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So my Betta started beefing with the shrimps so i moved the shrimp into their own tank, after moving house he started beefing with the cories so i now have 3 fish tanks going on. is this how it starts?
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Stoca Zola posted:Yes! I had a tank with rosy barbs, got them a bigger tank but they were scared, bought more fish so they could school, then got a rescue from my sister of a beacon tetra and a penguin tetra then the penguin terrorised every other fish and needed to be separated, the beacon tetra was lonely so I had to get more, none of these fish are shrimp safe so I needed a separate tank for that.... Then you need a hospital / quarantine tank, breeding tank, maybe another one to grow out any fry or to grow plants unmolested by fish or snails; maybe a tank to grow brine shrimp for fish food if you are into that sort of thing. One tank is never enough! If you're careful you might be able to stop at two or three. Well I'm currently saving up for a 5ft tank because I impulse bought an electric blue acara without knowing its potential hugeness so I think it has begun thoroughly woops. big dong wanter fucked around with this message at 08:34 on Jun 16, 2015 |
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Jun 16, 2015 07:56
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so im now up to 4 fishtanks. do i have a problem?
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Jul 9, 2015 09:48
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Stoca Zola posted:Ridiculous eh? Rosy barbs are dirt cheap as feeders or a couple of bucks once they get too big to sell as feeders, tigers I think I've seen for 6 or 7, then blam Denison's at this massive price hike, they are probably the most expensive smallish fish I've seen and I really don't know why. Can't just blame the isolation of my town either, web stores seem to have the same marked up price. Had a thought: it could relate to quarantine issues, they're pretty serious about destructive testing for some fish and maybe their source country is a known disease host. Or maybe they just don't travel well.
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Oct 21, 2015 22:51
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Synthbuttrange posted:Something's hosed up along the way. Going to throw out all the substrate and driftwood and filter material, get a whole new bunch of those. Scrub the hell out of the tank and plants before starting again. where are you getting your cherries from? i've had trouble with my colonies collapsing until i started getting cherries from different shops (the only way i've been able to keep a colony going is to add 3-4 cherries every time i get supplies and from different shops, my theory is that most shops breed them out back and the shrimp are pretty inbred)
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Dec 12, 2016 08:39
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Tony Doughnuts posted:So I've been doing headcounts and I've had a black molly and a panda molly just up and disappear. I even moved decorations around to look for corpses and there's nothing. Zero trace of them. Nothing on the floor or the table the tank sits on either. They are part of the food chain now
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Jan 5, 2017 13:51
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Currently moving house with some tanks (not too far away and the water supply is pretty much the same). Could i get some tips please? Also i forgot who it was that was having issues with Coburg Aquarium, how far away are you? I'm moving from like 3 streets north of it and really like it as a shop, i've never had any issues with the fish from there except for when one of my rams died like 2 weeks after getting it and they replaced it no questions asked (i should mention that i was there every month or so and would usually chat to the bossman). If you do want to order something from there again (i get it if you don't) i will probably be able to go there and have a look at the fish for you. Semi related, as i am now in Elsternwick, can anyone recommend me a good fish shop in the area? (subscape is great but parking is a bear)
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Nov 16, 2017 08:44
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does anyone know how to stop cories from getting stuck behind the filter? my pepper cories are being idiots and i've already lost a couple from being trapped in things in the two weeks i've had them
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Dec 14, 2017 05:59
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STAC Goat posted:I think the decision has been made that the betta is going to inherit that tank for his own for the immediate future. I won't try getting anything else in there until I'm 100% confident about him. you absolutely dont have to stop yourself at any point. in regards to bettas, my betta splendens lived in a variety of tanks at a variety of times and he was happiest in a heavily planted 20g with a few maculata and shrimp for him to harass occasionally (i probably ended up spending 300-400 on that 4 dollar fish) i also found a pair of imbellis betta (which i have been trying to find for about 2 years) and broke my number one rule of not impulse buying fish. they are however having a ball in my 35g planted endler/shrimp tank (and will hopefully prevent a frysplosion).
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Sep 9, 2018 06:31
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is there any downside for putting my air-filters on a timer? there is other filtration and i would like to get some sleep (tanks are in my bedroom)
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Jan 31, 2019 15:10
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Ok, once my new filter is cycled i'll put the pumps on a timer ( its the bubbles not the pump) and if anything goes wrong i will sue lowtax
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Jan 31, 2019 16:04
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has anyone ever dealt with black bear algae? my big tank has a real bad case, i've scraped off all of it on the glass but its all over the sponge filters and driftwood
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Mar 1, 2019 17:57
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My fav fish son was chilling on his side and im a drunken mess, anyone got any advice (hes a many year old electric blue acara) if he dies im gonna miss him a shitload
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Apr 18, 2019 16:54
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Stoca Zola posted:When Rachael O'Leary thought her elderly oscar was going to die she started doing daily water changes and feeding him some secret formula of carefully selected antibiotics in his food. He pullled through but we don't have clean well water or cheap american superdrugs like her so I don't know what to recommend. Drunken water changes probably aren't the funnest thing but if you've got a set up where you can easily do that I think its your best bet. And if he dies overnight you'll know at least he died in clean water - or it might be enough for him to hold on longer so you can have a better look at him tomorrow. And if you can't water change and he doesn't make it, maybe his time was up? Sucks either way dude and I really hope he was just having a quiet rest due to a full belly and nothing more sinister.
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Apr 18, 2019 18:23
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ok so my fish son is back to normal, would it be worth doing anything else? im probably gonna get the local fish specialist to do a housecall when i get paid next
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Apr 20, 2019 13:52
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looks like my fav fish son has passed away, any stocking ideas for a 55 gallon? also any way to nuke it to get rid of any diseases? (theres still a sepae tetra or two but i can relocate if the disinfection is harmful to fish)
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May 5, 2019 17:41
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thanks for the advice everyone, i've been drinking pretty hard since the loss of my fish son but i still have questions: i can move the tetras to a hospital tank and order fish medicine online, would that be worth it? if the fish are in the hospital tank (maybe with the plants, although my hospital tank has no light) what would nuke the old tank best(i can totally wait for the bacteria in the filters to rebuild? would it even be worth it, i've gone from 12 serpae tetras to 3 in the last few weeks so maybe its best if i empty a bottle of gin into the tank? basically i feel like a failure and could use a hug
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May 7, 2019 18:16
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i have two other populated tanks and one hospital/quarantine tank, andre (the agasizzi cichlid) and the other populated tank (other than a random shrimp dieoff) arwe both fine. i wonder if the local water people have added something weird to the mix tbh, all three tanks test ok for contaminants (ammonia etc)
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May 7, 2019 20:03
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ah gently caress, tetra population has dropped from 12 to a single one in a matter of weeks (sepae if that matters) already contacted the shop i got them from and they say they havent had any issues (i believe them since i chat with the owner semi regularly and hes been pretty honest about that sorta poo poo before) begining to think im cursed, thankfully andre is still alive
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May 14, 2019 15:24
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TKIY posted:Freshwater tank that size I'd run a school of discus, clown loaches, something exotic like a ghost knife and plant the hell out of it. everyone i know in the hobby says to run tf away from discus until you are a freshwater master, fuckin things love nothing more than to die for almost no reason. if it were me i'd get a billion endlers
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Aug 31, 2019 19:07
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Bulky Bartokomous posted:Well that escalated quickly. He died overnight in QT. RIP that fish, poo poo sucks
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Sep 13, 2019 16:59
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Decided to come back to the hobby after a series of awful tank catastrophes, i had 3 tanks full of healthy fish all just die out of nowhere, nothing on the tests, no waterchanges or anything. i simply added some plants to all of them and within a week my entire fish collection was dead. on the plus side i've got the 55 gallon set up with shramps. anyone got any ideas of tankmates that wont decimate the population? im thinking a few ottos and some pygmy cories but i kinda want something for the top chunk, maybe boraras maculata?
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Apr 19, 2020 14:34
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Stoca Zola posted:I admire your guts for coming back from a heartbreak like that The worst part is that i did everything by the book, quarantine tank and all
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Apr 21, 2020 09:58
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, that's my greatest fear - the invisible unmeasurable toxin. Some kind of algacide on the plants I guess?
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stevobob posted:It was a Bettaflo 2.5 all in one. I've put the heater and pump in the bucket, behind some rocks so he can't get to the heater, and the water is circulating. Doesn't aerate much though so I'll have to consider that. Also put his live plants in the bucket too. ive had a bunch of betta tanks and imo the minimum size for a happy betta is 20g
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May 12, 2020 19:20
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but he's a fighter so if he survives this he'll have a bigger territory to explore. Fingers crossed.
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Having a weird issue with my shramp, all the berried females keep dying before birth. i've heard that you can scrape the shrimplets off the corpse but at the price shramp are thats a few levels too gross to me lol. water levels are perfect, do i need to add any special food for berried shramp? i've added some frozen spinach to the tank that they seem to be very into eating
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May 13, 2020 16:14
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It happened again, my shrimp colony collapsed for no reason. Maybe i will be stuck with a plant only tank
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Aug 8, 2020 13:34
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Does anyone here have any experience with Betta imbellis the idea of a Betta colony appeals to me immensely
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Aug 21, 2020 14:05
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absolutely cant keep shramps alive, my water conditions appear ideal with the exception of a half dozen ppm of nitrates. i was under the impression that you needed a bit of nitrate in the water for plant growth but i have seen many planted tanks with a shitload of shrimps. for the record i get a dozen or so and in about 3 months it goes down to one or two, there are no bodies from what i observe so i imagine the other shramp ate them.
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Oct 7, 2020 15:59
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Has anyone got some tips to increase algae in a freshwater aquarium? Gonna leave my tank fallow for a while due to repeated mystery deaths and the LFS owner told me to get it full algaefied to let the ecosystem recover
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Nov 13, 2020 17:07
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Cythereal posted:you stupid loving fish New thread title imo
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Jan 20, 2021 20:15
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VelociBacon posted:every animal is hungry and horny 100% of the time because that's what ensured the successful propagation of their species
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May 6, 2021 17:24
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Enos Cabell posted:I'd love to get some shrimps for my planted tank, but so would my denison barbs sounds like you need another planted tank 
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Jan 2, 2022 17:48
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ce gars posted:I picked up a few more cherry shrimp last week and this fry accidentally got scooped into the bag as well. They let me take it since I'm sure it'd be a pain to get back out. im pretty sure thats a great white shark (congrats on the free fish)
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Jan 20, 2022 06:17
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DeadlyMuffin posted:How many eggs I get varies a bit, I think as a function of how long I leave the adults and how many of the eggs they eat. CPD love to nom their eggs, i have heard from lfs owners that they tend not to ship very well and i have also heard from other fish nerds that you often have to do quite a heavy cull. I am in australia so maybe we just have extremely weak genetics. (neon tetras for example have had a close to 50 percent mortality rate in my tanks within the first month or so)
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Feb 21, 2022 13:18
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OK so my friend who I'm starting a fish room with recently acquired some peppermint Bristlenose breeding pairs and they haven't eaten in a few days. What do
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Apr 25, 2022 14:46
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It's a 4ft, no ammonia, nitrate or nitrite. I'm going over tomorrow to have a close look. I will finish setting up the ro system and do a decent change if they want softer water
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Apr 25, 2022 16:10
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Tanks brand new, filters have been running for over a year tho. I was under the impression that the filter was where the cycle happened
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Apr 25, 2022 20:50
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Bulky Bartokomous posted:Was there anything living in the tank in that year, or was ammonia added? The cycle can’t happen until a steady supply of ammonia is introduced to the tank no matter how long this tank is run for to setup. oh yeah it had a bunch of regular bns and a couple of angelfish
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Apr 25, 2022 21:39
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Hell yeah the peppermints are eating. Gonna slowly change the water to RO because for some reason the pH is reading over 8. At some point they will need to be put into a different tank because keeping the pH is being shite
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So I've been attempting to do a side hustle of breeding tropical fish and verts with a friend(no Saltwater because Saltwater is for disgusting weirdos) and it's going extremely well. Does anyone have any advice on selling? We have far too many mystery snails. Also how do you make bristlenose breed? We have a bunch of fancy bristlenose and cannot get them to breed (both regular and peppermint). Even though I live in aus said friend is a vet so I can get any fishdrugs that are normally restricted.
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