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Not quite IN my fishroom, but definitely fish related. I recently relocated my 150 gallon tub/pond from the north side of my house to the south side. This matters because the pond will get something like 50-80% more sunlight year-round. I also sold my wife on the outdoor tub idea a couple years ago by saying I would encase the tubs in a wood frame and make raised flower bed perimeters, well that never happened and here we are...I guess better late than never. Project was pretty easy, build a box out of pressure treated 2"x12"s, fill it with soil, plant flowers. Done!😃 See pics below. Added the gnome pic from the garden store because I was legit surprised that they made the mold for this guy.

Pex Piller used in tall (30"H) tank.

set up some tanks and cleaned out my much neglected fish room / office. Moved some big molly babies to the big community tank and finally got all the Pygmy corys into their own tank for maximum tiny wiggles. https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJSEBu12/

I'd say that everyone should have good kitchen knives, ones that take a good edge, stay sharp, and can handle both delicut things and be a workhorse too. Now you don't need 5 billion of them to be successful in the kitchen, but knives like other tools do have their specific jobs. But I will say once you have used a really good Japanese or German chef knife you will never want to go back. In my opinion most folks could survive with two good knives in their kitchen, plus maybe a couple good paring knives. My two most used knives pictured below are both Japanese steel one is my 10" chef knife and the second a 6" utility knife, they've been with me for years and will do most anything I call on them for. One thing to remember, knives must fit you, just like a bicycle, bra, or gloves, there is no one knife for everybody's hands. You should take some time a test drive them, go to a good kitchen shop, maybe bring your own potato and carrots to try the feel of the different blades. Oh and you don't need to necessarily buy a whole set, all of them may not fit your grip or needs.

Thanks Mr. Ed. I've always filled that tank with the python, but I've always treated the tank water first, as you said. I don't usually change that much water at one time, so I would think that played into it as well. I always refill my other aquariums using a one gallon jug that gets treated one gallon at a time. This particular aquarium sits up high and I have to use a ladder to work on it, so the python is more practical for refilling--and helps me not put off tank cleaning. Well, I could "if only I had" myself for days, but those remaining fish and my other tanks need tending. I had a great experience with the green neons and I won't hesitate to keep them in the future.

I really don't think you need to look at anything other than doing an almost complete water change without dosing it 1st. Even just regular chlorinated water could have burned the neons gills and caused them to perish, but sometimes the water company adds extra chlorine or even ammonia to remedy some issues with their system. They generally don't even tell you as the amount is well within what is safe for humans, but well over what kills delicate tropical fish. My best practice for water changes is always add the dose of water conditioner for the size of the tank (not just how much water you removed) before adding any water back in. It's not going to hurt the fish if you dose the remaining water before adding the new water, but many people find out that even though it's "usually" okay to add the conditioner after.... sometimes it's catastrophic. Better safe than sorry, always go with the safest method. I usually recommend having "seasoned" water available for water changes if you have small tanks or saltwater tanks. By seasoned, I just mean clean fresh water that's been treated / mixed and off gassed already. I don't personally do this as it's kinda overkill and my tanks are so big I'd need like a 1000 gallon container. Hopefully you have better success in the future and happy fish keeping.

I remembered that a couple of you have this same tank, so I thought I'd share what I'm working on and ask a few questions. I plan to set this up as a QT. I removed the pump, tubing and filter material. Then I used a razor blade to remove the sealant on the plastic partition that has caused everyone so much trouble. It was really satisfying to get it out of there and see I was left with a nice open tank! My questions: Do you all use this tank with its pedestal? I've never quite understood the use of it, because it doesn't support the entire tank bottom. Is there a reason for that? If there is, I've not figured it out. I'm concerned about the less-than-tight-fitting lid. The front leaves about a 1/2 inch gap and the back one is bigger, even with the light attached and the air hose going out there. Have any of you lost fish through those spaces? Has anyone removed the black vinyl from the back of the tank? If so, was it difficult to get off? I plan to run it bare-bottom with a small sponge filter. The filter has been in another tank for several months, and I also used some water from that tank too. I plan to plant a couple of clippings from stem plants (from my aquariums) in rockwool in little mesh cups to pop in there too. Any other suggestions or tips with this tank? Thanks so much!

New fish for the week of 8/31-9/6 Some super cute goldfish varieties in this week and some cool corydoras!😁 Frogs, Inverts, and Snails Amano Shrimp (medium sized on this lot) Cherry Shrimp Orange Shrimp Red Rili Shrimp Green Jade Shrimp Blue Velvet Shrimp Assassin Snail (just a few) Nerite Snail (Zebra) Mystery Snail (Gold) Goldfish Assorted Lionheads Red Cap Oranda Black Ranchu Bettas (All Betta Splendens Are Male Unless Noted) Veil Tail Crowntail White Platinum Crowntail Halfmoon Show Halfmoon Super Halfmoon Plakat Super Red (I love these, always have spunk) Gouramis And Other Anabantiformes Sunset Honey Gourami Sparkling Gourami Scarlet Badis (Wild Males, stunning once acclimated!) Leopard Bush Fish (Interesting oddball, really fun to watch stalking food) Cichlids German Blue Rams Gold Rams (Dean bred) Midnight Rams (Dean bred) Apistogramma Borelli "Blue" Apistogramma Cacatuoides "Orange Flash" Assorted Small Discus (Snow White, Yellow Melon) Corydoras And Other Catfish Corydoras Hastatus (Awesome little nano cory that is seasonal) Corydoras Sp. CW010 aka Orange Laser Cory Sterbai Cory Panda Cory Plecos L128 Blue Phantom Clown Pleco L264 Sultan Pleco Common Colombian Otocinclus L333 Yellow King Tiger Pleco (Dean bred) Loaches Kuhli Loach Reticulated Hillstream Loach Tetras Candy Cane Tetra (Absolutely LOVE these especially as they get bigger) Cardinal Tetra (Wild) Lemon Tetra Neon Tetra Red & Blue Colombian Tetra (Good big size tetra for cichlid tanks) Platinum Hatchet Barbs & Other Cyprinids Cherry Barb Panda Garra (Wild) Danios Kyathit Danio Celestial Pearl Danio Rice Fish Orange Medaka Rice Fish (Dean bred) Platinum Medaka Rice Fish (Cory bred) Rasboras Brigittae Rasbora aka Chili Rasbora Pygmy Spotted Rasbora Livebearers Assorted Endlers Male Assorted Fancy Female Guppies Assorted Fancy Male Guppies (Blue Variegated, Cobra Red, Red Mosaic, Flamingo, Sunset) Brazilian Green Moscow Guppy Pairs (Locally bred) Swordtails (Marigold) Limia Tridens Rainbows Neon Dwarf Rainbow Oddball Ornate Bichir

Guppies are also their own fry predators, and without too many hiding places, will keep their own population in check.

I have heard this is a terrible idea. So laser pointers (bad) and live food (usually good) aside, what do you do to help make sure your fish have a mentally simulating tank? My guppies and other fish in a 40 breeder seem to love the combo of a bubble wall below the filter output, and the central scaping that leaves the outer 2 inches of the tank basically a clear fish racetrack with current. Am I projecting because I have so much fun watching them? Yes. But still, what have you tried?

Yeah exactly! I can't do a big ol' school of neon tetras in a pond and expect them to make it year round. But I could with white clouds. Although I personally like the look of neons more than white clouds, so this would be a win win.

Just pulled mine from the pond over the weekend and they turned out to have quite a bit of variation. Some with very dark markings (spotted to almost full dark line) and some with very little spotting. I will say, I really like the look of the solid gold, but the others have character. I love White clouds so much it's really hard to say that I like one more than the other. Such great fish! ❤

Blumat watering spikes! I recently got into house plants with all the recommendations of pothos plants by Cory. What I didn't expect was to end up with something like 100 plants that can't be floated in an aquarium. With these spikes you can use a container up to 12" below and it will wick the water up and feed your plants. If you place the plants below the water line of your container they will water much heavier. I have used my aquariums as the containers, and the plants help me do water changes by slowly removing water.

I like the look of the second generation!

In my experience, either way works fine. I think you should try both methods at least once, just to see what you prefer. I still use both. If the clutches are laid in my El Silverado Endler tank where I raise the babies anyway, I let them hatch on their own. If the Blues in my 55 gallon lay clutches where fish will end up eating baby snails, I remove them and float them in the 40 breeder, move them to a breeder net when they are ready to hatch, and let them crawl out on their own when they are ready.

You have a near best case scenario, placing the tank against a load bearing wall with joists running perpendicular to the wall. A 75g is a similar load to 3 people sitting close on a couch which we would never expect to cause structural problems normally. If your floor already feels spongy/bouncy and/or you are going to put other heavy loads against that wall there could be cause for concern. Otherwise you'll very likely be fine. The next step would be to measure the joists and beam ect and calculate the actual wood stresses.

That's how I do it. If you leave a little runner on each side (1/4" to 1/2") they work as a great anchor in addition to the roots.

Here are a few of my birds, Luna and Duckie snacking on some millet. And my late Indian Ring -Necked Parakeet, Sonny. He loved dancing to Beyonce's "All the Single Ladies" ❤

First time fishkeeper and hobbyist. My only tank (30L) and fish.

Not sure where you live but where I am we are at max chlorine level season (July, August, September). As Mr Er mentioned they boost the chlorine (chloramine for me) to combat the critters that like the warmer weather.

My recommendation for a stand alone controller is the JBJ True Temp Digital Controller. I have used these in the past with excellent success. But because I have a Neptune Apex controller system that is what I am using now. I wouldn't recommend this because it is very expensive. I purchased the Apex a while back to control pH in a discus tank, but it can control just about anything including heaters.

As I read this I think, everyone knows that heaters are going to fail. Yep, 100% the heater will fail. I guess some people...oh wait..dang! I have 2 cheap heaters in aquariums right now. Are they hooked to a heater controller? No. I just removed them. Its probably better to have 74°F water than 90°F water. So much for any shred of smugness I may have had. This is a good reminder to stay humble. Live and learn.

Great video! And thanks again to @Bill Smith for his useful invention!

Ugh already lost some fish. The first 20 gallon I bought was one of those kits and came with a cheap tetra heater. It stuck on yesterday. Temps got well above 90 degrees in the tank and I lost one of the males and one of the females. All of the fry seemed to make it with no problems though The other male and three females all seem fine this morning too. I had planned to switch out the heater and actually had a better aqueon one on hand, but I thought I'd at least get a few months out of the cheap heater. It didn't even last two full months. I should have switched it out as soon as I got the better one. Live and learn.

Trimmed and replanted stems this morning. Made easier with co-op plant weights 👍

These are the live foods I use: Blackworms - 1/4 cup per day - I buy these from Eastern Aquatics 2 lbs per shipment - no work, but most expensive of all at $45 per pound Mosquito larva - about 3 tablespoons per day - I grow these in 10 five gallon buckets behind the garage Daphnia - about 1 tablespoon per day - Naturally occurring in a ditch in front of my house, I run the garden hose in the ditch to keep it from drying up if necessary. Whiteworms - about 1 tablespoon per day - purchased cultures on Aquabid and raise in Tupperware in a minifridge - much more maintenance than the above foods Baby brine shrimp - about 1 teaspoon per day - raise in 3 Imhoff cones - not much work, more than mosquito larva or Daphnia, but less than whiteworms

Yep, I'll definitely be introducing the tension fish at some point to see how that changes things! Thanks!

Thanks for sharing! That is a big tank. It looks like the Planted one light has a firmware update available!

I give my Big guy a snail shell to "play" with. It's just a trap door snail shell that he will grab and splash around he will carry it like a dog with it's bone. When he was only a few inches he would try to fight the air stone and "play" with the bubbles from it hence I named him bubbles. I don't feed live because feeder fish can carry diseases and my guy is a 3 foot plus alligator gar so brine shrimp doesn't cut it for him. He doesn't like to play in front of me but I have found him holding his shell. He will also swim next to where I'm standing and if I don't offer food In time he will splash me with like a gallon of water and pout on bottom for like an hour with his shell next to him.

Back from vacationing. . . Yesterday I delivered a bunch of midnight rams, gold rams, orange medaka rice fish, and L333 plecos to Aquarium Co-op.

For me it is Magnavoring in order to clean the glass on the big tank. It looks best if I do it about once a week. It takes about 30 - 45 minutes and I so often just procrastinate.

I made this for getting baby brine shrimp right down to where my Kribensis fry are instead of reaching into the tank with a pipette. Pretty straight forward build. A piece of rigid airline tubing cut to desired length. A length of flexible airline tubing. The syringe is a childrens medicine doser from Rite-aid. When feeding BBS I barely draw up the syringe so the BBS stay in rigid tube for easier cleaning. Side note: the syringe by itself, without the tubing, is handy for dosing liquid aquarium meds because it has mechanical stops at measured increments, 2.5, 5, 7.5, and 10ml.

Amanos come from a different genus than the other shrimp that you purchased and will only reproduce in brackish water. Females can become berried in freshwater but the larval young will not survive. It's rather common for Neocaridina shrimp to develop stripes down their back and it usually doesn't affect their grading (example below). The color change/translucence is likely because the rest of your shrimp are mutations within the same species. If you mix different color mutations, it's much more common that you will have wild type offspring. This is why most people will separate their Neocaridinas based on color. If you're interested in shrimp hybridization I highly recommend that you look into Caridina shrimp species (most often Taiwan bee) as the results are a lot more appealing to most people.

That is a tough question because so far the ones I have are very resilient. They don't seem picky about temperature or water quality. They do like having plenty of plants (especially floating plants) so that there is a place to retreat to if their fellow croaking gouramis are getting territorial. @Nataku, @RovingGinger, and @Wmarian all seem to have or have recently had Sparkling (Croaking) Gouramis. I am curious about their experiences and their setups. I also curious who else on this forum has had experience with them? It is one of the wonderful things about this forum that it has the power to encourage the trying of new things. I 'knew' about Croaking Gouramis since forever, but it never occurred to me to keep them. Now that I do keep them and can see how easy and fun they are it makes me wonder about all the other fishes that I have never kept.

Careful, if anyone in the house knows how they work you can be summoned home by a simple bowl of water. Ask me how I know.