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Want out to catch a few plecos a few weekends ago. In manoa stream Oahu Hawaii. We also caught some Mollys

Me on YouTube: “All the fish in this community tank get along GREAT!” Threadfin Acara: “🐟💭” Me the next day: “Now where are those tetras?” Experienced Aquarist: 😂 —————————— 🧙‍♂️“... if it can fit in the mouth, it will eventually go there!”

I love the look of that flask. Something from a mad alchemist's workshop 😄

Today I water tested my cycling tank and preformed a water change on a holding tank I prepared for a betta fish that was arriving today. Added some extra tannins, leaves, and a tad amount of salt. Few hours later, he’s arrived and is all well! I took photos of him in his little bag, and acclimated him afterwards. He was released into his holding tank, adjusted to the remaining parameters, and has been exploring and nibbling leaves since then 🥰

@Brandy asks above about how much Easy Green is in 1 pump of Easy Green? I have tested this several times on different pumps and different bottles and it is never more than 0.7 mL and never less than 0.6 mL. Here is a test from a few minutes ago. 16 pumps into a 10 mL calibrated volumetric flask. Which yields a result of 0.625 mL per pump.

Birding! And bird photography. Probably even more a passion right now than being an amateur aquarist. I used to compete at a lot of regional chess competitions. Love playing the beautiful game. ¡¡¡Visca el Barça!!!

I really enjoy rose gardening but oddly never considered that a hobby.

Hello fellow Aquarium fans, My name is Will and I am back in the hobby since 2015 after a few years break. I am a US citizen but live in Europe and as of 2015 in Berlin, Germany. It has been really fun to cross the German / USA hobby worlds and I am currently enjoying the access to the quality products and fish that are in Germany. But I am a total fanboy of the Youtubers from all over the world of course including the Aquarium Coop gang! I would call my style 'Aquascaping light' and as my wife and I live in a relatively small apartment I currently just have have a 30l (8 gallon) and 60l (15 gallon) tanks. Up until July I also had a 330l (87 gallon) tank but broke it down and sold it. Hopefully, fingers crossed, in the future when we move into a bigger place I can invest in a 450l tank. I uploaded a few pics of my current and past tanks over the last few years and am excited to participate and learn on the forum!

I am so excited I can't wait to share. Ive been sitting on this 30g acrylic tank I snagged off marketplace. The end of the year has been hard for me with everything going on. Work is hard. People are over it and I get it. So am I. This week I finally decided it was time to get moving on the tank. I got the hardscape in and organized all th4 hardware. I am running and oase thermo 100. I have an aquarium coop sponge and airstone as well in the corner for a little extra as well as a backup filter if I lose power (happens rather a lot around here). Mom wanted to take a mother daughter trip to the fish store and it was a lot of fun! She might not be too interested in the fish, but she had a good time using her gardeners eye and picking out plants and visualizing how they would go in. To my surprise she came down and pointed out where she saw stuff going while I did thr planting. I got the canister hooked up and running and now its just a waiting game. Planed stocking are some blue eyed rainbows (havent settled on thr exact variety as of yet) slme threadfins and a school of corys. The pictures aren't the best because the tank is still cloudy but I was too excited to wait to share.

I use an even easier solution. Under-powered heaters. The aquariums lights add 2 - 3 °F during daylight hours allowing the aquariums to reach almost 79°F. But when the lights go off at night the aquariums drop back to 75 - 76°F. Here are three 40 gallon aquariums I am currently tracking below: By using 50 watt heaters in a 40 gallon aquariums the heaters run continuously. This results in a sine wave like day night differential. And because the lights are on a seasonal schedule that tracks local sunrise and sunset turning on a minute later each morning and turning off a minute earlier each evening (at least for a few more days until this process will reverse) the heating sine wave follows this seasonal lighting schedule.

clown pleco's get about 5" max size, so youre good there. barbs can be a little agressive or nippy, but the danios are fast enough its likely not a problem.

i agree with the above. anubias, and java ferns are probably the easiest aquarium plants to keep, and they look good.

Easy plants to grow and Javan fern anubis and vallisneria got well in low tech tank

Books are great as a teaching aid I have about 100 books on fish care breeding disease habitat really enjoy reading them

11 guppies and 7 rasboras (1 unfortunately didn't make it) are now in the 20 long. It is going to be a pretty active tank

🤭 🤩 Daniel is officially a man of aquarium legend! Check out his interview with Randy Reed over on the Aquarist Podcast, Ep. 93.

I think I have hydra in both my fry aquariums and in my aquariums with ghost shrimp. I definitely wouldn't use anything chemical to get rid of them. Personally, I think they are cool interesting members of the ecosystem, but others don't share that view. I don't have any hydra in aquariums with adult fish in the tank. I have seen sparkling gouramis, guppies, swordtails, all munch down on a hydra, and if your aquarium has any livebearers or gouramis you will probably have zero hydra. Their population drops drastically also when there is no free swimming food for them to eat. The reason my fry aquariums have hydra is because I feed those aquariums baby brine shrimp and baby Daphnia. Once the food source is cut off, the hydra disappear. Here is a hydra in one of my baby sparkling gourami green water aquariums catching baby brine shrimp.

The green water is the food for the tiny things that your fish feed upon. The green water is like green grass in a pasture in that it only needs strong light and fertilizer to grow. What makes the green water green is free floating single celled algae. The tiny things that eat green water are typically Daphnia, cyclops and rotifers with Daphnia the being largest and the rotifers being so small they are nearly invisible. A large baby fish like guppy fry could eat small Daphnia, but tiny babies like sparkling gourami fry can only manage to eat rotifers. Without the green water, I couldn't grow rotifers. And without the rotifers It would have been hard to grow baby sparking gouramis. Here is a baby sparkling gourami living in a green water aquarium and eating a rotifer.

If you put some of that water in a tank, add some liquid fertilizers and plenty of light it will stay green. As for the little creatures, you're probably referring to daphnia. They feed on the green water, and then you can net them out and feed to your fishes.

You could silicone in a piece of glass directly under the brace to both sides before it gets worse and the tank bows. once it dries it will be rock solid and the plastic will still hold up your lids. I reinforced one of my tanks this way. It had some damage to the brace from a really hot light melting it. this can be done leaving the fish in the tank as long as the brace hasn't cracked fully and the glass is still being held where it's supposed to be. you can just drop the water level and glue it the nice thing is you can put a really thick layer of silicone on top of the glass and squish it all the way up to underneath the brace and tie all of it together as one big blob

I'll bet I'm not alone in hoping this happens before I need another.🙂

They are cute little things! They all come to greet me when I sit by the tank...so polite and hospitable. And they're growing, too...I feel so proud! 😄

The male is showing some aggression tonight. I'm guessing there will be breeding tonight or tomorrow. Typically I am able to tell because of the pinch mark from the male latching one stays around for about a day or so. That should give me enough time to collect a few eggs.

Not the best photo but I have my first berried shrimp! It’s a blue neo from the Coop😊 This one seems to be a blue rili. It’s funny cause last night, my partner had remarked on how big that particular shrimp was getting (she hadn’t dropped her eggs yet). And I was doing extra research on neocaridina life cycle, trying to estimate when they’d transition from juveniles to adults and begin mating—very anxious to make sure my shrimp feel comfortable. I think it’d be cool to observe the lifecycle of neos but I also want breeding because to me, it’s an indicator that the shrimp are happy and feel safe. I’ve been wanting sparkling gouramis but the Coop has been sold out. The bright side is that this gives me a better opportunity to grow my shrimp colony in the meantime. I have Pygmy Corys but I read that they’re safer for baby shrimp since they’re omnivores but have more scavenging behavior rather than actively searching for and chasing little moving things to eat. I have lots of plant cover and leaf litter too. I read that Pygmy Corys are also relatively easy to breed🤔 They lay eggs tho so it would be more complicated for a beginner like me compared to “live bearers” like the sparkling gourami (can that term be used generally or is it only used for particular types of fish like mollies and guppies...?) I feel like most beginner fish keepers are attracted to the bright colors of guppies, neon/cardinal tetras, bettas, apistos, etc. but there’s something that makes my heart flutter seeing the hint of rainbow flashes on “plain” colored fish like Pygmy Corys and sparkling gouramis (kind of like the sparkly details of the book, “Rainbow Fish”). Plus sparkling gouramis have those beautiful bright blue eyes! Anyway, I marked the date to start actively checking for missing eggs/baby shrimp in my planner (which I mostly use for work). I feel like I’m a grandma😂 I’m excited!!

I like to draw. I used to draw all of the time, daily. I rarely can ever draw now, because it is so straining on my health condition, so it’s for a few hours every few months typically. But, I still tend to enjoy it. I’ve been working on a Lion character a friend of mine has for a long time, as I can only do a little at a time. I also work on service dog patch designs and labels for businesses sometimes. In the past, I used to do some traditional art on occasion.

I also collect stamps! (Kind of a dormant hobby for me now as stamps are used less and less often.) My other big hobby is crochet; I tend to really get into either my aquariums or into crocheting. Last time this year I was all about the hook, but this year I'm back on the aquarium train. I made this octopus to enter into the county fair; alas, he'll have to wait until next year due to covid. If you have a hobby that can be displayed (jewelry making, fiber arts, etc) definitely consider entering your county fair. It's tons of fun!

Well, here’s our Val-filled 55 gal. Easy Green it shall be fed!

Here is a wider angle: I really liked all the plants, but eventually even cool stuff gets boring. For the last few years I have gone with a hardscape only, which I did not think I would like. But, it turns out that is pretty cool also.

I don't know if this is a thing or possible but... a probe that you can leave in your tank and it will tell you all your parameters via an app.

Currently, I like making YouTube videos, reading, watching anime, painting my nails, and hiking. In the past, I used to crochet and knit, play piano, collect stamps, draw, blog, and play video games. I mainly like learning new things and skills. I've been keeping fish for a while and now it's my job, so I guess I won't be quitting that hobby anytime soon. 😉 A baby beanie with a brain slug from Futurama that I made a long time ago

Yep, I make words good sorry 🙂 You don’t really want to use higher concentrations around your filters because peroxide is an oxidizer, and it can knock the bacteria colonies back a little. That’s exactly why we’re using it on the fish in this case. So I used a 5 gal bucket, 10ml peroxide assuming normal drug store 3%ish solution, and added an air stone. No heater because my goldfish didn’t care,but use one as needed depending on species.

The tank and house were built at the same time so one wall of the house was left open. All the plumbing for the aquarium was laid in place before the concrete slab for the ground floor was poured. When it was time the aquarium was brought in on a forklift and then set on the stand.

Ran into the heater situation a few months back. I went to the co-op first but they were out. Had to get it elsewhere but was not happy about it. I’d rather support the coop when I can

@Jess the Audubon field guides sort of match that description.

I would lower water level so there is not as much pressure on the brace

If I wanted to start a green water tank, and I had a 10 gallon just sitting around, and I added the water from the water changes to that tank, what's the best way to keep it green? Can I grow tiny things in that water on purpose to feed to my fish? I'm being deliberately vague because I've never paid attention to the names of tiny little creatures that are grown for the purpose of feeding. I really didn't want to go there. But when you have lovely green water, is that a good starting place? Or is the green water the end goal? I will go do my research too, I promise! Just thought I'd throw out a few questions to know exactly what to research.

Tried two red cherries in the column tank - they are gone and Ms Fishy (the betta) is looking quite plump and picking away at the last of a chunk with some red on the side :( so small shrimp are out... dang! She is not getting fed for a few days, she can digest her expensive snacks and think about what she’s done. 🤪

some stem plants will grow roots on the cut portion, and continue to grow. the val, the cuttings are just like lawn clippings, they are done.

Looking forward to the build, @Mikey Walnuts. I love that you are actively educating those around you! Way to grow better fishkeepers!!!

This thread has been absolutely fascinating! Thank you so much for sharing the process @Jack.of.all.aquariums. I can't ever see myself owning a puffer, much less breeding them, but I'm thoroughly enjoying reading about it all. And they are the cutest little babies ever!!!

Hey @Tankgirl413! Welcome to the forum! I have a 55 too. It had only guppies for the longest time (several hundred of them, actually!😲); but we've moved most of them to ponds outside. Since then, we've added chain loaches, Siamese algae eaters, white clouds and a mystery snail. We've also got 6 honey gourami in quarantine and will be adding them to the 55 too. I'd love to see a pic of your 55 with it's collection...it sounds great!

Doesn't get much more common than neon tetras. There are other varieties of neons that can give the effect of more blue by having no red, but they are not as common. Check out the green neon tetra for instance. I think you can probably just keep adding neons for more blue impact. They will want some medication when you first get them and some quality frozen food to get them boosted up, I have found, if you want to minimize losses. Some batches get very sick and others are little rocks, I have not figured out a good way to predict that.

My last highest count was 8 babies. A few are starting to get more adventurous and are exploring more of the tank so counting has been more challenging. I've put some baby brine in the last 2 days. They are very interested but I didn't see on eat yet. The largest looks like it could. I'll keep trying every day though. Attached is a photo from Dec 16th. Unfortunately they no longer hang out by the glass so macros are basically impossible with my clip on phone lense.

I recently had an issue with green water in the same tank. Unfortunately, had to break out the old UV sterilizer. As much as my fish were enjoying it, it was a bit too unsightly for a work display tank that other people had to look at. They sure did a lot of dancing around in it though!

My rasboras seem to really love the horizontal swimming space. I vote for the 20L!

@Danielyour gigantic tank absolutely dwarfs the discus - amazing!!

gotta give credit to @H.K.Lutermanfor the picture