What are you doing to your tank today?

[BPSabelhaus]

I also named that incorrectly. It would be breeding slate, not a mop. Mops are common for some fish, slates or cones would be used for angels. This way you can pull the fertilized eggs if the parents are known to cannibalize.

I also picked up a half dozen pieces of slate there. lol

 

[BPSabelhaus]

This tank will get male Endlers only. Females will be in the office with the breeding tanks.

I'm thinking my swordtails in here with some angels.

Long fin cory tank



The 20's are where I want them. Plants and livestock from the 30 are in the 20 long until I set the 20. Then I'll move the Endlers and Swordtails in while I set the long up with the sand from the 30. I want to get the 20 aquascaped and going a few days first, make sure I'm happy for once.

 

[mulletmcnasty]

Started a new 10 gallon shrimp tank recently. I've added Bloody Marys, so far so good they've all survived a week
I hope they breed.

 

[BPSabelhaus]

I knew I wanted a 20 long, didn't know I'd like it this much. Just the right size visually. The tank isn't even set up. It's just holding the stocking for other tanks.

This is my idea for it, with my long fin cories and a top feeder of some sort.

 

[fishywoo]

Smelly Cooking. ^_^
(My post was too short).

 

[Fishfur]

Smelly Cooking. ^_^
(My post was too short).

Got to say, that is hardly an appetizing sight .

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Mmmmmm black goo.

 

[fishywoo]

Mmmmmm black goo.

It's more like a really dark green in person, but yes, yummy goo, lol. At least my fish seem to think so.
^_^

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Set up the 20 today.

 

[tetraguy]

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Set up the 20 today.

Looks great, as all your tanks do!

 

[GouramiGirl100]

Ropefish and barbs came in! So round two with them. Fingers crossed they aren’t sick this time.

 

[tetraguy]

Ropefish and barbs came in! So round two with them. Fingers crossed they aren’t sick this time.

Sorry I must have missed, what type of barbs? And best of luck to your new guys, hope everyone makes it!

 

[Fishfur]

Sorry I must have missed, what type of barbs? And best of luck to your new guys, hope everyone makes it!

I threw a bunch of plants into a yet to be set up tank and it hasn’t got a heater or filter yet. This afternoon I discovered a lot of the plants I tossed in it were in very sad condition. A few appeared as if they had frozen and then thawed and others had apparently intact stems but limp crumpled leaves.

The water temperature in that tank was 70F but it could have been a few degrees colder last night and the more tropical plants clearly could not cope with the chill.

Guppy grass looked frozen/thawed and pennywort leaves were in a sad state but the stem seemed ok so maybe it’ll send out some new leaves? Or not.

Teach me to ignore water temperature that will, the hard way.

 

[GouramiGirl100]

Sorry I must have missed, what type of barbs? And best of luck to your new guys, hope everyone makes it!

Odessa barbs! They’re beautiful fish

 

[fishywoo]

Just ordered 1 liter of prime for a good price on Amazon because it's overstocked. Also got some aqueon silicone - I only need a small amount so a little bit for 4 dollars works for me - to fix the handles on both my tank lids. Seems that the adhesive on these things doesn't take kindly to being wet, which is just silly. Won't be taking that chance again! And finally got a couple of 24 - 410 dispenser pumps to put on the prime bottle while I was at it. I have an itty bitty measuring cup to use for measuring it into.

Is it odd how excited little things like this makes me? Lol

 

[Fishfur]

Just ordered 1 liter of prime for a good price on Amazon because it's overstocked. Also got some aqueon silicone - I only need a small amount so a little bit for 4 dollars works for me - to fix the handles on both my tank lids. Seems that the adhesive on these things doesn't take kindly to being wet, which is just silly. Won't be taking that chance again! And finally got a couple of 24 - 410 dispenser pumps to put on the prime bottle while I was at it. I have an itty bitty measuring cup to use for measuring it into.

Is it odd how excited little things like this makes me? Lol

I just use a disposable 3,5 or 10 ml syringe and they last ages, though after a few years they do get stiff and harder to use. I think I’ve only tossed a few in the past 10 years or so. Very accurate especially for very small tanks.

No shame in getting excited over new toys either, even if they aren’t the fanciest toys .

 

[fishywoo]

I do use a 5 ml syringe for adding water to test tubes. I wouldn't want it to get gunked up though. I've got a 10 ml little measure cup. It's kinda cute. Has a little handle and everything and easy to rinse out. I use for conditioner and to defrost brine shrimp cubes.
^_^

 

[tetraguy]

I just use a disposable 3,5 or 10 ml syringe and they last ages, though after a few years they do get stiff and harder to use. I think I’ve only tossed a few in the past 10 years or so. Very accurate especially for very small tanks.

No shame in getting excited over new toys either, even if they aren’t the fanciest toys .

Couldn't agree more! Definitely the most used tool in my arsenal lol.

 

[GouramiGirl100]

Ropefish came in! As I was acclimating them into their QT tank I opened their bag to put water in from the tank. I turned my back for one minute and heard a loud “thunk”. Turned around and saw one of them on the floor!! He shot out of the bag. My bf jumped into action and scooped him up before I could even think haha. So far they are all safe in their (very sealed) tank

 

[Fishfur]

Ropefish came in! As I was acclimating them into their QT tank I opened their bag to put water in from the tank. I turned my back for one minute and heard a loud “thunk”. Turned around and saw one of them on the floor!! He shot out of the bag. My bf jumped into action and scooped him up before I could even think haha. So far they are all safe in their (very sealed) tank
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Nothing like an energetic fish leaping to the floor to get one’s heart rate way up there!

 

[GouramiGirl100]

Nothing like an energetic fish leaping to the floor to get one’s heart rate way up there!

That was the first time I’ve ever experienced that hahaha ropefish are truly something else

 

[Fishfur]

That was the first time I’ve ever experienced that hahaha ropefish are truly something else

Kuhli loaches are like that too, just a lot smaller.

 

[GouramiGirl100]

Kuhli loaches are like that too, just a lot smaller.

That’s true haha

 

[bucketaquatics]

Gonna be doing a water change and plant rearranging on my 55 later.




Working on a plan for rescaping the 125 as well.

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Setup a couple tanks. 20 long is sand so thats still settling.

The ten gallons are male and female tanks, 5's for breeding

 

[Fishfur]

Setup a couple tanks. 20 long is sand so thats still settling.

The ten gallons are male and female tanks, 5's for breeding

I hope those plastic shelves hold up. I’ve had them bend under loads lighter than that given a little time. Nice setup though - I only wish I had room to do something similar.

 

[bucketaquatics]

After the water change and plant rearranging. Would of added it to the other post but it wouldn't let me.

 

[BPSabelhaus]

I hope those plastic shelves hold up. I’ve had them bend under loads lighter than that given a little time. Nice setup though - I only wish I had room to do something similar.

These are heavy duty racks. Used to use them for garage stuff. Last couple years they've been holding tub ponds over winter. We have different shelves for kiddos games and toys. I would not use those lol The legs for these ones feel like half scale shop vac tubes with full scale tube thickness.


That said, I don't entirely like the way this is. There's a place by my old job that deals in used industrial shelving units. Probably gonna swing by and see what they have. I'd imagine I can just get the lengths I want and clip it all together with my mallet lol


Heck, setup right it could double as a guest bed lol



Working on getting the ladies out. This is for males to go to the store as well as ones that have potential for mating. That's another reason I need a different shelf. I want to do a 40 breeder for male grow outs (or use the 4 10 gallons I have lol)



Gave that fella a tank and some young females from my black and red tailed female breeding. If it goes well I'm calling the strain strawberry lemonade.



20 long cory and French blue is clearing up. Mostly how I want it, I'll fiddle with it tomorrow.

 

[StarGirl]

Apparently the fish don't like Spixi eggs. The Spixi must have wanted more babies in the baby tank.

 

[Gudgie]

Water changing my 75, procrastinating thinning the vals and rearranging the hardscape.


Also about to give my 20 a second dose of general cure, since I'm treating newly acquired fish.

 

[fishywoo]

Betta tank and Snail and Shrimp stuff today/tomorrow. Probably going to be messing around with things I should or shouldn't be messing around with.
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[BPSabelhaus]

Dust has settled on the new tanks.

Edit: Not pictured, four other tanks with just gravel and moss

 

[GouramiGirl100]

Ropefish and rainbowfish made it overnight and are doing well this morning! Enjoying their QT tank. Treating my other QT for internal parasites and then going to move those fish over within the next few weeks photos aren’t the greatest bc it’s a bare bottom QT tank

 

[Anonfish4]

Finally setting up the 29gal! Just need to add some - no a lot more plants and let it cycle before transferring the tetras

 

[BPSabelhaus]

I think I've done enough this week lol

So I'm sitting with the kittens and they're hitting that teenager size. Nibbler feels like a small cat now while Hobbes feels like a kitten for a few more days


My little boys are growing up and love watching the fish

 

[Fishfur]

I think I've done enough this week lol

So I'm sitting with the kittens and they're hitting that teenager size. Nibbler feels like a small cat now while Hobbes feels like a kitten for a few more days


My little boys are growing up and love watching the fish

My pair of kittens hit a year old sometime in July or August but they are still very kittenish. But it’s a real shame that they grow up so fast.

 

[airfix2]

i figured out why my ember tetras were disappearing.... the small ones were getting sucked into the filter!! i found out bc there were 2 missing ones, and when i looked into the filter i saw an ember tetra head sticking out of the impeller. I bought a prefilter sponge yesterday

 

[tetraguy]

That was the first time I’ve ever experienced that hahaha ropefish are truly something else

Imagine 3 at the same time lol, those cherries did not want netted! Glad your enjoying your new fish!

 

[Wendybrass]

Going to get more stock and plants today. My sweet platy has turned into a bully. He won't leave the CPD's alone. I've been waiting for my LFS to get some CPD's in as I only have 4, saw they had them in stock a couple weeks ago BUT I just didn't have time. Why am I not retired yet? I'll have to go to PetSmart. Ugh. Online they say they're in stock but who knows. In the meantime I'll put my wee bully in time out for a bit and see if that settles him down. Ordered some things on prime big days - my fave is a really skookum filter for my bookshelf 10g. Like - I am very impressed. It's crazy quiet, starts immediately, nice and compact etc. Water is crystal clear. Love this thing. New light is going on today. I gotta say, my Bella is very tolerant. I switch things around in that tank weekly. I need an intervention. I have a box of hardscape that I scavenged from our in-laws house (that we're selling) and desperately want to set up a new tank, but I also have a major decluttering project going on and 2 pieces of vintage furniture to refinish before December. I should take bets on whether or not I wait til I'm done the other projects.

 

[BPSabelhaus]

I think Milic is making a nest

Edit: Should have added, he seems to like the 20 gal with 5 cories and 2 swordtails a lot more than the 30 with Endlers.

 

[StarGirl]

All WCs done for this week. Now I still have to get another dip and pour to get the eggs out of the tupperware. The shallow water is getting major biofilm daily.

 

[mulletmcnasty]

Using my squeezed out filter media for my plants.
Plant owners, this is okay isn't it?
I've been doing it a while, so far, so good

 

[bucketaquatics]

Using my squeezed out filter media for my plants.
Plant owners, this is okay isn't it?
I've been doing it a while, so far, so good

I wouldn't do it more than once a week as it's fertilizer essentially. But, I've used tank water from water changes on plants before. Never harmed them.

 

[John58ford]

Thought about doing something, but then just decided to count fish instead. I guess I Fed and refilled the ready feed containers but really just enjoying the tanks. I've been able to move my water changing days to be Wednesday or Thursday before work the last few weeks and hoping that continues.

 

[mulletmcnasty]

I wouldn't do it more than once a week as it's fertilizer essentially. But, I've used tank water from water changes on plants before. Never harmed them.

Thanks they get it on Monday every week

 

[fishywoo]

Using my squeezed out filter media for my plants.
Plant owners, this is okay isn't it?
I've been doing it a while, so far, so good

Always fill a gallon of water from my tanks before water changes and use that to water my plants. They seem to love it!

Did water changes for my Betta Sunset and my Shrimp/Snails. I'm always nervous everytime changing the water for my shrimp. With two ladies berried now and this being my first experience of that I'm so afraid of stressing them out. So far so good though! Making sure the temperatures match and all that.

Coming up with ideas to improve my Betta's tank theme that I'm excited to implement that and making plans for an invert only tank. Much to look forward to and be excited for.

Goldfish water changes tomorrow!
^_^

 

[GouramiGirl100]

Daily photo of the noodles (ropefish) in QT. The QT tank is at my parent’s house and I couldn’t make it over there today so my mom took this photo and also warned that one was trying to escape through the filter don’t worry the filter is blocked off with two plastic cups so fingers crossed hahah

 

[Fishfur]

I wouldn't do it more than once a week as it's fertilizer essentially. But, I've used tank water from water changes on plants before. Never harmed them.

If it helps any, I always use changed out water to water plants and it’s not necessary to worry about overdosing the plants with fertilizer because it’s so extremely diluted. The grunge from filter media does no harm and may do some good.

A dearly missed friend of mine who allowed me to house my fish at his place for a couple of years (long story I won’t bore you with) was convinced that fish tank water was the key to growing any plant and had me siphon my changed out water into 5 g jugs and he especially treasured the water in which I rinsed out the filter media. He shared the fish water with neighbours but kept the filthiest grunge laden jug of what he called ‘fish poo’ for his own plants.

Fish water will make most plants extremely happy and you can use it for every watering if you have enough changed out water to do that.

One notable exception to that advice is any carnivorous plant. A lot of them have to have nearly pure water in the form of rainfall or in potted culture, distilled water.

Daily photo of the noodles (ropefish) in QT. The QT tank is at my parent’s house and I couldn’t make it over there today so my mom took this photo and also warned that one was trying to escape through the filter don’t worry the filter is blocked off with two plastic cups so fingers crossed hahah
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One can certainly see why they’re called ropefish.


As for today’s tank activity, I cleaned out the AC 70 on the rimless tank when I noticed it was jetting water out the intake side. At least I caught it before it started pushing the media up out of the basket.

I have saved all the grunge and dirty tank water from the filter and the intake sponge cover in a large vase (which I intend to make into a terrarium one day) but for now maybe it can be an infusorium instead.

I’m letting it all settle to see if any interesting wee critters happened to be living in it. I hope there are.

 

[mulletmcnasty]

Always fill a gallon of water from my tanks before water changes and use that to water my plants. They seem to love it!

Did water changes for my Betta Sunset and my Shrimp/Snails. I'm always nervous everytime changing the water for my shrimp. With two ladies berried now and this being my first experience of that I'm so afraid of stressing them out. So far so good though! Making sure the temperatures match and all that.

Coming up with ideas to improve my Betta's tank theme that I'm excited to implement that and making plans for an invert only tank. Much to look forward to and be excited for.

Goldfish water changes tomorrow!
^_^

Good luck with the shrimp, just kicked off one myself a few weeks ago.
I'm going to see how many I have after 100 days. Kicking off with ten.

If it helps any, I always use changed out water to water plants and it’s not necessary to worry about overdosing the plants with fertilizer because it’s so extremely diluted. The grunge from filter media does no harm and may do some good.

A dearly missed friend of mine who allowed me to house my fish at his place for a couple of years (long story I won’t bore you with) was convinced that fish tank water was the key to growing any plant and had me siphon my changed out water into 5 g jugs and he especially treasured the water in which I rinsed out the filter media. He shared the fish water with neighbours but kept the filthiest grunge laden jug of what he called ‘fish poo’ for his own plants.

Fish water will make most plants extremely happy and you can use it for every watering if you have enough changed out water to do that.

One notable exception to that advice is any carnivorous plant. A lot of them have to have nearly pure water in the form of rainfall or in potted culture, distilled water.

One can certainly see why they’re called ropefish.

I cleaned out the AC 70 on the rimless tank when I noticed it was jetting water out the intake side. At least I caught it before it started pushing the media up out of the basket.

I have saved all the grunge and dirty tank water from the filter and the intake sponge cover in a large vase (which I intend to make into a terrarium one day) but for now maybe it can be an infusorium instead.

I’m letting it all settle to see if any interesting wee critters happened to be living in it. I hope there are.

I've got 3 tanks to manage so I definitely have enough water for my plants. I'll do that and see how they go.

 

[Fishfur]

Good luck with the shrimp, just kicked off one myself a few weeks ago.
I'm going to see how many I have after 100 days. Kicking off with ten.

I've got 3 tanks to manage so I definitely have enough water for my plants. I'll do that and see how they go.

If it’s wintertime, you might want to go easy on fish water for any plant that’s dormant or grows super slowly in the winter months - maybe use it every second or third watering rather than every time. Things like cactus or succulents that have longish seasonal dormancy periods can’t use the nitrogen so there’s no point giving it to them.

Most tropical foliage or flowering plants are fine with the constant use of fish water.

I’ve used it for so long I sometimes forget to think about the chsngtcI make for certain plants, especially succulents from places like South Africa and other places like that in terms of how much fish water I give them , assuming they get any water at all.

Lithops go months without water in my summertime and most bloom in fall or winter so that’s when they get fish water. But no fish water in their dormant period when they live off the water that’s stored in their old pair of leaves.