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    Little cories!

    in Fish Breeding

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    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!

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    aquarium-safe water pumps

    in General Discussion

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    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!

    Cory help

    in Diseases

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    7 minutes ago, ererer said:

    I personally have just not had a lot of luck with Corydoras, which is unfortunate as I like the genus a lot and would like to keep them more successfully as well as breed them. I have had unexplained occasional deaths as well. I read somewhere that they are more sensitive to nitrates than other fish, does anyone know anything about this or can confirm/refute this?

    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?

    Plans for building glass and acrylic aquariums and wooden stands?

    in General Discussion

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    18 hours ago, Schwack said:

    This is very similar to the stand design I've seen, and copied, from the King of DIY's YouTube channel. I opted to use stacked 2x4's in the corners since it's only holding a 40 gallon, but massive tanks obviously need more strength. He has several videos on his channel, including a build for, if I recall correctly, and 800 gallon tank stand. Skinning the stand is obviously optional, but looks a whole lot better. After building one tank stand, I'm just going to purchase them in the future. I certainly didn't save any money going the DIY route, but at least I know it's built like a damn tank.

    As far as building an aquarium goes, that sounds trickier. Sourcing glass at the thickness needed for 150 gallons seems like it would be the biggest challenge. Building bracing and assembling the stand wouldn't be exceptionally difficult, especially if you've got a friend who can weld.

    Are you looking into custom building to fit a specific space in your house?

    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. 

    Lighting preferences for multiple tanks?

    in General Discussion

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    2 minutes ago, Hoss said:

    I think it depends on what the goals are of the tanks, if they are stable in what they have in them and such.

     

    A mishmash of lighting is fine, if you are matching lights to tasks.  For instance, we have dwarf cichlid tanks with almost no plants (and those are all annubis) so we run cheap leds.  We've got 8 gallon specialty tanks for shrimp and guppies that we grow with actual grow light LED's (because we aren't worry about displaying these, they are for grow out), and then we've got our big display tanks that we run stingrays on.  I'll probably get a Fluval 3.0 for some new tanks I have in mind...but yeah.  Mishmash works well for us.  

     

    If I were going for production of plants, snails and fish in the same tank, I would likely look at standardizing as lights went bad, just to make it easier.  I don't think I would just change lights to change them, unless they aren't working for what you need them to do.

    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.

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    Lighting preferences for multiple tanks?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    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?

    Hello from Central WA

    in Introductions & Greetings

    Posted

    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!

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    Finally got my Ziss egg tumbler and loving it

    in Fish Breeding

    Posted

    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!

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    Anyone had success with Pearlweed?

    in Plants, Algae, and Fertilizers

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    2 hours ago, StephenP2003 said:

    Absolutely. I take 3 or 4 stems of pearl weed and clamp them at the bottom with a quarter-piece of plant weight and shove that sucker deep. In most cases this works splendidly. But it does not work in my live-bearer mosh pit. Platies and guppies are even crazier than corydoras when it comes to scavenging. They eat at all levels of the tank and 50 fish will pile up on a morsel of food in the substrate. Delicate stem plants do not stand a chance.

    But pearlweed is carpeting nicely in my betta tank (which also has 20+ pygmy and habrosus corys):

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    That is absolutely gorgeous. Do you use anything special like CO2?

    Upgrading current HOB filter

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    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.

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    Show me your planted, African Cichlid setup

    in Photos, Videos & Journals

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    1 minute ago, ererer said:

    Rocks came from the rock pile in my yard. Substrate is CaribSea Aragonite, I plan to mix it with pool filter sand once I setup the 55g tank, the aragonite/crushed coral is too white for my taste. I didn't grow the plants out in that tank, both were procured at a recent local club auction. We'll see how they adapt to the harder water/higher ph.

    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).

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