FishyMike

Hey guys just sharing a picture of the bottom of my bare bottom tanks. I saw a video I think by gregjones spray painting the bottom most of his tanks with rostoleum stone paint and thought I would give it a try. It’s a nice alternative to just doing black or no bottom. And cheaper then you’d think.!

Hello everyone,. Yesterday I was curious to see what my base line water parameter numbers were because I'm in the process of setting up an auto water change with sediment filter and carbon filter. My chlorine level looked like it registered 0 ppm after 1 minute! I walked away for a couple minutes went back to throw the test strip and the chlorine level was up.... I'm confused by this i talked to my LFS and they said i should get a pool chlorine test kit? anyone else experience a test strip go up on chlorine after the 1 minute?

Thank you for the reality check haha!!

Hello everyone in the process of acquiring parts for my 9 tank fish rack( 8-10 gallon 1-40 breeder. Had an idea and was wondering if it was an original idea or if people do this already! So I came across inkbirds bbq wifi thermometers and was thinking instead of using it for bbq using it for the rack. It has 4 probes (I would use 2) for each row of tanks the app looks like you can set temps and notifications if they dip below the temp you want!?! I think it’s cool as a safety net. What do you guys think. Oh and obviously it tells the temp and has a real time graph setting of the temps!

Thanks guys I got 2 down 6 more to go so hopefully we got all the cracking out of the way…

Hello everyone, Just tried my hand at drilling my first 10 gallon tanks. the first was a miss i tried the template then removing it but because the bit was so new it was very much "sticky" and it just grabbed the right way and cracked a bout an inch. so on try 2 i decided to keep the template there and it was nearly perfect except for a small crack and that's why I am here. what do you guys think GO or NO GO? the next 2 came out great slow and steady wins the race.....

I ended up going with the Eheim Jager 75w I got them for 18.52 each which hopefully wasn't to bad.

thank you for your response!! i actually have an inkbird from when i was into my hard cider making hobby. I did give that a thought but i think i remmeber pauying at least 26 dollars for that one and with a cheap element for 8 plus tanks i dont see that being benifitial. thank you unless some how I can connect multiple tanks to one controller hmm

thank you for your response!! that was I'm initial thought but i will be keeping mainly actually all of my fish will be exotic plecos, apistos and maybe rams at some point and heating up my basement to 82ish might not be practical but I will have to look more into it. thank you!!

Any other thoughts on budget friendly heaters? Ehiem 75 is where I’m at right now I would like to see the size I heard they are quite large.

thank you for that!! if that's the one I'm thinking of it does have a controller on it! its a button that you keep hitting and it raises or lowers temp.

They look like they take up alittle less space and if it’s the hygger one I see on Amazon it looks like it’s got a cool function that shows what operating temp is. Anyone have any thoughts?

Hey guys, Just wondering what you guys are using for heaters in your fish racks. I would love to go all out on heaters and spend some serious money on some cobalts or something like that but unfortunately with the quantity of tanks I'm looking at its kind of beginning to be a budget built at this point. I saw a video with dean and took a snip of the heater he was using does anyone know what type this is? I'm familiar with the aqueon pros or the jagers but this one looks really interesting.

Hello everyone, I've been acquiring things to set up my first fish rack and I just placed a order for my co-op sponge filters. My question is I have a 20 long community tank as we speak and was wondering what’s the best way to get the new filters started?! Is it possible to to just leave the new ones in the established tank for a couple weeks? Or do they actually need to be on running? I’m talking about like 8 or 9 sponge filters so I don’t see putting them all on as an option. Any suggestions or ideas?? thank you all in advance!!

I think that’s my sign 1 inch it is!

Hello everyone I took advantage of the dollar per gallon sale at Petco for my new rack I’m putting together. I’ve decided to do a row of 10 gallons and was about to buy bulk heads when I realized idk what size I should get!?! I was going to go with 1/2 inch but then realized that way to small. Does anyone have any experience with them and want to give some advice itll be greatly appreciated! I then was thinking maybe 1 inch then I saw a bunch of people online do 3/4. 😑 lol

Interesting I did not think of that!

Hello guys, just a curious question I’m going back and watching all of deans fish room videos on YouTube ( getting ideas for my new fish rack I’m piecing together) does anyone know what type of heaters he is using? They have green power bricks that are adjustable!? I really like that idea of easy access for adjustments. And they look small I have a bunch of 10 gallons! Thanks guys in advance!!

Awesome!!! Where did you get something like that?

Do you fill your resivoir? Or is it auto mated?

thank you for that visualization!! i think i understand now!! you need a reservoir because you wont be able to pump that much water straight through?

is there a need for a storage container?

My local fish shop said I would be okay with a carbon filter and a sediment filter but I’m just looking for verification?!?! Would the carbon be a disadvantage at all it won’t mess with my ph?

Thank you for your quick response!! I have very low levels but I will deffinitly check. So I’m a bit confused so you have a 65 gallon tank but 500 Gallons worth of tanks do you have to do 8 days of water changes? And wouldn’t that not work because you have to wait 24 hours to read 0?

Thank you in advance for everyone’s responses!! So I’m in the process of setting up a new fish rack with auto water built in and need some help. For the past year and a half I have been doing the bucket method and dosing with prime. But now I’m thinking can I get some sort of filter that removes my chlorine so I can run it straight to the tank? My ph levels are great water chemistry awesome around neutral I’m just scared of putting it thru a filter and loosing “good stuff”. I see many people to a tank or a large water holder that they use to fill the tank is that necessary?