Dioaquatics’ Fishroom

[DioAquatics]

Great looking fish room! Did you get the rummie nose tetras? I bought some about 2 months ago and like them but as with ant tetra I’ve bought lately they to seem to die off. Bought 6 one disappeared 2 got caught in the overflow filter and still have 3. But one a month ago started swimming erratically so I moved it to a shrimp tank. Once there it seems to have a green spot on its head. Is this normal? Seems better in the shrimp tank. Hasn’t died but the green is still there. Never had these guys before so is that normal?

Thank you! No I didnt get the rummy nose. I changed some of my stocking plans so they wont be in any tanks anymore. Hmm sounds weird with the green spot on yours, never heard of that before.

 

[86 ssinit]

Yes I’m trying to get pics but they don’t stop swimming.

 

[DarkOne]

I have 12 Rummynose tetras from stocking them about 2 yrs ago. I had 15 but 1 died after about a year and then 2 more when I moved a group to try to breed. They're very sensitive fish but once acclimated to a tank, they do very well.

I stocked them in 2 batches of 12 and 8. The first batch, I acclimated into QT like normal and lost 5 within a few days. The 7 remaining was moved to a 40g after a 4 week QT. The 2nd batch was drip acclimated into QT for 2 hrs and all of them survived.

I moved a group of 6 to try to breed and was unsuccessful after about 3 months and moved them back. 1 died when they were moved to a breeding tank after 2 days and the other died in the 40g (no clue why or how). I carefully moved them back with a 2hr drip acclimation since I was using mostly RO water in the breeding tank.

I wanted at least 25 RNTs in the 40g which is why I thought about breeding them but I just couldn't get them to spawn.

 

[StarGirl]

Same. I bought 6 would end up with one or two. Buy 6 more the same. Buy 6 more same.....I ended up with 6 or 8 in the end but spent like $100+ on 6 fish. I did a water change or moved something and they all died. I stopped buying them. I love them though!

 

[Flyfisha]

86ssinit a single large green spot on on the head of a rummy nose is normal .

 

[DarkOne]

I read a few articles about RNTs and one was that they needed to be drip acclimated slowly. That was after the first batch so when I tried with the 2nd batch, it worked.

I was doing 5-10g water changes when I first got them but now I do about 40% water changes in the 40g and haven't had any issues.

 

[DarkOne]

Bought 4 pairs of fancy “mutt” guppies 2 days ago and put them in a 10g QT tank. Already have 9+ fry. I love mixed guppies and seeing what color and tail types you get.
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Forgot to post this. I took a pic of my 20g tall guppy tank just for you. I started with 4 pairs too. I have another 20-40 guppies in other tanks from this tank. A ton of fry have been surviving since the moss has grown to this size.

 

[DioAquatics]

Forgot to post this. I took a pic of my 20g tall guppy tank just for you. I started with 4 pairs too. I have another 20-40 guppies in other tanks from this tank. A ton of fry have been surviving since the moss has grown to this size.

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Man that moss looks super healthy! Hoping to have my 20L look very similar to that once my guppies get out of QT

 

[Katie993]

I just found this thread but I love it! That is an amazing fish room! I looked at your original fish list and you had Apisto cacatuoides triple reds on there. Have you changed your mind on them? I know it can be kind of hard to find nice stock for sale but, if you’re still interested in adding them, I was going to recommend a breeder to get stock from! I can also add pics of my male that I bought from her if you want to see him. He’s better than I ever expected! I’m working with her to get some females to start breeding them also.

 

[DioAquatics]

I just found this thread but I love it! That is an amazing fish room! I looked at your original fish list and you had Apisto cacatuoides triple reds on there. Have you changed your mind on them? I know it can be kind of hard to find nice stock for sale but, if you’re still interested in adding them, I was going to recommend a breeder to get stock from! I can also add pics of my male that I bought from her if you want to see him. He’s better than I ever expected! I’m working with her to get some females to start breeding them also.

Thank you! Ive changed my mind in the apistos for now. Planning on sticking with mostly livebearers for now. I wouldn’t mind getting the info for that breeder though. Never hurts to have a source for some apistos

 

[Katie993]

Thank you! Ive changed my mind in the apistos for now. Planning on sticking with mostly livebearers for now. I wouldn’t mind getting the info for that breeder though. Never hurts to have a source for some apistos

Definitely! I’ll pm you the info!

 

[DarkOne]

Man that moss looks super healthy! Hoping to have my 20L look very similar to that once my guppies get out of QT

It actually looked better a few days before the pic was taken. I did a water change and tried to move the moss and it got flattened in the middle.

 

[DioAquatics]

It actually looked better a few days before the pic was taken. I did a water change and tried to move the moss and it got flattened in the middle.

If you have any moss you need to get rid of, let me know. Im gonna need some more of it

 

[JLeeM]

I'm discovering more and more all the time that I really do like guppies. I've thought about finding one color or strain and setting up a tank just for them for something easy. I just don't have the space for all the possible fry though. I guess I could sell them, but I still don't ship and you really need a market for that.

 

[DioAquatics]

I'm discovering more and more all the time that I really do like guppies. I've thought about finding one color or strain and setting up a tank just for them for something easy. I just don't have the space for all the possible fry though. I guess I could sell them, but I still don't ship and you really need a market for that.

That’s exactly what I’ll be doing with my 3x20L, setting them up for specific strains of guppies. As for the fry, if I get way too many, I can either throw them into the mix guppy tank for new genetics, in one of the 4x40B and see if they survive. If not, my angels in the 75g can have a little snack

 

[JLeeM]

That’s exactly what I’ll be doing with my 3x20L, setting them up for specific strains of guppies. As for the fry, if I get way too many, I can either throw them into the mix guppy tank for new genetics, in one of the 4x40B and see if they survive. If not, my angels in the 75g can have a little snack

I guess I could put them with my angel in my 37. Hmmm...this is sounding more and more appealing.

 

[DioAquatics]

I guess I could put them with my angel in my 37. Hmmm...this is sounding more and more appealing.

Dooooooo it! Lol

 

[jmaldo]

Careful! When I first started with a trio of Tequila Sunrise Guppy. "Beautiful" fish.
I also thought, why not. Before I knew it I had guppies everywhere. LOL
Sold some to the LFSs and at local auctions even gave some away. I did ship some but really not worth the hassle. And still had guppies, eventually was feeding them to the Angels.

Good Luck!

 

[DioAquatics]

Careful! When I first started with a trio of Tequila Sunrise Guppy. "Beautiful" fish.
I also thought, why not. Before I knew it I had guppies everywhere. LOL
Sold some to the LFSs and at local auctions even gave some away. I did ship some but really not worth the hassle. And still had guppies, eventually was feeding them to the Angels.

Good Luck!

I love having lots of guppies lol. If i do get overrun, my angels and rainbows get a little snack

 

[Msdp11009]

Did that goldfish fry make it?
I have loved my goldfish in the past.
people often talk down on them and say they are dumb. I never found that. They know me, one especially was my buddy. They grieve when a buddy passes on and I have seriously witnessed a comet goldfish help a aged and dying buddy get to the top for food by going under him and lifting him up like a dolphin would . Then stayed at the spot his buddy died at for days after. I never see that with my other fish.
Ps your fish room is one of the nicest i have seen

 

[DioAquatics]

Did that goldfish fry make it?
I have loved my goldfish in the past.
people often talk down on them and say they are dumb. I never found that. They know me, one especially was my buddy. They grieve when a buddy passes on and I have seriously witnessed a comet goldfish help a aged and dying buddy get to the top for food by going under him and lifting him up like a dolphin would . Then stayed at the spot his buddy died at for days after. I never see that with my other fish.
Ps your fish room is one of the nicest i have seen

Yes the goldfish fry is still alive and doing well! I haven’t updated much on him but hes in a 20L for now. Ill be putting him into the 40B that my other 4 goldfish are in within the next few weeks.
My goldfish are amazing little fish. They come right up to the front of the tank any time i go to the fishroom. Theyre one of the most interactive fish I have, definitely my little homies in my fishroom lol

 

[Msdp11009]

Yes the goldfish fry is still alive and doing well! I haven’t updated much on him but hes in a 20L for now. Ill be putting him into the 40B that my other 4 goldfish are in within the next few weeks.
My goldfish are amazing little fish. They come right up to the front of the tank any time i go to the fishroom. Theyre one of the most interactive fish I have, definitely my little homies in my fishroom lol

I love it! So glad he made it !

 

[DioAquatics]

Super long post coming at you.
I’ve got good news and bad news. Good news is, I’m going to be moving out of my parents house in August. I found an apartment and will be moving in with my girlfriend. The bad news is, unfortunately I cannot keep the fish room running so I’ll have to sell/give away some fish. But I’ve got a plan to try and keep a lot.

As of right now, I've got 6 of my 8 tanks up and running and a 10g bn growout tank. A 20L with 3 female albino white swords and 1 fry, a 20L with my mutt guppy colony, a 20L with 6 cherry barbs, a 20L with 11 wcmm (2 normal and 9 golden), a 40B with my 5 fancy goldfish, and lastly, a 40B with 16-18 sterbai cory cats and 10 EBA.

I will be putting the 16-18 cory cats into my 75g with the other 25 I have in there. The 6 cherry barbs will also go into the 75g. The 10 EBA, I want to wait until I get a mated pair and put them in the 75g also. The remaining 8 EBA, I’ll end up selling. The mutt guppies I will be either selling or giving to my LFS. The swordtails will be coming with my to the apartment in the 20L and I’ll put my baby plecos with them to grow out until I can sell them. Lastly the wcmm will be going into the 40B with the goldfish and my mom will be keeping them, she likes the goldies. So basically I’m keeping everything except the mutt guppies and 8 of the EBA.

With all the fish I’ll be adding to the 75g, I’ll have a final stocking of 2 angels, 2 EBA, 7 goyder river rainbows, 30ish silvertip tetras, 6 cherry barbs, 40ish sterbai corys, and 3 bn plecos. Yes its going to be pretty over stocked but its moderate-heavily planted and I do weekly 50% water changes so it should be fine.

Basically I’m going to have 3 aquariums, my 75g super stocked community tank, my 12g betta community bowl, and a 20L with bn growouts and the swordtail breeding project.

My girlfriend and I only plan on living in the apartment for a year to a year and a half then we want to buy a house of our own, in which the 180g I’m building will hopefully be done and be the new home to all the fish in the 75g and the fish room will be back in action. I won’t be getting rid of any if the tanks, just storing them in my parents basement until I have my own house.

 

[Whits17]

Super long post coming at you.
I’ve got good news and bad news. Good news is, I’m going to be moving out of my parents house in August. I found an apartment and will be moving in with my girlfriend. The bad news is, unfortunately I cannot keep the fish room running so I’ll have to sell/give away some fish. But I’ve got a plan to try and keep a lot.

As of right now, I've got 6 of my 8 tanks up and running and a 10g bn growout tank. A 20L with 3 female albino white swords and 1 fry, a 20L with my mutt guppy colony, a 20L with 6 cherry barbs, a 20L with 11 wcmm (2 normal and 9 golden), a 40B with my 5 fancy goldfish, and lastly, a 40B with 16-18 sterbai cory cats and 10 EBA.

I will be putting the 16-18 cory cats into my 75g with the other 25 I have in there. The 6 cherry barbs will also go into the 75g. The 10 EBA, I want to wait until I get a mated pair and put them in the 75g also. The remaining 8 EBA, I’ll end up selling. The mutt guppies I will be either selling or giving to my LFS. The swordtails will be coming with my to the apartment in the 20L and I’ll put my baby plecos with them to grow out until I can sell them. Lastly the wcmm will be going into the 40B with the goldfish and my mom will be keeping them, she likes the goldies. So basically I’m keeping everything except the mutt guppies and 8 of the EBA.

With all the fish I’ll be adding to the 75g, I’ll have a final stocking of 2 angels, 2 EBA, 7 goyder river rainbows, 30ish silvertip tetras, 6 cherry barbs, 40ish sterbai corys, and 3 bn plecos. Yes its going to be pretty over stocked but its moderate-heavily planted and I do weekly 50% water changes so it should be fine.

Basically I’m going to have 3 aquariums, my 75g super stocked community tank, my 12g betta community bowl, and a 20L with bn growouts and the swordtail breeding project.

My girlfriend and I only plan on living in the apartment for a year to a year and a half then we want to buy a house of our own, in which the 180g I’m building will hopefully be done and be the new home to all the fish in the 75g and the fish room will be back in action. I won’t be getting rid of any if the tanks, just storing them in my parents basement until I have my own house.

Super long post coming at you.
I’ve got good news and bad news. Good news is, I’m going to be moving out of my parents house in August. I found an apartment and will be moving in with my girlfriend. The bad news is, unfortunately I cannot keep the fish room running so I’ll have to sell/give away some fish. But I’ve got a plan to try and keep a lot.

As of right now, I've got 6 of my 8 tanks up and running and a 10g bn growout tank. A 20L with 3 female albino white swords and 1 fry, a 20L with my mutt guppy colony, a 20L with 6 cherry barbs, a 20L with 11 wcmm (2 normal and 9 golden), a 40B with my 5 fancy goldfish, and lastly, a 40B with 16-18 sterbai cory cats and 10 EBA.

I will be putting the 16-18 cory cats into my 75g with the other 25 I have in there. The 6 cherry barbs will also go into the 75g. The 10 EBA, I want to wait until I get a mated pair and put them in the 75g also. The remaining 8 EBA, I’ll end up selling. The mutt guppies I will be either selling or giving to my LFS. The swordtails will be coming with my to the apartment in the 20L and I’ll put my baby plecos with them to grow out until I can sell them. Lastly the wcmm will be going into the 40B with the goldfish and my mom will be keeping them, she likes the goldies. So basically I’m keeping everything except the mutt guppies and 8 of the EBA.

With all the fish I’ll be adding to the 75g, I’ll have a final stocking of 2 angels, 2 EBA, 7 goyder river rainbows, 30ish silvertip tetras, 6 cherry barbs, 40ish sterbai corys, and 3 bn plecos. Yes its going to be pretty over stocked but its moderate-heavily planted and I do weekly 50% water changes so it should be fine.

Basically I’m going to have 3 aquariums, my 75g super stocked community tank, my 12g betta community bowl, and a 20L with bn growouts and the swordtail breeding project.

My girlfriend and I only plan on living in the apartment for a year to a year and a half then we want to buy a house of our own, in which the 180g I’m building will hopefully be done and be the new home to all the fish in the 75g and the fish room will be back in action. I won’t be getting rid of any if the tanks, just storing them in my parents basement until I have my own house.

When do you have time to go to work and sleep?

 

[BigManAquatics]

Super long post coming at you.
I’ve got good news and bad news. Good news is, I’m going to be moving out of my parents house in August. I found an apartment and will be moving in with my girlfriend. The bad news is, unfortunately I cannot keep the fish room running so I’ll have to sell/give away some fish. But I’ve got a plan to try and keep a lot.

As of right now, I've got 6 of my 8 tanks up and running and a 10g bn growout tank. A 20L with 3 female albino white swords and 1 fry, a 20L with my mutt guppy colony, a 20L with 6 cherry barbs, a 20L with 11 wcmm (2 normal and 9 golden), a 40B with my 5 fancy goldfish, and lastly, a 40B with 16-18 sterbai cory cats and 10 EBA.

I will be putting the 16-18 cory cats into my 75g with the other 25 I have in there. The 6 cherry barbs will also go into the 75g. The 10 EBA, I want to wait until I get a mated pair and put them in the 75g also. The remaining 8 EBA, I’ll end up selling. The mutt guppies I will be either selling or giving to my LFS. The swordtails will be coming with my to the apartment in the 20L and I’ll put my baby plecos with them to grow out until I can sell them. Lastly the wcmm will be going into the 40B with the goldfish and my mom will be keeping them, she likes the goldies. So basically I’m keeping everything except the mutt guppies and 8 of the EBA.

With all the fish I’ll be adding to the 75g, I’ll have a final stocking of 2 angels, 2 EBA, 7 goyder river rainbows, 30ish silvertip tetras, 6 cherry barbs, 40ish sterbai corys, and 3 bn plecos. Yes its going to be pretty over stocked but its moderate-heavily planted and I do weekly 50% water changes so it should be fine.

Basically I’m going to have 3 aquariums, my 75g super stocked community tank, my 12g betta community bowl, and a 20L with bn growouts and the swordtail breeding project.

My girlfriend and I only plan on living in the apartment for a year to a year and a half then we want to buy a house of our own, in which the 180g I’m building will hopefully be done and be the new home to all the fish in the 75g and the fish room will be back in action. I won’t be getting rid of any if the tanks, just storing them in my parents basement until I have my own house.

Just a curiosity, what kind of bn's you growing out?

 

[DioAquatics]

Just a curiosity, what kind of bn's you growing out?

Lemon blue eye

 

[BigManAquatics]

Lemon blue eye

Think those and/or green dragons are my next acquisition when i get my current bn situation sorted out.

 

[Whits17]

Goodness, when do you have time to work and sleep?

 

[DioAquatics]

Think those and/or green dragons are my next acquisition when i get my current bn situation sorted out.

I love the lemon blue eyes. Ive got long fin and short fin babies.

Goodness, when do you have time to work and sleep?

Surprisingly it’s not that hard to maintain all these tanks. I spend like 30-45 minutes doing water changes and stuff.

 

[JLeeM]

Super long post coming at you.
I’ve got good news and bad news. Good news is, I’m going to be moving out of my parents house in August. I found an apartment and will be moving in with my girlfriend. The bad news is, unfortunately I cannot keep the fish room running so I’ll have to sell/give away some fish. But I’ve got a plan to try and keep a lot.

As of right now, I've got 6 of my 8 tanks up and running and a 10g bn growout tank. A 20L with 3 female albino white swords and 1 fry, a 20L with my mutt guppy colony, a 20L with 6 cherry barbs, a 20L with 11 wcmm (2 normal and 9 golden), a 40B with my 5 fancy goldfish, and lastly, a 40B with 16-18 sterbai cory cats and 10 EBA.

I will be putting the 16-18 cory cats into my 75g with the other 25 I have in there. The 6 cherry barbs will also go into the 75g. The 10 EBA, I want to wait until I get a mated pair and put them in the 75g also. The remaining 8 EBA, I’ll end up selling. The mutt guppies I will be either selling or giving to my LFS. The swordtails will be coming with my to the apartment in the 20L and I’ll put my baby plecos with them to grow out until I can sell them. Lastly the wcmm will be going into the 40B with the goldfish and my mom will be keeping them, she likes the goldies. So basically I’m keeping everything except the mutt guppies and 8 of the EBA.

With all the fish I’ll be adding to the 75g, I’ll have a final stocking of 2 angels, 2 EBA, 7 goyder river rainbows, 30ish silvertip tetras, 6 cherry barbs, 40ish sterbai corys, and 3 bn plecos. Yes its going to be pretty over stocked but its moderate-heavily planted and I do weekly 50% water changes so it should be fine.

Basically I’m going to have 3 aquariums, my 75g super stocked community tank, my 12g betta community bowl, and a 20L with bn growouts and the swordtail breeding project.

My girlfriend and I only plan on living in the apartment for a year to a year and a half then we want to buy a house of our own, in which the 180g I’m building will hopefully be done and be the new home to all the fish in the 75g and the fish room will be back in action. I won’t be getting rid of any if the tanks, just storing them in my parents basement until I have my own house.

Good luck with all the life changes and have fun!

 

[DioAquatics]

My fishroom is slowly being shut down I gave away all of my mutt guppies a few weeks back to my LFS and today I traded in my 10 EBA to a fishstore in NJ for some store credit. I also traded in my remaining Goyder River Rainbow fish from my 75g community tank. Next I’ll be moving my group of 5 albino white Swordtails to my 75g. Then my breeding group golden wcmm will be going into my pleco growout tank and that will be my “breeding for profit” tank. All that’ll be left is my goldfish which my mom is going to keep. After that, no more fishroom until I buy a house. Sad to see my fish go but I cant have 10+ tanks in a 1 bedroom apartment.

With the store credit I did end up buying a pair of scarlet badis. They surprisingly had a female with all the males so I snatched her up quick. These guys will be going to my 12g bowl with my ember tetra after a month of QT.

 

[jmaldo]

Good Luck!
Just a reminder, I've got dibs on a trio of lemon blue eye when they are ready.

 

[DioAquatics]

Good Luck!
Just a reminder, I've got dibs on a trio of lemon blue eye when they are ready.

If you’d like I can grow out a little group and get you a trio.

 

[jmaldo]

If you’d like I can grow out a little group and get you a trio.

Yes, Please!

 

[Geoff]

Sorry to see the fish room go, but congrats on this next exciting chapter in your life!

 

[DioAquatics]

The pair of scarlet badis are slowly becoming some of my favorite fish! They’re super cute but feisty as can be lol. I’ve been feeding them small live black worms but I’m in the process of getting a brine shrimp hatchery up. I already have the hatchery I just need to buy some brine shrimp and salt. I cant wait to put these guys in my 12g bowl when I move! They’re going to look so good! Here’s a picture of the male and female. The male has colored up very nicely

 

[StarGirl]

I just got a pair last weekend also. They are feisty little buggers. The male is always flaring.....lol. They don't bother the Chilis but chase the Cherries around.

 

[DioAquatics]

I just got a pair last weekend also. They are feisty little buggers. The male is always flaring.....lol. They don't bother the Chilis but chase the Cherries around.

My pair are in QT with 6 ember tetras and they don’t bother them at all. I’d love to breed my pair somehow