Daniel

Such a cool project! I would love to see photos if you have them.

@ForestJenn Connoisseur of reality British archeology shows and quality twine. A true renaissance aquarist!

@TheDukeAnumber1 meme's have me rolling on the floor laughing! And if there is ever another earthquake, I am headed to wherever The Duke is headed 🙂

It is an honor to be second. Bill should get some sort Nobel or Pulitzer Prize for his thoughtful, super well documented, well photographed and all round graphic production of some very creative ideas. The acme of posts on this forum!

Dave is the electrical master! with practical solutions to every day problems, and inventor of the term 'C. F. I.' 🙂

I have always thought Stephen's member photo was my favorite of all! I smile every time I see it. And now that I have gotten to know him a bit through the forum, the photo seems very fitting 😃

It will clear eventually, it always does. The longest for me once was 10 weeks. That takes superhuman patience though.

Baby angelfish are so cute they make my teeth hurt. Almost like putting Frosted Flakes and honey on top of butter pecan ice cream. I feed mine 6 - 10 times a day rotating with blackworms, baby brine shrimp, Daphnia, mosquito larva, Vibra Bites, and Bug Bites and other stuff. I have never them seen get full. They don't pick at plants (but would you if thought there was Daphnia just around the corner)? They will grow faster if you feed more, but I don't think you have to feed more. Lots of variety is helpful.

Even though I have kept angelfish I don't know much about varieties. Pairing I know a bit more about. Silver dollar size. That is using money as a reference pairing might begin as they grow past US silver dollar size, likely a bit bigger, and this where food can help. Using food as a reference, certainly pairing is complete by the time they are silver dollar pancake size. And when do you need to have tank ready? Sooner than you think! I have some discus that were nickel size in July that are as big as my hand now, and a pair has already formed. Or least, the dominant fish has a special fish friend that he allows to eat from the blackworm pile, but doesn't allow any other discus to approach the pile. His strategy so totally doesn't work though because as he chases one hungry discus away a different one sneaks up from behind and eats worms. I got some dime size angelfish from Aquabid 13 days ago. https://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/closed.cgi?view_closed_item&fwangelfish1599697803 And quarter size angelfish also from the same seller on Aquabid 13 days ago. https://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/closed.cgi?view_closed_item&fwangelfish1599697802 The dime sized angels are now bigger that quarters and the quarter sized angels are now bigger than half dollars. At this rate they will be as big as pacu by Christmas! And as a side note, one might ask, 'Is he cycling the 1930s Historically Planted Aquarium with 20 angelfish?' Kinda of. I put water from an establish tank and some hornwort in the 1930s aquarium and added the angelfish (straight out of the shipping bags) about 20 minutes later. But I wouldn't call that cycling. 🙂

There many setting involving daylight and sensitivity available on the Yard Enforcer. We tune ours not to go off in daylight hours so that they don't interfere with working in the garden.

Can you breed angelfish in a 10 gallon aquarium, definitely yes. I was maintaining a couple of angelfish temporarily in a 10 gallon tank and Bam! They bred. But that 10 gallon was far too small for them. I wouldn't do it anything less than a 20 gallon tank. To breed angelfish at the very least you need one male and one female. Angelfish are almost impossible to sex by humans, but the angelfish themselves are pretty good at it. The strategy that I use is to buy half a dozen or so small angelfish and wait for pairs to form as they mature. Unless you have the resources and the availability to buy an already mated pair, this is likely the strategy (buying many juveniles) you will want to pursue. And if you have the resources to buy a mated pair of angelfish, you probably have the resources to buy at least a 20 gallon aquarium to house your expensive mated pair of angelfish in. One of the most glorious spectacles you will ever witness as an aquarist is a proud pair of angelfish parents shepherding a cloud of miniature angels from here to there, back and forth in your aquarium. In a 10 gallon aquarium, the difference between here and there is mere inches. You would deprive yourself of one of the main reasons for breeding angels in the first place if you did not house them in a suitably large tank.

72.2°F and 56% humidity currently, but here is September 2020 so far: I know it is hard to read, but the point is there is a lot of variation and it generally correlates to the outside weather. The fishroom humidity is green and varied from the mid 40s to the mid 80s. The fishroom temperature is in yellow and varied from the upper 60s to the low 80s. I mostly don't run heaters in the aquariums in my fishroom and the aquariums are fairly stable in the mid 70s.

Short answer is yes! They work great. Longer answer is that they work better on some problems than others. @Ken Burke is right, UV is good for algae, etc. in the water column. How effective UV is depends on the size and strength of the UV light and has much time the water is exposed to the light as it passes over the UV light. It is not a silver bullet for internal parasites and it is unlikely that it would have prevented the problems you had with your discus. UV cannot reduce pests that never pass over the UV light, for example, UV will not get rid of Blue Green Algae even though Blue Green Algae is a bacteria, because the bacteria reproduce happily in the aquarium without passing over the UV light.

If they were the only 2 angels in a 29 gallon they could probably work it out, but there might be some head butting (or maybe not), but nothing fatal.

Not likely, but it looks it still pretty small and there is still room for more fin extendage, but probably not veil.

I figured that, but just had to ask. 😞

The pond is 5 feet deep but the rice fish hang out in the top couple of inches. They must like it well enough because I put in a handful and now there are thousands. They also don't seem to have any problem with hanging out in open water either. They are possibly the least demanding fish I have ever kept.

I didn't even think of this until @Nataku mentioned it but these 'Yard Enforcers' have been 100% effective in keeping deer out of our garden for going on 4 years. The only time we had any deer damage was when I forgetfully turned the water off, doh! Scares the deer beans right out the deer!

Don't know for sure, but that was my guess, which is why I asked. Phones like to helpfully autorotate things. Occasionally someone posting will have that problem, but it is not common, and I wished I had asked about the device they were using.

So I just went outside and took a photo. I have about 15 five gallon buckets that serve as my mosquito larva farm. I start those with putrid, fetid, nasty rotting plant material because mosquitos love that smell and will lay vast amounts of eggs rafts in the stinky brown water. But sometimes an empty, but dirty bucket will end up out there with the mosquito larva buckets. That is what this green one is. It has duckweed in it because duckweed gets stuck to my harvesting net and gets spread around willy nilly. One of the other green water buckets out there is clearing up because apparently I had Daphnia stuck to the net, and now that bucket has a booming Daphnia population.

For me what almost always works is, strong direct all day sunlight plus rainwater plus dead plants. I have had nice green water cultures form in stray 5 gallon buckets with rainwater and no plant material, but it took weeks for that one. The culture depends on whatever algae spores waft in on the wind so you never know for sure what you are going to get. Easy Green would be perfect to get things started as it would take the place of dead plants. I have never used aeration so I don't know if that makes things better. The most green water I ever made was setting up my 500 gallon tank back in 2007. I juiced it up real good with way to much Amano stuff in the substrate and strong lighting. This is what water my aquarium looked like for 10 weeks straight: And then, like a miracle it cleared never to be cloudy again.

If you had no room for this: If all your fish and other invertebrates all went in at or near the same time, then presto! That one tank is the quarantine tank. Right?

Nice!

Are you posting from a phone or laptop or desktop?

Love this stream! How do deal with glare?