The Amazing Aquarium Thread- Why is Fishy Sleeping Upside Down?
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Didn't realise I would enjoy this as much as I do, I haven't had any algae blooms (yet) apart from some diatoms on plants which is pretty cool.
I did a bit of a rescape on the tank, propagated my ambulia since its now going perfectly, made a line across the back of the tank mixed with dwarf hygrophila and wisteria. In about a week I'm expecting a jungle to emerge (I HOPE).
Got a big fucking strata rock for the middle, and the Pigmy Chain sword sending out heaps of runners and filling out a bit!
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Amazon Sword flowered and a new one emerged, propogated it once it had 3" of roots
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I'm pretty sure it'll be alright. Looks healthy enough, the brown is misleading since it's more red veins in person on the new growth. Maybe I cut it too early but we'll see.
I wish I could get my hands on some Assassin snails here in Australia to clean my pest snail problem up. Too bad theyre banned from import due to dumbfucks that release them into the wild.
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They look really cute, do yours fight eachother a lot?
Only when feeding.
yo @FlakTheMighty I grabbed some of those cory wafers you linked earlier to try and get them eating something that the fighting fish can't fit in his mouth but every morning they seem to have just strewn it around the tank without actually eating it.
You might have more experience on it than me but is there some special way to change foods or am I just going to need to make a slow transition to it?
Never had that issue, I've always just been able to change the food I'm feeding.
Hate to spam you guys so much but on the topic of food, should Sera tropical flake be fine as a daily food staple for guppies/swordtails/female bettas/tetras, and hikari algae wafers for BNP/Otos every couple days?
Was thinking of also frozen brine shrimp for female bettas since theyre not super fond of the flakes.
Suggestions welcome, especially if i can pop it in an autofeeder.
Pretty much any meat eating wish will chow down on bloodworms if you can get those, my betta goes crazy for them
I don't recommend autofeeders, they either feed too much or break all the time.
Yeah, mine is great but hard to guage how much it needs to turn for a decent amount of food and not too much.
I think I may have overstepped it as some fish had white long stringy poops, i think due to over feeding.
White stringy poop is a sign of parasites usually.
Should I use medicated food?
Dosing the water should be fine but yeah you could do medicated food.
I used Prazipro for my puffers and it worked great
Found out I cant get prazipro here but I can use API general cure, which has Metronidazole and Praziquante in it, would this affect my BB in the filter?
Or could I just run it as normal (only has purigen no carbon) and then run a HOB with a carbon cartridge to clean it up?
I don't know but you have to remove carbon from your filters so maybe?
Im sort of confused on what purigen actually is, I read its biological filtration but at the same time it "gets used up" meaning its not just surface area for bacterial colonies.
It's a synthetic resin with a seachem price tag, it seems to have reduced my nitrogenic compounds in my tests, and also polishes the water. I had brownish water when running carbon, next day after purigen my tank was crystal clear. When it gets exhausted and you bleach soak it you're basically burning off the outer layer of the purigen exposing underneath which isn't perfect so I guess it loses effectiveness slowly and also gets used up. Lasts a lot longer than carbon at least.
Also, thanks Flak. I'll get the Prazipro. Do you have any other recommendations on medicines (eg; Metro Plus) I should get just in case? I need to add some more to meet free shipping requirement.
I don't really need that many more medicines so I'm out of ideas
You could grab some of the after medication meds, I forget exactly what they are called but iirc theres stuff on the market designed to assist in their recovery after the infection/parasites are removed
I believe Prime does this with its slime coat.
I ended up getting some other meds, hopefully I wont need them.
I would've just bought more Prime honestly.
God I wish I bought a python.
Oh my god theres a baby cory in my tank aaaaaaaaaaaaah!
And not like, a fresh born wriggler but a fully developed little tiny cory.
I had no idea any of them survived given how actively the betta hunts anything that moves but I realized because the java moss has grown a heap its formed a fairly tight weave between all the rocks that only something that tiny would be able to swim in and out of. He's super fast as well so I don't think the betta is ever going to catch him.
This does beg the question though, if theres one that I haven't seen up until now (i'd estimate hes at least a month old) then how many more of them are still hiding in all the plants?
So a few weeks ago my girlfriend called me while she was at work and told me about how someone decided to use goldfish as table ornaments with no plans on what to do with them afterwards. She wanted me to buy a tank right away so she could take them home and save them from being thrown out or who knows what. I'm pretty sure they just barely found homes for them at least so no one flushed any of them for not being wanted.
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I was pricing out tanks online at local stores trying to figure out the cheapest way to get something worth using and trying to find all of my left over stuff from previous tanks. My buddy happened to call me and I told him about how ridiculous it was. It just happened that his 5 gallon leaked all over his desk since he lost the little standoff for the filter and it was titled back a little. It hadn't been cleaned it in a month since it was sitting empty after transferring everything over to his 29 gallon so the filter media slowed down the flow just enough for it to overflow. He was planning on dismantling it since it was empty anyways and a 5 gallon was really what I was shooting for so that worked out way too well.
I didn't have a light for it and I refused to use a "Glofish" blue LED light with like 5 LED's in it. I bought a glass top that didn't fit and was a waste of money and used a under cabinet LED light. I also tapped a tissue to the front of the filter for a standoff...
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It's not where I plan for it to be which will eventually have a SunSun HW-603B canister filter and a bunch of other little things like an actual airstone that wasn't just tossed in there. I'm into this thing for less than you can buy a "starter kit" tank for although that mark is coming up fast. The heater, silent air pump and everything else in the tank has just been sitting around in boxes. I even have a ton of spare substrate although the tank came with the same substrate anyways. It will probably become a 10 gallon in the future when they grow since it's sitting on my first 10 gallon stand. But this is a tank for my girlfriend and it's her first tank so we'll just move through all the basics and see how it goes. I've never had goldfish either so this is a nice change from my literally nightmare inducing 29 gallon.
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I guess I've fallen to MTS finally, I've wanted a 5 gallon with a betta for the longest time. If this 5 becomes a 10, I think it's going to become a 5, 10 and a 29
Those goldfish should really be in a pond, they're commons which get massive and if you keep them in a tank they get stunted and their organs continue to grow while their body doesn't.
They also produce a lot of waste so in a smaller tank that means water changes almost daily.
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