What are you doing to your tank today?

Just water changes today....and some sand shifting in the 20g long that the Cory hooligans keep removing....at least that is the plan.

Whether or not anything else is done too depends on many things....not least what the hooligans have been upto since the last water changes.
 

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I planted a bunch of rotala on the left and right, and filled in the front with dwarf sag.

Also acclimating some huge Amanos, they're bigger than my guppies!
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I planted Rotala in my 9 and it seems to be doing well. My Amanos are giants too. I bet they are almost 2 inches.
 
Today I banished 2 male pencilfish to their own planted 10g (not really a banishment I guess lol) to bring my biotope down to 1M/4F. Pulled a huge lily from a local lake and it's sent up 2 big pads already

Water changes tomorrow probably. The plants in my display are making a comeback with easy green but I'm not sure I feel like waiting. Might order a bundle of new anubias and just swap em out.

Was gonna go filterless on my planted 10g but with stores reopening tomorrow I think I'll just pick up a cheap topfin filter. Might buy some kind of fish to stick in with the 2 male pencils
 
Lots of personality going on in the QT tank tonight. I've seen fish yawn before, but I don't know that I've ever had a fish throw stuff at me!

 
Watched my little cory fry swim around. Still waiting for my First Bites to come in the mail, so I crushed up a shrimp pellet as small as I could. Seems like he's been eating all the copepods in the tank, though, so I think this one may be okay. It's the upcoming fry I want to be prepared for since they're in a breeder box in the main tank, and my full grown cories clear out those little guys real fast.
 

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Last night was a watch and feed night. Today, well, won't be home til tomorrow cuz concerts, so looks like a fasting day will happen.
 
The hole in the backyard for the koi pond is growing. Picking up and emergency 220gal tomorrow, rinse, dry, and reseal a 55 that leaked.
Looking for green koi online I now feel really dumb.
Long ago I read that green koi are super rare and spendy. A few year back I found a green koi in a tank at a big box and decided that they must now be common.
No, they aren't and everything I can find now is yellow, not the actually green of the fish sitting there in a box box store for like 7$.. how does that even happen?
 
All of the rams I bought turned out to be male. Traded two in for what I think is a female and $5 off a coral frag. Gonna do some water changes as long as this storm doesn't kill the power - it's getting rough/epically awesome!
 
Went shopping for decor for my 25 hex today, but it looks like I'm gonna have to do this the hard way.
 
Normally I fast the hooligans on a Sunday, but will do it today instead. Got one of the external filters with an annoying head rattle to investigate and another that needs servicing. One aquarium needs an extra water change. Apart from that its another lights & heaters off day for everyone today :)
 

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Rearranged some plants in my 29g. My lone cory egg hatched... but seems to have fallen through the netting. You win some, you lose some. I hope one of my fish got a nice snack as it sank.
 
Water changes first, but then will work on getting a new to me 10 and 20 gallon up and running.
 
Sadly I think this piece of wood has to leave. This is less than a week of poop. The branches are poop bridges also. This is 1 nerite snail doing this.
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That's a bummer! Is that Pennywort next to it? It looks nice!
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No it is some kind of Lotus I forgot what kind. They are still pretty small after the big leaves melted. I got some Thrive root tabs and they seem to be working way better that the Flourish ones ever did. I dont know if that is even a thing but Its working so far for me. :D

edit: They actually look more like Taiwan Lilly's than Lotus.
 
No it is some kind of Lotus I forgot what kind. They are still pretty small after the big leaves melted. I got some Thrive root tabs and they seem to be working way better that the Flourish ones ever did. I dont know if that is even a thing but Its working so far for me. :D

edit: They actually look more like Taiwan Lilly's than Lotus.
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I like them! Btw...I use Thrive tabs too. I like them. Once you can figure out the trick to keep them in the substrate without floating up, they're great!
 
I like them! Btw...I use Thrive tabs too. I like them. Once you can figure out the trick to keep them in the substrate without floating up, they're great!
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I used my aquarium tweezers and pushed them in and turned it. Have not popped up on me so far.
 
A Water change in my pretty bud's tank, and add more almond leaves, I'm really digging the look, and his big pretty fins are in great shape so they must be doing thier thing. I ordered a pack of 100 small leaves so they are easier to place in a 5 gallon. Some of those big leaves needed to be broken up.

I also need to make a floating plant coral for my 10g upstairs. I had a sponge on the outflow, and it works, but I think it works be better with a floating plant coral made from airline tubing. I have one on a different tank so I need to make another.

Does anyone use the 3d printed ones I found for sale on etsy? They are $20, but look much better and lower and rise with the water level better than what I can make happen with airline tubing. I'm thinking of buying one to try out.
 
A Water change in my pretty bud's tank, and add more almond leaves, I'm really digging the look, and his big pretty fins are in great shape so they must be doing thier thing. I ordered a pack of 100 small leaves so they are easier to place in a 5 gallon. Some of those big leaves needed to be broken up.

I also need to make a floating plant coral for my 10g upstairs. I had a sponge on the outflow, and it works, but I think it works be better with a floating plant coral made from airline tubing. I have one on a different tank so I need to make another.

Does anyone use the 3d printed ones I found for sale on etsy? They are $20, but look much better and lower and rise with the water level better than what I can make happen with airline tubing. I'm thinking of buying one to try out.
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I’ll have to check them out. I’m using airline tubing in one tank but need to do one in another tank.
 
Three out of four water changes done. While doing one of them I rescued a spider that fell into the water.

Heaters on the 30 and 15 gallons have both been off for days because of the warm weather.
 

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Woke up this morning, watched some YouTube, made some coffee, and was having a relaxing time...

I checked in on the saltwater QT, and whenever I sat my coffee cup down on the table (a few feet away from the tank) the firefish jumped out trough the 1" hole in the back of the tank lid. So I had to chase him down, scoop him up, and put him back into the tank... he seems fine so far.

I gotta look into DIYing a lid without holes.
 
I’ll have to check them out. I’m using airline tubing in one tank but need to do one in another tank.
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On etsy, the shop I was looking at was called GalaxyGlowStudio and they have a few 3d printed stuff for aquariums. Pretty cool ideers! :)
 
Called ahead to PetSmart to ask if they had a 20" glass lid in stock, so that I could get a hood with better coverage for the QT tank. They said they had 2.

I drive all the way over there, on a Saturday morning, and they're out. Someone bought them both. Annoying, but whatever. I went to Meijer, cause I know they have fish stuff and I figured they'd at least carry a basic glass lid. Right?

Nope. They only had the super cheap, flimsy, and short-lived Tetra LED hoods. They were $31.99! That's absolutely insane. I just came home, cut up some cheap acrylic, and threw it over the gap in the hood I have. It works well enough.
 
Called ahead to PetSmart to ask if they had a 20" glass lid in stock, so that I could get a hood with better coverage for the QT tank. They said they had 2.

I drive all the way over there, on a Saturday morning, and they're out. Someone bought them both. Annoying, but whatever. I went to Meijer, cause I know they have fish stuff and I figured they'd at least carry a basic glass lid. Right?

Nope. They only had the super cheap, flimsy, and short-lived Tetra LED hoods. They were $31.99! That's absolutely insane. I just came home, cut up some cheap acrylic, and threw it over the gap in the hood I have. It works well enough.
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Haha Im redneckin some sweet black duct tape on my holes on my black lid.....lol
 
Haha Im redneckin some sweet black duct tape on my holes on my black lid.....lol
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The other day I had to remove a Gambusia Affinis from by brackish tank because she was nipping the other fish... So I took an old salt bucket, drilled a bunch of small holes in the lid, and beat the center of it with a hammer until the center popped out. Now I can have a light on top, and do a little indoor pond :)

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Already got a little green water going on.

If redneckin works, why be a city slicker?
 
I just added some new small carpeting plants yesterday. They are grasses and some other unknown one. They're very small and barely have any roots. My gbr likes ripping at my plants so I will go back and re-plant any ones he's ripped up. Little turd! Then I just pray they root before he picks at them again.
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Your GBR should meet my giant danios. I caught them in the act of pulling up my water wisteria. I’m picturing them as a disgruntled gang of senior citizens now.
 
Did an over 50% water change on the 70 gallon (previously thought to be 60 gallons), siphoned out lots of black sand and replenished with new sand. The pleco is already digging sand out from under his wood. I’m going to manually sift it during every water change and try to flatten hills created by the fish.
 
Done all my water changes this morning, pruned some melting leaves and found spots for my ever multiplying java fern babies. Noticed my WCMM look to be spawning and maybe egg laying in the 16 gallon. Funny little circling dance and shaking? in a small dip in the slate chippings. I've seen males display in a circle dance before but pretty sure this is female and male.
 
Letting the "pond" get some natural sunlight this morning.

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Went to my mom's house to collect some pond snails from her 29 gallon. I've realized I've basically ran out of ramshorn and MTS - I've officially got enough puffers that I can't keep a healthy snail population! Hoping to grow some out in here.
 

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Water changes all around. Separated out my dwarf hairgrass so it can carpet the gravel a bit better. The cories love when I rearrange the plants. I dig up all the microrganisms from the gravel portion that they love to eat but can't get to like they can in the sandy part.
 
Well, due to a hectic and busy weekend, don't think water changes going to get done. Just have to work on them throughout the week this time around i guess.
 
Messed around with some B-Roll footage I got today from my mantis tank... Made a monstrosity.

 
Quiet day in the aquariums today...apart from that head rattle that refuses to shut up (new impeller on order that will be installed later this week)....all 5 aquariums still without heaters/lights, fish happy and healthy...and delinquently naughty as always :)
 
Got to sleep in since school is out for summer, and I'm only working my summer job three days a week so I can focus on grad school... but while I slept in, all of the new cory eggs got eaten. Sorry, guys! Those tetras are so quick. Only found the little sticky rings left over from the eggs. Hoping my younger cories mature their last little bit soon so they can start laying more than five eggs at a time.

Update: I found another cory fry in my grow out tank! That makes two little babies! I only wanted 3 more cories for my school, so if I find another one, then that would be great.
 
Doing a small water change on the 40t and some maint work on the shrimps 5g.

Also ordered some new Super Red Mini Ludwigia plants as all of mine have completely died off for some reason. My Red Myrios (they look more like green ones) while are giving off little shoots, I decided to get some new ones just in case.
 
Lost a platy in my brackish tank yesterday - a big, seemingly healthy male went from trying to breed to floating upside down overnight. Strange - I ran a full battery of tests and came up empty. Only change was that I had lowered the salinity a bit, but that shouldn't have harmed him. Guess I got chalk it up to "one of those things".

Got a bunch of fungus growing across the sandbed in my dwarf puffer tank. It's kinda gross looking but I'm kind of into the biodiversity. I leave algae in my tanks, so why should I remove a harmless fungus?

Watching my two GBRs like a hawk to see if they're going to pair, too. Hoping, but so far, lots of aggression and little/no pairing behavior. It's only been a few days though, so I'm hopeful!
 
Lost a platy in my brackish tank yesterday - a big, seemingly healthy male went from trying to breed to floating upside down overnight. Strange - I ran a full battery of tests and came up empty. Only change was that I had lowered the salinity a bit, but that shouldn't have harmed him. Guess I got chalk it up to "one of those things".

Got a bunch of fungus growing across the sandbed in my dwarf puffer tank. It's kinda gross looking but I'm kind of into the biodiversity. I leave algae in my tanks, so why should I remove a harmless fungus?

Watching my two GBRs like a hawk to see if they're going to pair, too. Hoping, but so far, lots of aggression and little/no pairing behavior. It's only been a few days though, so I'm hopeful!
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Don't you hate deaths that are just "one of those things?" Lost my favorite betta that way. Still a mystery. Hope your GBR's pair!
 
Don't you hate deaths that are just "one of those things?" Lost my favorite betta that way. Still a mystery. Hope your GBR's pair!
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Yeah, I do! It's the most frustrating thing about keeping animals, unfortunately.
 
Water changes on the 75, 10, 5, and 29 before vacation. Also portioned out all flake, pellet, and frozen food for my pet sitter. Phew.
But after the water change on the 29, I was rewarded with the sparklers spawning!!! Now I need to read up on breeding them. My LFS would probably be interested.
 

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I didn't take any good photos today :/. Did a good water change in all the tanks, flushed the snake tank.

Was super excited I finally got the new tang (mineral) mix perfect and didn't get any precipitation this time.
Then I went went back to the rack to check filters because I always do the filter floss hours to a day after water changing when the water clears up. Well, I found all the precipitate build up from last time and made the thing into a snow globe :(.
 
Well, my currently busy schedule hasn't subsided yet, so water changes still not done. So tired last night i decided to inadvertently make it a fasting day for the little fatties, except the fry tank.
 
Today I'm going to get to get TJ the guppy some buddies! All his have slowly been dying of what I think is them just all being old. First, I'm gonna do a water change.
 
Decided to move the firefish out of QT early - ever since it jumped on Saturday it's been jumping everytime I walk into the room. I think it's because I cleaned the front glass - all that algae probably helped keep it calm, and once that was gone, it probably felt like it was in the middle of the ocean.

I moved it into the 37 FOWLR (which just had a clownfish in it), and so far, so good. I hate that I broke QT, but I felt like it probably wasn't gonna make it the remaining 19 days - plus, in most strains of velvet and marine ich, I would've seen signs in the first week, and I de-wormed them prophylactically.

Fingers crossed!
 
Trying to decide if I should treat my 15 gal with kanaplex. One of my angels that I’m growing out has a small white patch above it’s eye. Other than that just feeding and watching the fish.
 
Trying to decide if I should treat my 15 gal with kanaplex. One of my angels that I’m growing out has a small white patch above it’s eye. Other than that just feeding and watching the fish.
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Kanamycin is usually relatively gentle, so I wouldn't be too concerned.

Although, if the tank isn't planted (or if you have a separate tank), salt might be a better shotgun approach, just in case it's not bacterial or it's one of the (many) gram-positive bacteriae that Kanamycin doesn't cover.
 
Kanamycin is usually relatively gentle, so I wouldn't be too concerned.

Although, if the tank isn't planted (or if you have a separate tank), salt might be a better shotgun approach, just in case it's not bacterial or it's one of the (many) gram-positive bacteriae that Kanamycin doesn't cover.
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Do you think 1 inch baby bn plecos should be ok with kanaplex? They’re the ones I’m most worried about.
 
Do you think 1 inch baby bn plecos should be ok with kanaplex? They’re the ones I’m most worried about.
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IME plecos are pretty med-tolerant, even smaller ones. I think it'd be fine, especially with the recommended dose.

If you're really worried, though, it may be worth it to separate that angel out into a bucket or something and treat there. Bacterial infections usually clear up pretty quick with antibiotics, so it wouldn't be for long.
 
IME plecos are pretty med-tolerant, even smaller ones. I think it'd be fine, especially with the recommended dose.

If you're really worried, though, it may be worth it to separate that angel out into a bucket or something and treat there. Bacterial infections usually clear up pretty quick with antibiotics, so it wouldn't be for long.
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I’ll treat the entire tank then, thanks!
 
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