Ira
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Might be a bit high for leopardfish.
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I don't know what you're referring to. The algae or the bright white dot that you can't see any detail on?
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I still say it's unlikely to be a peppermint shrimp if you're talking about the one you caught here. It takes more than just a look at a little picture off the internet to identify a species that's caught WELL outside it's known habitat range in conditions well outside what it's supposed to be able to survive in.
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You've obviously never had pets or children before...
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To begin with, if your PH is unstable stop using rainwater. Rainwater has pretty much no buffering capability so the PH will change very easily. Start using just tapwater and your PH will be more stable and likely healthier.
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Define "On its way up again"? How high?
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I have an old card I use too. Works perfectly, haven't run into anything it won't take off. I'd imagine the perfect one would be an icescraper for car windows. Usually have a softish copper blade that won't scratch glass. But, won't find many of them around NZ>
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I've got a 30,000 something liter tank in the backyard I fill up with water for the fish.
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I think you'd be fine with some thinwalled hose if you just wrap it all over the light. As long as water's flowing through the hose it won't melt. But if you can get aluminum pipe, I don't know how easy that is to find, it should absorb heat almost as good as copper and not leach copper into your water. It wouldn't be enough to hurt fish anyway, might kill any snails though.
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If you want all natural you should get rid of all your filter media and your any pumps because real ponds don't have them. You should get rid of your glass and replace it with mud walls because real ponds don't have glass. You should get rid of the heaters, also not natural. Stop feeding them flake or pellet food because you won't find that anywhere in the wild...
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Yeah, sun puts out a fair amount of UV but little UV C like used in UV sterilizers and I think we can all agree that all the photosynthetically available light more than outweighs the few bits of algae killed by UV.
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Then stick with FW, their power bills are nice and cheap...
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Yeah, it's normal. Many if not most striped fish their stripes change as they age.
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So, basically you're worried because as he's growing so have his stripes?
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I wouldn't suggest an eheim if you're on a budget, you can can get something like a Laguna pump for far less and they work well.
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Not designed like it is, Rockerpeller. It's a siphon out of the tank to the first S-bend. Which will only keep the water depth there the same as the tank. THen it's a normal overflow from that point.
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Just hope you don't have any other danios in the tank because they'll take those too.
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How long is a piece of string? Well...It depends on the length of it. Maybe if you told us what wattage the T5s were we could help you.
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So the average number of saltwater posts per day doubles over the next year or two? I still don't think that justifies cutting one very slow category into half a dozen absolutely dead categories.
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You'd have been far better off with something like 3/4" plywood. Significantly stronger, significantly more water resistant.
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I think there's no need to change anything as there are no longer enough posts to justify more than one category for saltwater here. What's the point? Is someone going to get lost with the 3-4 updated threads on a good day? Or maybe so active threads don't get run off to the second page because if you blink a month and a half will go by before you know it?
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I don't know if guppies can breed with leopardfish, but...If you bought the female guppies from a pet shop and they haven't spent their whole lives seperated from males they were probably already knocked up when you got them. Borneo suckers don't eat algae, so I don't know why you'd suggest them as a replacement for algae eaters.
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I wouldn't think that bulging along the bottom would have much to do with the bracing at the top being gone. Especially if you've got a clamp there tightened enough to keep it from bulging at the top.
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You can have up to 1 billion female bristlenoses per male bristlenose, if your tank is big enough.
