What are you doing to your tank today?

[bcfishtanks]

Actually did my water changes today. Gave up on finding the hatched baby catfish in my QT tank. I'm sure I lost them all, anyway. I have a breeder box on the way so I don't need to worry about that again. Wish I had room for an actual grow out tank, but oh well. It is what it is.

 

[mimo91088]

45 is finished. Did water change, cleaned sponge filters and wiped off some algae on the light cover. And here i thought the water was looking dark just because of tannins!

Today was water change day for me too. I had one other project that I just never seem to get to and today will likely be no exception. I need to organize my "working storage area" lol. It's bad.

 

[BigManAquatics]

Today was water change day for me too. I had one other project that I just never seem to get to and today will likely be no exception. I need to organize my "working storage area" lol. It's bad.
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Now, see, i would be working on that twice a week if mine ever looked like that! Otherwise, it would hurt my brain to look at it. Probably my feelings, too!

 

[mimo91088]

Now, see, i would be working on that twice a week if mine ever looked like that! Otherwise, it would hurt my brain to look at it. Probably my feelings, too!

I live in a sort of organized chaos, and my fishkeeping is no exception lol

 

[BigManAquatics]

I live in a sort of organized chaos, and my fishkeeping is no exception lol

I have 4 kids in the house, so i know about chaos....that's probably why i work 3 jobs and spend very little time at home! Lol

 

[ChrissFishes01]

I live in a sort of organized chaos, and my fishkeeping is no exception lol

I relate to this so, so hard. I'm not dirty - there's no food or anything rotting in my apartment. But organized just isn't me, either!

Fed some BBS to my tanks. Love being able to turn off all the flow and watching the fish swim around in full view, even in QT.

 

[StarGirl]

Changed water and got the AC going so maybe they can cool down a bit.

I relate to this so, so hard. I'm not dirty - there's no food or anything rotting in my apartment. But organized just isn't me, either!

Fed some BBS to my tanks. Love being able to turn off all the flow and watching the fish swim around in full view, even in QT.

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I LOVE Fire fish so cool!

 

[mimo91088]

Firefish are pretty awesome. I had one when I had a salt tank going. I drilled a bunch of holes into a piece of rock with a 3/4" bit and it was so cool watching him live in there.

 

[StarGirl]

I love salt water fish but just dont have the gumption to do it. I read a lot on it years ago. Royal Grammas are one of my faves too. I was just going to do a FOWLER but I didnt have the money for a RO unit back then.
I actually saw a Royal Gramma in the ocean in the keys.

 

[mimo91088]

I love salt water fish but just dont have the gumption to do it. I read a lot on it years ago. Royal Grammas are one of my faves too. I was just going to do a FOWLER but I didnt have the money for a RO unit back then.
I actually saw a Royal Gramma in the ocean in the keys.

I love the keys. A majority of my navy contract was served in Guantanamo bay. I fell in love with the ocean and the climate there. The keys are as close as you can get in the the continental 48!

 

[StarGirl]

I love the keys. A majority of my navy contract was served in Guantanamo bay. I fell in love with the ocean and the climate there. The keys are as close as you can get in the the continental 48!

My favorite place on earth. If we ever win the lottery Im moving there....lol

 

[ChrissFishes01]

Changed water and got the AC going so maybe they can cool down a bit.

I LOVE Fire fish so cool!

They're one of my favorites! They're just so shy and passive, it makes it hard to mix with anything. Hoping this guy does well! So far he's got a great personality and appetite.

Firefish are pretty awesome. I had one when I had a salt tank going. I drilled a bunch of holes into a piece of rock with a 3/4" bit and it was so cool watching him live in there.

I love watching them kinda hover above their caves. There are very few fish that have the same kind of movement that they do, that I've seen.

I love salt water fish but just dont have the gumption to do it. I read a lot on it years ago. Royal Grammas are one of my faves too. I was just going to do a FOWLER but I didnt have the money for a RO unit back then.
I actually saw a Royal Gramma in the ocean in the keys.

I've got a royal gramma in the tank too, he's just behind a divider since they can be a bit rambunctious and I didn't want him pushing the more peaceful fish around in such a small tank.

I run all of my FOWLRs with tap water and prime. You usually want to top off with distilled or RO water, but you can buy 2-3 gallons from the grocery store for like $3 and use that to top off throughout the week.

 

[mimo91088]

My favorite place on earth. If we ever win the lottery Im moving there....lol

Winning the lotto is important in that scenario indeed. First time I was in the upper keys I chartered a boat tour around. I pointed at a dumpy trailer that would only be $50-75k even here (in the Boston area which isn't cheap) and asked "how much would a place like that cost?". Dude told me $200k!

 

[StarGirl]

When the housing was in the dumps you could get a decent small place for 300k. With a pool....lol

 

[mimo91088]

Who wants to go in halfsies or threesies with me on a chunk of land in homestead? We'll all throw our own trailers on there and use the land to start a fish farm. Interested parties inquire within lol.

 

[MyFishAddiction]

Who wants to go in halfsies or threesies with me on a chunk of land in homestead? We'll all throw our own trailers on there and use the land to start a fish farm. Interested parties inquire within lol.

I'm there! Execpt for I'm 13 and have no money. Oh well.

 

[BigManAquatics]

Water change done on the 29. Cleaned the media in the HOB and the spong filters. Decided that when i can't remember the last time i cleaned certain sponge filters, that is probably a good time to clean the sponge filters!

Also, our platy Big Bertha, who is eternally huge, decided to get sucked up the gravel vac. Luckily, she didn't make it into the drain tube, but remains to be seen how she fares. Is swimming around, slowly, but we will see...

 

[ChrissFishes01]

Water change done on the 29. Cleaned the media in the HOB and the spong filters. Decided that when i can't remember the last time i cleaned certain sponge filters, that is probably a good time to clean the sponge filters!

Also, our platy Big Bertha, who is eternally huge, decided to get sucked up the gravel vac. Luckily, she didn't make it into the drain tube, but remains to be seen how she fares. Is swimming around, slowly, but we will see...

Fish get into all kinds of mischief. Hopefully she's okay!

Found that my heater in the brackish tank had gotten unplugged somehow. Luckily, everyone looks okay - tank was at 70F when I went to do my water change. Back up to 72, now. Oops.

 

[mimo91088]

Water change done on the 29. Cleaned the media in the HOB and the spong filters. Decided that when i can't remember the last time i cleaned certain sponge filters, that is probably a good time to clean the sponge filters!

Also, our platy Big Bertha, who is eternally huge, decided to get sucked up the gravel vac. Luckily, she didn't make it into the drain tube, but remains to be seen how she fares. Is swimming around, slowly, but we will see...

The gravel vac is a rite of passage for most of my platies at some point in their lives lol. If there's no obvious injury, should be fine!

 

[StarGirl]

The gravel vac is a rite of passage for most of my platies at some point in their lives lol. If there's no obvious injury, should be fine!

My female bettas like to take a ride. Dang they are sneaky!

 

[BigManAquatics]

The gravel vac is a rite of passage for most of my platies at some point in their lives lol. If there's no obvious injury, should be fine!

My only real concern is she is like preggo with what looks like 10 million babies lol

 

[JLAquatics]

After working for many days straight, I finally get one day off tomorrow, a Monday of all days! However, I will be doing a trimming and maintenance session with all my tanks tomorrow as well as creating some aquarium designs for some of the Fishlore users who requested them.

 

[pagoda]

I am totally convinced that fish get jealous of each other.

Yesterday I finally got the troublesome filter sorted, which meant pretty much starting from scratch on the installation. Brilliant...YAY!

This morning....another aquarium has gone on the go squirt. Someone, and I think I know who, has played on the strainer. Yesterday Bristles the delinquent BN was watching me intently. This morning his aquarium filter strainer that was a good 1.5 inches above the sand is now submerged in it and he was sat on the top of it flicking his tail at me....so now tween laundry loads I have to rescue the intake, get it out of the sand and reprimand the delinquent.

Fishkeeping is like trying to reason with stroppy teenagers.....tests one's patience....alot

 

[gomezcarsonk]

I did a 30% WC & cleaned the glass. And I just received a package with new stone houses for my inhabitants

 

[BigManAquatics]

Should be(hopefully)watch and feed kind of day, fish tank wise. The platy from the vac incident was looking good and swimming around normal(albeit maybe a bit slow)last night, so that is looking good.

 

[bettadreams]

bleh, I have to take back some Bala sharks to the pet store and test the water, then rescue some tetras from my grandfather's guppy tank, and get some more tetras (my grandfather only has one Glowlight, 2 Buenos Aries, and two green Glo-tetras, housed with 20 guppies in a 40-gallon bow-front smh)

 

[JLAquatics]

Taking some duckweed and hornwort out of the 29 gallon aquarium! Water changes and trim day for all tanks, I can't wait!


Duckweed doing it's thing it is best known for



Hornwort blanketing the top of the tank

 

[Mhamilton0911]

3 hours in and I've only gotten the Italian Vallserina planted. I have curly vals going on the right corner and leopard vals going in the left, but im hungry, so it's break time.

 

[JLAquatics]

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3 hours in and I've only gotten the Italian Vallserina planted. I have curly vals going on the right corner and leopard vals going in the left, but im hungry, so it's break time.

Looks great so far! Keep us updated on the development of this tank.

 

[Leilio]

Back in March, I bought a marimo moss ball. The seller said that the moss ball did not come from the contaminated source, so I ended up just disinfecting the waste water using bleach solutions to be safe. Today, I was using a water pump to pump my aquarium water to the bucket for water change. I added 5 oz bleach to around 5 gallons of water (going to let it sit for half an hour), fully expecting it to be another peaceful day. What I am not aware, is that the bleach water backed siphoned into the 20 gallon aquarium. Before I am aware of the situation, my otocinclus, black neons, etc all ended up swimming frantically trying to get out. I ended up adding numerous drops of prime, before changing 100% of the water, then changing another 50%. My testing kit measured 0.5 ammonia, same as my tap water, so all is good.

 

[Mhamilton0911]

I'm taking a rest from planting my big tank, and this guy just won't stop being beautiful, lol.

 

[ChrissFishes01]

Was filming some B-Roll for a YouTube video and saw these hermits being all weird. They have a lot of personality for such little things.

 

[AcornTheBetta]

Made it to the ground and had a blast doing it now time to go back home and check on the dog and fish!

Nice job! I kinda want to try skydiving now lol

 

[pagoda]

Mirror, mirror on the floor...who is the naughtiest Cory of them all?

Nice big aquarium, thick white sand to play in and these two hooligans constantly try to dig their way out through the bottom.....That sand has been put back so many times....vain little blighters

 

[CHJ]

It is not good when you wife says I need you down here and you ask why and she say "there is something wrong with the aquarium"
Get downstairs and fine a 55 is half full.. Uh oh, never had that happen before.
So moved all the cories into a 20gal, pumped all the water out of the 55 then removed most of the sand. Today it goes in the yard and gets pressure washed, then stripped and resealed. I think it is a newer tank (maybe 8 years?), so I'm not sure why it leaked.
And with all the stuff coming up Nibbles new tank may get pushed to next year, which means buying a 220 or 300 gal on rather short notice. There is one on Craigs with stand for 5 bills right now.

The custom aquarium shop I called for info only wanted to make sales, so after I found I was correct when planning 1.5" acrylic, he also let me know that people never do these right on their own and once water hits the acrylic if it isn't done right you just have to throw the acrylic away. So I have decided that shop's people are lying scumbags.

 

[Chalupacabra]

Finally added Reticulated Hillstream Loaches to my unheated tank this week, picking up a 4th (3rd adult) today to coax the other 2 adults and juvenile out of hiding, which worked!

Currently have an AC50 and Aquaclear 20 Powerhead generating flow, with 2 small sponge filters (on same air pump) and plants helping to additionally oxygenate the water.

Have another of the same powerhead en route, but I can’t decide if I want it in this tank for additional flow (below the 1st one) or in the tank next to this one. It’s a 20 gallon long, and the loaches and white clouds look happy, so maybe I’ll just put it in the next tank.

That’s tomorrow, though. For today I just want to enjoy my cool, weird fish.

 

[Demonskid]

Replaced evaporated water in the 40g, and am watching the shrimp drag the snails down to the bottom of their 5g tank. Such bullies!

 

[BigManAquatics]

Seems just a feed and watch night. Hopefully i remember it is Tuesday, which is usually a frozen food night....forgot both days last week.

 

[ChrissFishes01]

Finally added Reticulated Hillstream Loaches to my unheated tank this week, picking up a 4th (3rd adult) today to coax the other 2 adults and juvenile out of hiding, which worked!

Currently have an AC50 and Aquaclear 20 Powerhead generating flow, with 2 small sponge filters (on same air pump) and plants helping to additionally oxygenate the water.

Have another of the same powerhead en route, but I can’t decide if I want it in this tank for additional flow (below the 1st one) or in the tank next to this one. It’s a 20 gallon long, and the loaches and white clouds look happy, so maybe I’ll just put it in the next tank.

That’s tomorrow, though. For today I just want to enjoy my cool, weird fish.

Love Hillstream loaches! I'll be adding a couple to my subtropical tank as soon as it's ready.

Today was more of a "feed and watch" kind of day. I edited a video, which had it's own frustrations.

I realized that I've had my dwarf puffer for going on 8-9 months and I've only ever done 2-3 water changes on his tank. Nitrates are always below 20, and I dose a bit of Easy Green every couple weeks. I just let the plants take care of it. I mean, with Pothos roots like these, who even needs water changes?









There's a couple Otocinclus in there, too - you just never see them. They hang out in the forest. I think there's one ghost shrimp left, but he's been in there since the tank went up almost 10 months ago.

 

[StarGirl]

Feeding and watch day. Got a few more shoots on my Lotus that will probably be leaves tomorrow. lol

 

[jmaldo]

Just watching the tanks decided to give them a treat. They all just got a feeding of bloodworms and mysis shrimp.

Yum!

 

[BigManAquatics]

Just watching the tanks decided to give them a treat. They all just got a feeding of bloodworms and mysis shrimp.

Yum!

All i have to say on the bloodworm topic...just when i thought my danios could not possibly be bigger idiots....of course i feed bloodworms lol

 

[Mhamilton0911]

Planted the octopus plant, wow that got unruly in a bucket for 2 days, lol. Hopefully it straightens out in the next few days.

 

[Tayler]

I am going to do a water change on my tanks.

 

[Demonskid]

I glued the floating piece of wood to some stones just to get it to where it needs to be. Also finally found some ohko stones I could afford! Woo! Hardscape! xD It ships next week.

Did water tests, 40g is cycling smoothly.. even has that horrid 'cycling' smell to it.
Also just found a baby ramshorn in the 40g. How'd you get in there! Stay strong during the cycle process little one!

 

[saintanna]

Gonna do a water change and inevitably move some plants around while i'm in there

 

[bcfishtanks]

Nearly gave up on my first attempt at keeping corydora fry. I put the eggs in a 1.5 g with gravel.... that's not the way I'm planning on doing it anymore. Gave up hope. I saw a flash of one a few days ago, but didn't see it since... Well I found the fry today! Just one little guy that I can see out of 7 eggs (it was the first time any of my cories mated, too). He seems to have cleaned the tank out of the copepods that came in on the hornwort I'd transferred over from Tom's tank. Tried to catch him, but they're fast and small little guys. Hopefully he gets a little bit bigger so I can transfer him to my breeder box with the singular egg I found the other day, seeing if that one will hatch. I have a lot to learn and limited funds to do something fancy, but I'm hoping for the best!

 

[ChrissFishes01]

Fed a bunch of baby brine shrimp to the fish today.

 

[BigManAquatics]

Just a watch and feed kind of day. Platy shows no signs of having been vacced up over the weekend. Gudgie fry are slowly but surely growing. Plecos being little delinquents towards each other. Danios acting like hyper idiots, as per usual. Just a typical day in our fish tanks.

 

[JLAquatics]

Everything is looking great after the overhaul of the 29 gallon. Hornwort and Duckweed were mostly removed to give the submerged plants more light to grow faster once again. The Tiger Lotus you see towards the right is growing very fast. Unfortunately I think this is a green variant rather than the red one I really wanted, but if it grows well that is what I am mainly hoping for.