Noodle's Other Tanks

And the other tanks.

First, nonplanted 20. Ignore the danios begging for food.
Stock currently:
11 zebra danios (5 still pending pickup by my coworker, dunno if that will happen?)
1 molly
6 cherry barbs
3 apple/mystery snails
1 nerite snail

Plants:
Only 1 lucky bamboo in the HOB



Monster snail



Planted 20
Current stock:
1 molly
2 platies
7 skirt tetras
6 corydoras (paleatus and trilineatus)
1 nerite snail
2 elimia snails



Cories having fun during water change.




Aaaand this is Mimic, the new betta girl we picked up and her new little 2.5g tank.




As for our dear little Franklin, hes still doing alright. His face is affected a little by the same thing eating his fins, but hes not acting bothered by it.

 

Good news about Franklin. All of the lesions from the columnaris have healed up and the lesion on his face is just some healing scars, but hes looking clear, and his fins show some new growth tissue!





And little miss Mimic is doing good, very curious and always begging for food.






Added some baby java ferns and a baby sword to her tank as well as floating wisteria.



Now that she has a light I am probably going to make her background black instead of the green

Whiskey is the fattest tetra ever, I swear. She porks up each time on platy fry.

 

Any plans to breed the 2 bettas? The would make lovely little red babies

 

Any plans to breed the 2 bettas? The would make lovely little red babies

Unlikely, where would I put all the fry hahaha though id adore little baby natural plakats... but nowhere for the fry as they grow.

The only fish I think id purposely breed would be a healthy line of dwarf gourami, if I ever found a female, a healthy one at that lol

 

Mimic got some more plants and changed her background from green to black.

 

Love your tanks and fish MissNoodle

Wow that snail is huge. and strangely appealing I have never kept snails (well not intentional ones :rolleyes had no idea they got so big!

 

Do you think that Whiskey is gravid??

 

Love your tanks and fish MissNoodle

Wow that snail is huge. and strangely appealing I have never kept snails (well not intentional ones :rolleyes had no idea they got so big!

Thank you!
Apple snails get pretty hefty. Mystery snails about golf ball size, but apple snails get even larger. They make for pretty entertaining pets, tbh.





Amazoniantanklvr oh she is. All the girl tetras are always. They spawn sometimes too.

 

@Amazoniantanklvr oh she is. All the girl tetras are always. They spawn sometimes too.

Have you been able to raise any of the fry??

 

Have you been able to raise any of the fry??

No they eat all the eggs right away.

 

Just updating. No won't discuss the danios.

 

I gave them a yellowing crypt leaf and this is the face she gives me.



Cookie the boss.


Mimic hating on her reflection.





Franklin is doing good, no new signs of infection and lots of new fin growth.

 

Update on the nano. Ive added 3 more pygmy cories (now total 10) and 2 more sparkling gourami (now have 3). The two new sparklers are female too, so hopefully things will be more peaceful now.
I may have to rescape if territorial behaviour inhibits them from coexisting. I really don't want to because I love how its scaped.

The ludwigia has come in really really red as it reached the top.



I redid the nonplanted 20g, because the adorable mushroom house my son picked, the paint began peeling off so I had to remove it. I like the layout, but I feel bad the house had to go.



One of the female barbs from the nonplanted



One of the new girl sparklers. Ive named them MinI and Tiny because theyre so small, half the size of Nyx.




And I made a comparison to show sexing sparkling gourami, since theyre tricky.

 

Ignore the nano tank on this one, that was supposed to stay in my nano tank thread haha

Anywho, I picked up a new molly girl for Pumpkin because hes been aggressive towards one tetra since we lost the girls who lived with him before. We named the new girl Nutmeg. Shes a social butterfly and adores Pumpkin. They follow each other around all day, its adorable.




I moved them to the nonplanted 20 and Cookie to the planted 20. They will probably be regularly swapped because both Cookie and Pumpkin aren't very kind to the tetras, only Pumpkin targets only one tetra while Cookie harasses all of them equal.


And today got a really nice shot of Mimic showing off her colours. Shes really coloured up into a beautiful wild plakat.

 

So, to heck with the old scape of the non planted. Went with a totally new look, more open and less cluttered. If I can't have live plants, I may as well make the space more usable than cluttering it up to "look" planted.



Also, tweaked the planted 20 a bit too. Moved a couple plants, removed a rock, moved another, moved the driftwood now that it doesn't need to be weighed down by rocks

 

They were lovely before, and just as lovely after! You really have an eye for this stuff Thanks for sharing!

 

Okay so updating.
I split up my mixed group of cories from my planted 20g. I took the 3 trilineatus and moved them to my nonplanted and left the peppers in the planted (they like the plants the most of the two species). I got 3 more peppers and 4 more trilineatus. I asked for 3 trilineatus but the store gave me 1 extra free lol happy cory piles.






And some photos of Mimic, because shes just so cute
One with camera flash and one without.





I have to see if my coworker still wants the danios, otherwise I'm rehoming them on kijijI because I got too many in the 20 gallon its chaos. They get along and my filtration can handle the number of fish, but it just looks sooooo busy lol
I want to just keep 6. My 3 longfins and 3 shortfins.

 

Okay so updating.
I split up my mixed group of cories from my planted 20 gallon. I took the 3 trilineatus and moved them to my nonplanted and left the peppers in the planted (they like the plants the most of the two species). I got 3 more peppers and 4 more trilineatus. I asked for 3 trilineatus but the store gave me 1 extra free lol happy cory piles.

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And some photos of Mimic, because shes just so cute
One with camera flash and one without.
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I have to see if my coworker still wants the danios, otherwise I'm rehoming them on kijijI because I got too many in the 20 gallon its chaos. They get along and my filtration can handle the number of fish, but it just looks sooooo busy lol
I want to just keep 6. My 3 longfins and 3 shortfins.

She is so beautiful, once again what a find

 

She is so beautiful, once again what a find

They had a gorgeous pure white female plakat at the store yesterday. Not one I ever see. But alas, husband would kill me if I brought in another tank hahahahaha

 

This is the non-planted 20 tall. I can't have plants since my apple snails devour them immediately.

This is it currently, since ive ripped out the old substrate and replaced it with sand.
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This is what it was before. I had to remove the tall ornament--paint was peeling off the mushrooms. Makes me sad as it was cute and my male barb loved it. Silk plants got tossed too. The snails chewed them and frayed them so bad.
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If your apple snails will eat alive live plants, maybe try giving them some blanched spinach or kale or something.

 

If your apple snails will eat alive live plants, maybe try giving them some blanched spinach or kale or something.

I do. I give them zucchini, cucumber, bell pepper, carrots, broccoli, algae wafers, shrimp pellets, herbivore pellets, and shrimp. Plus plant trimmings from other tanks. They are fed every day. I target feed them the wafers, shrimp, and pellets to be sure theyre getting the food before the rest of the fish. They STILL eat a whole plant within hours.

 

I do. I give them zucchini, cucumber, bell pepper, carrots, broccoli, algae wafers, shrimp pellets, herbivore pellets, and shrimp. Plus plant trimmings from other tanks. They are fed every day. I target feed them the wafers, shrimp, and pellets to be sure theyre getting the food before the rest of the fish. They STILL eat a whole plant within hours.

Note to self: no apple snails.

Gorgeous fish and tanks!!

 

I do. I give them zucchini, cucumber, bell pepper, carrots, broccoli, algae wafers, shrimp pellets, herbivore pellets, and shrimp. Plus plant trimmings from other tanks. They are fed every day. I target feed them the wafers, shrimp, and pellets to be sure theyre getting the food before the rest of the fish. They STILL eat a whole plant within hours.

Good to know you know

 

Note to self: no apple snails.

Gorgeous fish and tanks!!

Haha thanks! And yeah apple snails are a different ball game than mysteries. We bought them AS mysteries too.

Good to know you know

Yup, theyre horrible algae eaters. I didn't get them for the algae anyways, I got them because my 4 year old son loves snails and theyre in "his" tank . So I did my homework on "mysteries" before buying them... but I wound up with apples by mistake and they will eat all your plants regardless of being well fed (mysteries won't usually). I know theyre omnivores and need to be actually fed and not left to fend on scraps.

I love these snails, tbh, theyre often more entertaining than the fish lol when I feed flakes, they come up to the top of the tank and beg for their own food too so theyre very demanding and very intelligent. Plus its adorable to hand feed them.

I mean, look at these faces chowing down on some shrimp

 

Heck, they even eat bladder snails

 

Haha thanks! And yeah apple snails are a different ball game than mysteries. We bought them AS mysteries too.


Yup, theyre horrible algae eaters. I didn't get them for the algae anyways, I got them because my 4 year old son loves snails and theyre in "his" tank . So I did my homework on "mysteries" before buying them... but I wound up with apples by mistake and they will eat all your plants regardless of being well fed (mysteries won't usually). I know theyre omnivores and need to be actually fed and not left to fend on scraps.

I love these snails, tbh, theyre often more entertaining than the fish lol when I feed flakes, they come up to the top of the tank and beg for their own food too so theyre very demanding and very intelligent. Plus its adorable to hand feed them.

I mean, look at these faces chowing down on some shrimp
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That snail eats the shrimp like Godzilla a human! Creepy!

 

Since there's been stock changes... new photos.

Nonplanted 20g:
2 mollies
11 zebra danios
6 cherry barbs
7 trilineatus corydoras
3 apple snails
1 nerite snail



Planted 20g:
1 molly
2 platies
7 skirt tetras
6 paleatus corydoras
1 nerite snail




And Mimic's 2.5g I planted the floating wisteria and moved out the sword plant... fighting the wisteria in this tank something awful. So its looking bare as I wait for baby plants to grow (theres a baby crypt in there somewhere)



And finally, a photo of 5 out of 6 of the peppers all in a big happy pile during a water change.

 

Since there's been stock changes... new photos.

Nonplanted 20 gallon:
2 mollies
11 zebra danios
6 cherry barbs
7 trilineatus corydoras
3 apple snails
1 nerite snail
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Planted 20 gallon:
1 molly
2 platies
7 skirt tetras
6 paleatus corydoras
1 nerite snail
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And Mimic's 2.5 gallon I planted the floating wisteria and moved out the sword plant... fighting the wisteria in this tank something awful. So its looking bare as I wait for baby plants to grow (theres a baby crypt in there somewhere)
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And finally, a photo of 5 out of 6 of the peppers all in a big happy pile during a water change.
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Apple snails again? Those 'lil Godzillas

 

Apple snails again? Those 'lil Godzillas

All the plants in the non planted are artificial, including the last photos lol

Plants are expensive so no plants.

Maybe this summer ill grab some hornwort again from the pond and try that again.... they ate it last time I tried

 

All the plants in the non planted are artificial, including the last photos lol

Plants are expensive so no plants.

Maybe this summer ill grab some hornwort again from the pond and try that again.... they ate it last time I tried

Yeah, try again. I hope it'll work out fine for you.

 

Added some new driftwood to their tanks (pardon the algae in Mimic's tank, a nerite is cleaning it up).

 

I got some tannins going on from my new driftwood. I welcome it lol
The cories adore the rock pile.
We lost one of our apple snails unfortunately, though we had them for some time so this is not unexpected. We are inheriting another from a relative along with a couple more danios and cories... we have to figure out who's moving where. I'm thinking I'm going to move the 6 cherry barbs to my planted 20.






Mimic's tank is coming along, I'm hoping to propagate more of the anacharis as it grows. It'd make a nice floating mat that Mimic would like.
The nerite is working on the algae.



Franklin's tank getting its daily sunshine. More work as I gotta scrub the algae off the front of the glass but that's a small price to pay for better plants since his LED lights suck for plants. My cat for scale, they like to sit up there and soak up the sun too.



The planted tank. The fish are perpetually begging for food lol

 

What are you gonna do with more danios!?!

 

What are you gonna do with more danios!?!

I don't know but theyre worse off where theyre at. I'm taking them from a relative who has 4 danios, 2 cories, and an apple snail all in a 10 gallon that used to have even more fish in it but theyve all died off and shes bored of them now.

If my coworker still wants some of my danios, ill probably give her the 4 from my relative too provided theyre in good health. If not, ill find a better home for them if they don't work here.

If I move the barbs, itll be 15 danios total in the 20 still, so pretty crammed.

 

Mimic got spoiled with some new floating plants, which she loves. Brings out the tannins in her tank too.







My coworker is coming today to take my danios. Bittersweet, but they will have lots more room.


Also, yesterday picked up a dwarf gourami female. Shes in the planted 20g. So far is a perfect little citizen. Sooooo excited to actually find a female!!

 

Tried a new angle, just to try something new. Planted 20 and Mimic's tank



As well as the classic frontal photo.

 

 

Tried a new angle, just to try something new. Planted 20 and Mimic's tank
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As well as the classic frontal photo.
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What is that foil for? Something to do with temp control?

 

What is that foil for? Something to do with temp control?

I use a desk lamp for lighting on that tank. I find the light bothers my eyes so I put the foil there to block it but still allow it to light up the tank

 

I use a desk lamp for lighting on that tank. I find the light bothers my eyes so I put the foil there to block it but still allow it to light up the tank

Ah I see and the lamp is good enough for that plant in there?