Bullsnark

The black one is jet, red is scarlet, and white body/red fins is Gretchen

I read somewhere that red root floaters will die if you have water dripping down on them(from a tank lid). I didn’t buy them because of that.

I need to get some sometimeI need to get some sometime

I know a guy that tried for years to kill catnip, and nothing worked. He finally gave in and watered and fertilized it; it promptly died.

I’m gonna wait about 20 minutes and put the heater in, but this is a look from the backside where it’s easier to see the substrate levels.

OK this is about the fourth time that I’ve changed the water, and I’ve sat there and fished little bits of floaties out with a fine net. I am running a Clear2o filter on my garden hose to fill with, and it has a prefilter, and a solid block carbon filter that filters to one micron. there still a little bit of debris, and I have to get it up to temperature, but it’s looking pretty good for a one day project. I know my beta would appreciate being out of the bucket. Thoughts? I added a little pea gravel then a layer of sand about three-quarter inch thick, then another inch or so of pea gravel on top. I hope this makes it easier to gravel vac

He had a snail eating on him for probably an hour and a half before I realized he was dead. He had been alive over in the corner and the snail had been alive over in the same corner munching on an algae wafer. When I walked by later, the snail was on top of him/her. The only other fish in the tank at that point were three female beta, and they didn’t mess with anything, even each other unless it was just a bump one another during feeding time.

If I had been using the $20 a bag aqua soil, (that is basically calcined clay soaked in fertilizer) it probably would not have floated up at all. The problem is I used a potting mix that contains peat which is basically rotted wood, and the little white stuff and I’m drawing a blank now it’s not vermiculite, and it’s not gypsum… Anyway they use it to loosen up compact soils- it floats, so it makes for a very bad choice all things considered. That’s why I added the sand on top was to help kind of seal it in, and keep it from leaching nitrates into the water, and to keep the lightweight stuff in place. The wood ruined that for me, but oh well. Now I’m just going to add another inch or so of sand and top it with pea gravel for appearance sake. You could use aqua soil and then cover it with a coarse sand or light gravel and it would probably be easier to queen if you’ve got the money to do it; I just don’t EDIT— perlite. Of course I remember 20 minutes later

Always forward! It looks like we ghetto right now, but I have sand and pea gravel outside to wash and add.

Ok, got the plants in and ready to start adding water Started adding water slowly. I had packed the soil tightly around the wood, but I was afraid it might still try to float. No idea why this is upside down 💥 disaster struck. The wood popped loose and soil exploded everywhere. Friggin great..🤬

Looks bad, but not deep.

I do as well. I just wish that I hadn’t hit my thumb with the hole saw last night. I was drilling little hidey spots for my beta since they like to tuck themselves into little tight nooks while they sleep.

After the hatchet work, I mixed up the soil and washed the sand that is going in here. I am going to have to go get more sand before I get the plants in.

I decided that I hated the colored gravel in my beta sorority tank, and now that my fiancé has her glow tank and her angelfish beach (I know, I know) tank, it is time to lose the colored gravel. so this is the piece of wood I am starting with. I have to reshape it a bit, so it’s hatchet time.

This is listed as a red leopard lyre twin bar molly and I was wondering if anyone knew if this was a molly, or a hybrid of a molly and something else like a swordtail. I have been watching videos, and no molly that I have seen has those twin long dorsal and ventral fins.

I know this isn’t what you’re asking, but what about getting yourself a holding tank and stock it with hornwort or something. Use that tank as you source for water changes, then top it off afterwards. Something like a rain barrel for catching downspout water would be ideal.

I wouldn’t get one. If the Cory’s and otto’s aren’t doing their job, cut down their food a little bit

Ooohhh, looks like an alien parasite if I’ve ever seen one.. (and I haven’t 😆)

Their underbelly is soft, and the inside of their mouth is as tender as any other fish.

Low nitrates, low nitrates, no new additions, and no chlorine.Low nitrates, low nitrates, no new additions, and no chlorine. I had a post under the diseases section when the first 4 died, but this last one looked super healthy- even as he was dead.

Has anyone ever found that hornwort needles when converting to immersed growth have shed all over the place and killed their pleco? Water parameters are good and after last night, my biggest pleco that was nice and healthy was suddenly dead. No chlorine, no ammonia, low nitrates, low nitrites , but a bunch of brown sharp hornwort needles around where the dead pleco was. I though maybe it was something about the water change last time, but this time I hadn’t changed the water yet. Last time two died in this tank after a water change, but this one died before. The only constant in this tank (that I can think of) is the hornwort litter.

I haven’t done it myself, but I was reading a post somewhere and someone had kuhli loaches breed in a tank that had gravel instead of fine sand. They speculated that the eggs/young fell through the rock and were protected from predators.

I guess I should’ve added that the top left test is the guppy tank. Bottom left is the beta tank. Top right is the 55 gallon. Bottom right is another 10 gallon

Ok, here are test strips on my 4 tanks. Granted it is 3 days after the plecos died. To be clear, all the other pleco in both the other tanks and the one left in the beta tank are doing fine as far as I can tell. It’s hard to tell on an albino bristlenose though. The picture of the bottle I had to use the panoramic view and cut my hand out afterwards; it’s a mess, but you can see the chart clear enough. Nitrates, nitrites, water hardness, total alkalinity, and pH

I can’t imagine that ammonia would be an issue as one tank had three pregnant guppies and two pleco, and the other had 3 beta and 3 pleco. The guppy tank is over half full of plants for the fry to hide in once they are born, and the sorority tank has a bunch of plants that have been growing in there.