Jump to content
Watch our video on the rules of this forum.

RovingGinger

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    381

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Feedback

    0%

 Content Type 

Everything posted by RovingGinger

  1. RovingGinger
    Ok, I did end up buying them. I have an endler breeding project I want to tackle and they dropped the price to $200 and dropped it off. Said they got it some time ago from someone in SD who was breeding discus. They used it for bristlenosed plecos. It looks like it was originally drilled through the slate and then that was sealed?
  2. RovingGinger
    “They’ll die from it or get over it” and “It has to want to live” - my mom. She was not talking about fish but in general I have found this advice pertains to most everything.
  3. RovingGinger
    Angels. So beautiful. But so, so derpy.
  4. RovingGinger
    There’s a practical benefit to it though, if all really goes downhill quickly...🍣 My dream fish is dwarf seahorse. Gonna have to be really really good at many escalating levels of difficulty before trying that one.
  5. RovingGinger
    I found this guy at the local petco and fell in love. Ended up moving the bumblebee gobies out of the 5g for no reason other than I wanted to stare at this pretty guy while working instead (and hoped he might be a little more interactive). He's flouncy, angry, and gorgeous. I certainly don't remember the bettas in fish stores looking like this when I was a kid.
  6. RovingGinger
    That or more houseplants. Your choice. But you have to fill the space, nature abhors a vacuum 😉
  7. RovingGinger
    Embarrassingly today was the first I finally sat down and tested it - my expectation was just “very hard” with no nitrates naturally and it was somewhere in the “pink but not very” range. I generally use tetra test strips, maybe I should also try the master test kit. I could use the workout of shaking a bottle for a solid minute.
  8. RovingGinger
    I dislike doing water changes, out of all aquarium maintenance. My tap/well water comes out with nitrates in it, so it hardly seems worth it to change the water from 40 PPM to 30 PPM with a 50% water change. People say their fish are happier after a water change but my fish seem decidedly unhappy with a giant siphon popping into their life. You see so much consensus on changing water weekly, 2x/mo, regularly, whatever, and stressing that some fish "need regular water changes". To me it seems like regularly changing water is similar to watering your plants on a schedule. Humans like schedules, nature really has quite a few more variables going on in it and you're going to kill your plants if you're not putting a finger down in the soil to see if it's soaked or not before pouring more on. People don't want that answer though, they want "give it an ice cube every week".
  9. RovingGinger
    Doubtful on the nipping, corys are mostly clumsy little innocent things from what I have experienced. There are other reasons your tank could be cloudy but you would need to look closely at the water. This video goes through some of that.
  10. RovingGinger
    My first suggestion is to leave it completely alone for a few days. No changes, no new chemicals, just leave your filter running as is. This can be a natural part of cycling, if it is a bacterial bloom it'll go away on its own if you just let the bacteria do its thing and multiply and your tank will be better off. If it does not go away in a few days then we know it's not that, which is at least helpful in diagnosis. Someone with more experience may have more insight into causes. Your tank is very pretty and I like your stock list, but I would avoid having just one cory as they like their little groups (and they are so cute together, you'll want more than one)!
  11. RovingGinger
    I would very much like to keep some endangered species, either through the CARES Fish Preservation Program or just on my own. Goodeids seem like a good candidate with a strong community around their preservation and care. I am holding off until I feel a little more experienced and have more space, but I like this from Select Aquatics: To me, keeping and preserving endangered species would take aquarium-keeping from a hobby to a cause I can very much get behind.
  12. RovingGinger
    Plant away, I find that it helps the cycle.
  13. RovingGinger
    6g, previously with 3 bumblebee gobies, now hosting one interactive and gorgeous gourami 12g with honey gourami and Pygmy corys
  14. RovingGinger
    Yup. They will stick to plants, glass, rocks, pretty much anything. There are few things more satisfying than watching a honey gourami pull them off.
  15. RovingGinger
    I’m gonna start using this excuse.
  16. RovingGinger
    I want far more pets like reptiles and rodents, but I have two cats with murderous instincts. So my mix is 2 cats, 2 dogs, unlimited fish and plants. For now.
  17. RovingGinger
    I’d count the stock tank. If it holds non-mammalian life in a solid wall container it counts. Although I guess by that criteria we’re including some houseplants which is gonna be way too much to count.
  18. RovingGinger
    Technically I think you could count your reptiles... I didn’t specify the tank had to be filled with water and fish I guess 😂
  19. RovingGinger
    I thought this might be fun to see what people's stats look like. Active tanks only (something, plant, animal, invert, living in it). 226 / 25.4 / 9 Enough tanks that normal people think it's crazy, but few enough that aquarium people know I'm a newbie.
  20. RovingGinger
    So far so good but the convict parrot is 1/3-1/4th the size of the blood parrot. From what I’ve read it should not get as big. The blood parrot is making all sorts of hollows for itself and chases both the convict parrot and the molly, but can’t do anything or chase both at once. I am thinking angels and Yoyo loaches for combo fish.
  21. RovingGinger
    the 75 gallon is. Finally. Set. Up. Blood parrot, polar parrot, and one poor molly that’s technically big enough to help take some of the bullying off the baby polar parrot. Don’t worry, it’ll soon go back to the 40 breeder where it reigns supreme. Hoping for the plants to grow in and planning to add more. No hard scape thus far.
  22. RovingGinger
    I was misremembering the air pump as requiring drilling in the Innes book. It does not, it hooks on like a modern canister filter but air powered. Apparently, canister filters remain about the same price - $8.50 in 1936 is about $160 today.
  23. RovingGinger
    What about drilling for water changes? I think I saw drilling for a sort of filter fairly early, but I don't know when sump systems or auto changes came into being.
  24. RovingGinger
    I did not buy them, it was $250 for all pictured and I don't have the space or the ladder necessary to clean that top tank! They're not drilled at all which I thought was interesting - was that a later innovation? Gotta say between the two I like the cast iron antique ones more from an aesthetic standpoint. Rimless is cool and all but it'd be neat to see replicas of historic tanks available.
  25. RovingGinger
    This showed up in our local FB market place. 30 gallon breeders with slate bottoms and steel frame. I'm not really interested... but I am curious. How old is this thing? When was the shiny steel tank siding popular? Would this've been a store thing, a breeder thing, both? Share your funky tanks and funky tank stories. Anyone got one of those headboard tanks? A DIY coffee table tank? Or just some crazy Craigslist posts.
×
×
  • Create New...