What are you doing to your tank today?

[BPSabelhaus]

Well ammonia was a little above 0 which is no big deal but nitrates were red which I don’t see in this tank with the amount of plants . Did a quick water change .. son wanted to help !

great ! Let me know when the buckets nearly full please ? I look down and it’s almost at the brim !! He says not a problem I’ll empty it . He starts sliding it , I warned him of the small lip to the hall.. long story short 2 G’s on the floor.

he asked to redeem himself by filling buckets , okay that’s fine. Until he squirted the full pippette of prime down the sink thinking it was water test water !! Anyways I’ve now got 3 towels to wash and I need more prime

shot of the tank and some flowering buce just because . View attachment 884543View attachment 884544

Ah, one of those days lol Those days are fun watching them try stuff besides our patience lol

 

[Kribensis27]

Well ammonia was a little above 0 which is no big deal but nitrates were red which I don’t see in this tank with the amount of plants . Did a quick water change .. son wanted to help !

great ! Let me know when the buckets nearly full please ? I look down and it’s almost at the brim !! He says not a problem I’ll empty it . He starts sliding it , I warned him of the small lip to the hall.. long story short 2 G’s on the floor.

he asked to redeem himself by filling buckets , okay that’s fine. Until he squirted the full pippette of prime down the sink thinking it was water test water !! Anyways I’ve now got 3 towels to wash and I need more prime

shot of the tank and some flowering buce just because . View attachment 884543View attachment 884544

What's that tall plant in back? The tank looks great!

I'm working on getting some substrate and more plants into the current mystery snail and soon-to-be least killi tank. The snails also need food today. One of them seems stressed, and since the tank isn't cycled yet, I think that means it's time for a water change.

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Yesterday was a no good cognitive impairment day. Fingers just didn’t want to work, brain couldn’t keep things straight.

But the third attempt was successful.

 

[GouramiGirl100]

Woke up this morning to one of my nerites chilling on the outside of my tank which is extra funny because this is my only tank with a lid meaning he was really determined to adventure so much so that he snuck through the opening for the filter haha all my other nerites/snails in the other lidless tanks have never ventured this far

 

[BigManAquatics]

Slept too long, feeling very lazy, so water changes before work are out of the question. Both the fish and i will be lucky if i get the gumption to feed them!

 

[StarGirl]

Woke up this morning to one of my nerites chilling on the outside of my tank which is extra funny because this is my only tank with a lid meaning he was really determined to adventure so much so that he snuck through the opening for the filter haha all my other nerites/snails in the other lidless tanks have never ventured this far
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Mine either besides my Racer. Hes been out on the floor at least 3 times. Thats why there is a food hole cover on there now. The zebras in the 55 have never escaped with open lids for weeks. They will be on the lids though all the time. I have to make sure they are not on the lid when I remove them for cleaning. lol

 

[BigManAquatics]

Fish got fed, so now my dumb kitty thinks he gonna catch himself a tiger barb or a blue phantom pleco by staring at them, i guess.

 

[tetraguy]

Walking away from all things to do with fish for the day.... WC day for the 10g. Everything was going just fine as usual until I began to fill the tank back up. Walk out of room for 2 mins and come back to the cord on my little pump smoking and popping. Burnt plum in two pieces now. Look at the bright side, atleast I wasn't electrocuted right.

Anyways get out my back up and continue on. Get tank full and mess cleaned up and come back to admire my work only to find..... yea, the tank has now spung a leak. Smh, nothing like getting kicked when your already down grrrrr.

Walking away from all things to do with fish for the day.... WC day for the 10g. Everything was going just fine as usual until I began to fill the tank back up. Walk out of room for 2 mins and come back to the cord on my little pump smoking and popping. Burnt plum in two pieces now. Look at the bright side, atleast I wasn't electrocuted right.

Anyways get out my back up and continue on. Get tank full and mess cleaned up and come back to admire my work only to find..... yea, the tank has now spung a leak. Smh, nothing like getting kicked when your already down grrrrr.

Just checked and atleast it's 50% off tank only right now. 12.99 not bad lol, but the work that's coming is the pain!

 

[BigManAquatics]

Walking away from all things to do with fish for the day.... WC day for the 10g. Everything was going just fine as usual until I began to fill the tank back up. Walk out of room for 2 mins and come back to the cord on my little pump smoking and popping. Burnt plum in two pieces now. Look at the bright side, atleast I wasn't electrocuted right.

Anyways get out my back up and continue on. Get tank full and mess cleaned up and come back to admire my work only to find..... yea, the tank has now spung a leak. Smh, nothing like getting kicked when your already down grrrrr.View attachment 884628View attachment 884629


Just checked and atleast it's 50% off tank only right now. 12.99 not bad lol, but the work that's coming is the pain!

This is definitely a facepalm kind of day. :facepalm

 

[Sewerrat]

Pets plus around me only has fish (something to do with new laws in nj said it wasn't worth it) they also get better options in species including brackish and specialty fish such as arrowana.

 

[GouramiGirl100]

Progress on the 29 gallon snail breeding project and shrimp in my betta tank

 

[StarGirl]

Made a airtube corral for the water lettuce. Those dont usually work too good for Duckweed though. There is always a spot under water.

Other than that WC day.

 

[Littlebudda]

Finally got around to water change tonight so unfortunately the small tanks only got one clean this week as we missed Thursday as I went to the football and when I got home the kids had used all the hot water. So 55 and nano do at 9pm did the 26 at 10 had some snacks and played with the dogs before put the 3 idiots to bed so just started draining the 330 at midnight should be done and showered by 2am. Big Bertha isn’t happy as I’m doing a 70% water change instead of 50 and that pulls her top cave out of the water she keeps trying to suck her way around the top side and out of the water and then gives me weird looks will try and get a photo.

 

[tetraguy]

Been setting watching the fry tank for around an hour now, those are some fiesty Lil fellas!

Starting the regular 6 test on all tanks as soon as I set the phone down. I actually enjoy this!

WC day for the 20T. Gonna be a lot more to it than usual as algea has gone crazy in this tank including completely covering my subtrate. Almost a complete tear down is gonna be needed.

After the 20T WC I still have the daily vac and 90% WC on the fry tank to do, but that's a breeze!

Repaired the pump cord that burned in two pieces yesterday, so going to be watching it real closely.

Oh, and made my first purchase from another fishlore member Friday and it should be here tomo! Transaction could not have went any smoother if done in person!

All in all gonna be a busy, fishy day around my side of the world! Hope everyone has a great day today!

 

[BigManAquatics]

Been setting watching the fry tank for around an hour now, those are some fiesty Lil fellas!

Starting the regular 6 test on all tanks as soon as I set the phone down. I actually enjoy this!

WC day for the 20T. Gonna be a lot more to it than usual as algea has gone crazy in this tank including completely covering my subtrate. Almost a complete tear down is gonna be needed.

After the 20T WC I still have the daily vac and 90% WC on the fry tank to do, but that's a breeze!

Repaired the pump cord that burned in two pieces yesterday, so going to be watching it real closely.

Oh, and made my first purchase from another fishlore member Friday and it should be here tomo! Transaction could not have went any smoother if done in person!

All in all gonna be a busy, fishy day around my side of the world! Hope everyone has a great day today!

Ever figured out why the cord burned?

 

[tetraguy]

Ever figured out why the cord burned?

No idea, was running just fine when it happened. I plugged it up and let it run for 5 mins after the repair and worked like new. The only thing I can come up with is the cord is undersized and got to hot. Each side of the wire only had 5 tiny strands of copper which don't seem like enough for anything.

 

[Littlebudda]

Half way back to refilled 1:10am
And done changed just over 250gal in 1hr 45mins.
If you can get yourself a fluval fx6 I highly recommend it makes life so easy.

 

[GouramiGirl100]

Currently treating one of my bettas for severe fin rot he’s been developing it for a while and none of my regular fixes seemed to work. He’s acting great otherwise and is very active, he just looks very sad. I’ve decided to move him to a hospital tank and try some heavier duty treatments hoping he will do well

 

[Kribensis27]

Got substrate into the 5.5g and planted some vals. Not looking forward to them melting, but it seems pretty much unavoidable when you're moving vals into totally new conditions. I'm about to plant some hairgrass in there as well.

 

[Rose of Sharon]

Currently treating one of my bettas for severe fin rot he’s been developing it for a while and none of my regular fixes seemed to work. He’s acting great otherwise and is very active, he just looks very sad. I’ve decided to move him to a hospital tank and try some heavier duty treatments hoping he will do well

If you feel comfortable enough doing this, you can try painting his fins with hydrogen peroxide. The regular 3% solution would work. I've done this before, but you have to be comfortable really handling the fish.

Here's a thread about it:

Peroxide How To | Freshwater Fish Disease and Health Forum

 

[GouramiGirl100]

If you feel comfortable enough doing this, you can try painting his fins with hydrogen peroxide. The regular 3% solution would work. I've done this before, but you have to be comfortable really handling the fish.

Here's a thread about it:

Peroxide How To | Freshwater Fish Disease and Health Forum

Thank you! I’ll give the antibiotics a few days and see and if it doesn’t seem any better I’ll consider doing that. He doesn’t mind being handled so it could work

 

[StarGirl]

Got substrate into the 5.5g and planted some vals. Not looking forward to them melting, but it seems pretty much unavoidable when you're moving vals into totally new conditions. I'm about to plant some hairgrass in there as well.

Never had a Val melt. I move them all over the place. Crypts too. Must be lucky.

 

[Kribensis27]

Never had a Val melt. I move them all over the place. Crypts too. Must be lucky.

How?? Every time I plant vals they basically disintegrate within a week and then I have to wait for them to slowly recover. I've had a bit better luck with crypts and they usually don't totally melt, but they definitely lose some leaves.

 

[StarGirl]

How?? Every time I plant vals they basically disintegrate within a week and then I have to wait for them to slowly recover. I've had a bit better luck with crypts and they usually don't totally melt, but they definitely lose some leaves.

I really dont know. do you have hard water like we do? They seemed to do best in gravel, but they are growing pretty fast in the sand now. I just cut a runner off and re plant it. Trim the roots some.

 

[Wendybrass]

Well I feel like a dummy. I had a heat issue in my flex 32.5g. contacted Haggen, I've been propping my lid every day, there's no heater in the tank at all yada yada. Today during the water change I thought there's no way this water feels 81. I have the digital thermometers in all my tanks so I thought could it be that this thermometer is wrong? And why am I only thinking of this for the first time now? Jeez Louise. Poor fish. Thermometer was reading 81 but the actual temp was 82. Grrrrrr. Did wc's on all 3 tanks - newbies are doing great in the 10g bookshelf. Plants are growing. I'm starting to think I may put my Bella in there when I move the CPD's to the community tank but I'm worried she'll miss all that space. First pic is the bookshelf and 2nd is the 32.5g. guess I should have done some trimming today

Thermometer was reading 81 but the actual temp was 82.

Correction actual temp was 72

 

[StarGirl]

Well I feel like a dummy. I had a heat issue in my flex 32.5g. contacted Haggen, I've been propping my lid every day, there's no heater in the tank at all yada yada. Today during the water change I thought there's no way this water feels 81. I have the digital thermometers in all my tanks so I thought could it be that this thermometer is wrong? And why am I only thinking of this for the first time now? Jeez Louise. Poor fish. Thermometer was reading 81 but the actual temp was 82. Grrrrrr. Did wc's on all 3 tanks - newbies are doing great in the 10g bookshelf. Plants are growing. I'm starting to think I may put my Bella in there when I move the CPD's to the community tank but I'm worried she'll miss all that space. First pic is the bookshelf and 2nd is the 32.5g. guess I should have done some trimming today

Correction actual temp was 72

I want a 32 Flex. My 15 and 9 run hotter than my 5g did right next to it. I think the pump heats it up more being internal.

 

[Wendybrass]

I want a 32 Flex. My 15 and 9 run hotter than my 5g did right next to it. I think the pump heats it up more being internal.

I've heard that from many folks. However, Haggen didn't think so. I've had no issues with mine so far and it's been just over a year. (I guess I'm still not having issues because it was a faulty thermometer.) My only struggle is the outflow nozzles. I wish they were either more flexible or had a flow control. I baffle them but it's not ideal IMO. A person on Etsy was selling a flow control for this tank and I may give that a try. Otherwise I absolutely love it. Such a good looking tank.

 

[Littlebudda]

Well I feel like a dummy. I had a heat issue in my flex 32.5g. contacted Haggen, I've been propping my lid every day, there's no heater in the tank at all yada yada. Today during the water change I thought there's no way this water feels 81. I have the digital thermometers in all my tanks so I thought could it be that this thermometer is wrong? And why am I only thinking of this for the first time now? Jeez Louise. Poor fish. Thermometer was reading 81 but the actual temp was 82. Grrrrrr. Did wc's on all 3 tanks - newbies are doing great in the 10g bookshelf. Plants are growing. I'm starting to think I may put my Bella in there when I move the CPD's to the community tank but I'm worried she'll miss all that space. First pic is the bookshelf and 2nd is the 32.5g. guess I should have done some trimming today

Correction actual temp was 72

Your jungle is making me jealous I’m struggling with the patience of getting the height every time I see a space I want filled I take a cutting to fill it so not getting height. I’m trying to not prune for a month (Thursday is cleaning day on big tank). It’s kind of like I’ve got to join TPA (tank pruners anonymous)
Hi I’m littlebudda and it’s been 3 days since my last tip prune. It’s killing me. I think it’s that I’m a horticulturalist so I can’t look at weeds or something that needs pruning and just walk away

 

[Wendybrass]

Your jungle is making me jealous I’m struggling with the patience of getting the height every time I see a space I want filled I take a cutting to fill it so not getting height. I’m trying to not prune for a month (Thursday is cleaning day on big tank). It’s kind of like I’ve got to join TPA (tank pruners anonymous)
Hi I’m littlebudda and it’s been 3 days since my last tip prune. It’s killing me. I think it’s that I’m a horticulturalist so I can’t look at weeds or something that needs pruning and just walk away

Unfortunately I can only get the tall ones to grow. I'm jealous of folks that have nice foreground. I do eventually trim but it makes me feel somewhat successful when they grow so tall. I'm the exact opposite of a horticulturalist - I take any success I can get

 

[Littlebudda]

Unfortunately I can only get the tall ones to grow. I'm jealous of folks that have nice foreground. I do eventually trim but it makes me feel somewhat successful when they grow so tall. I'm the exact opposite of a horticulturalist - I take any success I can get

It’s just my 330gal is so tall, if I pulled the plants out and planted them in a 55 they would be popping out the top it’s just trying to get 3.5-4 foot of vertical growth to reach the top is a nightmare. And to fill out a foot that’s 6 x 3 ((and a bit )(custom built to max dimension for glass thickness))

 

[Wendybrass]

It’s just my 330gal is so tall, if I pulled the plants out and planted them in a 55 they would be popping out the top it’s just trying to get 3.5-4 foot of vertical growth to reach the top is a nightmare. And to fill out a foot that’s 6 x 3 ((and a bit )(custom built to max dimension for glass thickness))

Yowsa...... that's a challenge. You need to put those pruners down!

 

[Littlebudda]

Well wasn’t going to do much but dropped it to see my tank builder at the aquarium shop and decided to pick up 10 more neon tetras, almost got some lemon tetras also but still want to get the shrimp population up, hopefully by October I will have 300-500 breeding females in the big tank and will add a school of about 15 lemons and 15 blue emperors tetra (blue Royal tetra) will try and expand the embers out by another 20 in the next few weeks.

 

[GouramiGirl100]

My betta in treatment is still doing really well, I know it’s only been a day but I always get worried when I start a new treatment that they might not do well with it etc. so that’s good. My floating plants in the 37 gallon are doing well and I’m happy

 

[Littlebudda]

Quite day today will just be observing after adding the neons yesterday and moving the depressed guppy to the big tank and added lyretail to 55 as replacement (3 lots of drip acclimation for 4hrs) just want to make sure they’re all happy.
All the neons looked good last night started to colour up well, the embers and neons were still hanging in one large shoal plus the one male guppy I added (doesn’t seem too interested in the other guppies but if he’s happy with the neons great) so see if that continues today

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Water level was perfect today lol

 

[BigManAquatics]

Was just a feed n watch type of day today. No fasting, water changes, etc...didn't even have any kitty stalking fish today.

 

[GouramiGirl100]

My orange seam pleco was out and about today! He’s more comfortable with me so I got some good photos

 

[PseudotropheusKenobi]

Tinkering with the light spectrum…

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Moved the young corydoras from the fry tank he had been in to the 30 with the rest of his family.

 

[GouramiGirl100]

Bought some more plants today with store credit, probably the last things I will be buying aquarium wise for the coming months. I’ll be moving in December and will have to downsize the tanks by number (likely going to do 3 ten gallons and 2 forty gallons Vs the 11 tanks I have now ) so no more new fish/inverts until the move and really not touching the tanks too much in the way of plants so much until then either

 

[Littlebudda]

Not doing too much today will be resting up getting ready for chemotherapy day tomorrow and cleaning then.
Still going in my PPA Program (Plant pruners anonymous) it’s been 6 days since I pruned the plants are growing slowly but did notice a big jump in the Vals looks like the extra couple of hours of light have really kicked things along I think they put on 1/2-3/4 of a foot this week should hopefully be reaching the top soon.

 

[Wendybrass]

Bought some more plants today with store credit, probably the last things I will be buying aquarium wise for the coming months. I’ll be moving in December and will have to downsize the tanks by number (likely going to do 3 ten gallons and 2 forty gallons Vs the 11 tanks I have now ) so no more new fish/inverts until the move and really not touching the tanks too much in the way of plants so much until then either

Sounds like a big move! It'll be fun to get back to 11 tanks once you're settled in the new place

 

[Kribensis27]

Did a 40% WC and added some leaf litter to the 5.5g. Also have to wipe some algae off the front glass. The joys of keeping a tank without a background in front of a window.

 

[Wendybrass]

Trying to decide if I should move my Betta into the 10 gallon. One of my guppies has a clamped dorsal fin. I'm starting to wonder if the betta has been bullying them. I haven't seen a pesky male bothering the guppy, not that it couldn't be happening. And I've never seen her go at the guppies, not that it couldn't be happening. My only concern is will Bella be stressed if I move her from a well planted 30g to a "getting there" 10? And no tank mates. She cruises that whole tank. On the plus side I'd get to watch her more as it's right by where I sit in the living room. The CPD's and cories are ready to go to the main tank so now would be the time.

Not doing too much today will be resting up getting ready for chemotherapy day tomorrow and cleaning then.
Still going in my PPA Program (Plant pruners anonymous) it’s been 6 days since I pruned the plants are growing slowly but did notice a big jump in the Vals looks like the extra couple of hours of light have really kicked things along I think they put on 1/2-3/4 of a foot this week should hopefully be reaching the top soon.

Hahahah congratulations on the 6 days!!

 

[Blacksheep1]

Quick wc in the shrimp tank . I’ve been under feeding massively and reduced the light timings to try and reduce hair algae .. it’s not helped . It’s okay though , I’m not worried about a little algae .
the new pencil fish are doing incredibly well , so good to see this ! Added lots more leaf litter to the tank but they are around a month old to me now . They do interact well with the beckfordii which is nice to see.

 

[Geoff]

I did a rush set-up for a new betta that I found out today will be arriving tomorrow. Gotta love procrastination!

 

[GouramiGirl100]

Sounds like a big move! It'll be fun to get back to 11 tanks once you're settled in the new place

I think it will be a while before I get back to 10+ haha, we are only planning on being in the new place for a year or so and will probably move across country after so I have to keep tanks down. When we figure out our final destination I hope to do some bigger tanks- my dream is a 75 gallon + African cichlid tank but it’ll be a few years

 

[Wendybrass]

I think it will be a while before I get back to 10+ haha, we are only planning on being in the new place for a year or so and will probably move across country after so I have to keep tanks down. When we figure out our final destination I hope to do some bigger tanks- my dream is a 75 gallon + African cichlid tank but it’ll be a few years

I hope these are positive moves for you. That's also my dream - 75 or 110. I'm starting to work on the hubby - showing him pictures of cichlids. He'll say those are cool, get some of those to which I reply with a big sigh, sadly we can't have those because our tanks are too small. They'd look so good in our bar too (our rec room is like a sports bar) and then I do another big sigh. One can only try.

 

[GouramiGirl100]

I hope these are positive moves for you. That's also my dream - 75 or 110. I'm starting to work on the hubby - showing him pictures of cichlids. He'll say those are cool, get some of those to which I reply with a big sigh, sadly we can't have those because our tanks are too small. They'd look so good in our bar too (our rec room is like a sports bar) and then I do another big sigh. One can only try.

Haha that is exactly what I’m doing with my bf currently!

 

[Littlebudda]

Well how quickly things change, dropped the kids to school and thought I’ll just duck in and see what’s at the aquarium and here I am now with some corkscrew Val and drip water into a bucket for another 5 neons to add to the shoal.
Had pretty good luck with them lately the ones I got Monday have settled in and coloured up well so hopefully these will also, will bring the shoal up to about 30 so almost halfway to my neon plan.