AllFishNoBrakes

So… Interesting development. The Kribensis continue to haunt me. I took the last 32 of the Kribs I had to the fish store exactly 2 weeks ago to the day. Fast forward to today, and I see some little movements in the old Krib tank. Turns out, I have ~10 Krib fry in this tank!! Apparently, the pair I kept in this tank spawned one last time before I sent them to the LFS. The Kribs had one final surprise in store. I swear these Kribs will be the death of me.

By all means, if you wanna play with your toys then play away! Just being so close to 0 already if feels like, to me, the saltwater ways are creeping back in. Who am I to judge your hobby, though? For me, I’d rather just work with what I have. In CO, we have soft water, and I simply don’t want to “make” water to try to keep things that wouldn’t naturally thrive in what I have. When I first got into the hobby, I was adamant I wanted a reef tank. Then, I realized I didn’t want to make and store water, spend a bunch on lights for corals, have to target feed corals, etc. With as much as I already work for my real job that pays for everything else, I want my hobby to be as easy as possible. Change water weekly, squeeze a filter every once in a while, add fertilizer, raise the fry from the fish that breed for me, but mostly sit back and enjoy.

To me, with your tap being near R/O already, it just seems like an extra wasted step. If your livestock are thriving why change it? I’m a big fan of “if it’s not broken don’t fix it”.

Another week, another journal update. Nothing of note this week, really. Just cruising right along. Did water changes and squeezed a couple filters. Reset some no clog air stones. Up and coming batch of Angels are doing well. Still need to work on making another Panda Angel pair o keep those flowing to the LFS. I guess that’s the project I need to put some more effort into. Enjoy a shot of my 2 favorite tanks in the house. Both 29’s with c02.

My 55 gallon on my rack is my Angelfish tank, but it also has a school of Cardinal Tetras and a group of Cory’s. My Walstad cube is my CPD tank but it has shrimp and snails. My Pygmy Cory tank has an African Dwarf Frog and a ton of snails. Lead actors need supporting actors, right? Every owner of a business has employees. There’s nothing wrong with a supporting cast, in my opinion.

Freshwater Great White Shark the size of a Corydora, and they need to be kept in groups of 6 or more

I keep my house at 70 and do not have a heater in my shrimp tank. They’ve done very well for me for about 2 years like that.

Although I’ve never done it, that’s immediately where my mind went as well. I like the way you think, @Fish Folk!

I have tanks that aren’t exactly level due to weight on the stands and I haven’t had an issue. My understanding is that it won’t harm anything, as long as it’s in one direction. Either left to right OR front to back. The problem comes when you’re essentially twisting the tank (BOTH left to right AND front to back). Like @Cleveland M said, the water line can be a bit annoying, but with my tanks that dip to the left, it’s not enough that it comes below the black trim, so when I’m looking at the tank I can’t notice the water specifically, but I can notice that the tank isn’t exactly level. It is what it is. When I move I plan on redoing some things to take the annoyance out of it.

Float for temp, then I pour out like half the water that was in the bag. From there I use my 20ml syringe for tank water into the bag every 5 minutes for about an hour. Drain as much water from the bag as possible and then plop em in. Probably overkill as I get everything locally, but would rather be safe than sorry

I have just a pair in a community tank with GlowLight Tetras (not Glofish), Cory’s, Hatchetfish, and Praecox Rainbows. They do just fine for me as a pair.

For my red cherries I started with 30, and sold a couple hundred of them. I’m looking to do blues next in my (now) empty 10 gallon

Agreed. Toss a few in and see how it goes! If it goes well, add to it. And then wait. The population will explode

Yes, this is mine. There is a pump that’s hidden by the moss. Then there is a piece of tubing that connects the pump to the flood tray. Pump turns on for 15 minutes every 2 hours, and floods the black plastic tray that has hydroton and the veggies/herbs/peppers/ etc. There is a drain on each side that dumps back into the tank. I have the sponge filter cuz if I’m gonna run an air stone I might as well run a sponge.

Don’t wanna burst anyone’s bubble here, but they already make that. A 10 gallon aquaponics tank is what got me into the hobby. Only chiming in as OP said they wanted to invent something that didn’t already exist, but if you’re looking to improve upon something already existing go for it!

Agreed. Red Root Floaters especially hate flow. Water lettuce crushed for me, and RRF does well in one of my tanks. Salvinia has been pretty bulletproof for me

Exactly this. 10 drops of bottle one, cap the tube, and turn it over a couple of times. Shake bottle 2 for 30 seconds, HARD. Add 10 drops bottle 2 to test tube. Shake test tube vigorously for 1 minute. Let stand for 5 minutes and compare to chart. I use the stopwatch/timer function on my phone to make sure I’m hitting all these marks.

Keep the plants wet in a bag of water when you do the move and then replant them. No different really than when the plants were shipped/when you brought them home.

When I was brand new to the hobby I was using the API test kit and wasn’t following all the instructions. I too thought I had 0 nitrates, and then when I actually followed the directions I was well over 80, lol. That would be my first piece of advice without further information: follow the test kit instructions to the letter for accurate results

It should be just fine. Cory has talked about using the nano pump on sponges in the 800 gallon, and that tank is 40 inches tall.

It was 50-75 per spawn. I was taking them to my LFS in batches of 25-30. Once I had full grown Kribs I was still trying to get rid of the new spawns became live food. The last picture has close to 100 if not more.

Kribs are fun and some of the best fish parents I’ve seen. My mistake was keeping the whole spawns. I kept the entirety of the first 2 spawns my Kribs had and it took me FOREVER to get rid of them all. I literally just traded for store credit the last 25 last week. Was about a year and a half journey. Might seem like a shame right now, but knowing what I went through with mine I’d be stoked with ~10 fry.

Half the excitement when I was first getting into the hobby was just building things to see if it made my life easier. Still use most of the stuff I made (for maintenance, especially) to this day. Used most of it today to do my water changes!

When I killed the first 2 Baby Brine Shrimp containers I made this bad boy. Sadly, the succulent didn’t make it, but I still think it was a good idea

I feel ya. MTS and way too many foods over here. I’ll run through them. Eventually ha