What are you doing to your tank today?

[bcfishtanks]

Planted my 29 g and moved some fish over! My betta went in QT with salt treatment for his fin rot. Cories are stressed. Tetras are so happy.

 

[Charlie’s Dad]

We vacuumed both 75s, 55, an the 36 bow front. Also did 30% water changes. Got home early so we got a jump on it.

 

[StarGirl]

Put some floss in the hob to clear the cloudiness from the new substrate in the 5g. Put my rocks back in and a fake plant for now. Pulled some Vals and did a better vacuum than usual in the 55g. The new Gudgies want in the tube as much as Redfish does during water changes! All done for the weekend!

 

[BigManAquatics]

I dont have fish big enough to eat any of that!

I found food my Nerites will eat at least! They have been where the shrimp food was last night all morning lol.
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Loving that red racer....handsome critter!

 

[StarGirl]

Loving that red racer....handsome critter!

Most of the others I have seen are just all red. He is definitely a unique one for sure!

 

[Broggy]

I’ll do some water changes today. Saturday is the day of the week where I perform the weekly 30% water change on my 30 gallon and I might begin doing the 15 gallon’s weekly water change on this day too.

I also want to prepare myself for future power outages. I heard that there is a cheap method of aeration using potato slices, hydrogen peroxide, a plastic bottle and a small siphon and IMO that would be heaps of fun to try! I’m not use to power outages in my area and whenever they happen they’re usually over in a few minutes.

you should get an aquarium exclusive generator, not for you fridge, nor

Alejandro had fish food day today - go to the market buy all the various frozen seafood then cut them all up into our feeding box - so we don't have to do food prep every day.
500g anchovies, 500g whitebait, 600g cut prawn pieces, 500g school prawn whole, 300g brineshrimp, 300g daphnia and 500g soft shell crabs whole.
This box lasts about 3 weeks. But sometimes we need to refill some foods...

what kind of fish do you feed that to?

 

[BigManAquatics]

Split up a block of daphnia for the betta tanks. Think i might feel cute later and do some water changes.

 

[CHJ]

Ran the Lancelot (disk chainsaw blade) through a grape log and am now boiling it to lower pleco drama. Chubby shall have a new house having gotten kicked out of his old one by cactuses.

if you have a Petco near you check and see if they have grape logs. With a little work they are awesome cover.

 

[Alejandro]

what kind of fish do you feed that to?

Soft shell crabs for his maori octopus
Prawns for snowflake moray eel
Mudskippers like bloodworm or chopped whitebait
The stargazer still only eats live fish (not in the food box)
Axolotl eats whitebait or live worms or fish
Daphnia, bloodworm and brine for all the smaller fish (damsels, gobies, baby leather jackets, weedfish, gudgeons, glass cats, SAEs, pencilfish, kuhli loach and a few more)
Goldfish eat everything
He uses live crickets for his african butterfly fish, archer fish and frogs and as a treat for others.
Turtles get chopped or whole fish and prawn
His temperate reef has too many species to list including puffers, morwong, herring, whiting, cowfish, soldiers, sea sweeps, magpie perch, garfish, leather jackets and blennies - and a bunch more..they eat anything and everything - He calls it the feeding frenzy whatever you put in it's time apart and gone in seconds. They get chopped prawn and anchovies and some of the ambush predators get whole anchovies or school prawn.

That's just the aquatics... He has other food for lizards, scorpions, guinea pigs, rats and snake. I think he's working on a full foodchain set so he can just feed all his pets to the other pets....

 

[member133559]

Well, I ripped mine apart.

Technically, the Fishlore spell got the better of me. I went out to purchase a new laptop. Couldn't find one that I liked enough. Came back with a new tank, more plants, etc.

"You bought what????" "Well, technically I saved us $$$ not splashing out on a new laptop!"

So, the old tank has fewer plants but was upgraded by my son with Sponge Bob's house. Fair enough.

The new one is only 5G but I have to say, the possibilities of planting up in there seem like it's a 10G or so. I only went for 5G since the shelf might be under too much strain for my liking. But 5G long definitely feels like a nice enough upgrade.

Now, I'm debating with myself just 5 Chili Rasboras or 6 GloFish (TM) Danios?

 

[Broggy]

Soft shell crabs for his maori octopus
Prawns for snowflake moray eel
Mudskippers like bloodworm or chopped whitebait
The stargazer still only eats live fish (not in the food box)
Axolotl eats whitebait or live worms or fish
Daphnia, bloodworm and brine for all the smaller fish (damsels, gobies, baby leather jackets, weedfish, gudgeons, glass cats, SAEs, pencilfish, kuhli loach and a few more)
Goldfish eat everything
He uses live crickets for his african butterfly fish, archer fish and frogs and as a treat for others.
Turtles get chopped or whole fish and prawn
His temperate reef has too many species to list including puffers, morwong, herring, whiting, cowfish, soldiers, sea sweeps, magpie perch, garfish, leather jackets and blennies - and a bunch more..they eat anything and everything - He calls it the feeding frenzy whatever you put in it's time apart and gone in seconds. They get chopped prawn and anchovies and some of the ambush predators get whole anchovies or school prawn.

That's just the aquatics... He has other food for lizards, scorpions, guinea pigs, rats and snake. I think he's working on a full foodchain set so he can just feed all his pets to the other pets....

im not that fancy to feed that all to my pets, probably never will be. that's pretty cool though

 

[BigManAquatics]

Turns out i wasn't feeling cute enough for water changes tonight. Maybe tomorrow.

 

[mygerbilprince]

Just the monthly 50% water change and trying to get my ammonia down...
Hoping to add a nerite snail to my tank tomorrow!

 

[BenjiBear]

Its been a wild fish week for me, by my standards anyways...

Ive been worrying about Bear, one of my BN plecs cause he's so shy and I worry when I dont at least see his tail every day or something...he sure keeps me up. I hope he'll come out of his shell soon. I dont like where that tank is because its low to the ground and I dont think that helps him because of the sound/vibrations of me walking around but I plan to move it up to chest hight however im scared of moving the tank. I adore the scape and dont wanna break it down but I just worry draining the water, say 75% or even 80% will still make it too heavy. All I need to do is pull it out of the unit its inside, put it on the floor while I move said unit away and then get it up onto my windowlege (sounds like a bad idea ik but my ledge is solid stone and I plan to add a black backdrop to make sure excess light wont cause algae). If anyone has any tips on moving big tanks please let me know! (37g btw and im guessing very roughly when full it weighs over 150kg)

I also had to deal with my first instance of betta bloat, my 4 month old orange crowntail Tangerine was looking rather large, poor dude, but it's gone down after a 3 day fast so tomorrow he's going to get food again. Small amounts tho I want to just ease him back in. Im also unsure if one of my cories is spawning or she has bloat too so we'll just see.

Im feeling super hype though as yesterday i spent all day rearranging my room and I finally got a tank rack set up!! Ive wanted one since I really got into the hobby (I blame MD Fishtanks, his racking game is top notch) and now I have a place for all (but one) of my betta tanks plus room for a few 30cm cubes for shrimp in the future So heres a pic...



However today I set up a 6 gallon for my newest betta, Pippin! I experimented with less greenery and more hard scape plus loads of botanicals so it looks really autumnal imo. I collected all the hard scape and said botanicals myself so Im feeling quite proud of that. Not my first time doing it but my first time that the entire scape was found by me. I also used an active substrate (maybe not the best choice for a low plant tank...? I might add some background plants at some point but this was made on a serious budget) which I havent done since I crashed my tank a few weeks into the hobby but im bored of sand now. Pippin seems to love it so thats great, poor lil guy was stuck in my 2g holding tank at 23c room temp for 2 nights but he didnt seem to mind. Of course his new tank is heated and at 26c so thats me getting a good nights sleep and not worrying about him...yes, I constantly worry about my fish sometimes fishkeeping is maybe not an advisable hobby for people who fret A few pics of his new pad...



I like the look of darker pics but you can't see all the details. Also in the dark pic, Pip is in a container acclimating, I wondered what the huge thing was in the top right

Here's a slightly blurry shot of Pip...he's so vibrant I think he's about 3-4 months old so he's got a bit of growing to do! I very honestly couldn't be bothered to wipe the bubbles away after filling as it was like 12am...so im sorry about that



Anyway thats enough of me for today...

 

[Ouse]

you should get an aquarium exclusive generator, not for you fridge, nor

I’d need four of those generators. What has MTS done to me?

 

[Ouse]

Done some maintenance on my 5 gallon because I want it to be ready for fish. It’s cycled and all but I need to make the fish feel welcome by tidying up.

 

[Fishfriendof315]

I havent decided yet. Went out and spent $300 on a bearded dragon for the Mrs. Put a damper in my fish budget for the month, but he's super freaking cute

 

[Ouse]

I havent decided yet. Went out and spent $300 on a bearded dragon for the Mrs. Put a damper in my fish budget for the month, but he's super freaking cute

I use to have one of them when I was little!

 

[Broggy]

I’d need four of those generators. What has MTS done to me?

oops my sentence cut off, but you get my point about the generator

 

[Demonskid]

Nothing much with my tank today. Fed the shrimp, watched a male chase a female around in circles till she grew tired of it and chased him off.

Waiting for PS+ to call and say my new tank is in. The wait is so boring.

 

[tapwater]

Gonna test for ammonia in a little while. I want to see if it increased at all within a day, and if so, by how much.

 

[Leilio]

Got a group of black neon tetra recently, and they have been doing a great job at eating the scuds in my tank. The number of scuds has decreased to a level that I am comfortable with. And I can finally pull the scuds out of my scud culture to feed the black neons instead of just let the culture sit there and do nothing.

 

[Mrshubunkin]

I just finished cleaning

 

[Ouse]

oops my sentence cut off, but you get my point about the generator

I’d probably just stock up on battery operated pumps and hand warmers. I haven’t got to doing that yet.

Power outages in my area are rare, and when they have happened they’ve lasted no longer than a few minutes.

 

[StarGirl]

Going to organize my fish stuff downstairs today. Throw some stuff out.

The filter floss isnt clearing the fog so maybe I.ll try some carbon today.

 

[BigManAquatics]

Felt cute enough to do water changes on the betta tanks this morning.

 

[Kellye8498]

Impatiently waiting for cholla wood to sink

 

[StarGirl]

Impatiently waiting for cholla wood to sink

Been there done that. Dumb cholla lol.

 

[BigManAquatics]

Betta rack taken apart this morning after wayer changes. Had to put my poor purple betta down, had tumor by his fin, could barely move....

Been working on setting up my 45 gal most the afternoon.

 

[tapwater]

Betta rack taken apart this morning after wayer changes. Had to put my poor purple betta down, had tumor by his fin, could barely move....

Been working on setting up my 45 gal most the afternoon.

I'm so sorry to hear about your purple betta. : ( SIP

Hope the 45gal is going well. : )

 

[Alejandro]

Got a new sofa for Alejandro's fish room (actually second hand cheap who wants to waste money that could be spent on fish)

Notice it faces the tanks - everyone ignores the television - I think they've forgotten we have one.

 

[Ouse]

Got a new sofa for Alejandro's fish room (actually second hand cheap who wants to waste money that could be spent on fish)

Notice it faces the tanks - everyone ignores the television - I think they've forgotten we have one.

I bet your house is a paradise up until water change time!

 

[Alejandro]

I bet your house is a paradise up until water change time!

We are pretty lucky we have treated water on tap and all the systems have overflow so we just run water to them if cleaning and any excess drains out.

For marine we have large outside filters so we can do the water changes outside and that just flows through everything.

 

[Ouse]

I really want to get some live plants into my 30 gallon aquarium. I’m thinking anubias or java fern. I’m a live plant newbie so a combo of these should satisfy.

It‘s the holidays so I better spend time on the hobby while I have a huge chance!

 

[JLAquatics]

I am debating whether or not I should trim my Water Wisteria... again... For the 4th time already within 2 months! I guess I asked for too much when I switched over to live plants last October...

 

[BigManAquatics]

Need to clean up a 10 gallon tank when i get home for use as a quarantine tank. Probably do a waterchange on the 29. Those platies looking like some more fry should be popping out any day

 

[JLAquatics]

Also getting ready to order some Black Lava Rock and Manzanita Driftwood for the hardscape of my second aqua scaping project, a 10 gallon Betta paradise. It will be a triangle style scape and I will post more details on my build thread once the stuff arrives.

 

[Demonskid]

I went outside into the wooded area near my apartments and got some branches that look like I could turn them into something usable. I'll have to look up on how to turn dead tree branches into driftwood. Nothings rotten and it's all dried.

I kind of want a nice sized tree stump with roots type driftwood but those cost too much, so I'll try to make something similar with what I find outside.

Plants I ordered arrive tomorrow! I hope to get my sand tomorrow as well.

 

[Dechi]

I'm fed up of the unpractical lid on my Fluval 13.5 gallons saltwater tank so I just ordered a custom lid.

It will be two pieces of glass, one with a hole for wires in the back, in the filter section and one with a hole in the back for wires and a big hole in the middle where the light will sit.

It took me more than 1 hour to measure everything and make sure I wasn’t making any mistakes. I started in inches but got confused so I did it in centimeters. The lady at the store converted it back to inches, lol !

I am hoping it’s not too expensive and will probably give the order if it costs 80$ or less. It should take about 2 weeks before I can go pick it up.

Fingers crossed !

 

[Demonskid]

I cleaned up the shrimp tank and am doing a water change on it. I remembered not to toss extra water away, as my plants will be arriving and I want to quarantine them for a bit, while I wait for PS+ to call and tell me my tank is in.

Home Depo didn't have the sand I wanted to get, so I'm ordering it off of a tractor supplies store. Same day delivery or in store pick up were all they offered. I can't do the pick up so I'm doing the delivery... the fee's for that hurt so much.

 

[Ouse]

I’m considering setting up a journal thread for my 30 gallon community. I see other people do this and I think it would be very fun and useful if I did it too!

What do you guys think to that?

 

[Batmantheanglefish]

I’m planning on changing the water and moving decor around today. Also going to add a cave in the gravel for my fish to hide in.

 

[JLAquatics]

I’m considering setting up a journal thread for my 30 gallon community. I see other people do this and I think it would be very fun and useful if I did it too!

What do you guys think to that?

I think you should, CrustyDusty! It would be a fun and useful experience for you and other members.

 

[Ouse]

I think you should, CrustyDusty! It would be a fun and useful experience for you and other members.

Thanks!

Provided that the tank will be getting live plants soon it’s a great time to start the thread right now. I’ll have to reshuffle the scape so the rocks (which are what the anubias and java fern will be attached to) are in the lighter corner of the aquarium. That’s something I might do to the tank in a minute.

 

[JLAquatics]

Thanks!

Provided that the tank will be getting live plants soon it’s a great time to start the thread right now. I’ll have to reshuffle the scape so the rocks (which are what the anubias and java fern will be attached to) are in the lighter corner of the aquarium. That’s something I might do to the tank in a minute.

That's great to hear, CrustyDusty! If you would like any tips with hardscape and plant placement, you know who to contact. I would love to help you out in starting your first planted tank!

 

[Demonskid]

I'll be following that thread. The more I can learn, the better off I'll be when my new tank finally gets here!

 

[BenjiBear]

I moved my 37 gallon today which im super pleased about as I didn't really think I would get it done so soon but I was like why wait? There was literally nothing stopping me I dont know why I was being so weird about it I ended up just draining like 80% of the water (i kept the last bucket to put back in so it wasnt a massive WC) and I got my brother to help me lift it out of the cabinet and onto my window ledge. I can already tell that being up off the floor is really going to help all my fish not be so nervous and jumpy bc of me walking around and i really hope this means Bear (my shy BN) will be happier as i've seen him already today

I need to get a background to block excess light but I kinda want a wooden one so im gonna look into that. For now I threw a dark blanket over the back to help atm.

Im also hoping to get a smaller cannister filter (itll be my first) for it due to having 2 plecs but I may need to wait. I quit college recently so I have no stable income atm XD time to find a job to keep the fishies

 

[tapwater]

got substrate yesterday and am starting to do the hardscape on my new tank. i didnt realize how little space I had to work with until I actually started, blegh. I also kinda impulse bought an anubias plant and some redroot floaters.... probably shouldve waited until I got a light. think in terms of a light I might just end up going with a t-8 which is like 50$ (which is what my LFS is selling, and the light I wanted from there was an attachable one that wont fit with my tank), and I can't really afford that right now (and I need to get a new heater for this tank since 10W wont cut it) and I'm just feeling a tiny bit frustrated and stuck haha.
im also kinda struggling with actually doing the hardscape so it actually looks good to me. it feels so weird to do this without having any physical plants around to help aid in arranging things and filling things out

 

[BigManAquatics]

Maybe i will get around to doing a WC on the 29. If not, it has still been less than a week.

Thinking about changing the betta tank up a little bit(or a lot). Plus, gotta put some air valves on the 45.

 

[Demonskid]

My plants finally came in. After a few hours of quarantine, I added some to the shrimp tank, and the rest are in their old 1.5 gallon tank waiting for the new tank to get here.

I saw a few hitch hiking bladder snails, off to the snail jar they go!

The shrimp are LOVING their new toys.

My sand arrived as well. Time to start washing it... what's the best way to wash this stuff? I can barely lift the bag. xD