Greggle

oh wow, hey, @Zenzo, thanks for responding. For whatever reason, i haven't been able to get my PC or my ipad to connect me to the members only chat. my phone, however, does it no problem. i can work with that; i'll just have it nearby for the next live stream. btw, love your content. i recently had some chicken, rice and broccoli and i dubbed it Zenzo Chow.

i have a co-op membership but chat isn't available to me in this live stream. am i missing something? please and thank you

thanks for responding. it's indoors. in a pretty cool (temp) room. that sand took forever to rinse off and i didn't want it to be a wasted effort

these are great!

i was supposed to set up a tank for someone tomorrow and i just thoroughly rinsed about 20 pounds of BDBS and just found out that i have to wait until next week. can i just put the wet sand in an empty aquarium for the week. i have a seeded sponge filter i intended to give them, so i'm just going to leave that in one of my tanks until then. will the sand stay wet? get moldy?

well. it was worth a shot. thanks anyway.

my lfs is holding some banana plants for me after a very long wait to get them in. i'm not 100% i want them in my current tank or as additions for my upcoming tank. until i know for sure, i don't want them to establish deep roots in my substrate. can i pot them in a terra cotta pot and have them live until i make my final decision? TIA.

thank you for the heads up; I'd been meaning to pull the trigger on this for much longer than I'd like to admit.

i think i'll do the mesh bag thing as well. i can see no harm in it so why not?

happy thursday, all. i've been using black diamond sand in my tanks and i love it. i want to switch the substrate in my betta community tank to sand from pebbles. i have a second, identical empty tank (10g). my plan is to put the cleaned sand into the empty tank and move everything over, unwashed, to the new tank, matching the same set up: plants, rocks, heater, sponge filter. i realize the gravel houses quite a bit of beneficial bacteria, but would the transfer of everything else be safe enough for the fish?

i used a cheap amazon 3/16 tubing and it worked fine. the tubing was a little stiff, so i put the tip in boiled water to soften it and it went on no problem. and, yes, it fit both.

i ordered the Ziss stone from the Co-op site and it fits inside the nano, no problem. just use a short bit of tubing.

i just now realize i only mentioned the betta. first off, thank you, everyone, for being so polite and helpful for what is, i'm sure, a newbie level inquiry. in the 10 gallon, for about 5 weeks. i have Chorizo, 2 nerites and a small group of espei rasboras. i remember putting IN 2 stone catfish (tiny little guys) but i have only seen them a very small handful of times since then. my parameters are good and the nano sponge was doing the job, i just wanted to relocate it to a smaller tank and give this one the better suited size. i've been away from the hobby for close to 20 years, and everything i used to know is no longer what would be best and i'm trying to learn the newest, most fish-friendly techniques. btw, this low tech sponge filter stuff is amazing.

it is. i'm going from the nano sponge filter to the small, with the plan to put the nano into a five gallon. the ten has a lot of plants and rocks, so fitting two sponge filter bases is going to be a problem. that's why i wondered if just leaving the actual nano sponge against the running small sponge filter would be sufficient.

i think that will be on my list of options. the fish is staying in the same tank, i'm just switching to a new, unused sponge filter and i was worried that just removing the old sponge filter might cause my cycle to crash.

the two sponge filters would take quite a bit of real estate in the small 10 gallon. would there be any benefit to running the new sponge filter but leaving the old filter sponge in the tank for a number of weeks?

Hi Ken, thanks for responding. He’s been in the ten just over a month. It has all of his gravel, plants, and hardscape from the old tank that I transferred without washing to maximize the BB transfer. It established immediately. I’m sure I’m being overly cautious, but I feel like I’m trying to redeem my poor aquarium practices in my younger days. how long would you recommend running them in parallel?

Hi all, greetings from Dallas. That beauty is my betta, Chorizo. I had him in a five gallon with a co-op nano filter, but I moved him and the filter to ten gallon. I bought a co-op small filter to put in the new tank but I was hoping for some info on safely switching from the old established filter to the brand new larger filter with out crashing my tank. Thank you in advance.