What are you doing to your tank today?

Set up auto feeder yesterday and I'm leaving tomorrow for 3 weeks. Hope the tanks make it.
 

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I wondered why my little Cory gang were quiet.....they have been egg flinging again in all 4 of the aquariums that they live

Sneaky little egg flingers :o

Everyone else has behaved, heaters and lights still off cos its humid and warm and horrible (got three packs of baby wipes in the fridge, very handy for doing instant cooling when melting)

Tomorrow the weather is allegedly going to break with thunderstoms, rain and lower temps :)
 
I'm at home "sick" today. Pretty sure it's just a cold/sniffles, but work has a zero-sniffles policy. Oh well.

Trying to decide if I want to play with the tanks any. Maybe I'll just take some pictures. Not sure yet!
 
Oh give me strength....I can hear a weird puffing noise behind me, its been annoying me for the last hour. The lights are off and curtains shut to keep the room cooler. Went to investigate the weird noise coming from one of the aquariums and somebody had rammed the airstone inside an ornament.....so a rescue of said airstone was required

One of my other aquariums has a similar issue with airstones being moved....but in that case its my deliquent BN, Bristles who does it

No-one is owning up behind me

Fishkeeping is like having a kindergarten in the lounge...
 

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Might actually get some tank stuff done tonight. Might grill, but shouldn't have to dis-assemble and re-assemble any vehicles tonight. (Knock on wood)
 
Well I tried neon tetras in my shrimp tank. And I know the looks I'm getting!! I wanted a bit of population control. Previous numbers were getting out of control, and I wasn't selling enough, so I did a hard cull on the tank (shrimp in other tanks), then I added 9 neons. They've been in there about 2 months, but I've started to see a few chasing down full sized cherries, so I'm thinking it's time for a round up. I have another tank they can go in, but I'm a bit bummed they started to go after adults.

Catching these guys will be entertaining for my family though. I'm sure I'll ruin my planting in the process. I think I'll remove my snails so I don't accidentally crush one chasing those neons.
 
Well I tried neon tetras in my shrimp tank. And I know the looks I'm getting!! I wanted a bit of population control. Previous numbers were getting out of control, and I wasn't selling enough, so I did a hard cull on the tank (shrimp in other tanks), then I added 9 neons. They've been in there about 2 months, but I've started to see a few chasing down full sized cherries, so I'm thinking it's time for a round up. I have another tank they can go in, but I'm a bit bummed they started to go after adults.

Catching these guys will be entertaining for my family though. I'm sure I'll ruin my planting in the process. I think I'll remove my snails so I don't accidentally crush one chasing those neons.
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Might be something where something tiny (porkchop rasboras, chili rasboras, endlers, etc...) might be a better fit if you just want the babies gone.
 
Replacement plants came in today, funny thing is the Myrio that I had is starting to grow back and fast. The more the merrier! Especially since the Ludwigia super red mini's that I bought, by the time they got here, there were hardly any leaves on them. A few have roots, a few don't... I had gotten quite a few stems so I have 2 floating, planted 4? and put one or two in the quarantine tank just to see if it helps.

Wonder if I should just trim the bare stem now before the plant starts to acclimate to my water. I don't know if these would act like wisteria and grow new plants from the stem alone or not. If these ones don't survive, I'll look for something different to bring color to the tank.
 

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Piece of an Old tank lid and a scotch brite pad....lol
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I made one tor my 5 g by holding the straight aqua scaping tweezers closed and sticking them into a small piece of melamine sponge. Worked pretty good!
 
Nothing much today. Still feeling under the weather, and went to work. Pretty run down, unfortunately. If I feel better tomorrow, I'll be moving a couple tanks around.
 
Friday....its blue surgical gloves day when the fish scatter, apart from the braver ones (or plain daft ones), water changes, poo hoovering, substrate straightening and window cleaning day :o

Gave the hooligans a bit of a lie-in this morning so they are busy chomping on their breakfasts blissfully unaware :)
 
Ok. No pulking punches. Really need to start water changes tonight lol! No car projects, no vaccinations...just me n the tanks. Luckily, they aren't bad off because i mostly been too busy to feed as well.
 

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Watching my singular cory egg hatch! Also doing water changes all around. I'm about to go away for a few days and am nervous about leaving my two-week old cory fry in someone else's care. They've become great eaters, though, and are growing steadily. About a quarter inch long now. I'm more worried that the water will get too dirty and kill them that way. I've been doing every other day water changes, but they'll have to go 3.5 days this time. I'll just make sure to add a new alder cone or two before I leave for anti-fungal and biofilm purposes. I believe in you, little buddies!

Plus, a photo of my honeys still not knowing how to mate. They both get into position and wait for the other to swim over. They'll get the hang of it one day...
 

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50% water changes on the shellie tank and the fry tank, carried out with extreme speed ahead of the england v scotland game.

Poor fish dont know what hit them.
 
50% water changes on the shellie tank and the fry tank, carried out with extreme speed ahead of the england v scotland game.

Poor fish dont know what hit them.
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"The Stealthy Water Assassin"!
 
My Ohko Stones arrived from WetPlants. Beautiful stones, I got lucky! Just gave them a good washing and am now trying to figure out where I want them.

I still want to get a stump eventually, if I can find the perfect one.

As for the Super Red Mini Ludwigia, I don't think I'll be buying this plant again. Easy to grow my backside. The leaves are mostly all fallen off by the time the plant arrives and what leaves are left melt and the plant dies completely. Hopefully they won't actually die off this time, but they're following the same path the other batch took. Few leaves that melt and then the whole plant dies.

Edit: speaking of the stump, I just found the perfect one for me on etsy! Woo!
 
Went to the LFS for some feeders and some frozen food. Came home $180 poorer and with a big box... Oops.

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And I forgot the frozen stuff!
 
Isn't that how it works though...

Like the day i went to the LFS for only 3 serpaes to finish off my school....and walked out with 3 serpaes, 9 leopard danios and 3 albi o bn plecos....
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Sounds about right!

I ended up getting:

1X Black Clown Goby - $10
1X "Fancy" Ocellaris Clown - $15
1X Captive-Bred Blue Neon Goby - $25
1X Skunk Cleaner Shrimp - $30
1X Red/Green Blastomussa Coral - $50
1X Green Hairy Mushroom - $20
15X Ghost Shrimp - $5.85 (.39 ea)
3X Feeder (Fiddler) Crabs - $7.50
4X Magenta Mystery Snails = $10

With tax, it ended up being $179 and change.

Expensive, but I think I got some good specimens. The Clown Goby has been in the store for a while and was interacting with me through the glass (they tend to be shy and extremely underweight). The Clown was new, but was about the right size for my existing Clown and at $15 was a steal. The Neon Goby is just cool - they have tons of personality, and captive-bred saltwater fish are still a rarity.

The Blasto coral had been looking super fat and healthy in the store for a couple weeks, and I decided to go ahead and snatch him up. The Hairy Mushroom was a last minute upsell from the LFS owner... he knows me too well, lol!

The Magenta Mysteries were something I was about to order online and try to breed, but they happened to have them in-store. First time I've ever seen them in person, too. Coincidence!

Then the shrimp and crabs are feeders for the puffers.
 
My filter parts are due today, so the rattling head in the hallway should be history later...in theory at least. The mini GKM's are doing a brilliant job, pleased about that...especially one one stubborn aquarium which will be re-plumbed.....so will be removing all airstones from the 5 aquariums since the GKM's have a perfect and more controlled flow to irritate the surface and aerate everything regardless as to the UV being on or off. The UV's are only switched on overnight, 12 hours off/12 hours off.

I have used GKM's years ago, brilliant bits of kit but had not managed to get them for ages due to low stocks everywhere, found and bought 5 a few weeks ago, installed them and the fish love them (Cories play backflips in the outflow like lunatics) and they are not humungously bulky so can be hidden easily within the aquariums behind plants etc :)
 
I moved the Hydrocotyle tripartita "japan" in the 40g today. Since I found me a stump I could afford (it arrives wednesday!!) I need to make room for it and move the plants around some. Instead of just moving the Super Red Mini Ludwigia, I just left it to float for now.

While moving stuff around I saw a few Ramshorn snails in the 40g! How'd you guys get in there and how are you surviving the cycling process?!

I'll add my ohko stones after I get the stump put in. Now to figure out what kind of moss I want on the stump.

As for the 5g shrimp tank, I gave them a kale leaf, forgot that the shrimp prefer spinach over kale. Oh well, the snails can have it.
 

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I'm looking at this depressing sight ☹
 

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Oh that is a depressing site. What happened spotted kit?

As for me today. Full w/c and filter maintenance on all 3 tanks.
 
I'm looking at this depressing sight ☹
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Oh poor things! What happened? Was the intake too strong? Or did they die first then get sucked in? Would a sponge that covers the filter work to prevent more from dying?
 
Oh poor things! What happened? Was the intake too strong? Or did they die first then get sucked in? Would a sponge that covers the filter work to prevent more from dying?
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I don't know, but they do hang out around the filter. Also Baby, which is the first baby we saw, was one of them... he/She must have got sucked in recently because he/she looked normal, and he/she wasn't there last night
 
I don't know, but they do hang out around the filter. Also Baby, which is the first baby we saw, was one of them... he/She must have got sucked in recently because he/she looked normal, and he/she wasn't there last night
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I would get a sponge to cover the intake of the filter, just in case. I got mine from aquarium co-op, as other's I've bought off amazon were malformed and too small.

Here's some photo's of it dirty and just cleaned.
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I hope this helps. And sorry for your losses.
 
Trying to psych myself up to do a water change on the 29 while the kids are gone. Maybe then a 20 minute water change i will only have to wait 30 mins on for the wife while she blocking my source water.
 
You got this, just do it!

For me, just added new plants (and removed some others) and CO2 this week after coming back from college a month ago to a ton of slimly algae. It's starting to recover now though!
 

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You got this, just do it!

For me, just added new plants (and removed some others) and CO2 this week after coming back from college a month ago to a ton of slimly algae. It's starting to recover now though!
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What are those red plants there in the middle? I'm looking for some reds for my 40g as the super red mini ludwigia may not make it, their leaves come off to easily and the stems are mostly bare by the time they reach me.
 

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What are those red plants there in the middle? I'm looking for some reds for my 40g as the super red mini ludwigia may not make it, their leaves come off to easily and the stems are mostly bare by the time they reach me.
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I actually had the same problem with the super red mini's. Mine melted and never recovered.

I'm pretty sure it's alternantherea reineckii
 

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I actually had the same problem with the super red mini's. Mine melted and never recovered.

I'm pretty sure it's alternantherea reineckii
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Thank you!
 
Decided to do a change on the 29. Was starting to get a decent amount of algae on the front glass, so i fired my snails!

Amazing how quick a water change goes when there are no kids to get in the way.
 
Fed the puffers some ghost shrimp today - 2 large females to the GSP, and 1 large female to the F8. Only after I added the shrimp did I realize that it was almost as long as the F8 was. Oops! He's still hunting for it, and I'm sure he'll get it eventually. I always forget that he's kind of small compared to my GSP!

Otherwise, just kinda hanging out with the fish. New stuff from yesterday has been doing really well so far.
 
So yesterday was all planned....to perfection...yeah right.

Delivery of spares and ancilliaries arrived just after 7pm last night <sigh>

Today is fasting day for the hooligans (they are not impressed) and instead of a nice quiet day for me, its dealing with the buzzy/rattled filter and doing everything planned for yesterday (I am not impressed)

Today neither hooligans nor frazzled owner (me) are very impressed :o

Anyone would think that fishkeeping was easy..HA!

Like heck it is :o
 
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:
 
A very important tip.....

When messing with a misbehaving, buzzing, rattling external filter head unit....NEVER, EVER wear a white top when taking it apart and replacing bits.

It doesn't stay white very long...and pleco poo is not pleasant either especially when it smacks you in the face (discovered a new use for those face masks) :o

To add insult to messy top, the flamin' head is still buzzing and rattling...so have emailed Tetratec to find out what else might be wrong....methinks there is an actual fault in the motor part....this is not the same filter that went on the go-fart, it's one of the others...
 
Just spotted platy fry in the 30. I don’t intend to raise them in a separate setup. All I intend to do with them is allow them to survive on their own as I usually do with platy fry. I’ve had three platy fry survive to adulthood in the past.

All weekly water changes are complete.
 
Round of WC's today, May go to the lfs and see what the wears are. Being Sunday probably not much.
 
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