GoofyGarra

placed an order yesterday, curious to see if the shipping rates will be faster. @Cory is there fish food at the new place?

For a 15minute trip to the LFS: I bag up my fish with an ammonia pad in the bag, then put them in an insulated bag with plenty of packing paper/insulator materials.

Got home after a week long vacation today, I was worried because the fish were left unattended for the whole time, they had an auto-feeder but i had no way to know if they were doing alright. Fortunately I saw no losses, the water levels were low and the filters struggling a bit, but the livestock were all alive. If there was 1 casualty it may have been the heater on my 5gallon tank, part of it was emersed with the water level so low. Fortunately i have an extra on hand so if this one fails i can always replace it. Instead of collapsing in bed exhausted from travel, i spend this afternoon doing water changes on all the tanks to make sure all the animals were okay. I was in Indiana for vacation, so while i was there I had to check out the LFS. It is called The Reef and it is a really nice store. The name would imply that the focus is more saltwater, but there were sizable freshwater and terrestrial sections as well. There were very nice displays as well as many healthy fish for sale. I apologize photo quality is not the best, i only had my phone to take pictures with and its not as good of a camera as my normal camera. Large Planted Display:This tank was definitely more south american themed and as well as angels contained some bristlenose, twig catfish, and cardinal tetras There was also a monster fish display tank, it was a few hundred gallons at least and had large South and Central American cichlids, the fish in that tank were BIG. As shown below is the biggest oscar compared to my hand, not a small fish. All the fish that were out were nice and healthy as far as i could tell, and if not they made it clear on the tank They had some really nice hardscape selection in the back of the store As well as some artificial decorations Lots of interesting livestock for sale as well, including: Albino Sterbai Cories: Normal Sterbai Cories: Normal and Albino Glowlight Tetras: Gouarmis and Barbs Yellow Shrimps: Blue Phantom Pleco: Mystery Snails: And for the pond season, koi and goldfish: The bettas unforunately were in cups, but bigger cups then i've seen before and each with a plant clipping. Plants in every tank was definitely something this store does well Some saltwater stuff as well: Just overall a very nice store, i was not paid for this or anything, but i just wanted to share this amazing store. I highly recommend for anyone in the area.

Welcome to the forum! Your tanks look very nice

I keep guppy/endler hybrids in a 15 and they are thriving

This is how i hatch my corydora eggs, if you leave them in the tank with all the other fish they make good snacks.

Definitely a platy or livebearer fry of some sort

Very cool! Do you have some pictures of the isopods?

I'm looking to increase the variety of high quality foods i am feeding my fish. What are some foods people recommend? Right now i have Xtreme Bottom Wafers and Krill Flake, Easy Fry and Small Fish Food, and live Grindal Worms and BBS My fish are Corydoras, Platies, a Panda Garra, and mosquito fish.

a fun topic. This is what i understand: There are 2 species, P. reticulata and P. wingei or guppies and endlers. However they do readily interbreed and this makes some cool color varieties, so most Guppies and Endlers available on the market these days are mutts (P. sp) owever, if you can find what is known as N-class endlers (im sure there is another name for them), they are true P. wingei and have not been crossbred with guppies.

livebearer fry can usually eat BBS right after birth. should be fine

I feel that. Setup an endler tank a few months ago, crazy to think the babies have started having babies now.

Yup this is completely normal. Male platies will fight to assert their dominance over each other. Provide plenty of line of sight blocks so they cant see one another, be sure to provide hiding spots so they can escape bullying when needed. However, there is no really good way to avoid the bullying. My best success has been with many more females then males, but this introduces the possibility of fry which i understand you are trying to avoid.

Female platy looking rather squared off. Babies soon hopefully? 🙏

Those shrimp are super cool! I hope you have success with them

What a cool store! Do they specialize in plecos?

Looks very interesting. Is this a fish trap of some sort?

Did a WC as usual this morning Unfortunately the Sunburst Platy Male was not playing nicely with his friends and was bullying them. I had to move him into time out in the 5gallon for now until he learns to be nice. I got some Water Wisteria from my friend a few weeks ago, i have been floating it in the 20gallon tank and it is growing nicely, not too slow and not too fast

The platies that had been previously sick were behaving very healthy and looked good as well. I introduced them back to the 20gallon tank to be with their friends Shrimp tank continues to be overstocked, i will will need to do a big cull through soon, keeping only the best rest ones and moving the rest of them My grindal worm culture is doing very well, i have discovered that i can harvest and feed it out multiple times a week. The fish seem to be enjoying this update

Always fun when things come a bit early. Can't wait to see the Congos colored up.

I am growing concerned about Rohan. She recovered from the platy disease well and got moved back into the main tank but things are not going well for her. The sunburst male has decided she is not lady-like enough for him and he is treating her like a fellow male and bullying her, she spends all day hiding from him. It is not a good situation, Rohan will need to get moved soon, i like the male too much to move him at this point. I also realized that the mass of floating hornwort i had in the tank was blocking out a ton of light, now that it is removed photographing fish is certainly much easier Native Mosquitofish Whole tank shot: Garra Guy was being a good boy and posed for lots of pictures. The corydoras have pretty much accepted Garra Guy as one of their own when he chooses to join them. They are both active, goofball fish, that love to play in the flow so it makes some sense. Also what do you call a group of Cories? I spotted a few of mine lined up nicely next to each other. Right now im thinking its a gaggle of cories...

From what i understand, wild caught Tiger Barbs are pretty chill, but at some point in the domesticating process they were bred for aggression and turned mean. The bar amount difference probably has to do with hybridization between the barbs and other similar species when they were introduced to the hobby. That being said this is going off what i remember hearing from a podcast episode a few months back, so i might have a few details off.

Right now my friend has a tank with some 5-6in Common Goldfish. The goldfish have cleared the tank of all mini-ramshorn and bladder snails and appear to be doing just fine. i think as long as the snails are small and the goldfish are big it should not be a problem

Yes, this is how i received my Java Fern from them. It was a bunch of small rhizomes all tied together in one big bunch.

Platies in the sick tank are doing much better. I put in some Easy Fry food and they were happy to eat it I'm also starting to rethink all the hornwort in the tank. It is growing very well, but i have a small problem, the hornwort on the bottom of the pile is dying off and shedding its needles, they are getting EVERYWHERE. I removed the hornwort from the tank, ill probably replaced it with guppy grass and wisteria, same plant effect but much cleaner look Without all the hornwort though, the tank feels open and empty I've been using Easy Fry Food for grindal worms as well. It has been giving me some very harvests This Crypt. tropica is getting bigger. I know crypts grow slow, but this one has been growing for like a year or more and is still only 4-5in tall. My water isnt the best for crypts though, so im surprised its survived so long