What are you doing to your tank today?

I've changed substrate, decor and background!!
Top pic is before bottom after.
Will probably tweak it again as I'm not sure On it still!! Might get something like subwassertang for the new wood. I dont know though.
Plants need to grow still too.
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Just done some water changes & had a few more stern words with the pandas to stop eating their eggs, the message just isn’t getting through :mad:
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Imagine that works about as well as telling my peacock gudgeons to stop using the egg pile as a buffet as well.
 

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I've changed substrate, decor and background!!
Top pic is before bottom after.
Will probably tweak it again as I'm not sure On it still!! Might get something like subwassertang for the new wood. I dont know though.
Plants need to grow still too.
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Great work with your rescape, that carpeting plant will make your tank pop for sure once it grows in!





Speaking of changes myself, I have gotten some Amano Shrimp and Ember Tetras less than two days ago, and I think they are already loving their new home! I have to trim big time in the 10 gallon and do water changes today in both the 10 and 29 as well.
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Embers are extremely outgoing and follow my hand despite being in the tank for less than two days! They are super tiny too, less than .5 inches.
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My 3 New Amanos are already cracking down on the little algae hanging around in the tank, I love them already and they have made a great addition to the 10 gallon
 
I'm so tired of the Mbuna digging up the substrate leading to the instability of the rock hardscape. I made quite a big mistake including Mbuna in my 120 gal. Hap & Peacock tank. It's a constant battle packing the substrate back under the rocks.
Think I'm going to transfer my Filamentosas Barbs, Tigers & YoYos from the 65 gal. into the 120 & move the Mbuna into the 65.
This will be an enormous pain in the posterior.
 
I'm so tired of the Mbuna digging up the substrate leading to the instability of the rock hardscape. I made quite a big mistake including Mbuna in my 120 gal. Hap & Peacock tank. It's a constant battle packing the substrate back under the rocks.
Think I'm going to transfer my Filamentosas Barbs, Tigers & YoYos from the 65 gal. into the 120 & move the Mbuna into the 65.
This will be an enormous pain in the posterior.
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Yeah. I can think of other ways to get frustrated on a sunday! But not sure those other ways would make me feel like i accomplished something afterwards.
 
I'm so tired of the Mbuna digging up the substrate leading to the instability of the rock hardscape. I made quite a big mistake including Mbuna in my 120 gal. Hap & Peacock tank. It's a constant battle packing the substrate back under the rocks.
Think I'm going to transfer my Filamentosas Barbs, Tigers & YoYos from the 65 gal. into the 120 & move the Mbuna into the 65.
This will be an enormous pain in the posterior.
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I'm personally wishing you the best of success with the transfer. I know as well from personal experience how stressful it can be to move fish from one tank to the other and I also know how annoying it is for fish to change a tank layout from digging and such.
 

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Lots of water changes to get done today, and am moving out some old furniture to make room for more tanks...

This hobby is a disease! Where's the 1-800-IHAVETOOMANYTANKS hotline at?
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Here on Fishlore of course, but that may just make the addiction even worse if you know what I mean. ;)
 
Great work with your rescape, that carpeting plant will make your tank pop for sure once it grows in!
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I have no idea if I did it right!
I was 2 hours in by this point and aware I'd had the filters off for about an hour, so just shoved it in the gravel and hoped for the best!

Your scapes are amazing!!
I have ember Tetras too and love them!
 
Only a fellow fish nut would understand my delight today in finding one of my young female apistogramma cacs defending a pleco cave of eggs? . She is not much more than a juvenile herself being less than 12 months old. As we have been growing out multiple pairs in different tanks this couple are in a 40 gallon with two species of corydoras and a mature BN pleco plus mid water honey gourami pencil fish etc etc. I had no choice but to remove the cave to a hang on front breeding box with that many bottom dwelling egg eaters. She got a totally different cave as a replacement.
Fingers crossed the young male did his job?
 
I have no idea if I did it right!
I was 2 hours in by this point and aware I'd had the filters off for about an hour, so just shoved it in the gravel and hoped for the best!

Your scapes are amazing!!
I have ember Tetras too and love them!
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Thank you for your kind words, friend! This is my first foray into keeping Ember Tetras and Amano Shrimp and I am sure I won't be disappointed by either of them! I think they will look even better once the Tetras color up a little more and the Amanos grow larger too. :)
 

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Whelp, both of the females in the Blue Japan Guppy strain are now dead, I won't be replacing them. The male will go to the male guppy tank, and that tank will become the fry tank. When the fry grow up, it will become a betta or shrimp tank.
 
After arguing with my husband for a month to sell my 20 gallon tank set up (which I didn’t) I found a free 30 gallon with stand, top, filter and heater on Craigslist. So, I’m thinking if I only set up oneeeee of them divorce will not be in my imminent future? Is this bad rationalization? Please advise……other than that I did water changes. Cut my time to 10 min in my 50 gallon tank. It’s upstairs and I have been carrying buckets of RO up there and today I had the brilliant idea to purchase a submersible pump and hose and it pumps the water from the buckets up the steps to my tank. I actually kind of feel like a genius. I’m also hiding that from my husband haha one day he will open the closet door in the spare bedroom and my daughter, dog, cat, frog and fish will be looking for a new roommate!
 
Did a major clean of the 5g shrimp tank. It's been a while since I removed everything and sat them in a bucket of old tank water while siphoning out stuff that hid under everything. I trimmed the wisteria that was in the 5g. Trimming chewed up leaves off of a plant with huge aquarium scissors is a bit too much for me, even if I remove the plant from the tank. Anyone know of a good pair of small scissors that won't rust?

Anyway, all the gunk has been cleaned out, any and all snails that were sucked into the siphon were rescued. (I hope...) Dead xmas moss removed. Marimo cleaned up and rolled. Sponge filters didn't look gunky (surprisingly) so I left those be. I wove the guppy grass through a piece of cholla wood to keep it in place. Shrimp keep dragging it about and it was getting wrapped around the other plants.

All in all, 5g had a big water change, its been while since they had a big one. It was long over due. No one ate the kelp I had given them yesterday so I took that out and gave a spinach leaf instead.

I also did some work on the 40g.
 
Lots of water changes to get done today, and am moving out some old furniture to make room for more tanks...

This hobby is a disease! Where's the 1-800-IHAVETOOMANYTANKS hotline at?
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Oh, thats the hotline I run, but we don't help much, i just encourage more tanks!

So far been a watch and feed kind of day. The water in one of my betta tanks freaks me out. It is so clear that if i don't look at the corners with the sponge filters, i can't tell if there really is water in there or not
 
Well the last 24 hours - 4 canister filter cleanings along with 4 water changes. The Clown loaches got a feast today with all the bladder/pond snails i found in the canisters.
Oh and also, tearing down a tank so performed a "PP" treatment.
 
I'm so tired of the Mbuna digging up the substrate leading to the instability of the rock hardscape. I made quite a big mistake including Mbuna in my 120 gal. Hap & Peacock tank. It's a constant battle packing the substrate back under the rocks.
Think I'm going to transfer my Filamentosas Barbs, Tigers & YoYos from the 65 gal. into the 120 & move the Mbuna into the 65.
This will be an enormous pain in the posterior.
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I made the move to peacocks and haps only awhile ago.. best thing I ever did. Mbuna should be kept in species specific tanks only. I agree they are a pain in the a** when it comes to trying to have a decent rockscape
 
Although it took six hours, I now have a Mbuna specific tank & a Hap, Peacock, Barb & Loach tank. Lol.
I had to remove & reposition 200 lbs. of rocks & literally threw together two
Hardscapes.
I lost one elderly female Tiawan Reef & one Tiger Barb during the switch One of the female Filament Barbs has a tail nip.
My juvenile Fusco & Eye Biter aren't too happy with the schools of Barbs.
Here's a pic of the new 120 gal. hardscape. As usual, most of the Haps & Peacocks are hiding.
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Today I observed something that surprised me in my QT currently housing neo multis. Can you spot it?
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Multi fry! And to think this is a qt, my first tang tank and I'm still trying to get the mix right. Guess I found it.
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Today I observed something that surprised me in my QT currently housing neo multis. Can you spot it?
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Multi fry! And to think this is a qt, my first tang tank and I'm still trying to get the mix right. Guess I found it.
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Ohhh they’re so cute! I’m currently on the lookout for multifaciatus fry in my 75-gallon community tank. I have a breeding pair in there that have already had a bunch of fry at my LFS so I’m just waiting for them to get comfortable and start up again.
 
My stump is out for delivery all ready! That was fast for USPS...

Doing some extra tests on the 40g to make sure everything is still alright in there before I add the stump and ohko stones to it later after they've had boiling water treatments.

One of the berried shrimp let loose her clutch of babies. Poor things. I wish I could raise these little dots to adulthood.. Looks like its snowing in the shrimp tank...

Gomera has figured out on how to get onto the glass lid, been upside down sleeping all morning. A few of the ramshorns are just water surfing, so fun to watch. One's actually headed up to join the others right now. I saw Dude earlier, he's the first ramshorn I ever had. He's been hiding from me so it's nice to see him still alive.
 

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Peaceful day in the aquariums today...apart from the hooligan cories in the 20g, they are very peeved with me and giving me filthy looks at every opportunity...

They kept removing the sand from one corner of their aquarium and staring at their reflections for hours on end. I shifted the sand back and they moved it again. This has carried on for several weeks....but now I have had my revenge :o

No...I have not glued the sand in place...though I did consider doing that ;)

I moved the GKM to right over the area concerned and now the sand stays put despite all attempts by the hooligans to move it :p

That'll teach them to play silly wotsits with me...and the sand :p
 
Always wanted a dwarf gourami. Saw a powdered blue yesterday in excellent health and very active/curious. Currently dewormed and sitting in my Blackwater q tank for the next 2 weeks :) little dude hit the water hungry, always a good sign
 
Finally set up my 10 gallon tank that has been on standby for a month or two. Decided to only go with plants from Petco this time. Fish wise, probably some Tetras of the GlowFish (TM) variant. Decided to go with a peninsula design. Once the bubbles settle, I shall share a pic or two.
 
Looking like a watch and feed kind of day. Was thinking a partial waterchange on a tank or two because there was something else i wanted to take care of then as well, but seems i have a momentary case of dementia or something and don't have the foggiest idea what that was.
 
Trying to get the Eheim adjusted now that my 9g isnt 82+ degrees. It was in my shrimp tank and my thermometer said 77-78. I have an accurate thermometer now and it was 81.....sorry shrimpsters. Trying to get it to 78-79 for Redfish.

Also snagged Red racer before he went into the back side of the tank...naughty.
 
Where did you get your red racer? My LFS never has them and I want to add one to my crew so badly!
 
Where did you get your red racer? My LFS never has them and I want to add one to my crew so badly!
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Bluefish in Grandville. They didnt have them for a long time either. They have had them for a bit now.
 
Well, some fish died, I moved some, and now I have an empty tank. Petco, here I come!
(probably gonna do a betta.)
 

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Recorded over an hour of footage for the video I'm posting tomorrow, and ended up getting some cool footage of my cleaner shrimp giving me a manicure! Love these little guys.

Excuse the terrible audio - the video was meant to be used as B-roll, and I gotta admit, I'm way too tired to edit some music into it right now.


Bonus points if you spot the fourth fish in the video!
 
mega water change and deep cleaning of decor due to crazy ammonia spike. About to test my water again post change.
 
Feed n watch kind of night, and it is bloodworms tonight! Thawing them out now and preparing for the frenzy...and bet i have a gudgie on a pile of eggs by the end of the week lol
 
First time I’ve had fish breed- Red Wagtail Platys only in the tank. Saw them in the feeding tube, now roaming. There are 3, I think :).
 

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Won't be much of anything going on for the tanks next couple of days. Will be spending about .5 waking hours at home between now and friday night.
 
Plant trimming today. And trying to get the hang of my new planting tweezers, lol. I look so uncoordinated. I'm used to small ones, probably 4", and I bought 15" ones I ridiculous now.

I just tossed this bacopa in from my bettas tank and the cherries are already super interested in the new addition.
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I retired my two noisy 9 y.o. AC 110's today & replaced them with two Marineland Emperor 400's.
I found the 400's on sale at Petco. Decided to stay with the old reliable instead of the updated Emperor 450 Pro. The spray bar on the 400's are better than the 450's and on line 450 reviews are mediocre.
I ran an Emperor 280, which is really a half sized 400, on a 65 gal. uninterrupted for 22 years. It was still running, but limping a bit, when I replaced it with 2x Emperor 400's last year. IMO, really good filters.
Also picked up three baby YoYo Loaches. Hope they don't end up lunch.
 
with the digging of a koi pond in the back yard some field stones have been found. I boiled several of them last night so today the plecos get another rock pile.
I hope to find many more field stones.
 

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Feeding fish, editing videos, and considering planting my GBR tank more heavily to see if that'll lure them out of the shadows. I'm fairly sure that they are male and female, due to them not murdering eachother yet.
 
I •should• have been getting the dirt and sand cap into the 20 long today so I can plant tomorrow.
Instead I was setting up a hospital tank because one of my sparkling gourami has some sort of lesion in it. I’m really hoping it’s not columnaris, but it sure looks like the pictures to me. Ughh. I then spent almost an hour trying to catch this guy in a heavily planted tank. Double ugh. I finally gave up. Just no way to do it unless I pull all the plants.
Antibiotics are ordered and I’m just going to treat the whole tank. Which I guess isn’t the end of the world.
Off to start a thread about how to treat a tank that is only running a sponge filter.
 
I yelled at my swordtail for eating a guppy fry but I'm unsure if it did any good....
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You have to catch them redfinned, or they won't know why you are yelling at them :p
 
Dropped a pond snail into the pea puffer tank... turns out, the pond snail is the same size as the puffer! Oops. It'll be a long, grueling hunt tonight, little buddy.

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Also, this otto is crazy fat, and there are two of them in there - one's a bit thinner, and then there's this chonk. Maybe male and female?
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Today was suppose to be just a water change and general tank maintenance day. I was looking at my tank and decided to rescape it. Two fish stores later and some pants that will probably melt, I came up with this. I also picked up a HOB filter but my Betta cannot handle to flow. I wanted to go back to running 2 filters.

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Water changes yesterday in the 10 and 29 gallon aquariums and a ton of trimming in the 10 gallon. I did not have time to take the pics yesterday so here I am today instead!

Current 29 gallon! I think your Vals are finally taking over alongside the Water Wisteria StarGirl! Without the Hornwort blocking the light at the top all the plants benefitted greatly below the surface!
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10 Gallon before trim
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Water changes yesterday in the 10 and 29 gallon aquariums and a ton of trimming in the 10 gallon. I did not have time to take the pics yesterday so here I am today instead!

Current 29 gallon! I think your Vals are finally taking over alongside the wisteria StarGirl! Without the Hornwort blocking the light at the top all the plants benefitted greatly below the surface!
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10 Gallon before trim
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Lol I don't think you really know what a Val take-over is.... :hilarious:
 
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