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It's just ai generated garbage. Google is become less than useless

as someone who spent their youth bass fishing, 44 pounds just boggles the mind!😲

"44 pounds" lol

I mean they're right you probably could FIT a 30 inch bass in a 30 gallon tank. Not much room for water after that though

They’re really great little fish. So much color. Unfortunately, the majority of neons are farm raised and the genetics have gotten off. The fish has become fragile at best. I keep trying them and have loses usually around 50% or more. But,once they get past the first month or so they seem to do just fine. If you can get certified wild caught, they should be fine from day 1. Same of store bought guppies. Big box pet stores carry the week genetic strains. There are places that carry ones that are fine. I think dans fish should be good. just because we don’t usually purchase regular neons doesn’t mean everyone else doesn’t. Neons are still one of the most popular fish sold worldwide. Must be in the millions sold per week.

You may have trouble breeding wild bettas but you can keep any of the more common fish no problem.

I've never noticed GH going up, but I honestly do not check. Yes, you'll get calcium deposits, but this is not some sort of insurmountable challenge. I've had tanks set up for years that have some moderate amount of calcium built up, but it's not the end of the world. I'd say that the biggest drawback is that with hard water and high pH you have a couple of things to consider. First, your water (like mine) will be a bacterial soup. Bacteria likes higher pHs. That's good for cycling and maybe not so good generally. I know that I cannot get away with some of the things that some discus keepers get away with for instance. It's just something to be aware of. I believe that plants can also struggle in hard water, though I do not understand why. I have a certain selection of plants that does well in my water as long as I keep nitrogen available for them. This is somewhat difficult because of my maintenance routines, but if you find what works you can still grow jungles.

Yes. I think people get a bit too hung up on tap water if all they're doing is keeping fish alive to observe. Breeding is a different animal, but even with hard water I'm finding a ton of egg laying fish that seem to breed just fine in it with the proper care.

I have kept and am currently keeping discus, apistogramma, and rams in my straight tap water. 8.2 pH, gH and kH both 16-20 degrees. They won't successfully breed in this water, but they seem to survive just fine. That TDS reading seems through the roof. You'll note that is says "calc", so perhaps that number is completely made up. TDS is a bit of an odd duck... I don't understand why it isn't cumulative with all the other solids. But it doesn't seem like that's the case for reasons above my head. In general, though, TDS isn't a particularly important number. I would guess that you could keep a very wide variety of fish in your tap water. Instead of tetras, I'd suggest seeing if you can find some celestial pearl danios. They stay a bit smaller and seem to thrive in hard water, I believe that's close to their natural water. They breed readily in my tap water. AquaHuna is a good choice if you can't find fish locally. I've had pretty good luck with several orders from them.

With mast die off in a short space of time it's more likely your new angelfish introduced a fast acting bacteria such as columnaris that can kill in 24hr without your fish showing symptoms your new fish could be imumme to and that's why it's not affecting your New fish I would keep treating with erythromycin and get holed of kanaplex it's a more broad spectrum antibiotic treatment I would follow up with a course of that if your still losing fish and add some aquarium salt 1 table spoon for 10 gallons that will aid Gill function and add essential electrolytes

We also got in some super cute Small Fancy Goldfish this week as well! They are priced at $15.99ea 🧡 Do you have a favorite type? I particularly love the telescope butterfly tails 😊

A little more information would be helpful what's your ammonia level did you quarantine before adding the new fish any lose of colour rapid breathing have you recently do a water change before the deaths if so did you add a dechlorinator any possible of contamination with house cleaning products @Smrgle

so, I added the first group of fish into the new tank, they're settling in well so far what I added; ~10 CPDs (male and female and the males were too pretty to not add to this tank) ~ 8 Amanos 2 Otos and a surprise of 3 pygmy cories so...now that I have the pygmy cories in there, I may have to rethink my stocking choices/room so I can add more pygmies 🙂

I recommend nothing under a 4500 gallon for bass: 😉

Why some keepers out there bought Cardinals and Green Neons? Why not regular Neons? Neons are one of my fav fish

I've caught a 10 lb before. Where has that 44 been all my life.........

I would refer to the SDS for safety in this case, and I would believe them when they say it is unsafe for fish. Polyurethane is an umbrella term used to describe composites that could contain a myriad of different materials/chemicals, and any polyurethane that specifically reacts with water is likely going to degrade with constant exposure to water, which could release carcinogenic and toxic compounds. You may not notice an immediate reaction in your fish, but it could shorten their overall lifespan, increase the chances of cancerous tumors developing, and shift the balance of bacterial colonies to make your fish more susceptible to infection/disease. As hobbyists we do always have the lab equipment necessary to study the effects of different materials on our fish, so in general it is recommended to rely on the SDS sheets to tell us whether or not something is toxic to aquatic life.

@JosiahBass AI is just an accumulation of all the info that’s out there. My more you search the more you’ll find horrid care sheets. I would steer clear completely. I’d become a member of monster fish keepers, those guys will definitely be able to help you out.

That has to be either a poorly executed joke or an AI generated article.

I have that same tank. I'd recommend swapping out the filter for a small sponge filter. The built-in one gets stuck all the time. I've kept cherry shrimp and a pair of Nothobranchius Killifish in it (at separate times). If you have plants and you are doing frequent water changes, then you may be able to get away with some nothos but it's easy to get lazy and have the water turn quickly.

Thank you! I've always wondered what these things are. Seems like I don't see them much in tanks that have glass cleaners. But they seem to pop up in anything that doesn't have them.

I keep reading and seeing videos talking about how fragile regular neon's have become over the years. That is part of why my brother doesn't have them, he bought 5 or 6 and all died in the course of a week. I researched it when he said something and he didn't get more after that.

Because everyone has their own preference.

Sounds like you have rhabdocoela, planaria, and some sort of detritus worms. They are harmless and make good fish fry food or cleanup crew. I have heard of planaria attacking and killing shrimplets but I’ve never seen it. But my snail population suffered some heavy casualties

The trumpet shaped objects are stentors

I’ve been setting up my 75g for nearly 2 years since July 2022. I’m almost done, but I’m still filling it up with more plants, and more fish are going in soon. July 2022: The tank was eventually filled up with water back in December 2022 after getting the essentials. Soon, I was attempting to cycle it by ghost feeding the tank, it took a while for it to cycle but after a few months it finally did. During that time, I added some rocks from our front yard in there, I eventually removed them as they were too sharp. But that banana plant on the left is still with me after getting it back in February last year, it went through a massive algae issue in the tank where everything was completely covered in algae for nearly a year. And the water had so much algae in it, that I couldn’t even see 6 inches into the tank before it was green, and the banana plant thrived. Even though the tubers and the stems were covered in algae, it survived cause it shot shoots up to the surface and had access to light. Eventually, those shoots all died off and the plant grew back to normal and is now not covered in algae, but the tubers rotted away though sadly. I still really wish I had put a black background but it’s too late now. This is how it looks now

Here is my 75g low tech, low light. 😁

Thank you! I've never heard of them before. And these certainly match the description and appearance of stentors.

Cool! They remind me of the virtual game from Star Trek TNG, when the crew got hypnotized/mind-controlled playing it. So ahead of its time LOL. snip from: https://jphalt-startrek-tng-reviews.blogspot.com/2011/12/5-06-game.html

Cool! There is such a strong connection between bald eagles and aquatic habitats, they are very much aquarium-adjacent if you think of things that way. Our tanks are mini-ecosystems replicating natural aquatic habitats. Some of those habitats are what baldies rely on through various parts of the year, and varying by region of course. Their population recovery started slow after the pesticide DDT was banned in '72, but has reached a point where they're recovering/increasing faster now. The connection between aquatic habitats and pesticides affecting bald eagles in particular was insidious. DDT is a long-lasting insecticide (which is a big part of why it's so effective at controlling mosquitoes) that made its way into aquatic food chains. Many chemicals pass through living organisms, but DDT biomagnifies, meaning all the DDT in the insect food that a fish eats stays in that fish, and so on up the food chain. At the top of many aquatic food chains, and as consumers of medium and large fish as well as waterfowl and plenty of carrion, eagles accumulated catastrophic levels of DDT in their bodies. The greatest impact wasn't mortality but thinning of their eggs' shells. For years on end, parents would lay eggs, only to break them when they incubated. Pairs went for years producing few to no offspring. Recruitment of young birds into the population ceased and populations crashed as adult birds died off without replacements or progeny. The same thing happened at the same time for the same reason with peregrine falcons, also heavily reliant on foods from aquatic habitats (their old-timer name is duck hawk), and they too are recovering, also slowly. Enjoy the viewing, and the good news it represents. Environment-good-news is too rare these days. 🙂

@Chick-In-Of-TheSea the danios you must ask @TeeJay for photos of. The guy he was getting them from misunderstood and thought he wanted CPD. He had tons of those. He only had 6 of the emeralds and Teejay needed those to fill out his shoal. The Emeralds are back at the top of the someday fish list. I did bully Teejay into feeding the empty 10 gallon he moved his emeralds out of instead of tearing it down in hopes there were eggs left behind….desperate time-desperate measures and all 🤣 Frog just got done in the swimming pool and is now on the hunt.

Sunburst Platy Update: Slow Improvement The sunburst platy is slowly but surely improving. I put in some grindal worms, and he ate them when they hit the bottom, even though i was standing there watching him, he would not eat while i was watching when i first got him a few days ago. Unfortunately I am still having a few issues with him. He will only eat live foods at this point, and he shimmies around the tank probably due to a nerve issue that i can't help. I'm hoping he will improve enough to replace my current male in the 20gallon, but right now i'm skeptical.

I am lucky enough to have an eagle nest just off my property along the river. I can look out a front window or stand on my front porch with a pair of binoculars and watch the nest. The pair has been busy working on he nest, adding sticks and stuff to it, I think that eggs have been laid already, as it appears that the parents are taking turns sitting on them. there is no way of seeing how many as the DNR doesn't have a camera up on the tree or anything. Each of the last two years they have hatched out two babies, it is cool to watch them grow, birds grow so quickly.

Ok, I'm still rather undecided on this project idea. While a mini-ecosystem like setup would be super cool, it would be hard to do properly in a small tank, upgrading from 2.5 to 5 gallons does not feel like enough of an upgrade. I also saw my P. pruinosus Powder Orange and fell back in love with that kind of isopod. In my opinion A. Vulgare are super cute, but P. pruinosus are much more alien looking, and i'd love to have a setup just full of lots of alien bugs. I'm thinking at this point just to turn the 2.5 gallon into a P. pruinosus culture once the weather warms up, and maybe if i have extra time and supplies to try and make the 5gallon into something, but right now it feels like too much work for not much benefit.

My tank is a 4 footer still setting it up, budget friendly diy heavy. Diy heavy 4 footer being set up

@Whitecloud09 Thank you!

👆 Also can’t wait for updates on ❤️❤️❤️

There are definitely some cool roaches and beetles! I kept turkish roaches and hissing roach cultures for my bearded dragon. One thing roaches are escape artists you need to make sure everything is secure. There are also some fun harvestmen “spider” species that have made their way and are super easy to take care of. Despite their rather drunken walk they are pretty good ambush hunters and fun to watch.

Update, added my oscar about two weeks ago. Every one seems to be doing well! Will continue to monitor as oscar gets bigger.

Yeah regular water changes and good water quality and attention to him is what you should do, I would not panic even after din rot on him, red spot can mean continued infection BUT that might not be it. But watch him day by day, and yeah it should be fine.

Yes. The 9 pipes were either filled with filter sponges or bio filter media depending on what direction the water went. It was quite efficient and the plants grew pretty well! I am pretty sure that I'll come up with some new way of growing plants in it. I am considering grow in elodea in trays at the surface so that the fish don't eat them

120gal

i appreciate it! thank you!

Found a single lone corydora hastatus egg today. Why must they be so dang small. They need to understand I’m old and need the large print version 🤣

Honey gourami bubble nest New batch of limia nigrofasciata fry. I got excited and added food before I took the photo 🤣

Jen from Smallworld Aquatics wanted more CPD so I’m hatching another tank full.

Oh is THAT what we are calling them 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Well if you would have bred yours already we wouldn’t have this now would we….no get rack then breed… I am so not that patient 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣