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  1. missriss126
    Oh, thats a good idea to try and filter out some of the light! This tank was one I snagged on ultra mega clearance about a yeear ago at my petco, it was $13 brand new!!! So I'm heitant to put too much money into making it work for me, At that point I would just set up a standard 5.5 or 10 and get all the equipment that I wish to have! No, Surprisingly this tank is on my metal shelving unit and gets zero sunlight .
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    Howdy! I've been a bit busy and haven't updated my own journal thread (a bit overwhelmed with so much to update!) but I finally have my Fluval Spec 2.6 gal cycled, and even with just 6 hours on a day I am having issues with algae, particularly hair algae, I don't care about the diatom algae but I'm getting stringy hair algae all over my plants! Granted, it is very lightly planted at the moment, so I haven't been adding ferts often (some anubias nana petite on wood and a narrow leaf sag cutting from my established 20 gal). My theory is that because the stock fluval spec light is so freaking blue that its causing some issues? i had these same issues in a Spec V that I had up for quite a while, and it was a never ending battle. Any Tips? I want to get this under control before I invest more into plants and stock the tank.
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    Sorry for lack of updates. After speaking with my wife, we decided to downsize. I am quite sad, but only because I get so attached to these darn fish…. We will be finding new homes for both bettas, the baby angels, and work on getting the baby plecos moved out too. We are going to downsize to just the 55 gal, the 20 high, and the Snow White bristlenose. The Bristlenose I will grow out and keep 1 M 2 F and then sell the rest of the group. She is undecided on if she still wants to set up “her” 20 long that I got just for her. Between big life stuff and me having some health issues this last week, we just want to make sure that we aren’t spreading ourselves too thin with all of our pets. We do have 1 cat and 6 dogs (who are working/sport dogs that require a *lot* of our mental and physical energy), so reducing the number of smaller tanks is a way we can lighten the load for times like these where we are spread thin. That being said, I’ll still try to get some updates on the fish and the tanks for you all until they find their new homes. photo for tax, a stunning betta at my favorite LFS ❤️
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    I said he needed a distinguished gentleman’s name, so we named him Bartholomew… but we just call him Bart 😂
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    Well, I stripped the second batch of babies from the cave today. Pic of Bart with his little ones. It was just easier to dump my cave contents into a container and daddy went with it 😂 Here are some screen shots of a video I took during feeding time for the baby angels. I can’t believe how much they look like real fish now!
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    Sorry for the lack of updates, it has been a heck of a week and a few family emergencies... I ended up rehoming my large male Koi angel fish. He has been a bit of a brat the last few months but when I saw him literally cornering and beating up my male Gold angel (named Ruth after RBG)... so many tears in his fins, scales lifted from the beat down he was taking.... I put him in fishy time out and found him a local home with someone who mainly focuses on African cichlids, and when he was lifting the koi out of the bucket, and that fish was putting up one heck of a fight, he said that was the most aggressive angelfish he had ever seen, and he would probably hold his own with the mbuna. Glad to see the peace restored in my tank... A day after the butt hole of a fish was removed, the other two angels (not my parents to the babies, the blushing blue female and gold male) who are a female koi and a male blushing blue were spawning for the first time!!! They immediately ate the eggs, but my other pair did that their first few times as well. My wife and I were talking it over and now that we are down to 4 angels, and about a dozen cardinal tetras (then the cory cats and the plecos) we might want to beef up the tetra school a bit. We love larger schools of tetras and the bioload of 10 cardinals is fairly low in the grand scheme of things. What other updates... Have lost 3 of the pleco babies, my guess would be failure to thrive. The ones that passed were less than half the size of the rest of the bunch. The angelfish babies aka pinocchios are looking like actual angelfish! Sometime between last week and this week they went from just barely developing dorsal and ventral fins, and now they look like actual fish! Watching them develop is just amazing. Pleco batch #2 I'll probably confiscate from daddy Bart in the next few days. We have a freeze here in central TX right now, so I am leaving them in the 55 gal until we for sure know we won't lose power. I spoke to my local LFS, and they said they would take the current pleco batch when they are 1.5 in or so, not sure how much they would give but it is nice to know I have a lovely place to take them. Oh, and my snow white bristlenose babies arrived!!! I'm so so thrilled. I have a quarantine tub set up in my spare bathroom, letting them ride out the storm and do some eating before we start the quarantine med trio. I'll have to try and get pics some time, but there are 8 babies, about 1.5-2 in long, all unsexed at this time, but really hoping to get a solid breeding colony going from that batch.
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    I really love them! They have such big personalities for a smaller fish. I am really enjoying them.
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    Thank you! The gudgeons are still pretty young, but I am loving their colors. All the research I did on them said they were so reclusive and shy but mine just stare me down, like "what do you want, punk" 😝 Apologies for all of the upside down photos. Not sure why they did that when I uploaded...
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    Pics from the 55 gal, Bart with his eggs, and if I can figure out how to share, video of the angelfish babies.
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    Yesterday the 20 gallon and the 55 gallon got a lot of tank maintenance. Gravel vac, cleaning out the sponge filters and HOB filter media, pruning plants, and finally planting the new plants I picked up from last weeks fish swap and from the kind fellow aquariast who gifted me some plants. This morning was exciting! When feeding my angelfish fry, who are 3 weeks old today, I can see that a lot of them are starting to develop their dorsal and ventral fins! Starting to look like real little angel fish instead of random baby fish 😆 Then, while cleaning the glass on my 20 gallon to get pics for the update, I found fresh eggs from my albino cory cats before they got to snacking on it, so I have 9 eggs set up in a jar with some meth blue to hopefuly hatch out! I thought all my excitement was done.... went over to clean the glass and take pics of the 55 gallon.... my male bristlenose pleco was hanging out in one of the caves, but then I noticed he was fanning! Used my flashlight and sure enough, a fresh batch of pleco eggs, too! I'm still not certain which of the two albino females is the lucky mom, one day I will find out, but today is not the day I guess.😁 Going to try and edit this post from my phone to get pics and videos properly placed in the post... wish me luck.
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    Exciting about the panda cory eggs! Are you going to collect them or try to let them hatch out in their tank? My albino corys must have laid early this morning, but before I noticed they had already eaten them and my plecos were cleaning up the spots from the glass. One day I will find a few eggs before they decide to snack on them. 😁
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    Welcome to the hobby! I agree with the others recommending the corydoras, there are quite a few smaller species, and they are just so much fun! I'm always a fan of schooling fish, particularly the smaller tetras. I know many have good experiences with honey gourami as a smaller and more docile centerpiece fish in 10-20 gal tanks.
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    Thank you! I’m really happy that despite me being in survival mode the tanks still look somewhat decent! Excited to get everything back to its full glory!
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    Water change and cleaned up the sponge filter in with my pleco babies. Also gave in to the temptation and cleaned off the glass on one side of the tank, have had some close calls with sucking up fry when cleaning!
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