What are you doing to your tank today?

Watching my new endler babies.
I’ve not kept livebearers in a very long time & forgotten how nice it is to come down in the morning & see a whole load of tiny babies hovering in the plants :)
Edit: grabbed a quick pic, excuse the pothos roots it’s growing like mad.
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Your pothos is beautiful! Mine is starting to take off in my betta tank. I can't wait for it to get as wild as that. My betta will be so happy.
 

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Haven't touched any tanks yet today, but did some work and organization in my "tank corner" in the garage, getting all my extra tank stuff, empty tanks and stands arranged so the corner is still workable.
 

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Spent 30 minutes cleaning the fx6; not fun. They need to invent a self cleaning filter.
 
Ahh, perfection.

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So this is my hospital/quarantine tank.
It's a 4 gallon nano cube that I don't use anymore. It sits under my cabinet of my big tank and it has some media and sponges in there right now.
So for you cycle gurus out there, i dose this tank with 8 drops of Dr. Tim's once a week every Thursday (that's 1ppm if i recall, i don't test after i dose anymore). But i change the water, 50%, once every 2-3 weeks. And everything is just fine and stable.

Fortunately I don't have any inhabitants in that tank right now. Everyone is happy, healthy and awesome.
 

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Well then... you know how I sometimes say things can happen to the best of us?

Guess what: Something happened to me last night and I had to go through an emergency protocol this morning.

Yesterday during the waterchanges I stirred up some mulm, rather a minor amount. So I thought. This morning my filter was almost completely clogged. Fish were breathing fast, but not dangerously so, luckily.

I got the filter out completely (usually I would only do the media compartment, but I thought, while I'm at it...) squeezed the sponges, replaced a matt of filter floss and cleaned out the pumphead.

And all that before coffee and work. Yuck.

Current status: All fine, no losses, everybody breathing normal again.

Memo: Clean out the pump more often.
 
Well then... you know how I sometimes say things can happen to the best of us?

Guess what: Something happened to me last night and I had to go through an emergency protocol this morning.

Yesterday during the waterchanges I stirred up some mulm, rather a minor amount. So I thought. This morning my filter was almost completely clogged. Fish were breathing fast, but not dangerously so, luckily.

I got the filter out completely (usually I would only do the media compartment, but I thought, while I'm at it...) squeezed the sponges, replaced a matt of filter floss and cleaned out the pumphead.

And all that before coffee and work. Yuck.

Current status: All fine, no losses, everybody breathing normal again.

Memo: Clean out the pump more often.
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This is where i am currently at with my sponge filters as well. Cleaning them only when i can't remember when i last cleaned them isn't working so well these days....too many fish!
 
This is where i am currently at with my sponge filters as well. Cleaning them only when i can't remember when i last cleaned them isn't working so well these days....too many fish!
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Luckily not my problem here, mostly just too much leaf litter.
 
After my lights starting coming on this morning I removed the extra filter I added yesterday when my tank got dirty from disturbed substrate/potting soil after a WC. I'm really glad I added it when I saw the problem. From the looks of it, it caught a lot of the suspended "dirt" cloud.

I'll be doing a parameter check on my nano here shortly. If it's still 0 and 0 Am and trites I'll stop with the daily water changes. From following another thread I am really glad I was only dealing with .5 readings.

Thinking about a trip to the LFS for three more Pygmy Corys to bolster my little clan.
 
After my lights starting coming on this morning I removed the extra filter I added yesterday when my tank got dirty from disturbed substrate/potting soil after a WC. I'm really glad I added it when I saw the problem. From the looks of it, it caught a lot of the suspended "dirt" cloud.

I'll be doing a parameter check on my nano here shortly. If it's still 0 and 0 Am and trites I'll stop with the daily water changes. From following another thread I am really glad I was only dealing with .5 readings.

Thinking about a trip to the LFS for three more Pygmy Corys to bolster my little clan.
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Have you ever tried Walmart-brand Polyfill? It's aquarium safe, super cheap, and was a MUST have when I was working with a dirted tanks. I still use it after a water change on my normal tanks to clear the water.
 

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My wife found 6 fish in the grow out, attacking another.
Luckily all the little rainbows could to is get the cactus to occasionally move its tail that they were going at. The tail was as big as they are, maybe bigger.
Rainbows: nibble, nibble, nibble, nibble, nibble, nibble, nibble
Tail: flop.
Rainbows: nibble, nibble, nibble, nibble, nibble, nibble, nibble
Tail: flop.
Circle of life man, circle of life.
 
Have you ever tried Walmart-brand Polyfill? It's aquarium safe, super cheap, and was a MUST have when I was working with a dirted tanks. I still use it after a water change on my normal tanks to clear the water.
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I haven't. Actually, I did not have floss. That's what I get for ordering too quickly off Amazon.
The stuff I found out I had was cut-to-size polishing pad. It still worked though. I was able to curl a piece in my Fluval C3.

Thanks for the heads up.
 
Slowly moving fish out of buckets and back into tanks now that I can move back into my apartment. Today, I got my marine betta into a 10 gallon QT/Holding tank. Super shy, but gorgeous! This had to be taken from about 5 feet away through the dirty side glass, but he was checking me out, lol!

https://imgur.com/b8gk5fg
 
These algae wafers are crazy. It must be the best Cory food in the world.
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Good way to count the Embers though. Even though they were not eating they were pretty interested.
 
Purchased:
5- 2X4X8
4- 2X4X10
2- 200W digital heaters
2- 530GPH pumps
1- 23x23" 30ppi sponge
Black acrylic craft paint
Black oil based paint
300lbs black sand

Any guesses on what this project might be?

Just happens that one of my LFS is near the lumber yard and we've been without a centerpiece community betta for a while so I bought a little female hoping to build her up like we did for Rex:
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Have a ton of planting/scaping/trimming to do in the big rack before I get busy with the saw table:
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50% wc, pulled the spider wood out, pulled bunch of crypts out, removed dead dying leaves from other plants. Getting ready to add some dragon stone. Probably not until my next day off. Have to think about how I am gonna place it. Need a change.

Ordered water wasteria (haven't had this plant for awhile), dwarf chain sword and a few anubias. I love the hygrophlia species.

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Purchased:
5- 2X4X8
4- 2X4X10
2- 200W digital heaters
2- 530GPH pumps
1- 23x23" 30ppi sponge
Black acrylic craft paint
Black oil based paint
300lbs black sand

Any guesses on what this project might be?
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Duck pond?
:hilarious:

I like having a long range plan. I already have my next tank picked out and am not even done working on the latest one.
Going to go a little bit bigger than my current tanks :D
 
Should do a water change on the 10g fry tank, including cleaning at least 1 of the sponge filters. Couple of the fry are grown enough now i may move them to the 45 to rejoin their parents!

Edit: did the water change and cleaned one of the sponge filters, wasn't terrible, but definitely needed it! Also got interrupted in the middle of everything to go fix a bed. Kids....
 
It was a more eventful day than usual, did some of the cleaning and such and even sold some of my double sword hybrid, and chili/sunset hybrid endlers.

Some might think I traded down but those that know my tanks will understand my choice of stock to buy with some of the money(and I'm still not comfortable selling my peacock line, the colors just aren't right yet).

From this:
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To this:
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I haven't seen my 5 year old amano in a while so I'm thinking he finally passed, have heard nothing but good about the Siamese algae eaters too so figured I'll try one.
 
Spent the morning playing with the camera and checking up on fish. These little bumblebee gobies are such fun little guys - I really do wish the freshwater species were more common/easier to identify, since brackish is so prohibitive for some people. They're so fun and personable, I'm pretty sure they'd be an instant hit!

https://imgur.com/ohiN3k6

I'm also happy to report that my Figure 8 Puffer (that I've named Roundabout) looks better today. He came down with an eye infection in one eye on Saturday night, and it spread to the other eye and worsened on Sunday. I added some Erythromycin, and that seems to have helped. Still a little cloudy, but much better than it was! Losing an eye for a puffer can be pretty devastating, unfortunately.

https://imgur.com/DX4Rygl
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Look at his beak!
 

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Well, I'm still waiting on some information for the rock I ordered Saturday.
I guess just because you advertise that you ship six days a week doesn't mean that you process the orders six days a week... So nothing going on in my Cube20.

I'm going to head into the LFS and hopefully get some more Pygmy Corys to make up for the three I lost. Maybe I'll try calling first, but they rarely answer their phone.

I'm still trying to locate 5 Otos in my 27 cube, too. I saw four yesterday, but am only seeing three this morning. They're probably in there somewhere.

Pretty slow day so far.
 
One of my berried cherry (although she's more black than red) let go of her babies! They are so freakin' miscroscopic! So today I just sat and tried to count/find them all.

There's three significantly larger ones, which might be from the eggs of our first berried shrimp who unfortunately died in the little water pump (which has since been made shrimp safe, worry naught.) so that's nice, knowing some of her eggs lived on despite her tragic end.
 
Well, the LFS had one Pygmy Cory left. Someone had cleaned them out :(
And I bought him.

Unfortunately I did not look that closely at him until he hit the water. He appears to be a true Pygmy Cory and not the Salt and Pepper variety I bought last Friday. Oh well.
If they get more S&P's in maybe I'll take him in with me, since I really wanted all the same kind.

And while there I also bought a Neon Tetra. He seems to be hanging out with the other five in my Nano just fine.

I also did a water check... on the LFS's water :)
I had been meaning to do this for a while.
The low pH test was 7.6, so who knows. My own pH runs 7.2 in all my tanks.
Am was what I mark down as 0+ when I do parameters on my tanks. Not quite yellow, but far from .25.
Trites were 0 and Trates were 10ppm.
Pretty good IMO. The only thing really different from my own water was the hardness. I probably should have done a Hi test on it.
 
Water change on my 30g-moved inhabitants from my flex to the 30 and actually see my emerald rasboras now! Taking the flex down because I promised my husband I would if he let me buy a 75g. I’ll put it up “for sale” (put it in the basement) for awhile and if it doesn’t sell I’ll put it in my daughters room and get another betta haha best wife ever!
 
Maybe just a watch and feed kind of night. Think at least one tank going to be receiving frozen blood worms! That is always a hoot to watch!
 
Ended up doing a water change on the 29 anyway. Found some slime/mold on the aquarium hood in the process. Got that all cleaned up and taken care of.
 
Just watching my fry get just about ready to outgrow their grow out. I'm selling 3 of my cory fry to my neighbor this weekend and keeping the smallest one for myself. My gourami fry is getting antsy. My male and it are highly interested in each other. The fry has been blowing bubbles for a few weeks now, so I'm hoping it's also male. Not looking for any inbred fry in the future...
 
It was a more eventful day than usual, did some of the cleaning and such and even sold some of my double sword hybrid, and chili/sunset hybrid endlers.

Some might think I traded down but those that know my tanks will understand my choice of stock to buy with some of the money(and I'm still not comfortable selling my peacock line, the colors just aren't right yet).

From this:
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To this:
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I haven't seen my 5 year old amano in a while so I'm thinking he finally passed, have heard nothing but good about the Siamese algae eaters too so figured I'll try one.
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SAE are nice but they really do require a 4 foot aquarium; with shrimp well you can put them in your back pocket for all they care.
 

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I had a really busy day today. I hadn't planned on doing a thing to my tanks.
But as I was taking a break and looking at my nano, either the light is getting dimmer or the plants have taken over the surface...

I hate to throw these out, but there will be more.
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And I can see the corner again :)
And my Betta can see me :)
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He's such a personable guy.
And maybe that grassy thing in the corner will grow a little more.
 
I had a really busy day today. I hadn't planned on doing a thing to my tanks.
But as I was taking a break and looking at my nano, either the light is getting dimmer or the plants have taken over the surface...

I hate to throw these out, but there will be more.
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And I can see the corner again :)
And my Betta can see me :)
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He's such a personable guy.
And maybe that grassy thing in the corner will grow a little more.
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So gorgeous! I would be in front of that tank all of the time! :)
 
So gorgeous! I would be in front of that tank all of the time! :)
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Thank you very much! I love this tank.
But I imagine they are like children. You don't really want to pick a favorite (even though you know there is one, lol).
 
SAE are nice but they really do require a 4 foot aquarium;
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This little juvenile is trying out for the team in one of my 29s, if he shows some metal he'll be getting a few buddies and moving into one of the 55s this winter :)
 
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!!
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Im adding some frogbit, pearl weed, hygro polyspermia, moneywort, and Elodea to my new ADF tank. Can’t wait for it all to grow!!!
 

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Serious excavation going on in my tank. One yellow lab acting like a JCB!
Any suggestions on how to stop this? They will make the 3.5" gravel/plenum useless.
 

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I was bored, so I did water changes in my three tanks. Gonna check the parameters in all three sometime tonight.
I also noticed, besides the diatoms, that I have some green algae forming here and there on the driftwood in my 20 High. I cleaned the glass and am debating if I want to get some Otos for it. They've been doing such a great job in my 27 cube, but it's not like I want to add them to every tank. And snails are slow, plus I'm kind of put off of snails right now after losing two.

I've been thinking about adding some shrimp to that 20g and see how they do. Keep everything small.
 
I'm on the same wavelength as BigManAquatics - definitely just chilling and feeding, tonight!

Got tons of full bellies:
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I'm amazed at how brave this new marine betta is. They're usually incredibly shy fish - hiding for months in new tanks. This guy has only been in this tank since Saturday and is letting me set up cameras and tong-feed him. Pretty wild!


I'm taking name suggestions for him, if anyone wants to chime in :)
 

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Just added water and started new 32.5g Fluval tank. No rocks or decos added yet.
This tank is #7 in my fish room, and will be used to move my Multies colony from a Fluval 15gp in a few weeks. Multies have been a screaming success in the 15...from 5 original about 6 months ago, to an uncountable number of 4 or 5 different generations now.
 
I should dig around and find a heater for one rack tank so I can move my L134s back to their breeder and my Starlights to a breeder for the first time. How many months have I been talking about doing this?
 
Summer is over. Heater is back on.

I also cleaned my 33’s canister out on Thursday because the flow rate was reducing. The flow rate seemed to have dropped over a quick period of time, although when doing the cleaning out, I didn’t notice anything unusual in the filter; just the usual gunk.

I just did two water changes. I’m ill right now, but that didn’t affect my performance.
 
Oops. I stepped on a college basketball coach last night. And just realized 4 hrs later i put this in the wrong thread. Totally meant to put in random thoughts! Guess i need more sleep.
 
Oops. I stepped on a college basketball coach last night. And just realized 4 hrs later i put this in the wrong thread. Totally meant to put in random thoughts! Guess i need more sleep.
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I woke up early this morning and check this thread before I had my coffee - I just shook my head and figured I was missing part of the story, lol!
 
I woke up early this morning and check this thread before I had my coffee - I just shook my head and figured I was missing part of the story, lol!
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Well, he was behind me and i stepped backwards and got him. Usually it is him that steps on or bumps me. Being big means i have to protect him a lot, but not being agile means i can't move out of his way so fast!

Just fed fish, and the 45 got some new roomies today.
 
Have my first blob of Ramshorn eggs. I want to breed some so I can feed them to the shrimp and badis. At least I know I can control them and it is the one cleaning my Luds right now! Thats where the eggs are. I shold put the bladder in the 5g now.
 
Serious excavation going on in my tank. One yellow lab acting like a JCB!
Any suggestions on how to stop this? They will make the 3.5" gravel/plenum useless.
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Lol i told you....you cant stop it....its what those cichlids do.

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This is my tank right now.
Cheeto is getting a bit too feisty.
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I need to change some water and rearrange again.
Its constant. You have to get in there and smooth it out. If you let it get as bad as i have they become more territorial over these spots.
So you have to reset the environment.
A plenum isn't a good combo with African cichlids.

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Did a deep clean of the 29g after releasing the babies. I sold 3 to some neighbors up the street. I'm sure those 3 cories will love their new 150g. Now I get to continue playing "is this gourami fry male or female?" It's got mostly orange fins like a girl, but it's got blue dots lining the bottom like a male. Only time with tell.

I'm adding some sticks I harvested last weekend to the betta tank. Boiling them now. Major Tom is pretty blind now, so this will probably be the last time I ever do anything to his tank besides clean it. I better make it good!
 

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