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I have never owned a fish beyond small bettas when I was 11 but I want to start a piranha aquarium. I have all the money to do so and plenty of space in my home. Any tips on how to get starting??
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>3 sword plants
>rose sword is doing fantastic, leaves at least 10 inches long, always putting out new ones
>2 ocelots are withering away and melting off leaves despite root tabs
what gives? I feel like if it was a tank-wide issue then either all swords or all plants would be experiencing it, not just those specific two. can post pics if that would help.
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>>5131602
not as dense as it should be (need a better light) but i've got plenty of hiding spots from rocks and drift wood.
and i've got bronze corydoras, kuhli loaches, guppies, longifn zebra danios, and amano shrimp
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>>5131610
>bronze cories
fine, will eat shrimplets but only if they sit still and let themselves get sucked up
>kuhli loaches
same
>guppies
curious but fairly slow
>zebra danios
probably the worst, curious and fast and will investigate plants and hiding places
>amanos
harmless except when they decide to scoop eggs right off a female neo
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Well I took the plunge. After years of putting off planted tanks I'm going back to it again. But it's the first time I've done a dirted setup. I'll just have to see how it goes.
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Does anyone breed shrimp? I like the idea of selectively breeding for the best colors. I want to get bloody marys for their vibrant full body color but if I start with the highest grade is there anything left to improve on with my eugenics program?
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>>5132258
If you start with high grades then most of the work will just be culling any low grades they happen to put out. If you want the process of “making” beautiful shrimp you can start with low-mid grades and then learn how to grade shrimp and start building a pool of high grades.
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>>5132281
I'm hoping to produce some really nice shrimp to share with friends and maybe trade for plants and whatnot.
My friend offered me some gorgeous mollies for the tank I just cycled but I have my heart set on stocking a particular way and I read that they can pick on shrimp. Trading and breeding is an attractive aspect of the hobby
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About to give up on breeding my habrosus. They’re wild caught so I’m pretty sure they’re just never gonna go. One of my males randomly died off in the middle of conditioning last week so I slowed down. He was always a runt, never really grew since I got him. The others are healthy, so I think whatever the issue was, was unique to him. But no amount of bloodworms, blackworms, and cool water changes are getting them to go. Tank is infested with flame moss and water lettuce, parameters are perfect. It’s literally their own jungle paradise and they just won’t fuck. 13 of them sharing the space with amanos and neos and it’s not good enough. Fuck.
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>>5132491
I've read about some fish that won't breed without tanins. You gotta look at the source water they came from, not just it's parameters but conditions.
Fast flowing water, slow, shallow, deep, how much tanins, how much light/shade
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>>5132508
I have a few aldercones in there and always keep an Indian almond leaf cooking. I wonder if I should over do it until the water is brown basically, condition them for a few days, and then hit it with a cold fresh water change.
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I stopped feeding my pea puffers snails because they wouldn't eat the whole thing and they would rot and i'd get film on my water
been feeding em bbs and daphnia fine, TRYING to get them to eat magic small fish feed but alas
I've had ONE snail out of the hundred(s) I've put in survive, like they just have adopted him as a pet
it's the ONLY tank I have algae, you can see this single snails random path through it on the glass. not necessarily because no snails, but it gets lots of natural light
I really want to get more snails in there they won't fuck with, but all the ones the same size I've dropped in they killed
today I was walking by my community tank and saw this CHONKER so I threw him in
pray he's too big for them to fuck with
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>>5131479
Piranha are carnivores and messy eaters so you'll be working harder to keep the tank clean, you'll also want to get them young so they can establish a pecking order before they're big enough to rip each other apart.
once you see how few adults can actually fit in an aquarium, realize how shit of an idea this is and get silver dollars instead since they're basically the same thing but half the effort.
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>>5132866
some newer strains of corydoras, wouldn't breed for weeks with normal successful practices.
guy got tip on where they were from, it was very tanin heavy, so he added a dark ass tanin tea to the tank
got spawns next day
idk exact strains, I'm not that obsessive
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