What are you doing to your tank today?

[Basil]

Went to my local aquarium society meeting this morning at my small LFS. I did want to purchase a few more green and gold tiger barbs if they had them. They didn’t. But someone had given them a group of five very nice Botia striata. They followed me home. so they are now in the 75 tan with the dwarf chain loaches and brilliant rasboras.

 

[StarGirl]

Took down the 2nd 5g, so now Im down to the 9g and 55g. Moved the mountain stones to the 9g and all of the Pagoda is in the 55g. Turned the spraybar towards the back glass in the 55. The fish seem to like it. I will see how the surface scum is to weather I move it back or not.

 

[BigManAquatics]

Was planning on water changes today, but with new washer/dryer and a new bed delivered, it has been a day to catch up on laundry while assembling a new bed. Hopefully tomorrow will be more forgiving for water changes!

 

[Fisch]

Well thats nothing.....lol

I dont have very many left actually. They started losing leaves but still running. I switched to sand and they dont seem to like it as much as the gravel.

Perhaps now that they don't make it in your tank they may make it in mine
Never had luck with Vals in the past...

 

[Blacksheep1]

Well today was the day. I had to stop being selfish and let my fishy friend move on to bigger and better. The staff at the store were really good with him and he’s in a massive tank on his own whilst he settles and acclimatises. They wanted to know all about him ( another plus ). Safe journey’s buddy, I’ll visit you soon.

 

[SamMe]

He's beautiful! I can see why it was hard giving him up. I used to have a large one, but now have to be content with my little bristlenose.

 

[Blacksheep1]

He's beautiful! I can see why it was hard giving him up. I used to have a large one, but now have to be content with my little bristlenose.

Thank you. He is an amazing fish , but he was out growing my tank and couldn’t risk him stunting. I will miss his character for sure. That’s the most emotional I’ve even gotten over a fish.

at least I can scape my tank now without him ruining my plants. And stock the tank how I want to… it’ll take some time to get it where I want it though. Thanks for the kind words

 

[BPSabelhaus]

He's beautiful! I can see why it was hard giving him up. I used to have a large one, but now have to be content with my little bristlenose.

This.

Very nice looking fish.

We went the opposite way over the summer and rehomed a couple larger Dojo loaches from the LFS into our pond. They have gotten even bigger and fatter over the summer and the neighborhood kids love to feed the “cat snake fish” and get ginger kisses from them. They were 7-8 in when we got them, probably closer to 9-9.5 inches and about as fat as a garden hose lol

Big handsome like that will get a similar life

 

[Cadillac15]

Well today was the day. I had to stop being selfish and let my fishy friend move on to bigger and better. The staff at the store were really good with him and he’s in a massive tank on his own whilst he settles and acclimatises. They wanted to know all about him ( another plus ). Safe journey’s buddy, I’ll visit you soon. View attachment 861358View attachment 861359

Sorry that you had to rehome this beauty, but hopefully he will get the best care possible!

As for me, It's water change day today. And my Flowerhorn tank desperately needs it as it's got algae all over the glass. So I'll be scrubbing all the tanks today and getting them back into tip top shape!

 

[Blacksheep1]

This.

Very nice looking fish.

We went the opposite way over the summer and rehomed a couple larger Dojo loaches from the LFS into our pond. They have gotten even bigger and fatter over the summer and the neighborhood kids love to feed the “cat snake fish” and get ginger kisses from them. They were 7-8 in when we got them, probably closer to 9-9.5 inches and about as fat as a garden hose lol

Big handsome like that will get a similar life

Thankyou . I really hope he does. He’s an awesome fish, looks and personality. I was so gutted to leave him but I’m the only one emotionalising it , what his needs are come first. I love looking at your loach photos ! They are such characters .

Sorry that you had to rehome this beauty, but hopefully he will get the best care possible!

Thankyou . I’m confident he will do . They actually care about the fish at this store and will rehome him where possible

 

[LizStreithorst]

I'll be moving some fish around at WC time. The tanks that haven't been used for a while need a cleaning up and huge WC before I move fish into them. I have a couple of 3 1/2 " turks that I'll move from the 40 cube they are in to a 20. I'll put a pair of Discus in the tank that the juvies vacated. The big thing is that I want to keep 6 or 8 keepers from my almost quarter size Blue SS.

 

[Youthquaker]

The non dominant one of my two male swordtails was dead at the bottom of the tank when I finished work so just checking water parameters and watching over the remaining fish. He was untouched by the other fish/shrimp/snails so assuming it hadn't been long and I didn't see any sign of disease. Hopefully it was just not getting enough food as the other male would always chase him if he came towards the front of the tank (never saw any actual fighting though, just chasing).

 

[Cadillac15]

The non dominant one of my two male swordtails was dead at the bottom of the tank when I finished work so just checking water parameters and watching over the remaining fish. He was untouched by the other fish/shrimp/snails so assuming it hadn't been long and I didn't see any sign of disease. Hopefully it was just not getting enough food as the other male would always chase him if he came towards the front of the tank (never saw any actual fighting though, just chasing).

Just keep an eye on them and hopefully they will be ok! Sorry that you lost one of your fish! I've lost a few tetras and a beautiful Angelfish over the past couple weeks due to breeding rainbow cichlids in the tank getting aggressive.

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Watched this guy dance and chase off young males (while young males act as dithers for each other to breed lol) then show em’ how it’s done right with more dancing. I should record these guys more. Their dance is a bit different than the black bars. The black bars tend to be a bit shaky and spastic showing off all their colors. Whereas these Campoma almost freeze in that dance pose then sort of drift (but swimming fast without moving) around the female before running in.




Dad on the right, jr left.

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Stuff over the last couple days.

swapped the initial daphnia culture (most of it, of course) into a larger container. Still have about 1/4 or so left to continue growing inside.


Potted up some Java fern and removed the divider for now so these guys can grow up and out. Mostly mutts and culls.


One breeding 2.5 gal with 2 male endlers






And another but with one male and 5 females.



The brackish 10 gal is moving to a 20 long and that tank will be properly divided and outfitted with nursery boxes too for breeding purposes.

 

[StarGirl]

Apparently my RH snails thought the new guy was too dirty.

Before

After.

 

[SamMe]

Apparently my RH snails thought the new guy was too dirty.
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Before
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After.

Apparently, they were right!

 

[Blacksheep1]

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After.

That doesn’t even look like the same snail !! What a beauty.

 

[briangcc1997]

Nothing earth shattering....water top offs (water changes were done earlier this week) and monitor temp in wife's 55 as I had to replace the 8 yr old Aqueon heater - gave up the ghost.

Was turning on according to indicator light but tank was at 72F. When pulled the heater had rusted elements and some build up on the internal circuit board - glass was still intact so best guess is the seal gave up the ghost on the adjustment knob. Have an Aquatop in there now. Overnight temp stabilized at 76F - heater was set to 79F...at least according to the dial.

 

[Cadillac15]

I am waiting. I ordered my light from Amazon over the weekend, and it was supposed to be here Tuesday. Then it got delayed. Then it got to my town yesterday, and I look this morning and it is now in a town 3 hours away. So frustrated, I just want to get things going on this tank. :'(

 

[BigManAquatics]

Nothing earth shattering....water top offs (water changes were done earlier this week) and monitor temp in wife's 55 as I had to replace the 8 yr old Aqueon heater - gave up the ghost.

Was turning on according to indicator light but tank was at 72F. When pulled the heater had rusted elements and some build up on the internal circuit board - glass was still intact so best guess is the seal gave up the ghost on the adjustment knob. Have an Aquatop in there now. Overnight temp stabilized at 76F - heater was set to 79F...at least according to the dial.

8 years for a heater seems pretty doggone good!

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Harvested some daphnia and brine shrimp, tossed em’ in the wee ones tank.

Need to rehome some Cories, but I may keep a few too. They keep the wee ones tank clean. Kinda like a daycare staff.

Pulled some mutts plus a cull from the brackish tank. Their not ugly, just not want I want in there. So I’m acclimating them to fresh water, most of them probably the first time. Pretty sure the cull has been through this a few times. Probably born in the brackish that was actually above marine for awhile….(oops) dumped into a cold outdoor tub, brought back inside to warm fresh then acclimated back to brackish, now back to fresh lol



He’s being culled, but being a super soldier I want to see how long he’ll last back outside.



He’s survived a lot. That’s why I let him live in the living room lol Hopefully he managed to pass some of resiliency on, even if he was weak.

 

[StarGirl]

I got some Pygmy Cories today and a new tank stand for the 9g. Now I can get it off my counter.

The Hornwort in the 55g is growing so fast! lol

 

[Cadillac15]

My light came today! And the heaters came yesterday. Not sure what I was thinking when I ordered 2 250 watt heaters for a 75g, so I'm going to put one in the 75g and one in the 55g I'm setting up. Hopefully picking up the 55g tank this next week at the petco sale.

 

[nj278]

Some more water changes I think. After a year of nothing, I am finally getting algae in my main tank so thinking I need to maybe do more water changes to keep the nitrates down, I don't know, we'll see how it goes. I'll also reduce the light hours (10 hours was probably pushing my luck a bit anyway).

Also trying to decide whether to move my sterbai corys. They were in the 65 gallon but I never ever saw them, so moved them to an 18 gallon in my room where there is a lot less happening than the living room. Now they are a lot less active than they initially were (I think because I keep removing plants to put into other tanks) and so I'm thinking of putting them back into the 65, which has probably five times more plants than when they left it. I can't even find my 3 year old angelfish half of the time it's so densely planted. I'm just concerned that if I put them in there and they aren't comfortable, I will never see them again, which I guess is fine as long as they are content living a nocturnal lifestyle.

Speaking of angelfish and dense planting, I have a sneaking suspicion that the little princess she is doesn't want to push through the plants, and so is stuck in about a third of the tank. Maybe. So I may need to do some trimming (and/or sell a whole lot of ambulia and hygrophila polysperma) so she can actually move, maybe. Or that could just be her corner.

 

[StarGirl]

The BEST thing I ever did in my 55g tank is turn the spray bar towards the back glass. My fish LOVE it and are always out front. When I change water I dont even have to turn it down. The plants dont have the detritus settling on them......DUH....

 

[Debbie1986]

Water changes last night - 2.5 hours:

6 gallon, 16 cube, 20 long, 20 tall & 38 gallon

sadly, the water lettuce has been loosing it's roots. not sure if adaption or just being eaten alive by snails

I moved 4 of them to a 5 gallon to sit on top of a shelf but get natural light all day. 6 are still in tanks. 1 died completely so far. major mess to clean out debris in the 16 cube last night, I did a 50% water change.

Tank appears okay today, no visible deaths in 16 cube my co mingled sexes guppy tank.

But I back slid, lol. I put my 8 gallon Biorb back up. ( 9 tanks up & running now!) I was gonna just do guppies but realized 3 (!!!) of my sparkling gouramis were 'missing' from the 38 gallon

not sure if the black neons tetras off'ed them or something else happened. they seemed fine earlier in week. I did not see them last night during water change and have been looking last 36 hours for them. I fear they died off.

the 1 sparkling gourami (SP) that hung out on other side of tank is alive. I added him to the 8 gallon Biorb. Today, I removed the adult female guppies and left a few juveniles in there for grow out so he'll be less stressed hopefully.

His tail (SP) seems a bit frayed on 1 end which is why I wondered about the tetras. I doubt the mollies bothered him at all.

I will get a few real plants next month. right now it's all fakes in there currently. he hides but I do see him out and about at times. Very shy fish. They seemed so happy in 38 gallon and more visible. very upsetting. I tried to grab the tetras to move them, but I would need to removed everything to get them and they've been in that tank for over a year at least. I will let them live their life out there instead.

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Since the weather is turning, I decided to start a couple daphnia cultures inside since the outdoor one (I assume) will drop in production. Also got another brine shrimp going since the big mama Endlers are becoming more numerous lol

Decided to keep 5 Cories and rehome the other 4.

For now, though. I decided to revisit my idea of aquarium goat guy since the kiddo WAAAAY over fed (on accident, but didn’t tell) Vacuumed out most, but I tossed the 3 smallest Cories in for a week or two to fatten up and help clean lol

 

[jmaldo]

Well the past 24 hours, netted out two female African Cichlids gave them to a coworker. It was an adventure they were quick and hid well, had to remove some hardscape. If they adapt to his harder water which they should, I will then give him my remaining males. It will be time to change up the 55g back to a Planted community tank, not sure of the inhabitants, yet... Then today approx. 80 gal in total water changes in four tanks.

 

[zERostArk07]

Currently waiting on my order from Marcus Fish Tanks!!! I got lots of different plants and then some of their root tabs.
Can't wait to plant them! Got quite a variety some anubias of course, some Mosquito fern which I've never had before, some more anacharis, java fern and then like four other new plants that I'm too lazy to type the names out right now lol.

 

[StarGirl]

Nothing today but feeding. Did WCs yesterday. Really enjoying my new Pygmy Cories!

 

[Blacksheep1]

Wc on the shrimp tank. Finally caught the amanos out and put them in the community tank , those shrimp freak me out when they start crawling out of nets !!!
The duckweed is back , again… starting to out compete the water lettuce for nutrients . I got quite a bit out and gave it to the goldfish. I think I’m going to start a bowl just for growing duckweed and eliminate it from the shrimp tank ( hahahahah we can all laugh together at my naivety and optimism )

 

[BigManAquatics]

Water changes all done on the 3 20g's. And the tetras rejoiced!

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Wc on the shrimp tank. Finally caught the amanos out and put them in the community tank , those shrimp freak me out when they start crawling out of nets !!! View attachment 861851
The duckweed is back , again… starting to out compete the water lettuce for nutrients . I got quite a bit out and gave it to the goldfish. I think I’m going to start a bowl just for growing duckweed and eliminate it from the shrimp tank ( hahahahah we can all laugh together at my naivety and optimism )
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I’m with you there. I have a similar mix of floaters and am just annoyed with them lol Gonna pull all the floaters and replace them with guppy grass, except for the betta tank.

 

[ChrissFishes01]

Me and my girlfriend set up a teeny crab tank for her last night. She loves the hermit crabs in my saltwater tanks, and decided she wants some. A 1.5 gallon Seapora tank, 4 hermit crabs and an emerald crab later, here we are:



Set it up with cycled rock, used sand from an old tank, and have it running off of a USB powerhead. No heater. She picked out a couple cheap freshwater decorations at Petsmart today (not my thing, but hey - it's her tank!) and we're going to put a fabric background on it today. I'm proud of her!

 

[Debbie1986]

Sparkling Gourami came out to say hi today!

I will buy a few more SPs next month hopefully. I may end up moving him to the fluval 15 and play musical tanks with guppies. Oh well.

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Moved all the French blue Endlers from the grow up tank back in to the main tank.


*sigh* Apparently all but one lol

 

[ForBettaorForWorse]

There's always that one....

 

[BPSabelhaus]

The cull can stay lol

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Stopped for feeders and guppy grass, left with feeders and more Endlers lol

Purple/blue


Peacock tail which I plan to breed with my Campoma X cobra females to hopefully (all crossable things crossed) make nicer tails.





And this tiny snakeskin black bar. Very small body with cobra patterning. He’s going into the saltwater community.

 

[airfix2]

on saturday or sunday, i will go to the lfs and return my dwarf gourami(got too aggressive). i'll either get a honey gourami or some oddball fish to take his place. any suggestions would be great!

 

[RockyMtnFishKeeper]

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!!

Waiting for my driftwood to sink lol

 

[ChrissFishes01]

Moved a group of guppies into my 37 gallon yesterday and grabbed some pics today:

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Glued some Anubias to a piece of driftwood that was too small for the dragon. Of course, now I have a nice decor and no place to put it lol

Cart meet horse.

 

[Blacksheep1]

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Glued some Anubias to a piece of driftwood that was too small for the dragon. Of course, now I have a nice decor and no place to put it lol

Cart meet horse.

I actually laugh when I read your posts sometimes, mainly because this is the kind of things I do then think huh , now what ? Where am I putting this plant/rock/decor/shrimp/wood…. Insert other innate thing I’ve attempted to add at some point, usually before giving up and either ‘gifting’ it , finding another use or binning.

To be fair though , you’ve done a great job and it looks lovely. Finding it a home should be easy enough for one of your tanks !

 

[BigManAquatics]

Was water chabge day for the 29g platy tank. Also rinsed one of the sponge filters and changed out the airstones in all sponge filters. Also discovered we have what looks to be 1 or 2 new batches of platy babies born since we moved...

 

[BPSabelhaus]

I actually laugh when I read your posts sometimes, mainly because this is the kind of things I do then think huh , now what ? Where am I putting this plant/rock/decor/shrimp/wood…. Insert other innate thing I’ve attempted to add at some point, usually before giving up and either ‘gifting’ it , finding another use or binning.

To be fair though , you’ve done a great job and it looks lovely. Finding it a home should be easy enough for one of your tanks !

Found a home for now. It’s in the grow out tank but it will be in the way in the future. Also pulled all the floaters out and replaced them with long rooted water lettuce from the betta tank. For now it can keep getting big then get replaced with guppy grass. I’ll then clear out the French blue tank of floaters and just have the big water lettuce in there.

 

[BPSabelhaus]

I actually laugh when I read your posts sometimes, mainly because this is the kind of things I do then think huh , now what ? Where am I putting this plant/rock/decor/shrimp/wood…. Insert other innate thing I’ve attempted to add at some point, usually before giving up and either ‘gifting’ it , finding another use or binning.

To be fair though , you’ve done a great job and it looks lovely. Finding it a home should be easy enough for one of your tanks !

Floating in the fry tank for now. If it keeps floating, fine. It’s terrestrial anyway lol Pulled out the floaters and pulled some really nice longrooted water lettuce from the betta tank and just put those in there. Also scooped out that sneaky French blue.

Did a light rescape on the French blue tank too. Just turned the wood on its side from being flat.

 

[Debbie1986]

3 hour water change last night...got home last night and said, 'nah, i'll do it tomorrow...' then realized I was working.

so after an hour of sitting, I started them. Because I realized if I did not do it last night, then they'd wait until Sunday and that's not fair to the fish. I just guilted myself into doing it. But It was not as bad as I was thinking it would be- as in being tired. I just zoned out and listened to the tv while doing it.

Moved Ron Burgandy the betta out of 16 gallon cube to the 20 long ( literally 2 foot move and he's been in that tank before with those bettas so I expect no real issues) for now waiting on new guppies to add to my bloodlines.I want as many offspring as I can get when the purples arrive.

Ron B the Betta has been fine since popeye a few months ago. The eye looks completely clear. He's my oldest betta now, around 3 + years old.

Fed peas to my silver dollars. they are so funny darting around, munch munch, drop and then chase same pea mush they just dropped .Pic 2 - catfish by filter, lol... I hope to get an iphone next spring, my phone camera is not good taking pictures of them at all.

 

[WetPetMum]

Added some dragon stone to the tank yesterday and just did a 25% water change waiting impatiently for the cpd’s to arrive on the 25th