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booshi posted:Yay I can chime in with a few things because all of my experience comes from ponds (my teenage years were spent working in the water gardening department of a nursery). I live in San Jose CA, so we do get down near freezing on some Jan/Feb nights. I think I should be able to let the pond go safely well into November as our falls are pretty warm. I think I may need to replant my immersed stuff soon - the pots they came in are pretty small.
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cheese posted:Thanks, will do! How much sun would be too much sun for those plants? One of the shoots on the frogbit turned brown and a few of the golden candle leaves on the side that gets morning sun are starting to shrivel a bit. Direct sunlight for extended periods of time would cause what you are experiencing especially if the plants did not initially come from similar conditions so your choices are move it to where it will get some more shade or see what plants work / won't work. SOrt of like when plants like crypts etc. get transplanted wilt when you move them into a new tank.
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Malalol posted:A mild rant while im on break. You should print out that picture of my goldfish next to the ruler and post it in your fish department. That fish is only 3 years old too.
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Had him for 3 years? 4-5 inches is already pretty big... but I do tell people those 2.50 2 inch goldies will get that big in a few years. i did mention your goldfish to that lady 
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Malalol posted:Had him for 3 years? 4-5 inches is already pretty big... but I do tell people those 2.50 2 inch goldies will get that big in a few years. I found him in a lake in 2010. This fish is actually 9-10", but in that photo he was about 3" away from the glass and was at an angle. He's bigger than my (smallish) hand with fingers outstretched. The other goldfish is slightly smaller, bought in late 2009 and got to 5" in a year and a half. Goldfish live 15+ years if cared for properly.
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so I tried to take some of the advice and rescape things a bit. Made it a bit more symetrical but now i'm forced to wait for some more of it to grow out and up to fill in the spaces I left. I do have a few points I'd like to ask about though; the rotala indica i'm going to hop grows vertical enough in the lesser lighting that it will be ok (used to be front and center in the middle), and should i keep the penny wort on hte left? If so where would be a good place for it. While at the LFS I saw the HC covered log and decided to splurge on it, and pray to the lighting and CO2 gods that my setup will be enough to keep it there and maybe even spreading. So, what should be rearranged for a better look? Thanks guys http://imgur.com/qtbEqkx
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That rock in the center seems out of place. I think it would look better off to the left near the tall plants.
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Lacrosse posted:That rock in the center seems out of place. I think it would look better off to the left near the tall plants. Yep, it's a pretty well-accepted tenet of aquascaping to put something like that off-center. If it does well, it'll carpet out from wherever the rock is, and it can look really, really neat if it's happy enough to do so, even before it manages to cover the entire substrate. Overall, it looks like you're moving in the right direction. The hardest part now is forcing yourself to be patient and let it grow in a little to see if you really like it how it is when it's grown in.
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Toussaint Louverture posted:Look at their little potbellies. LOOK AT THEM! whats up potbelly bro 
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So today one of my tanks possibly sprung a leak. I am unsure if it was a capillary action thing on the aquatopia's plastic housing, because I overfilled it, or an actual leak. I lowered the water a little bit, and use some two part plumbing epoxy near one area. Seems to have stopped. Here is a shot of my Betta tank. 
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So I come once again seeking advice. I seem to have a bit of a guppy problem. I made the mistake of getting some guppies because hey they look cool. I under estimated their ability to multiply and now have a swarm of them. Any advice on how to remove them other then just netting them? The little bastards like to hide amongst my plants making that fairly difficult. I would just toss my severum in there for a couple days and see if that helped but I know my shrimp wouldn't last.
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Ugh. I had to euthanize Max a little while ago. I came in to feed the fish this morning and he was sitting there perched on a plant near the surface. His fins were looking more and more ragged by the day, losing all color and you can tell he was struggling to maintain. We fed him one last meal, and then I decided it was for the best. It's a betta, why am I a wreck now.  Pardon me if I go afk from the thread for a while.
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So I will be picking up my glass tank on Friday but I also picked up a 2 gallon rimless to keep a Betta in until he can go in the 30. My girlfriend and I found a lovely grey/blue Betta that we have named Gorsh. Pics will come later when we find the box our camera is in.
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I went to a garage sale today. For $25 I came home with this:   + about 80lbs of rock. It's a 55 gallon aquarium with a canopy, and a magnum 350 canister filter. All it's missing is the stand, glass top, and aquarium light. It'll probably be a few weeks until I can pick all that up. I'm tempted to make a 3D background for it, since it'll be sitting around empty for a few weeks anyway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es76DnaQDwI Lacrosse fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Jun 30, 2013 |
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Sick fish I had a gold danio that died recently with this sore on its caudal base ..it seemed to get worse but it was still swimmingly actively so I thought nothing of it except to keep water clean until it up and died. Other fish are all fine until I see another danio with one pop eye. And it got worse over the week until it become 2 bad eyes and red spots all over her body and today the fish looks like its skine exploded  last week  today  I started furan-2 yesterday, I've been depressed all week about this poor thing and had a nightmare last night that I woke up to half my tank dead. uuugh. It doesnt look good for that fish but maybe I can wipe out whatever bacteria is hanging around..I dont know how else to help it along. Theres some salt in there. I dont want to quarantine it because Im sure its still a speedy thing that Ill have to chase with a net forever and stress it out x100 and hurt its body and eyeballs while I net it out of the water. Water is showing alright except for 40 nitrates..which I figured was okay since I needed a nitrogen source for all the plants, I will be diong more water changes according to the medication instructions.  I dont have a very colorful tank but the big ol swimming danios are one of my favourites in there  found a mysteryfish last week that I picked up too since it looked like some sort of danio/rasbora.  my molluskythings arent too happy either (spot the baby bristlenose!) and Im wondering what I should dose to help it out. water is super super super soft. on the tetra test strips, it read <75gh, 0 kh, and pH looks under 6.2. I threw in cuttlebone before and I will add more baking soda, but Im not sure what else would be a good source of calcium/minerals for shelly dudes. Finally some potential pairings  These 2 I put outside in a bin and theres a bubblenest but not sure about eggs  hes possibly going with a female that should be shipped today! 
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Jun 30, 2013 22:03
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Oh god that danio. Hope it pulls through, but realistically that looks pretty drat bad. Quarantining it?
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Lacrosse posted:I went to a garage sale today. For $25 I came home with this: You probably already know this, but you should take that tank outside (or in a garage or something) and fill it up and let it sit for at least a few days. Garage sale tanks are pretty notorious for leaks. A friend of mine learned this the very hard way.
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Kharnifex posted:Hello, Ok so I was going to reply to this but then my keyboard died, it's currently in pieces and I've got a USB one now. Heh. Temp was about 78, though the week before he died it somehow climbed up to 82. Not sure if it was from the spazzy weather (It's 90! It's raining! It's 90...) messing with ambient temperature or if the heater malfunctioned. We usually use Marina or Fluval heaters. It was an adjustable. We got the temp down when we noticed he was a bit lethargic....and he seemed to perk up, but he wasn't eating much. Water here is soft. The exact water params I don't have but the last time I'd checked them all the ranges were normal - no screaming red nitrite or green ammonia. The tank had also just been cleaned that same week and I went over it good with a gravel vac. He was the only fish in there so couldn't have been that much poop... I had given him some bloodworms that night and later he had a round belly, we thought maybe he'd finally eaten his fill, but the next morning his belly was hard and he had an ouchie on his bottom lip. Given the situation we had last month with our eel I decided to praz the tank. The ouchie got worse - it was a white circular spot like scale scrape at first, but then it filled in red in the center and got larger. He also had some suspicious redness elsewhere on his body. I did some googling and it looked like signs pointing to bacterial infection so I added erythromycin. A few hours later he was gone and he had even more spots on him, white, slightly raised, and the ulcer on his lip was a full on hole. He was gone by then, but I looked at him for a long time and looked at disease pics for even longer and I think it was Columnaris. The last thing I'd seen him eat was freeze dried bloodworms. I threw away that package just in case. In happier news, we've got three b.channoides fry left which are big and happy, and a new female adult to keep daddy company. AND an air conditioner. The Oncoming Storm fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Jul 1, 2013 |
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All of my bacopa melted.  For a while, the melt looked like it was only on the bottommost segments. A few days ago, the whole crop went to poo poo and I threw it all out. Ugh, how annoying. Wisteria still looks like crap so I've decided to float what remaining nubs I have and see if that's helping.Oh the upside, my red ludwigia looks great and I think my corkscrew vals are doing well! I had some melting happen with the Marsilea quadrifolia after I replanted it but that's more or less stopped and I'm seeing some new growth.
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Recently MY GIRLFRIEND and I decided to try feeding our Red Eared Slider live food for once. He's about 3 years old and plenty big so we purchased a dollars worth of Rosy Red Minnows at the local pet store. Our turtle loves them after years of pellet and freeze dried shrimp. Problem is I think I've taken a liking to the remaining two rosy reds and want to keep them around. Currently they're in a tiny 0.5 gallon carry-case tank, while our turtle is in a 5.5 gallon tank, soon to be replaced with a 15 gallon due to arrive any day now. My hope is to move the rosy reds into the turtles old 5.5 tank, add filter/gravel/light/decor, and keep the little guys alive while introducing healthy quarantined friends as time goes on. They seem like the perfect low-maintenance fish and a convenient food source for our turtle should any of them kick the bucket. Does anyone have any tips for this approach, or advice to improve the odds of these 10 cent guys survival?
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Ema Nymton posted:Hi there, I'm a cat person but I'm looking to buy an aquarium filter to build a water fountain for my cats. My cat fountain aquarium works so far. I tried a Tetra 1-3 gallon filter first but it needs a container too tall for a cat fountain. So I got a Tetra 10i with 11 filters on eBay for $25. It works in shallow water reptile tanks and uses Bio Bags and/or medium filters with carbon chips. I'm glad they changed the name-- the first thing I think of when I hear "Bio Bag" is  I think this was a good plan compared to buying a filtered cat fountain. A cat fountain with no replacement filters costs the same or more. I put it in a clean cat pan, and it doesn't have a cap so I put some foil on top. The cat who demands I turn the on faucet for him seems to enjoy drinking right from the water flow. (sorry about the crummy cell phone pics)
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eggyolk posted:Recently MY GIRLFRIEND and I decided to try feeding our Red Eared Slider live food for once. He's about 3 years old and plenty big so we purchased a dollars worth of Rosy Red Minnows at the local pet store. Our turtle loves them after years of pellet and freeze dried shrimp. I got ten of them for my 20g crawfish tank. After spending six months with the buzz saws of death and 6 are still alive and pretty drat big. I'll never know if they died from disease or got caught because non moving edible stuff disappears in an hour.
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Goldmund posted:You probably already know this, but you should take that tank outside (or in a garage or something) and fill it up and let it sit for at least a few days. Garage sale tanks are pretty notorious for leaks. A friend of mine learned this the very hard way. If it didn't come with the canopy and the filter, I wouldn't have bought it. I'm definitely going to test it for leaks, but I'm pretty hopeful because it looks to be in excellent condition. The person was moving so that's why it was so cheap. Also I think they did saltwater wrong, because it came with a bunch of plastic plants and rocks, but no protein skimmer or any evidence of live rock. In the meanwhile, I went to the LFS and came home with this:  It's an African algae eating goby. Anyone have any experience with these guys? There's not much out there on the web.
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eggyolk posted:Recently MY GIRLFRIEND and I decided to try feeding our Red Eared Slider live food for once. He's about 3 years old and plenty big so we purchased a dollars worth of Rosy Red Minnows at the local pet store. Our turtle loves them after years of pellet and freeze dried shrimp.
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Ok here's a picture of my new free tank with stand, hood and built in wet dry filter. Anyone good with conversion numbers? It's four feet long, fifteen inches wide and eighteen inches tall. How many gallons is that?
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56 Gallons. Is it me, or are those weird dimensions for a 56? Not to take anything away from it though, looks great. Do you have a plan for it yet?
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Zaffy posted:56 Gallons. Is it me, or are those weird dimensions for a 56? Not to take anything away from it though, looks great. It's certainly some sort of long tank. I plan on going full planted with amazon river plants, drift wood and to move my mated angels into it when completed. Cory and some sort of schooling tetra too big to he stuck in my angels mouth too.
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eggyolk posted:Recently MY GIRLFRIEND and I decided to try feeding our Red Eared Slider live food for once. He's about 3 years old and plenty big so we purchased a dollars worth of Rosy Red Minnows at the local pet store. Our turtle loves them after years of pellet and freeze dried shrimp. Oh, dude, I hope you maybe mis-typed something. You've had a turtle in a 5gal for three years?? That's ... really awful. The 15gal is "better" but really it's no where near good enough. Slugworth is totally right about any aquatic turtle needing as much space as possible. I had a 9" African helmeted turtle for many years. I rescued him from bad conditions where he was living in absolute filth in a 20gal with a regular aquarium filter meant for a 10 gallon. We moved across the country and he got a 40 gallon breeder tank that was still honestly a little too small for him. I used a pond filter to turn over the tank like 200 times an hour and it still got fouled pretty quickly (turtles are gross). Please upgrade your tank!! Re: rosy reds. I kept my turtle tank stocked with minnows for that guy. He mostly loved them. Sometimes he'd rampage around and bite them all in half just for kicks I guess, and other times he wouldn't touch them for weeks. That was really cool because when they're big and strong and healthy from swimming in the high-flow water all the time they are actually really neat fish. Mostly he'd just snack on them, though. I wouldn't necessarily feed your turtle dead minnows, if your pets should die. They likely would have died of some disease and it's not a great idea to feed sick food to any animal...
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The Oncoming Storm posted:Ok so I was going to reply to this but then my keyboard died, it's currently in pieces and I've got a USB one now. Heh. If I was going to breed betta macrostoma I'd start with maybe a 2 foot tank, basic led lighting and some hardy anubias. Substrate wise, Up Aqua soil substrate, and underneath that some ADA powersand. Driftwood etc. You need to maintain Ph between 4 and 6! I'd have a fry tank next to it, using the same water as the main tank. (maybe you would need a sump to achieve this.) If you do get fry, put them in a fry trap in the main tank for eventual move to the fry tank. Filter wise, I would use a small Hob with a shrimp guard on the intake. Heater wise, Use something like a shogun or Eheim Jager thermostatic heaters. You want something with a real thermostat. If you are still worried, you could use a chiller. Maintain 20-25 degree C.
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It looks like you have my exact aquarium Ling. That's a Seaclear System II, 55G (a bit less because of the air space in the filter). Based on its age, and experiences I've had with mine here are a few things to watch out for. The intake hose from the pump to the front of the tank may tear off, requiring you to constantly reseal it with poor silicone because the tank is still mostly full of water, fish and plants. Or your wet dry system may become clogged leading to not enough water getting through the filter flow on the back top left, causing pressure to build up in the tank and break through the silicone holding the top of the plastic to the overflow and trickling through that way. In either of these cases, http://www.amazon.com/One-Shot-Black-Pond-Sealant/dp/B004INC2ME/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1372732652&sr=8-1&keywords=gold+label+aquarium+sealer will be your best friend. On several occasions your fish will wind up in the filter. Have a good net handy for those frustrating moments. Also you won't be able to have very deep sand or gravel beds because of how near the floor of the tank the return holes are situated. Those moments aside, this is a great tank that I also got from a garage sale and love. Good luck! E: In fact you have the same stand I do, though mine came with some awesome power strip alterations. If you're still looking for lighting and want to go down the T5HO route, I just upgraded to an LED system and have my two old ballasts and bulbs. PM me for more info if you're interested. Mocking Bird fucked around with this message at 03:43 on Jul 2, 2013 |
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Kharnifex posted:If I was going to breed betta macrostoma I'd start with maybe a 2 foot tank, basic led lighting and some hardy anubias. They had a soil substrate with some gravel on top. The tank they had was a 20 gallon with basic lights and a variety of plants including anubias, crypts and clover. We are going to be trying this again in future with a 40 gallon breeder, I will probably put in a divider if fry happen. Eheims are AWESOME (we have a canister for our 33 long) but spendy...likewise I bet the heater won't be cheap. The 40 is getting a custom stand built and it'll be upstairs where the AC is, thank goodness. The downstairs tank was supposed to be temporary but things happened. Dang. I'm really getting into this fish breeding stuff. The b.channoides fry (Yancy, Philip J and Philip J) had their first taste of big fishie food today - live blackworms! It was hilarious to watch a little fish chomp down a worm almost as long as he was. Thanks for the advice. Our second attempt should go better, I hope...I loving love wild bettas...
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Trilineatus posted:It looks like you have my exact aquarium Ling. That's a Seaclear System II, 55G (a bit less because of the air space in the filter). Based on its age, and experiences I've had with mine here are a few things to watch out for. The intake hose from the pump to the front of the tank may tear off, requiring you to constantly reseal it with poor silicone because the tank is still mostly full of water, fish and plants. Or your wet dry system may become clogged leading to not enough water getting through the filter flow on the back top left, causing pressure to build up in the tank and break through the silicone holding the top of the plastic to the overflow and trickling through that way. In either of these cases, Boy I got a lot to learn about wet dry systems. You mentioned something about return holes being near the bottom but I can't find any holes and when I filled it up the back area didn't fill up until it went over the top.
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Some have returns on the bottom, others have a pump that just pushes water back out over the top.
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So taking another look at the way your filter looks, it seems like you have a partition in the middle that doesn't extend to the sides (whereas mine does). Thus, it seems likely that your filter is slightly different than mine. I like mine because its a great spot to put the thermometer, pH meter, Heater, UV light filter, and CO2 diffuser (plus the actual filter material, its amazing). What do you plan on using for your filter materials?
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Trilineatus posted:So taking another look at the way your filter looks, it seems like you have a partition in the middle that doesn't extend to the sides (whereas mine does). Thus, it seems likely that your filter is slightly different than mine. I like mine because its a great spot to put the thermometer, pH meter, Heater, UV light filter, and CO2 diffuser (plus the actual filter material, its amazing). What do you plan on using for your filter materials? Man I have no idea. This is my first tank I've ever owned over 20 gallons and I have only ever had hang off the back penguin filters. I'm willing to go go slow to make sure I get this right and I got a decent track record of keeping my fishy friends alive. First thing first. I've established there is no leaks. Now to clean up the bag o' filter stuff to see if I can recycle any of it or start with all new stuff. The hood is in fairly poor shape due to moisture damage. Going to have to replace some of the wood. Since my current tank is well established I can really take my time on this project.
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Omg! I got eggs! Somebody layers eggs last night on a sword leaf plant! While it could have been a Cory there are a ton of them and they usually lay them on the glass all random! It must be my angels! Whee!!
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Well my new Betta shredded his tail sometime in the last 24 hours, so I'm taking out all the fluorite, I think that is probably what did it. So now he will have a glass bottomed tank unless I find some cheap substrate I like. Time to buy medication. 
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Nice eggs Lingcod! They'd appreciate a dab of egg-safe antifungals. Chichevache: Is flourite really that sharp? What else do you have in your tank?
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SynthOrange posted:Nice eggs Lingcod! They'd appreciate a dab of egg-safe antifungals. He has a large, for the tank, fake plant and a decent sized chunk of Ohko stone. It is possible it is a bacterial problem, but if so it went from looking good to tears in his tail fin in less than 24 hours. He also has a Jebo mini filter on the tank. I don't think my red flourite is that sharp, but for soft fins like his I could see it possibly being the issue. He wedges himself under the plant occasionally.
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