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On 10/26/2022 at 10:21 AM, Anjum said:
What size is your outdoor tub vs your indoor tank?
@Jimmy pure speculation here, as I don't have 1st hand knowledge, but what I'm thinking is that while a 20L is plenty big for rice fish to live in, it's not so large that they couldn't patrol the whole thing regularly. They'd be likely to find the fry pretty easily...
definitely a consideration
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On 10/25/2022 at 11:02 PM, TheSwissAquarist said:
Have you tried using a spawning mop?
Yes, I have a couple in the tank.
On 10/26/2022 at 3:09 AM, OceanTruth said:I’ve never kept Daisy’s rice fish, but I’ve read Medaka will take out fry while ignoring eggs. I was hoping to just colony breed Medaka, but I don’t think I have enough cover for them to hide out in. It looks like you have a good amount of guppy grass for fry to hide in, so I’m surprised you’re not finding babies.
Do you have anything else in the tank that might be an egg eater?
Negative just the rice fish. I’m probably just gonna move eggs to separate tank or specimen cup.
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Shouldn’t daisy rice fish be pretty easy to breed? I have what i think is 2 males and 5 females in a 20 long with multiple spawning mops and guppy grass. I haven’t attempted to pull eggs but I know they are laying. Are they known fry or egg eaters? Is it my best option to remove parents or eggs?
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On 10/24/2022 at 6:20 PM, AllFishNoBrakes said:
One of the LFS’s in my area sent out a newsletter regarding his passing. Life is crazy, and anything could happen, so you gotta enjoy it while you have it. RIP
No kidding he’s only a couple years older than me. Life is fragile.
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Just found out Jake Adams of reef builders tragically passed away. Thoughts and prayers for his family. What a great individual who inspired thousands and shared so much positivity!
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On 10/21/2022 at 3:19 AM, Andy's Fish Den said:
Nope, I don't live out in the PNW, I'm in Ohio. I wish I could say I've been there from the very beginning, but I found Cory and the co-op videos about five or six years ago, back when he was first starting to build the fish room at the house before the one he's at now.
That’s right, I may have asked you this before lol. I live an hour and a half south of the coop but I’ve only been twice regrettably.
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On 10/19/2022 at 4:02 AM, Fish Folk said:
I use dry Oak leaves in many of my aquariums. Maple leaves, which tend to break down / decompose faster, can be used but may become a decaying mess before they accomplish other desired goals.
I collect fallen, dried Oak leaves picked up as much as possible away from roadside so that there is less risk of automotive drippings or road salt corrosion. Although unnecessary, I prefer to boil my leaves in a hot-pot before adding.
Beautiful tank!
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On 10/18/2022 at 3:09 PM, TOtrees said:
Recommend you start with a smaller sampling of the nicest leaves. That way if it doesn't work (you don't get the desired result) out you won't have put a lot of unnecessary time into it. I'm in a very different region, but I do have access to (and have collected and used) maple leaves. Agree with @TheSwissAquarist that oak and beech are better choices. The tannins in the oak especially keep it intact for much longer. If you've used Indian Almond, my experience is that red oak lasts about a third as long as IAL, beech less than that, and maple even less than those.
I believe that maple leaves don't have a lot of nutrition, ie they're one of the last leaves that caterpillars and etc will eat. Things like mulberry are much more popular with shrimps as food, for a reason.
All that being said, if the leaves you collect are clean, and you're not drowning your tanks with them, the worst that is likely to happen is you won't get the benefit you want, ie there's little chance of any problems.
This is great information. I intend on getting a big garbage bag of them and playing around with it. It’s mostly for aesthetics and possibly Cory breeding. With so many tanks up and running with no fish or inverts in them I have a little room to experiment.
On 10/19/2022 at 4:32 PM, T. Payne said:I use magnolia leaves regularly.
Good to know! Not sure if I’ve ever seen one of those
On 10/19/2022 at 5:17 AM, TheSwissAquarist said:Most of the time I just use them for decoration 😜
That’s my intent too!
On 10/19/2022 at 3:37 AM, Andy's Fish Den said:I was told years ago to stay away from maple leaves, to use oak and beech were the safest. I have a bunch of oak tree so I collect some every fall to use in my tanks throughout the year. If you want to collect some maple and try out, I'd just make sure that they are nice and dry and not from an area that there is a possibility of having any kind of pesticide or fertilizer sprayed on them.
On the thought of pesticides it would make sense to be careful where they are collected. I’m gonna give them a shot and I will report back.
Any chance you are the Andy that helped build aquarium coop?
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I’m gonna grab a garbage bag of them and give it a shot. I have 15~ aquariums that don’t have fish in them so I have some space to play around.
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Always exciting!
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I don’t think either or is going to provide more benefit but if you run two it would be easy to start another tank in the future
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So fall is somewhat here now in the PNW. My question is can I use dried maple leaves for leaf litter?
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I like it but I’m not into aquascaped tanks myself. I do more of a jungle style if I make any attempt lol. I think it looks great but I don’t have a artistic eye. If I was to guess that’s a 45 tall? I kept one for years but they do have a strange foot print and that might be a limiting factor.
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On 10/15/2022 at 6:24 PM, B7gwap said:
@Jimmy not a bad idea. I’ve always wanted to keep a fleet of congos. Have you kept them? I’ve read reports they nip at plants, but others say they don’t. Few fish more beautiful than an adult male Congo tetra.
I haven’t but they are a nice full body. I think dans fish has a couple different chunky tetras. I’ve kept a large group of diamonds, holy cow they are beautiful once they are grown. The males are like disco balls
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How about a school of some chunky tetras. Maybe congos, diamonds, bleeding hearts. Something of that nature?
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On 10/15/2022 at 5:16 PM, PineSong said:
Looks like a great room! Even if you don’t want to ship fish, you might help support the room shipping plants— after all, I paid someone from Etsy to mail me some duckweed,lol. And guppy grass, floaters etc that stored here don’t sell.
Anyway, I hope you can get back to enjoying your space!
That is one idea! Thanks for the good wishes. I documented the build process quite thoroughly not sure if you have seen it. You can find it in my signature.
I wouldn’t mind documenting something else in relation to the room for the forum but not sure what.
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On 10/15/2022 at 3:03 PM, Cory said:
My best advice, get a chair. Make it so you can sit in there and at least browse your phone. Currently you can only be in there and work. Especially as it gets colder, sitting in the warm room is awesome and you'll notice the fish doing more odd things more often.
Huge fan Cory! I love when it’s cold and I step into a warm room. I spent a lot of time last winter in my boxers out there with a cup of coffee in hand. Eventually I’d like to chase down more rare tetras and corys to stand apart. I’m an hour and a half south of the coop maybe one day it will be worth documenting.
On 10/15/2022 at 3:01 PM, Flumpweesel said:Congratulations on the life changes, I'm sure you'll have that fish room ticking over nicely in no time
Life and wife willing! Lol
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On 10/15/2022 at 1:39 PM, B7gwap said:
Looks great, what are your plans with all this capacity? Looks like maybe breeding for profit? What sort of critters do you have? Keep it up!
Initially it was livebearers but we have really soft acidic water here and I don’t particularly care to mess with parameters. The 20 longs I had dreamed of doing strictly cories.
I have a few guppy strains, white clouds, shrimp, rice fish, lampeyes. I might lean more into diminutive tetras and rasporas.
I live in a rural area so my motivation for breeding for profit isn’t really there. I tend to give stuff for free. I have no interest in shipping.
On 10/15/2022 at 3:57 PM, Patrick_G said:I think I would set up a couple of these tanks to produce plant mass. Java moss, Pogostemon stellatus, Wisteria, Guppy grass etc would be perfect.
funny you should mention that.
One of my things the last few days is I started breaking up my huge masses of guppy grass and putting it in the cloudy/green water tanks. Over the years I’ve thrown buckets of pogo out but I’m gonna start floating it in the room.On 10/15/2022 at 3:44 PM, lefty o said:still looks good, and a little green water dont hurt anything. i agree with Cory, get a chair so you can plop down in there in actually watch the tanks.
I actually want algae. I have film algaes in some of the tanks and even string algae. The pea soup is great for my fry but I negates my level of interest for viewing once it turns.
last couple days I’ve been going out there with coffee and giving it a good stare!
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Just checking back in. Life got a little crazy since I built this tiny fish room back in august of 2021. It’s footprint is 7x7 and houses 21 10 gallon aquariums and 6 20 longs. I had great ambitions initially but between starting a new job and adding a 4th child to an existing young line up the progression came to a standstill.
Fast forward to the last week or two I’m slowing regaining control. I had a significant problem with green water and I took half measures trying to fix it. Primarily the issue is with the 10 gallons, the immaturity even with low bio load seemed to still spark quite a muck. I have really low light leds that originally were on only 8 hours a day. I’ve tried long black out periods and water changing.
I’m back on the water changes and adopted the siesta method. 4 hours on 4 hours off and then 4 hours on in the evening.
Only about half the aquariums have livestock. I’ve been drooling heavily of all the listings on dans fish, I’m sure everyone can relate.
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On 3/3/2022 at 9:57 AM, eatyourpeas said:
I did not intend to breed them. Didn't even know I had fry until I saw the little blue alien eyes staring right at me. There have been other fry from the CPDs, but I think they got eaten. I do not think the Lampeyes are a threat, as in my case the CPDs are the ones quite unfriendly towards little critters.
Interesting! So no care at all. I think trying two different matches should yield some results
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On 3/3/2022 at 8:42 AM, eatyourpeas said:
I love my little one Lampeye fry! He is now eating Micro Pellets and stealing from the big guys! 🤣 About 7mm as of yesterday. They are so much fun, congratulations! 😍
How did you hatch them? I pulled a bunch and left a bunch in the mop. They don’t appear to eat them.
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On 3/1/2022 at 5:33 PM, Nate s said:
So I’m looking for some ideas. Moving some tanks to a smaller room in my basement I’m building hoping the dehumidifier and smaller space keep the room a little warmer than the rest of the basement. Those tanks will have heaters. That frees up the old space to have some tanks on the current electric (running new electric to the other room, uncle is master electrician so it will all be done right don’t worry). I want to maybe run a 55 and 29 unheated over there.
In a 55 could I have some white clouds and a species of cories that don’t mind 68-70 for most of the year and like 62 or so during winter? What about Apistogramma borelli?
if I need to I could add a small heater to keep it at 70 or so most of the time I was just trying not to.
I don’t know much about apistos and temp but you can do a lot of stuff under 70. I keep corydoras paleatus and rabauti pretty cool. I had the paleatus breeding at 61/62 during the last storm.
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Not sure if this helps but I use nilocg GH booster. I have soft water, I just aim for a specific tds and it works for me.
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Daisy Blue Ricefish
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Interesting. The eggs have certainly slowed down in the last week or two. It’s in a heated room but I’m letting it seasonally swing, middle rack is 72+ currently.