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The good LFS posted a pic of one of their bigger fish: A gold spot gibbicep. 
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Eifert Posting posted:How do y'all gravel vac when you've just planted some rooted plants? I have some hairgrass that is almost uprooted just by current alone. Never gravel vac soil substrates. Ever. Soil substrates will become like mud after time, and if you vacuum it will cause cloudiness, and some report spikes of ammonia/nitrites. Even when I used fine river gravel I never vac'd it because I had good Stricta growth from the fish poop layers forming inside the gravel. Kharnifex fucked around with this message at 13:25 on Aug 23, 2013 |
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Aug 23, 2013 12:38
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SynthOrange posted:The good LFS posted a pic of one of their bigger fish: I've eaten smaller fish... Speaking of small fish my fry seem to be doing well. Egg yolks getting smaller and somehow the parents managed to round up 20 or so fry on a leaf now. I have no loving clue how they did that.
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Aug 23, 2013 14:45
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SynthOrange posted:The good LFS posted a pic of one of their bigger fish: You can see plecos like this in the streams here. It's really cool.
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Aug 23, 2013 17:09
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LingcodKilla posted:I thought they were like cories! Oh god I'm going to fish hell for thi....... Uh we'll I'm probably going to fish hell for fishing sins already. as you stare at the giant marlin mounted above your fireplace.. next to the shark.. next to the giant tuna.
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Aug 23, 2013 17:55
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Eifert Posting posted:You can see plecos like this in the streams here. It's really cool. Sadly you can see giant plecos now in most bodies of water here now. They are considered an invasive species here in Florida where asshats that buy them at the local bog box LFS sell them like minnows not bothering to tell people they have a baby that will end up growing into a two foot monster that will get dumped into our local waters.
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Aug 23, 2013 17:59
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Just bought a dozen oto's and four golden rams. Hopefully these are all the fish I am buying for some time.
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Aug 23, 2013 20:57
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demonR6 posted:Sadly you can see giant plecos now in most bodies of water here now. They are considered an invasive species here in Florida where asshats that buy them at the local bog box LFS sell them like minnows not bothering to tell people they have a baby that will end up growing into a two foot monster that will get dumped into our local waters. We've got more than that! There's breeding populations of peacock bass roaming our waterways and, honestly, probably every common South American cichlid. I've known people who kept convicts in ponds here, because I guess we needed even more roaches...
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Aug 24, 2013 00:07
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Shakenbaker posted:We've got more than that! There's breeding populations of peacock bass roaming our waterways and, honestly, probably every common South American cichlid. I've known people who kept convicts in ponds here, because I guess we needed even more roaches... Re: pbass: If you are in Miami or Dade counties in Florida, they're there because F&W pretty much said 'eff it, the native fish populations are screwed already, might as well make some sport fishing tourism revenue off of it'. They are pretty sensitive to cooler waters and salinity, so I don't think they have strayed far from where they were introduced.
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Aug 24, 2013 02:06
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Speaking of non-natives in our water, anyone able to id this fish? Found it floating dead in a local pond while fishing, and while I'm admittedly bad at IDing what we pull out of the water, this doesn't feel native to Illinois. You can see the iridescent purple in the picture, but it was even more striking in person.
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Aug 24, 2013 03:53
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Actually, it might be a pumpkinseed, a type of sunfish. They are North American natives. A lot of the illustrations show the males in orange color breeding dress, but there are blue/purplish color variants. http://www.kidsbiology.com/animals-for-children.php?animal=Pumpkinseed%20Fish
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Aug 24, 2013 03:58
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Fusillade posted:Actually, it might be a pumpkinseed, a type of sunfish. They are North American natives. A lot of the illustrations show the males in orange color breeding dress, but there are blue/purplish color variants. It could be almost any sunfish and while most of them are native to North America quite a few of them are invasive and wreck damage on the local fauna. In particular Blue Gills can over colonize a pond and stunt their own growth producing a dwarf population that nobody wants to fish for. If a predator is introduced that will eat up the population they naturally rebound to becoming larger fish... sometimes too large for bass to swallow whole. It's a pretty viscous circle of unintended consequences. Update on Momma and Poppa Angel. Running their asses off playing baby rodeo. Amazing natural instincts. I hope they dont snap and eat them all.
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Huh, how about that. Every pumpkin seed we ever pulled up was the orange-ish variety. They really are a pretty fish
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Aug 24, 2013 04:56
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dirtycajun posted:Just bought a dozen oto's and four golden rams. Hopefully these are all the fish I am buying for some time. I like your taste. I'm never keeping a tank without Otos again assuming they wouldn't just be snacks.
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Aug 24, 2013 14:49
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Okay goons, need some help. Since my cold water comes out of the tap at 91* (go go AZ summer) and this is the first year it has remained like so regardless of the weather, I set up a 30 gallon bin to cool water in. Use the Python to fill the bin, a powerhead to circulate, Prime to dechlor, and it's good for use within a few hours. But the powerhead output is too small to use a Python hose on. So do I just get a large $80 pump or go back to using buckets? Because I can't find anyone local who can take point A (the powerhead nozzle) and connect it to B (the Python tubing) with any kind of plumbing supply or smaller tube.
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Aug 24, 2013 15:00
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Eifert Posting posted:I like your taste. I'm never keeping a tank without Otos again assuming they wouldn't just be snacks. To the goon who pointed me in their direction, a sincere thank you. My extreme tank make-over: algae edition has been half fixed over night. Those fuckers work hard.
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Aug 24, 2013 15:57
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Well my babies are about two thirds gone now....
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Aug 24, 2013 20:13
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Cowslips Warren posted:Okay goons, need some help. Well, my vote would be the pump if you can get it to work that way. However, there is that expense thing. Handling 30 gals worth of buckets doesn't sound fun in any form.
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Aug 24, 2013 23:28
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Fusillade posted:Re: pbass: If you are in Miami or Dade counties in Florida, they're there because F&W pretty much said 'eff it, the native fish populations are screwed already, might as well make some sport fishing tourism revenue off of it'. They are pretty sensitive to cooler waters and salinity, so I don't think they have strayed far from where they were introduced. Yeah, I think they only go up so far as lake Okeechobee with maybe a little upstream but that's still a good amount of area, since the glades are pretty large. It's a shame they wrecked the local fauna, because it's hard to argue with how awesome the huge garfish look. One of my many pipe dream tanks is to do a native setup with warmouth or shellcracker, maybe a few bullhead cats. That's kinda Florida in a nutshell though. My house is overrun with air potatoes (kinda like kudzu, but with acorn to fist-sized tubers) and I watch the geckos chill on my windows at night to eat the bugs that come to the lights. Also: retirees 
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Aug 25, 2013 01:41
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Shakenbaker posted:Yeah, I think they only go up so far as lake Okeechobee with maybe a little upstream but that's still a good amount of area, since the glades are pretty large. It's a shame they wrecked the local fauna, because it's hard to argue with how awesome the huge garfish look. One of my many pipe dream tanks is to do a native setup with warmouth or shellcracker, maybe a few bullhead cats. Take a look at Mad Toms for your native mini catfish needs. Also there is at least a few sunfish even smaller than warmouths.
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Aug 25, 2013 02:08
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I actually had no idea what mad toms where until now, and reading up a little on them is pretty cool. I don't think I've ever caught any so they're news to me. Thanks for the heads up! The deal with wanting the warmouth and shellcracker specifically is that those are the fish I would catch when I was coming up, so it's partly a nostalgia thing. I can't really get away with channel cats or those blasted mudfish in any size tank, but mid-size sunfish seem doable. Could probably do a couple of them in a 75, but I'm already sitting at five tanks so...maybe later.
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Aug 25, 2013 02:48
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Shakenbaker posted:I actually had no idea what mad toms where until now, and reading up a little on them is pretty cool. I don't think I've ever caught any so they're news to me. Thanks for the heads up! Yah, mad toms are pretty small and mostly completely looked over by anyone fishing as either baby catfish or minnows. Look up Orange Spotted Sunfish. Lepomis Humilus. Maxes at a about 4 inches and considered peaceful.
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Aug 25, 2013 06:36
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Ah, those days when you just want to throw a $100 filter out the window. At the zoo we used Magnum 350's for every tank, so I picked up 2 that I personally use, because I didn't want to deal with new canisters: one on my adult zebras, 1 on my 90. The zebra filter started leaking bad after a cleaning, at the top of the filter, and the O-ring was no longer tight. I ordered a new one, and after cleaning everything out again, the new O-ring also isn't tight enough to keep a seal, so water sprays out whenever the filter is turned on. Is there any kind of oil or lubricant or anything I can put on this or should I just have a nice $100+ filter date with a sledgehammer? gently caress, at this rate, between the heater dying, the Python not working, and now the loving filter breaking, EVERY loving TIME I get close to completing a dry season to get these fucks to breed, it's like the fish gods are just loving with me now!
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Aug 25, 2013 15:48
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Cowslips Warren posted:Ah, those days when you just want to throw a $100 filter out the window. I have no idea of the logistics of your pumps but maybe you can use some plumbers tape to help it seal?
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Cowslips Warren posted:Ah, those days when you just want to throw a $100 filter out the window. Pics of the offending parts and areas of leakage? I am sure some of us have MacGuyvered things in the past and may be able to help.
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I'm just now getting back into the aquarium game and I think I'm doing fairly well. I do have a few problems. I think the biggest problem I'm having is brush algae. Are there any good ways to fight it? My platys have been going at it quite a bit and I'm sort of left with the problem of what to do with all the fry. Any suggestions on the them? I have a 30 gallon and I want to keep something other than just platys in there.
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Aug 27, 2013 01:25
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Ugh, I swear something's wrong with my 4 gallon shrimp tank. The water's fine but my shrimp keep dropping their eggs! Otherwise they're fine and healthy, there's no predation, they're having shrimp sex and getting berried, but the ladies will all drop their egg clusters in a week.
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Aug 27, 2013 09:28
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SynthOrange posted:Ugh, I swear something's wrong with my 4 gallon shrimp tank. The water's fine but my shrimp keep dropping their eggs! Otherwise they're fine and healthy, there's no predation, they're having shrimp sex and getting berried, but the ladies will all drop their egg clusters in a week. Terrible shrimp mothers? Pregnant? I don't want no kids?!
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demonR6 posted:Terrible shrimp mothers? Pregnant? I don't want no kids?! Sounds like my cannibal teen angel couple. I'm down to three babies separated out but I think two of them may have sucked through the cracks.
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I currently have a 20g long with 3 clown plecos and a German Blue Ram. At my wits end with the pleco poop. Originally I was hoping to breed them, but they are poop factories. I can imagine breeding them would be best in a substrate less tank with excessive filtration. I hate giving fish away, but I can't keep up with them. So cute but they apparently crap their body weight daily.
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I don't think clowns have been bred in captivity; that said they are panaques and need a ton of loving wood to eat. In short, you could breed them in a 20 gallon if the thing was filled with driftwood, heavy filtration, and you found the trigger to set them off.
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Cowslips Warren posted:I don't think clowns have been bred in captivity; that said they are panaques and need a ton of loving wood to eat. In short, you could breed them in a 20 gallon if the thing was filled with driftwood, heavy filtration, and you found the trigger to set them off. Yeah, I apparently have 1 Panaque maccus which has been bred according to planetcatfish. But one of my other two is LDA068, and third could go either way. So my odds of having a viable pair of either species is pretty low. LDA068 hasn't been bred according to planetcatfish. I guess the trigger for Panaque maccus is a good dry season/rain simulation. E: Panaque At The Disco would be a great forum handle. Just throwing that out there. Bulky Bartokomous fucked around with this message at 01:50 on Aug 28, 2013 |
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Aug 28, 2013 01:46
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They would just cling to the walls ins not get on the dance floor.
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LingcodKilla posted:They would just cling to the walls ins not get on the dance floor. Not if the band sucked. 
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What do y'all think about Jury rigging a spraybar on my fluval 106? Good idea/bad idea?
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Eifert Posting posted:What do y'all think about Jury rigging a spraybar on my fluval 106? Good idea/bad idea? I made custom spraybars for both my SunSun canister filters and threw away the poo poo that came with them. Buy CVPC (suitable for situations involving drinking water uses) and you should be good. A handful of elbows, some 3 foot long sections and some caps for the ends and you are good to go. I drilled 1/4 inch holes spaced every 1 1/4 inches to keep a good flow.
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Yesterday we put a small striped catfish in my tank along with a few new plants. This morning there is no sign of the catfish, the other fish in the tank are small as well except for the pleco who is getting a little to big for the tank. Could he have killed and eaten my catfish? I thought they dont kill other fish.
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No 1. died and got eaten, might be boney remains after 1 night 2. jumped out 3. hiding 4. hiding REALLY REALLY WELL I have a small clown pleco that I bought and never saw for MONTHS, Ive been catchling glimpses of him a lot more recently lately but usually I saw the thing every couple o months for a few seconds before it ran away again. What kind of catfish? If its a pictus, they are usually kinda active. Can't think of other stripey ones. Raphaels like to hide.
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Its a Raphael. I do have a lot of plants in the tank, both real and fake with lots of places to hide. I guess I'll just hope hes in there somewhere. Edit: FOUND HIM! Hes a super hider, my daughter had me take out all the plants and decorations to look for him and we didn't see him so we put them all back and were sitting around being all bummed out when we saw him wiggling around in a nook inside a rock. Red Red Red fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Aug 29, 2013 |
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Doradids do that. You will only ever see him MAYBE when the lights are off.
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