![]() Since she had only been brought home a few days prior, that was pretty much the first time she was really out and about and she was hanging out on the Anubias leaf like it was her own personal hammock. I think she delivered about a week ago but there has been some other illnesses in the family so I haven't been able to really watch as closely as I would have liked or more specifically, remove her to a breeder net in time. So far we haven't seen any babies but we also weren't exactly set up to be breeding them either, just ended up with a female coming home from the store already berried. She was a little while back but has since delivered. But with only small, totally chill fish and one tiny invert in there, it is crystal clear day in and day out and only gets that "cloudy bordering on bacteria bloom" look after an especially rushed tank cleaning including rearranging of the rocks and stirring the sand all at the same time to prevent air-pockets (although I usually try not to do all at once or be rushed when I do them if possible) and more to the point, the sand settles again shortly after ![]() The last one is a different tank but the same sand and you can see, shortly after a tank cleaning the sand was settling on everything including the leaves in the background behind the very blurry shrimp I was attempting to catch on camera at the time: I'll have to get a better one later though when my son is awake (he's out sick right now and sleeping in so I hope you'll understand not wanting to wake him by turning on his bedroom lights and aquarium lights and moving around in there just to get the photos right now) one of the most zoomed in photos I have that the sand isn't a total blur, although I know this isn't exactly much better. I'll try to get a photo when I'm in next time of sand within the packaging but I wouldn't be surprised if it was something like play sand they have repackaged into smaller bags to resell. The LPS is a little mom'n'pop type shop and has a bunch of the "general use" or bulk sale items like sand that could work for reptiles or amphibians just as well as in aquariums in bags just with their sticker of their store logo on it. I would really rather not do the same with the current two I have running in the tank now, if possible. It has also been months since adding it and while it will settle during quieter periods, those quiet periods are brief thanks to a nocturnal pleco and diurnal dojos that all like to dig, toss it around, make little hills, valleys, (or in the case of the dojos, "crop circles") and in general rearrange almost the entire tank in the course of their respective waking periods.Ī: If I scoop some out and mix in a bag or two of a coarser grain of sand, will that help weigh it down enough that it will settle instead of staying suspended in the water?ī: Will it be safe for the dojos to do so?Ĭ: any suggestions of anything I can do besides regularly cleaning the internal mechanisms of any stray grains of sand that manage to make their way in, so I can prevent it from killing my current filters? I suspect the silt caused by the gravel I had originally when I started the tank (before converting to bare bottomed) had a hand in my last filters downward slide before its final demise. For the record, I don't think it's an issue of not being rinsed enough because I spent a ridiculous amount of time rinsing before adding it and was very careful to add it gently, not just dump it in and let it get churned up in the water from the start. Unfortunately, between the two (extremely active!) dojo loaches and an adolescent sailfin pleco, the sand is perpetually getting stirred up and never seems to settle completely to the point that from a distance, without my glasses on it looks almost like a minI bacteria bloom starting but when I use my glasses and am not halfway across the room, it is clear it's the sand particles floating around. After hearing everyone and their cousin warn about not getting gravel or even a very course grain of sand because it could injure their barbels, I chose the finest grit sand the LPS stocks without going for the hermit crab sand in those crazy colors that I doubt would be aquarium safe even if I wanted to. I know I'll probably sound like a lunatic but is there such a thing as having "too fine" of a sand for the fish in my aquarium? When I got dojos, I admit to the first being an impulse buy (the other fish he was in with were stealing all the food, he was starving & I was a big softie so what can I say?) so after a quick crash course in dojo care, converted our tank awhile back from bare bottomed to sandy substrate.
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