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  1. Andy's Fish Den
    I've been in Preuss Pets several times when I've been up visiting my brother who lives just south of Lansing. It is a neat store.
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    I don't have one now, but I used to have a 12" cube tank in my throne room. I raised a ton of cherry shrimp in it while I had it set up. I'll see if I can dig up any old pictures of it.
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    I had a royal gramma (saltwater fish), I had named him King, that I had for over 10 years that I just lost a few months ago. I first got him when I was married to my first wife and had a beautiful 75 gallon reef tank. We split, I moved to an apartment and sold a lot of my corals and fish, but kept him and a pair of clownfish, but down sized to a 29 gal, I lost both clownfish over a few months, but the King lived on. He moved with me to two different apartments and then into the house I live in now with my current wife. And since we moved here, I had to move the 29 gallon at least three times because we were adding on and remodeling, and he finally ended up in a 40 breeder reef. I'm not sure what caused him to pass, and I never found a body or anything, I just went to feed the tank one day and I noticed he didn't come out to eat.
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    I have seen in a video on YouTube someone drilled their tanks closer to the bottom and then had a long upright drain in the tank for normal use with the auto water change, then they could rotate the elbow and drain it down further if need be.
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    I have a big hook I made in a blacksmithing class that I put on the wall in my fishroom that my python hose hangs on.
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    For fish that I order from overseas with my local club when we import, I temp acclimate by floating or letting bag sit out for 15 min or so then open bag and catch fish out then drop into QT tank. If I ordered form someone in US shipped overnight I just float to temp acclimate then dump fish and water in. I figure most sellers fast the fish for a day or two before shipping and most likely the fish have been in bags lass than 24 hours so the water shouldn't be too awful. Now, if the water is cloudy and smells bad, I net fish and plop n drop.
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    I don't quarantine plants, I do look them over good to check for snails or snail eggs, and I fill a container full of room temp tap water that I dip them in and run my fingers over the leave, but kind of hard to do with most stem plants. I just figure if there's anything on the leaves it will help wash off, then I dump that water down the drain. I have a tank that I have been collecting plants in and getting them converted to submerged growth, and will be replanting into other tanks as I get my fish room redone this fall and winter.
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    look up David Ramsey on youtube, he has videos on how he raises brine shrimp to adults He also has a bunch of other videos on raising lots of live foods to feed fish.
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    Did you do anything special to the water? RO or anything? One of mine I've noticed lately has become a lot more aggressive to the others when eating, I was thinking may be a male, but I haven't noticed him being nicer or favoring one of the others to think that they could be pair bonding. I've been doing twice weekly water changes on this tank and a couple others trying to induce spawning, now I'm going to have to start feeding more often.
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    Had you spawned the Leopoldi angels? If so, I am interested to learn some techniques as I have a group I would like to work with and try to spawn.
  11. Andy's Fish Den
    How about if you just send them to me and I'll be able to tell my wife I actually didn't buy any tanks when I redo my fish room?
  12. Andy's Fish Den
    Looks like Ladybird is growing nicely! I'm looking forward to seeing how she looks in the 800.
  13. Andy's Fish Den
    If I lived in Hawaii I think I would do like you have with the tub ponds. Definitely looks like your own slice of paradise there.
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    Another idea ot consider for the second bridge, get yourself an army of amano shrimp and put them in there. When I worked at a LFS years ago, we would take plants or decorations that had algae on them and throw them in our amano shrimp tank and they made short work of it. Depending on how many shrimp were in the tank, most of the time something covered in hair algae would be cleaned in a day or two.
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    I have a 93 gallon Marineland cube 30x30x24" tall. It came drilled with an overflow and I originally intended to set it up as a saltwater reef tank, but decided against that and to do a freshwater planted. The size of the tank and the space in the stand made it difficult for a sump, had a quote for a custom one that was almost $800. I ended up finding one that was meant for a saltwater tank but fit perfect in the stand. It has 2x 4" filter socks, and then the water goes into a center chamber which is filled with a bunch of bio-balls which I have a piece of egg crate on to keep them in the water. Then it goes through some foam blocks before hitting the return chamber where I have a Hygger DC controllable pump in. I have it at about 60% power flowing around 850 gph back into the tank. Its not a pretty sump, I don't deep clean it or anything, any mulm that makes it down there stays in there.
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    For apistogrammas I would recommend a fine sand. Apistos will pick up sand in their mouths and sift through it for food. They also will sometimes pile sand in front of the hole to their cave to make it smaller so a large fish cant poke its head in.
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    From what I've seen everything has been pretty much cancelled this year.
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    I love the wild discus! I prefer them over the domesticated ones. I kept them in the past and when I remodel my fishroom this fall, one of the tanks I'm adding will be for them.
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    Nice looking setup you have going there.
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    When I was a teenager and in the hobby I wouldn't have put a guppy in any of my tanks, I wanted fish that were more difficult to keep and breed. Now, I have a couple strains and I want more! I see all the colorful ones that Cory and other put videos of on YouTube and I want them.
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    The only rimless tank I own is a Marineland 93 cube, the only thing I don't like is being able to see the water line and I get scale build up at the water line because I have hard water. I had to buy some clips to hold the glass top on from someone who 3D prints them as the ones that came from Marineland were too flimsy and broke easily.
  22. Andy's Fish Den
    I have some of this goodeid as well, I moved them into a 40 breeder and have several fry as well. Now, I want to get some other goodeid species as well to work with.
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    I have a 10 gallon as the one I use 99% of the time, but I also have a 20 high that I keep as well for quarantine. I use it for if a get some larger fish or a large group of fish, plus its in an increment of 10 to make it easy to dose the med trio, just two packets.
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    Anything that is in the water or has the possibility of falling in a tank, such as heaters, lights I plug into a GFCI protected outlet. My central air pump, dehumidifier and other things in fishroom are just plugged into a normal outlet. I did run a dedicated circuit just for my central air pump, even though it technically doesn't need it, just as a safety measure, that something else wouldn't kick the breaker and knock out all my filtration.
  25. Andy's Fish Den
    I had a tank that I had a group of praecox rainbows in as well as some aspidorus spilotus to grow out. I had a spawning mop for the rainbows in the tank, left it in tank for a week. I took the mop out and put in a separate tank to hatch, which I started seeing little fry swimming after a few days. A week later, I could tell they were aspidorus fry and not the rainbows I was wanting to spawn.
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