HenryC

My 2 albinos sometimes do this behavior where one becomes kind of grumpy and pushes sand around, opening his mouth wide and shoveling the sand, and they both twitch like in the video. Sometimes they will open their mouths very big like going 😮 and then appear to have a confrontation? Is this breedinh behavior? Or maybe marking territory? They never fight or lock lips but they surely look grumpy.

Thanks Cory! Yeah there's plenty of slow spots but they love to be in there, but I've noticed the bosemani are the ones that are there the most now.

Yeah that air pump is giving its last bubbles lol, gotta replace it and put an airstone. Haven't done it yet cause the internal powerhead has a venturi system that oxygenates the water (hard to see but it's spewing fine bubbles). They're neon dwarfs and boesemani, all juvenile I just got them.

My rainbows spend all day on the outake of the pwoerhead I use. They seem to enjoy going against the flow for hours, only coming out of it when it's feeding time. Should I be worried? Do rainbows like big flow at all or is there something going on that I should address? I'm afraid they will exhaust their little bodies and die, furiously swimming aginst the flow all day.

thru the tiny holes on the protective casing

So in my eternal search for big stuff for my big aquarium, I learned about mock rocks used in gardens that people use to cover up utility gauges and stuff like that. I went to my local Lowe's and they had this amazing big rock that was also very light, and thought it would make an amazing cave for my jack dempseys and other big cichlids. Ebay has plenty too. They seem to be made of plastic but got this texturized finish that I'm not sure if its aquarium safe. Any of you guys have ever tried anything like that? If it's aquarium safe this might be super nice to have, since the weight of a rock that size makes it impossible to work with lol. They're considerably cheaper than universal rocks too hehe, these examples are like 70-90 in ebay.

Thanks! Its a panasonic lumix gx85

Qutie the contrary, these are in my experience, the hardiest fish I've ever kept, on par with oscars.

Thanks! I got a bunch, love that fish even though they can be a bit controversial

My 5 faves!

About 18''

I'm looking to aerate my 320 gallon aquarium. It is 10' long and I got 6 sponge filters all along the back. Does anyone have a suggestion on the most efficient way of aerating it? If possible, I want a single pump for the 6 sponges, is the medoblower overkill? Is there a way to hook that one up without having to make a pvc loop?

Thanks! I will try the salt first.

Water is 7.6ph, hardness is about 18gh, and parameters are 0/0/40 My vieja zonatus developed these cyst like growths a week ago. At first I thought it was just a small wound from getting too rowdy with other fish but now they have grown and I see another one growing near the gills below the mouth (can see very briefly at the beginning). Also, another vieja seems to have a smaller one. Any idea what this might be? Some kind of parasite? Viral infection? Lymphocystis?

https://www.gizmochina.com/2022/12/26/xiaomi-mijia-smart-fish-tank-supports-remote-feeding/?amp=1 Crowdfunding has started today. It has tons of features for just $60. They claim it can go for 6 months without a water change but we all know that's BS (unless you got like 3 neons? Lol). Also BS is the claim that a 20L aquarium can keep so many fish as they say. But it has lots of functions, including remote feeding and lighting, flow control, self cleaning pump, integrated siphon that starts with a button press, etc. Peersonally I think it's very good that such a giant company is doing this. Maybe it's the beginning for innovative aquarium stuff that's in diré need, Cory himself has said the industry is kinda stagnant, we are still using tech from decades ago. Thoughts?