Jerry

Hello everyone, I have two questions. I’ve had a rack and along with a couple tanks set up in my garage for over a year now, fish do fine when I don’t touch the tanks but every time I top off the water or do a water change the fish and plants struggle. I’ve tried dosing more dechlorinator but it hasn’t helped, I am debating buying a used RO/DI unit but wonder if it would be better to age tap water for a few days in a large trash can with an aerator since the majority of fish I buy are local and probably used to the parameters of the water. My next question is does a linear air pump make sense for 19 tanks plus the tub to age water if I go that route. thanks for your input

Tha k you for the replies I’ll fill it up for a week to see what happens and probably use it for fry or daphnia for awhile

Also the crack is on the bottom so there would be weight pushing down on it

Thank you ScottieB, the rack will be in a garage so 10 gallons wouldn’t be too terrible but I would still hate to have fish die if it did bust while I was sleeping

Hello, I am starting a fish rack with 10-20 gallon tanks and after painting one of the ten gallons I found a crack in the support frame is it still safe to use or should I toss it and buy a new one, I hate to waste it even though it’s only $10 and a $5 can of plasti dip. the crack is on the shorter side. thanks for your input, Jerry

I was thinking of adding them to my 60 gallon tank but I have a lot of banjo cats who’s tails and whiskers poke out of the sand which may look like a snack to the puffers so I decided to leave them in the 20, my original intention was to breed them but if you’ve had luck with a community setting I may add some CPDs into their tank

Thank you Brandy & Kristen, I have watched to many videos where people use separate equipment for each tank and got it in my head that it was common for tanks to spread disease this way

I have 2-3 pea puffers in an overgrown 20 gallon long, I placed them in there for quarantine around 2 months ago maybe longer and now they live in there, I don’t know if all 3 made it because the whole tank is covered in Christmas and Java Moss so I only see one or two at a time, I usually scoop out some snails and frogbit from my indoor guppy pond to feed them as I know the guppies are healthy but today I accidentally double dipped the spoon I used to grab the snails, how worried should I be about spreading disease from my puffers to my guppies? thanks, Jerry

Thanks KBOzzie59, I figured it’s really rare to get anything from our fish, I used to start my water change siphon by mouth but for some reason this past year I’ve become much more of a germaphobe and I get stressed out about getting tank water in my eyes or on cuts

Just curious because it seems like every time I do a water change, feed my fish or look at my aquarium I manage to get splashed in the eye or inhale tank water. So how common or likely is it to catch a parasite or a bacterial infection from your fish?

Hey Marc thanks for the info, I’ll try throwing some in a tub this spring and see if they’ll multiply

That’s awesome JaredL I’d love to breed Harlequins, I know neons are only a couple dollars but it’d be great to have them successfully breed Because I’ve bought 20 and only ten made it through quarantine so I bought another 15 and only 2 made it through the next time so if I keep on this track they will be my most expensive fish lol I was hoping to have a school of 30-40 so if the eggs can survive in hard water I’d love to separate a few and breed them

Sorry if someone else has already said this but the rotting egg smell is most likely from dosing a lot of dechlorinator, they use sulfur in dechlorinators so they can smell pretty bad. Also are you sure your test is still in date and that your shaking them up enough beforehand?

Hello, I have a group of 12 neon tetras in my 60 gallon community tank and just noticed two of them breeding in a corner over a piece of wood covered in java fern, I watched as a couple eggs dropped but have no way of recovering them. I thought neons required soft acidic water to breed but my water isn’t, if I pull out the neons and put them in their own tank would they continue to breed or the stress of moving ruin it. They’re in a tank with tons of cherry and Amano shrimp, Pygmy corys, Kerri tetras, bristle nosed plecos and CPDs so I’m fairly certain the fry have no chance in their current set up. thanks for the advice, jerry

Hi Shadow_Arbor, They looked like blood worms, it’s hard to tell if the fish was eaten from inside or not. It fell apart as soon as I took it out of the water and had been dead for awhile. Half of my outdoor tubs are at my parents house so I don’t see them everyday it’s possible the fish had died a couple days beforehand. thanks for trying to figure this out