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  1. Just had my betta die yesterday after a challenging few years. As much as I enjoyed him at his prime, he suffered a number of fin issues and the last few weeks he was pretty clearly on the decline. I'm not sure I want to dedicate a whole tank to just one fish again.
  2. Paleatus (pepper cories), the only species I have at the moment. Planning to get more variety!
  3. Thought I'd share a picture of some corydora fry hatched in the last week! There's more but the buggers are hard to get on camera. Some escaped the net into the 20 gallon tank and they have plenty to eat in there!
  4. I'm so sorry Rhonda, that sucks! I hope you get it figured out soon. Those big losses are the worst - a friend of mine accidentally gassed a large group of his fish too and he was so bummed.
  5. Alright last random question for the week - water pumps! I need to find a pump that can move water from a reservoir into some of my tanks, and from the drainage basin (from tank overflows) into my sink drain. These should run submerged and I don't want something that could leak oil into the water for obvious reasons! Any good product leads for pumps like these? Gracias!
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    Cory help

    Where are you getting them from? I've found them to be really hardy overall and the biggest issue seems to be that people simply don't feed them enough. They will eat a lot more than you expect, and sometimes adding more food after dark really does help them. What kind of floor space and plants do you have in your tanks?
  7. I live in a relative desert for a lot of pretty common goods and the idea of building some of the bigger tanks I want seems like an interesting challenge that might get me the size I want. I'm still working out what I want to do with my fish room and how much I can realistically invest in it to begin with.
  8. Have you ever wanted to build a tank in the 150 gallon range from glass or acrylic? Have you done it? Where could one find design plans for that and for custom wooden stands?
  9. Sensible, I definitely agree. I really like Beamswork lights and I appreciate that they work with the cheap Nicrew dimmer switch. I'd like more Fluval and Finnex lights but...money.
  10. At the moment my lighting situation is a mishmash of different lights, some given, some purchased from different sites, some bought on the cheap through Facebook...what's your preference for lighting and how much do you usually spend on lights? If you were setting up 10+ aquariums in one place, would you use a mix of lights or try to get a uniform setup with one brand?
  11. I started with a 29g back in 2018 and now have 7 tanks running (although I gave away the 29). I've got a mishmash of community fish, some I bought and some I inherited from family and friends. I breed peppered cories for fun. And I'm working on setting up a fishroom in my new house!
  12. Just breathed a sigh of relief reading this, lol
  13. My 4-stage RO/DI filter system arrived and I did not realize how large it is!
  14. Just don't store fish in it like that, unless the fish are on their side too.
  15. I've hatched corydora eggs before in a sort of jury-rigged little tank with an airstone but I finally got an egg tumbler this weekend and I LOVE it. Took some doing to get it set up but I hatched another 10 or 15 eggs this morning after transferring them to the tumbler. It's so easy to see the eggs in there and gauge what needs to be pulled and what's going to he a successful hatch. I highly recommend this product if you like breeding corydoras!
  16. I have clumps of pearl weed that have grown from a sample I bought years ago. I cannot for the life of me keep it rooted in the substrate. Part of this is because I have a bratty corydora who keep insisting that it shouldn't be in the gravel and she likes to pick through it. She knows she's a brat.
  17. Also let me put in a plug for buying a coarse foam pad from the Co-op that you can cut to size and use in the HOB filter. You get a lot of sponge for the money and it's less likely to clog and very easy to clean and re-use. I actually discarded a sponge that was designed specifically for the aquaclear because the pores were so fine and it kept getting really clogged with muck. One sponge pad from aquarium co-op was enough to add sponges for more than one of my Aquaclear HOB filters.
  18. The anubias should be fine, I can tell you I took a few anubias over to the new fishroom space about 9ish months ago and put them in a tank with super hard water and they're still fine. I haven't even really been fertilizing them (and the green water in the tank made me want to give up hope).
  19. "I'm getting rid of the sofa to make room for a 75gal" is the funniest and best thing I've read today. "We don't need furniture we need tanks." True dedication and I applaud it.
  20. Good looking plants, what's the substrate you have in there? And where did you get these rocks?
  21. Hey I learned about a new fish behavior! This is not what I thought flashing meant.
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