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Lovely tank! Welcome!
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On 7/30/2021 at 8:35 PM, Isaac M said:
@Guppysnail @Patrick_G thank you both so much! I really appreciate your comments, they truly brightened my day!
Hi @Marcy! I have done this many times, I recently redid my 55 gallon. I find that completely reaquascaping an aquarium can be more stressful for me than the aquarium inhabitants however haha given that your aquariums are not very large, I think you will be able to do this rather easily.
The most important thing would be keeping the bacteria in your filters and other items(plants, decor, etc) you will be reusing alive. This can be done by moving the fish, shrimp, snails, etc to a different tank, tub or bucket filled with tank water, the decor you will be reusing and the filter running in it.
I am with you on keeping the scuba diver and floating logs in there! Haha if you would like to make it look more natural, maybe you could wrap the floating log in a mesh with moss in it? Then the moss can grow through the mesh and cover the log? You could even take apart the moss balls you have and glue them to the log in a somewhat natural patchy pattern. Just some thoughts.
I would be more than happy to help you come up with designs/ ideas to rescape your aquarium! I have been very busy as of lately with life and my personal aquariums so I have not been posting much but I always make an effort to answer the personal messages I receive. Here are some pictures of my aquariums to possibly get some ideas from:
5 Gallon with Bonsai Tree
10 Gallon
40 Gallon Breeder
55 Gallon
On 7/30/2021 at 8:11 PM, Nick H. said:Ive been pondering on the idea of redoing one of my tanks. Ive actually going to set up two tanks to suit the needs of my new puffer Peter. Hes currently in a heavily stocked 40 breeder full of pest snails and cherry shrimp. Than off to a 75G where he will spend his teenage years than finally to his retirement home whivh is a 150G Planted tank.
I’d love to see it! My LFS just got in a puffer. He’s super cool.
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I’m sorry I’ve been absent with personal stuff. But Omgosh! Thank you @Isaac M for the encouragement, ideas, and photos! I LOVE the moss on the log idea. I just got some Java moss, so I might just give that a go! Have another 10 gallon that I’m going to be setting up for some guppy babies. But after that, I won’t have a chance to do much for about a week. Everyone is happy and healthy for now.
thanks again!!! Your tanks are BEAUTIFUL!
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This is the second fish this has happened to in my daughter’s tank. I’m wondering if it’s swim bladder? Constipation? The area around his anus seems red and inflamed, but I’m not sure if that’s normal. This tank isn’t fully cycled yet, however, it’s been running for about 6 weeks. This fish was introduced last week..
water parameters:
ph 8.0
ammonia .25 (I added prime)
nitrites and nitrates 0
alkalinity 180
chlorine 0
i only have strips that test hardness, but they say it’s between 150 and 300
water temp 78-80
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On 8/1/2021 at 4:18 AM, Keeg said:
Like what @Guppysnail said, post it in diseases to get a better range of answers instead of this thread of baby shrimp/ isopods. But I may have an idea of what it is, but I have to know if the red on the betta is part of its coloring or disappears when the fish is active?
Thank you! I’m going to post this there.
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On 8/1/2021 at 4:02 AM, Guppysnail said:
Ask this question and post your photos in the disease section. There are some super knowledgeable folks there that can help identify and give you a course of treatment recommendation. That is a beautiful betta. I hope she can recover.
Will do!
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Oi. Sorry, it’s upside down for some reason.
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Well, the problem is that my daughters betta is not doing well. Same thing that happened to the last one. Was great for about a week, then starts to decline, becomes lethargic, won’t eat. I checked parameters and the ph is high, (8.0) but it’s normal for here. The ammonia was at 0.25 so I put some prime in there. Tomorrow I’m doing a 50% water change and removing the substrate. <sigh> I feel awful that it’s always her tank. I’m going to try to remove all of her inhabitants and put them in a quarantine tank so I can focus on cleaning that one. If you look at the first picture, does that look like an ulcer to you?
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Someone on another forum said it looked like a scud. 🤬🤢 so I’ll be clearing out this tank as well.
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So I was taking my daughters ornaments out of her tank, and all of a sudden, I see this thing darting around. One of her shrimp was supposedly berried when we got them. Is this a bebe shrimplet? (Excuse all the junk floating around. Like I said, I just pulled a bunch of stuff out and her sand is going tomorrow.) link attached since it’s a vid.
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This is great! Exactly what I am wanting actually!!!
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On 7/30/2021 at 7:26 PM, Patrick_G said:
But you must leave the scuba diver!😀
Oh yes!!! The scuba diver will stay!! And the floating log. I’m not crazy about it, but my betta LOVE it. I’ve place and removed both that piece of black rock and the pink quartz from every tank so far. I like the rocks, just not in my tanks I guess!
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On 7/30/2021 at 7:21 PM, Patrick_G said:
Hmmm, if you take out the swirly glass thing and the black thing, it’ll look pretty good!
I might be in the minority but for the smaller tanks I would just tank everything out and start from the substrate up.I kinda like that idea/.
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On 7/30/2021 at 7:15 PM, Guppysnail said:
Read through the journal section in the forum. I’ve gotten some amazing ideas from there. They usually give a detailed step by step of how they did it. There are some phenomenal aquascapers on here (I am so NOT one of them but I try)
Awesome!!!! I will definitely look there!!! Sunday is cleaning / water change day. So I might just start with one tank then. Make it a project! Thank you!!!! (Getting excited now.)
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Oh, and sorry. That’s aqueon substrate, not fluval. And I’m not a fan now that I’m looking at it in the photo.
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On 7/30/2021 at 5:20 PM, Streetwise said:
What are your plans or ideas?
Uhhh…..lol Well, I’d like my small 5 gallon to be a shrimp tank. Right now it’s holding guppies. I want them all to be planted, Natural scapes. I feel kind of limited with small tanks. I have a 10 gallon and a 40b that I can eventually do something with. I’d like the guppies to be in the 40. But my husband has claimed that tank.
here are the three that I want to revamp. I want to take the swirly glass thing and the black thing with holes in it out of the third tank. I just got some guppy grass but I didn’t realize it was a floater 😬 no clue how to plant it. But it’s in Q right now anyway.
I would like them all to be natural looking, but interesting and full. I’m having a hard time finding a carpet plant. And I’d like a bonsai in the 40g at least.
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I did not expect to love my snails and shrimp as much as I do! The snails make me laugh all the time. They like to bubble surf and then float over to the other side of the aquarium.
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So I’m seeing everyone’s tanks and I want to completely change almost all of my tanks. Have you ever done this? Is it worth it? Will it stress the inhabitants out too much?
I’ve got 3 tanks that I’d like to change (the other is my daughter’s) 2 five gallon and 1 ten gallon. I kind of threw them together because I didn’t have much. In one, I have pea gravel. I hate it. Another I have blue gravel. I hate that too. The other I have white coarse sand and fluval substrate. I don’t mind the substrate, but I need to add flourish tabs (I’m nervous) and remove some of the plants that are not doing so well. (Thanks giant snail.)
today I got some guppy grass. I’m going to quarantine it for 5 days and all that business. Also, I don’t know what to do with it! Agh! So many things!
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This is my GIANT mystery snail. I got it like that. I fed him a sandwich the other day and he wanted a bag of chips too. (JUST KIDDING)
I also have a ramshorn that’s giant. They almost need their own tank altogether!
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Welcome to the forum!
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Welcome!
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Very cool! I’m new here as well! Looking forward to some snail knowledge!
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On 7/27/2021 at 5:18 PM, Patrick_G said:
Welcome to the forum!
The amount of info available is incredible. You tube and forums like this make it so easy to figure things out. I’m so grateful for all the folks that put their creative energy into making instructional aquarium videos.Me too!!! I made the happy mistake of going on Instagram and looking up aqua scraping and nano tanks. 😳 hook line and sinker!
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Hai! Marcy from Iowa here. I kept fish AGES ago. I had fancy gold fish in a 60 gallon aquarium. Then I kept koi and goldfish in a pond. A couple ponds actually. But I haven’t had fish for probably a good 10-12 years. Until now. And WOW! So much more information and help is available! I now have 2 10 gallon tanks (well, one is my daughter’s) for betta and 2 5 gallon tanks. And another 10 and 40 in storage. In one of the 5 gallons I have a couple little moscow blue guppies. It’s more of a holding tank.
tanks:
fluval spec v
marineland 5 gallon portrait
2 top fin LED bubble wall 10 gallon tanks
fish:
3 betta
2 Cory
5 oto cat
1 other cat I can’t recall the name
neo shrimps (red, yellow, blue, orange, black)
mystery snails
chinese trap door
nerite Snails
blue moscow guppies
live plants I can’t recall the names of
moss balls
anubias
i also have a family of humans, cats,
dogs.
hi!
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Septicemia?
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It’s near impossible to tell in his body, but I am noticing red on his tail fin where the is thinner. Is this septicemia? Or is it a trick of the light? Water params were all good when I checked them a few days ago. I will do a check again and update as soon as there is no one in my house delivering drywall. 😬