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Tank #3 emptied and in the car. Gonna take it to new place and set up when i drop wifey at work then come back and start on the last tank...should be fun catching baby platies...
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Still trying to decide whether to add the wood I found at a local forest into my tank, during my water change today/tomorrow, or not haha.
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Shutting a tank down, or removing all fauna and leaving all flora in a room temp tank...not best of time of year...to use the heater in another tank which THAT heater met its end on Wednesday. Running an adjustable 50watt at max in a 40gb currently. 2 should help share the load until next week (fingers crossed)
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And I bought a 75g tank with lid for $75 today. So now I have a tank AND a stand. Just need a filter, heater, and light and I'll be good to go!
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Well I was doing a water change but it ended up being a plant chopping / moving session. I found 1 single egg ! I’m going to assume it’s a Cory egg but now I want to pull up every plant and inspect them. I’m resisting the urge !
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This was going to be my last weekend at work, but depression and anxiety had other plans. Woke up at 3:30 am with severe anxiety until my alarm went off at 6. Instead of going to work (which I enjoyed I might add, anxiety from early alarms is from a prior job) I slept until noon then went hiking and found nice driftwood for Alex. It’s our anniversary today and I start my new job later next week. No time for anxiety and depression when I can wander off trail up a stream for a 1/4 mile instead
So, scrubbed up the branches, need to de-barnacle them after they dry.
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MY 20 GALLON is just sitting right now with 1 skirt tetra and a cory catfish in it my heater heated the tank to fast and killed off my angelfish so now the tank is running with out the heater as the house is pretty warm anyways.
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I have been setting up a small tank (40 litres) to gradually put 12-15 small cichlids in before giving them away. They are in a large tank (200 x 65 x 65 cm, about 220 gallons) so I am positive I will not be able to catch them all at once. I am not even sure how I am going to catch any of them to be honest, but I don't want to keep 15 more Cichlasoma amazonarum in there. So I had better start trying..
They were survivors from the first spawning of the adult pair. Since then the pair has spawned again several times but have (luckily) not managed to rear the young past a couple of days free swimming. Perhaps the little cichlids have been helping out...
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Well amazingly I managed to catch 13 without too much trouble! Luckily they are curious, confident fish and naive to nets... there are at least two left but they got wary and I didn't want to stress out the whole tank, so I have left them for now.
They were survivors from the first spawning of the adult pair. Since then the pair has spawned again several times but have (luckily) not managed to rear the young past a couple of days free swimming. Perhaps the little cichlids have been helping out...
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Well amazingly I managed to catch 13 without too much trouble! Luckily they are curious, confident fish and naive to nets... there are at least two left but they got wary and I didn't want to stress out the whole tank, so I have left them for now.
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One branch in. The other is still drying. Had to scrape a lot of barnacles off, bleach etc…
Also, one of my sons friends (3rd grade) just told me he loves fish, but his fish tank is empty. Well, that’s a problem for somebody that just recently emptied their outdoor tubs for the winter lol Told him to talk to his parents and I’d set it up and stock it with fish, plants, snails etc…
Got a little 5.5gl tank and started to take down the 12gl QT. No need for a big tank at this time as there are no plans to get new fish. I just like to keep a small tank going for the propagation of stem plants and the lonely Assassin snail, and just in case. Time to downsize
Have to see if I can get the Mattenfilter going in that tiny tank, not sure how, but it will come to me.
Have to see if I can get the Mattenfilter going in that tiny tank, not sure how, but it will come to me.
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Wood has been de-barnacled, scrubbed and bleached. Now her enclosure smells like the beach a bit lol Sure beats the usual odor of “yep, an insectivore just pooped” lol
Edit: To add, she happily ate two more raspberries and part of a strawberry today. She even willingly took a bug that was holding on to some greens. The little insectivore is venturing into the big girl realm of being primarily vegetarian. She even ate a little bit of scrambled egg too
Had good soak in the bath and got the annoying bit of shed that was stuck to her eye lid off. She’s much happier now. Nice and clean, even though she hates baths (I mean, she is a desert dweller, her predecessor was weird and liked baths lol)
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Moved some stuff around in the fishroom. Set up my 55 for my Green Spotted Puffer tank to finally move him out of the 36 he's been in for 6 months. Not got him moved yet, but will post pics after I have it all together.
In the meantime, enjoy this picture of my Eastern Mud Turtle giving me the stink eye. Such a cool little guy! So convenient that they stay small enough as to avoid most of the hassle of larger species of turtle, too.
In the meantime, enjoy this picture of my Eastern Mud Turtle giving me the stink eye. Such a cool little guy! So convenient that they stay small enough as to avoid most of the hassle of larger species of turtle, too.
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Cleared a lot of floaters from all the tanks and moved some Java ferns into the fry tank. The boys from the French blue / Cobra Endlers are looking pretty good. Liking the peacock tail. The flip side of that seems to be cobras with a bit of orange and maybe purple/blue?
Ordered a divider for the fry tank as well.
Ordered a divider for the fry tank as well.
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(mostly) finished setting up the 55 for my Green Spotted Puffer. Tank has been wet for a few days with dry (dead) rock, and I've got .5 PPM ammonia. Added some cycled Live rock today to start processing that, and will hope to move the puffer by this weekend.
Scape is nowhere near done, although I feel as if I'm lacking any sort of rock that will be tall enough to fill in the top of the tank. Maybe some mangroves hanging down could help fill it in?
Scape is nowhere near done, although I feel as if I'm lacking any sort of rock that will be tall enough to fill in the top of the tank. Maybe some mangroves hanging down could help fill it in?
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Guess not!
Right now I'm trying to figure out how the heck I would light them... Don't want to hang anything from the ceiling. Maybe I could find a way to mount a light a couple feet above the tank? I've got an old 36" marineland LED fixture that's terrible for viewing fish but would probably be okay for growing mangroves, I'd think.
What's your setup?
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Well, I made 3 different stands to be able to adjust the light up/ down etc…
All 3 were either unstable or knocked over by children running by with a sword…. So now it simply hangs from the ceiling by a rope lol It’s very adjustable, when the kid hits it with a sword it just swings lol Not the prettiest setup, I just kind of hide it with another hanging houseplant.
Stick with moss, lichens and a couple air plants. Have a couple potted plants that we swap in and out too.
Getting ready to do a bit of rescaping this winter. Going to have the flow go across the tank with the mangroves all together on one side.
Alex enjoying a fresh raspberry in three parts.
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Booooo, scooped out one of my black phantom tetras today. Not a total shock, one was seeming a little off and stressed since the move. So far, only casualty of the move, so i will take that as a WIN, yet.
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My reclusive male honey gourami, after aggresively commandeering the pothos roots for months now, decided to come out and be a regular fish again with my other three gouramis. It was such a nice surprise coming home from work to see him being normal for the first time since he reached sexual maturity.
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Did water changes on the two smaller tanks and cleaned the filters used the water for my house plants! Kitten proofing the tank so she doesn’t chew the cord on my canister filter. This is the best I could come up with. Hopefully out of sight out of mind? Unfortunately I got the filter after this beast was already up and running and it’s too heavy to move back a few inches. Now I’m trying to decide if I want to get my arms wet and pull out some Val’s. StarGirl they are taking over!
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The Cory egg I found ended up with fungus. The Anubias I had tied to a rock the plec didn’t like and broke the string over night. He also dug a hole to the bottom glass again..
I have new baby shrimp again and have kind of secured a steady buyer for when I have too many ( is that a thing ?) I doubt it. But always good to have ! I bought a new Anubias when I was there which I need sort out as I just checked it in a tank , work didn’t give me enough time to deal with it. And it won’t tomorrow either, so hang in there !
I have new baby shrimp again and have kind of secured a steady buyer for when I have too many ( is that a thing ?) I doubt it. But always good to have ! I bought a new Anubias when I was there which I need sort out as I just checked it in a tank , work didn’t give me enough time to deal with it. And it won’t tomorrow either, so hang in there !
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Water change on the rice fish tank.. moved some things around , water lettuce doesn’t survive this tank so I spent time removing dead leaves /roots and planted extra cuttings of sessiliflora and ludwigia .. all of a sudden the parents are out with fry !! This hasn’t happened since I’ve had them ! The parents have always been painfully shy. I’m happy and hope it continues. Found another couple of babies today and moved them to the shrimp tank too.
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5 water changes - 6 gallon betta tank, 16 cube, 20 long, 20 tall and 38 gallon! took a bit over 2 hours + new carbon for filters.
Spent time scoping out about 12 blue dream shrimp for new home with a co-worker.
I had 15 tanks going a while ago and down sized to 8 currently .
he mentioned fish, so I gave him yesterday a 10 gallon, 6 gallon Aqueon Ascent ( I had 2 of them) , 6 all gallon glass bow front and a 3 gallon cube ( perfect shrimp home)
larger tanks had filter & heaters. I found some old filter for other 2 & will hand over to him when he gets shrimp.
he's going to take about 10 of my male guppies - I have around 40 ish? so that'll help. I offered him male guppies if his sis wants any too. I did not offer females as I doubt he wants to bredd & explained that math crissi from having guppies breed ( let's just say my outside ubs outside have very fat frogs that dined very well this summer!)
super excited for him. and now I can geek out at work and talk fish again!
pic: shrimp ready for transport, gonna meet up at work later to hand them to new owner
Spent time scoping out about 12 blue dream shrimp for new home with a co-worker.
I had 15 tanks going a while ago and down sized to 8 currently .
he mentioned fish, so I gave him yesterday a 10 gallon, 6 gallon Aqueon Ascent ( I had 2 of them) , 6 all gallon glass bow front and a 3 gallon cube ( perfect shrimp home)
larger tanks had filter & heaters. I found some old filter for other 2 & will hand over to him when he gets shrimp.
he's going to take about 10 of my male guppies - I have around 40 ish? so that'll help. I offered him male guppies if his sis wants any too. I did not offer females as I doubt he wants to bredd & explained that math crissi from having guppies breed ( let's just say my outside ubs outside have very fat frogs that dined very well this summer!)
super excited for him. and now I can geek out at work and talk fish again!
pic: shrimp ready for transport, gonna meet up at work later to hand them to new owner
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Water changes in the 40 breeder and 75 tan. I have to admit that these are my two fav tanks. The fish in the 40 are starting to age out, so I’m thinking about my next stocking.
And my experiment with growing creeping Jenny out of the back of the tank is doing great. Love the root system in the tank!
And my experiment with growing creeping Jenny out of the back of the tank is doing great. Love the root system in the tank!
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Pulled a lot of Java fern out of the Campoma Endler tank and set up another breeder. This is for my Campoma X Cobra hybrids. Getting two different types from mama. One regular bodied with a cobra/peacock tail. The other is cobra bodied, no comma mark and some blue on the body. Have them split into three tanks.
1 cobra bodied with blue. Has both cobra and std females (only one so far with these markings)
1 blue bodied males with cobra females
1 blue bodied males with std Endler females
1 cobra bodied with blue. Has both cobra and std females (only one so far with these markings)
1 blue bodied males with cobra females
1 blue bodied males with std Endler females
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Spotted my pleco I’ve been searching for last night, looking big, so hooray. Today is the day I figure out what in the world I did to the timer on my light to keep it on 24/7………have literally zero idea what I did to it. Also, going to thin out these Val’s and maybe ship some to my uncle in Cali or just trash. Either way they need to be thinned my cories keep crashing into them.
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After a really quite last few months with doing nothing but shutting down tanks and WCs on the remaining, I got a free moment and had some free tankspace, so checked out a local Fish Swap today and came away with some cool new bucket list fish. I got a pair of Electric Blue Rams which I've wanted to try since I got into fishkeeping. I also got a group of Neolamprologus Brichardi, which I've wanted for a long time.
I dismanled the rimless 12gl QT and replaced it with a standard 5.5 gl Aqueon tank. Re-shaped and fit the mattenfilter, reduced the sandbox area, eliminated the majority of ramshorn snails. The Assassin snail is cruising...
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