StephenP2003

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Upgraded my 10 gallon sterilite bin to glass. These platies are growing out to be sold to my LFS. I was trying to do the same with the ludwigia, but you can see the issue. I couldn't view the plants properly in the sterilite and didn't notice the algae. A quick dip in hydrogen peroxide at least killed it.

Something more interesting to me now is observing my bn plecos. I bought a breeding pair in October. They almost immediately produced fry, but within a couple weeks the fry disappeared little by little. Ultimately, one survived and remains alive to this day. But since that one spawn, I've seen only rejected white eggs and never any fry. I think they are about to spawn again, so I've been watching them over a 12 hour period each night since Saturday. Here is night 1. Nothing eventful has happened since then, but the male hasn't left the cave so I am guessing he's fanning eggs again. I just want to see if something is getting in there and messing with the eggs. I wondered if the planaria in the tank were getting to the eggs, but @Corydoesn't think so. At around the 40 second mark, you can see some activity and evidence that the female was in the cave.

The 6 day time lapse in the 90 gallon was uneventful (I stopped it a day early). The Vals grew as usual. I have a light/fert imbalance right now affecting most everything in there. I edited the dark periods out because the night vision didn't work too well.

I pulled the hygrophila from the betta tank and replaced with some beautiful cabomba. Hoping I can keep it beautiful.

I shot a nail through my finger while building an aquarium stand. Does that count?

That pregnant one is a monster. Very nice. Is that sera onip tab the latest version that apparently sucks, or is it original? Looks like it took about 30 minutes to get devoured.

So while I wait on the co-op to put their magical brine shrimp eggs up for sale, i've been trying different sources from Amazon. Recently, I got what I just assume is a bad batch. For starters, the eggs floated -- I'm used to them sinking, so it struck me as odd. They only moved around with air -- once I stopped aeration, they floated again. I tried three times to get a hatch out of them, and got basically 1% hatch rate. (Note, these were not decapsulated eggs, or at least they weren't supposed to be). Tried another source over the past two days, getting OK hatch rates from them. Then, my usual source came through after 11 days in postal service limbo. But tonight, I started a batch with this tried-and-true source, only to find that these eggs float too. .....You'll float too. YOU'LL FLOAT TOO! Anyways... Don't know what I'll end up with tomorrow in terms of hatch rate, but is there a reason some batches float? Are they being affected by the heat while they inch along through the currently-crappy postal service?

Well, I better come up with a solution quick.

I keep a breeding platy and guppy colony together, along with cherry shrimp, amano shrimp, and panda corys. Corys I think are an essential part of a guppy colony. All the powder food (and heavy feeding in general) ultimately sinks to the bottom.

I am fortunate to live in an area where power outages are few and far between. I don't have a piece of wood big enough to knock on; otherwise I'd tell you how long it's been since a power outage. But August has me thinking, the worst hurricanes to affect Louisiana tend to come late August/Early September, and that's when the multi-day power outages become a real possibility. For my smaller tanks, I have an arsenal of USB air pumps, sponge filters, and backup batteries. Plenty of ideas to cool down the tanks thanks to yesterday's stream. But then there's my 90-gallon with a fluval fx6 full of seachem matrix, and if the power goes out, I'll have a bucket of nitrate gumbo for 2-3 days, unless I run maybe a UPS backup, which would probably only run it a few hours at best. What are you all using to prep for an outage in your heavily-stocked tanks of varying sizes?

I got my hands on a sera snail trap recently, and it's the ultimate in snail catching. Don't know why it's basically gone from the market (save for international ebay sellers). The only downside is that it's a real trap, so not to be used in tanks with small fish or shrimp unless you leave the gaps tight to just catch babies. Even my betta managed to wedge himself through a small gap and get caught in there -- luckily I witnessed it happen and got him out. With shrimp, you can watch it closely and just set them free when you remove the trap.

What kind of camera did you use? The cheapo security cam I used has none of those settings I don't think. I get what I get. Hoping this 7-day one turns out OK. I'm so tempted to stop it and watch the current footage and then reset it.

A 10% (roughly) bleach solution, soak overnight. Then I soak in dechlorinated water for 24 hours (or whenever I remember to put it back in the tank). I use the same method to refresh purigen, clean used 50 micron filter material, and my daughter's fake plants when they get dirty.

Agree with using different categories, but probably shouldn't break it up too much or all at once. I visit a lot of forums that go overboard with topic/subtopic/sub-subtopic... "Post here about pumps, but here if it's about eheim pumps; don't post about angelfish in the African cichlid subforum darn it."

You don't have to run it full time. For mine, I use two sponge filters. One sponge filter lives in a nearby aquarium as secondary filtration. When I am ready to quarantine, I put that sponge filter, which has been accumulating beneficial bacteria, in the quarantine tank. I put a fresh sponge filter back in the other tank so it can spend some time accumulating bacteria. After quarantine, I clean that sponge filter and it's back in rotation for the next time I need to quarantine.

2 things remedied this situation for me: Leave no inch of substrate without plants or rocks. Seachem pristine or Fritz monster 360. They both liquify the poop.

I put it in the jar because it won't grow worth a crap in any of my tanks. So far it's only shown a positive response. It's been in there for about 40 days now. Here's the sad state it was in when I first set it up.

I've been trying to grow java moss in a small jar. I added baby cherry shrimp to it as well. Every time I clean my prefilter in the live-bearer tanks, I always have to rescue baby shrimp from the sponge. I probably don't save them all because so many embed themselves in the holes.

I do have cats, but you might have seen snail reflections playing tricks on you. This tank is not optimally placed for cat access. I didn't notice this until you mentioned the fish circadian rhythm, but the camera's night vision actually stayed on well after my light started ramping up. It comes on super dim at 6:30am and doesn't really ramp up until 10ish or so. That's a good pace for snail watching. I should try that. This camera lets me set the snapshot intervals as low as 3 seconds between images. Each image is 1 frame of a 30 frame per second video. I think for this video I did 10 second intervals. For the 7-day time lapse, I'm doing 2 minute intervals because I specifically want to observe the plant growth. That should yield a video just under 3 minutes long. After that, I want to do a one month time lapse with maybe 10 minute intervals. Knowing me, by October I'll have a dozen of these cameras running on several tanks at multiple angles and various time intervals.

I just got a cheap security camera (Wyze Cam) from amazon that does timelapse with the addition of a micro SD card. I did a 24-hour test on my betta tank (see below), although it's not very interesting other than watching snails move. I'm now doing a 7-day timelapse in my big tank. Mostly for fun, but I also think doing extended time lapses will help me observe some of the plant growth/trends in my tank that I tend not to notice until there's a drastic difference. The challenge is finding a place to stick the camera where it won't be disturbed for days/weeks. Can't really mount it in front of any tank.

Reminds me of when case badges were all the rage in custom gaming PCs. Had to have a sticker for every brand of component in your rig, and you could make your own at home if it didn't exist.

Here you go. I forgot I also have two platies in there just chillin.

In mine i've got forktails, boesemani, julii cory, 1 pearl gourami, cardinal tetra, and rummynose tetra.

Have you tried silicone lubricant on the impeller shaft? That quieted mine quite a bit, especially when new. Eventually they get a nice bio film that acts as its own lube. Also, some folks have modded their impeller shaft by securing the white plastic piece of the impeller so it no longer moves freely. I've not done it myself.