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  1. The hard scaped looks great @CT_, your off to a great start. I'm looking forward to see the plants planted. Keep us updated!
  2. I had a green water problem, heres how I fixed it: I turned off the light on my aquarium and covered the aquarium in a blanket/ towel to block all lightining. I did this for about 7 days, about a week. The green water had completely dissapeared. This will fix your problem temporarily. One thing to note is that it may take longer then 7 days looking at the state of the water, simply keep the towel on till its clear. To fix your problem long term you have to balance your aquarium. Theres an inbalance of nutrients which is causing the green water. Theres an exellent video cory made on this I would reccemend that has helped me in all of my algae outbreaks: Also a video of @Irene: Start limiting the lighting, dim the light, and limit the hours its on for in a day. Stop dosing as much fertilizer. If I remember correctly @Just a Pygmy Corydora you have fairly easy low tech plants like anubias and moss. I find these plants actuallly dont necesarilly need fertilizer. Only start dosing small amounts when you start seeing the plants could use some fertilizer. Hope this helps, I know this helped for me!
  3. I took a picture of the mural while back but couldnt find the picture now. I'm almost sure I posted about it somwhere on this forum. So I had to find the picture that they posted on there instagram.
  4. My first tank was 10 gallons with blue gravel and plastic plants. My first set of stocking was: Juvenille Angelfish Female Swordtail Corydora Yellow Glofish Later on I added in a pearl gourami and threadfin rainbow. The glofish was given back to the store, and my corydora died after the tank bursted. Here is my latest scape: Its a fluval spec 5 gallon that houses a single pea puffer. Planted with Bacopa Monniera, Dwarf Sag, and Cyrptacoryne Undulatus. As well as various species of anubias.
  5. My local fish store created a mural to go on the side of their store, looks great: They painted this mural this summer. It was a great surprise seeing this for the first time.
  6. Looks like major finrot to me. My betta went through this his entire life and not to long ago passed away. Its defentley a hard disease to treat fully. In my experiance Bettas are tough and they are fighters. With given the right conditions and medications he will survive and hopefully get through this and heal. I agree with @quikv6 completey. He's still eating which is a great sign and means he may not be as close to death as you think. For now I would hold off on feeding. In my experiance rest for bettas is a great way to treat them. Turn the light off, no medications in the water, and no food. I would also suggest to add tannins like Indian Almond Leaves. I'm crossing my fingers for you and good luck!
  7. I feed lots of snails to my beloved pea puffer. His diet consists of frozen blood worms every other day, and snails on days I dont feed. I keep the snails in my exsisting tanks and pull them out as needed for my pea puffer. I feed about one or two per feeding. So I'm looking at 2-5 snails a week. Live BBS is also another great option.
  8. I ordered some driftwood from an aquascape online store located in ontario. The driftwood is intended for that future 20 long. Currently its sitting in a bucket of water to help it sink. I also ordered some frogbit. Figured might as well if I was already making an order, the frogbit was only $2. And I FINALLY was able to locate some Apistogramma Borellii. I almost gave up on my search on borelli and went with cacatuoides. Thankfully I located a breeding pair on a online fish store located in Toronto. I have to admit the shipping was a bit much...$65, and $135 total. They should be here Tuesday. This was the picture I was provided with: And a picture of the nice chunk of wood I received:
  9. If you only have plants like Anubias and Java Fern and other low tech "easy" plants no specific test kits are needed. I have all planted tanks with low tech plants (stem plants, rhizome plants, floating plants, etc.) I only have the API Liquad test (amonia, nitrite nitrate, ph), as well as the Tetra strips that test for the same nutrients. Yes @RadMax8 is right KH and GH are great to have on hand. But when your first starting with plants IMO its best to keep it simple and just focus on the more important nutrients like Nitrogen. For now my advice is to stick to your basic ph, amonia, nitrogen tests. As you get deeper into planted tanks you might inves in other tanks. I've been keeping planted for tanks for close to 2 years, still have not bought any extra plants and my plants grow just fine.
  10. I'm looking to breed some apistogramma. I've been pretty set for some borelli however theyve been hard to find. My waters pretty neutral, 7.0-7.3. However I've recentley seen the Viejita apisto. I've read that they want pretty acidic water (6-7ph) Do you think my ph at 7.3 would be fine for breeding them? I have mollys in the tank so i feel as if the ph cant go much more down.
  11. You could do either! I personally would leave it in its pot till its ready to plant. I find thats just easier as itll stay at the bottom of the tank and not float up. But whatever you want!
  12. Thanks @Guppysnail. I'm thinking I'll scratch the bristle nose idea until I have a bigger tank with some. Maybe I'll make it my summer breeding project when I have more time on hand. For now I'm thinking I'll do swordtails, and perhaps another bottom dwelling fish like corydoras. However I would have to watch the eggs as I'm sure the swordtails will eat them and the babies.
  13. A week ago I picked up this little guy... I've named him Barry! Barry the Pea Puffer. I got him from a fish store that was 20 minutes away, I've never been to this one. It was the perfect size IMO, a great selection of both dry goods and live stock. Seaming that they spealize in freshwater community tanks. They had great selection of plants also. I've been feeding Barry every other day this past week. Mostly frozen blood worms, however also some live snails. I've fed him some frozen brine shrimp however he wasnt the biggest fan, but still ate it. He seems to wanna eat anything that comes in the tank, hes a chunky fella. I have a 10 Gallon with a bunch of breeding platys, and lots of babies of course. It sits under my 40 breeder. However I found that theres enough space to put a 20long. of course this is exciting because its double the space. So I've started thinking about upgrading the tank. Slowly I will be acquiring various items for this new tank. I found a sweet peice of drift wood online that I want to use and purchased it today. I have a good idea of plants that I want for this tank. I want to try some dwarf chain sword. I'm simply waiting for my plant dealer to get some in stock so that I can get my plant order in. For lighting I'm thinking a fluval 3.0, but due to this being a very expensive light itll probably be the last thing I get for the tank. I'm going to be using a deep substrate with soil on the bottom layer and fine gravel on the top. I currently have platies breeding in this tank and have been enjoying them lots. The plan is to transfer them over to the 20long for the first few months. However I have some questions: I've often really wanted to breed bristlnose plecos. And I found some wiked cool swordtails at the fish store. Which makes me interested in both. Do you think I could breed both a pair of bristlenose, and swordtails in a 20 long that is heavily planted?
  14. Check with local hobbyists. Often plants like Hornwort, Duckweed, Frogbit are readily availbile with fellow hobbyists as they grow so fast. Sites like Craigslist would work, check your local club if you have one.
  15. I really like hornwort, they grow like a weed and abosrb nutriteints. Also Pogostemon Octopus would also work. I own both these plants and have found they are easy to take care of and will both float.
  16. I called around to all the fish stores in winnipeg to see what there stock was like for pea puffers. Thankfully one of them had them in stock. It was one that I've never been to. The tanks were clean, prices were a lot cheaper then I thought, fish were healthy, had a great selection of livebearers. I picked up my new pea puffer as well as an Anubias and some frozen brine shrimp for the puffer. The pea puffer is hiding and I turned the lights off. I'll get pictures of him once he feels more comfortable. The anubias I got I glued onto one of the rocks.
  17. I have a pre-exsisting journal I use to update all my aquariums. I will probably update on there. Heres a link:
  18. @Jennifer V at this very moement the aquarium doesnt have floating plants. However the plan is to get Amazon Frogbit for this tank when it becomes instock. I'll probably use it as an excuse to make a big plant order.
  19. @Streetwise your aquariums blow me away everytime. I've tried the walstad method of aquariums for a very short period of time, maybe 2 months after the inahbits died. However during those 2 months I saw plant growth I've never seen before in any of my setups. The 10 gallon I currently have up and running I've considered turning into a 20 Long. The 20 Long I've considered setting up would have to include a deep substrate with soil.
  20. @H.K.Luterman @Jennifer V Any fun enrichement ideas for the pea puffer? I'm thinking I'll feed him all sorts of live foods (snails, BBS, in the summer mosquito larvae, and the odd time live black worms). The live snails and live bbs will be fed I'm thinking a few times a week. I found today 3 baby bladder snails that must have come in with the plants so I'm sure he'll have a fun time hunting them down.
  21. Yeah you can totally leave it in its pot. I've done that for lots of my plants for several weeks at a time, no problem that I've encountered when doing so!
  22. @Jennifer V I'm thinking ill just remove the nerite and forget about the amano shrimp. Its a fluval spec 5 gallon, the light is wayy to bright IMO. Especially for my lowtech setups. Usually I have paper over the lid to dim the light, which does a great job. However there was a week where the paper was taken off and I forgot to put it back on. I added fertilizer for tha plants and BAM ALGAE. Not surprised, I've always had trouble with the light. The algaes been getting better, limited lighting to 8hrs a day seems to have helped.
  23. @Keeg The hairalgae isnt bad and ive been removing it probably once a week. Currently in the midst of trying to balance it, after every waterchange it gets better.
  24. I have an aquarium all setup and newly scaped that homed my betta, Hugo. However after a rough battle with finrot for most of his life his immune system gave out. His tank has been sitting empty. Its a 5 gallon aquarium and the plan is to do a pea puffer tank. However I have some questions... I have a neritie snail in the tank currently. Do you think nerite snails are big enough for a pea puffer to pass on. I have a few other aquariums the nerite can go in if need be. Algae Eaters? Theres some hair algae that I've been dealing with. Amano Shrimp sure would eat some up. However do you think an amano shrimp would live hapily with a pea puffer. Of course it depends on the puffer, but the average puffer. Amano Shrimp I thought could be big enough and I've seen mixed reviews online about this. Your thoughts?
  25. For now I would say leave your aquariums, your fish will be fine. You can continue to test your water and if need be get a family member or freind to do a waterchange for you. You can keep feedings to a minimum. This will help reduce amonia/ nitrites. Get Better Soon! Put your health before your fish, they'll be just fine when your ready to take the responsiblity of matnience again.
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