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  @user-dz5dl6zk3s9 сағат бұрын

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  @H33RO331Күн бұрын

  Thank you for all of this information; I purchased my pair from you. The female ended up dying. I purchased some cheap variety of females (long finned splendins.) The first few times the male's nest had eggs, none of the fry survived. I finally ended up taking the bubble nest and the male into a separate aquarium. Only 3-4 ended up surviving; and then the largest one killed its siblings. I'm having difficulty sexing it. I read that it's typically the males that kill each other off; but the coloration leads me to believe it's a female. It looks like the original female, which is similar in color to a female Cherry Barb. I'm wanting to know because I noticed a baby swimming around in the 40 gallon the other day. They spawned again without me knowing; it explains why the male is always hiding somewhere. I have *lots* of plants, especially floating guppy grass and Hornwort. I'm hoping that I end up with an awesome Alien Betta. But that would mean I'd have to remove it before the adult male kills it. I don't know at what age the adult male would become aggressive towards it. I'm thinking that the one I saw the other day was a male because it had a darker body. I'm wanting to swap it out with the prior generation larger female. I think the father is less likely to kill a larger juvenile female. Any information you give would be appreciated.

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  @BlackwaterAquaticsКүн бұрын

  @H33RO331 how did the female die? I always separate the male from the frys after they begin free swimming. Use a bare bottom tank

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  @H33RO331Күн бұрын

  @@BlackwaterAquatics , thanks. Can you elaborate on why a bare bottom? Is it so that it's easier for the male to pick the eggs back up if they fall? Also, I noticed that I answered my own questions. The original surviving juvenile is a female. More than 1 baby survived in my 40-gallon community tank, too. There's a male with bright blue colorations and a female. There might even be more. For now, I'm going to place the male in a floating plastic holder. That's what I did when they started free swimming, I put the male back into the large aquarium. The largest baby still ended up killing the other ones (even though it's a female.) I most certainly want to keep that hybrid male, though. I'm excited.

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  @UyLuong-gk6db2 күн бұрын

  Price please 🎉

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  @alejandrosolis81622 күн бұрын

  Hola, cual es el nombre del antibiotico? hay una dosis?

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  @abarreto62773 күн бұрын

  Wouldn’t be better 100% clean tap water naturally dechlorinated ?

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  @BlackwaterAquatics3 күн бұрын

  @abarreto6277 tap water where I live is too hard for macrostoma so it must be RO water

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  @Yourman_Sam7 күн бұрын

  I am looking into getting one of these

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  @michelleroy24448 күн бұрын

  Did you use table salt or aquarium salt??

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  @BlackwaterAquatics8 күн бұрын

  Table salt

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  @michelleroy24448 күн бұрын

  @@BlackwaterAquatics where did you get acriflavine? I'm from Canada and I can't seem to find it anywhere, my betta is getting worse every day

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  @angeljuliomartecespedes463311 күн бұрын

  estos bettas estan enfermo? es la primera vez que veo un betta en ese estado y que realmente no se pueda saber si es enfermo o en realidad es una especie que desconocia🤨

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  @BlackwaterAquatics10 күн бұрын

  Estos son Betta Mandor, son un Betta salvaje inquietante de Indonesia. Esta es la interacción entre un hombre y una mujer.

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  @GenghisKanghis13 күн бұрын

  What are the breeding reports for gourami like paras and samurai? Chocolate?

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  @michelleroy244415 күн бұрын

  I have 2 bettas with it but I can only set up 1 hospital tank can I treat one in a tank with sand?

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  @BlackwaterAquatics15 күн бұрын

  Use the potassium permanganate method

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  @michelleroy24448 күн бұрын

  @@BlackwaterAquatics I can't get a hold of the ingredient I need and your website doesn't ship to Canada:(

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  @SuperDave-vj9en18 күн бұрын

  Very nice system. I wish that I had the room to breed and raise bettas like I used to. Thanks for sharing your amazing system!

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  @rjv239519 күн бұрын

  these are great and I would like to try them. but, I am scared of their fan boys on fb and other places. I was kicked out of their group for suggesting you could inter breed some of the color morphs. for me, a species means that different color morphs will still produce fertile off spring. but these fan boys consider every location and different species. But, if you do get fry to f1, it will be interesting to see if they will adapt to higher pH water and if they can be trained to other food. they probably are insectivores, but something like powdered bug bites might work

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  @AquaticMaster7 күн бұрын

  Just because hybrid offspring aren't sterile doesn't mean they aren't different species. P. reticulata and P. wingei are accepted by most to be different species and yet produce fertile offspring, for example. Not to mention these fishes are at high risk of extinction, so the conservation effort would be hindered quite a bit if people were to start distributing hybrids.

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  @JennCube20 күн бұрын

  Can you use hydrogen peroxide on a bristlenose plecos?

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  @JennCube20 күн бұрын

  Can you use this to treat a bristlenose pleco?

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  @BlackwaterAquatics20 күн бұрын

  What's the disease?

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  @AcidCS220 күн бұрын

  U smoke any weed while filming this?

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  @BlackwaterAquatics20 күн бұрын

  Lol no 🤣🤣🤣

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  @RRfishNfrogs21 күн бұрын

  These can be kept in breeding pairs?

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  @BlackwaterAquatics21 күн бұрын

  Sometimes, if you keep them together they'll eventually breed

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  @siegfriedvillarias468321 күн бұрын

  It is the most beautiful 🫶

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  @gokidooke134521 күн бұрын

  Beautiful

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  @berenicehickey975522 күн бұрын

  Wow!

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  @ravitejosyula872323 күн бұрын

  If its 94 liters then 188 mg, not 185

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  @BlackwaterAquatics23 күн бұрын

  Yes but you don't to be super precise.

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  @ravitejosyula872323 күн бұрын

  Can this kill anchor worms?

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  @AnnaMariaCiniErak23 күн бұрын

  uhaoo you fascinated me! I am an expert dog lover but a super novice in aquariums. I'm studying for my first aquarium by reading and watching lots of videos. You really struck me, I love wild shapes! But is it true that they are less aggressive and can you keep more of them together, like a couple or 1 M and more females? You would have removed all my doubts! Literaries?

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  @BlackwaterAquatics23 күн бұрын

  I never recommend keeping splendens in groups unless it's females, you never know what kind of pairs you have.

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  @berenicehickey975517 күн бұрын

  Even females will kill each other, a female sorority will always stress the fish as this is not naturally how they live in a confined space in the wild. The females are forced to tolerate each other.

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  @jessl193423 күн бұрын

  As I understand it, algae like chlorella don't need calcium and magnesium in any significant quantity but it doesn't hurt to have some extra nutrients there. With regards to daphnia and water quality, high phosphates inhibit breeding behavior but it's nitrites that they cannot tolerate - they can handle some ammonia and some nitrates but it's the nitrites that do them in. I read a study on chlorella cultivation and they had the best success with fertilizer that was 24% total nitrate, 5.1% water-soluble phosphoric anhydride, and 20.5% water-soluble potassium oxide, or 24-5-20 fertilizer, dosed at 20 grams per liter with approximately 1.2 grams of urea per liter added. Chlorella will deal with chlorine and chloramine but it will inhibit your culture. Aged tank water is ideal but you can also remove chlorine and chloramine from tap water by adding ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) at a rate of 1g per 180 liters of water. You can often find food grade ascorbic acid powder in home brew stores really cheap. Obviously, as an acid, it has the potential to throw out your pH if you use more than necessary to eliminate the chlorination so remember to be careful if you do this.

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  @mouahmoob26 күн бұрын

  Make a video of imbellis!

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  @user-mg8ez2xb1q27 күн бұрын

  На відео пара чи самці???

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  @jamesblanks27 күн бұрын

  Does feeding the fry powder fry food work?

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  @BlackwaterAquatics27 күн бұрын

  No, frys only take live food. The fry power mostly are use to fed the microbes which are then fed by the frys

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  @jamesblanks27 күн бұрын

  @@BlackwaterAquatics thanks

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  @mihajlopetrovic760529 күн бұрын

  Very good quality vid, keep it up! 😄

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  @jamie3499Ай бұрын

  Do you prefer imbellis or smaragdina?

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  @BlackwaterAquaticsАй бұрын

  Smaragdina

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  @jamie3499Ай бұрын

  @@BlackwaterAquatics interesting. For what reason?

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  @high_fructose_corn_syrupАй бұрын

  Wait.. why not nano fish???

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  @BlackwaterAquaticsАй бұрын

  Potassium permanganate is too powerful for mano fish

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  @AYKH-pl8rfАй бұрын

  How big do they get ?

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  @BlackwaterAquaticsАй бұрын

  They can get about 2"

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  @AYKH-pl8rfАй бұрын

  @@BlackwaterAquatics thanks

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  @nguyengary3780Ай бұрын

  Hey wonder if your friend selling wild caught betta am looking for imbellis.

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  @lifelusteall2676Ай бұрын

  So stiktos is a smaragdina that is not called smaragdina? Will they be reclassified ?

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  @BlackwaterAquaticsАй бұрын

  Stiktos is a smaragdina type that are found in cambodia. They are different from other smaragdina by being stouter

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  @vrchxe2 ай бұрын

  Would the original wild have a spadetail?

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  @BlackwaterAquatics2 ай бұрын

  Spade tail are only original to splenden( the original betta splenden), mahachai, and smaragding. Imbellis and siam are naturally round tail.

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  @vrchxeАй бұрын

  @@BlackwaterAquatics I’m wondering if you could ship a pair of true wild imbellis like how you got yours to Singapore? As your website shows it only ships to the US.

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  @BlackwaterAquaticsАй бұрын

  @@vrchxe sorry, its better if you can try to source it in your local country

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  @vrchxeАй бұрын

  @@BlackwaterAquatics thank you. Most “wild imbellis” in my country has the red markings on the dorsal fins. Which gets me skeptic.

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  @BlackwaterAquaticsАй бұрын

  @@vrchxe dont be too concern about it, just enjoy

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  @LushSaltyAquariums2 ай бұрын

  Thank you for this. The juveniles look so muck like Licorice Gouramis!

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  @peter70eg2 ай бұрын

  Can you do this on a heavy planted tank with shrimp in it? all my tanks are planted with shrimp

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  @BlackwaterAquatics2 ай бұрын

  No the med will kill some plants and deff inverts

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  @witekprytek99402 ай бұрын

  Not sure why are you complicating things. Two ways to culture Daphnia/Moina : 1) 200L drum, 10-15L bucket of cow/horse/chicken manure. Drop manure, fill up with water. Any water. Even tap water is fine, straight from the tap. Wait few days to 2 weeks. Depending how fresh your manure was. Introduce Daphnia/Moina. Thats all the work for a season or more. No need to do anything else. Just harvest whenever you need fishfood. 2) same as above, but you can use raw whole potato instead of manure. Take large potato, do not peel, but make small hole, with a pencil for example and drop into the drum. After while just keep harvesting. Once population goes down drop in another potato. I like potato, cheap and easy, but can be any root veggie, carrot, swede, beetroot etc. Dont use onion, garlick or leak. Might work, but risky. Never tried. There was no need. Potatoes are everywhere and cheap 😂 Make sure you drop in some chalk or eggshells for calcium. There might never be green water if Daphnia/Moina multiply fast enough to suppress algae from start. Not a problem. Manure or veggies provide plenty of food for bacteria which in turn are foid for Daphnia/Moina. They are actually more nutricious than algae. No need to aerate unless you overdo with manure/veggies and wayer goes anaerobic and smelly. Just wait a bit, till the bacteria bloom goes down a bit and put another Daphnia/Moina starter. Thats why you should always have more than one culture going. If one crushes you can replenish stock from another.

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  @jessl193423 күн бұрын

  I think you've got a good method there and as far as I'm aware it's one that is commonly used in Asia, where daphnia and moina are grown at a large scale. A couple of points though: The lab studies of daphnia and moina are based on the nutritional content when they have been raised on spirulina or chlorella because it's much easier to maintain sterility and to control for variables that way. This means that daphnia which are fed a diet of manure or food waste may not have the same nutritional value and they may not be rich in omega fatty acids etc. Daphnia that are fed spirulina, chlorella or similar algae like haematococcus pulvialis accumulate xanthines, which are one of the major compounds that bring out the color in fish when they have a diet rich in them. This is also why flamingoes are so pink in the wild. If you are feeding fish daphnia that aren't raised on a diet of green water, they aren't going to contain those compounds for your fish to absorb upon eating them (unless you start getting very technical and have a specific food regime for the daphnia). Last of all people prefer daphnia to be gut-loaded with algae because it's very healthy for fish to eat, so it's a way of sneaking vegetables into your fishes' diet. This is another benefit that you get from algae-fed daphnia. Not saying that your way is wrong or that the other way is the right way - if it works for you then go nuts. Just thought I'd add a bit of information to the discussion so people can figure out what works best for them.

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  @fishomobile62142 ай бұрын

  สวยพี่สวย

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  @lifelusteall26762 ай бұрын

  Would love to see a video on how you built the system. I like the mesh water outlet cover. It would be nice to offer tools and parts that are not easy to find or too complicated to make. People are not always willing to make certain elements of the rack build but they will buy them

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  @hughdahand57112 ай бұрын

  I really wish I could get green water going. That seems to be the secret to getting a daphnia colony going long term.

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  @jessl193423 күн бұрын

  This is what I'd do: Use ascorbic acid to neutralize the chlorination in tap water (1g per 180 liters). Get a glass jar or bottle, at least a quart in size. You can try your luck with using aged aquarium water, the scrapings of an aquarium wall or an algae-covered leaf, or you can just leave the container open to see if you are able to catch some wild green algae spores from the environment. You could even do both to see what works best. Keep the containers in bright sunlight. In about a week or two you should definitely see a tinge in the water. If it's hot where you are, keep it from getting too far beyond room temperature but if the weather is mild you can leave it outside. Some algae are more temperamental than others, so don't get disheartened. Spirulina is a bit of a pain to cultivate. Chlorella is easier to manage. Note that a lot of algae has the tendency to flocculate, so often you'll have nice green water one day and the next you'll see a big clump of algae sitting at the bottom of the container. Don't worry though - that isn't a problem. You can agitate it to redistribute it or you can use an air line to do it for you (this is not necessary though.) Once you're at the state where you (hopefully) have a jar of bright green water, that's when you should start thinking about using it as a starter for a larger culture and fertilizing it and everything else.

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  @mpatnick2 ай бұрын

  Hello! I got the premixed meds for my keyhole cichlid. He has gone through the potassium permanganate bath and we are now at about 30 hours of the acriflavine mix. His tail fin is still clamped - how much longer do you think it could take before it is unclamped?

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  @BlackwaterAquatics2 ай бұрын

  Did he had velvet?

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  @mpatnick2 ай бұрын

  Honestly I am not sure…he has been plagued with slime and thick white spots for a long time now that come and go and have moved to his gills. Appears to be some sort of protozoan parasite but I don’t have confirmation

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  @BlackwaterAquatics2 ай бұрын

  @@mpatnick sid it go away after the PP bath?

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  @mpatnick2 ай бұрын

  There are a couple smaller white dots on him still, and tail fin is still clamped after pp bath

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  @BlackwaterAquatics2 ай бұрын

  @@mpatnick so another bath and then back to the salt med and then report back to me.

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  @candyfairy39742 ай бұрын

  Can I infuse food with methylene blue?

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  @BlackwaterAquatics2 ай бұрын

  There is no benifit to oral methylene blue consumption that i know off

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  @colamity_50002 ай бұрын

  Holy fuck why is there so much b roll, is this a guide or a vlog?

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  @gkarlton11572 ай бұрын

  are you getting more of the tarakan yellow unimaculata, looking for a couple of females.

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  @sergiomalespin33262 ай бұрын

  Thank you for the video! Much appreciated! Can Alien type bettas be kept with other nano fish in a heavily planted 40 gallon tank?

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  @BlackwaterAquatics2 ай бұрын

  Yes just like any nano fish

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  @DetectiveLopez.3 ай бұрын

  I watched a video of a guy throwing handfulls of veg in ,ill try your method with only a small amount ?

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  @jhndr0nia3 ай бұрын

  I don't agree in regard to the genetic diversity within the species. Multiple specimens are even referred to as cf. smaragdine indicating that it might be another species. It rather seems like there are multiple different similar species that are share many characteristics with B. smaragdina.

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  @BlackwaterAquatics3 ай бұрын

  I see what you are saying, but all smaragdina share genetic markers with each other indicating that they had a common ancestors. But you are right that the diversity among them makes it so they could be refer to as different species

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  @jhndr0nia3 ай бұрын

  ​@@BlackwaterAquatics No, that's not exactly what I was saying. Obviously they share a common ancestor like B. splendens, B. imbellis, B. siamorientalis and B. mahachaiensis do. But not their diversity indicates that there might different species. It's mainly the naming cf., aff. etc. Of course it could be a diverse species and since the researches choose multiple smaragdina and putative smaragdina samples it seems like that. But if they would indeed believe it's a single species they wouldn't refer to them as cf. smaragdina. Species can be diverse but in this case it's rather believed that smaragdina is a species complex

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  @Simon-rx7sv3 ай бұрын

  I am going to try option two using tap water and Speralina, I only have one Betta fish to feed so what would be a good tank size to go for to culture enough daphnia for my single fish?

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  @jessl193423 күн бұрын

  My perfect setup would be: Daphnia over moina, unless you live in a hot climate. A large, shallow container like an underbed storage container with a shallow layer of fine scoria gravel. (You could probably do this in a container half the size of an underbed storage container and you might have more than enough food depending on whether you're feeding your betta anything else.) A blackworm culture (not tubifex), if you can keep the culture from getting too warm. A few snails as clean-up crew if you happen to overfeed. Some fast growing floating aquatic plants like java moss. Stem and rhizomatous plants are going to get in the way so avoid using them. Chlorella over spirulina because it's easier to cultivate. Then you can use your tank detritus to feed the algae and the blackworms. You can also throw in certain food scraps, powdered algae, fish flakes etc. but you have to be careful not to overfeed. Your betta will absolutely love eating blackworms. They cohabitate well with daphnia and if you can make a small ecosystem that is high in nitrifying bacteria (living on the scoria gravel), that has worms to breakdown any detritus and solid waste, some snails to prevent a crash from overfeeding, some plants to absorb excess nutrients to help maintain the balance (you could also use surface plants like duckweed in a situation where you have a big ammonia or nitrate spike but otherwise they'll block the light from getting to the algae) then I think you'll have a sustainable live food culture for your betta that requires minimal input once it has stabilized.

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  @propeladdict91743 ай бұрын

  Is it possible to "pre-order" a fish? Your Smaragdinas are always out of stock so I'm wondering if I can order one and then get it shipped once theyre available.

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  @BlackwaterAquatics3 ай бұрын

  What smaragdina are you looking for? I do have buriram and stiktos but they are invoice only since its limited numbers

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  @propeladdict91743 ай бұрын

  @@BlackwaterAquatics I'm not the most educated on the types, but I do want to get the standard smaragdina or smaragdina guitar. Male specifically. I can't get any right now since I don't have a tank set up but it's what I plan on getting when it's done.

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  @BlackwaterAquatics3 ай бұрын

  @@propeladdict9174 i been trying to get those in for a while.. ill let you know on the up coming shipment

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  @propeladdict91743 ай бұрын

  @@BlackwaterAquatics okay, thanks for letting me know.

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  @THEE.apples3 ай бұрын

  Can they handle flow?

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  @BlackwaterAquatics3 ай бұрын

  Yes

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  @THEE.apples3 ай бұрын

  Btw have u gotten them to eat prepared food like pellets?​@@BlackwaterAquatics

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  @Leib333 ай бұрын

  I have a recent problem in 2 tanks similarly lit ~12 hours a day with LED low power (10W) garage type lamps. Both tanks are well planted and long established (2+ years) They both have run crystal clear this whole time, but in the last couple of months I've had a major breakout of green water and green string algae. I heard you say in this video that long light period 12+ hours can bring on green water. I've lowered the light period to 11 hours for more than a month without result and am going to further lower to 10 hours. Besides that, I've considered introducing daphnia to go at the green water, and even though that isn't what you were going for I was wondering if you ever successfully tried using the daphnia to control the green water while also simultaneously keeping fish that predate on the daphnia. If I tried that, would the daphnia be able to keep up their population in such circumstances or would I have to keep adding daphnia to those tanks?

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  @witekprytek99402 ай бұрын

  If you fish are not tiny, then better option are rotifers. They are too small for large fish to eat and will deal with pelagic algae in no time. Otherwise you might want to section off part of a tank with Daphnia in that compartment. Point is to not allow the fish to eat all the Daphnia. The above is more for fun and fiddling around. To have it sorted for good there are few way, best when combined: 1) good filtration 2) more plants, especially fast growing plants to hoover up nutrients 3) reduced lighting 4) UV sterilizer 5) less fish / feeding the fish less 6) Dreissena polyxena, do not use sand borrowing mussels, their larvae are parasitic, with small valume and few fish, the number of mussel larvae on each fish could become deadly.

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  @Leib332 ай бұрын

  @@witekprytek9940 My 20 gal somehow righted itself. The 10 gal only had some tiny rams's horn snails and 2 amano shrimp. I acquired ~30 daphnia, put in about ½ of them March 21 and by April 21 the tank reached crystal clarity and also seeing all but a total disappearance of the daphnia population.. That event coincided with a friend neediing a B&B for his betta for 2 weeks, who is likely mopping up the remaining daphnia. Thanks for the idea of putting a separation area for the dahnia😃