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On 10/2/2021 at 10:29 PM, Endler enthusiast said:
I already have 5! They are in a 17,000 gallon pond that my dad built for my grandfather years ago
Oh wow that sounds awesome!
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On 10/2/2021 at 7:32 PM, JoshStover said:
Sorry for the delay. My family threw me a surprise belated birthday party today. I got the gentleman’s phone number and spoke with him earlier. He says he can get about 50% of his pea puffers to take to the Repashy. His method is he uses Grub Pie, when mixing it he adds Vita Chem and some Garlic guard, lets it set up then puts its through a garlic press. I think it’s worth giving it a shot. All mine are eating live foods, frozen blood worms and a few are starting to take Vibra Bites but I’d love to be able to offer a little more variety. I already have everything needed so I’ll try it for sure and keep y’all posted. If you decide to try it I’d love to hear your results!!
Wow ….we have had such amazing conversation here today I completely forgot what the original topic was…😂🤣😂
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On 10/2/2021 at 6:04 PM, Odd Duck said:
unless y'all are older than @Dean’s Fishroom🤔
Nobody's older than @Dean’s Fishroom....when God said let there be fish....Dean went and bred them.
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On 10/2/2021 at 5:52 PM, Odd Duck said:
You may be right. We didn’t get more than a flicker of a power outage during Snowpocalypse this February but I put the first battery UPS on the 75 about 2 weeks ago, and had the next 2 sitting there, mocking my lack of motivation, when we had power out for about 3 hours. At least I was able to put the UPS into action on the 100 G and the Low Row (Bad Pea Daddy, BB King Betta, and pea puffer shoal, 2 with only plants and snails right now). Puffer fry have zippity bioload so far in a 10 G with 4 sponge filters worth about 80 gallons of filtration, so the only worry was laser cories in QT. So I lifted cups of water and poured them back in every 15 minutes or so for them and fry.
New UPS should be here Tuesday to run ALL the air pumps now. Hope I don’t jinx myself worse by adding them. 😆
Im telling you!!
I have a whole house generator.....here in hurricane alley...you better have one. As I was building the fish room I said that I was going to make sure the fish room would have double back up n the generator buy using 2 separate circuits. Planned it all out...built it and everything is good to go. I swear to the heavens above....one week after I brought tank number 20 online in the fish room. While I was at work we had a huge thunderstorm pass thru and the power went out because I got the notification. To my horror the generator never came on. The power was out for 3 hours and no pumps air or water or anything was running for 3 hours. I just knew I was going home to dead bodies everywhere.
I got lucky and didnt lose any fish....upon inspection I found that the batter for the generator...yes it starts using a car battery had a short in the cell. It would measure 12 volts but no amps. So the generator would not turn on. Well I got that fixed and went out about bought not one....not 2 ....but 3 UPS battery backups. They are daisy chained together and the central air pump that runs the fish room is plugged into it. If the power goes out then the UPS keeps it running when the first one runs out of power the second one continues until its dead...then the third one takes over. I have tested this and now I can go 15 hours with no power and the sponge filters keep right on going. Now the likely hood of losing power...losing the generator....and all 3 UPS systems.....this should be foolproof....of course now that I said that....good ole Murphy is going to show me where I screwed up....Just you watch!
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Why do you need to take out the substrate. Fr the Corys?
If thats what your thinking....You will not have an issue!
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On 10/2/2021 at 5:49 PM, Torrey said:
My partner (retired Navy) in VA used to joke that Murphy gave up by the time he got to back up plan K for my plan C, and if I had joined and gone into intel like they tried to recruit me, military intelligence would not be an oxymoron.... but no one would graduate boot camp under me either 🤣
We would so get along ....😂 You had me and back up plan K🤣
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On 10/2/2021 at 5:34 PM, Odd Duck said:
Shall we compare drivers licenses? 😂 Testing, I was born the year Bob Seger sings about.
Well, I’ve never bought an actual purpose built hatchery, only used homemade stuff (have I mentioned I’m cheap?). Maybe that’s the issue. 😆
I’d rather have a worm culture growing and ready to produce instantly (stupid Grindal worm seller that shipped me crap!). I have decapsulated nauplii now and jarred “instant” on the way, but hatching? Uuuuggghhhh. 🙄 Can you see the hardcore, teenager style, eye roll from there? Another airline, a little light for heat, I already have a Grindal worm culture on that shelf 🙄🙄🙄, wah, wah, wah! 🤣
Quoting Searer ehhh....yeah I know that song.
Back in the day I used a home made hatcher for brine shrimp and I did Ok with it. My original try was sea monkeys....yes I had those I got for Christmas one year right next to the wooden car kit.
Yeah I know that eye roll ...my Daughters have down to an artform. Im sure the grandchild I have on the way that I just found out about will do it even better!
I have never done grindle worms or white worms or vinegar eels....although I am thinking I need to give them a try. I dont think you have to refrigerate the white worms.
Oh yeah and I use walked to and from school....in the winter...with no coat....or shoes......up hill .....BOTH WAYS !!🤪
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On 10/2/2021 at 3:54 PM, Torrey said:
triple redundancy offsets Murphy's Law🤣
Wrong....so so so wrong...🤣
I am military folk and I swear the more backup systems I put into place I feel like im just daring "Murphy" to prove where I screwed up....put nothing in place and nothing ever seems to go wrong. I still have some but nothing like I ever used to🙄
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On 10/2/2021 at 3:55 PM, Mack said:
Do you need to have light for a quarantine tank, I have some room under my tank racks for a 10gal tank.
Nope...ambient lighting will be just fine
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On 10/2/2021 at 4:54 PM, Mack said:
I am willing to cull as many as I need to.
Sounds like turtles are in your future🤣
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On 10/2/2021 at 3:58 PM, MNG said:
Sounds like a lot to me - the more water you're dealing with, the more critical it is because of the weight and stress.
Aqueon is cheap because they cut corners. I sure hope you don't end up being another Aqueon horror story. Petco deals entirely in Aqueon, if I'm not mistaken. On their website you can see many reviews - about Aqueon tanks suddenly cracking or shattering without warning or provocation. People coming home to find 10 or 20 gallons of water on the floor and all the fish dead. 😪
Exactly. I have 18 Aqueon tanks all 20 gallons or less. I need 2x 40 gal breeders for fry grow out tanks and don't know what I'm going to do for those. I might (unless I can find another option) take the chance on the Aqueon only because they will be in a fish room with concrete floors so no damage...worse I would lose is the grow out fry. But I will never go with them for ANYTHING LARGER.
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On 10/2/2021 at 4:03 PM, Odd Duck said:
But the salt spatters everywhere, I don’t have a good spot, you have to reset soooooo often, and my schedule is wack. I work very long shifts but fewer of them, and when I do my every other Wednesday overnight I’m wrecked for a couple days afterwards because I’m OLD! 😆 😂 🤣
Excuses excuses....your not older than I am. Salt doesnt splatter anywhere for me so if it is your doing something strange. you need all of 10 square inches to set up a hatchery.....hell @Fish Folk has one of the most basic setups there is for next to no cost and even he will tell you how great it is to have fresh live food. and every other Wednesday when you come home wrecked...you just dont make any then and recover....then get back to it...LOL
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On 10/2/2021 at 2:53 PM, Odd Duck said:
Hatching baby brine is a PITA!
No its not I swear....at least not for me. The only problem I seem to have with it is that after harvesting I clean everything and go thru setting it up again with water and salt and forgetting to put the eggs in.🤣
Done that I dont know how many time🤦♂️
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When I saw that on the Aqueon 40 breeder there is a bow to the tank front and back glass of almost 1/8 inch and that is their design spec....now I know that doesnt seem like a lot but if your going to go without a center brace how much more could it have cost to go 1/16 thicker on the front and back panel glass?!?
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I personally would not have an Aqueon tank above a 40 breeder and that one is even pushing it for my comfort level! A lot of people will tell me im crazy but that my choice.
DOnt ask me who I would use...all of the names from long ago have either all disappeared or been taken over by lesser quality companies!
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On 10/2/2021 at 2:38 PM, Odd Duck said:
They didn’t in my tank that I saw, but the hydra never did much in there, either. I suspect because pea puffers ate all the same things the hydra would.
Just curious because every tank I feed BBS eventually gets hydra. My swordtails do not eat it. Some of my guppies do I have see it.
The little guys are stupid cute and just dont want anything to happen to them.
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On 10/2/2021 at 2:12 PM, SWilson said:
So I clearly haven't had enough coffee yet today because for a half a second I was like, "oh my god your pea puffer ate your roommates? how terrible!" 😂
WOW...yep need more coffee...in fact pour me some while your at it please!
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On 10/2/2021 at 2:05 PM, SWilson said:
I contemplated naming him "Pleasedontdie."
Now that is the funniest and saddest thing I have read all day....YOU WIN!!!🤣😭🤣😭🤣😭
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Yeah My fish room air temp is at 80 deg so all of the tanks water stays rock solid at 80 deg. No heaters needed but sure do need some A/C ...lol
So they wont even eat frozen Blood worms....that really sucks...LOL I was going to pick some up and give it a try....couldnt hurt its not like I dont have 20 other tanks to feed it to if they dont eat it.
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On 10/2/2021 at 1:32 PM, eatyourpeas said:
I have not heard that they would.
I tried tricking mine by giving a live blood worm, followed by a frozen one, and again, the eyes! "but it's dead!" - Luckily they have accepted live blackworms and one of my LFS gets them sometime, so I am trying to culture them.
On the "like" menu:
- snails of any kind
- scuds
- bloodworms
- blackworms
- mosquito larva
- roommates
I thought pea puffers do not have a sense of smell... trying to remember where I got that from.
I am looking into getting a small fridge for the fish room so I can try black worms.
I asked Upper Management about me keeping worms in the fridge....thats where she drew the proverbial line...LOL
Told me it was her or the worms....I asked of she would be moving close by....she didnt find it funny for some odd reason🤷♂️
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ROOMATES....THATS JUST WRONG....🤣
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Does anybody know if a Pea Puffer will eat Hydra?
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On 10/1/2021 at 3:45 PM, Mack said:
Thank you for the recommendations, what set up do you use to hatch bbs? I don’t know if I want to buy a $44 for daily use on one tank, and my water bottle method didn’t have incredible results.
It is a bit on the pricy side but it works so well and makes it so easy. I have alot of fry tanks....with A LOT of fry and I am running two to keep up with demand. There are some things that are just worth the price because of the ease they provide. Just what works for me.
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What is this little fella
in General Discussion
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Once you have a good algae source built up 2 in a 10 gallon Would be plenty