Griznatch
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I've used the bottle method, it always seems to catch more than I want however. My best method I've resorted to, is the 2 AM with a flashlight trick. You only get a couple minutes then they start to "wake up". But for a short amount of time it's like deer in the headlights, they kind of freeze up. Makes some of those athletic fish easier to nab with a net.
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All my HOBs have nothing in them but sponge. Only time I use any carbon is to remove meds.
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That time when I took a sponge out of my HOB filter on the 75 gallon.. and something ran up my arm. After some pretty colorful exclamations and a few limited dance moves (I was on a stool), I realized it was one of my missing amano shrimp. I still look everything over before digging around in there 🙂
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I just saw this topic pop up because of the update. Wow, this is awesome, thanks for keeping this going!
There's a lot to be said for "less is more", lol I just cracked myself up... I've found out the hard way that sometimes patience and balance do more for this hobby than trying to constantly dial things in to the nth degree.
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All good advice here! You main challenge is going to be keeping the fish alive while the tank cycles.
I had a big rant prepared here about store employees and how they should ask basic questions of potential customers before loading fish in to a bag to make a sale.. but then I realized it wouldn't help you out any. I really hope your remaining fish make it ok.
We've all made mistakes, it's how we learn.
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It's a good thing guppies are small.
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I agree, feed them less other stuff and pretty soon they'll start eating your duckweed.
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Very cool! I've always wanted a huge above ground pond with a side view or large glass panel. The option to see it from in the house is excellent! Are you going to have to drain it in winter, or do you have some way to winterize it so glass won't crack?
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I use a stainless steel food service cart for water changes. It's just big enough to hold a 5 gallon tote and move around without tipping over. I still have to lift the totes to get them on and off the cart, but I don't have to carry them all over the house. I use a power head with flexible hose to move the water from the totes to what ever tank I'm doing water changes on. The cart has a small lip around the top so I can spill a little and not worry about getting it all over the floor.
I have a power strip zip tied to the handle of the cart, and all my hoses and extra stuff goes on the shelves underneath. If I could change anything about the set up I'd have bigger wheels casters to make it easier to get over the door threshold out to the patio.-
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I've done carrots as well as the zuchinni. The favorite in my tanks are blanched dandelion leaves. The emperor tetras, gourami, and guppies all like it, as well as my shrimp and otos. They have to be clean and pesticide free of course.
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Wow, if that ain't go big or go home, I don't know what is 🙂
Welcome to the forums!
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I'll echo the dwarf gourami advice. I have both females and males. The females are pretty mellow but the males pretty aggressive.
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My wife and I have combined our hobbies, aquariums for me and orchids my wife. Many of her orchids are growing in LECA (lightweight expanded clay aggregate), think eco-complete in marble form. She sets it up so the roots end up dangling in about 2-4 inches of water and suspended in pots of LECA. Currently none of the orchids are directly hanging out of the tanks, but she does have some pretty exotic pothos varieties growing out of her 55. I save all my water changes for her plants. I built a long plant table that is next to her tank, and the combo of added humidity from the tank along with the tank water for fertilizer works pretty well.
I added an image on one of her plants sitting on the top of her light. I think it's a Hoya, not an orchid but it illustrates the LECA/water set up she uses.
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Could try some floating plants to help with excess nitrates and to maybe help buffer any ammonia spikes. water lettuce, guppy grass, both work pretty good and are easier to manage than duckweed.
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Used to see something like this if I cut out pieces of sod in the lawn. We called em cutworms.. I'm guessing you are not growing sod in your tank.
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Like the other replies, shadows are probably whats spooking your puffer. In nature, big shadows almost always means predator, so when a shadow suddenly looms close by, it activates a fight or flight reaction. Unless you are at the top of the food chain or incredibly huge, it's usually flight... there's a few exceptions, like the shrew, they'll throw down at the drop of a hat (personal experience)!
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Do you guys who have them, use a tube to direct the food, or just dump it in "upstream" so it floats past?
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Thanks for the warm welcome everyone!
@ lefty o. That drain for the tub was one of those three ring circus parts of the project.. apparently the tub is old.. likely from the 50s or older. none of the plumbing fittings at lowes or home depot worked. Metric pipe sizes? I tied those guys up for hours 🙂 . Eventually I ended up taking the whole drain assy apart and going with modern fittings. that leaked first winter a bit, so now I have a rubber cap on the drain and my fancy drain valve system is sitting in a box..I ended up getting a bead blaster and new compressor from working on that tub. Thank goodness my wife loves me. She also got to pick the color for the tub.. I was gonna paint it some drab earth color, her color turned out better.
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I have reds in one 55 and blue dreams in another. My 75 is the "skrittles" tank, and it is pretty interesting the color variations I get in there. I am starting to get more than a few green shrimp in there but have not tried separating them to see if they drop more greens. I'm guessing there'd be a lot of culling.
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I really like Anubias and most of the mosses for plants. I love the look of stem plants but I have eco-complete substrate and it's not stem friendly
This has been the second winter for the pond. I'll try and get some recent images in here.
I discovered a few very important things working on that project..
1 Cast iron tubs are very heavy
2 There's a reason why most people don't do above ground ponds
3 "That old tub out there in the back 40 looks cool, we should do something with it." is the equivalent of "hold my beer!" Stupid antics are sure to follow...!
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Never tried with White Clouds, but would plant density matter with multiple pairs?
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Hello everyone,
I've been watching Cory's Youtube videos for about a year now, thought I'd join the forum group.
I've been keeping aquariums since I was a kid (looong time ago), but just this last year started with planted tanks. Things have changed quite a bit in the last ten years or so and I'm really enjoying the advances that have come about.
I currently have 6 planted tanks ranging from 75 down to 10 gallons, as well as an old cast iron clawfoot tub I turned into a goldfish pond.
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New Nerm From Minnesota
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Welcome!
Those rimless tanks sure are pretty. It's going to look great with plants and that piece of wood.