Jump to content
Watch our video on the rules of this forum.

Jimmy

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    458

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Feedback

    0%

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Jimmy

  1. Jimmy

    Sick guppies

    Jimmy replied to Jimmy's topic in Diseases

    I figured thank you. I’m gonna give it a shot. I’d hate for my other strains to get it. Hopefully I can stop it in its tracks.
  2. Jimmy

    Sick guppies

    Jimmy posted a topic in Diseases

    Notice sunken bellies hitting this strain I got several months ago that was fine up until this last week or so. Eating and acting fine but whole colony is getting really skinny. Any suggestions what meds I can give? temp 75~ 450tds 0 ammonia nitrite nitrate. 7.5ph regular water changes mature tank
  3. Jimmy
    So this evening I came inside from the fish room and shoved my phone in my wife’s face to show her a picture and I said “This is where we get our money back!!” Jokingly of course. After having a group of 8 Norman’s lampeyes in a 10 gallon for a few months I decided to throw a spawning mop in for the first time after not producing any fry organically. Low and behold I was able to pull 16 eggs today! I moved the eggs to a shoebox with some aeration, I will post a photo later. If I don’t succeed to hatch them I will attempt a egg tumbler next time. Stay tuned!
  4. Jimmy
    Greetings! I’m starting a new thread for fishroom 64. It’s long overdue. For the past few months I’ve been adding updates to the build thread from the room but it’s basically complete at this point. At this point it’s been up and running for 5+ months and past this point I would like to share an occasional update on the happenings in my fish nerd laboratory of sorts. A little about me. I built a room back in August 2021 in my detached shop. It’s roughly 50 square feet and houses 27 aquariums. I documented the build somewhat thoroughly. I’m a father of 4 small children and have a busy life. The room is a bit of a treat to myself and I try to involve my children when I can. You can see the progression through this link.
  5. Jimmy
    Ya I’m geeking out over it
  6. Jimmy
    Happy to finally get my first drop from this trio I got from LRB. It’s a small diminutive guppy with a female who has a deep yellow and bronze shimmer. Excellent top down on the males.
  7. Jimmy
    Great stuff Yuns! Glad you got to view my fish room the other day. I’m so rural so I don’t get any visitors. I felt rushed due to my on accord or I would of taken more time to show you some interesting or answer any more questions you had. What I enjoy about this hobby is the endless ways we can approach it! Keep at it.
  8. Jimmy
    Well thanks for the mention. Great little journal very interesting. I’m far from talented! I didn’t go for precision carpentry but the electrical I gave the most attention to.
  9. Jimmy
    I’ve considered that product. I may get out of guppies I really don’t want to alter water Im lazy lol
  10. Jimmy
    Anyone have problems with equilibrium or GH booster being cloudy? Is there anyway around this or is it a matter of waiting several days for it to fully dissolve? Asking for a friend.
  11. Jimmy
    Electric! I will maybe get a specimen cup from the coop on my next order and try to get some decent photos https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdB6mTh9/
  12. Jimmy
    It’s sizable to no idea when she dropped it or how many she actually had. I’m hoping to get more. I would love to develop this line out for ponds. I think so too. I thought I would go harder into guppies but I may not. My pictures suck but both males have substantial blue color behind their gil plates that really pops. This strain is very dimunitive in size which I really like.
  13. Jimmy
    Played in the fish room today. Look at the top down on these two males I got from LRB awhile back. It was a trio. Today I finally found 1 fry! Hope to develop this strain out its beautiful and again I love the top down. I still have 16~ empty tanks. I put aragonite in this 20 long. It’s a little too white but I plan on growing a dense guppy grass jungle in it so it doesn’t matter. I like to repurpose glass jars for planters. I used some aquasoil and intend on putting pogostemon clippings in them. The perk to this for me is if I have to do maintenance it’s rather easy to pull them out or prune. Also easier tank tear down and also I don’t want to sacrifice too much water volumn in 10gs with thick substrate to get things to root. Terracotta is my preferred planter but glass jars are exceptional since I have dozens.
  14. Jimmy
    I lost a few but since had a ton of babies which has been exciting. Not sure why I had 3 adults die. Also I paid for LRB fire red shrimp but honestly I don’t know if they are any more noticeable quality than stuff marketed as cherry shrimp
  15. Jimmy
    Well I’m glad you enjoyed it! I wanted to be more thorough with the journal but time was and my wife’s patience was everything. This room will tie me over for 5-10 years til we get our forever home. I learned a ton and have a better idea on what my long term fish room might be set up differently. I live in the Pacific Northwest, it’s rather mild in the puget sound. Also my town is small and is quick to repair outages. I’m not overly concerned about outages. I have a generator or inverter for my car if need be. fish can tolerate a wide range of temps short term so if you have an outage my focus would be just getting tanks aerated.
  16. Jimmy
    Twin wall polycarbonate. You can get it at lowes or Home Depot. I used a jigsaw and then a utility blade to clean up the edges. Consider keeping a journal. You can just take a lot of pictures and update it when you have time. im glad you enjoyed it make sure to check in from time to time. I’m about to have 3 months off so I will be staying active in the room. Let me know if you have any questions!
  17. Jimmy
    From my living room 40b to the fish room
  18. Jimmy
    Got some On my exhaust fan in the fish room!
  19. Jimmy
    I always spray paint. It’s super easy, just use a matte finish
  20. Jimmy
    Congrats! I generally don’t have fungus with my paleatus. I tend to pull the eggs from the tank and put in a shoe box with a airline for a little aeration. They tend to hatch within 5-6 days. I feed either first bites or live bbs. They seem to be really hardy fry for me.
  21. Jimmy
    Is it Xtreme sinking wafers? My fish aren’t crazy for them a lot of the time. It’s pretty common for me to have fish disinterested in prepared food after I feed say frozen bloodworms, brine or live baby brine. For me fasting my fish by skipping a feeding always increases their willingness to accept prepared food.
  22. Jimmy
    Thanks! I will continue updating so please follow. I learned a ton from this and have a vision of what my next fish room will look like. When my children are grown I envision 100+ aquariums one day.
  23. Jimmy
    You might start a build thread. Check mine out in my signature
  24. Jimmy
    If only! Lucky duck that gets to work there. Gainfully employed or I would rush down there.
  25. Jimmy
    I’ve had barbel erosion on round gravel so I’m hesitant to put them on anything half the time. I have lots of time to think about what will go in it, I have about 17~ empty tanks
×
×
  • Create New...