Chick-In-Of-TheSea

January 14

I tried paper on the walls but my betta could still see it because the glare occurred on the inside. I relocated the tank and added more plants.

January 14

Sand Hill cranes. Enjoy Nature Daily

January 13

On 1/13/2024 at 12:11 PM, Tanked said:

Immediately after purchase, my fish are placed into a cooler for the trip home. This gives them some protection from multiple temperature changes loud noises bright lights, etc

Same.

January 13

On 1/13/2024 at 8:22 AM, Guppysnail said:

Snoopy sure does love worms 🥰

Everybody does! I gave the embers grindals. I “recorded it” but then afterwards realized I wasn’t actually recording… 🙄

And Geppetto got grindals too 🙂

January 13

This video is for @Guppysnail

January 13

On 1/12/2024 at 7:39 PM, nabokovfan87 said:

String algae is almost always a shrimp thing for me just because of their anatomy.

Mine don’t eat it, they clean off what’s on it. I’m always fine tuning my shrimp tank light to control it, or it tries to take over. I think I heard a comment on that in a video as well, how (neo) shrimp look like they’re eating it but they just want the biofilm, etc from its surface.

But the type of hair algae in my shrimp tank (looks like hair) and is different than the fluffier hair algae in my jar. When I swirl the toothbrush in the jar and then remove it, it looks like slime (mucous consistency) is hanging off the bristles. Gross, but accurate, reference. The stuff that comes out of the shrimp tank is like a clump of hair and you can tear it apart with similar force and effect as tearing a cotton ball.

Jar algae from a few weeks ago when it was worse. I manually removed some. It came back.

See, it looks hair-algae-ish but vs the shrimp tank, just “different”.

Shrimp tank:

I will look for that video. It sounds like a fun watch!

January 13

If ammonia is a concern you can put a drop of Prime into the bag water with a pipette.

I think even a 15 minute float is better than none. I don’t think it’s necessary to introduce more stress (temp difference) to the fish if you don’t have to. The more stress, the more likelihood for disease.

I’ve seen a video by Rachel O’Leary where she plop & dropped fish from a shipment because the shipment had been massively delayed. But that was a special situation. Some of the fish were fine. Many were not. But there was a lot of stress from shipping and other variables, not just temp changes.

On 1/13/2024 at 2:27 AM, Galabar said:

If you are just driving 30 minutes home from your local fish store, I don't think there will be that much ammonia build up...

I agree with @Galabar.

January 12

I added trumpet snails to my jar to see if they can help with the fluffy hair algae.

January 12

The last 2 days I haven’t detected any ammonia. I think the last test that was questionable was a fluke.

The embers are doing very well and like to hang out under the leaves like they are umbrellas. However the void space is getting on my nerves and my inner voice is saying “something needs to be there!” Probably will add more anubias to keep the theme.

Here are the embers enjoying some Repashy.

I really like these little guys. If you recall, they come from Aquashella. 🙂

January 12

It is the next morning, and as you can see the water is nice and clear. (There is glare, so I don’t know how well you can tell).

The particles became heavier and settled. I plan to do an additional tea bag because there are not enough tannins yet, to my liking.

Heres what the trumpet snails are helping me out with in my jar. It is a fluffy hair algae. I could reduce light, but let’s see what they can accomplish first.

January 12

The Malaysian trumpet snail population has been ramping up in Geppetto’s tank. Not an issue. What could be a potential issue though, is that they are feeding from the surface. My guy has been careful about eating his food and not the snails (which are the same size as his pellets), but I do worry that he might eat one by mistake and have a blockage. As well as his need to breathe from the surface. I want that to be easy for him. Here are some photos of the surface feeding snails:

So folks, my lifelong dream of having a gravel made of MTS will not come to fruition after all. Hence, I removed the snails from the tank and siphoned the substrate, which was loaded with decayed catappa, which the MTS love. All (known) MTS were moved to my Walstad jar, which is currently having a bit of an algae problem. So, win win for all involved.

The siphoning was so messy with the broken down catappa, so I used a paste/powder type clarifier product suggested by @Guppysnail along with a 10g HOB and floss. Just for fun I took photos every 15 minutes.

Then I took the HOB off after an hour since Geppetto doesn’t like current. I added a rooibos organic tea bag to the tank to bring tannins back in, as well as an SMALL piece of catappa leaf for the shrimps. When they eat that, they can have another one, but I want to control the organics in the tank right now. The tank should be clear by morning.

Also here are some juvenile shrimps that were born in the tank. Geppetto doesn’t pay any attention to the shrimp anymore.

And then a bonus pic (from the other tank) of Cadet going to town on some broccoli.

January 11

Hooray! Congratulations! Check out my mystery snail journal link below if you want to see the procedure I followed for raising them. Baby snails will first go after biofilm, so a powdery food such as fry food, powdered (not prepared) Repashy, or bacter ae will be a great start for them. However, water quality is key, so I would test every day to ensure success. As they grow their bioload can throw off parameters.

Note: the first food I used was hard boiled egg yolk. I would not use that again because it was way too messy and fouls the water quickly.

January 11

On 1/10/2024 at 8:37 PM, Rube_Goldfish said:

My automatic response when I see "Java fern" and "nutrient deficiency" is to think potassium, since they're are potassium hogs

Same!

January 11

On 1/11/2024 at 4:21 AM, beastie said:

Are you sure the seachem badge works? I have had both for amonia and ph and while it worked for short time period, at some point, it did not and gave false info (on the ph). Just to make sure you arent trying to solve a problem that is not there

No, I’m not sure. It’s brand new and my first time having one. (It says on the packet they are only good for one year. This one is just a few weeks old.)

On 1/11/2024 at 3:43 AM, nabokovfan87 said:

Maybe time for a bigger filter on the tank, taller sponge just for the sake of it?

The snail stuff is really neat, very adorable. 🙂

yeah maybe so, couldn’t hurt. I do have the s10 I can throw on there as well; it’s not in use. Not sure if that would be helpful or if I should just make a purchase of a secondary hob, or two matching hobs.

January 11

Just doing the twice-a-week water tests and the display tank was showing, or so I thought, “a tinge of green” I guess. But could I be certain? No. So I did another liquid test and went outside to read it and was still on the fence. So I did a 50% water change with Prime and Fritz Zyme 7 and added this Seachem card. 7 hours later this is the card.

There is no explanation other than the pleco is new and he poops a lot. But I have been removing that daily with the baster. So.. ???

No signs of stress, so I think maybe things are fine? Here is Snoopy just cruisin around, the tetras are schooling and doing their thing, and so are the snails. Except the nerites who don’t like water changes in general and either burrow or exit the water. They were fine before I changed it.

Also did I share my Christmas presents with you? Here are some pens I got. They write really nice! Black gel! Very smooth.

And also I got some correction tapes:

All of these things came from my hobbyist friend who had adopted some of my snails when I bred them. 🙂

Oh also another friend gave me snail soap dispensers where you push down the shell and the snail spits out the soap. I haven’t set them up yet, but it should be fun when I do. Hehe

January 11

On 1/10/2024 at 6:46 PM, nabokovfan87 said:

a decade old

!!

January 10

On 1/10/2024 at 8:18 AM, xXInkedPhoenixX said:

some over the top of the "tree" for a fake canopy

Neat! It looks like a weeping willow.

January 10

On 1/9/2024 at 7:06 PM, nabokovfan87 said:

some cherry barbs in the 20L from that tank as we speak as well as some rainbows and plecos. The barbs I was talking about were barbs from Dan's Fish, melon barbs, which I've been eyeballing since they came up on his stream one day. Really beautiful and one of the few barbs I have seen in person and they had green and purple hues to them. Really special.

Ok so we will be here waiting patiently for photos. 🙂

On 1/9/2024 at 7:06 PM, nabokovfan87 said:

These are amano shrimp! Gifted to me by a friend for christmas and very excited for them to get here. 🙂

Oh, I thought you meant you were the shipper (of neos)

January 9

Flint is making my tank look good. He gets plenty of veggies and kelp/spirulina/BSFL foods but he has assumed the role of tidying up this piece of spiderwood.

Flint’s section:

Other section:

See how his one fin doesn’t lay flat? I wonder if he has an old injury or something. It apparently doesn’t bother him though.

January 9

On 1/8/2024 at 11:49 PM, nabokovfan87 said:

CEC on flourite is 1.7

For aquasoil it's 24+.

What does this mean?

On 1/8/2024 at 11:49 PM, nabokovfan87 said:

Clarity™ is a flocculant

I understand the concept, but how quickly did it work, and did it work well in your opinion?

On 1/8/2024 at 11:49 PM, nabokovfan87 said:

shrimp shipped out

Did you keep some? 🙂

On 1/8/2024 at 11:49 PM, nabokovfan87 said:

got the refund

Yay!

And the barbs were from the other post, right? The hobbyist that had to move or something and is giving away their setups?

January 9

Love these fish @TeeJay

January 9

On 12/26/2023 at 1:18 PM, nabokovfan87 said:

Bulb check:

I was waking up and see what looks like 3-4 new leaves popping up right away. So far these plants absolutely love a good amount of light.

Oh how fun to see the progress! Kelp forest, here we come!

On 12/26/2023 at 2:54 AM, nabokovfan87 said:

I was also this close to getting some snail friends

😍 Alas! There is still hope!

On 12/26/2023 at 2:54 AM, nabokovfan87 said:

the corydoras were playing soccer with one of the bulbs

Loooooooool

On 12/26/2023 at 2:54 AM, nabokovfan87 said:

Plant is rooting in and all the bulbs are looking phenomenal

Hooray!

Is this microsword?

On 12/31/2023 at 2:08 AM, nabokovfan87 said:

Getting the microsword to carpet will boost

..oh 🙃

Omg, so like- how is everyone doing now? How did the Clarity work? Did it work fairly quickly?

I’ve been busy and having trouble keeping up with journals, but trying. What I gleaned is that Seachem Fluorite caused the BBA issue, so it had to go, yes?

January 8

You can maybe put a net into the tank and a boiled veggie with a plant weight on it inside the net. @Creedmoor Aquatics

January 7

On 1/7/2024 at 11:45 AM, mynameisnobody said:

@Chick-In-Of-TheSea there’s also a sea life aquarium in St Pete, I wonder if it’s the same people? I’ve been there a few times, nice little layout.

Nope, these guys have only one location in central FL

January 7

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