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It’s not that big it’s a 36g. Put a 150w heater in it but it doesn’t seem to be enough. Going to put the bosemani fry in there to grow them out.ED6BBE71-2F8C-49A8-8F5C-24C7AAB4FB84.jpeg
 
I moved the Marine Betta from my 10 gallon QT to the 55 FOWLR today. I'm calling the tank cycled - it tests at 0/0/20, and the coral I added in last weekend has done well all week. I bought some lids the other day but they don't fit the tank. Gotta exchange them and get some that fit correctly - for now, the water level is lowered down about 5" from the top of the tank to make sure he doesn't jump. They're move rock-dwelling fish anyway, so I doubt I'd have jumping issues in the first place.

Other than that, I'm prepping for more snow. We're supposed get .25" of ice and then 5-8" of thick, heavy, wet snow on top of that. Everybody is expecting power loss, unfortunately. Hoping I avoid it here. I'd really like to do a bunch of large water changes, but I'd hate to be in the middle of them and then lose power.
 
Everybody is getting frozen brine shrimp today. And I'm happy to say that even the larger Golden Pencils ate them. I suppose I'll have to start buying the bigger package of them now.

I am also expecting some Bug Bites in from Amazon. a 3-pk of their tropical forumula. The guy at the SA LFS recommended them. And they sound nice.

And I am really hoping that 1-2ft of snow they are calling for misses me...Hopefully the power stays on.
 
Everybody is getting frozen brine shrimp today. And I'm happy to say that even the larger Golden Pencils ate them. I suppose I'll have to start buying the bigger package of them now.

I am also expecting some Bug Bites in from Amazon. a 3-pk of their tropical forumula. The guy at the SA LFS recommended them. And they sound nice.

And I am really hoping that 1-2ft of snow they are calling for misses me...Hopefully the power stays on.
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I feed the Endlers bug bites (along with other stuff) They seem to like it and there’s usually small bits for the fry too.
 

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Had a long old afternoon and evening moving my 4ft tank to other side of the room. Fingers crossed all the fish look OK, media hasnt lost much BB and the plants will recover.

Had to drain and empty hardscape completely and most of gravel just so me and the misses could pick up the beast and reduce stresses.

All the process was pretty hard work what with temporary heated/filtered 64l container for fish n plants. Bucket of media running airstones. Complete refill of tank and rescape planting. Total rethink of plugs and then moving furniture.

Tank needed to be moved unfortunately.. Sigh.
 
Well, the Bug bites arrive too late for tonight's feedings. There's always tomorrow.

And I've noticed, my 5g Marineland Portrait tank, that I had purchased a stronger light for, has been looking very underwhelming since taking down the cylinder tank I had next to it. The light from the cylinder must have been accounting for a lot of the illumination in the portrait. Something needs done here.
Maybe add the original light back on and run two? Maybe use the cylinder's desk lamp? Something...
 
Well Have to grow out the 9g plants again. It looks "thin" after taking 2 stems and one of the Tiger Lotus out to put in the 55g. The 55g is starting to look better! :)
 
Well, we've still got power. Looks like we'll probably make it through without an outage - hopefully.

The betta has disappeared in the 55, which is what I expected. They're such shy fish. I was surprised at how tiny he looked in there - I had gotten so used to seeing him in the QT that I wasn't prepared for the size difference, lol.

I'm gonna do some light tank maintenance tonight - maybe just test some water and see how the tanks are faring. Overall, I think I really just need to water change my flowerhorn tank and clear some duckweed out of the betta tank on my desktop.
 
Did a water change on 3 tanks, they were actually due tomorrow but I had more time today. The severum had spawned again yesterday, the second time in just over a week. She kept attacking me, ramming me hard if I went anywhere near her. She is busy fanning the eggs now, shame she doesn’t have a mate! Luckily she is not bothering the festivums unless they get really close.

Then later we were discusssing plans for making a new big tank and stand….
 
It's snowing here. Stupid weather. It wasn't supposed to start for 30 minutes yet ;)

Oh, and to keep this OT, I took a picture of the fish I added to a tank yesterday.
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I wasn't going to let a known male get away from me. I spotted him earlier in the week, but wanted him to spend a little more time in the LFS's tank. He's quite bold.
 
Hey everyone! I have not been as present on the forum as much as I have been these past few days. Let's just say that 2022 has been very hectic for me so far so I have my fingers crossed for better days ahead. It seems like I never get a break as one thing after another just piles up on me.

However, that won't stop me from doing what needs to be done with the fish tanks.

I did a desperately needed trim in the 29 today. That is honestly a good problem to have so I was able to reuse most of the cuttings. Furthermore, the new Water Lettuce and Salvinia I got from another forum member has dominated the surface of this tank so I took some of them out to discard as well.
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I don't have a lit picture of the trimmed scape in the daylight but I figured this one could suffice. It was the tank just before shutting off for the night.
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For those of you currently feeling the wrath of Izzy (The winter storm), I want to send you best wishes. Hopefully you won't have to deal with power outages as I heard this storm is going to be quite rough for many folks in the Northeast and has already caused a lot of problems in the Southeast US.
 
Today - 5 water changes - 38 L, 16 cube, two 20 longs and 20 tall

last night I played musical fish - betta went into 8 gallon biorb *only use filter 10 minutes a day*, fish from biorb went back to a 20 long planted

so Sparkling Gourmai are SUPER TIMID

I do water changes and they look at me like 'stop hitting me!' it's the only way I can explain it

but oddly moving them from 20 long on Weds to the 8 gallon Biorb and then back to 20 long last night, they're less shy. They finally get that I won't kill them.... mind you, I've had them for 16 months!!! But starting today, they no longer run away and hide when I enter the room.

I've seriously thought about rehoming them because emotionally we just didn't gell. I'm so spoiled because bettas adore the hand that feeds them. I had thought maybe they needed a 40 gallon to feel more secure... but I really did not want to jump from 20 to another 40 (much larger tank) at this time. so, as strange as it is, moving them 2x in 1 week made them chill out.

I had to move them in order to get out all my shrimp. They were just too good at hunting. so all blue velvet shrimp (around 30) are in a 10 gallon now solo. so my glorious experiment - fish, shrimp, cories and snails failed. but oh well.
I just couldn't leave them when I saw them gang up on a shrimp Weds morning.

I left lights out in the room until lunch time when I started moving all the fish and then shrimps out. Fish had to be moved first because shrimps were hiding.

I had to observe tank a few days just to make sure I got all the stragglers.
I'll have to research which fish won;t outright kill them. oddly, I had a few in my 20 tall and that betta ignored them. The shrimp swam right by him, he never cared. I put 6 in his tank, took out about 12 - so he wasn't actively preying on them.

I may just move them all into 20 tall. it'll be a few weeks though as a female was berried and I'd rather raise babies solo until older.

Fish keeping is an exercise in daily learning you do not control nature!

*shrimp pic is just a shrimp, not the female in question. I haven;t seen in her in a few days. It's an older tank, so stable.
 

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Well seeing how we are snowed in, and I could not get to work today, after shoveling snow filter maintenance is next on the list.
 
Did a bit of tinkering with plants and also had to move my nano saltwater tank today. Both a bit cloudy still. Much easier moving the little flex than the big tank. Saving up for a decent reef spec light and probably another 33w aquasky for the tropical tank. Need to see how plants do after everything moving and replanting but I think I need more watts across the board.
 

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Nothing today, but I'm planning on a 50% WC tomorrow in the new blackwater. That means trekking my RO water from one bldg to another, but I want to take a big chunk of the tannins out and then maybe I can settle for 5g changes. Plus the new fish I added will have been used to a lower pH by now, so another drop should be fine.

I'm thinking about picking up a couple extra buckets. Filling a 5g bucket up halfway will make navigating doors while carrying two at a time much easier. And also keep the water level low enough that I won't have to worry about my dogs drinking the water if left unattended :) Although I may just siphon the tank water right out the window like I did when tearing down the 27. Or maybe I'll pump it. That will be quicker. So I can keep an eye on my pooches.

Still in the planning stages :D
 
I managed to feed the fish before i went to work this morning. This new job has a 700 gal saltwater aquarium in a lobby!! Will work on getting pictures, they have a porcupine fish that is too darn cute!!
 
Feeding fish. Going to fish store…..feeling very impulsive. Wondering if my husband comes home to a clean house and dinner if he will not notice if I accidentally buy a betta? I mean I have everything for it anyway! Plus then he would be off the hook for Valentine’s Day which we don’t celebrate anyway haha. This is starting to seem a little less impulsive and more premeditated.
 
The water change was pretty painless. Aside from it taking forever to siphon the water out the window. There just isn't enough drop to get a powerful flow. Good thing I had a chair there ;)
Amazingly I figured out the amounts perfectly. I siphoned down to a certain level, then used three five gallon buckets that were filled about 2/3 up each to get me to the level I wanted.

I'll do a full parameter check in about an hour.
This was from 1/9:

pH 6.8
Am 0
Tri 0
Tra 0

TDS 86
EC 182
dKH 3
dGH 6

I like the color of the water, but one area is still very dark. Then I realized, it's because of that big honkin' piece of driftwood that takes up the whole corner. I'm not seeing darkness as much as I'm simply looking at the wood and not realizing it.

I might as well look at the filters while I'm at it..
 
pH 6.6
Am 0
Tri 0
Tra 0

TDS 34
EC 72
dKH 2
dGH 3

Getting there :)

And everyone out swimming again. In spite of the 8F temperature drop.
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I should have placed a couple more stones while the water level was low. I never think of that stuff when I'm doing it.
 

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I think a few more baby shrimp snuck in the 9g. I was counting 10 the other night. I only had 8 before.

I think I may ditch the dwarf water lettuce. The roots are making a mess and they are driving me crazy. Always sticking on my arms and they dont have big cool looking roots anyway.
 
I took another video while the waters were still tea stained and not coffee stained ;)


I also decided to go with just a canister filter, so I ordered a Fluval 107. Hopefully I can slow it down enough.
Servicing a HOB and small nano canister on one tank in my living room has lost it's luster. Especially since both filters are media challenged for adding what might need added. From the looks of the 107 I'll be able to add much of my current filters' media to it for startup.
 
I have recently moved my ember tetras, galaxy rasboras and corydoras to my larger tank so i could make my smaller tank a shrimp tank due to their prolific reproduction. I then moved most of the shrimp from the larger tank to the smaller one.

I then decided the tank needed at least one fish so i bought a betta, who seems to be enjoying his new digs.
 
Well would you look at that. Went to LFS for a betta and the lady in front of me literally bought the last 6 for her new “betta waterfall” (lots of questions about that) so I pouted and walked over to the gourami tank and they finally had a male! So I’m doing water changes and acclimating! May have to change my user name to gouramimommy! :D He’s in the bag still.
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Looks like the prefilter fell off in the bronze machine and now the HOB's foam is plugged up. So it will be a full clean on that HOB today.
 
Water changes in the 20 high and 10 cube. I should probably do one in the 20 cube, but I'm pacing myself :D
 

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Just fed the tanks today. Thinking i may do some re-arranging on a couple tanks on my days off. Undecided.
 
So, I've been a little less successful with my planted tanks lately - and I think it's because I've been messing with them. I started dosing regularly and adding root tabs, and I went from my normal amount of algae (some people might say it's a lot, but it's usually never on the plants) to new outbreaks in almost every tank. I even have some BBA in my pea puffer tank, and I've only had that in one tank ever, and it came on an inherited plant. Maybe I oughta just let them go back on autopilot, besides a couple root tabs every now and then.

The 55 FOWLR is cycled - the betta has done well in there for a week now. I'll be moving the pair of clowns in this weekend, and probably moving some tanks around now that that QT tank can be torn down and moved. I'll probably put my 37 FW where the QT is now, and open some space up for a future QT tank. It's a whole mess, lol.

Believe it or not, the areas I'm struggling most in are with my inverts. My RCS colony is doing well, but it's definitely not exploding like I want it to - I'm thinking it may be a combo of not enough grazing area in the tank and possibly the PH being a little too high (water hardness in that tank is 300+ and PH runs 8.0-8.2). The mystery snails in that tank still refuse to breed, so I think I've got nothing but one sex.

Interestingly enough, the snails in my RCS tank are actually doing better and growing bigger than the snails in my snail tank - I'm think the water in my snail tank may just be too soft. I've also noticed that despite there being both bladder snails, MTS, and ramshorn snails in both tanks, bladder snails have taken over the snail tank and ramshorns and MTS have taken over the RCS tank. Maybe since the MTS and ramshorns have thicker shells they're able to outcompete other species in a hard water environment, but fail to compete with a thin-shelled snail in a soft water environment? I assume a bladder snail needs less minerals to build its' shell big and strong than a ramshorn would. Just a thought.
 
Just a regular friday night change for the brevis bunch, as well as a canister clean. Not too dirty considering there’s about 25 of them in there and counting.

Made a fatal error though - thought I had some Prime left in a bottle, thought wrong. I am literally on fumes so no water changes on the other tanks until that situation gets addressed. Luckily Mr. Bezos has plenty so he’s sending me some to get here tomorrow morning hopefully. Panic over!
 
Today I did a lot of planting... And realized why you're supposed to plant a tank BEFORE you put the water in
Still, it ended up okay. My 5g looks great now:)
 
I got my betta a nerite a few weeks ago that blends in well with the botanical substrate (it looks like a walnut shell). I didn't think Major Tom even knew it was in there until today when I couldn't find him for 5 minutes after getting home from work. Finally, his head popped out of the substrate!

When he lived with cories about a year ago, they taught him how to school, and he started mimicking their other behaviors frequently, too. It's hilarious to realize that he's now learning how to be a snail.
 

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I got my betta a nerite a few weeks ago that blends in well with the botanical substrate (it looks like a walnut shell). I didn't think Major Tom even knew it was in there until today when I couldn't find him for 5 minutes after getting home from work. Finally, his head popped out of the substrate!

When he lived with cories about a year ago, they taught him how to school, and he started mimicking their other behaviors frequently, too. It's hilarious to realize that he's now learning how to be a snail.
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Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.
 
I did a couple water changes on the two Amazon tanks at work. Then I replenished the RO/DI for topping off and next WC time. I hadn't realized it had been nine days for both, but one tank was being treated for Ich (y'all probably saw the thread) and I followed the directions on the bottle. And apparently kept the same schedule with the other tank.

I got my canister filter in today for the house blackwater tank, but I also got an iWatch 7 in at the same time and that took most of my attention :rolleyes:
I'm looking forward to opening the box and seeing what's what. I already have a good idea from the videos I watched. I should be able to add all the media from both of the other filters and not miss a beat. And have room to spare.
 
Pulled all of the dwarf water lettuce from the 55g. I guess I dont like floaters.....The sticking to my arms drives me crazy. :p

Getting the new heater I bought for the 9g adjusted in the 5g. The preset was only running it at 74. Too cold for a Betta so he got the new heater. Its a compact Marina heater. 50w.
 
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