What are you doing to your tank today?

[bcfishtanks]

Bought a bigger grow out tank for all my fry. I also collected some wood to add to Tom's Blackwater dungeon. I'd like to get rid of his fake plants go all wood for him. Boiling them now so they're ready to go in a bit.

Between moving my fry and collecting driftwood for the first time, it's one of those days where I feel like I somehow know absolutely nothing about fishkeeping. There's so much pressure on a learning curve when lives are on the line....

 

[PAcanis]

I went on a shopping trip to the large pet supply store and wiped out their sparsely stocked substrate aisle. Then I came home, cut out a cardboard template and played around with rearranging rocks and wood on it. Then I went to the hardware store for some gel super glue.
Now I am trying to get super glue off my fingers
They make it look so easy, but I am having a heckuva time gluing a wood skewer to the bottom of some spiderwood.

So I checked tracking and my fish is at a PO on the other side of the city, where I just came from. I can't get anyone to answer to see what is happening or if I can come pick him up. Delivery still says Monday...

 

[Ouse]

Ordered New Life Spectrum Thera +A, but made a bit of a mistake. I ordered a small 80 gram tub of it, so I better make it last. Arrives 4th October.

Tomorrow I’m draining the 15 gallon, the next step in taking it down.

 

[Linda1234]

Ordered New Life Spectrum Thera +A, but made a bit of a mistake. I ordered a small 80 gram tub of it, so I better make it last. Arrives 4th October.

Tomorrow I’m draining the 15 gallon, the next step in taking it down.

Let me know if your fishes go for it. One problem I have is a subset of my cichlid refuse to touch anything with garlic. They take one sniff and well .... One of the problem i have with northfin brand - most of it has garlic and my snobby fishes refuse to touch it.

 

[Ouse]

Let me know if your fishes go for it. One problem I have is a subset of my cichlid refuse to touch anything with garlic. They take one sniff and well .... One of the problem i have with northfin brand - most of it has garlic and my snobby fishes refuse to touch it.

Will do. The fish I’ll be feeding the stuff to are rainbowfish.

 

[PAcanis]

I'm at a standstill with my 20g high. Apparently Gorilla Glue brand isn't all it's cracked up to be and I had to reglue the skewer to the spiderwood branch.

BUT! I made some calls and twenty minutes later my local PO called me back and said we have your fish!

 

[PAcanis]

Working a bit on the 20g high this morning.
I've got some Eco Complete down as a base, put my dragon stone rocks in and my piece of spiderwood, then capped it with Super Naturals sand. Because the Eco Complete comes with bacteria infused water, I went ahead and added some more to make all the sand wet.

I think I'll head to the LFS when they open and see if I can find another small piece of spiderwood and some more dragon stone.

 

[Linda1234]

Finished a massive water change on the large aquarium. Only took 3 hours. Loaches seem happy and the angels didn't bite me today which is always a blessing.

 

[bcfishtanks]

Water changes all around and added in my self-collected wood to Tom's tank. I'm a bit nervous, since it's my first time adding in non-store-bought wood. I'll be monitoring him closely the next few days to make sure everything goes well.

 

[Leeman75]

Today I cleaned up my Corydoras tank: Fern and Java moss have been blocking the whole tank. So I took out all Java moss and did a 90% waterchange. The Java moss filled up a complete 10 liter bucket. Maybe I should have cut it down earlier.

Yikes!! I'm going to be doing a similar thing with the guppy grass that has taken over my Cherry Shrimp tank!! It's unbelievable how fast and dense that stuff grows!!

 

[StarGirl]

On our way home from vacation. I hope I don't come home to a bunch of dead fish.

 

[PAcanis]

On our way home from vacation. I hope I don't come home to a bunch of dead fish.

Hopefully you don't have to do anything immediately to your tanks

I've got my dragon stone and little piece of spiderwood outside soaking with a hose ran to the bucket.
Inside I've got one plastic bag in my nano and three bags in my 27g.
Some Panda Corys, Dwarf Flame Gouramis and Striped Nerites followed me home when I went in to by more hardscape

 

[carsonsgjs]

Decided today was the day to have a switch round in my office, which would involve moving one of my tanks.

Luckily for me the tank that needed moving was a 7.5g fry grow out tank - I just picked the thing up and walked it across to the other side of the room to its new spot and job done.

If only tank moves were that easy all the time! Managed to find time to complete water changes on 3 tanks too.

 

[Fishfriendof315]

I'm at a standstill with my 20g high. Apparently Gorilla Glue brand isn't all it's cracked up to be and I had to reglue the skewer to the spiderwood branch.

BUT! I made some calls and twenty minutes later my local PO called me back and said we have your fish!

Dont even try their epoxy. Complete junk in water. If anything go with JB welds epoxy, wish i didnt stray from it
Back felt good enough to do the water changes. Grabbing my new pond tomorrow, cant wait to start another. Wife said no new tanks in house until we get done building the house. Chopped the hygro and planted stargirls vals, Finally! Took out back wall slate because i have a replacement blue crayfish on the way. Almost collapsed everything.

 

[StarGirl]

Everyone seems to be alive!!!! Yay!

 

[Motherlovebetta]

Watching my new (second batch this week) of CPDs swimming and eating. LFS had some big ones this time-about an inch long. Send prayers if you believe in that kind of thing! My betta actually has really perked up with the addition of the new CPDs and cherry shrimp I got from the kid next door when he went to college! (He said there were 5 but I think there were babies in the Java fern I think I counted about 15 when I turned the light on this morning). Waiting to hear from a guy about a 29 gallon to move my honeys to. My male has gotten to be a PITA ever since he spawned. Other than that I’m loading up stuff for my nieces betta I convinced my sister to upgrade to a 10 gallon tank for him and they are super excited to see all the stuff I’m bringing over!

 

[bcfishtanks]

I chickened out about the driftwood and only kept one piece in to make sure it wasn't leeching anything poisonous into the tank, even with all the prep work I put in.

He's fine today, so I added back 2 more of the four. Of course they started to dry out, so they're floating again, but oh well. I'm happy that Tom is fine and also that he didn't bite his tail last night now that he can see his reflection again without the fake plants. Maybe he's finally growing up!

 

[PAcanis]

I reworked the filter output on my nano tank this morning. I like the way my Betta isn't nervous of me at all.
It's still sunrise in my 27, but I looked around and didn't see anybody floating or stuck to the filter intake, so that's a good sign.
The water has cleared in the 20 high, so back to aquascaping that. I need water in the tank to get a better idea of how things look, so mostly filled it yesterday while I glued a skewer to the bottom of my new piece of spiderwood.

Going to check parameters, too. It's been a few days. Probably do a small water change in the two tanks.

 

[bcfishtanks]

I reworked the filter output on my nano tank this morning. I like the way my Betta isn't nervous of me at all.
It's still sunrise in my 27, but I looked around and didn't see anybody floating or stuck to the filter intake, so that's a good sign.
The water has cleared in the 20 high, so back to aquascaping that. I need water in the tank to get a better idea of how things look, so mostly filled it yesterday while I glued a skewer to the bottom of my new piece of spiderwood.

Going to check parameters, too. It's been a few days. Probably do a small water change in the two tanks.

The best thing about me chopping down all my wisteria to only a few inches high a few weeks ago is that now it's so easy to check to make sure no one is sucked against the filter!

 

[Leeman75]

I got 9 WCs done yesterday, but got too tired to do the last two more challenging ones (20 hex, 55). Those will get done today. I will also supervise the 3 kids' tanks getting WCs.

After that, I need to do some planning. There is a very large fish swap happening in a few weeks in a suburb near me that I plan on getting fish for several tanks as well as some plants and snails.

Other than that, just relaxing and spending time in front of my tanks watching. I don't get to do that much these days...

 

[PAcanis]

The best thing about me chopping down all my wisteria to only a few inches high a few weeks ago is that now it's so easy to check to make sure no one is sucked against the filter!

Yeah, I put a nylon screen around the filter intake, but that did not prevent one of my cherry shrimp from being held in place until he died. He was standing there too perfect to have been dead already.
I'm thinking about putting one of the sponges I have over the intake tube to further buffer the suction.

I don't think I planted anything tall enough in front of the tube to hide it. I was thinking I did not want the plant sucked against the intake either. It's pretty much unnoticeable from the couch where I sit as it is.

 

[Revan]

Chilling watching my snail named squid and tear myself apart over what fish to add

 

[Chewbacca773]

Commit war crimes against algae

 

[PAcanis]

Scratch one of the water changes.
I see no reason to change water with a 7.2-0-0-10PPM reading. Same as four days ago. That'll give my new fishies an extra day in the same water they went into yesterday. I'll change out 5g tomorrow.

I'll be heading outside here shortly to beat on an aquarium rock and turn one stone into many.

Here's where I'm as so far with my 20.


Looking at the picture I'm wishing I could have put the smaller wood closer to the one on the right, but that would have required cutting some of it off that is buried in the substrate. Perfect place for a lotus bulb to fill in.

I'll hang my Tidal 35 on it and I have an old, but unused, 100w heater that should work well.

 

[JLAquatics]

Hello everyone! It has been a busy week at work, which is why I have not been present on this forum in a while. That is about to change very soon! Instead of an article, I am about to work on a massive thread highlighting all my experiences with aquascaping and a detailed guide for everyone here on Fishlore using screenshots from Scape It, an online aquascaping simulator which will capture my thoughts on everything perfectly.

The tanks in their current state




Lambchop Rasboras breeding this morning once more, this is one of the largest males in the tank.

 

[StarGirl]

Water change day! Getting ready to go back to the grind.

 

[PAcanis]

Water parameters AOK in my nano tank, too.
Might as well wait until tomorrow to change out a little water.

I was going to do a little trimming...
I have a plant growing like a madman and I like it when it breaks the surface, but I know if I don't keep it in check it will slowly take over. At least until my water sprite starts growing. Then maybe I'll have to worry about that.

But then I saw my Betta using if for a resting place...

 

[86 ssinit]

I redesigned the 90g
And my 125s

 

[Fishfriendof315]

Just because i was able to do the water changes doest mean i should push it, but i did make it to my lfs!! I think it was meant to be, he finally had some official siamese algae eaters. Bought all he had left. Here goes one of five little guys that went into the 50. Its so small compared to some of my monsters. Just left of heater. Thats a 5-6 inch clown loach and a 2 inch serpae. Other 4 into the 20.

 

[StarGirl]

Just because i was able to do the water changes doest mean i should push it, but i did make it to my lfs!! I think it was meant to be, he finally had some official siamese algae eaters. Bought all he had left. Here goes one of five little guys that went into the 50. Its so small compared to some of my monsters. Just left of heater. Thats a 5-6 inch clown loach and a 2 inch serpae. Other 4 into the 20.

Dont worry he will be as big as that loach in no time.

 

[Basil]

Dont worry he will be as big as that loach in no time.

Yeah my SAE was smaller than my dwarf chain loaches when I got him. Now he’s about three times bigger then they are! I think I’ve had him less than a year.

 

[86 ssinit]

Yes they grow quick. But for best results add another. 2 algae eaters will play together all day long. By themselves they will end up chasing other fish to play. Many upon seeing this think there aggressive. There not but they love to chase each other. 2 or 3 is the best for them.

 

[Motherlovebetta]

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Just because i was able to do the water changes doest mean i should push it, but i did make it to my lfs!! I think it was meant to be, he finally had some official siamese algae eaters. Bought all he had left. Here goes one of five little guys that went into the 50. Its so small compared to some of my monsters. Just left of heater. Thats a 5-6 inch clown loach and a 2 inch serpae. Other 4 into the 20.

That clown loach is a beauty!

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Wife sent me to work to take care of a few things. While there I realized her tank hasn’t had any maintenance in at least a month due to her dealing with Covid. So while there I pulled it fully down, scrubbed everything etc… It’s a small 3gal IIRC with three male guppies. Glad I set that tank up brackish. Algae was pretty much non existent, just a bit of black algae in the cut out for the filter. All clean and happy for now. I’m not entirely happy with the tank size or stocking, but I’m space limited for now. Getting a new printer in a month or so should give me room for a 5gal which I’ll be happier with.

I’d have more room if Mr Wigglesworth didn’t take an entire wall lol

 

[Fishfriendof315]

Yes they grow quick. But for best results add another. 2 algae eaters will play together all day long. By themselves they will end up chasing other fish to play. Many upon seeing this think there aggressive. There not but they love to chase each other. 2 or 3 is the best for them.

There are 4 other in there somewhere, seen 3 of the 5 this morning, and i dont think the shrimp or plecos will take the ones in their 20

 

[Linda1234]

Yes they grow quick. But for best results add another. 2 algae eaters will play together all day long. By themselves they will end up chasing other fish to play. Many upon seeing this think there aggressive. There not but they love to chase each other. 2 or 3 is the best for them.

A 50 gallon tank is really too small for 1 much less 3 SAE. IMHO they need a min an 4 foot tank and longer the better. They aren't just large but they are extremely fast swimmers.

 

[Motherlovebetta]

My daughters first day of school so I couldn’t sleep (I’m a nut) so I moved my pleco babies to the big tank this morning. I was actually pretty surprised at how much they have grown in a month. Think they all about doubled, but still small. At least I’ll be too busy today to worry too much about them. Also, picking up a 29 gallon today which I think is actually a 30 breeder from the dimensions he sent me? Will have two clown loaches to rehome if anyone near southeast Michigan wants them let me know!

 

[PAcanis]

The power went out today for five minutes.
So the tank that has the Finnex light I am waiting until 12:00 to set the 24/7 program three hours behind.
And the tank that has the Hygger light I am waiting until 1:00 to set the default program three hours behind.

Of course lighting controller time increments aren't standardized

Microwave and stove are taken care of

 

[Linda1234]

My daughters first day of school so I couldn’t sleep (I’m a nut) so I moved my pleco babies to the big tank this morning. I was actually pretty surprised at how much they have grown in a month. Think they all about doubled, but still small. At least I’ll be too busy today to worry too much about them. Also, picking up a 29 gallon today which I think is actually a 30 breeder from the dimensions he sent me? Will have two clown loaches to rehome if anyone near southeast Michigan wants them let me know!View attachment 810537

What species are those in the bag ? Leopard ?

 

[Motherlovebetta]

What species are those in the bag ? Leopard ?

Yea leopard frogs.

 

[MyFishAddiction]

Did a water change before school today, may start de-tannis-ifying the driftwood tonight.

 

[HummingbirdNSabath]

Wondering what everyone is doing to their tanks weather its changing decor adding removing, changing substrate, new lights filters air stones or sponge filters etc..... Also pics are very much encouraged
PS if there is a better section for this thread please move it Thanks!!

I scrubbed algae off of some decorations, did a water change and scrubbed some algae off the glass

 

[FishPlanet]

While I was acclimating my very pregnant platy to a birthing tank, I watched my mystery snail, Pearl, climbing out of the tank.

 

[Shambhalaubie]

Replaced a pirate ship decoration I got with my aquarium when I purchased it, with a new mediumish size piece of driftwood I purchased. I want to go for a natural look with dark sand, and remove all the gravel.

 

[Motherlovebetta]

Just got my daughter on the bus (tear). Cleaning this tank I got off Craigslist. I think it’s been very neglected. Downsizing the MASSIVE driftwood that was in there took up literally half the tank.

 

[PAcanis]

Water changes and trimming plants.
I've got way too many lily pads in the one tank and way too much whatever it is in the Betta tank.

 

[BlockHead1981]

Added this couple of Black Rams last night....Cut out acrylic lid to size for my tank as well.

 

[PAcanis]

The WC are done.
I found out my Gourami are fascinated with the siphon. One was part way up the tube before I got it pulled up and lost suction.

I took the clippings from my unknown plant and floated them on the surface of my new 20. If they don't die I might try planting them, but I have a few plants on the way anyway. I can't save everything I trim off.

 

[Linda1234]

Added this couple of Black Rams last night....Cut out acrylic lid to size for my tank as well.

Those do not look like black knights; they look closer to normal gbr but not quite maybe a little bit of black in them ?

 

[BlockHead1981]

Those do not look like black knights; they look closer to normal gbr but not quite maybe a little bit of black in them ?

They are not completely black but defense black rams. Look up pictures on Google. There are different variants. Got these from a local breeder. If you put them side by side with regular rams you would definitely see the difference