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Doing a water change and adding in some floaters on the sororities
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Did a water change in the 180 as flex rearranged tank to bare glass bottom … again . Before and after below. Still not perfect but working on filling the middle bare spot but what’s 12” pleco proof? So far nothing . Tried to reinvigorate this little nerite , to replace the one pleco buried on one of his sessions , as he isn’t moving since I got him despite acclimating, popped him on some blanched courgette incase he was hungry. Turns out not to be the case. Touch test incoming. Split and stuck some more Anubias nana that’s flowering on the wood and tested all water parameters on both tanks.. oh and I found a spider hiding in the 35L
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If you are in MN. I just spotted this on craigslist.
Looks like someone is getting out of the hobby.
So for FREE they are offering
Number Available/ Size/ Approximate Dimensions
2/ 10 Gallon/ 10 x 20 x 12.5 H
1/ 20 Gallon/ 12 x 24 x 16 H
1/ 29 Gallon/ 12 x 30 x 18 H
1/ 38 Gallon / 12 x 30.5 x 23 H
1/ 55 Gallon/ 13 x 48.5 x 21 H
1 83 Gallon Hexagon Tank 13" per side and 23.5
I also have a wrought iron aquarium stand. The dimensions are: 13 x 48.5 x 21 H.
I also have a wooden, DIY aquarium stand with casters. The dimensions are: 18.5 x 48.5 x 16 H.
So if you want to start a fish room or add to one. search for Aquarium in the Pets section up top in the Community area, not under Free in the For Sale area.
Reading it there is either another 55 that needs a reseal or the 55 needs a reseal. EZ peazy either way.
What I'm saying is that if you don't have anything to do with your aquarium today. Go get more aquariums and you will.
Not sure if this was the best place to post this to get in front of MN/West WI eyes.
I don't have space and these are too small for what I look for.
Looks like someone is getting out of the hobby.
So for FREE they are offering
Number Available/ Size/ Approximate Dimensions
2/ 10 Gallon/ 10 x 20 x 12.5 H
1/ 20 Gallon/ 12 x 24 x 16 H
1/ 29 Gallon/ 12 x 30 x 18 H
1/ 38 Gallon / 12 x 30.5 x 23 H
1/ 55 Gallon/ 13 x 48.5 x 21 H
1 83 Gallon Hexagon Tank 13" per side and 23.5
I also have a wrought iron aquarium stand. The dimensions are: 13 x 48.5 x 21 H.
I also have a wooden, DIY aquarium stand with casters. The dimensions are: 18.5 x 48.5 x 16 H.
So if you want to start a fish room or add to one. search for Aquarium in the Pets section up top in the Community area, not under Free in the For Sale area.
Reading it there is either another 55 that needs a reseal or the 55 needs a reseal. EZ peazy either way.
What I'm saying is that if you don't have anything to do with your aquarium today. Go get more aquariums and you will.
Not sure if this was the best place to post this to get in front of MN/West WI eyes.
I don't have space and these are too small for what I look for.
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Alrighty, so I actually got quite a bit done today! Nothing very useful, but hey, I had fun!
I did water changes on all of my tanks, moved some plants around, found some old plants that I didn't even know I had, saved a hermit crab from a bucket (I guess I sucked him up while I was changing water), and threw a Trumpet coral into the Green Spotted Puffer tank to see if it'd somehow do better in there than it is in my reef. I've got other Trumpets that are happy and healthy, but that one just will not get the stick out of its' butt.
I also went to visit my parents, and I ended up stealing some plants, snails, and cherry shrimp from my mom's tank. I gave her maybe a dozen of my RCS about a year ago, and she's turned those dozen into at least a hundred in her 29 gallon - the tank also has mollies, guppies, and some odessa barbs... who all get along very well, actually. I took half of one of her Anubias, and the thing is at least 10" tall and 8" wide - and that's half of one, and she has like 6 of those throughout her tank. It's just a standard PetSmart kit that I got for her in 2019. She barely ever does water changes, never doses ferts, and only gets into the tank to trim plants and remove duckweed once or twice a month. Goes to show how far a stable environment will go for you!
I set the shrimp up in two spots - 6 went into a little plastic bin with a sponge filter, some plants, and a bunch of gunk from a well-established tank. I want to get a breeding colony going again, and this seemed like a better fit than setting up another tank at the moment.
The other 3 went in with my dwarf puffer, who's been safe with ghost shrimp since I've had him. He showed some interest when they first went in, but that's it. Hoping to get some babies in there for him to snack on.
Also found that the heater in one of my QT's had gotten set to 86 - oops! I turned it down to 82, and will probably turn it down to 78 tomorrow.
I did water changes on all of my tanks, moved some plants around, found some old plants that I didn't even know I had, saved a hermit crab from a bucket (I guess I sucked him up while I was changing water
), and threw a Trumpet coral into the Green Spotted Puffer tank to see if it'd somehow do better in there than it is in my reef. I've got other Trumpets that are happy and healthy, but that one just will not get the stick out of its' butt.I also went to visit my parents, and I ended up stealing some plants, snails, and cherry shrimp from my mom's tank. I gave her maybe a dozen of my RCS about a year ago, and she's turned those dozen into at least a hundred in her 29 gallon - the tank also has mollies, guppies, and some odessa barbs... who all get along very well, actually. I took half of one of her Anubias, and the thing is at least 10" tall and 8" wide - and that's half of one, and she has like 6 of those throughout her tank. It's just a standard PetSmart kit that I got for her in 2019. She barely ever does water changes, never doses ferts, and only gets into the tank to trim plants and remove duckweed once or twice a month. Goes to show how far a stable environment will go for you!
I set the shrimp up in two spots - 6 went into a little plastic bin with a sponge filter, some plants, and a bunch of gunk from a well-established tank. I want to get a breeding colony going again, and this seemed like a better fit than setting up another tank at the moment.
The other 3 went in with my dwarf puffer, who's been safe with ghost shrimp since I've had him. He showed some interest when they first went in, but that's it. Hoping to get some babies in there for him to snack on.
Also found that the heater in one of my QT's had gotten set to 86 - oops! I turned it down to 82, and will probably turn it down to 78 tomorrow.
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Water changes on all but my 55 today. I'll tackle that tomorrow. After the changes spent some time just watching all that's going on. Loving my new pair of Apistogramma Borelli...they are just amazing and though they were very skittish and hiding constantly when I got them last Sunday, now they come right to the front of the tank to see me when I come to the tank. I can't get any good pictures of them because they won't turn sideways for me to see their whole body...they like to look at me about as much as I like to look at them!!
Then, I watched a pair of the trio of Killis that I got last weekend doing a mating dance. Was quite the spectacle to see, but reassuring that they must like their new tank!!
All in all, a nice day of watching and enjoying!
Got a decent picture of the guy with his nice colors showing, though he's in the back of the tank. The gal seems to be more elusive. Either she's so close that she's out of focus or is moving fast and a blur.
Then, I watched a pair of the trio of Killis that I got last weekend doing a mating dance. Was quite the spectacle to see, but reassuring that they must like their new tank!!
All in all, a nice day of watching and enjoying!
Got a decent picture of the guy with his nice colors showing, though he's in the back of the tank. The gal seems to be more elusive. Either she's so close that she's out of focus or is moving fast and a blur.
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I did some trimming in the 27 cube. And re-planting. My water sprite was being held in place by 4-5 three inch long roots, so I pushed it back into the substrate and just thinned it rather than chopping the tops off. I also thinned out my lilies. I was really hoping to kick out the missing Otos or at the least see them stuck to the filter intake, but no... I'm only seeing two out of the five I have left on a regular basis. I fear the missing Otos are dead. I think I'm missing a Cory, too. I'm not sure what's going on with that.
My female is the same way - they are both young and sometime she will follow the male at a distance at eating time only coming forward when the male starts eating but frequently she is no where to be seen. I was beginning to get a little worried as it had been a couple of weeks since she last showed up but this morning she came out with the male to eat. I really lucked out on my male - i have some from two different sources with one looking a lot like yours but the other is much deeper blue which contrast well with the opal face. Anyway I love their personalities. They remind me a little of poodle how they pack a loud bark but run away as soon as someone actually notices them.
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Back from a three week journey: My daugther managed feeding and did even one waterchange on two 25L growout tanks.
Only losses so far: Some very old Medaka died because of age. There are some more Medaka with an age of three summers or older.
Did some waterchanges on the smaller tanks and checked the bigger ones only. All tanks are fine, maybe the fish got even less food than planned.Removed some string algae and a lot of duckweed. So one hour of extra work and I'm already back to normal routine.
Only losses so far: Some very old Medaka died because of age. There are some more Medaka with an age of three summers or older.
Did some waterchanges on the smaller tanks and checked the bigger ones only. All tanks are fine, maybe the fish got even less food than planned.Removed some string algae and a lot of duckweed. So one hour of extra work and I'm already back to normal routine.
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Flash the betta is being very fussy. I am trying to figure out what is wrong. No signs of illness whatsoever. Tank parameters are all excellent. Live plants and Indian almond leaves are present.
So, I had changed some things around on Friday when I did his water change, just to keep things interesting. Since he is refusing to eat, I went ahead and put it back the way it was, just in case he is having a tantrum. This is a fish running my house, you guys...(sigh).
What a drama king!!!
So, I had changed some things around on Friday when I did his water change, just to keep things interesting. Since he is refusing to eat, I went ahead and put it back the way it was, just in case he is having a tantrum. This is a fish running my house, you guys...(sigh).
What a drama king!!!
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May yet get a water change or two done today. Went to the LFS today to see if i could round out my schools of penguin tetras and scissor-tail rasboras. They had the number of rasboras i wanted, were out of the tetras. Bought some seiryu stone and got my foot in the door to possibly get rid of some of my gudgeon fry in the near future, as they told me their normal supplier just recently started charging them $20/fish!
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Setting up my 75g and moving my guys from my 50g. Got new substrate (pool filter sand), I think the black diamond blasting sand I have in my other tank made my cories lose their barbels I’m hoping this helps them grow back. Also, haven’t seen one of my L134s in two days which is uncommon so I’m anxious to move the fish over and try and find it. Hopefully it’s hiding! Looking forward to not sleeping for two days after I move everyone! If anyone in southeast Michigan needs a tank I have a 50g bow front I’ll be getting rid of! 
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I ordered a ten pack of Amano shrimp for my Ember Tetra tank a couple days ago, so figured there was no time like the present to remove the Pygmy Corys from that tank. Three S&P and one true Pygmy the LFS sold me by mistake. They are in my Beta tank right now. Where they should be.
I just looked over and the Pygmy broke water like a bass going for a frog, lol.
Yeah, he might not be long for this tank... He was the toughest one to net.
I just looked over and the Pygmy broke water like a bass going for a frog, lol.
Yeah, he might not be long for this tank... He was the toughest one to net.
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Well I solicited some assistance from my 9yr old son. We drained the tank halfway and rearranged the rocks and smoothed out the substrate.....and then I made him condition the water, and temp match the water and start filling the tank all by himself.
My only instructions were "you better not kill my fish".
So this little dude calculated how much water we took out, read the instructions on the bottle of Prime, and did the math and got the doseage exactly right. I did not guide him. And this was his first time.
You should have seen him running from the sink to the tank feeling this water then that water stressing over getting the temperature perfect.
He wanted me to double check....he begged me. But i wouldn't do it. I just said "Dont kill my fish".
Y'all.....i checked his temp....he was 0.5 degrees F off from the temp in the tank. I was seriously impressed.
You gotta start early and raise them right.
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Looks like a frozen brine shrimp kind of night. Love watching the little buggers get all excited!
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Weekend kicked me right in the butt, too exhausted to do much of anything today. Didn't help any i was running errands a lot. So, guess i will start anew on the weekly water changes tomorrow. Also planning on changing the water out in my driftwood bucket to keep those pieces waterlogged and leaking tannins. Decided i am taking my rocks and brush to work tomorrow, because odds are it will be a slow day and the dragon stone needs some serious scrubbing yet, so may as well kill time with that project, since i have to be there anyway!
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After adding the new heater to my tank I’ve been noticing some fluctuations on my thermometer. So a little heater fiddling was leaving me confused. so I grabbed the one out of the other tank , gave it a rinse and put it next to the other. Sure enough it’s reading a different temp. Bought a new one and had all three in a row ! 2 reading one temperature and one no where near ! The wrong one goes in the bin and the other back to its original tank . If anyone needs me I’ll be taking a toothbrush to 1/2 my rocks and fiddling with a heater ! Happy Monday everyone.
I have been moving around an outside tank that was a fire bucket ( wild fire country) and green water culture. This tank was outside all winter with ice on top many days. With no water changes, no filter or feeding cherry shrimp that had been in the waste tank water as day old young had survived more than 7 months living on the algae growing in the old
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Another 33G tank set up done with 2 L Seachem matrix and 3/4" gravel/ufg. Danios don't dig. This tank will soon have the regular barbs and more danios. Yellow labs still digging in the main tank lol.
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Water change in the juwel 300 today. I've got a great system for draining now with a hose out of a window but 150 litres by hand on the refill is quite a work out.
Python is on the christmas list.. And a nano tank haha Why is MTS such an addiction? Worse than nicotine XD
Python is on the christmas list.. And a nano tank haha Why is MTS such an addiction? Worse than nicotine XD
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Home sick with a cold today that my students kindly gave to me last week and I didn't want to further spread around my room. So I'm just watching my tanks... resisting the urge to drive to my LFS's to see if anyone FINALLY has glowlight tetras, and if they do, they're healthy. I've been searching for 7 months to complete my school, and they just seem to have evaporated out of eastern Pennsylvania.
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Well….I moved my fish over successfully (so far) why is it the biggest fish in the tank are the biggest babies? My Pearl gourami have been in hiding for 2 hours now. My plecos no longer seem to be afraid of me at all or they just like the new tank better. Took me an hour to catch 15 amano shrimp, I think that’s how many I have I lost count. The cat won’t look at me because I took down the tank next to his bed and the dog is terrified of the new tank. Everyone seems to be getting their color back except the albino cories who never missed a beat. Now I’m just sitting here trying to figure out how many more fish I can get
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I just finished trimming the Tiger Lotus/Lily or whatever it is and made a LOT more room in the front corner of the nano. And more room to swim around it, as my Betta is fond of doing and getting stuck
Then I moved a nice rock I had hiding in the back up front and laid down some fresh substrate.
He's already liking that spot to hang out.
That rock looks odd it is so clean. It hasn't seen the light of... light. The others have a film of algae.
Then I moved a nice rock I had hiding in the back up front and laid down some fresh substrate.
He's already liking that spot to hang out.
That rock looks odd it is so clean. It hasn't seen the light of... light. The others have a film of algae.
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A little cloudy still but hooked up a second powerhead. Need to untangle the wisteria clump on the left still. Hoping my LFS can get my zebra loaches in soon!
Was cleaning my 40 and ran into this unpleasant situation:
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This is not the same as the one posted previously; this is a new generation; only this round I saw no less than 20 of these critters everywhere. Let this be a lesson to you kids; even in a community tank with lots of predators NEVER put a male and female bn together. I don't know how many made it from the last bunch but i know every now and then i spot a flash of yellow in the very back so at least one and probably a lot more. One of these days I'll have to tear everything down and get them out. Some of the ones i spotted in other parts of the aquarium were really small probably 1/2 or 1/3 of the size of these.
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This is not the same as the one posted previously; this is a new generation; only this round I saw no less than 20 of these critters everywhere. Let this be a lesson to you kids; even in a community tank with lots of predators NEVER put a male and female bn together. I don't know how many made it from the last bunch but i know every now and then i spot a flash of yellow in the very back so at least one and probably a lot more. One of these days I'll have to tear everything down and get them out. Some of the ones i spotted in other parts of the aquarium were really small probably 1/2 or 1/3 of the size of these.
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My zebra loaches indeed came in today. I love them. Will have to get use to them laying there like they are dead!
I put them in my QT tank which is my old 20g that has been running because I knew I was upgrading to a bigger tank and getting new fish. I moved all of the fish out of there to my 30g a month ago. Wouldn’t you know when I put the loaches in there today I found fry swimming around! I’m sure that some of them are panda or salt and pepper cories. The other ones have to be either dwarf emerald rasboras or honey gourami and I also found a bunch of baby assassin snails. I’m just in shock because I haven’t dont anything to that tank in a month except throw a little bit of food in like once or twice a week because I have a bunch of ramshorns in there because I was thinking of getting a pea puffer for that tank.
Not the greatest picture but here is one of the fry. It’s tiny tiny I don’t even think I could net it to put in a breeder box.
I put them in my QT tank which is my old 20g that has been running because I knew I was upgrading to a bigger tank and getting new fish. I moved all of the fish out of there to my 30g a month ago. Wouldn’t you know when I put the loaches in there today I found fry swimming around! I’m sure that some of them are panda or salt and pepper cories. The other ones have to be either dwarf emerald rasboras or honey gourami and I also found a bunch of baby assassin snails. I’m just in shock because I haven’t dont anything to that tank in a month except throw a little bit of food in like once or twice a week because I have a bunch of ramshorns in there because I was thinking of getting a pea puffer for that tank.
Not the greatest picture but here is one of the fry. It’s tiny tiny I don’t even think I could net it to put in a breeder box.
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I've been waiting all day for FedEx to deliver my shrimp. Got the drip tube in the tank, a drop of Prime in the plastic container I'm going to put them in while I acclimate them, the shrimp net is out. I'm ready.
"Operational Delays" is the message I was given while I just checked tracking again.
Well poop I guess I won't be doing that today.
"Operational Delays" is the message I was given while I just checked tracking again.
Well poop
I guess I won't be doing that today.
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Okay, so this tank looks terrible but it's serving a purpose! This is the plant tank I threw together:
Currently, there's just a couple pieces of Val, some Crypts, and some Ludwigia. I plan to split some Java Fern and Anubias too, and probably add some shrimp for algae control. This will be a decent grow-out for the month or two I need it for.
The tank sat outside, dry, for 3 weeks. Just substrate in it. 90+ degree days, and down into the 40's overnight. Baking in the sun. I fill it up, and what do I see? Little trails in the sand. And here's this huge trumpet snail, acting like it didn't just survive a nuclear snailpocalypse on my back porch.
Here's that huge Anubias from my mom's tank I posted a couple days ago:
This is half of one plant, and she has like 6 separate plants in her 29 gallon tank. Insanity. I've made some big Anubias before, but I feel like I always love them too much - I guess they enjoy the neglect, lol.
And here's the shrimp/snail tub:
Magenta Mysteries:
RCS:
https://i.imgur.com/rnF1Miq.jpg
I found one dead shrimp, but the water tests fine. I'm assuming it was just just stress from the move, but I'll be watching closely.
Currently, there's just a couple pieces of Val, some Crypts, and some Ludwigia. I plan to split some Java Fern and Anubias too, and probably add some shrimp for algae control. This will be a decent grow-out for the month or two I need it for.
The tank sat outside, dry, for 3 weeks. Just substrate in it. 90+ degree days, and down into the 40's overnight. Baking in the sun. I fill it up, and what do I see? Little trails in the sand. And here's this huge trumpet snail, acting like it didn't just survive a nuclear snailpocalypse on my back porch.
Here's that huge Anubias from my mom's tank I posted a couple days ago:
This is half of one plant, and she has like 6 separate plants in her 29 gallon tank. Insanity. I've made some big Anubias before, but I feel like I always love them too much - I guess they enjoy the neglect, lol.
And here's the shrimp/snail tub:
Magenta Mysteries:
RCS:
https://i.imgur.com/rnF1Miq.jpg
I found one dead shrimp, but the water tests fine. I'm assuming it was just just stress from the move, but I'll be watching closely.
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Yeah, we shall see. The 29 seems ok, i see rasboras, tetras and betta swimming around. Its the took forever to find black phantoms i am worried about....and they like to hide so takes awhile before i see all 10 of them.
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