Bekah
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We use the Ziss Bio Bubble filter from Aquarium Coop in our 29gal planted tank, which is similar to what you are interested in. It does a good job of adding air and some filtration. I would ideally like to add a sponge filter but running on this, the tank does just fine!
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5 minutes ago, tolstoy21 said:
@Bekah This is what I do with my extra ones, instead of the drain.
Pretty much just three gallons of salt water in a bucket with an inexpensive, small heater and some vigorous bubbles. I feed them a pinch of sera micron every morning and they grow out fine. Maybe once a day i stir the bucket to get settled food back into the water column.
I did use some RO fittings to make a permanent, rigid air line in the side of this thing so I'm always bubbling at the bottom of the bucket, but that's overkill and an inclination to tinker on my part.
Only maintenance for this is an occasional top off with RO water to ensure the salinity doesn't rise too high due to evaporation. One could probably use distilled or rain water for this as well I'd guess. I make the water with Instant Ocean. One bag lasts me a while.
The black marker line on the side of the bucket is my water level for three gallons. As it drops a bit below that, I know it's time to top off a bit.
I don't grow out massive amounts, but I do get enough to net out and feed some fish (I certainly cant sustain my tanks on its yield alone). Those that avoid the net long enough spawn babies themselves.
I run this a while. Then when I think it's starting to foul (and I have no real rule around this other than looking in and thinking, yeah that's getting pretty murky looking), I then net out all the shrimp, feed them to fish, clean the bucket and start over.
Like I said, you don't get tons, but you do grow out those leftovers and can enjoy watching fish get excited chasing gobbling up larger brine.
For me it's just another project of interest, just to see if I can accomplish it successfully. I have no real science behind what I do other than common sense. All of which to say is my feeling is growing out brine shrimp is not hard if you follow some simple, reasonable guidelines -- Keep some food suspended in the water via the bubbles. Keep the temp reasonable. Check salinity and top off every now and again.
Oh, and don't over crowd the bucket. Like don't dump that initial thick, dark, orange stream of BBS into that bucket. You want a reasonable amount in there. Whats a reasonable amount? No clue. Less than whats in that thick dark orange stream. I do fine with just use the few left overs swimming around the very top of the BBS water.
I also occasionally replenish their numbers with a drop or two of concentrated BBS taken from the swarm at the bottom of the hatchery, with a pipette. But go easy with that. A few drops from that orange swarm is a lot of shrimp.
That is a great set up! Thank you so much for the detailed response of how to do it! Once my next hatch is ready, this is what I am going to do! I do not have micron food but I do have some first bites, would that be okay?
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this may be a silly question but... when you harvest the BBS by having them gather to a light source and then drain them, there is always some that are still floating around. I feel bad sending them down the drain, is there a way to keep them alive to feed later or grow into adults?
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our zen tank has cardinal tetras and endler guppies. very peaceful and nice to watch. waiting to get a pea puffer or two in there. We will be removing the guppies once we get the puffer
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what are your parameters? what chemicals did you put in the tank? Im sorry to hear your fry didn't make it! It's so hard to see the little babies struggle!
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Hi! it is so fun to have live bearers! It's so great to wake up and see more babies and watch them grow! Enjoy! 🙂
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8 hours ago, Cory said:
I would try the salt since you're not seeing results from the anti biotic.
Thank you for the advice! Would you start with 1 TBSP per gallon?
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We have had this betta (Cinnabar) for about a month now. 6 days ago we noticed his eye was cloudy and swollen. We immediately moved him to a hospital tank from the community tank (with mollies and Glow tetras). We have been treating with maracyn for 5 days now (recommended directions) and I has not improved or declined. Should we continue the treatment or see if medicating with salt would work better? the tank parameters are GH- 100, KH-120, pH-7.1, and NO2 and NO3- 0, water temperature- 78F. This is the first time we have experienced this and would appreciate any advice! Thanks!!
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2 hours ago, akconklin said:
They are just SO crazy expensive! I'd rather send my money to Aquarium Co-op for cool goodies to go INside my tanks! 😍
I couldn't find what I wanted. And I didn't want to spray paint it black like we did our other tank
So I figured "water" color would be appropriate for an aquarium.😁
I know poster board works too...I just wanted a little ombre action going on. The lighter color will go at the top. I might add another layer of color when it dries.
This looks so good! what kind of paper did you use? how do you attach it to the back of the aquarium? I hate trying to apply those sticky ones!
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4 minutes ago, yannachka said:
try the bug bites pleco sticks, all of my fish go crazy for them including my loaches.
I will give these a try! How do you keep other fish from eating them so they can get a chance? I have never seen them get interested during a feeding time
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does anyone have a recommendation for 2 Butterfly Hillstream Loaches? We bought Hikari Algea Wafers for them and they are not interested. We tried hiding it from the other fish (mollies and glow tetras) and they didn't eat it. Im just afraid tank algae is not enough. One of them is hiding in the same place and rarely moves from that spot, I was thinking maybe he isn't feeling well from not eating? They are both tiny (1-1.5inches)
We feed out other fish: Extreme Krill Flakes, TetraMin Tropical Granules, New Life Spectrum Thera-A, Hikari Micro Pellets and BBS.
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2 hours ago, Andy's Fish Den said:
Hello from the other side of the state, I am over near Bowling Green, but I have family in the Cleveland area and visit that way quite often. If you haven't found it already, there is a great local fish club in the area, NEO-fish. They have a Facebook page as well as a website, I am a member of their club and make the drive to meetings several times a year. As @Lizzie Blockmentioned, you guys have some great LFS over that way, the go to ones I stop at whenever I am in the area is definitely Agnoquatics, Something Fishy, as well as one called Aquatica in Valley City.
Good luck with your tanks!
Oh that's awesome!!! we were looking for a fish club! I have visited Aquatica-- so awesome!! we got some neat endler guppies and cardinal tetras there! We visit Blue Fish in lyndhurst a lot, but love to visit other stores! thank you for your advice!!
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19 minutes ago, Lizzie Block said:
Hey @Bekah! We're originally from the Akron area 🙂 welcome to the hobby! My favorite store in the area is called Agnoquatics in Broadview Heights. They're super nice people, good selection of fish and plants. There's Something Fishy on Broadview Rd in Cleveland. Good selection of hardscape at that store and decent fish as well. Our other go-to store is called RMS aquaculture also in Cleveland. You may have heard of that one. It's the biggest- more closely related to a big box store like petco, but with a really wide selection of tanks/heaters/lights etc. Their fish are often in questionable health though, so I personally haven't gotten fish from there. Just dry goods. Hopefully you can check these places out sometime! They're all quite unique to each other.
Thank you so much! I will definitely be checking these out soon!
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42 minutes ago, Lizzie Block said:
Welcome to the forum, your tank is lovely 🙂 Lots of great local fish stores around the Cleveland area! Hope you'll post an update on your aquascape when the fish are added and Repens gets planted in the foreground
im also in the Cleveland area and newer to the hobby, what fish stores do you recommend?
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This is Cinnabar. I thought I had a picture after he was settled into his tank!
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The only other fish in the tank are 2 mollies. the tetras seem to be more of the tank bosses. The 4 tetras are very happy currently, but listening to Cory he recommends 5 at least. I think maybe only buying 1 is what stressed this fish out enough. I will do my research on black skirt tetras too. Thank you for your insight and help!
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10 hours ago, Brandy said:
Not eating is pretty serious. In my experience I haven't brought tetras back from that. Sometimes that is the only symptom I get. I would insist on seeing them fed before buying more. I would quarantine this fish until it eats or passes away. I don't know enough to suggest more treatments, but the quarantine trio mostly handles external parasites. Not eating might have to do with internal? Or with tetras I feel like it is just a universal "I'm sick" symptom.
I just wonder how it made it so far with eating to grow up and now it almost acts like it doesn't know how. Thank you so much for your advice though. Do you think the other 4 tetras will be happy enough in a small group?
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We Got 2 glow tetras about 2 months ago and have slowly been adding to the school. We bought 3 more a month after the first two. They were blue, green, and purple. While in the quarantine tank, the purple one was being very shy and not eating. Never saw her eat for a week. The purple tetra only survived one week. The other two made it into our main tank. They are doing well, so we bought another purple tetra. This tetra is doing the same thing. We quarantined with the med trio and moved her to the main tank after 3 days thinking she was scared being alone. In the main tank she doesn’t school with the other 4 tetras and still won’t eat. We have tried live brine shrimp, thera A food, nano pellets and freeze dried brine shrimp. Any suggestions on getting her to eat and get back to normal?
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I think that was just the picture. He is swimming around and acting normal and eating. Maybe treat again in 2 weeks with paracleanse? We are doing water changes frequently because we treated with salt for ich.
gh-60
kh-80
ph-7.5
no2/no3- around zero
water temp- 76
no live plants (yet) but we have an airstone and bio bubble filter
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18 hours ago, Bill Smith said:
Fish poop turns green when they eat lots of plant or vegetable matter. Mollies especially love green stuff. Between the pellets and the diatom algae, I would bet that's why. I wouldn't be concerned.
Thank you for your help! This is my first aquarium so i have a lot of questions! I was able to get a picture of it since it has some clear parts in it today. Is this still possibly internal parasites? Or what else could be causing this? We did feed fresh brine shrimp last night.
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My molly fish had white stringy poop and I treated the entire tank with Fritz Paracleanse. I just finished a week long treatment and now the Molly has green normal consistency poop. We feed them Thera A food and freeze dried brine shrimp occasionally. There is brown diatom algae that they eat in the tank as well. What is causing the poop to be green? Should I be concerned? Is it from the medication?
The Molly is in a 29 gallon tank with 1 other Molly and 5 glow tetras.
Greetings from Cleveland
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Our go to fish store in the Cleveland area is Blue Fish Aquariums on Mayfield Road near Lyndhurst! They have very friendly employees and a great fish selection in salt and freshwater. They have a good variety of supplies, decorations, and plants as well!