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  1. Schuyler
    Haha like a classic yellow jacket or fruit fly trap but for snails. You'll definitely need to share how well that works
  2. Schuyler
    There's a guy in my aquarium club who breed neon tetras that way. I think keeping fish simple on YouTube bred neons and danios that way too.
  3. Schuyler
    My last pair is still hanging in there. She is really showing her age and had no interest in spawning. He looks pretty healthy so but seems like his eyesight is getting worse. I usually have to point out his food to him.
  4. Schuyler
    They survived so I'm pretty confident that it's safe to use now but I'm a little too busy with work to do a batch of fry right now...
  5. Schuyler
    It's been a while since I updated. I'm getting overrun with guppies again... The anubias has two blooms going at once The crypt seems to be bouncing back and sending off new starts. The back of those roots don't look so great though
  6. Schuyler
    You could hit the tank with a med or salt (if you don't have plants in there) Another option could be to set up a little tub that you put pairs in for a few days then pull the fish. That way there's nothing to eat the eggs.
  7. Schuyler
    Not much of an update today. Just cleaning things so they are prepped for installing into the tank. Picture if my yummy stick broth: I am trying to decide where I want to put the stump from my yard. Either more to the right or left: I think I'm leaning towards the left
  8. Schuyler
    You'll want a lid to keep bugs out but you'll want to make an air hole that's covered with cloth or filter floss or something like that. If you look up micro worm culture setups it's basically the same as that. I think aquarium Co-op has one.
  9. Schuyler
    A coconut has a just around the part we normally think of. Coco coir is that husk finely ground up. They mainly sell it as a reptile enclosure substrate but I mainly use it for annual killifish spawning.
  10. Schuyler
    I would reach out to the person who sold it they'll probably have a good guide. This website has a pretty in depth guide: http://fishguysplace.com/livefood.html#hdve At a high level, you just make some instant potatoes with 1/3 of the water replaced with vinegar, put that in a small container, sprinkle a pinch of yeast on top, add a bit of the start culture on top of that, and wait for them to multiply
  11. Schuyler
    A few spots were a bit thin and needed more dirt. I also added an elbow to the uplift tube, got a piece of cork bark to hide cords, and started planning out where roots will go. I added the plants to get an idea of how things will look: The truck is going to be getting them to look like they are intertwined while still sitting each piece of the lid to be removed in individually. It feels like it's actually coming together now
  12. Schuyler
    I have made a few messes while working on aquariums but I have to say, today is pretty high on the list of biggest messes made. Is looking dirty now: I was using silicone to put the filter pieces in place when the silicone wasn't coming out like it should. So I pushed really hard and the clog popped out... Along with a bunch of extra silicone. So I figured I'd just go all in and use it to stick on the dirt. Going to give this a day before shaking it off and giving it a rinse.
  13. Schuyler
    Ok, not a whole lot has changed. A few minor adjustments: 1) I carved out a notch to work at an overflow if the under gravel filter isn't keeping up 2) Added a ledge for the chemical media tray to sit on. My original plan was to silicon it in place which would not have worked. I've also realized that there isn't a good was to grab the tray so I'll add some kind of handle on the side 3) Rounded the edges more to get a better fit It doesn't look great but that's the back corner so it's not a huge deal. Honestly, I'm considering cutting most of the back off but that would be tedious Thanks! Realistically, at the rate things are going, plans probably won't get added until next week. Each silicone step will need 24 hours to cure
  14. Schuyler
    Looks like Christmas came early! My mom came down to visit the kids and brought the piece with her. Here it is: There were a few snags. Turns out I'm not great at measuring and it was a little to big to fit in. I had to cut a piece of the shorter side to get it to fit in. The other thing I forgot to consider is the silicone. So it wasn't sitting flush against the glass. I had to use a Dremel to cut the corners so that it fit better. Then there were some minor adjustments needed for the internal filter area. That's all blocked out and sends like it should work well. Hopefully tomorrow I can get that attached with silicone, carve out an overflow, and start arranging roots on the lids
  15. Schuyler
    Haha you're fine I think I was doing the pronoun game too much in my comment. I meant to say that the magazine said building a river bank was hardcore and then you said using local plants was hardcore so maybe my tank isn't as "loose" of a biotope as I thought. Honestly, I hadn't looked at how other people normally do this. I just assumed that this is how people do it.
  16. Schuyler
    Between you and the magazine people it's staying to sound like this skews more towards the hardcore side rather than a "loose biotope" like the title suggests. Luckily a lot of native plants are easily available. From pictures the river banks tend to be covered in anubias. I am going to give one locally native plant a try: Licorice Fern. It's an epiphytic fern that grows on trees, rotting logs, and wet soil. From the pictures there are a lot of ferns like that in Cameroon.
  17. Schuyler
    Wow! I would have never even considered writing in to then. They really went in depth on that answer! Haha I almost feel called out by that last paragraph there
  18. Schuyler
    Are least 3/4 finished printing... We're having a family get together Saturday so that's when I'll be getting the finished print. From there the plan is: 1) Build in the filter section 2) Connect some roots to the wall 3) Apply the "dirt" mixture to the wall and silicone it into the tank 4) Arrange the roots for the lid/overhang and attach them with hot glue or super glue so that the foam doesn't move them too much 5) Build out the overhang around the roots using foam 6) Apply "dirt" mixture to the foam 7) Add soil and plants to the lids 😎Add sand and gravel to bottom 9) Add water 10) Add leaves/botanicals 11) Seed with microfauna from other tanks 12) Cycle with a large amount of carbon to soak up any residues in the water from the setup. And to make sure the water doesn't get too dark from tannins 13) Add fish and water lettuce Here are some fish pictures...
  19. Schuyler
    Floating plants could get messy with that style of filter
  20. Schuyler
    I'm definitely interested in seeing how you approach it. I'm not sure if my 3D printed version would be realistically viable at that scale but maybe the egg crate and foam could work. I have a bunch of reference videos in my Cameroon Biotope journal if you want some ideas
  21. Schuyler
    That's a cool setup you have! I like the light being slightly off center making some dramatic shadows
  22. Schuyler
    Rather than go with a bigger tank you could just get more small tanks... People are often just getting rid of them for free. Plus then you can keep different stuff and not have to worry about compatibility. They you could have your passive fish and your shrimp. But be careful, they will spread...
  23. Schuyler
    It's printing! Here's the final design, minus some rendering bugs. My dad said it is 60 hours of print time but he has three printers going (I guess he has some friends get printers and decide it's not for them)
  24. Schuyler
    Are they acting weird before they die? (A weird wiggle when they swim, hiding, not eating) How old are they? How long has the tank been going? Did they start dieing before you started adding stuff? There are a lot of potential things going on but I would suggest slowly easing back on adding stuff during water changes That is a measure of base ions in the water (including carbonate). So it's your KH plus sind other stuff. I think a lot of these style of test strips are made by companies that make pool test kits where that information is more useful. Not that it's totally useless but it's just not something you see referred to often in aquarium stuff.
  25. Schuyler
    Some algae wafers may be good (Hikari makes good ones) There's also rapashi but that's a little more involved to make
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