to food. I fed 3-4 times a day, and sucked up the excess a couple hours after feeding with a turkey baster.

If she's empty, you can move her back. I like to feed my mothers a couple good meals before moving them back (they haven't eaten in a month sometimes...). I also do it after lights out, so there is minimal tank agression. Mine didn't eat any babies, I kept them in for about 36 hours or so, after spitting.

My mbuna do just fine with no buffering - around 7.5ph. Breeding and thriving!