SardineRN
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I'm a little late to the party here, but I stumbled on this post and got a chuckle out of it. I had a very speedy, palm-sized mystery snail that would chase bottom dwelling fish around. He was the most aggressive thing in the tank. He had so much personality we had to name him.
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Very nice! I just got my first platies about a month ago. Today I noticed two little fry swimming around trying to eat the grown up fish food.
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4 minutes ago, FishyJames said:
I bought the 29 gallon and spent 29 on the tank, $70 on substrate, $150 on a light, $50 on plants and a easy planter. Those dollar per gallon sales get expensive 😩
Yeah, I'm probably $1500 in on the free 125 gallon with stand my husband's boss gave me 💸
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Pet Supplies Plus is doing it AGAIN. This sale is through Feb 24. My local store is very good about having tanks in stock for these sales. *Shakes fist in the air* Darn you to heck, Pet Supplies Plus!
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On 1/15/2021 at 7:43 AM, Kirsten said:
They don't have men's fashion yet, but I gotta say I love my dresses from Zuri, made by a Kenyan sewing cooperative. They're so bright and fun and go with everything, easy to layer over/under in the winter, breezy and cool in the summer. If you know someone who likes colorful dresses, gotta recommend em:
Also, love my flats from allbirds. Ended up getting them in multiple colors to go with my Zuri dresses. And they have many men's styles:
Thanks for sharing. I've been looking for alternatives to fast fashion.
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Found this on the Fritz website. I'm treating ich right now and I use Complete, so I need to grab a different water conditioner while I'm out today.
Has anyone had any experience with this?
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5 hours ago, Lynze said:
I use Dwarf Neon Rainbows as dithers in my 75 gallon. They are quick and feisty and I've never had any nipping issues with them. I've been so pleased with them, I decided to make some more 😄
I have a timid and shy Firemouth in a tank with a group of Black Skirt Tetras. He seems to enjoy their presence enough to occasionally let them in his hiding spots without bothering them, but they seem far more aggressive than he does.
My oddest current dither is a small group of Platies in with a shy young Blood Parrot. They have really brought him out of hiding. He's constantly following them and curious to see what they're doing. I tried Glowlight tetras (fully grown and pretty robust) with my Convict hybrid, but it didn't end well. Everyone made it out alive, but I now have 3 one-eyed tetras in a school of 25. 😬
"It didn't end well" seems to be how most convict stories go 😃
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9 hours ago, toothgrinder said:
I have khuli loaches that do double time by keeping the bottom clean, and, most of the time they are swimming around the tank like crazy, ‘dithering’. It’s very funny when two angels are testing eachother and a khuli interrupts by slapping into ones face. The confusion from the angel is palpable when it happens.
Love the Kuhlis! Loaches are so much fun. I have yoyos and clowns with my adult angels.
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What odd choices of dither fish have you tried? How did it work out?
Yesterday I bought three beautiful, juvenile marbled angelfish--at Meijer of all places--to increase the size of my small angel gang and hopefully decrease aggression. The new angels are about half dollar sized and healthy looking. When I introduced them to my current quarantine tank, a lightly planted and snailed 29g THEY FREAKED THE HECK OUT! They were terrified of me, blood worms, flake food, light, darkness, gravel, plants, snails and existence, in general. I decided to reassess in the morning and possibly employ the dither fish strategy I saw in the recent Coop video.
My little grocery store angelfish had not improved by morning and still would not eat the very scary, high quality food stuffs I tried to feed. Enter: the molly fry gang. I added four 1/2 inch black molly fry--too big to be eaten. They have all the confidence and general boisterousness of their adult counterparts on a much smaller scale. It worked. Within a few hours the angelfish were moving with confidence in the tank, even when I approached. When I threw some Fluval Bug Bites in the tank they greeted the food with the kind of piranha-like enthusiasm I've come to expect from angels. Now they have taken up the angelfish hobby of repeatedly testing all flotsam to see if it's edible.
If I were a better photographer I could show you how beautiful my new angels are. It's truly a test of will not to go back and buy up the lot.
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On 9/9/2020 at 5:22 PM, Brandy said:
A Roomba. After a dishwasher, this is my single most beloved time saver. I love that my floors are just constantly magically clean. I am a confirmed cheapskate, and this is worth every penny, I promise.
Her name is Martha, she is my second. Fabio passed away after my kid let him drink too much.
My grandma gave me her Roomba. We call it Bonk. It does such a good job of keeping the car hair under control I'll never been without one again.
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On 12/10/2020 at 8:54 PM, Marnol D said:
@Rick Bunn wait can they eat guppy fry? this is a game changer i need about 20 of them now.
My angelfish do a great job of controlling the molly population. A week after they've scarfed an entire spawn of mollies they're still patrolling the tank looking for more.
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Thank you for starting this topic. I have always read and heard peas are aggressive fish that need to be kept alone. I've often thought my girl, Beatrix Puffer, is bored. I think I'll try her in one of my community tanks and see how she does. Unfortunately, peas are hard to source right now or I'd be buying more.
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Pea Puffers. The grumpy old men of the fish tank.
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Three months after Rick Bunn started this topic I've gone from one puffer in a 5g to eight puffers in a 29g. As of right now they all appear to be female, but that may change as they mature. Turning my lone puffer into a colony has added a whole new dimension to puffer keeping. Watching them group up, explore, rove around like girl gang and then have a spat and split apart is endlessly entertaining. Sometimes I just grab a drink and pull up a chair in front of their tank. This week I added seven neon tetras to their tank after another tank sprang a leak and they're doing well, so far. Highly recommend the puffer colony!