Ben_RF

sorry about that previous mistake. meant to post day 3

Edit: Meant to post day 3

I thought I'd start a fun little thread documenting my journey in setting up an indoor brine shrimp tank. 6 cups of insta ocean for a 5.5 gallon tank. Water straight from the tap. Using chaeto macroalgae to help control nitrates. Using an old nicrew light because of the sheer volume of blue lights on it which is supposedly good for chaeto. This video is of the tank on the 2nd day. The brine shrimp had just began to hatch. I need to learn to take better videos/pictures of aquariums.

So this morning I pulled out an old five gallon to continue my brine shrimp culture for the winter months. I pulled one of the two sponge filters from the outside brine shrimp pond and grabbed a handful of chaeto. I use chaeto to help absorb the extra nutrients they produce. Plus it is fast growing and easy to sell. And by keeping a small amount alive I will have it ready for next spring. The temperature is set to 76f.

This is also how many folks would run sand with a undergravel filter back in the day.

Back in the day, to help prevent small pebbles and mulm from building up in the bottom, we would take fine mesh or cloth and put over the top of the undergravel filter. I am not sure how effective or if it actually impaired, but thats the old hack many folks use to use to help keep things from building up down there.

Does @Irene have a box for fans to mail her gifts and congratulations? I am just so delighted for her.

I have had this happen before in a pygmy cory group when one was sick. Like many animals, they ran it out of the pack.

That is amazing!

Thank you! I am going to give that a go.

I am having a heck of a time catching about 7 kuhli loaches in one of my planted tanks. Does anyone have any good trap recommendations to catch these guys and gals? Bless, these little critters are not the easiest to catch.

Maybe not tacos, but I have my gauc, salsa, and chips ready for the live streams! 🙂

If it is a species only tank, just add them with the parents. Typically juvenile shrimp do better than adults when water has changed due to location. Their bodies, or more specifically their molting, adapt better to the water as they grow up in it.

Thank you!

I bought these plants as crypt spiralis but they are growing out almost reddish. I thought they were suppose to be green? The emersed grown leaves before the melt were green. However, since the melt and regrowth things are coming out almost redding. Would anyone here be willing to confirm whether this is or is not crypt spiralis? ?

I spent sometime taking pictures and video with my new phone that came in the mail today. Here is one of the quick videos of Sam Wilson my betta.

Oh and if you grow brine shrimp to adult size, you can gut load them with this stuff 🙂 Thats another way you can get it into your fish 🙂

I also add it when making baby brine shrimp frozen cubes.

Now this will result in having to wash your hands after feeding your fish, but in my mix container of fish food I put a bit of spirulina powder in it. It ends up coating some of the flakes, bug bites, etc. The fish endup eatting it that way. (Ok I might be a weirdo by mixing fish foods together *shrug* I just thought it might help balance out their diet)

Community tank 1 male honey gouramis - https://www.seriouslyfish.com/species/trichogaster-chuna/ ( 8 years ) 6 Dwarf Cories - https://www.seriouslyfish.com/species/corydoras-hastatus/ ( 3 years ) If you want to do a bit more water changes, you could maybe bump in 2 female honey gouramis also. * You could also changeout the male honey gouramis for 1 dwarf gouramis (powder blue females tend to be a bit more docile) With this setup I would encourage you to establish hides with plants.

Thank you! Thats what I thought. I just was really second guessing myself.

Actually there is one more that I should have added to my list because they seem to be AMAZING. The honeycomb catfish. I plan to keep some in my tank. Here is an article about them: https://www.tfhmagazine.com/articles/freshwater/bottom-of-the-tank-driftwood-catfish

Here are some of my 10 favorite odd ball fish 1. Hillstream Loaches (tons of personality with others, especially when they set up territories. Works especially well if you have rock piles). 2. Dwarf Cories (they stand out a bit different from their kin being small and that they will swim mid water. like all cories they have great personality) 3. Dwarf chain loaches / Otocinclus. Dwarf chain loaches and otocinclus will often shoal together. The dwarf chain loaches have a lot of interesting personality that the otos will pickup on and mimic. The loaches will also try to mimic the otos. 4. Kuhli loaches are fantastic when kept in larger numbers. Especially when your tank has plenty of hides. Also they respond really well if you have floating plants like dwarf water lettuce. 5. Alien Betta. They are growing in popularity but still not all that common. There look is a bit distinctive, and they seem to have tons of personality if you can get a non-aggressive one. 6. The african butterfly fish 7. Upside-down catfish 8. Freshwater pipefish 9. Species Only - A tank of 12 pea puffers 10. Dwarf Freshwater Gobies (e.g., Stiphodon pelewensis ) BONUS Non-Fish: 11. Dwarf Mexican Crayfish

I have assumed so far to get the reading at the 60 second mark for the Aquarium Co Op test strips, however I do notice the colors continue to develop long after the 60 second mark. Should I be waiting for the color that it eventually turns into at around like 5 minutes?

Only to mow down some duckweed 🙂