The Amazing Aquarium Thread- Why is Fishy Sleeping Upside Down? - General

Spotted another baby cory in my tank today, I may need to either invest in something that eats eggs constantly or a deadlier filter, this tank can't handle any more than whats currently in there.

Get a tank specifically for babies and either sell them or give them to people!

While I would love to do that, I just don't have the space for another tank (muh rental) Im hoping if I price them low enough someone will want to buy all of the corys at once but I suppose if all else fails I can donate any juveniles I have to the fish store near here.

I'm sure you could get a teeny tank like 10 gallons to raise babies in to a size where you can sell them and it would be fine.

I'll buy them all if youre in Bris. Do corys like digging holes tho like bnp?

They dig in the sand but they don't really do holes.

I can't tell if my neons are pregnant or dying. Trying to get a good picture if them is nearly impossible.

Unfortunately im in melbourne, also they don't bury themselves rather they just stuck their mouths and whiskers into the sand and put around the tank leaving trails in it. If anything they actually have the opposite effect of what you would expect, anytime I cause some kind of hole or buildup of substrate within a few hours the corys have flattened it out entirely.

Actually now that I think about it, I could totally get a new set of shelfes and use the free space for another, much larger fish tank. Y u do this to me flak....

A sharehouse would kill me. You could technically get a multilayer setup with some sturdy bunnings workshop shelving stuff. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/244344/55488d54-6ce9-4672-a16c-b6fd8fe75876/img_2910.jpg Like this, looks ugly but I would never trust an ikea desk or something with an aquarium.

What a time we live in, I just ordered Ramshorn snails on Amazon

I cant get rid of mine, hitched a ride in from java moss. Bloody things eating tiny chunks off my plants. Bladder snails tho, they seem to be decent cleaning machines for me personally without eating plants

Time to perform a test https://i.imgur.com/syxXyx3.jpg

Christ and I thought I had a lot of had moss

Yeah it's gone crazy in this tank. I love it.

https://i.imgur.com/uGGhBlj.jpg

Is there some wire directing the growth of that moss or did that just, happen? Mine seems to be lazy and only grows outwards despite me trimming it almost every week

The only wire there is the fishing line I used to tie it to the rocks initially.

I've been slowly getting my new 60 gallon Axolotl tank ready. I decided to leave one end dark, so they have a place to get away from the light, and I've got some black slate I'm going to make hides with. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/225195/6f76a134-63ef-4c99-acc4-edee22c97a8d/39467696_10212439526731565_200204591923462144_o.jpg https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/225195/59325b6b-683d-45b7-a2dd-af05f875583c/39467638_10212439526851568_1526646060938690560_o.jpg

damn that thing is huge, very tall for an axolotl but it looks great and I like the stand you made. i see in the reflections you have a case of mts

Oh it still gets in the filter, I have to tear it down once a week. It's nowhere near as bad as it would be if I had this in the African tank though.

Haha, thanks. Its a bit tall, but it was 50 bucks on Kijiji so I'm not too broken up about it; just means more room for decor. And yeah the mts is very real lol. You can see the 15 gallon I've got the axolotl in now, and this guys tank https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/225195/d1186943-6bd0-4a4a-b203-d01a4765711b/20180816_122257.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/nnK0EXQ.png Lovely goldfish.

Amano shrimp are impossible to get here in Aus, so I went and got some Australian native North Queensland/Darwin Algae shrimp, they're SUPER active and crazy eaters. Seem them eat staghorn, BBA, diatoms, green algae and green spot algae! It's fucking incredible, these guys are absolute monsters at eating algae. I can barely get a shot of them being still for you guys but this is the best I could do (They keep moving so fast) https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/244344/ade56c0f-8248-42c1-8014-83ac4240980c/IMAG1400.jpg https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/244344/58d8abc2-9063-40cc-bd37-48fd17e8694e/IMAG1398.jpg Here's some better shots from another site: https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/244344/9fd8eb77-5b1c-44ac-82f8-ae5602ab84d5/image.png https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/244344/659f9131-5324-493d-b608-1f85219690b2/AquJeboShrimpDarwinRedNosed24131edited-2.jpg

This morning was all about aquascaping! https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/225195/a52e01ce-282d-494c-a2f1-c396aaab9547/20180825_084959.jpg I've got a bunch of airstones, and a big air pump, but I can't decide if I want to use them, since I don't really have any substrate to hide them in. Would there be any benefit to plants/an axolotl if I put them in?

More oxygenated water is usually a good thing.

Counting the catfish this morning Anotha one. This is getting out of hand.

Does anyone here ei dose their ferts? Im getting a bit more serious about my dosing, and Im going to double dose my "excel" which contains chelated iron, step up flourish comprehensive dosing to twice a week, then add KNO3 and KH2PO4 every couple days. Im curious because I seem to be getting an annoying amount of bba at the moment. And I cant find any real sae's in australia (only see siamese flying fox sharks) Also going to set up an automatic dosing peristaltic pump for all 4 of those chemicals so I dont miss a beat.

I was under the impression bba was generally the result of the plants growth stagnating, your running Co2 yeah? I have to constantly remove it from my tank but I expected as much given im not using any kind of Co2