Krakens_tanks

They get like 6" correct? Cuz that's way bigger then any fish I plan on adding to my tank as I'm doing all nano fish. To bad there isn't fish rental lol

Looking for help on removing green hair algae in my 40g I don't yet have fish in the tank just plants. Been cutting my lights down from 8hr to 6hr a day as to make sure my plants still get plants of light. No natural light hits the tank. I know there are plenty of fish and invertebrates that can help just not sure which would be the best for me. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Yea most definitely post a new picture when I get home. But I have a google pixel 4A 5G it has a good camera just sucks with glare.

I actually have 6 crypt wednii in there they just small right now they in the front. But yea I'm not adding any more plants till I get the 30 black neons this week.

@Streetwisewhat you think now? Took your suggestion

That's dessert stone. And it's still in there lol I'm using it as a weight to hold down the wood till I can get a slate to attach it to. I'm going to use it to build a hide on the left side after that

I don't have specific ones but the content I really enjoy the most are: 1.Anything with Dean he is amazing and reminds me of my grandpa who was goofy like dean is. Especially the new fish room videos 2. Species spotlights. Actually looking into rams and apistos thanks to those. 3. Live streams / post live stream videos 4. Top 10 videos./ Stocking videos 5. Any video where you give little hacks or tips to make things easier.

So excuse the cloudy water just did a water change but I took your guys advice about another piece of wood it's sorta hard to see with glare but it's there and it definitely added a lot of depth to the tank. Also looking into good background plants to fill in the back. Possibly val or foxtail. Will post better pictures tonight once water clears and it's nice and dark

Yea I read that I just find talking to someone with first hand experience is always alot more helpful

Has anyone here kept these before or currently has them I would love to learn more and seems there is very little on these guys or least that I can find I wanna make sure I'm completely educated before my pair arrive in 2 weeks Pic from google

Right like there is beauty in the simplistically of there colors instead of super flashy bright colors. We will call it fish elegance and maturity lmfao

Yea it's unfortunate cuz they are great fish I almost wanna collect all the fish most people over look just to show how nice they can be.

@CT_ I think I might know someone just not to sure what the policy of that would be with covid and all.

@Fish Folkthank you for the links. And I wish we were at that level we just happen to have few fish keeper buddies who live out of town nothing crazy we ain't even making money they just paying the shipping cost lol.

So I have a buddy and I have started breeding a few live bearers and we have a few people who are intrested in purchasing them but we have never shipped fish before. We are having a small issue when trying to locate info. Where can we get sheets of styrofoam to line the boxes we tried amazon but still feel like we could get it cheaper and higher pack counts then 10pc of 2x2 for $48 Also what kind of shipping should we try to do if shipping through ups. Not sure if there is a special live animal shipping or would the standard over night shipping be good enough? We want to make sure fish stay as safe as possible.

So I have had a tank that was to big but not do to it's size it was my inexperience that made it to big. I was less then a year back into my fish keeping after a long break from a very mediocre attempt to keep fish and I received a 135g for free long as I resealed it. Let me tell you the idea if a tank that big was a straight adrenaline rush. I had all these ideas of grandeur.... Let's skip the long process if sealing it 3 times and waiting months to get everything set up. So there I was 135 dual sunsun canisters. Expensive lights. 8 monster fish I got for super cheap off facebook with no research into thier care instructions. And I was doing bucket water changes. Was not prepared for there level of aggression since all fish were 12" or larger. So like I said it was way to big a task for me at the time thankfully I also learned a lot from that tank and now could run that tank smooth and easy. I guess my point is if your asking what's to big and what's not it really comes down to what are you comfortable with both physically and skill wise I'm sure plenty of others have given great advice but that's just my 2 cents.

I mean I have seen some that are like you discribed but I have also seen some that are super dark black stripe and a green body as well. I'm sure there are slight variations with breeding over the years

Bro I love you hahaha sadly I call bias cuz your my best friend lmfao but yea bro you know you get constant updates with all my tanks

So I actually have an order placed for a breeding pair of red belly acara they have such beautiful red colors and stay really small at about 2-2.5 inches so they will be great tank mates with the 30 black neons I have coming as well. I love the look of apistos but I know they can be really sensitive. I'm not to sure how the acara would do with shrimp but I do have experience breeding cherry's so that may be worth looking into thank you for the advice. Funny you mention carpeting plants my gf just started hers with dwarf saggitaria. She also has amazon swords and vallistaria as a back ground plant. I like the look but I'm hoping my two java fern a will really grow and fill in alot of the space along with the pennywort.

Well I guess you will find out when I have 30 in my tank in a few weeks.

I have been looking into getting a taller piece of drift wood but can't seem to find one that would look right just yet. But I definitely think your right. Just wanna leave plenty of room for the fish I plan on adding in about 2 weeks

Being new to planted tanks and just being inexperienced. I have kept large cichlids for years now scaling down to nano and community fish and plants it's a while new world and I'm just hoping I do it right so my plants and fish are both happy and healthy

Man I know I was going to do cardinals but stumbled upon black neons and was like why doesn't anyone talk about these they are beautiful and super hardy from what I understand.

Thank you. I'm really excited to see it grow but I'm so nervous lol