What are you doing to your tank today?

Hopefully, you don't have to go to copper to save it. Good luck.
If I have to go that route I’d do it in a 27g tote I use as a hospital tank and could let the plants stay in the tank for a few weeks while the epistylis dies off without having a host or food being fed. ‍♂️

Or be lazy and treat the whole tank with copper, throw the plants away and start over.
 

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If I have to go that route I’d do it in a 27g tote I use as a hospital tank and could let the plants stay in the tank for a few weeks while the epistylis dies off without having a host or food being fed. ‍♂️

Or be lazy and treat the whole tank with copper, throw the plants away and start over.
When I did copper, it didn't kill my plants. It did however "open up" my driftwood to release more tannins. My tank kind of went blackwater. After I ran cuprisorb to get rid of the copper, I added carbon. It's still got a little color many months later though.
 

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From what I’m reading it is treatable, But since I’m not positive which one it is I’m going to treat for both. Epistylis is recommended to be treated by lowering temp and feeding medicated food (antibacterial) and reduce feedings. Ich you’d want to raise the temperature and treat with an anti parasitic like ich x. Could also add salt in both situations but that tank is heavily planted. This is a new tank and the barbs seem to be the only ones that have it so far. Since I’m not positive which it is I think I’m going to keep water temp the same as normal (77-78F), feed medicated food sparingly, treat with Ich X and do frequent water changes. I’m no expert on this, so I’ll open a new thread in case anyone has better advice or wants to see how this turns out in case helpful if in a similar situation.
The advice to raise temp for Ich should be ignored as too many strains of Ich are heat resistant now as well as salt resistant.

The Ich lifecycle is already at maximum speed at 75-76F so raising it for that reason is pointless.

Treatment for both Ich & Epi is pretty much identical unless antibiotics in the food have to be used as Epi is often accompanied by bacterial infection. Epistylis eat bacteria so an infection is a portable feast for them.
 
My stand shiped early! I got it today even though I was supposted to get it next week. Took me about 5 hours to set up as it was only me. Seems sturdy enough, but the paint on the metal is already coming off. I will show pictures tomorrow!

Heading to the lfs tomorrow to see if I can find any cheap supplies. And to look at all the fish…I can't help myself lol.
By tomorrow, I mean Wednesday. I bought a bunch of supplies yesterday.

How does it look?

EDIT: I started a journal, and will update there. 55 Gallon Asian Community and Aquascape | Freshwater Aquarium Journals Forum
 

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I think i have a problem. In my 180 i have some 4 year old honey-comb bn. They were the last set of pleco i purchased before i swore off pleco. I had ordered 3 females approx 3/4 of an inch; and received 4 fishes of which one became a male. Well you know when you mix females and males baddddd things can happen. Today when i was feeding the fishes i noticed a 1 inch honeycomb pleco - in truth 1 isn't so baddddd but where there is 1 there is likely more :(

I should try to get a decent picture of these fishes as they are not bad looking esp with the white rim around the tail - but the glass on the 180 is pretty thick and they tend to hang out in the very back where i rarely see them. Hum... we shall see next water change is sunday.

In more exciting news the geo bit my fingers really hard when i fed them this morning . The annoying little bugger is a pain - this is what they look like
(actual species is geo sp alto):

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The one picture didn't bite me - it is another runtish fish that always wait for my fingers to hit the water. These fishes also breed pretty easily and despite a ton of predators in the 500 i have several young ones - eventually this will also be a problem..... oh well. Gotta remember one sex only else problem.
 
I think i have a problem. In my 180 i have some 4 year old honey-comb bn. They were the last set of pleco i purchased before i swore off pleco. I had ordered 3 females approx 3/4 of an inch; and received 4 fishes of which one became a male. Well you know when you mix females and males baddddd things can happen. Today when i was feeding the fishes i noticed a 1 inch honeycomb pleco - in truth 1 isn't so baddddd but where there is 1 there is likely more :(

I should try to get a decent picture of these fishes as they are not bad looking esp with the white rim around the tail - but the glass on the 180 is pretty thick and they tend to hang out in the very back where i rarely see them. Hum... we shall see next water change is sunday.

In more exciting news the geo bit my fingers really hard when i fed them this morning . The annoying little bugger is a pain - this is what they look like
(actual species is geo sp alto):

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The one picture didn't bite me - it is another runtish fish that always wait for my fingers to hit the water. These fishes also breed pretty easily and despite a ton of predators in the 500 i have several young ones - eventually this will also be a problem..... oh well. Gotta remember one sex only else problem.
Sounds like you got of bad news from your tank today…:(
 

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I think i have a problem. In my 180 i have some 4 year old honey-comb bn. They were the last set of pleco i purchased before i swore off pleco. I had ordered 3 females approx 3/4 of an inch; and received 4 fishes of which one became a male. Well you know when you mix females and males baddddd things can happen. Today when i was feeding the fishes i noticed a 1 inch honeycomb pleco - in truth 1 isn't so baddddd but where there is 1 there is likely more :(

I should try to get a decent picture of these fishes as they are not bad looking esp with the white rim around the tail - but the glass on the 180 is pretty thick and they tend to hang out in the very back where i rarely see them. Hum... we shall see next water change is sunday.

In more exciting news the geo bit my fingers really hard when i fed them this morning . The annoying little bugger is a pain - this is what they look like
(actual species is geo sp alto):

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The one picture didn't bite me - it is another runtish fish that always wait for my fingers to hit the water. These fishes also breed pretty easily and despite a ton of predators in the 500 i have several young ones - eventually this will also be a problem..... oh well. Gotta remember one sex only else problem.
Easier with goldfish. All I have to do is not impulsively collect the eggs. My unintentional mating pare were already at it again in the spring. I told them I'm not raising anymore of their kids. Lol
 
Did water changes - while waiting for the winkelfleck tank to drain i took a few pictures of the critters in my 10:
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I’ve been preoccupied setting up the 125 CA/SA cichlid tank and dealing with ich/epistylis in the 54g SE Asian tank, so I haven’t paid much attention to the 75 SA community tank except the weekly water change and daily feeding (but didn’t REALLY pay it any attention)…

Went to feed them today and noticed my bronze Cory shoal has been breeding! I started with 8 and I’m counting at least 16. They’re already decently sized but my guess is the SA bumblebee catfish and gold severum snacked on a few before they got to this size. I moved the severum to the 125 for a while to give these guys a chance to grow out a bit and can move it back once the jack Dempsey/texas/ green terror get a bit bigger and more boisterous.

54g corner was hit hard with illness and I lost 10 snakeskin barbs, 2 glass catfish and 1 zebra loach so far. Today was their 4th dose of ich x with a 33% water change, kanaplex in the water column every other day, and kanaplex in their food for the last 4 days…. While I lost quite a few fish during this ordeal I think we’re nearing the end. The parisites seem to be gone and the fish no longer have anything visible on them, all are swimming about and eating well, and the pearl gourami centerpiece haven’t seemed to ever have any on them and are colored up and healthy looking.

Optimistic things will be looking up!

Also did water changes in all tanks last night except the 10g planted which seems to appreciate mulm and less water changes.

Also decided to split off part of a peace Lilly from my kitchen and put it in a plant basket inside one of the filters. Probably get a Pothos soon to grow out of one of the other HOB.
 

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Gonna let this little one get a bit bigger then move it into one of the ponds. Hopefully find a few more on another trip. But one catfish, probably a bullhead.
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Not a bad place for a walk. That's a floating reed mat. Looking for invasive mosquito fish, found invasive but ok because it's for sport fishing catfish instead. Works for me, I just need to make babies to fix my local "lake". I can keep waiting and watching it get worse each year or just skip doing it by the rules and just make my own copies of their stuff.
 

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It's funny how any fish can become a bully. Do the neons get stressed?
I don't think so. I did lose one a couple of weeks ago, but it was pretty large. It may have been one of the OG four I had that turned into over a dozen. The SAE doesn't chase all the time, it has it's moments. My standard neon tetras, I think I only have two left, they do stay hidden most of the time, they pretty much are relegated to the bottom.
 
I have one dominant tetra that seems to target one of the other tetras. Same one each time. I've never had these guys before so not sure what's normal behaviour. The picked on tetra is still eating and swimming around except he/she (haven't quite figured out how to sex them) also hangs out in the corner quite often.
 
I have one dominant tetra that seems to target one of the other tetras. Same one each time. I've never had these guys before so not sure what's normal behaviour. The picked on tetra is still eating and swimming around except he/she (haven't quite figured out how to sex them) also hangs out in the corner quite often.
Maybe it's targeting number 2 in the pecking order to keep him in check.
 
Finished weekly water changes and monthly filter cleaning.

Got my new fancy light for my 29 for when I start it up again. This light features 0 lighting control, no need to balance light at all, it shines one 60 watt bulb, and also doesn't have to run on a timer. You get to turn the light on and off manually whenever you want! Best light 10 bucks can get you.

It's a clamp light. Lol
No joke I actually was very excited to get it. Haha
 
I removed lots of Java fern 'Windlov'. That plant has taken over the tank. Other than that,I'm just watching mine today. I have a 55 gallon heavily planted with 8 white skirt tetras and 2 SAE. They are 7-8 years old and best buddies. They aren't big on algae eating, but I love them anyway.
 
Finished weekly water changes and monthly filter cleaning.

Got my new fancy light for my 29 for when I start it up again. This light features 0 lighting control, no need to balance light at all, it shines one 60 watt bulb, and also doesn't have to run on a timer. You get to turn the light on and off manually whenever you want! Best light 10 bucks can get you.

It's a clamp light. Lol
No joke I actually was very excited to get it. Haha
I started my first aquarium with two clamp lights running 5000k LED light bulbs while waiting on my aquarium coop light to show up.
 
I started my first aquarium with two clamp lights running 5000k LED light bulbs while waiting on my aquarium coop light to show up.
I actually love these lights. I have one with all the fancy stuff on my 40 g for the plants, but most of what I keep does fine with a clamp light or a desk light.
 
I Counted fish during feedings this morning and happy to say that I haven’t lost any additional fish in the 54g SE Asian tank in 3 days. When would you guys consider replacing stocking after epistyles/ich? 2 weeks? Longer? My girlfriend and I are going to be in the Bay Area on the 8th and there is a LFS in Oakland that has the snakeskin barbs.

Also still counting 16 bronze corydora in the 75g SA community tank. They definitely spawned as I only had 8 in that tank originally but the others must have gotten picked off as fry.

Most of the CA and SA cichlids in the 125g have doubled in size since moving them from their quarantine tote to their new home a week and a half ago. Have been alternating feedings between peewee pellets from xtreme and frozen bloodworms/ beefheart. The Jack Dempsey is colored up well for being a juvenile and is starting to get wider, and the firemouth and green terror are putting on quite a bit of size too. The only stragglers are the Texas cichlid and convict who haven’t seemed to grow much, although they don’t seem to be bullied during feedings and are pretty spunky and stick up for themselves despite being half the so/ of the others.

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Two or three weeks after curing a parasitic outbreak is probably long enough to wait before beginning a gradual new restocking.

If you have a male Texas Cichlid sooner or later he will hit a growth spurt. Lol.

Things are looking really good.
 

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Made a glass lid for my Topfin 37g and added my Finnex Planted+ to get some more light. Happy with the outcome, can see my fish much better and plants are happy too.
 

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Added 12 ember tetras to my 15gal (it’s a fluval flex so more like 10gal actually) yesterday. They seem to be settling in well. The picture doesn’t do justice to how pretty their coppery orange color looks with all the green plants.
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Checked my bloody Mary shrimp tank today and was happy to see around 10 shrimplets.
A very welcome sight indeed as I have not seen one since my well pubisised scud disaster.
They've been dying off, I've haven't given up and kept replacing them.
Hopefully it's finally paying off.
 
I knew it would eventually fail, but I was pretty proud of it a few months ago. It's time to release THE KRAGLE! lol I was hoping the hot glue would hold. I even sanded both surfaces lol
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Picked up a pair from a local breeder here in Miami. Ups and downs with Blue Rams throughout the years, but definitely worth it.
 

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Picked up a pair from a local breeder here in Miami. Ups and downs with Blue Rams throughout the years, but definitely worth it.
Beautiful fish!

I sent an email to petco asking for a refund on the last batch of snakeskin barbs that all died and brought a parasite with them…

Didn’t get a refund or an email back, but got home from the water park with my daughter today and found a box marked live fish!

They sent 6 more which replaces the last batch. With the 2 survivors this makes 8. I was planning on getting a school in Oakland next week when going with my girlfriend to pick her daughter up at the airport but now I’m not sure if I want to add another 7 to the 8 I have or opt for this school of 8 and do a school of Rasbora with them (10-12).

I have these new snakeskins in my quarantine/hospital tote with a seeded sponge filter, proactively treated ich x and kanaplesbin the water column and in their food. Will do a daily water change with 4 doses of ich x and kanaplex in their food. Hopefully this batch will make it with the proactive treatment during quarantine.
 

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Beautiful fish!

I sent an email to petco asking for a refund on the last batch of snakeskin barbs that all died and brought a parasite with them…

Didn’t get a refund or an email back, but got home from the water park with my daughter today and found a box marked live fish!

They sent 6 more which replaces the last batch. With the 2 survivors this makes 8. I was planning on getting a school in Oakland next week when going with my girlfriend to pick her daughter up at the airport but now I’m not sure if I want to add another 7 to the 8 I have or opt for this school of 8 and do a school of Rasbora with them (10-12).

I have these new snakeskins in my quarantine/hospital tote with a seeded sponge filter, proactively treated ich x and kanaplesbin the water column and in their food. Will do a daily water change with 4 doses of ich x and kanaplex in their food. Hopefully this batch will make it with the proactive treatment during quarantine.
Petco has been pretty good to me as far as refunds. Just take the dead fish and a bottle of my tank water for them to test. Last fish I got from them was my Crowntail Orchid Betta. I've never had luck with online orders, tried it a couple times and didn't work out. Luckily I have places around me here in Miami. Looks like you know what you're doing. Hope it all works out.

Put together a 20 gallon long with a bunch of exta stuff I had. One of the guys at work was interested in setting up a tank for his family so I hooked him up. Im always happy to get someone new into the hobby. It's amazing how much stuff we can accumulate throughout the years lol.
 

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Put together a 20 gallon long with a bunch of exta stuff I had. One of the guys at work was interested in setting up a tank for his family so I hooked him up. Im always happy to get someone new into the hobby. It's amazing how much stuff we can accumulate throughout the years lol.
I’ve done that a couple of times and you’re right, it’s amazing (and a little disturbing) just how much gear one collects over time.
 
I’ve done that a couple of times and you’re right, it’s amazing (and a little disturbing) just how much gear one collects over time.
I'm always asking myself why I need more stuff when I alread have my closet and fish stand full of supplies... I guess you can never have enough.
 

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Put together a 20 gallon long with a bunch of exta stuff I had. One of the guys at work was interested in setting up a tank for his family so I hooked him up. Im always happy to get someone new into the hobby. It's amazing how much stuff we can accumulate throughout the years lol.
That’s awesome! Hopefully they enjoy the hobby for years to come!

What size tank do you have them in? They look like they are thriving and I love that you can see them everywhere.

I’ve experienced them breeding like crazy, especially if kept outside. I started with 10 or so in a 40 gallon container pond with floating plants and a little pond pump and they’re is probably 5-10x as many now. Don’t do anything to the container either. Don’t feed it, water change, or anything other than clean the pump when it clogs up once or twice a year. Amazing fish!

Just getting ready to do weekly water changes a little early this week since this weekend will be busy and am thinking about the similarities between the Jack Dempsey and Texas cichlid appearance while juveniles. Other than the spangling they look pretty close to the same while still having some of their own characteristics. All of the CA/SA seem to be getting along so far. Theres chasing and nipping going around while they establish their pecking order but no one is seriously hurting or going after anyone. When they get bigger I plan to move 2-3 of the smaller ones to a 55/75 and leave the larger 4-5 in the 125.
 

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Went to a couple fish stores in between jobs yesterday and today. Found a monster fishvaquariul storz that was ising smaller species as feeder so i bought a feeder paradise fish.
Also saw petsmart has some good deals on tanks and kits going on through the 6th.
 
That’s awesome! Hopefully they enjoy the hobby for years to come!


What size tank do you have them in? They look like they are thriving and I love that you can see them everywhere.

I’ve experienced them breeding like crazy, especially if kept outside. I started with 10 or so in a 40 gallon container pond with floating plants and a little pond pump and they’re is probably 5-10x as many now. Don’t do anything to the container either. Don’t feed it, water change, or anything other than clean the pump when it clogs up once or twice a year. Amazing fish!

Just getting ready to do weekly water changes a little early this week since this weekend will be busy and am thinking about the similarities between the Jack Dempsey and Texas cichlid appearance while juveniles. Other than the spangling they look pretty close to the same while still having some of their own characteristics. All of the CA/SA seem to be getting along so far. Theres chasing and nipping going around while they establish their pecking order but no one is seriously hurting or going after anyone. When they get bigger I plan to move 2-3 of the smaller ones to a 55/75 and leave the larger 4-5 in the 125.
20 gallon aquarium. There's a few CPDs in there as well and they popped out a few babies after I added the 10 white clouds a few months ago.
I've had the CPDs for well over a year and it took adding the white clouds to get them to breed. The adults stay hidden in the back now. I'd say the white clouds outnumber CPDs 10 to 1. They started breeding in my 5 gallon quarantine tank in less than two weeks before I moved them to the 20.
 
20 gallon aquarium. There's a few CPDs in there as well and they popped out a few babies after I added the 10 white clouds a few months ago.
I've had the CPDs for well over a year and it took adding the white clouds to get them to breed. The adults stay hidden in the back now. I'd say the white clouds outnumber CPDs 10 to 1. They started breeding in my 5 gallon quarantine tank in less than two weeks before I moved them to the 20.
That’s amazing, they look great!
 
I'm always asking myself why I need more stuff when I alread have my closet and fish stand full of supplies... I guess you can never have enough.
I gave away 3 tanks. Over time I got 3 more. I'm so glad I don't have the 3 I gave away though. The impulse to get more came over me today and a sturdy reminder that I don't have extra tanks or room kept me in check. Lol
 
Usual water changes on the office aquariums (10,100,100,180). Here is a pair of critters from the 10:

male dario dario - a bit bright to optimize his colouring:
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this is an f2 male a. pucallpaensis; i believe he is around 2 1/2 years old. Unfortunately he rarely shows himself and this is in the shadow so not much in the way of colours:
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I was inspired by newjungletank and their beautiful white clouds, and decided to move some of mine from the outdoor container pond to our 10 gallon column tank. I started with a bakers dozen and they seem to be doing well with the dwarf gourami .

The harlequin Rasbora that were in there the last 2 years were ready for an upgrade so I moved them to the 54g corner and they’re laying eggs already.

Also added 3 different kind of Pothos clippings that my girlfriend gave me to the 125 to see which I like in here with the peace Lilly and spider plant. Can move 2-3 to other tanks once they get established and I pick which I want where.
 

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Was just posting on a local forum that my green water 30 is apparently a great mosquito larvae tank. I scooped twice today. I have been feeding all the fish with amounts like this for almost a week. That's all mosquito larvae. I just scooped a third time. Single pass, small net lol This is just ridiculous. So bad I just dumped all that into the baby goldfish pond because it's just pointless. I can probably do it again and again tomorrow.
Love it while it lasts. The other tubs are average on larvae, worms, daphnia etc... the 30 seems to be a hit for some reason.

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Watching my nothing but trouble angelfishes. I have 2 males in a 600 (floor space 10ftx4ft); and with all that space they like to find a corner and do nothing but bicker all day long - at least the other fishes enjoy watching:

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(you can see two observers in the corners of the picture).
 

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Petco 50% off Tetra when you buy 5. Bought 15 Ember Tetra for $28 out the door. Glad I was able to get them all, I don't like leaving stragglers behind
 

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Petco 50% off Tetra when you buy 5. Bought 15 Ember Tetra for $28 out the door. Glad I was able to get them all, I don't like leaving stragglers behind
I took advantage of the 20% off bucket at Petco the weekend before last. They had some really nice tissue grown epiphytes. I'm working on two 10 gallon fry grow out tanks. I ended up buying an Imagitarium 10 gallon, glass lid for it, two 10 lbs. bags of Caribsea sand, and 7 or 8 plants (anubius, java ferns, and bolbitis, one of which is tall enough to almost reach the top of a 29 gallon).

I have sponge filters running now in the two 10 gallon tanks. I'm gonna switch in two sponges that have already been cycled in a couple days and move my apisto fry into them. I have my bogwood mounted on stones already. I need to get the epiphytes glued on and placed in the tanks. I have stems ready to harvest from other tanks as well.
 
I have done a lot with my tanks over the last few days. I was away for a month, my husband fed the fish and did basic water changes, which I am grateful for, but without the regular maintenance all the tanks looked a mess when I got back home. Also for some unknown reason he threw away all the floating plants, a lot of moss and a big Java fern. He said they were blocking all the light. Ok, so I do get rid of some every week, but not all of them. A few remnant pieces of water lettuce will grow back fairly quickly and I have various offsprings of the fern, but sadly the frogbit is all gone. Another sad thing, the remaining Uaru died while I was away. I don’t blame my husband for that, it had been having swim bladder trouble for some time, apparently recovering then relapsing again. I blame all the power cuts we had last year, I couldn’t keep the water warm enough.

Another problem was that I had a load of baby Guianacaras in a 180l (47 gallons?) tank, that developed a leak just before I left and I had no time to do anything about it. So there have been buckets under the tank ever since and my husband was keen for me to take it down.

For ages I have kept the pair of dwarf pike cichlids in the 240l tank, I was trying to get them to breed, feeding them up, trying to reduce the pH, using only rain water etc. For a while they were going around together, the female looking fat and the male displaying, but nothing happened (or I don’t think so, it’s possible they spawned but I never saw them defending anything and no babies appeared). Then the male turned against the female and for a long time now she has been in hiding coming out only to feed. So I emptied the tank, had to remove all the wood and most of the plants, caught them, put them back in the big tank (the female is out and about and happier now), and re-setup the tank.. Caught the Copellas and other tiny fish from the 10 gallon tank I had moved them to when I separated the pikes, and put them back in the 240l (need some more fish for in there now). Found the Poecilocharax that I almost washed down the sink when I moved the fish last time - explanation here: What are you doing to your tank today? | General Discussion Forum. I have only ever seen it when I strip a tank down and move the fish.

Then I stripped down the leaking tank and caught all the baby Guaianacaras (29) and put them temporarily in the 10 gallon along with an extra sponge filter from the leaking tank and some moss and twigs from there too. They are big enough to move on now, I just need to find out who wants them. This doesn’t sound very much written down, but along with regular water changes and thorough cleaning of all tanks it all took me the best part of 3 days.
 
Found walmart discounting fish supplies(looks like thier getting away from tetra and larger kits) so went to a couple to get extra food and meds. Township finally got back to me found out i can't live at the pond store(without alot of legal nonsense) so trying to get a few of the stock tanks in my contract negotiation. So now making plans on how to get commercial sized indoor ponds into a basment. considering whether its easier to remove the first flooor or dig and go through the side of the basement. Lawyers involved in the negotiations think im nuts .
 
Water changes in the fishroom this consist of 29,29,5,55, 20 long, 65,10,65, 29, 40b, 120. Thursday I'll do the 180.

This is my lovely, well i think it is lovely even if you think it stinks, 20 long which contains fishes !
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Moved some things around in the pond, made new hangers for the willow tree and I think I'm happy.
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Bird bath maybe? Just having fun with marbles and polished rocks.
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Frog baby :)
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