What are you doing to your tank today?

[Gamer]

I changed the boys pool filter sand out and replaced it with gravel.



Ime sand is not good for these two. Even when I used pre filter sponges sand kept the tank murkier with them, but any smaller fish I love sand more

 

[Fishfur]

I changed the boys pool filter sand out and replaced it with gravel.

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Ime sand is not good for these two. Even when I used pre filter sponges sand kept the tank murkier with them, but any smaller fish I love sand more

I have mixed feelings about fish like the Flowerhorns but I have to say, that blue one is a very handsome boy. The other is a fine looking fish too but the blue one is quite striking.

 

[Gamer]

I have mixed feelings about fish like the Flowerhorns but I have to say, that blue one is a very handsome boy. The other is a fine looking fish too but the blue one is quite striking.

Thanks man. He’s quite the head Turner irl but most think the Midas is more the eye catcher. Both have been conversation pieces.



He’s a kamfa he came here from Thailand about 2 years ago at 2-3” now he’s over 7”.

I call him “Halo”.

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Watching the wild guppy tank while the kiddo does school. Some appear to be almost half orange and have silver with purple iridescence bellies. Still little, but I'll try to get some pics as the sun moves through the room.

 

[GouramiGirl100]

Draining the tank at the house to move it into the apartment! So far so good!

 

[Gamer]

As for the convicts . I removed the extra ones to give the breeding pair their own tank. And when I did that (removed the 3 convicts) this was all that remained they are paired up and they did have a few batches of eggs but they’d get eaten by the others after lights out. They have been a lot more fun to watch just them.

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Super orange


4 total, but things are working out as initially planned

 

[GouramiGirl100]

The day of moving the tanks has finished! It did not go as planned lol. My LFS will no longer take old tanks so I’m just going to put my last three used tanks from my house in the trash which kind of sucks. I’ll leave them by the dumpster in the apartment complex, maybe someone will enjoy them. I’ll put a note that says they hold water. Speaking of holding water, when I moved my fish from the 29 gallon at the house to my potential 20 long, I accidentally cracked the new 20 long. So from there I had to split my fish up into the current tanks in the apartment. It really ended up pretty good actually, I’m pleased with it.
-My corys went into the Riparium with Milo who seems to be alright with them (time will tell)
- my cpds and juvenile silver tip tetras went into an extra ten gallon with my RCS and two amano shrimp
-my two bamboo shrimp went into the high flow loach tank
I’m actually really happy with how all the tanks look. I’ll post some photos tomorrow as the lights are off now with everyone settling in. For the time being this concludes the tanks in the apartment! Finally all done haha but I am converting one of them to a nano reef in the coming months

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Sipping coffee and trying to figure out how to respond to an email from Diana Walstad lol I have been challenged lol In a good way. Just talking guppy genetics

Also, my snail trap worked great. Too bad it's a corydora trap lol



Edit: I feel like Deadpool getting ready to unmask for Vanessa

"What the heck do I say?"

lol

Ok, I responded and after a teeny bit more research, I may have helped her on her blue problem lol She's using a Japan Blue and having colors wash out on the female cross side of things. My French blue is similar (Asian Blau) but doesn't wash colors and patterns, it's just solid even with magenta it still holds a pattern you can see as French blue. Only the blue fights the magenta and becomes purple lol So I suggested she try Asian Blau females and see what happens. With my crosses the blue stays the same regardless if it shows up pink lol

 

[GouramiGirl100]

Photos of the tanks this morning!

Milo with new cory and shrimp friends (not foes)

The loach tank. Two more loaches came out of quarantine along with Derrick my juvenile Raphael catfish. I added more hiding spots and more plants so you can’t see anything in this photo haha. My bamboo shrimp are also in here happily filter feeding under the power head


My ten galllon nano shrimp tank

 

[Leeman75]

Refilling my 75 after a WC and watching my Buenos Aires Tetras chase each other in the stream from the python. It's like watching a tornado of fish...they're nuts!!

 

[Gamer]

Water changes on the “wet pets” tanks today.

Midas was a gentleman.

Flowerhorn attacked the siphon nozzle repeatedly.

Added a split to the empty 10 gallon That has been running off of a sponge filter on each other. I’m going to add a betta to each side and am deciding if want 2 boys or 1 boy/1 girl.

 

[GouramiGirl100]

I split up my massive colony of RCS into three tanks when I moved: loach tank, betta tank, and juvenile (tiny less than an inch) silver tip tetra tank. Tell me how my colonies are still huge in the betta and loach tank but I’m down to two RCS in my tetra tank My tetras must have feasted, I’m shocked because they were with my RCS beforehand in a different tank and didn’t bother them. I don’t even understand how they could have eaten them they are so tiny and my shrimp are decently big. Not upset, just shocked lol

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Finally caught the last cory in the 20 and got it into the 20 long. Moving daphnia into the 20 for Bettas to have a breeding colony (hopefully) to pick from in addition to other foods.

 

[mistfox]

Selected a dozen or so river rocks that I'd forgotten we had, that hadn't been used for gardening yet. I'll add those in with a cave once I finally get stocking notifications.

 

[Fishyfreeonz]

I am setting up a tank with an under gravel filter for the first time.
Last night I inoculated it with filter sponge squeezings and a couple tbsp of composted cow manure and dosed ammonia. It is so perfectly clear today!
This tank is for my wife and it's going to have multiple types of tetras. I still have to make glass lids and build a stand.

 

[ruud]

I am setting up a tank with an under gravel filter for the first time.
Last night I inoculated it with filter sponge squeezings and a couple tbsp of composted cow manure and dosed ammonia. It is so perfectly clear today!
This tank is for my wife and it's going to have multiple types of tetras. I still have to make glass lids and build a stand.

Every hobbyists has to try an under gravel filter at some point!

 

[Sewerrat]

Lost leopard crab during quarantine this week so decided its a good time to separate more fry for grow out.

 

[fishywoo]

Water changes. Got Betta and Shrimp tank done. Half way through fry tank. Had to stop to watch the baby (dog). Just have to fill it back up. Then the adult Goldies tank. I don't usually get them all done in one day, but this seems easier now.

Will try to take more pictures tonight if I'm not too tired out. At a minimum I want to sit in front of my shrimp tank with a cup of tea for 20 minutes. So relaxing. I feel like I haven't stopped to really enjoy them recently. From there I can also watch my Betta and fry tank at the same time.
^_^

 

[BPSabelhaus]

 

[Jul9620]

Will be setting up a new floating plant corral (whenever it comes in today) because they keep floating to a dark spot in the aquarium.

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Some people "think" they have a snail problem lol

Edit: Just moved a bunch into a couple tanks with younger colonies plus some into the summer tubs / microfauna cultures too. Clearly that's too many for that tank But, it's just a resource that needs to be spread out a bit more lol Given the size of most, I'm guessing the cories were keeping the population in check. I'll move some more into their new tank.

 

[fishywoo]

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So flipping cute! =D

Didn't get around to photos last night, but found a berried shrimp juggling eggs today! The light is so bright in this room, so hopefully I will get clearer shots tonight if I can find her again.

 

[newjungletank]

Yesterday, I cleaned my sponge filters for the first time. I started the tank in October of last year. I have 5 fry in the breeder box that are eating bbs, so I seem to have a constant hatchery running. Since bbs are only good for a few days, all the fish are getting a feast. Also, apisto borelli opal mom 2 is now guarding fry in the main tank.


I 3D printed a stand for my USB air pump to run a sponge filter in my 1.5 gallon nano tank. It seems to be a bit overbuilt. I should have made it a little shorter.

 

[BPSabelhaus]

I knew I saw a baby cory in the tank!

Fine, so there is still at least one in the tank lol

Nom nom nom

 

[Fishfur]

I knew I saw a baby cory in the tank!

Fine, so there is still at least one in the tank lolView attachment 898491View attachment 898492

It looks like a giant head with a tiny tail .

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Trying to get up to Eurofish today.

Woke up to a gloomy day, then in the middle of a coughing fit the kiddo shoves a phone in my face (at 7:30 am) demanding I look at what he's doing in Roblox.

So yeah, the phone that I have been very vocal about children not having since long before the kiddo was born is taken away.


Now to slam a couple coffees then force him to the store as revenge. lol

Feeding the baby Bettas takes forever. 90 seconds or so to prepare the food, going on 10 minutes of watching and giggling like a child lol They're just so much more purposeful in their movements than Endlers.

 

[justin0420]

Adding new plants all the time. Whenever I do a water change on the weekends I kinda move things around to clean. But my cichlids are piling up sand in the middle back of my tank making their own little area yay for them their loveing it! My cats stand there for hours and meow at the fish they might be telepathically devising ways to take me out I'm not sure it's super suspicious lol jk!!!???

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Made it to Eurofish finally

Probably should have set a tank up before I left lol


But that means I need to build a rack. So for now, they get the old Betta spawning tub plus a pond filter. Drained a bit of water out of the Betta 20 since it was full to the brim. Jammed a well used sponge filter in and added some pothos. Good enough for now lol

This is me planning stuff in advance lol



That'll do for now lol

 

[fishywoo]

Made it to Eurofish finally

Probably should have set a tank up before I left lol


But that means I need to build a rack. So for now, they get the old Betta spawning tub plus a pond filter. Drained a bit of water out of the Betta 20 since it was full to the brim. Jammed a well used sponge filter in and added some pothos. Good enough for now lol

This is me planning stuff in advance lol View attachment 898571
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That'll do for now lol

That was me when I got shrimp and then couldn't bring myself to endanger them with my Betta. I always have a back tub aka storage tote. Knowing I always have a back up tub can be dangerous. Like when I saved goldfish eggs, the back of my mind was like "I have back up tubs..."

 

[BPSabelhaus]

That was me when I got shrimp and then couldn't bring myself to endanger them with my Betta. I always have a back tub aka storage tote. Knowing I always have a back up tub can be dangerous. Like when I saved goldfish eggs, the back of my mind was like "I have back up tubs..."

Yep, and with summer tub season coming soon

Made a slight change. Looks nicer like this.

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Too late to edit, but it smells a lot better with a blooming violet in it. Every time I walk past it smells so nice

 

[newjungletank]

That was me when I got shrimp and then couldn't bring myself to endanger them with my Betta. I always have a back tub aka storage tote. Knowing I always have a back up tub can be dangerous. Like when I saved goldfish eggs, the back of my mind was like "I have back up tubs..."

When I had a betta, I bought some cherry shrimp as an enrichment for him. I figured they would breed and he would eat some of them and it just never happened. I started with 8 I think and then ha a tank overrun with shrimp in a few months. He was pretty chill.

 

[BPSabelhaus]

When I had a betta, I bought some cherry shrimp as an enrichment for him. I figured they would breed and he would eat some of them and it just never happened. I started with 8 I think and then ha a tank overrun with shrimp in a few months. He was pretty chill.

Sounds like our Bettas lol


"Here, have some fry"

Betta: D'AWWWWWWW DEY SO CUTE!


I never get the psycho killer Bettas people talk about lol

 

[GouramiGirl100]

Sounds like our Bettas lol


"Here, have some fry"

Betta: D'AWWWWWWW DEY SO CUTE!


I never get the psycho killer Bettas people talk about lol

I’ve only had one betta I couldn’t keep with other fish/inverts. My female betta destroyed all of my dwarf stone catfish and hunted every single shrimp in her ten gallon tank. Sad

 

[BPSabelhaus]

I’ve only had one betta I couldn’t keep with other fish/inverts. My female betta destroyed all of my dwarf stone catfish and hunted every single shrimp in her ten gallon tank. Sad

Post spawning our female has eaten pretty much anything that fits in her mouth. Previously she was pretty chill and ignored fry. When I moved her into a 5 with some Endlers in it, every fry disappeared within a couple days lol

I wish I had more "garbage disposals" like her right now lol

I say "garbage" but they're all fish with a chance to take up more space I don't have in the winter. So if they can be food for others, why not? I'm contemplating breeding Bettas again. Not because I want more Bettas to get rid of, but because the fry are snack size, plentiful and easy to produce in almost brine shrimp weights of protein in the same time. I could have easily done 3 spawns with Petunia and Milic. Milic probably would have fattened up on other foods if he wasn't guarding two spawns back to back (my bad, but he really wanted to be a dad)

They're easier to breed than cories.

 

[Fishyfreeonz]

I finally got the good stuff. I just converted the sump on my 28 gallon guppy tank to a moving bed bioreactor using k1 media instead of the pot scrubbers I had been using which I just didn't like they worked fine and did a good job I just didn't like them as much as I expected.

 

[Fishfur]

I was going to finish up planting the new stuff but I’d forgotten that I ordered some neat crypts from a local guy. Now I have to wait until some ID tags arrive tomorrow from the ever helpful Amazon folks.

It is necessary because if I do not label these things I am never going to be able remember what most of them are.

Got C.wendtii ‘Nurii’ and a bunch of others so no matter how it looks I have got to label the ones I don’t know well enough by sight.

I’ll see if I can tuck the tags more or less out of sight.

The local guy grows almost everything submersed so his are a pleasure to get - no looking crummy while they transition though occasionally a crypt will melt and then one has to wait for it to grow back. But they usually do grow back.

 

[John58ford]

I finally got the good stuff. I just converted the sump on my 28 gallon guppy tank to a moving bed bioreactor using k1 media instead of the pot scrubbers I had been using which I just didn't like they worked fine and did a good job I just didn't like them as much as I expected.View attachment 898624

Ceramics and other "super media" get a tough beat down in quality once their dirty. Floating moving beds are awesome because they self clean as the tumble around in there. This is what Most of the hatcheries on water restrictions are using if constant freshwater isn't available or permitted. Beautiful upgrade. Did you set up any sort of sediment catcher in your door pattern? These do let loose quite a bit of mulm once they are well seeded and doing their job.

 

[Fishyfreeonz]

Ceramics and other "super media" get a tough beat down in quality once their dirty. Floating moving beds are awesome because they self clean as the tumble around in there. This is what Most of the hatcheries on water restrictions are using if constant freshwater isn't available or permitted. Beautiful upgrade. Did you set up any sort of sediment catcher in your door pattern? These do let loose quite a bit of mulm once they are well seeded and doing their job.

There is a 1" thick layer of 20ppi foam below them to catch anything.
I am also planning on using K1 in a recirculating aquaculture system I am setting up to raise tilapia.

 

[BPSabelhaus]

At what point do you stop getting the last one or two Betta fry out of a tank?

At least 8 ago was the last and the largest one I have seen out of the tub, tanks etc... is apparently the hide and seek world champion.

I have no idea how the biggest one is hiding in the smallest tank lol

 

[Fishfur]

At what point do you stop getting the last one or two Betta fry out of a tank?

At least 8 ago was the last and the largest one I have seen out of the tub, tanks etc... is apparently the hide and seek world champion.

I have no idea how the biggest one is hiding in the smallest tank lol

Hiding is something all fish seem to excel at.

 

[Fishladyforlife]

Testing water and attempting to count kuhlis. So hard 5 out of 6 so far. Also my cherry shrimp. Impossible in the 60. Never should have moved them

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Hiding is something all fish seem to excel at.

I thought the last cory was a pain lol

This one I'm tempted to just leave in there. If I decide to add guppies or Endlers, it's plenty big to not get eaten. Even if it wasn't hiding in bigfoots stomach lol

 

[Lucifer]

Adding a few plants and firing back up the C02 which I just filled - it had been empty for a while - purely due to laziness lol.

 

[mschmidt]

pulled algae the other day...

 

[Fishladyforlife]

Found 4 out of 5 cherry shrimp today! Finally!

 

[BPSabelhaus]

This better be the last last last last last one in there lol

 

[GouramiGirl100]

Been busy with starting work but here’s some photos from the loach tank
George my pleco

My bamboo shrimp right under the power head where she’s happiest

 

[Fishladyforlife]

Moving my ten to a new location! Using it for quarantine. I will try not to disturb bacteria and start it up again to get new fish.