Andy's Fish Den

I've often thought of getting some of the box filters and using them in some of my tanks. I used them a lot when I kept fish back in the late 80s-early 90s and would just fill them with the poly fil from the craft department at Walmart, along with a handful of aquarium gravel to help weigh them down. They always worked well for me back then, and I'm sure with the reusable pads like what you used, they will work well and be easy to service.

Maybe we should start a go fund me to have mbu puffer statues made to replace the lions.

I am the groundskeeper for the school district I live in and the wells that feed my irrigation systems have quite a bit of iron in them, you can see tell where the water hits concrete or even the grass has a reddish tinge to it.

I too have a well, its fairly deep, 80+ feet. I put a whole house sediment filter on the water line a few years ago and was surprised how much sediment there was in the water. I can tell when its getting about time to change the cartridge by the water pressure when I'm taking a shower.

I don't have insurance on my aquariums, but I did ask my agent about damage caused by a broken aquarium and they told me that my insurance would cover damages to my home if an aquarium should leak. I only have one tank in the living area upstairs of my house, the rest are in my fishroom in my basement, which is unfinished.

I cant remember who I first heard it as a tip from, but I've done it several times and I have seen them "cleaning" the eggs, whether they actually help I'm not sure but I still do it.

As Irene said, roll them off the glass with your fingers or use a credit card to scrape them off, they're actually pretty tough. I've just used a small plastic dish like a deli container, put a little bit of tank water with the eggs, and an airline with a slow stream of bubbles. I float the container in he tank, you can add some hydrogen peroxide a drop or two to help with fungus or an alder cone if you have one. I'll also throw a random cherry shrimp in and they'll help keep the eggs clean. A few days later the eggs hatch, and a couple days after that you will see the yolk sac has disappeared and you can start feeding. Most will take a powdered dry food, you can crush flakes or pellets up really fine if need be. Baby brine shrimp is also good, will help them grow as well. Good Luck and keep us informed how it works for you. Also, just thought, if the adult cories are the only fish in the tank, you could catch them out of the tank and let the fry hatch in the tank, there will be plenty of micro-organisms for them to eat for the first few days after hatching and could make it easier to raise.

Looks like a greta space. The Corvette lover in me would have tried to get the car included in selling price! Can't wait to follow along as you build out the new fish room and studio, if I lived out that way, I'd volunteer to help move tanks.

I have well water, TDS of 300-350 and my pH come out of tap at around 8 but after a day settles to 7.6-7.8. I have bred most of the common corydoras, including the panda that you mention in my normal tap water, and have had eggs hatch. Most of the common cory species have been bred in captivity for several generations, so they have acclimated to aquarium conditions well and will spawn and hatch eggs. I do however add oak leaves to my cory tanks, and most of my tanks, it will help lower the pH some, add some tannins to the water and the micro-organisms that grow on them are food for the newly hatched fry. I do have some wild caught cory, plecos, discus and angels that I mix RO/DI water into when I'm working with them to try and get them to spawn, and I just got a couple 55 gallon food grade barrels that I am going to set up to catch rain water to be able to use as well for bredding and when I get fish imported in to acclimate.

They came out late last year or early this year. They are patented like the GloFish, stores can only get through certain wholesalers.

They don't like being moved, I had got a couple and put in a tank to grow some and then moved one to my display tank upstairs and it melted back almost completely, Now, its been in there for 4 or 5 months and its finally got several leaves back.

I just let it float. I have it so thick in a couple tanks that when it reached the bottom, it rooted into the substrate though.

I had two tanks with bad outbreaks of BBA, I tried hydrogen peroxide, excel, easy carbon and still didn't do anything. I got two Siamese algae eaters for each tank, and in one tanks I haven't seen a tuft of BBA and in the other there's a couple small spots, but I'm sure they'll be gone soon. I've also heard that panda garra are good BBA eaters as well, I'm supposed to be getting some at a swap a local club is doing soon and will keep them on standby to try as well.

That is cool! I keep telling my wife and kids that if they don't use our pool more, that I'm going to turn it into a pond next spring.

I freeze my leftover BBS as well. I have one of the trays that @Bill SmithHas that I also use for Repashy that I freeze it in and then pop them out into a zip lock freezer bag.

I saw that last night and got online to see and unfortunately the two Petco that are nearest me were out of the two sizes I need to get more of, 20H and 40B

Looks like breeding behavior to me. They will lay eggs on the glass, as well as large plant leaves. If you want to you can scrape any eggs off and hatch them separate, as most likely in a community tank the eggs will get eaten.

I know what you mean communing with nature, That's why I still do my water changes with the python instead of installing an auto water changer so that I have to look into each tank, check the fish out, see what's happening. I still do some lifting though, I fill 5 gallon jugs with RO/DI water and then have to dump them into tanks, and I can tell when I've had a busy day doing that quite a few times

Unless you have good woodworking skills, I would make a rectangle stand like a standard tank and have a piece of 3/4" plywood on top.

after you get one, you'll wish you had got one sooner. If you don't have an auto water change system in your fish room, it is well worth the investment, and you can even get extension hoses to make it longer if you need.

Good day mate! I just recently came across your YouTube channel and have been watching quite a few of your videos.

It may be a sickness, but its a therapeutic one, they say watching a fish tank can lower blood pressure and several other health ailments. I know that if I've had a stressful day at work and I go home, go downstairs to my fishroom and feed and watch the fish, it helps me calm down and unwind.

you can get crushed coral that is in such small pieces its like sand, or as mentioned above, put in a hang on back filter, or you can even get one of the old school box filters and put some in there.

If you don't have a local fish club, Aquabid is a good place. Now, you did mention bettas, I'd check them out good, as a lot of the ones on aquabid are from overseas and will have to go through a trans shipper.

Congrats to the ones who are getting the care packages! I love that the co-op is so helpful and gives back to the fish keeping community so much!