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Shrimp and Snail Sunday - Show Off Your Invertebrates!
StephenP2003 replied to Daniel's topic in Photos, Videos & Journals
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It's feeding on the silicates leaching into your aquarium. You can clean it off, do water changes, deploy otocinclus and/or nerite snails, or just let it run its course. It'll go away.
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Can vallisneria live a life as a floating plant? If not, how long can you float it without melting it? Running out of substrate space but trying to accumulate enough plants to make the trip to the LFS worthwhile.
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Inline CO2 diffuser position ?
StephenP2003 replied to Dean’s Fishroom's topic in Plants, Algae, and Fertilizers
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The aqueon versa top hinges are not glued on, and it just takes a little bit of force to pull the glass out of the grooves. Just do it carefully on a soft surface or you might do what I did to the top on my 29 gallon.
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Community blend, soilent green, super green, bottom scratcher, and more I'm sure.
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Fry day Friday - Show Us Photos of your Baby Fish
StephenP2003 replied to Daniel's topic in Photos, Videos & Journals
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Harvesting baby brine, techniques for keeping them fresh
StephenP2003 replied to Tetra Guy's topic in General Discussion
I typically hatch a tsp and do one big feeding in my 20G endler colony, 10g platy grow out, 40g live bearer mosh pit, and a bit for my pseudomugils, white clouds, and betta. Occasionally I'll hatch a larger batch and freeze them in little cube molds, so I can feed more than once a day, or when I'm too lazy to do a hatch. -
Probably not that much, depends on how large I guess. I know some companies have free freight shipping if you spend a certain amount (thousands). It's going to cost several hundred to ship something large. When I was sourcing my 90 gallon, I found one place where I could get the custom tank built and sent for just a hair more than I paid for the glass. I opted to do the build myself since the savings was minimal and I wanted the diy experience.
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I spent $600 on half-inch glass just to make my 90-gallon. I needed custom dimensions for the space, but even if I didn't, the options around here for buying anything bigger than a 55 are pretty sparse. Petco never has the 75, regardless of whether their sale is going or not. I can get the full 75g marineland kit at petsmart, and that's it. I don't have a clue how I'd go about getting an aquarium larger than that around here. Just doesn't seem to be a market for it. Listings for used aquariums are always people selling their 30s and under for way too much, so I envy those folks who find some ancient 200-gallon tank on Craigslist, even if it needs a full reseal. Next time, I think I'll just use a custom aquarium company and take a road trip with a u-haul.
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Throwback Thursday - show us old photos of your tanks
StephenP2003 replied to Daniel's topic in Photos, Videos & Journals
Ah OK. I have an fx6 on my heavily planted 90gallon, and the big aquarium coop prefilter is a must. I can go a while without cleaning it too. Tons of plant matter on it right now, mostly moss, and I still have great flow.- 36 replies
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Throwback Thursday - show us old photos of your tanks
StephenP2003 replied to Daniel's topic in Photos, Videos & Journals
I remember you saying that in another thread, and I'm curious what you mean. I always assumed plants had a positive effect on controlling the bioload. What happened in this case?- 36 replies
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Throwback Thursday - show us old photos of your tanks
StephenP2003 replied to Daniel's topic in Photos, Videos & Journals
I gotta say, both being beautiful scapes, I still want to know what made you switch over to hardscape. Just felt like changing?- 36 replies
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Aquarium Co-op new Brine Shrimp Eggs!
StephenP2003 replied to Dean’s Fishroom's topic in General Discussion
Light or no light has not changed my hatch rate (as you said, assuming it's not for heat).- 99 replies
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Throwback Thursday - show us old photos of your tanks
StephenP2003 replied to Daniel's topic in Photos, Videos & Journals
I'll just share one of my 9 tanks, with the biggest change. October 2019... Colorful gravel, Petsmart ornaments with no cohesive theme, and an assortment of plants to see what might grow. October 2020... Same fish, new look. I have some things figured out now, but still very much a work in progress. EDIT: it wasn't until seeing the old photo again that I realize how much those ornaments have lost color over time. The later photo does have a different, brighter light, but still.- 36 replies
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Platy 1: She's giving all her attention to the betta again. Platy 2: Quick, let's poop and ruin the picture.
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Great photo. I need to step up my game with fish photography. I've seen people accomplish some awesome shots on smartphones. Best I could get of mine today:
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Here's the rest of my wood pieces. Two in my pleco grow out. This one will not sink. It's been a couple weeks now. Live bearer tank, where a few pleco fry escaped while transferring them out of the breeder box.
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Guilty of this, except with my phone.
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I was using a 10 gallon plastic tote similar to irene, but I decided I wanted to grow extra plants in there too, so I switched to a real aquarium so I could see the health of the plants a little better. The Tote:
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If I were a breeding aquatic species, this is where I'd want to live.
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Any excuse to show my wood... Let's start with my bonsais: Having a tough time with diatoms, suddenly reappearing many months after setting this up. I'll share my Malaysian driftwood later today.
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Cool theme. How often do we look at our tanks from the top down? Well, most of mine have a lot of surface agitation anyway, except for my betta tank.
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Show out those grow outs
StephenP2003 replied to Mr. Ed's Aquatics's topic in Photos, Videos & Journals
I'm enjoying my live-bearer growouts, finding new patterns all the time. I especially like seeing the endler/guppy hybrids: Lots of interesting platy colors in there too: I have another tank with pure endlers: I have about 30 of these in another tank ready to go to the fish store soon: