What are you doing to your tank today?

Had an oopsie that I discovered while I was working on the tanks today.

While I was putting the glass lids on the 55, I dropped the little clear plastic piece that covers the gap in the back of the lid into the tank. When I reached in to grab it, the water was cold - when I checked the thermometer, the tank was sitting at 70F. Whoops.

The heater had been enough when it was warmer, but I guess the tank had gotten really cold overnight (indoor temps drop in the low 60's) and hadn't warmed back up yet. Regardless, that's too cold to be comfortable, so I moved in another 100W heater. So far, so good.

I acclimated the clownfish into the tank once the temps had gotten back up to the mid 70's, and I think they're doing well. Out and exploring already - and their movement actually brought the betta out of the rockwork, too. Seems that dithers are important for keeping them relaxed.

I'm going to try to hold off on new fish purchases until I move, but I'm thinking that maybe a Midas Blenny and one other 3-4" fish would be good in here - but for now, I'll keep it as is.
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Good catch!
 

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Good catch!
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Thanks! Just wish I knew how long it had been that cold, lol.

I can't see any negative effects on the betta, so I assume all is well. They come from a part of the ocean that seems to stay around 80 year-round from the info I can find online, so it's a bit surprising I haven't noticed any odd behavior. But, I guess maybe it just wasn't quite low enough to cause issues.
 

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Apparently my A. australe killifish eggs are starting to hatch sooner than I was prepared for, so trying to figure out my plan asap. I need to get a tank set up tomorrow, so likely running out for a 5 or 10 gallon in the morning…or going the budget version and using a sterilite bin. Regardless, I only have room for one more tank max, and a 10 gal footprint is the limit. For tonight, they’re in a small container floating in my Bolivian ram fry tank to keep the temp from swinging too much.
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Water change day. May redo The 5g again. Calypsos tail is starting to heal up. Waiting for my Bezos box with my new light in it. Tomorrow my Heater back up.
 

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Ugh, one of my german ram I found on its side this morning. I believe it was the one that was lethargic at the fish store that I should have known not to grab. He has been floating and still breathing at this moment. I have added some salt but not sure what else I should do. Thought he was dead a few times but was still breathing and just now he's been spinning around trying to swim frantically...any advice on what I can do.
 
Ugh, one of my german ram I found on its side this morning. I believe it was the one that was lethargic at the fish store that I should have known not to grab. He has been floating and still breathing at this moment. I have added some salt but not sure what else I should do. Thought he was dead a few times but was still breathing and just now he's been spinning around trying to swim frantically...any advice on what I can do.
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Probably nothing you can do. What temp is your tank at?
 
In the middle of a busy stretch, so watch n feed is about all i have time for the next few days yet. Sure glad i have that huge tank at work to watch throughout the day.
 

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Here's a pic of the one doing good, I believe they are normal German Rams but could be wrong l.
 

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Here's a pic of the one doing good, I believe they are normal German Rams but could be wrong l.
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He is for sure stressed. Those black stripes going all the way down is a very good indication.
 
He is for sure stressed. Those black stripes going all the way down is a very good indication.
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And this is the good one that is atleast swimming and upright... So what type of ram is this?
 
And this is the good one that is atleast swimming and upright... So what type of ram is this?
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I am almost inclined to say Bolivian but need some reinforcement. coralbandit Dunk2
 
I tore down one of my 3 QT tanks today, since it didn't have the clowns in it anymore. Now I just gotta get rid of the old stand it was sitting on (no use for it anymore, and it's too jank to be sold or re-used anyway) so I can move my 37 there and tear down my two other QT tanks. In my mind, dealing with one larger tank during a move will be easier than dealing with two slightly smaller ones.

Doing water changes today, too - hoping to get most of the larger tanks water changed, but we'll see. Main concern is the flowerhorn tank, since nitrates have been riding higher and higher in there lately - I'm thinking I might need to find a better solution than constant water changes for that tank. The lack of plants really begins to rear it's ugly head in tanks like this, lol.

Oh, and I finally cleared off the front glass in my pico reef. I'll post a pic once everything is cleared up.
 
I am almost inclined to say Bolivian but need some reinforcement. coralbandit Dunk2
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Given the shape of the head, that looks like a washed out German Blue to me.
 
Going to create a thread in the ram forum for advise on what to do next..
 
It's nice to see these two "getting along" so well :rolleyes:
I think somebody has something on his mind :)

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Just the usual 50% changes on the pea puffer tank and the 33 today.

My dad also called round earlier with what he described as a ‘brand new in the box heater’. And it was…although I’m thinking it would have been ‘new’ in about 1984. He has a knack for acquiring junk!

Still, at 25w it will be a decent spare heater for the puffer tank - good idea to keep spares right? Next time though, he’d better bring me a spare fluval canister or something…
 
Hey now.
I've got a vintage in the box heater in my 20g High and it works just fine.
The only problem is it's not submersible. So read those directions and look at the heater for a water line before using :)

I forgot, I did a WC to the 38g Rio Negro tank around noon and cleaned the sponges in the sump. Holy... they were filthy. Probably because with all this snow and extra work I forgot a WC. It's been nine days since the last one on that tank. Water still looked good though. But now it's a bit light. I'll put some re-leaf in it tomorrow if it doesn't darken up a little overnight.

Oh, and my Agassizii female was missing again tonight. She wouldn't be laying eggs again that quick would she?
 
I've been adding eggshells to my snail tank as a calcium snack every morning. There's always a ton of them on them, so I assume they like it.

I fed a few cherry shrimp culls and ramshorn snails to the puffers today - the GSP seems to do better with the cherry shrimp than the F8. I think the F8 is just too lazy to chase them down, honestly - they're quicker than ghosties.
 
I just finished a water change too! I didn't get to it this weekend.
 
Did a water change! Haven’t seen any of my five amano shrimp since this morning… but they are really good hiders. Or Grover just you know…
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Just wanted to say, I found 3 of the 5 shrimp this morning. Some leaves on my plants are looking really good!
 
Only been a few days but the male angel I moved to the 29 is no longer mad at me and will eat from my hand again (he is my only angel that will do that); also he has begun to heal which is a good sign; and the apisto in the tank are a bit less shy around him. Initially they would not get anywhere near him and hid in the back even during feeding time but now the nij. female has reclaim her old spot and the hongsloi are acting a bit more normal though they are keeping their fins up (to look larger).
 
30% WC in the Rip Negro tributary in the house.
I picked a couple dead Beckfordi pencilfish out of the Salvinia Minima roots as I was holding the siphon hose out the window and staring up at them :( I had a feeling some had died. I was only seeing three at a time. I paid close attention as I was feeding those three and one ate fine and the other were choosy, even grabbing a small piece of flake and spitting it back out. It didn't seem to matter color or size. And I also feed the tank Bug Bites, breaking some up and live Artemia. Not sure what is going on with them...

And the female Cacatuoides was still hidden somewhere. If she's watching eggs in the back corner of this tank it's doubtful I can save any fry myself. But this tank is harder for bigger fish to get around, so I might see some youngin's at some point.

I've already got a rocking chair pulled up in front of this tank. It's going to see some serious seat time tonight.
 

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Today we play panic and musical fish/tanks/heaters. The boiler went out at some point and today it is cold enough in the house to have figured it out. it is 57F. This Jan has been mostly cold snap and it looks like what is happening this week.
So now to figure out who in an unheated tank can survive that and who needs to move. Koi don't have a single care. Dwarf cories..not happy.
 
I fed my fish this morning and while they were eating I did my daily roll call. When I got to the rummynose I counted 7, oh no one is missing? Those guys are not easy to count so I spent the whole day checking them out and counting them over and over again. I also searched my tank for the missing one, nothing. By the end of the day I was still missing one. :(
Tomorrow I will do my water change 3 days ahead of schedule and keep on looking. I have to say the 7 others are doing great and their red nose would put Rudolph to shame so I’m really upset I can’t find the eight one.
 
Well, the 12 hr days of work are done for this week, so will be getting some maintenance done in next couple of days. So jist another feed n watch type of day.

Mondays are great days at work, as the company comes in to do maintenance on the 700 gallon saltwater tank at work and feeds them. So thats always fun! Gets the zebra striped moray eel all worked up at least!
 
So 51F in the house this morning. It is dropping way faster than when the first boiler died during the cold snap. I guess this is why you put plastic over all your windows.
Maybe fire the oven up and leave the door open for a bit? You can't cool your house with your fridge but maybe you can heat it with your oven?
Below 50 I will also be at risk of losing at least one of my tropical plants.
They say the earliest they can get someone out to look at the boiler is Feb 11....
 
So 51F in the house this morning. It is dropping way faster than when the first boiler died during the cold snap. I guess this is why you put plastic over all your windows.
Maybe fire the oven up and leave the door open for a bit? You can't cool your house with your fridge but maybe you can heat it with your oven?
Below 50 I will also be at risk of losing at least one of my tropical plants.
They say the earliest they can get someone out to look at the boiler is Feb 11....
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Can you get some heating pads that they pack in with fish when shipping them through the mail or hand warmers? That's what I use for my tank when it's cold and the power goes out. I think I might even try plugging in a heating pad to see if that would work. But with large tanks, I know that's not feasible, either...
I hope you get everything settled soon!!!
 
Do you still have electric ? I’d part boil the kettle full up a large bottle with the warmed water and float it , repeat as often as needed . I hope someone can get out sooner to you !! What a headache :(
 
Extended lab for four hours this morning… just finished a 6 mile hike… now time to tackle WCs on 3 tanks and then ride 2 horses. Crazy day!
 
Do you still have electric ? I’d part boil the kettle full up a large bottle with the warmed water and float it , repeat as often as needed . I hope someone can get out sooner to you !! What a headache :(
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That is a really great idea!

I added some new wildlife to the Rio Negro today.
Good thing it was 40F here today (calm before the storm), the 72 hour heat pack was dead.

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Water change on the 180, trimmed Java leaves that were holey but growing new shoots, re- fitted the outflow pipe AGAIN for the filter , I swear my plec just laughs at me when he pops it off time and time again… I added some half buried pipe elbows for decor and I’m toying with the idea of wrapping moss around them although they aren’t that noticeable really, I just don’t like the look of them. Nitrates are reading 10 before dosing ferts , I’m carrying on with this bottle until I figure out exactly what is lacking. The new light has changed things a lot , some plants are thriving , some are really not so I need to find some time to sit down and work this out !
 
I just stuck a piece of manzanita in a bucket (the one I have some plants in) and figured I might as well soak it for future use. Which will be in my Rio Negro biotope.

I want to somehow break up the front of the tank and perhaps "halve" the tank. The Rummies will just have to get used to it.
But I still want to be able to clean the glass easily without knocking it around.

This will take some doing, so I'm hoping to get it nice and waterlogged so I'm not dealing with it floating.
 

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Just a feed n watch kind of night. Totally going to do water changes tomorrow and saturday.
 
:( I found a fish about an hour ago, behind the tank.
I think it would be it pretty hard to jump out of the tank now, what with a partial glass lid and all the palm fronds around the perimeter. And the floating plants. But I haven't seen mama A Agassizii for about 4 days now. And I saw a Cory going behind "her spot" where she laid the eggs and raised some fry, so I can't imagine she is in there.

And it was pretty dry, so it might be one of the previous Agassizii that came up missing. I really have no idea. I'm not sure why one would go over the wall anyway.

Kinda bummed. Everyone was doing so well.
 
rinses some substrate and put it in. Found a few berries shrimp. Trying to finish seting up a .75 ish gallon shrimp jar.
 
:( I found a fish about an hour ago, behind the tank.
I think it would be it pretty hard to jump out of the tank now, what with a partial glass lid and all the palm fronds around the perimeter. And the floating plants. But I haven't seen mama A Agassizii for about 4 days now. And I saw a Cory going behind "her spot" where she laid the eggs and raised some fry, so I can't imagine she is in there.

And it was pretty dry, so it might be one of the previous Agassizii that came up missing. I really have no idea. I'm not sure why one would go over the wall anyway.

Kinda bummed. Everyone was doing so well.
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Sorry, bud. It happens to all of us, sometimes.

More of a watch and feed night, here. Expecting about an inch of ice, so I'll probably be off work tomorrow, and I'll do some maintenance then. Really just hoping we don't lose power - it's supposed to be -3 here! Some of y'all up north are laughing, I know, but this is Kentucky! My apartment gets into the low 60's whenever it gets into the teens outside, so I'm expecting a couple of chilly nights.
 
Sorry, bud. It happens to all of us, sometimes.

More of a watch and feed night, here. Expecting about an inch of ice, so I'll probably be off work tomorrow, and I'll do some maintenance then. Really just hoping we don't lose power - it's supposed to be -3 here! Some of y'all up north are laughing, I know, but this is Kentucky! My apartment gets into the low 60's whenever it gets into the teens outside, so I'm expecting a couple of chilly nights.
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Thanks man.

And be safe. This end of winter (I hope) storm is a doozie.
Not that much ice up here, and not as cold, but it sure feels cold with the snow coming down sideways and the wind howling. I'm feeling every breeze my old house has.
 
Thanks man.

And be safe. This end of winter (I hope) storm is a doozie.
Not that much ice up here, and not as cold, but it sure feels cold with the snow coming down sideways and the wind howling. I'm feeling every breeze my old house has.
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So far, so good here - they haven't seemed to have a clue what this storm is gonna do here, lol. I think we're on the Southeastern edge of the front, so it was iffy if we'd see much accumulation.

You be safe, too!
 
So after dosing my 75 g with Furon2 as a last attempt to eradicate whatever has decimated my tiger barb gang in the past year, most of the Vals melted and the red tiger lotus definitely took a hit.
Decided to go a different route and plant the long piece of wood with more Java fern (there were already some on there) and anubias.
I’ve also started some pothos and philodendron cuttings. So the roots will fill up the space near the top of the tank.
 

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Got my glowlights out of QT, and my school is up to 13! They're a happy little bunch. One of the newbies is a little deformed in the face (but functional! I think it's a birth defect), and it comes up to see me as much as my gouramis do. I've never had such a personable tetra. The school is very excited to have more fish, and they immediately either began hazing or trying to mate, so that's a good sign. They should all fall into line in the next day or so. My gouramis swim around now like, "What's with all the traffic??"

I'm happy to say that, after almost 1.5 years, I'm almost fully stocked!
 
It's water change and maintenance day for me. I've got a nice new piece of driftwood that I attached to some Dragon Stone yesterday, and the cure should be finished soon on that by noon my time, and then I'm tying on some java moss and chucking it into my Old Man Rescue tank. I've got an early stage breakout of Ich in my Nano tank (just stocked last week) to continue treating, and a bit of CB rearing its head in my Dumbo HMPK tank that I'm gonna start treatment on today. Then it's just gonna be some trimming and replanting with my stem plants and relaxation for the rest of the day.
 
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