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Jerry

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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Also the crack is on the bottom so there would be weight pushing down on it
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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?
  11. Hey Marc thanks for the info, I’ll try throwing some in a tub this spring and see if they’ll multiply
  12. 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
  13. 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?
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. Hello, I purchased young red cap medaka ricefish a few weeks ago and have them outdoors in a 40 gallon tub, today I found one that looked like it had died a couple of days ago, when I removed it I found several red worms eating it would this most likely have been a parasitic worm or a larva taking advantage of an easy meal? I was going to take a photo but accidentally stepped on the dead Ricefish while checking my other tubs thanks, Jerry
  17. Hi Aubrey, thanks for your response happy to hear they don’t go after fry in your experience. I know Rachel Uses a Kyten(not sure how it’s spelled) inhibitor against nymphs But I want to keep cherry shrimp in my tubs as well so I might treat one or two of the tubs but not all of them.
  18. Hey Daniel, thank you for the information on your experiences, I’m happy to hear your having good success with them. I had six in a 20 gallon tub with plants all over for months and never saw a fry but there were also dragon fly nymphs and I thought they’d take a few but not all of the fry that’s Why I thought it may be the parents predating
  19. Hello Everyone, I moved 16 platinum Ricefish from my 20 gallon bucket to a 150 gallon stock tub. They were in the 20 gallon bucket for 14 days and I found fry about 12 hours after removing the adults. When will it be safe to add the fry back with the adults and will I be able to colony breed them in a 150 gallon without intervention or should I keep playing musical plants. I want to breed enough to sell locally and invest in another tub but I don’t want to breed more than I can keep and sell. thanks for your input, Jerry
  20. Thanks for the responses, I have two tubs with the Platinum Ricefish and they seem really hardy haven’t lost a single one out of 22 so far and just transferred 16 of them to the 150 gallon tub today hoping to find babies in the tub they were removed from soon. Have you been able to colony breed them outside or do you need to separate the eggs in order for the fry to survive the parents?
  21. Hey all, I’ve gotten addicted to breeding fish outside, so far I’ve only kept Bettas, endlers, ricefish, panda Corys and CPDs outside but would love to keep fish outside year round without using heaters, the coldest month of the year where I live is December with average highs being 68 f and lows being 44 f, does anyone have experience with species that would do well, I’m mostly interested in nano fish or fish that can live comfortably in 20 gallons. I’ve thought about experimenting with Hara Jerdoni, green Kubotai rasbora, glow light danio, clown killi, Dwarf rainbows and continuing to keep the CPDs and ricefish outside. I have several 20 gallon tubs, three 40 gallon and one 150 gallon. Thank you for any suggestions, Jerry
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