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Actually I do not, I have dario hysginon which is a red melon, not tiger I have nicely colored ones as I have multiple in each tank, I MAY have one female, but I highly doubt it. They are not aggressive at all towards other fish, not even during feeding, they do chase each other upon sight though, but even if they catch each other, they flare their fins and one of them leaves. - here is a feeding video I just made, you can see no aggression toward clown killifish, even when feeding. Same with pygmy corydoras and least rasboras in the other tank. To be fully honest, I was so hyped about them, but if you watch the video, I have three fish in the tank, you can barely see one, maybe two, they are almost always static or hidden and even when feeding they are slow moving and start stopping. They so far display zero interesting behavior towards each other or other fish. They look lovely and are shrimp/other fish safe, for now.

Good luck. I hope you keep us updated. I’m also converting a basement to relocate my two upstairs bedrooms to a single more functional room.

3x pairs of Etheostoma zonale (Banded Darters) arrived today from my favorite NANF dealer… Within 30 minutes of adding to their new digs, they began spawning… I’m already seeing eggs…

🐟 AQUARIUM RESCAPE PHOTOS! SCROLL DOWN 👇 FOR MORE INFO & THE BEFORE PICTURES 🌱🌿📷 ---------------------- THE BEFORE This was my first attempt ever at a planted aquarium, or an aquarium over 10 gallons. I had no idea what I was doing, which can show. This aquascape wasn't bad! But... I did not like it. Here were the major things I disliked: the grow light being oddly attached the fact that the wood pieces all blended in really well lack of rocks in the hardscape - just pebbles pebbles ended up covering a lot of the substrate nothing in the corners made it feel unbalanced, and since it wasn't really an island scape, it was just meh So, I did try to balance it out by moving more substrate in, and adding in some corner plants: And eventually I replaced the light with an LED grow light that doesn't just clip on and bend all weird, and I was happier. But I wasn't happy with it. So, when I was visiting some of my family members (who own land on a major river), I picked up some really pretty and angular rocks. When I got home, I sanded the corners down to be less sharp and boiled them. I found all the wood pieces in the scape in my own backyard wetland, and processed them myself too. During the rescape a lot of the dirt got kicked up (as my tank is a dirted tank), and so I ended up losing a bit of the upper-most substrate. (Miscommunication with parents - but oh well.) So I am heading to a local stream to get some river sand on Saturday, since the weather will be nice! So, I will update on my 30 gallon aquarium journal when I add in the sand. I am really happy with the result, so please be nice! ⭐🍀❤️🌈🤩

It looks great! You did a fantastic job!

Yes you can. I always hatch them at room temp. So it takes around 1.5 days to hatch bbs at max rate for me. I use magnetic eggs soo all unhatched and hatched eggs do not mix to the water part. I add some of the water full of bbs to a new cup. I add one drop of prime. I noticed this helps a lot to prevent it going bad and smelly in my experience. Then, I fill up the cup with the new brine water I make and add an airtube that works on very low. This way I always have a small batch available for fry until the next batch is ready. That being said, there is a study done about bbs losing caloric value. So the sooner you feed it, the better. https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1085&context=srhonorsprog

Thanks everyone! I have aquarium co op test strips and ammonia strips. Test water daily. Gen cure in tank. I am hoping my Angel recovers. I love her so

I can do that. The other day Nitrates at 25. Did small water change 2 days ago. Today Nitrates at 10. thanks!! Colette Thank you, I was afraid it may be. Here is a picture in December- no black gash. The other 2 photos are progression of left eye gash. I was trying not to over think her wound, hoping it was a scrape, that healed with black pigment. I tend to over think and worry about these fish too much. But now…. I am not sure I did the right thing. Thank you for any advice. I really need it at this point. Colette Thank you all for the info. I have Gen cure in the tank. I will get Entice tomorrow. Try it. I appreciate the help!! Colette

I have mine in a 20 long with black sand and a black background. I don't think it affects them much, but the color does pop for sure! Post a pic when you rescape🙂

Whew, big Wednesday this week! My girlfriend had to leave super early this morning, and I wasn’t able to go back to sleep, so I took advantage and started working on the tanks. I cleaned every air collar and every sponge filter. When you have 14 tanks that’s no small feat! I also trimmed the cube, pulled a TON of Jungle Val and Amazon Sword leaves out of the 55, and got a tank ready for new friends tomorrow. Tomorrow I’m gonna take 15 Panda Angels and all (but one) of my Bristlenose to the LFS. I finally convinced them to take these BN and I’m happy to move them and move on. No more BN babies around here! I plan to pick up 10 more Chili Rasboras for the 20L Blackwater tank. From there, we’ll probably drive down the road and pick up 10 more Green Neons, also for the 20L Blackwater tank. Once I secure those I’m just on the hunt for some Rummynose Rasboras and we’ll be set! Giant Java Moss ball. Gonna take this up to the LFS as well. Panda Angels looking good! 55 gallon finally getting some light. 20 Long. Dumped in a fat pour of the blackwater tea I’ve been saving and really darkened this tank up. The Cube with a fresh trimmed Pearl Weed hedge. Pea Puffer tank with the plants getting a little out of control. Cheers, homies!

Exactly this, no need for much pressure, fill the reactor and surface area determines the amount of CO2.

no, that adds nitrates for fertilizer

For a weekend, they’ll be ok without food. In general, tetras can go 7-10 days without food as long as they are being well fed leading up to that.

I am starting a new Neo tank for shrimp and small fish like neons. My tank size is 12 x 8.6 x 9. My image are the plants that I’m considering. Let me know what experience is on any of these plants and your opinion. I don’t plant to add CO. Thanks so much.

Sorry to hear that no effective treatment currently available if it's mycobacteriosis be very careful with nets and other equipment to avoid cross contamination of your tanks @ange

i think many people do something similar. if it were me id get a big rubbermaid type of trash can, and a simple sump pump. drain tank water into trash can, sump pump kicks on and pumps water out to where ever your hose goes.

Thanks every one for all the information. I've adjusted accordingly and will use Green Neons.

Congrats that's awesome. @Fish Folk

Pogo and dwarf sag

I think the starting point, IMO, to have a jungle style tank is to have lots of tall plants - including the back wall covered with them. If this was my tank, and I was doing a jungle style like you want - I would cover the back wall with Pogostemon Stellatus Octopus - it's a fast grower, and fills in spaces like that pretty well....or you could do Valliseneria. From here - whichever one you chose for the back wall, I would use the other one to put on the sides and/or have a couple in the middle with the other current plants you have. Lastly - how long has your tank been seasoned for? Shrimp need a very seasoned tank. I just wanted to throw that out there, if you didn't know.

I know you're just green with envy over my new Rummynose Rasbora windfall... 😁 (sorry... I had to.)

Everyone seems to be doing well. Even the little Congo I moved ti quarantine seems ti be doing well. Did a 1 TBS per 3 g salt treatment for some “fuzzies” and just did the last 30% water change to clear out the salt and all seems to be well. Will wait another 7 days to make sure nothing grows back before reuniting (I think it’s a “her) with the rest of the group. My Mystery snail is MIA. No idea where he is. Kinda hard to miss an Ivory MS on black substrate. Hopefully he’s just chilling in the rocks somewhere. I did check around the outside of the tank, but there’s no trace. I do have 2 cats so, if he did escape, it’s guaranteed he got batted around the hardwood floor and no telling what piece of furniture he was yeeted under. Let’s hope he is just hanging out in the tank. Never mind. I just spoke the devil into existence 😂

It Grows! I have had it in gravel with kit lights. It needs root tabs. mine was doing really well for over a year. I think I may have stunted mine though. I had been keeping it trimmed but is fading now. but in better substrate. it grows like grass

Bagged up 15 Panda Angels, 16 Bristlenose, and a ton of Java Moss and took that up to the LFS. Got the usual $4/Panda, the BNP’s were just a donation, and got $10 for the Java Moss. Traded that towards the 10 Chili Rasboras (buy 5 get one free, so actually walked away with 12), and I still have $161 in credit. Only putting the credit I currently have on here to remind myself as I always forget. That, and just to show that if you find something you’re good at and does well at the LFS you can create a nice little thing for yourself. From there we drove another 30 minutes or so to LFS #2. Picked up 10 Green Neons for $30, and chatted with the boys at the shop. LFS #2 is an RPP store, so it’s always nice to see Coop products out in the wild, and even better that they sell them for the same price as ACO. They even have the brine shrimp and brine shrimp salt now! I asked them what products were selling good for them, and they said, “basically all of them. I guess the one thing people ask for that we don’t have is the usb nano pumps”. I told him I thought ACO discontinued those in favor of their branded back up battery pumps, and told him to point people towards Amazon for those. Sadly, no 5% member discount. At least not yet. We’ll see if they ever make that change in the future! Currently acclimating the new fishes, and then we’ll medicate them and call it a day. Harvest some BBS later and feed everyone and we’re on to the next adventure. Now, if I could just get my hands on some Rummynose Rasbboras we’d be set. Might have to hit up a forum member and see what they’d charge me for a 15 pack and shipping 🤔

Absolutely true! The cups are not expensive and are designed to fit into the holes for the socks. The Poret can be cut down to size and you can select the porosity you want. I'm almost certainly going to go this route as I change over to my new tank/sump. At the very least, it'll be a cheap thing to try, which might work better.

If I may suggest, go for green neons instead of regular neons. regular neons are getting relatively difficult to keep alive. they're just not as hardy as they used to be, or should be

Hello Chuckie, I would not go for monte carlo in a lowtech setup. I invested in it in three different tanks with different heights and lights (one being hightech light= including aquasoil but no co2. Never worked for me. It really needs that juicy co2 if you ask me. Crypt is a great idea. Maybe you can change monte carlo with crypt lucens, they are tiny crypts, so may help you to have a more naturalistic look due to varying sizes of plants, popping up next to a rock or wood work, etc. Java Ferns (both normal ones and windelov) are accepted as beginnner friendly, but they never do well in my tanks. Only way to figure out if a plant would work for your tank is to try. And this can be sadly costy. I would surely buy a bigger sized anubias, not petite. Petites are super small. Nana for smaller size and barteri for medium size is a better choice imo, unless one is willing to invest in so many petites to create a different style. For your tank size, I would go for nana instead. Ive never had microsword so I cannot comment on that one.

I could be wrong, but I believe Monte Carlo would really appreciate CO2. Anubius and Java Ferns should be good. Same with crypts. For me, Java ferns and Crypts simply don’t work well in my water and I haven’t been able to unlock the secret to make them thrive. Outside of epiphytes, remember that you’re paying for the root system. Lots of plants will melt, and then bounce back. Even moving plants tank to tank that will happen. Overall, seems like a good starting point. You’ll have to try plants and see what does well with your water/maintenance schedule/fertilizer/etc.

Ok, gonna do a big huge change. A 50% to be exact. Might not be big but yeah i will let the tap sit tonight and recheck tommorow.

Crypt parva! You’ll need a lot but it looks excellent!! and Pearlweed if you’re willing to trim it pretty often 🙂

Zucchini party. Not the intended audience though 🙂

Is this the ammonia spike you're concerned with, or did I miss a post with a higher value? If this is it, I wouldn't worry about it. It's such a small amount that it's not likely to cause any problems, and in any case, is within the margin of error of the test.

I made a quick feeding video, darios in the clown killifish tank. Slow eaters. Looking at them now, I think my largest ember tetras are about as large as the darios. Strange

Perfect plan. Mature filters are underrated in a world of instant gratification chemicals.

I was having the same issue with our betta. We’ve had it almost exactly two years now. Also in a 10G tank with an AQCoop sponge filter. Lightly planted. Fin rot was persistent and seemed like it was slowly getting worse. Just as mentioned by Cory, I upped the water temperature to 80-81 F and it perked way up. For a long time, we had an inexpensive, fixed temp heater but I finally went out and got a nicer one so we could adjust it up higher than the fixed 78 F setting on that. For the fin rot, I had tried the various natural cures but finally just did a course of Maracyn. After that, we’ve seen very good fin re-growth. Combined with the increased water temperature it was a huge improvement. As a side note, ours is super picky about food. Will not touch anything other than betta pellets. Been on the Hikari pellets for a while now but just ordered the Xtreme betta pellets (from AQCoop of course) to see how it does on those. Best of luck!

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I don’t think sand color is going to matter much to sterbais. Mine are on tan mix pool filter sand and have good color. My trilineatus (same basic body color - pale with black markings) are on black blasting sand with no issues and they don’t have excessively dark color like some species get when raised on black substrate (my bronzes in that tank run very dark).

You can try finding some vinegar eels since they can live in fresh water for at least a week. They tend to stay near the surface of the water. Over a weekend is no big deal and honestly, if they’re healthy, a week or more is tolerated well by most fish. If you’re super worried, you could start a vinegar eel culture and feed a good bit before you leave and they would be completely fine. Especially if you have floating plants for the fish to hunt through so they don’t gorge too much at once. Vinegar eel cultures are quite easy to maintain, so they can be a regular supplement to your other feedings. There are a couple ways to grow vinegar eels, in a mix of half apple cider vinegar and half water with an apple slice or 2, or grow them like microworms in potato flakes, or rice cereal or oatmeal, etc, that’s been made with half vinegar and half water - AKA a “high density” culture. The high density culture will need more tending but is MUCH easier to harvest the vinegar eels along with producing more eels. Here’s a discussion about high density culture for vinegar eels.

I believe the issue is not the color, but the potential for damaging the barbels (whiskers) on the fish. Smooth substrate would be better, but opinions vary on this. From the Coop: "In the wild, corydoras can be found on sharp substrate, so if their barbels start to erode, it may be caused by other factors like poor water quality." Microabrashions on the barbels have led to bacterial issues and erosion of the barbels. It's a video from youtuber fishtory. The other quote you mentioned is from Cory and it's a video when collecting. There's a lot of missing context and yes, it's a "headline" so to speak, but there is going to be everyone with their own opinions and experiences on the subject. I would most often prefer my fish to have this behavior. In terms of sand color, there shouldn't be a major issue with light or dark substrate. You will have some color variations in terms of how the fish display, but there isn't going to be anything detrimental to the fish themselves. On black substrate it might wash out some of the patterning and they have a darker tone. They don't have the same type of body display like a panda or aenus species where they can get extremely dark, so I would think (and I have kept false julii) that the black substrate just makes the black pattern very vibrant against the silver. Hope that helps.

6 is better than 5

As long as it is soft and clean, I think it is fine. White would make them feel exposed IMO. I like beige, but had no issues on black aquasoil related to color. But, I had issues with aquasoil being hard to clean properly, leading to barbel issues after a year or so. Black should be fine as long as it is smooth just like Tanked mentioned

I believe the issue is not the color, but the potential for damaging the barbels (whiskers) on the fish. Smooth substrate would be better, but opinions vary on this. From the Coop: "In the wild, corydoras can be found on sharp substrate, so if their barbels start to erode, it may be caused by other factors like poor water quality."

That could be the difference, I have a top loading washing machine. Even with the extra small setting, the socks are swimming in water. I will have to remember that if we need to buy a new washing machine. For sponges, you have the right design, use alot of them. My first sump was poorly designed. Another forum member, @OnlyGenusCaps, is thinking about using poret foam in the filter sock holders. Bulk reef supplies sells plastic cups which fit in the sock rings. He has a saltwater tank and needs to change the sock every few days. His logic, rinsing out sponges is easier than washing the socks all the time.

This song always makes me smile, too silly!

I honestly have no idea how I ended up here reading this post! Must have been a senior moment. The best part is that when talking to the newly formed adults whining, I get to laugh and point out that they thought we were kidding.🤣

33 gal long planted tank, featuring Notropis chrosomus…

Panda garra appreciation pic

Started a bench for watching my tank

New fish additions courtesy of @SugarBassJoe and they are doing great. I am so relieved that Grace is still being calm and loving the tank with some more life in it.