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

I'd go for a Betta, they're pretty. Off that topic, I'm trying to figure out what these fish had at PetCo, I walked in to see if there were any little guys that were injured and needed to be saved but like every fish had some parasite or fungus growing off them, it was greenish and fairly long, ended in a "Y" shape, Google hasn't helped find out what it was.

How long does it take for the caulk in aquariums to go bad? I've been using the same tank for maybe 12 years and I wonder if it'll ever just decay and I'll come home to a wet house and dead fish

It should be ok as long as the seals aren't peeling in between the glass panels. If it looks really sketchy like it could rip though or if any cracks formed at all make sure you drain the tank so the pressure is off the seal and get the fish in a temporary tank. Mine on the 90 are starting to get algae under the silicone in a few places but not between the panels. One on my 20 has been like that for the last 2 years too. Hope I can upgrade before it needs a reseal so I dont have to deal with that shit. If it's still there after my trip I may be picking up a 250 gallon tank with a built in sump off a mfk guy who is also in san diego. Only 400 bucks which I can easily make selling the other tanks. If he wants to trade the 90 I'm down. He said he has been looking for one. Keeping my co2 system and steriliser tho at least.

[QUOTE=Vodkavia;52030658]By collector shrimp you mean ornamental shrimp? Like tigers, crystals and the like? I've thought about that, but I would need a steady source of low PH/RO water since my well water is liquid rock. There are 1 gal RO water jugs at my local super market but I forget how pricey that is. My current three top options are 1 Solitary male betta since my 30 gal is going to be a sorority 2 Some ornamental shrimp 3. Opae Ula shrimp.[/QUOTE] yea, CRS is a good start! aw man, sucks about the local water how much are they charging per gallon of R/O? sometimes LFS's will sell R/O

Well my trip is all of next week. Leaving tonight. Hope my fiance's coworker doesn't kill all my fish. He's loaded so he better finance me a new 300 gallon tank. Seems fair. :v: Oh and I will probably come up with some beginner species things and list them in the OP. Gunna be bored as fuck on the train.

He finally came out of hiding! [t]http://i.imgur.com/pML2ZAD.jpg[/t] Look at the cute little noodle!

[QUOTE=FlakTheMighty;52043151]He finally came out of hiding! [t]http://i.imgur.com/pML2ZAD.jpg[/t] Look at the cute little noodle![/QUOTE] I have a few of those too just stripped [img]http://i.imgur.com/KRvTYAh.jpg[/img] 4 of them live in this 10 gallon planted tank with 3 Pea puffers [img]http://i.imgur.com/YCFZBMM.jpg[/img] and heres my red cherry shrimp tank [img]http://i.imgur.com/oPXOwCn.jpg[/img]

Welp my Dwarf Gourami has started to do little hops out of the water when I lift the lid to feed them. Eventually he's going to jump out of the tank and break his spine, I guarantee it.

[QUOTE=FlakTheMighty;52064701]Welp my Dwarf Gourami has started to do little hops out of the water when I lift the lid to feed them. Eventually he's going to jump out of the tank and break his spine, I guarantee it.[/QUOTE] May want to silicone a piece of plastic mesh onto the back of your lid. Darice makes mesh sewing things for less than a buck. Slap it on there and cut holes for the equipment and any big gaps are safe. It's also handy for making dividers and guards too.

That's really interesting thread. I am also interested to know this. Even I have 2 Aquarium at my house and most of time I see that the fishes are sleeping near to the side glass.

Well apparently I was dumb and forgot to replug in my heaters for that whole trip after I did a last second water change. :jawdrop: No casualties though, and surprisingly the convicts and guppy tank were like 72 degrees with no issues. The big tank was at 76, lights must have kept it warm and it is in the warmer part of the room. :what: Oh and the baby salvinis all got ate. The tinfoil barb probably did it, he ate my smaller hygophilla plant too. Little shit.

Hi. I have a budget of $1000 (excluding fish) Just want to get some fresh water fish and have a low maintenance (comparatively). I want a tank on a large buffet that is up to approx 80cm wide, But i have no clue where to start or what to get. I live in Brisbane Australia, so the weather here is always warm, so a heater may not be required?

More money is always good though. In this hobby there's always things to buy.

[QUOTE=LAMB SAUCE;52091779]Hi. I have a budget of $1000 (excluding fish) Just want to get some fresh water fish and have a low maintenance (comparatively). I want a tank on a large buffet that is up to approx 80cm wide, But i have no clue where to start or what to get. I live in Brisbane Australia, so the weather here is always warm, so a heater may not be required?[/QUOTE] If you want to spend the dough on a nice setup perhaps you could order a custom acrylic tank or really nice glass one with the dimensions to fit there? They look pretty good and don't scratch if you take care of them right. I know my preowned 29 gallon still looks good even though there's one big scratch near the canopy. (Oh and the massive algae wall for fry... haha) If I'm right the 80 cm is a 2 ft tank? Is it that wide or that long? I'm guessing to fit on the counter it's like a 10 or 20 US gallon? Oh and as far as the heater if your place stays around 76F constantly I wouldn't worry, most tropicals have that as the low end of temperatures. I pull my heaters out in summer here. Save the heaters until winter. If you even have winter. :v: Some beginner fish for that would be something like a small tropical community. You could try livebearers or even a male betta with some fast tetra buddies. Oh, and cory cats are always a good choice for a beginner. If you have the cash you can get varieties from breeders that are show-quality for livebearers and bettas. I remember some guy on the forum I'm on even had rare wild caught cory cats for like 55 bucks a pop!

[QUOTE=GamerChick;52098802]If you want to spend the dough on a nice setup perhaps you could order a custom acrylic tank or really nice glass one with the dimensions to fit there? They look pretty good and don't scratch if you take care of them right. I know my preowned 29 gallon still looks good even though there's one big scratch near the canopy. (Oh and the massive algae wall for fry... haha) If I'm right the 80 cm is a 2 ft tank? Is it that wide or that long? I'm guessing to fit on the counter it's like a 10 or 20 US gallon? Oh and as far as the heater if your place stays around 76F constantly I wouldn't worry, most tropicals have that as the low end of temperatures. I pull my heaters out in summer here. Save the heaters until winter. If you even have winter. :v: Some beginner fish for that would be something like a small tropical community. You could try livebearers or even a male betta with some fast tetra buddies. Oh, and cory cats are always a good choice for a beginner. If you have the cash you can get varieties from breeders that are show-quality for livebearers and bettas. I remember some guy on the forum I'm on even had rare wild caught cory cats for like 55 bucks a pop![/QUOTE] I say get some mollies and cories or guppies and cories.

I've been meaning to maybe grab a few mollies although I haven't seen any decent ones lately. Petco does have a thing now tho where it's 20% off guppies platies and mollies, plus 15% off with the rewards card thing. Maybe I'll go over there again, lucked out with my tinfoil barb so I may give him a buddy. Been meaning to go to the lfs anyways.

I recommend driving around your neighborhood and seeing if anyone is trying to throw one out or sell it at a garage sale. We got our MASSIVE aquarium(5 feet long, 3 feet wide, 3 feet high) when my mom was coming back from work and saw one of our neighbors taking it to the curb. I had my iguana in it until he died(I know it's a he because I saw his huge iguana cock one time). I wish I still had it but my dad thought it would be a great idea to give it away without consulting any of us about it.

I would go bankrupt if I found a 5x3x3. [editline]16th April 2017[/editline] I don't think I could get that into my house. Does that even fit through standard doors?

For sure once I move into a place we own in a year or 2 I'm making sure the doors are fat as fuck. Need my 1500+ gallons. I NEED IT NOW. but the doors to my place now are only 36" wide. Even moving the 90 in here which is half of that was a pain in the ass because of the weight too. Yikes. We are thinking of getting a manufactured house or mobile home (like a triple wide) though since it's the only thing remotely affordable around here. Does anyone know if the floors can support any major kind of weight? (Well not 1500 gallons until we have a real house, more like 250 as an upgrade, at least needs to support my 90 gallon) or would I need to build some sort of outdoor fish room area? Was thinking a greenhouse thing on a concrete slab in the yard somewhere. I would also rig that shit up with solar panels/batteries, which I can't do here since we face north. AGH.

I thought the rule was to never have more than one male betta in a tank unless it's gigantic.

Too bad there doesn't exist a fish that evolved to be a bouncer and break up betta fights

The change is probably on the dominant one I'm guessing. IIRC some cichlids will do kind of the same, where like a less dominant male will change colors to blend in better with females or something like that. IDK. Strange. Maybe she got nipped at and it's growing back too? I know male bettas sometimes eat their own tails. Could be that haha. Also last week was ehh. My powerhead for my uv's impeller broke so I had to buy a new one. I just bought a whole new cheapo sunsun one, it was basically the same price as the marineland impeller, 10 bucks on amazon with prime, not bad. Then I was cleaning my canister and it back siphoned since I didn't set the quick release right, spilled like 10 gallons on the floor and I almost got zapped. On the bright side I was able to finally set up a drip loop with ghetto looking zipties, I guess that cured my laziness on that issue. :scream: Oh and the new mollies I got have adjusted well to the 20. The guppies like them and no babies were eaten. I still can't see a gravid spot on either big female, maybe they were never impreggoed at the petco? The male is a beast though, he needs to be bred for sure. I think the the future I will try getting the wild type poecilia velifera and breed them. Supposed to be a bit of a challenge and somewhat hard to get a hold of. Or liberty mollies. Those are cool.

Liberty Mollies look kind of like a big guppy. [t]http://www.cosmicaquarium.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/CAF015-Red-Tuxedo-Guppy.jpg[/t] [t]http://www.akvaryum.biz/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Poecilia-Gilli--300x243.jpg[/t]

i use to have a goldfish for 2 years and it died

I had fish in the dream I had last night but in that dream I thought that the way you bred fish was by beheading them

Oh damn never new FP had an aquarium thread, I've actually just set up a tropical tank now that I've moved out of my parents joint so I may need to check in here more often. [editline]25th April 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=LAMB SAUCE;52091779]Hi. I have a budget of $1000 (excluding fish) Just want to get some fresh water fish and have a low maintenance (comparatively). I want a tank on a large buffet that is up to approx 80cm wide, But i have no clue where to start or what to get. I live in Brisbane Australia, so the weather here is always warm, so a heater may not be required?[/QUOTE] Just for reference I set up my 2ft tropical for about $600 (excluding fish) and that includes a rather expensive canister filter and a lighting setup for live plants (though I cheaped out and got stuff that isn't dependent on injected CO2).

So uh, any of you guys good at identifying snails? I've had my tank set up for about 3 weeks now (cycling) but decided to put a hardy plant in it from the get go, plants been growing surprisingly well for a tank full of amonia but today it turns out a snail egg (there may be more idk) hitched a ride with the plants and has recently hatched, I now have a very tiny snail roaming around the glass of my tank. If he's the right type then its a welcome surprise (I actually have an algae growth in the tank due to using sand but it should run out of food eventually, keeping it in check by removing portions of it every water change so it isn't growing) but i'd like to be sure he isn't species that will just flood my tank with eggs. Unfortunately he is way too tiny to get a photo so im going to have to wait for him to grow a bit

My water's cycle got fucked up a week or so ago. Luckily the only fish I've lost were two guppies, but it's finally starting to get back to normal.

Maybe you cleaned the filter too much? Must have been a mini cycle. Also I am probably gunna upgrade my 90 soon, emailed some people on craigslist. That seal is getting me nervous. [QUOTE=archival;52162843]So uh, any of you guys good at identifying snails? I've had my tank set up for about 3 weeks now (cycling) but decided to put a hardy plant in it from the get go, plants been growing surprisingly well for a tank full of amonia but today it turns out a snail egg (there may be more idk) hitched a ride with the plants and has recently hatched, I now have a very tiny snail roaming around the glass of my tank. If he's the right type then its a welcome surprise (I actually have an algae growth in the tank due to using sand but it should run out of food eventually, keeping it in check by removing portions of it every water change so it isn't growing) but i'd like to be sure he isn't species that will just flood my tank with eggs. Unfortunately he is way too tiny to get a photo so im going to have to wait for him to grow a bit[/QUOTE] Most likely it is a ramshorn or something like a malaysian trumpet snail, they are considered pests but they are pretty cool if you can keep the population down. They will eat algae and cucumbers are a favorite too.

Old seals are actually nightmare fuel to me. Also update, seems he's just a standard pond snail judging from the curl on the back thats formed and his coloration. I'd be tempted to leave him in there for now as I have nothing else in there to clean stuff but if he starts to lay eggs then ill have a problem. I've heard trumpet snails are good because they dig up the sand alot thus stopping gas from forming and killing any fish that digs it up but if im going to be putting corries in there they will probably just do that anyway yeah?