What are you doing to your tank today?

I went to my local fish store today as well and got more fish that I probably didn't need... 0801211308.jpg

They are currently acclimating in my handy bucket. Acclimation usually takes a few hours as I like to ensure the water is parameter matched before the fish are released. :)
 

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I did a water change on the 40g tank, watched as the plecos slowly came back out to play. They're so cute!

I started to call them water chipmunks due to how fast they dart off.
 

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Did about a 40% water change on the 29 tonight while taking a bunch of stuff out and replacing with less. Had a lot of food n stuff getting caught in places i could not vac up, causing some odor issues. Should be all better now.
 
Did some facebook hunting and found a 90g. I lil upgrade from my 48g :) getting it tomorrow.
 
Hoping to do a water change on the wife's platy tank. Probably going to do some puttering around on most of the tanks though. Depends how long i stay at the park with the kids tonight, since the weather finally decided to be halfway habitable again.
 
Well, didn't get anything done with tanks last night besides laughing at the antics of a certain pleco...so hopefully tonight!
 

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Nothing today besides watching and feeding mr. betta. Tomorrow is my snails big day though cause it’s gonna be her first time trying zucchini :)
 
Nothing to do today but keep an eye out on the tanks. Sometimes my aqua pets make me wish I could have a camera streaming their tanks 24/7 to catch all their antics.
 
Just enjoying watching them a lot lately. I've set up a rocking chair in front of my tank wall in the basement and find that I can steal away 10 minutes a few times a night to go and just sit and watch them. I love my fish, snails, and shrimp!
 
Watching tanks has its perks. Snail took the pleco cave:
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Pleco wanted back in a few minutes later. Notice the snail is upside down:

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I added a new piece of decor to Neptune’s tank that shouldn’t have any gaps too small for him to get stuck in again— I’m pleased to say he’s been healing up well from when he rubbed the scales off his head and it’s nearly fully healed. Partial water changes for all the tanks and more debating on whether I’ll move Pandora and Suck to the big tank and move Neptune into their current tank (maybe using his tank for quarantine?).
 
Today i changed the light schedule on my big tank, after i added brighter lights there's been some stringy hair algae showing up slowly, so maybe it's time to shorten the light period a little...that's the first step.
Being a walstad tank, recently established but totally balanced and cycled, zero ammonia and nitrates, plants are growing well, but i think still not enough plant growth to outcompete the algae. I may do a water change to try to eliminate some of the extra nutrients in the water that the algae is probably taking advantage of.
 
Back from my trip and uninstalled the autofeeders. I cover the extra openings with aluminum foil to prevent fish jumping out when I use auto feeders. I removed them as well. Everybody is doing well. It doesn't even look like I have to hurry for water changes.

I had to put a hose on the dehumidifier and leave it on continuous mode to empty into a floor drain, which I didn't have a chance to test before. It worked pretty well. Almost surprised to come back to a no-disaster situation :)
 
Solving murder mysteries apparently. For the longest time my Ramshorn snails were slowly but steadily being picked off one by one. I thought it might have been the ram,but then he died and I still kept finding empty shells. Turns out there is a single assassin snail that's been hiding out for I don't know how long in there. I have no idea how it got in there. One mystery down, one to go.
 
Guys, real question here! I've been searching for an upgrade and I thought I found a 90g on Facebook, but closer inspection I saw too many flaws, enough that I should have slapped the guy for asking they much for junk, c'mon.

Any who, I found a tank stand combo from petsmart, but it's grey. My walls are just about the same shade of grey. Should I paint it? Or leave it? I can't find another stand in stock any other color :(

What should I do? I'm supposed to pick it up tomorrow.
 

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So after a small water change i noticed some empty snail shells (pond snails) and did some research....turns out it's probably my pleco doing the snacking!!
 

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I gave one giant male Lemon Blue eye pleco to my LFS as well as 7 blue-eye forktail rainbow and a super duper red female pleco. Tomorrow I will have a post with the replacements. How large is a giant male Lemon Blue eye pleco; it is tooo large (and nearly 3 times as large as the female super duper red female pleco).

I almost forgot i also gave them a mid size yellow mystery snail. Sadly the snail did not have blue-eyes. Now i only have about 149 left.... if I have one true regret it is buying a mystery snail but i guess that goes in the "fish you regret" thread alas i'm not sure you can mention snails in that thread.
 
Didn't do anything special today, but I've discovered that my pogostemon is pearling consistently which is really exciting!
 
Finished the sub mines, didnt use suction cups wanted em in center. And only used the 3 heaviest stone chunks.
 

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Got home from short vacation. All fish alive and well. Think I found remnants of an amano shrimp, but there are still a handful of them I can find this evening (that’s when they come out). Other than that I’m prepping my QT tank and stalking FedEx for my first ever online fish order got a couple of plecos and some more amanos. May lose sleep tonight knowing they are a 20 min drive away and I can’t go pick them up!
 
Guys, real question here! I've been searching for an upgrade and I thought I found a 90g on Facebook, but closer inspection I saw too many flaws, enough that I should have slapped the guy for asking they much for junk, c'mon.

Any who, I found a tank stand combo from petsmart, but it's grey. My walls are just about the same shade of grey. Should I paint it? Or leave it? I can't find another stand in stock any other color :(

What should I do? I'm supposed to pick it up tomorrow.
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Just paint it. Stands are hard to find that you like! ;)
 
Just paint it. Stands are hard to find that you like! ;)
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I had the same dilemma a few months ago with a cabinet I got free off Craigslist with my tank. I spray painted it and put a then put a clear coat on it and I’m super happy I did.
 
Update on my snail and the zucchini - it was a hit! Ate the whole piece I gave her. Now she is taking a big nap on the spot I just finished scrubbing algae off. Love her.
 
A watch and feed kind of night. Don't know if it will be as entertaining watching tonight as the last couple of nights... but one can always hope, right?
 
BigManAquatics
When did you change your username?? How long have I been gone?!
 

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I've been shopping a lot, doing salty things, lol. Slipped right under my nose.


Soooo... Trying to find a decent used tank was driving me bonkers. I found a few that I thought were good, but ended up being terrible, so I've been online hunting. Finally found a new 'ensemble ' from petsmart.... 3hrs one way. Doing it though. Momma needs a new tank, lol. My current one was used, the top brace was broken, so my husband welded a euro style brace on top. It's very structurally sound, but the paint I used is not the best apparently. It's rusting and I'm worried it'll start affecting the fish. So I'm replacing the tank. Current is 48g bowfront, replacing with a 75 gal. Very excited. Now I'm researching lights. I want to eventually have this be saltwater, so I'm thinking of doing reef lights now, and just use the white channel alone while I've got the plants in there. The light I have on my 20g reef the white channel is waaaay brighter than any plant light I have on other tanks, even turned down to 10%. Between the neutral white (6500k) and the cool white (12000k), plus the red and green leds on the white channel should give me the full spectrum I'm looking for.
 

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Soaked some cucumber in the Dracula cup again and added a slice each to the 33 and 70.
 
Never understood the L "numbers". Where is a complete list with pics? I have multiple plecos and just know the common names
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Planetcatfish has most of them. Note that most bristlenose do not have an L number; but for some reason I recall starlight (which is a colour morph of bristlenose) having an L number - weird; or maybe my memory is faulty. DoubleDutch understands the L number system better than myself.
 
Never understood the L "numbers". Where is a complete list with pics? I have multiple plecos and just know the common names
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Same I had to look up the number by the name o_O
 

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Did a 50% water change and gravel vacuumed, rearranged the skulls on different sides, trimmed the dead parts off my plants, going out of town for two weeks. Hoping my fish sitter can handle it!
 
Trying to clean grime off of tank but they keep jumping and nipping at me, so I give up! Everyone had a water change and ate so the aesthetics can wait until tomorrow
 

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My betta arrived 2 days early, so on Wednesday. It's now in the specimen container doing it's quarantine. I've been changing it's water everyday with tank water from the 40g that will be its home. I put some guppy grass, a marimo, and one of the small bamboo tunnels up there along with a seeded sponge filter. He loves the bamboo tunnel the most.

The plecos were chasing each other around this morning. They didn't seem to be aggressive towards one another, more like "Oh! Too close to me! -swims off down the driftwood-" and "Ooo movement! -chases before getting distracted and going elsewhere-"
It was cute.

I got some jungle vals with the little betta boy, so I added them towards the back of the tank. Did my best to make sure the one part wasn't buried, but the roots were for the most part. I hope I did that right.

I'm gathering items up for this Sunday's water change. I want to clean the canister filter's hoses out. They look.. gunky. Only been running 2 months and they look gross.

I've been remembering to add my Thrive C to the tank after water changes. Not really seeing a difference in growth. Once all the bills come through and if I have money left over, I'm gonna pop by pwilly's site and grab some of their root tabs.
 
9AFBF9AD-D687-4013-9767-9C0E3C039045.jpegThey all survived the move to the QT tank. I was worried the bag water they came in ph was 6.2 and my QT tank was 7.5, actually pretty active given they are only 1” long and had a stressful week I’m sure!
 
Was going to get some more glowlights for my school this weekend (finally), but I noticed these big bubbles in my sealant last night that are making me nervous. So I'll be casually perusing new tanks today... aqueon doesn't make the 30g long tank that I have anymore it seems, so I've got to pick a whole new tank shape, sadly...
 

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Did a water change, and added a piece of chola wood with java moss attached that I got from pwilly's fish emporium - just what the tank needed!
 
Update: I got a new tank and stand, and I'm very happy with them. It's annoying to have to buy new things, but I love the location of it now, and I'll sleep better knowing my babies are safe.
 

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Update: I got a new tank and stand, and I'm very happy with them. It's annoying to have to buy new things, but I love the location of it now, and I'll sleep better knowing my babies are safe.
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Ooo I like that stand! :)
 
Ooo I like that stand! :)
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I'm really happy with it! It's very sturdy, and it came with a wall anchor, thank goodness. That's been my biggest fear with my current stand.
 
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