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The time has come, the darrio hysgion has arrived!! They are smaller than the clown killifish female AND than the cherry shrimp. Wild. They are all over the tank, hiding too. I fed a smidge of microworms, preparing bbs for tomorrow Meanwhile the big tank with ich is declining. I turned off filter, dosed malachite green as I cant buy anything else here and will do a water change tomorrow
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At least the otos are still doing ok
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They are just lovely. Are you sure you have the nigrofasciata and not the isla? They look so close and main difference is behavior they say People here keep them occasionally, I found a video of one keeper and you have fun times to look forward to they observe Limias will eat ANYTHING including their own babies, which is strange for a livebearer. Hungry hungry pigies!
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The saturday stupid mistake cost me. Because it continued. fishing out another dead kuhli loach I found out my filter was almost not working, the sponge on the intake was too far up, the whole flow was diminished almost 90%. To this day I lost 6 kuhli loaches. I also have ich in the main tank I believe. Three of the fat rummynose look like they have bloat and they all seem to develop ich. Lovely. Nothing on the pearls, sterbai, embers or bolivian rams. For now. I did slight temp increase and one way lower dose of epsom salt, 5 spoonfulls in the tank. Will see, will do another water change tomorrow and will keep so every other day. Loving this. Havent made such a stupid mistake in years. Ah well. I guess this is payback for the complaints about this tank I also lost one indostomus. No idea why, I did remove the shrimp and fed a bit less, so perhaps it was hunger, but I also have had them for nearly a year. Could have been age? all others look good, I did a 5 liter water change today anyway, since there was fungus on the body already when I found it. I sold 10 of my largest rabbit snail babies. I took all the other out, including all the decor, did a 50% water change, counted the snails and returned them back. I have two adults, 3 1cm large babies and 10 or so 0,5cm babies. So i had 25 snails until recently. The sponge filter is inadequate, the mess in the substrate is dreadfull, I am surprised the luminatus are still alive. I also scrubbed the breeding box for now, I do not have the headspace and I put plants in, as I expected that is what you are supposed to do, and there were snails and mess so will try later on.
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Do you need lots of algae when quarantining algae eating fish?
beastie replied to Supermassive's topic in General Discussion
When i was quarantining my otocinclus i made sure the qt had a lot of diatom algae as that one is easy to grow and i had bunch of submerged slimy leaves and wood. It is very hard to grow the soft algae they like, there are some how tos with rocks and fertilizer and 24hr light but mine always turns to yuck. I lost 'only' 40% of my otos in such quarantine so a 'success'. I am still never purchasing otos again because of this Also beware they do not eat cyanobacteria, hair algae, black algae or anything like that. Not even the green spotted algae. Just auchwus and soft green algae -
Maintenance on the cube tank and clown killifish tank. I got confirmation the darios are in the shop, I will come pick them up saturday. Now the cube tank looks dreadful. The new and stable hornwort I put in is also melting, the egeria was uprooted and the new crypts are ugly. I wonder what now. I can count 10 least rasboras but only six pygmy corydoras. Do I add more cories? Do I add sparkling gourami? Do I give it time? Choices... I want to for sure add some wood, maybe a willow, if I find it. I know it will develop a slime, but I should be able to manage it
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First feeding after adding new fish, I chose frozen cyclops as it is small enough to guarantee to fall on the ground. I saw several noodles and I also saw how corydoras have no mercy, when they are driving somewhere, they will bulldoze through anything in their path. Including noodles 🙂 Few of them still live in the leaves on the surface, a lot of them ofcourse hide under the wood, I saw one in the small sort of tunnel made by the bark, exactly as planned. So far so good. I stopped hunting for the finless gourami, and once I did so, it stopped stressing, the male stopped targeting it and it is ok cohabiting with the others, hanging out with them, with the female, they all get occasionally chased by the male, no special treatment. There is no redness to indicate fin rot, there is no white fuzz to indicate fungus, just mechanical damage but it looks clean and I hope it will get better in this tank anyway. Keeping an eye on it. But the biggest surprise for me are the otocinclus. Since adding the bark, several of the jackfruit and mangrove leaves, the otos are in heaven, munching on stuff. I always had some leaves in the tank, oak, beech, alder cones, lotus pod, but these leaves seem to be the very best. I havent seen as many otos at once in a while. I have around 7 I think, hard to count ofcourse. The snail in the other tank is doing good, I assume it is pagodula, I will do more reading on the wood requirement, but tbh, myabe I should buy some mangrove wood, the sewellia, panda garras and now the snail will for sure appreciate it anyways.
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Do you see the algae on the stones, the sand and the glass? I have seven panda garras and two sewellias. Draw your own conclusions. The tank never had bba though, and I think you would have to starve the fish a lot for them to go for it. Rule of thumb is, algae has low nutritional value and is hard to eat, so if there is ANY other food, the fish will not go for the hard work low yield algae. I think buying a fish to fix a perceived problem is a bad idea. BBA has well defined parameters in which grows. Some people even find it pretty. Is easy to remove with bleach. Why get a fish that wont fit your community and will live for years to fix something you can either learn to live with or get rid of yourself?
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Sunday, fish fair. Not a good day for me though, I made some newbie mistakes. I guess I was bound to. I have a mild cold so I am using it as an excuse. I bought 12 kuhli loaches for hte big tank and 4 pearl gourami, also for the big tank. No quarantine, they do that at the vendors and I do not have the place for that now. I however didnt notice that I lost a rummynose tetra. Maybe the fat is also a problem. Who knows not like I can treat it. That was mistake number one. Number two was releasing the pearls in the tank and only AFTER noticing one of them have a bent feeler and missing tail fin. I would love to move it and nurture it, alas catching it is no longer an option. Three of the pearls are on the left side hanging with the much larger female, the fourth tailless is stuck in the plants on the right side, which is the male territory, and he will viciously chase it away and without the tail, it is at a disadvantage. Poor fish. The male will chase even the female and the three newbies, but they are way better at evading. I know pearls are one of the mildest gouramis, but they appear more aggressive than my bolivian rams. But just to each other Kuhli loaches after release were awesome and everywhere, now, the few hours later, not so much. Ah well. I will give them a month before judging them. They hang out in the foliage on top even. Strange. However one, the largest, was not that great. I caught it and placed in a box hanging in the tank to keep temp and added java moss. Either he will make the night or not. Typical kuhli stress death it seems. poor noodle. I also brought a snail, put it in the asian tank after some research. It is either brotia pagodula or armata. I cant say which. Sold as pagodula, but that is always the case. The asian tank should be ideal, lower temp, high oxygenation, loads of stones to graze on. Or get stuck in. Will see. I wonder if they need wood since there is obviously none. I also bought some plants but am in no mood to plant them. Watching the busy big tank. Despite the mistakes, it is fun! The new pearls interact with the female quite cutely. The bolivian rams at first thought the kuhli loaches were a snack, but they zoomed right away and the b-rams since didnt really bother them.
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While i do not use this particular brand, if i want to hatch lower amount, i use less water and thus less salt. I personally use kitchen salt and epsom salt combination because my water is very soft. Or for first time you can use the full amount as suggested and hatch full amount of bbs to know how it is supposed to work, and feed only what you need and freeze the rest in cubes for future use. Frozen hatched bbs is nearly as good as freshly hatched, if frozen quick enough after hatching
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I am posting a lot, so I will only do an update on the cube and do the update on the big tank on sunday once I get from the fair. The cube has hornwort that is melting, so I pulled it all out, java fern is also melting and shedding leaves. I put in the egeria from the other tank that was chewed by the snails, doesnt look great, returned some hornwort that looks healthy, put in a jackfruit leaf and I might buy a cryptocoryne of some sorts. Low light and no sunlight hitting the tank I can count 9-10 rasboras, but only like 6 or so corydoras, who were btw super happy about my messing around 🙂 such joy
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Found out the CARINIANA pods are more common known as Savu pods and they are awesome. I also need more of the Canoinhas Pod as they close when in wtaer and create a small not fully closed tunnel. I put one in my large tank, saw several otocinclus drifting inside it. I need more and I bet the kuhli will love them
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I am loving the spawning mop, the egg collection is just so damn easy!! Why didnt I do that sooner. Collected three eggs in the morning. Too bad I chose hornwort from the cube tank for the egg place, it is melting. But I did a cleanup now before putting the eggs in. Hopefully will work like that. Two weeks for hatching. I need to get the feeding tube, the rummynose are such freaking gluttons, I sprinkle dried, I feed in many places, but they will not let much food drop to the bottom for the corydoras. And the females are just so damn FAT. I guess that is what I get for also being fat... fat fish, fat me. Luckily the dogs are not fat :))
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What time zone is that in? Thanks
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This is my 5 gallon tank it has algae but I am ok with it. All the plants took like 4 months to establish. One cant expect miracles from this size, but I saw so many nice planted 5 gallons!! but the maintenance is a killer
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I am a bit nervous to be honest, I also do not have it confirmed they will arrive yet, maybe next Wednesday they will confirm. My initial plan is to put all 5 (since i want one male two females) to this tank, observe them, hope to identify the extra males, catch them (using some of your ninjaskill that I also do not have 🙂 ) and then see how they fare. I am also worried about the darios killing the clown killifish, the shrimp, each other. Everyone says they are just SOOO aggressive and I just hope they are not But I am also excited
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Killifish tank water change done, botanicals added, the pod closed after being boiled and I accidentally broke it in half when opening it. The tunnels need to soak more, same as the leaf. Shrimp like it anyways, although the wont like the darios
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So, big changes in the Pseudomugil/Tylomelania tank The tank is a mess and I have too many snails and noone wants them. Sad. I will have to do something about that. First of a larger sponge filter I guess. I found one dead pseudomugil today, maybe overfeeding, maybe cold water shock, maybe who knows. I did another water change and put some boiling water to the bucket to equalize temperatures quicker. I also washed the sponge filter. I ordere new botanicals and this tank got two leaves of jackfruit and mangroove or what is it called. 3 washed alder cones too. Given rabbits keep eating all my plants, including the rotala, the limnobium is not working at all, frogbit is again slowly dying (and has to be on the surface anyway), I decided to experiment with aquaponics. Welcome to the basil experiment! I also took out the dying java moss and put in my newly made spawning mop with a cork. took me a week to buy 100% acrylic yarn. Didnt know where to buy yarn at all 🙂 Pseudomugil are loving the yarn in a "what is it". The leaves need to saturated and fall down About the other botanicals, two MOKHA pods and two CARINIANA pods will go to the killifish tank that will soon get the new dario hysgion ( I hope). The FUNTUMIA ELASTICA piece is too large so will go to the big tank, where maybe the soon to be purchased kuhli loaches will love it. Regarding the kuhlies, I decided to cut a piece of the anubias that is growing upwards and tie it down in a sort of lying down position onto a cave that I will put in the section of wood to create a hideout for them. I will also dump some of the jackfruit and other leaves in, for them to hide. I almost ran out of oak, need to collect some If all goes as planned, I will go to the fish fair sunday, bring some kuhli loaches and pearl gouramis, and next weekend the store that is an hour away should have my darios and some new rummynose tetras to increase the school Spoke too soon! The leaves do not need to saturate, they need to be eaten!!! Sorry about the glare, the tank cant be photographed during the day
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Granted I have them in a large tank, but unless spawning, which is either every two weeks or every other month, depending on their mood, they all hang together as a group, no issues. When spawning there will be chasing away, sure, but otherwise they are ok together. Interesting behavior, I also expected them to be more vicious
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So, I am very bad at throwing plants out and I have several 3 liter jars What I do is I plop the plant in and put water and wait and see. Not sure where to go from there. Both jars have been sitting on a windowsill for months. One is stargrass, I see a bunch of algae and also, bunch of snails. How can they survive? No aeration, no nothing, I just sometimes add water in. It may be tank water, it may be fresh water. Second one is even worse. It has java moss which is way nicer in half of my tanks?! I also put a piece of pothos to root and ficus to root and now the root systems and the java moss are one. I dont think it will ever be separated. Also the amount of mulm!! omg What now? 🙂 BTW for summer time I have a 20-30 liter vase that I may keep outside and see what happens. Maybe some daphnias or infusoria will happen.
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I know I have at least one male given mine breed quite often, and even when they are guarding I am having hard time figuring out which one is the male 🙂 I keep checking their underbelly like a pervert :)) Yours look lovely
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I will get to them at some point and I bet I will love them. Sometimes it is the circumstances, the mood one is in, the weather, the timing 🙂 Some books sucks but some books suffer from external things influencing the reader I also use the headphones and I will have to change the approach and move the reading from the bedroom/couch to a chair or something 🙂
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Finally found this topic. I am an avid reader, but I read utter crap. It is astonishing how bad books I pick. The problem is, I read most of the time when re-watching tv shows, or while boyfriend is still working and we have something in the background. Some books require to be read in silence, without distractions and I find it hard to do that. So instead I read cheap fantasy, scifi, even romance books that have no deeper meaning or complicated language and can be easily read while not fully committed. I also have this other bad habit where I know what good books are, I have them in my library and then I have hard time getting into them and give up. I have Joe Abercrombie series, read two chapters, sitting on a shelf. Lies of Locke Lamora, 15% in, lost interest and that was few years ago. Some scifi is just too hard to read cause the language is not easy to follow. I desperately need to switch to the "good" books and stop wasting my time on the "crap". I know I dont even finish some of them, if I dont finish the book that evening, I will most likely not pick it up again, as I dont have the interest anymore nor the drive to figure out how it ended, given they are mostly the same. On the other hand I promised myself to stop being so hard on myself, given I enjoy some of the books and it is comparable with watching bad tv. So why not. I also reread books and series a lot, when I remember a line or a feeling or a scene, I just have to read the book again, which sort of leads to rereading the series. My most favorite ones are books by Ilona Andrews (The edge series, Hidden Legacy series, Inkeeper series, not the Kate Daniels and the following) or Patricia Briggs or Kim Harrison, so it is clear there what style I like 🙂 On that note I started reading Great Gatsby, interesting one, sort of feverish pace, reminds me of Kerouac books and I need to do just a chapter or two at a time. I also started the Dawn from the Lilith Brood series by Octavia E Butler, I am listening partially to some czech crime book which is too scary to listen to in the evenings so I switch it with Killer Moon by N.K. Jemisin. Not to mention I have tabs opened for some of my crap books, like The Alpha by Avanne Micheaels or Unwanted by Marley Valentine How do you manage to do the correct books? I even tried like Haruki Murakami, boy I hated that book (1Q84), took me long time to finish and I hated it even more after that
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I took pictures of the rotala and it seems it is doing good, no more replanting needed, seems like it is even growing! On the other hand, stargrass is dying. I mean...a weed basically and I cant keep it alive...nice. I guess I will take it out and replant the rotala once it starts doing better and needs maintenance. But for real
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If it didnt die yet, maybe start a rigid water change regime? 25% every two days, or more? Cant really hurt
