What are you doing to your tank today?

[Rose of Sharon]

Just got some AquaNatural Gold Pearl Substrate for one of my 5 gallon tanks. I love the look of river gravel. Next on the list is to decide what plants I want to add. I am thinking some crypts for sure, and maybe a floating plant or two along with java fern or maybe some type of moss. I do like the way guppy grass looks, too, but I don't want something that will take over the entire top of the tank.

 

[Motherlovebetta]

Going to attempt to figure out how to clean my canister filter for the first time. Thoughts and prayers accepted haha

 

[FishDin]

I am going to look at my tanks dozens of times today. At times I will sit and stare blankly into the tank for many minutes.

Just another day...

 

[Blacksheep1]

Still tweaking the daisy tank to try and make them comfortable. Added a tonne more water lettuce , more stems and dimmed the light a whole load more. Seems to of worked a tiny bit at least

 

[KeeperOFnano]

Absolutely, positively, nothing. Feels great to say! Lol well nothing that's demanding anyhow...there's always something to do

Enjoy your weekend ppl!

 

[BigManAquatics]

Feedn watch type of day. Fi ally got all the aquarium stands needed for the move. Hoping to go set them up at the new place next week, so when i move the fish, all i have to do when i get there is put the tank on the stand, add water and fish!

 

[BigManAquatics]

Guess i did do something aquarium productive today. I found where my magbet for the thermometer shot off to the other day when cleaning the glass. Somehow snuck behind the adaptor for the tank light...

 

[StarGirl]

Going to attempt to figure out how to clean my canister filter for the first time. Thoughts and prayers accepted haha

Did you figure it out? I have some easy tips if you want any.

 

[Motherlovebetta]

Did you figure it out? I have some easy tips if you want any.

I did figure it out! It took a lot less time than I thought it would, but I’m sure I am going to lose sleep tonight thinking I didn’t tighten something well enough and I’m going to completely drain my tank and flood my house…..always open to pointers though. Especially how to get that heavy thing out of the stand? Also just a pointer to anyone reading this don’t work on water changes with a sleeping baby with the water noise going on the sound machine. I kept thinking I had leaking water somewhere!

 

[Linda1234]

Today was water change day; four hours of water change as I had to clean one of the matten filters and hte eheim 2217; clean clean clean. The matten filter had to be clean because some Wabenmuster had gotten stuck behind it and i had to make a small modification to keep them out from behind the filter. The water behind there is fine but i worry about lack of food long term.

Yea no more filter cleaning for 6 months.

 

[KeeperOFnano]

Plant trimming day! Lolz
Echinodorus, Limnophila, Hygrophila you know the deal!

Free infusoria food yum yum

 

[ruud]

Dario tigris fry; 8 in total this year; hope one is a female.

 

[StarGirl]

Water changes done.

Cleaned the detritus out of the 3 compartments of the 9 Flex. Swished and squished media and cleaned the pump a little. Scrubbed the carpet of BBA off my air stone hose.

Cleaned the Filter for the 55g. That takes a bunch of water to do it how I do, so just a smallish water change today. Replaced the gasket in the 407 also. Next up I want to drill some holes in the spray bar so I can turn it back on all the way.

 

[Blacksheep1]

Broke down the outdoor tub to bring the wcmm as it feels the weathers changing and I don’t know when I’ll have time next… some interesting critters including a couple of leeches. The fish look good if not a little shocked at there new home, not fully coloured up as this was just after being moved.

the water lettuce is floating in a bucket to try and get rid of the bladder snails before the come in. Need to do some fry tank swapping around and make some more spawning mops. May as well do a water change on my lunch break too.

 

[FishDin]

Water changes done.

Cleaned the detritus out of the 3 compartments of the 9 Flex. Swished and squished media and cleaned the pump a little. Scrubbed the carpet of BBA off my air stone hose.

Cleaned the Filter for the 55g. That takes a bunch of water to do it how I do, so just a smallish water change today. Replaced the gasket in the 407 also. Next up I want to drill some holes in the spray bar so I can turn it back on all the way.

Why did you replace the gasket on your 407? Wondering if you did because it was faulty or just as precautionary maintenance.

 

[StarGirl]

Why did you replace the gasket on your 407? Wondering if you did because it was faulty or just as precautionary maintenance.

Precaution mostly. It's over a year old.

 

[Rose of Sharon]

Broke down the outdoor tub to bring the wcmm as it feels the weathers changing and I don’t know when I’ll have time next… some interesting critters including a couple of leeches. The fish look good if not a little shocked at there new home, not fully coloured up as this was just after being moved.
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the water lettuce is floating in a bucket to try and get rid of the bladder snails before the come in. Need to do some fry tank swapping around and make some more spawning mops. May as well do a water change on my lunch break too.

They look lovely!!!! I've played around with the idea of setting up a MCMM only tank. Wish I could do something outside, but we have tons of misquitoes and West Nile virus is a continuous thing here.

 

[Blacksheep1]

They look lovely!!!! I've played around with the idea of setting up a MCMM only tank. Wish I could do something outside, but we have tons of misquitoes and West Nile virus is a continuous thing here.

One is a bit different to the others and looks more like a Vietnamese minnow imo. I did have a single wcmm ( not gold) and it disappeared over night ! I didn’t dump any water ( green water , wanted to keep ) didn’t dump any plants , methodically went through everything but nope ! He disappeared . They are such an under rated fish I think.

In other news I’m wondering what this will turn out to be … clearly coming from a tiny seed but who knows what yet !

 

[Blacksheep1]

Tank roulette for the fry , these are back in with the adults now along with a bunch more water lettuce for hiding spaces. They all look female to me so far but they are very young still. Why did I move the fry I hear no one ask ? All for one teeny little sibling so it didn’t get eaten.

 

[Cadillac15]

Water Changes today! Had an ammonia spike on one of my tanks after adding new fish, so doing big water changes

 

[Alex1900]

I'm not doing much today. i have this sort of algae that i cant scrape off for some reason, so i'm going to attempt to do that. also got to clean the tanks

 

[Linda1234]

Just checking what is up with the 10; and because i was checking on it the male a. pucallpaensis decided to also check things out;



Though I'm not sure the pangio shelfordii appreciated the extra attention.

 

[Debbie1986]

I just consolidated my tub gardens down to 1 tub.

It hit 58 degrees last night, so I had to get an idea of how many fish I had left in tubs, maybe 6 adult females, a few juveniles and about 12 babies.


I grew out over 50 adult males over the summer and they are in my 38 gallon, 15 gallon fluval and 8 gallon biorb. Just gorgeous. i'll try for pictures later.

I do haven 8 gallon biorb I broke down a few months ago. I may put that back into circulation as I have a few adult females in the tub.

1 frog I saw in tub was a huge beast, just massive. Not a sounthern leopard frog, easily 3x that size.

 

[Blacksheep1]

Brought the outdoor water lettuce inside. It’s done really well and is so long but let’s see how it transitions ! Maybe a tad too long hah !

 

[StarGirl]

Think I'm going to try the Cobalt Neotherm Pro heater. My Finnex died yesterday. It lasted probably 3 years? Not bad for now a days.

 

[BigManAquatics]

First time in awhile we have woke up and found a bunch of new baby platies!

 

[Haydeno]

Sadly my 55 gallon tank got ich and around 25 fish died with the past 2 weeks but on the bright side this leaves me with an opportunity to try a bit of a different stock. The troopers I have left are a dwarf gourami, German blue ram, half banded spiny eel, 2 clown plecos, 5 otocinclus and a nerite snail. I’m for sure getting 4-6 Golden wonder killifish but can’t decide on a schooling fish. Maybe Threadfin rainbows?

 

[Linda1234]

Sadly my 55 gallon tank got ich and around 25 fish died with the past 2 weeks but on the bright side this leaves me with an opportunity to try a bit of a different stock. The troopers I have left are a dwarf gourami, German blue ram, half banded spiny eel, 2 clown plecos, 5 otocinclus and a nerite snail. I’m for sure getting 4-6 Golden wonder killifish but can’t decide on a schooling fish. Maybe Threadfin rainbows?

There is a problem keeping clown pleco/otto with GBR as the GBR strongly prefer 82+ degree while the others will want it quite a bit cooler. I keep my clown pleco and group of otto around 76.

 

[Haydeno]

There is a problem keeping clown pleco/otto with GBR as the GBR strongly prefer 82+ degree while the others will want it quite a bit cooler. I keep my clown pleco and group of otto around 76.

Thank you for the concern but I think their temp ranges are more flexible than that. My clown plecos are actually the oldest member of that tank and the ottos have been living in there for over a year by now at 82 degrees with the only losses being to ich. They did get their temp slowly turned up before I added the Ram so that might be why I have success at that temp.

 

[Cadillac15]

Water changes again. I like doing water changes, so I often do it twice a week, 70-80%. I find it relaxing.

 

[KeeperOFnano]

Tinkering, staring....tinkering....and staring! Lol

Enjoy your weekend everyone!

 

[Debbie1986]

Brought the outdoor water lettuce inside. It’s done really well and is so long but let’s see how it transitions ! View attachment 859500Maybe a tad too long hah !View attachment 859502

beautiful root system! looks great!



I have about 10 water lettuce plants now, started with 3

How did you clean off any bugs, etc?

I really want to see if mine will survive winter inside. some are pretty large 3-4 inches around.

I may drop the water level so they can go in my 38 gallon.

I think I got dragonflies in my fluval 15 by bringing in frogbit over the summer - even though a hydrogen peroxide dipped them for 15 minutes. I had to break the tank down, buy new gravel etc because they were everywhere& I worried about eggs and larve. It was about 2 months or so back.

 

[Blacksheep1]

Debbie1986 Mine were covered in snail eggs. I had 2 buckets set up one with a weak bleach solution and one just fresh water and just did a production line. If I get some snails I’m not that bothered in all honesty but that was too many !

you could just keep them in a bucket over winter and add some ferts so they don’t enter your tanks.

 

[BigManAquatics]

Mostly just a feed n watch type of day. Did set up the new aquarium stands in the new place today. Hoping to have at lsast the 20g's all transferred and set up in the new place by wednesday/thursday and the 29g all transferred and back up thursday/friday, since we should move all the furniture in next weekend.

 

[CopperIsEpiK]

Mostly just a feed n watch type of day. Did set up the new aquarium stands in the new place today. Hoping to have at lsast the 20g's all transferred and set up in the new place by wednesday/thursday and the 29g all transferred and back up thursday/friday, since we should move all the furniture in next weekend.

I just realized: Do most people in the hobby really only get rare days to simply reap the rewards of the fish tank? All other days are just building, maintenance, etc..

 

[BigManAquatics]

I just realized: Do most people in the hobby really only get rare days to simply reap the rewards of the fish tank? All other days are just building, maintenance, etc..

I work 3 jobs this time of year so days off period are quite rare.

 

[CopperIsEpiK]

I work 3 jobs this time of year so days off period are quite rare.

Oh..
I thought HS was hard and time-consuming 0.o! Wish you luck!

 

[KeeperOFnano]

I just realized: Do most people in the hobby really only get rare days to simply reap the rewards of the fish tank? All other days are just building, maintenance, etc..

Between work and being a single parent it certainly feels so!

Always something to do, especially with live plants and if you have any spawning happening. Usually works out that Fridays are relaxed and every other day requires some sort of effort lol

 

[ruud]

I just realized: Do most people in the hobby really only get rare days to simply reap the rewards of the fish tank? All other days are just building, maintenance, etc..

I work most of the time behind a computer in my basement. Between 7 fish tanks. I feed fish a few times a week and conduct a small water change once a month or every other month - that's it. A bit of plant trimming around the end of summer. Not exactly hard work.

I do enjoy setting up new scapes; but that's not a struggle. And never in a hurry to finish.

 

[Cadillac15]

Well, the bioload on my 75g community tank has gotten to big for the tidal 110 to keep up with, so I took the tidal 110 off my 125g and added it to the 75g, so now I have 2 on there. Should be much better.

 

[BigManAquatics]

Looks like all i will have time for is a good fish feed before i go to work today. Tetras are always fun to watch at feeding time though. Hyper food pigs.

 

[StarGirl]

Took down the Kitchen 5g. Down to 3 now. The babies went in the 55g and smallies in the 9g. There is one baby dang near full size and some that are 1/4 inch still.

 

[Fisch]

Water changes again. I like doing water changes, so I often do it twice a week, 70-80%. I find it relaxing.

You are in invited to relax on my house....plenty of relaxation with water change in a 125gl
Water change in the 125gl....takes me a couple of hours. Matrix is in the canisters since 6 weeks without any effect. High Nitrate in the tap water does not help. I am using up my last portions of Thrive, and will switch to a different fertilizer, though I am not yet sure what to use.
Watched my Pleco unceremoniously tossing the Mystery Snail out of his cave, so far for sharing

 

[86 ssinit]

Installing my third wet/dry .

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Mondays, right?



Things I actually did today lol Changed water in the betta and the fry tanks and found a small piece of Madrone wood for Alex, finally! The slim cinnamon colored one is Madrone. Looking for larger branches still.

 

[Rose of Sharon]

That is one spoiled little dragon, lol!!!

 

[BPSabelhaus]

That is one spoiled little dragon, lol!!!

Oh, you have no idea. She doesn’t chase food. She wants her roaches hand fed (no tongs, fingers only lol) to her. It’s the best feeling in the world and I have no problem doing it lol

 

[airfix2]

just realized today that the "fin rot" in my cories is actually my dwarf gourami nipping the cories fins!! should i return my dwarf gourami and opt for a honey gourami?

 

[Cadillac15]

just realized today that the "fin rot" in my cories is actually my dwarf gourami nipping the cories fins!! should i return my dwarf gourami and opt for a honey gourami?

From what I understand Dwarf Gourami can be somewhat aggressive whereas in my experience, the Honey Gourami were peaceful. So I'd give them a try.

 

[BigManAquatics]

It is D-Day in the moving process. So far, moved 2 of 4 tanks. Fish seem to be doing just fine so far.