Tedrock

Hi Fish Nerms! This is a true Nermy question. I want to create an aquarium waste water reuse/collection system. I hate waste of water and and want to maximize fish poo for plants so I would like the collective experience of fellow Nerms on this issue. If you have a system that pumps Waste RO or water changes outside somehow please share in concept with me how you do it. I would love to hear it. many thanks Tedrock

Need some feedback here - I have been told that I can keep Orange eye blue tiger caridina shrimp in neo parameters? Is this best for them? many thanks! tedrock

Howdy Nerms, I have been wondering about a Amazon Puffer for my community tank but just want some other perspectives. Can people share their experience with me about a Amazon puffer in a community tank? The Coop videos say a 30 gallon would work but a 55 would be better. Does a 30 gallon really work? Thanks so much. Tedrock

I had to order them direct from ziss in South Korea a year ago. No one in the states had them at the time. You can find online ziss retailers now in the US that carry them but it is still a challenge. They are not popular item to stock.

Hi Ziss makes a Breeder that has a fry separator but it is hard to find. It is called GL-1 . I have two of them and they are solid products.

I have some struggling Monte Carlo plants can you help? They have melted back or seemed to dying with little or very little new growth. They are a month old from the coop and I have just placed a second root tab in the rock wool. The tank had CO2 and is allowing for some pearling of other plants. I placed the plant in the plastic in eco complete substrate in 80 degree water that has some hardness and no ammonia. Ph is neutral as well. The tank is a 32.5 gallon Fluval with and aquasky light set to 10 hours of varying light intensity. Your thought are appreciated. Tedrock.

Just wondering how many of us there are on the forum. Give a shout out to this thread, where are you located generally, and what your current fish activity is. Just getting a sense of who is out there. Who knows where it will take us. I am Ted K and I live north of Boston. I have 20 tanks and breed guppies, rice fish, bristle-nose plecos, and shrimp. Hope to see and hear from others!

So Nerms help me with my frustration. I came home from work to check the fish tanks and there is one of my proud platinum angel fish lying at the bottom of the tank. He was THE male of ten fry to mature and become a pair with the only female to breed. The odd death - he swallowed coarse sand substrate. When I took him out of the tank his mouth was full of black sand. He was weighed down to the bottom of the tank by a full stomach of sand. I am not really looking for a breakdown of this incident just wondering about other odd deaths like these that I never anticipated. Let me know what you think.

Please don’t judge let’s see where this goes. Give it a try.

That’s right there is a quiet but strong following of the Vienna guppy. We band together here to share stories of success, failures, of new lives, and lost souls. Be not afraid to share the Vienna journey through the aquarium world.

I am down with that a whole separate thread for Vienna guppie geekdom. I will start it share pics and stories. Nerms unite!

First off I have never run a fish store but this sounds like a daunting job full of super responsibility in the decision making. I imagine this forum is helpful but you really need pros for this. It is hard to offer suggestions without without knowing the timeframe. Also what is the image of the store, clean and refined or family style/super casual. These factors all might affect the tanks presentations. These are just a few of the ideas to guide the process I am thinking of right now. Good luck, Ted K

I feel your pain truly I do.

Two low powered heaters is the way to go if you have the outlet space. That is a whole other thread. Have you ever burnt down your fishroom? (Said with humor, but recognize that electrical fires are a caused by over demand of the outlet available.)

This proves there is so much love for the Vienna guppy. Share the love!

Howdy Nerms! I am just wondering. I have several Bristlenose plecos sitting on eggs. What is the best practice? Should I leave them with the male or pull them to hatch them in an egg tumbler? I am very successful using the ziss egg tumbler with pleco eggs in the past. Many thanks, Ted K

I have the same situation with my Coop Vienna guppies happening right now. I have a wait and see approach. Nature fills a void. Best wishes, Ted K

I so tried the same thing going low tech it worked for the summer. I switched to cool water fish to breed guppies, rice fish. Yet my basement gets into the up 50's and the guppies just can't take it and breeding slows down to a crawl. So I needed to introduce heaters again. Still the tanks are lower than "normal" I like more resilient fish to sell to my LFS. I just can't heat my whole basement yet. When I build the true insulated fishroom I will cut most cords. The ones that failed for me have been the preset heaters as well. I guess you get what you pay for.

Coarse sponge rocks! and I like that I control the bubble size. Who knew you could take a simple idea and make it so much better.

Here I am ready ready for blissful sleep just a quick gaze through out the basement fishroom. Bam. . .stop right there. The scaped 10 gallon lemon eyed long fin pleco fry grow out tank has no action. Where are all the pre teen pleco fry? Feel the water. . . wooo that water is cold. Check the heater aghh, just put this in two days ago, piece of garbage. The agony, the loss of life, months of work poof gone. I saved the hardiest but not before losing 80%. Funny thing is up till a week ago I had two 25 watt heaters in the 10 gallon. I just switched to a 50 watt two days ago. Two heater in a special tank like this from now on. So what is your heater story? Please I can't be the only one. Many thanks Ted K from Massachusetts basement fishroom.

This is a very creative idea. 👍

I am no expert, but I just went through the same thing, it sure looks like ick to me. There are two types of Ick I hear. Regular ole ick and stress ick. Stress ick is caused when the conditions in the tank make the fish “nervous” and they develop ick symptoms. So if tank conditions are normal and the tank in established it seems to be ole regular ick. I hope this info help. Ted K

Howdy Nerms! So my Rams have ick and I have treated them with ick X. How many cycles do I give the tank? Sure the fish look better after one day but after this first cycle do I stop there or do another cycle? Please share your thoughts. many thanks, Ted K A heathy looking black night ram.

There is a way to breed shrimp and guppies together. You need a mass of Java moss in tank that is large and dense. So dense that the guppies can’t penetrate into it. This way baby shrimplets have cover and grow to be bigger than mouth size. So start with shrimp first with moss then after the colony is thriving introduce the guppies. The colony will continue with the dense moss mass. While not a shrimp factory it will be a sustainable colony. Hope this strategy is helpful. Ted K

Does anyone struggle with auto feeders? I know I do. Trying to find the right food for the fish is a problem. Then avoiding the food dump. I had a huge spill today I don’t know if my kids opened the door notches or what. I ripped that feeder off that tank. Then I began a huge vacuum project. I guess you need to ask yourself why you have a feeder? It was so my fish could get several small meals a day rather than once a day by hand. Well at least that is what I told myself. What are your thoughts? Many thanks Ted K