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You want MORE rams?!?! 😂 A colony would be kinda epic tho.

Indeed!

Good video idea. Here’s the skinny: Dodge it by starting aquariums with low light, and adding plants that’ll outcompete diatoms. If it’s already overwhelming, a single Ramshorn snail has done the trick for me. But algae eating fish work too. To maintain: remove plant decay, go easy on the fertilizer, and lower lighting until things are under control. Slowly raise the lighting in the weeks following to see how far you can go before the algae comes back.

Dang man, I like it. Ever tried it before?

@MattKeepsFish nope! Just got a female paradise today :] hope it'll work out since almost all the fish I have are big ones (mascara barbs, odessa barbs, denison barbs, golden killifish, a chonky siamese algae eater, channa andrao and a yellowtail spiny eel)! I've kept the paradise fish in a breeder box for now and even though she's small she's got quite the attitude! Doesn't even flinch and even inspects fish that do end up looking at the breeder box

Amazing! Keep a close eye for the first little bit though. I’ve had them pull scales off my other fish when I kept one previously. At the same time, I’ve also encountered very docile individuals :)

@@MattKeepsFish oh what??? Thanks for the warning! I'll keep that in mind

Absolutely. It’s bad design by design. Shorter lifetime means spending more money on products!

Couple things I didn't mention, I also added some wet leaves from a creek or pond or stream! The second thing is to set up a couple of glass gallon jars and grab some creek or pond or stream water with some wet leaves from there to start your resurrection jars for your food web. You would add these things and some of the water as well a little at a time, every couple of weeks or so. For the water, stir your jars a little and use a turkey baster. You want to bring in as much biodiversity as possible in your aquariums! When you do that, you'll be amazed how healthy and happy your fish will be. Also, you need to collect some dried leaves and twigs to replenish your jars as needed. To replenish the water, you can use spring water, aquarium water, or some of your filter water when you clean your filter media or collect some more creek water. Don't use tap water if your water has chlorine or chloramines in it. It will kill all the biologicals.

Thanks! Perhaps I’ll repost it.

​@@MattKeepsFish PLEASE DO! there's NO reason to leave out this much effort, I'm gonna show this to my mom since she hates reptiles and I hope this atleast helps a bit lol

Awesome! 😂

Top Fin filters only have 1 insert (technically), and I believe the bio wheel on marineland filters says to replace monthly. The scam is that they do not need to be replaced monthly, as their main purpose is to house bacteria, and the bacteria would be lost upon disposing of the insert.

There is. The sponge may start to break down, or be unable to take its intended shape again after being compressed. At this point it would make sense to replace because it would otherwise eject plastic particles into the water, or be unable to properly pass water through its pores.

@ thanks, I’m new to this! Well I had goldfish as a child about 30 years ago, but now my daughter wanted a pet, so we thought fish would be the easiest pet for her, i slowly realised that wasn’t the case 😂 it’s ok though, the fish we’ve got only have a lifespan of 3 years apparently, so if she gets bored, it’s not too long for me and the wife to be looking after them! 😅 EDITED to add, actually there’s something quite relaxing about watching fish swimming around merrily in the tank! Plus the water was cloudy for about a week, and I thought I would have to buy something to clear it up, but it cleared up by itself, which is nice. 😁

Very nice :) I’m glad you’re enjoying it

I didn’t have problems between him and any catfish, so you may be okay with that one. Here he is housed with glass and twig catfish.

This is true. The rub is that you’re also disposing of the floss.

Feed very lightly and test water weekly if you can. Hoping your fish do ok 🙏

Most hard meds for fish are illegal because of our strict laws on invasive species, environment protection, etc. The internet says it’s because they’re untested, but I think the real reason is that they’re worried treated fish will be released into the wild and take over. In case you didn’t know, they’ve also banned more species for us, including all mosquito fish and salvinia. Annoying, because neither would survive our winters. I ordered on Amazon. 50/50 it arrives or it gets stopped at the border.

Do your fish have Camallanus? If so, then yes. It will make it much more difficult to remove the worms if they’re under a layer of substrate. Don’t forget to remove the chemical filtration as well!

@@MattKeepsFish yes one of my guppies has it, not sure about the other one. He keeps getting close to him so I wouldn’t be surprised. We have a small temp housing box for them but we were trying to decide if we should just leave them in the tank and just remove all the gravel or move them to the temporary tank. We tried API general cure which I read won’t work. We are waiting on another product to try which has good reviews. I removed the carbon out of the filter while the general cure is in the tank and hopefully all this can go away before the fish dies. Thanks for the video I will try it out this week.

Lmk if you need to talk anything else through

@ unfortunately things have taken a bad turn since we couldn’t get the medication delivered in time, he can’t even stay upright anymore so we moved him to a temp tank since it seems like he doesn’t have much time left and I don’t want the worms to spread anywhere else. At least we will have the medication for next time.🥲

I’m very sorry to hear that. These are, unfortunately, the things we remember best for future projects. I would still encourage you to monitor your other fish closely for signs of infestation. How many others was your guppy with?

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Oh no way! Hey man! I’m doing alright. I’d love to come in soon and hangout, maybe even make a video :D

@ haha could be cool, we maybe about to make a big supplier change and gonna be able to get some veryyyyy rare stuff just visited the supplier and picked up some of my dream fish I never thought I’d see haha

@ but ya come in sometime soon!! Got some cool stuff recently coming in you might like :)

Absolutely.