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newt! I hope she is enjoying her giant home 🥺

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Daryl Dixon is a little angry, about my attempt to clean the algae off the glass. I think I’ll wait till tomorrow.

I also had to trim the Japanese Water Sprite from taking over his entire tank. His natural instinct is to blend in with his environment, that’s a super power. It’s like he’s understandably upset there’s less foliage, but this will give a chance for the foreground plants to takeoff.

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some photos from the aquarium i volunteer at

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Its been a hot second, I’m waiting for co2 tanks before I go crazy, wish me luck!

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some goldies

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Some wiggles

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Some of these are WIPs but I tried “scanning” my pics with Notebloc

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I also started this tank on January 15th, 2017, here is it’s progress to January 15th, 2018!  This is my 29 gallon, and unfortunately due to the parasite outbreak I had this fall it’s still not finished as far as stocking because I lost almost everything. Currently it houses 13 white cloud mountain minnows, hopefully soon I’ll be able to get celestial pearl danios (I want about 25,) and some species of apistogramma. 

I don’t know why I tried that whole sand in the aquascape thing in the middle there, that was a terrible idea and I never took the sand out but it just blended into the rest of the substrate at some point. 

The plants are: brazilian pennywort (floating), Devils Ivy at the top out the filter space, anubias barteri, anubias nana, java fern, amazon sword, echinodorus ozelot, cryptocoryne balans, moneywort, bacopa amplexicaulis, dwarf sagittaria.

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Theres a flesh creature in my tank.

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Here’s a little photoset of some of the import Bettas that we have or have had or could get! All bred and raised by our Thai partner, gleebettas on instagram, and some of them just make me want to buy all of them for myself. We also have some of glee’s Bettas in our breeding program that are brothers/sisters of these in the photos as well.

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Wat gaaf om deze blauwe tijger garnalen van zo dichtbij te zien. Heeft iemand deze of andere garnalen? http://ift.tt/2qmX0zj

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River King: Red Tail Catfish

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Tanks, September 20th, 2017. 

(I think it’s been about a month since I did one of these?)

Today I got some new fish stuff off amazon. Eonwe (betta in the last pic) finally got a betta log, though he’s not using it and I think he’s just mad I don’t have an IAL in there for him to use as a hammock right now :p Also, I’m mad that the spixi snail completely devoured my dwarf sag that used to be all over those rocks, and now I have to start over and find something to do with the spixi since my boxes are full of fry and I don’t really have any tanks without plants. 

Also got a new heater for the 7, though it turns out my old one was fixable so now I have an extra. I have a bunch of temporary boxes with fry in them that I got airstones for, but the boxes aren’t very pretty so I didn’t take any pictures. As soon as I get the pH in the newest one to match the pH in the 2 gallon I’m going to move over the EDR fry and use the 2 gallon to try to breed my CPDs again! Fingers crossed! 

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Suddenly, a rock is discovered!

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I just realizes MarineDepot allows you to finance stuff so I guess I'm getting that chiller and converting one of my 22 gallons to subtropical.

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Yes, i'd take the dying ones off too, i had a similar melt off with a similar plant when i started dosing flourish excel and after picking off all the dead/dying leaves and giving it time to adjust, its starting to come back.

Uuuuuugh I need plant help. Tank is a 20 long with a betta, mystery snail, and MTSs. Lighting is a 6500K LED. Until about a month ago I was dosing CO2 booster daily, seachem flourish 2-3x a week, and leaf zone 1-2x a week. I then switched the CO2 booster with flourish excel and kept the other two the same.

A few days ago the sword in the first picture started looking holey and brown. Based on research I thought it was carbon deficiency so I went back to CO2 booster this morning. When I got home in the afternoon the plant in the two bottom photos which was previously thriving was nearly all browned. Some of the leaves on top are only half brown. What am I doing wrong and how do I fix it?

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