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not Cory here but i think you just have to use small pieces of tubing of the correct lenght to connect all the filters nipples toghether till the bottom, and there place your airstone(so i would place it at the bottom, or towards the bottom if too many bubbles are escaping from the sides, otherwise doesen't have enough venturi to create lift)at that point, with such a lengthy lift pipe i think you should be ok with your standard airpump. correct me if I'm wrong

different light but same power and kelvin rating

Man, Philip, that is right on the bottom😂🤷🏻‍♂️ and for now i cant get to it without creating mayhem, if ill remember at the next water change ill post it.

the plastic tote was before used to store solid objects and anyway i washed it throughly before to use so i tend to exclude that. the second thesis may have some sense in effect, in the tank they normally live in the substrate is black and there are dark stones too, dark background aswell and makes sense they would adapt lighter in a lighter tank with no substrate! i think you are right! mhhh!! never really used plastic containers and actually i was a bit skittish in doing so but then i saw it as an experiment, in the end a plastic tote is easyer, cheaper, more versatile and not difficult to reuse or dispose, has a lot of pros, if you don't need to use it as a display... as you see on the photos for me everything is on a budget and DIY, space is gold because i now live in a small, old house with (beautiful!, but) uneaven extraold wooden floors, so i can't have big or many tanks like in the past.

mhh i see what you mean but the fish is some exemplars of the last gen of the 5year old colony im keeping

no worries man, thanks for the input anyway! maybe @Cory had something like this happening in his centenarian guppy mastery top of the game ultratested experience 😁?

i know is difficult to see, you have to trust my word on that, and no, like i wrote in one of the captions is also on ther abdomin but is really difficult to make a photo that is clear since they think im going to feed them and dart around excited.

in the pick below i can notice much less color on his head and his lower body that you cant see from the pic in the pic below the red tailed boy there has normally a really deep and noticeable snake pattern on a blue iridescent to green, seems graysh here.

So i have set up a 8gal shallow, bare bottom, plastic tank,then cicled a sponge filter in with some sponge that i had layng in the filter of my established aquarium,fed the tank a bit every day, tested the water until 0 ammonia 0 nitrite 0.20 nitrate then filled it of water column feeding, fast and slow growing plants. now water parameter are fine and i started add 1 female "virgin" guppy every 4 days till reach 4, waited 2 weeks and yesterday i've put 2 males. temp is 75/77. ph 7.8 and my water is so hard, you can't brake it with an hammer. in the past weeks, when the females were still alone, i have noticed some inactivity and floating on top of the water just under the light, no heavy breating or any other sign of distress, good apetite. so i just raised the temp of the tank a bit(at the time was 72/74) and all looked normal again despite the paleness. I have noticed in general the females looked a bit less colorful in that tank but, i tought was my impression, that maybe the satin plastic side of the tank was giving me that impression. Now looking at the boys I've put yesterday thou i can see a clear loss of color respect the aquarium were in before. so i decided to take one back home and observe.. in the round of 15 20 minutes his color is back as deep as before. Now all the fish behaviour in the breeding tank is normal, picking at stuff on plants,i see breeding behaviour, good apetite, no sign of stress like inactivity, heavy breating, swimming up and down the wall. i do not understand, do someone have any experienced this? ill post a photo of the tank soon. I'm eager to hear you guys opinions.

i wouldn't go to the trouble of changing subtrate.... you said it, was expansive, is a lot of trouble, will disrupt all the good bacteria fauna you already have and anyway doesn't make a real difference, and angel and cory's will adapt just fine to it, or you can get some wood in the tank to buffer it out.

can we have the photo of the entire tank? in the photo u posted before i see there is a ton of duckweed, maybe that is blocking out quite some of the oxygen exchange, but if you have an airstone running should still be fine, or also move the outflow from your filter over the water surface to brake it. how is the tank filtered?

how long is your tank running for? anyway if the fish are actively dyng do a water change (i would do 50% in your situation)..when in doubt, change it out.. since you have nitrite still measurable what about ammonia? are you actually sure nothing changed?what about temperature?

Hey thank you , I'll share some photos of how it is but I haked the top of the tank to house into the former electronics bay (that was for the neon fluorescent tube) a modified flower pot with clay balls as filter media, water gets pumped in on a side from a small pump with intake sponge, and then overflow on the other side to the aquarium, so the plant grow in this vase and roots don't get into the tank itself, no much problem for service since I can get the top off and dump the content of the vase in a bucket if I need to rinse the media (which I do once a year ..I guess 😆) Anubis went bananas with flowers, sincerely no idea why, but I guess the co2 helps, that said the tank is not superbalanced. I have occasional bloom of BBA that actually used to be all over the tank, and I'm battling to not let the mini staghorns that I see around become a real problem. intake Inflowoverflowoutflow

Thanks for the replies so this is the tanks that im now left with, ill just leave a peek on the tiny one, if all go as it should ill give u an update on it soon. Hope u like it. Sorry about the quality of the photos im not really good at it😂 and i have just my phone not a real camera.

Hey guys, I'm Gabriele, from italy but living now in Bruxelles for some months after 10 years in amsterdam. I had my first aquarium when i was about 14, was pretty much a disaster, in that period i kept a community tank, and piranhas for a while, didn't know much that time, then about 5 years ago when i was living in amsterdam i fell back into the rabbit hole getting more knowledge from the coop channel about planted tanks, i kept 5 tanks(3 nano) with pea puffers, angels, apistogramma, various small cats(otos, twig catfishes, cory), betta, dwarf gourami, tetras, various shrimps and superclassicneverold guppys, I'm surely forgetting something, but that's how it goes. after i moved away from amsterdam in a much smaller home i had to give away my 2 bigger tanks and i'm currently still keeping my nano 3 gal that used to house my long lived and recently passed betta and now just a colony of red cherry shrimps, and my 10 gal with a weird home made aquaponic overhead that give me quite some wiggle room to play with the stock inside(mostly guppy, 4 otos, and 2 hillstream loaches) they are both heavily planted and the last one with high light and co2, and a quite big pothos plant growing from the diy overhead filter that i was mentioning before. Ask me anything, and if you guys are interested i'll post some photos. See you all