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So many fish, so little time!!!!
Here is what I daydream about:
1. Wild bettas ( mahachiensis is really the only choice for me given my water hardness and pH
2. N class endler breeding tank
2. Pea puffers ( but too messy and I am not sure I want to deal with fussy eaters)
3. Big Honey gourami and rasbora community tank with a bunch of corycats
4. ( this one will have to wait- have not done enough research to be comfortable) a salt water nano tank - leaning towards inverts only- easy corals and sexy shrimp)
Here is what I daydream about:
1. Wild bettas ( mahachiensis is really the only choice for me given my water hardness and pH
2. N class endler breeding tank
2. Pea puffers ( but too messy and I am not sure I want to deal with fussy eaters)
3. Big Honey gourami and rasbora community tank with a bunch of corycats
4. ( this one will have to wait- have not done enough research to be comfortable) a salt water nano tank - leaning towards inverts only- easy corals and sexy shrimp)
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A little late with this, but I got some Betta albimarginata! They just bred too. I love how expressive and quick they are with their color changes. Also, the way that they swim reminds me of a blimp.
Male in happy colors...not quite breeding colors because the cheek will get much darker then.
Female in full breeding dress bothering the male while he holds eggs. He almost has a female’s normal colors here.
Male in happy colors...not quite breeding colors because the cheek will get much darker then.
Female in full breeding dress bothering the male while he holds eggs. He almost has a female’s normal colors here.
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I am! I have the one without the back compartment. I like the setup I have with that a lot. I’m running an AquaClear 20 on it and have a thermostat hooked to a heater and a fan. For the lid, I cut a piece of glass so that it would work with the filter and fan and I have a section of window screen on the back to allow the fan to cool things, but still prevent jumping.
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Sure! I’m sorry that the light is off, but my diurnal fish are sleeping and the nocturnal fish are exploring and I didn’t want to startle them. Honestly, this thermostat and fan setup has been great! I was making fish water ice cubes or using reusable ice cubes in the past, but it wasn’t a very consistent way to maintain temperature. With this, I know my equipment will kick on as needed even if I am sleeping or at class.
I have the heater and the fan hooked into this. There is a probe from this that goes into the tank to get the temperature reading and then it will switch on or off power to particular plugs. With this, I can set which temperature I want, how far above or below that I want equipment to turn on, and how far above or below that I want an alarm to come on (possible equipment malfunction). On top of that, the temperature sensory in the Neotherm 25W double checks that the heater should actually turn on when the thermostat sends power to that plug. Right now, I have it set to keep things within a degree of 73F, but I had this doing 72F in the middle of summer last year.
Here’s a look at the lid, light, fan, and filter. The fan screws on to the rim of the tank and you can adjust the angle it blows, as well as the intensity. If you end up wanting to know what brand I have, I would have to look it up because it’s unmarked and I can’t remember. This little fan has kept my tank at 72F on days were the inside of the house has been in the 80’s.
Here is a closer look at the mesh. It’s just black window screen (not treated with any sort of bug stuff) superglued to some of the original lid holders. I prefer how the ones my boyfriend 3D printed lay the bottom of the lid in line with the top of the tank, so I was happy to repurpose the originals. If you did something like this, you could probably get extras in the original style online. There is one on the back left and right corners, as well as between the filter and the fan. Right now, things are cooler out, so I have the glass slid all of the way back to retain heat. Once the weather warms up, I slide it forward and use the light to hold the mesh tight. In the future, I may cut the back section of lid off and make a binder clip frame for the mesh so that I can just swap out the back panel for the time of year instead of creating a lip in the front with the lid.
The most recent picture of that tank and the only one where I cut the lid and light out of the frame to prevent there being a light beam.
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Due to Corona-consternation, 2 of my three multies left the planet. Both of them females. I thought females were tougher than males, also in the fish world. I am really tempted to get (at least) two new females, but they would have to come (by courier) from a place with high(er) Corona risk.
Before the outbreak I had ordered some fish from a safe(r) place. Maybe I will let them come when temperatures outdoors start to rise:
- Black mollies
-.Guppy females, I have one nice male
- Paracheirodon innesi
- Apistogramma Borelli
The initial 3 species (even the mere thought of them) bring back sweet childhood memories.
This is my recently widowed multi, 1.2 inch tall.
Before the outbreak I had ordered some fish from a safe(r) place. Maybe I will let them come when temperatures outdoors start to rise:
- Black mollies
-.Guppy females, I have one nice male
- Paracheirodon innesi
- Apistogramma Borelli
The initial 3 species (even the mere thought of them) bring back sweet childhood memories.
This is my recently widowed multi, 1.2 inch tall.
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My 29g is finally cycled and I'm plotting what to keep in there. My lfs has some line bred true endlers... though I dunno if I'd only want a swarm of those in a large tank. What I do know is that I'll be adding khulis over the next month.
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Bought an Electric Blue Ballon ram today 
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So it turns out our local store is breeding kribs; I was going to buy some Hongsloi; but instead i picked up 2 male and 3 female Kribs. This is one - the other four scattered to hiding spots - it looks a bit in shock but this is 30 seconds after i let them out of the bag. The good thing is that since the local lfs bred them; they should be use to my water...
Small update; they are settling in i guess it has been about an hour but they have grouped up and are exploring. Not sure they are mature yet the lfs said they were approx 2 1/2 to 3 months old. The nannacara wasn't overjoyed to see them but didn't exactly go into attack mode
Small update; they are settling in i guess it has been about an hour but they have grouped up and are exploring. Not sure they are mature yet the lfs said they were approx 2 1/2 to 3 months old. The nannacara wasn't overjoyed to see them but didn't exactly go into attack mode
So i went a bit overboard but i also purchased the following:
8 galaxy rasbora
8 green neon rasbora
6 caucatoides triple red
2 L333 pleco
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All of these (but the 2 pleco) will go in the 40B; the 2 L333 will go into the guppy tank (29 gallon).
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I'm not totally naive and realize that conflicts might develop in the 40B. When the kribs pair up and the triple red pair up i'll probably thin them down to one nice pair each and give the rest to the LFS (or if someone local wants them....); the 2 L333 are estimated at 1 inch (so very young). When they get larger i will put them in the 120. The 120 is pretty crowded so I might have to rethink this but the 40B is too cold for the L333 and I don't really want to keep them in a 29 long term but if they turn out to be very thin body they might stay there till i move. They aren't really vegie eaters but maybe if i can fish out my bn i will get rid of them - esp the male - which just takes up space I can probably snag him next time he goes into the coconut shell. I had the female since she was a wee tiny baby so i'll probably hang on to her. Pictures next week (maybe). I'm also moving 6 candy tetra out of the 29 with the rams and into the 40 - so the 40 will be pretty crowded in the upper reaches. This leaves the angle in the 29 with the rams.... what to do with him. Very nice fish too bad the others rejected him in the 120...
8 galaxy rasbora
8 green neon rasbora
6 caucatoides triple red
2 L333 pleco
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All of these (but the 2 pleco) will go in the 40B; the 2 L333 will go into the guppy tank (29 gallon).
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I'm not totally naive and realize that conflicts might develop in the 40B. When the kribs pair up and the triple red pair up i'll probably thin them down to one nice pair each and give the rest to the LFS (or if someone local wants them....); the 2 L333 are estimated at 1 inch (so very young). When they get larger i will put them in the 120. The 120 is pretty crowded so I might have to rethink this but the 40B is too cold for the L333 and I don't really want to keep them in a 29 long term but if they turn out to be very thin body they might stay there till i move. They aren't really vegie eaters but maybe if i can fish out my bn i will get rid of them - esp the male - which just takes up space I can probably snag him next time he goes into the coconut shell. I had the female since she was a wee tiny baby so i'll probably hang on to her. Pictures next week (maybe). I'm also moving 6 candy tetra out of the 29 with the rams and into the 40 - so the 40 will be pretty crowded in the upper reaches. This leaves the angle in the 29 with the rams.... what to do with him. Very nice fish too bad the others rejected him in the 120...
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2 more peppered corys
3 more male guppies
Both to put in my 10 gallon. I will have a total of 4 corys, 7 guppies.
And I'm going to look through the store and pick out stock for my 29, but won't be buying just yet
3 more male guppies
Both to put in my 10 gallon. I will have a total of 4 corys, 7 guppies.
And I'm going to look through the store and pick out stock for my 29, but won't be buying just yet
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Are you near aquariumcoop being in oregon - if so i think they might have some. Hum. Probably a long drive even if you are near the border but just maybe it isn't There is some place in oregon i think that has them. I've seen them pop up now and then on ebay and the seller is a store in Oregon. I wont' order from him since i'm on the other side of the country.
I got a small tiger nerite from petco a couple of months ago for something like $1.50. They had some interesting ones - they also had a bunch of empty shells in the tank with the gold zebra loaches; from that tank i took the gold zebra and not the empty shells
(I did not put the snail in the same tank with the loaches - in case you are wondering)
(I did not put the snail in the same tank with the loaches - in case you are wondering)
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I am near aquarium coop in the sense that I could be there in 3-4 hours. Lol If we weren't still under shelter in place orders it would be a nice excuse to go see family in seattle, but not an option now sadly. The Wet Spot is only a half hour drive from me and may be the oregon company you are thinking of. They do normally have them and healthy/quality is top notch, but they've been put of stock since the month before things shut down. We bought a pair there but lost the male. Totally my fault for naively picking one I thought had "unique" colors but was really just faded due to some sort of illness. I tried everything to save him but couldnt. They did credit me for him. I want another male/female pair to go with my lone female in the 20long. We built the tank just for them and it's been so frustrating to have it sit waiting. 1st world problems though right? I could be sick or losing family to covid so it's not the worst thing ever for fish to be hard to get. For now the lone female is thriving in my community tank. she is a stunning little thing! Especially when in breeding dress. In the meantime, her future palace is ruled by some temporary neon tetras and amano shrimp. Had to put something in there to balance it while we wait. Kept getting algae and ****.
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I’ve gotten into cories. They are so cute! Got some pandas and bronze. Waiting for albinos to come in now!
You are correct I was thinking of wetspot. We have a couple of decent store in my area (one lfs and one very good petco); but nothing like wetspot or aquariumcop with regards to unique fishes. The lfs does occasionally get unique fishes - they had an l114 pleco the other week (too big for my tanks but extremely nice looking fish) and i did buy a couple of nannacara from them - these are actually pretty interesting fishes. Also as I noted above they are now breeding kribs so those are readily available.
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I love my corys! Will definitely be my bottom feeders from now on
Yea not only are kubotai rasbora talented jumpers but kubotai loaches are talented jumpers. However, I do need to put netting on the back (i have the usual glass canopy that has the plastic strip on the back - i find that cutting netting around filters intake works better than the plastic strip so i'll add that to the 40B. I learned the hard way when i had a mass suicide by some other folks who didn't like me
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Hopefully gonna upgrade to a 50g bowfront soon-
planning on getting 1 female betta, 1 BN/rubberlip pleco, 1 spotted raphael cat/twig cat/whiptail cat, and some snails =)
planning on getting 1 female betta, 1 BN/rubberlip pleco, 1 spotted raphael cat/twig cat/whiptail cat, and some snails =)
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Well, a pair of Long Finned Gold Rams and 6 Clown loaches from the breeder extraordinaire coralbandit should be shipping tomorrow.
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As soon as PetCo has their next dollar per gallon sale I’m grabbing a 20 for 3 honey gourami, 6 ember tetras, some platies, and a few mystery snails.
Also hoping to get some chili rasboras for a nano set up.
And knowing myself I’ll be getting some more bettas soon— i’ve had my eyes on some gold hmpks
Also hoping to get some chili rasboras for a nano set up.
And knowing myself I’ll be getting some more bettas soon— i’ve had my eyes on some gold hmpks
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