BriannesFishFam

Small nano tank with Magenta and Purple mystery snails

What can I breed in the same tank, same parameters from the list below and what size tank Multis - Shell Sweller Pair of corycats Apisto Pair Apisto Pair Platinum Ricefish Xentotoca Doadrioi Zoogoneticus Tequila Odessa barbs BN Plecos

I need to buffer my water for some fish I am getting from an aquarium shop local. I was told to use crushed coral or aragonite sand. But I only have african cichlid sand on hand. I assume it does the same thing, caribsea african cichlid mix white sand. It buffers KH and Ph. But I also have to buffer the Gh. Hmm

Life with pets has dividers with no holes. That'd work

How do I disinfect the rocks from outside?

Hi all! I wasn't sure where to post these questions, sorry about that. I want to start aquascaping my fish tanks, I feel like I'd enjoy them more. I don't want to spend a fortune on more substrate, rocks, or plants so does anybody know a place cheap for those? I am only scared about the fact that if a fish dies I won't see it and it will pollute the tank. Does anyone know how to aquascape? What kind of plants do you grow and what looks the best.

Ok.. Males develop the bristles or whiskers and females don't typically (at least in my experience) and some may but only on the mouth When they breed the male will lure the female into the pleco cave and trap her, and have her release her eggs (hence the rounder belly) Good foods to feed them so they produce good eggs are veggies like zucchini and french cut green beans. The male will sometimes kick the eggs out of the cave if they're not good enough, so have a tumbler on hand, I would use a specimen container with airline (rigid works good) But if he doesn't kick them out just leave them with him They can have up to 200 babies but there first spawn are typically "small" up to 60.

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Yes not all fish build a nest, bettas most of the time build them. With gouramis there can be no nest and they stick them on the plants or there can be a small to large one with bad to excellent quality. Anything works it's just a matter of the males picking the eggs up in the bettas or gouramis. The females develop eggs and the eggs are fertilized when the males puts them in his mouth a coats them.

@Fish Folk Ok so I keep 4 discus and I agree they are not as hard as everyone says. I kept discus since I was 11 and they have always done good for me. All I say is that with those 10 discus, I am sure there are males and females of multiple colors. You do have 2 pigeon bloods, the two furthest down on the first photo. Don't interbreed the pigeon blood with and other color or you'll get peppered babies and you don't want that. Any other colors, such as the blue diamond and marlboro red discus in picture 5, would be a variety of colors and patterns. The only one I don't recommend is picture #3, like I said above crossing that pigeon blood with the marlboro babies with make your barf-looking discus that are peppered. Any other color or pattern combo with mix together and the offspring will show all different kinds of colors and pattern. This was how new strains of discus were created, they crossed different genes that they liked in certain discus. Made sure the fish had all the feature they wanted and they breed their F1 generation. Then on F2 Smetimes they take the best baby that has what their looking for a breeds back to the parent. so on and so forth until they get the strain they are looking for! Good luck with your discus! I have 1 checkerboard, 1 Pigeon Blood Snakeskin, and 2 Santarems discus all from Discus Hans USA, I can't wait to breed them! Bri

He used a paint strainer with Back Rod, a pool noodle material. Yes you can use a net breeder from Petco Or Amazing, I think they are like $6 and they work great. Personally I just pull the mop every few days and pick out almost all the eggs from the mop. Have over 100 babies in a few weeks!

Very nice!

I haven't had issues with my guppies, snails, shrimp, or plecos getting out yet. But it is better to be safer than sorry especially if you have rarer or more treasured fish in there. I think the kit is nice. I put my own spin on it. I stuff the removable intake (domes) from teh top and bottom and stuffed them with polyfil and put them back on, essentially working as an extra filtration, then of course I stuff the middle with polyfil and I even found that added course sponge or poly fiber pad around the pump in the third chamber prevents it from being clogged, that was one issue I ran into. I wasn't getting enough flow so there was also a second ammonia spike, because the pump in the third chamber got clogged! So stuffing the intake domes with polyfil makes it so you don't need those intake covers and I never found a situation where I need lid props, I always swing the lid to sit shining in teh right or left side of the tank, or I just slid it halfway off. The feed hole cover is smart, however you can use an alternative like plastic wrap with a small hole in it if you want. Again I never ran into an issue with the fish jumping out, not even corycats. I had an auto feeder on for the longest time so made that helped. All in all I think the kit is really smart and well thought out to make the tank's appearance a whole lot better, but for me I just used what I had. I just wanted to give you some alternatives incase you didn't want to purchase the kit. Best of luck!

A few of my favorites to see, Guppies Shrimp Ricefish (Platinum or Daisy Blues) Wild bettas Multis or small shell dwellers

I personally have had them breeding every month to month and a half. I found a good descriptive timeline going through the whole process and the mating, to when the female had eggs, to when the eggs are released to shrimplets in about 39 days tops, 27 days looks to be minimum.

I personally think the sponge method is key. The sponge sucks in and hold all of the detritus and fish waste, small pieces of dead plants, etc etc. So yes, I agree with Fish Folk that you should retry with a bowl of tank water and ring out a reasonable number of sponge filters into the bowl, try and pick the one you haven't cleaned in a while. Say you have tank A and Tank B, if you take water from Tank A and clean the sponge filter from tank B, and tank A has an illness (Ich, Fungal, Internal Parasite, etc) that you didn't know about, now you could potentially seed Tank B's sponge filter with Tank A's disease, if one happens to be present. I actually think I accidentally did this one time. I had two 10 gallon side by side and they had the same brand, style, and color of filter (I believe it was a Hikari Sponge filter (the ones that go in the corner) and I was cleaning then both in water from 10 Gallon "A" 's water and I think I accidentally switched filter because I had a huge loss of guppies in both tanks due to a fungal infection and within a few days almost all of them were dead even with temperament, it was too late. Good luck! Bri

I have well water, very soft, neutral/ slightly acidic ph, no ammonia, nitrites, nitrates, chlorine, or chloramines. So personally I pump into a bucket and pour into the tank, buffer the water if needed (guppies, plecos, shrimp, mystery snails) But I heard prime is the best conditioner if you pump straight into your tank or into bucket then into the tank, either way is fairly easy. I have also heard of the Water Buffalo. I have also seen this water supply container used in many fishkeeping facilities. I personally have never used it so I'm not the best person to take advice from, but if I had treated city water I would definatley go with that system. Best of luck and keep us posted please! Bri

Do you let the pregnant females give birth in the same tank? Or do you let the females release, grow the fry up separate, and then when they are big enough put them back in?

I cleaned the sponges tons of times and the fish waste doesn't seem to come out of the fine sponge. even if i leave the sponge sitting and drying for a month it still holds ammonia. I think it's just how it was designed

I have 3 of the Fluval Flex 9 gallons running, one with guppies, second with plecos, and third with soon to be multis. I love them so much, such a great layout and the fish and lighting is great. Only two suggestions Be prepared for the remote battery to stop working after a few years, it lasts for a while but sometimes they break. Some I read about lasted 15 yrs, but be prepared. Second, I would replace the sponge in the middle chamber by stuffing the middle chamber with just polyfil, or any sort of filtration media but that sponge that comes with it can causes ammonia spikes.

I have a 55 with no center brace we got for free. I won't use it for fish because I feel like it will never be safe. After reading up on it you should be able to full the tank up a little or try to get repaired

A small tunnel would do, pvc, or maybe a coconut hut but I'm not too sure on that one. We have a 75 gallon tank with them and they hide in little open hhouse decor

I kind of assumed the small trays could act as a small tank with a sponge filter and no other filter

Ok thank you so much!

Hello! Does anyone know if I have to add a line of water to the rack like Dean has? In 3 videos of people building them there has been a line of water that runs to each container, I was wondering if I cut more holes in the side plugged with sponge would I get away with not having a water line? The rack system would be for plecos, ricefish, praecox, apistos, cories, maybe guppies.