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I have an expensive temp gun from work that I really like. Milwaukee M18 but it was over a hundred dollars. Anyways one thing to note about these temp guns is that the glass will be slightly different temperatures than the water and also that the color of the object you scan changes the reading. The gun is calibrated for neutral colors in order to average the readings across all surfaces. But a white wall and a black wall that are the same temperature will read slightly different. I have to add about a degree to all my readings I find. Have fun! They are really fun to use

After double checking my math, the gravel is only an inch and a half thick and the roots just made contact with the soil. I do think though that they would have grown another half inch though. Now we know 🙂

Thanks for the response. I wasn't very clear in my OP. The sad little piece of Christmas moss growing on the rock isn't what I'm talking about. The entire rock is covered in a purple algae like a diatom algae. The tank walls are covered in it to but it's mixed with a green algae there. The rock started a very light brown color.

In my experience and what I have heard on the internet is that kuhlii loaches do not eat snails. I personally have rabbit and bladder snails in that tank and don't really see any empty snail shells and a large population. I'd give it a try

I keep kuhli loaches in my daughter's bedroom fishtank. Currently I have 6 but I want to get at least 12. They are super funny and are very tolerant to water conditions. They eat well on most every food and the fact that they hide sometimes really does make it even funner when they do poke their heads out in the evenings.

I'm really liking the color of this algae covered dragon stone. Anyone know what type it is? Should I start dosing easy iron to make it neon red?

Yep, I cleaned up a pair of feeder goldies to keep mosquitoes out of my mom's pool in the winter but the pool never tested good enough to release them so for the moment they just eat all the duck weed I can through at them

Just an overflow to a drain. I fill a barrel on wheels with water, pump it into the tank and the overflow will one day go to the yard I'm hoping

I don't think you will ever feel like your shrimp are any problem at all

Hi all, I just wanted to share what I accomplished today. I have a 40 gallon reef tank that I got for free and currently have set up as a dirted tank. It was really ruff when I got it so I had to remove the foam on the bottom of the tank and I replaced it with strips of sticky foam to cover the whole bottom of the aquarium. Don't ever do that lol. After a short time the aquarium became so stuck to the table it's on that I had to empty it entirely and use a LOT of force to pry it off the table. I actually used a ratchet strap to add force to it and then I had to pull it as hard as I could to pry it off the table. I thought it would break for sure. Anyways today's project was to drill a hole in the back and install an aquarium Co Op bulkhead. And needles to say I didn't want to move it to drill it. The glass is 5/16" thick. Well I used a lense that I borrowed from my mom that is polarized to test if the aquarium was made out of tempered glass and it was not. The lense is very pricey so I wouldn't recommend buying it for this purpose but if you already have it or can borrow it then it works really well. You would have to Google the trick to use it though because I can't understand or explain it. Then I made a template to clamp on the tank where I want the hole to go. It's a piece of plywood with a hole in it obviously but it also has a chanel that runs from the edge to the hole so that I can run water continuously as I'm drilling. I used a small container of water and some airline tubing to start a siphon that runs to my template. All told it took a while to drill but only used 2 to 3 cups of water and the towels I used to absorb the water contained the mess. The new water level is perfect in my opinion and the old pump I replaced with an air stone in the old tubing to make a small uplift tube. Any suggestions are welcome by the way. Also it currently overflows into another aquarium but that is temporary

24 hours later he looks like this. I think it's pretty good and unless you all disagree or it gets worse I'm not planning on doing anything out of the usual with this tank

I fed and found him. He's on the right and has a small white patch on him. I will keep an eye on him and hopefully he won't get infected Oh yeah I definitely moved that shrimp hotel to a shrimp and least killifish tank

I have 300 plus ppm gh too and I have failed at many easy plants but some others do well so I just work with what works. I really want AC lights on ALL my tanks now! I have one on my 37 gallon that I crank all the way up because it's a tall tank but I want one on my 20 long because I think the annubius in there is getting too much light and I can't turn that light down...

Hi all, this little guy has been in this tank for 2 years and this piece of ceramic shrimp hotel has been in the aquarium for around 2 months and today I came home from work to find him stuck. I pushed on his head pretty hard to get him free but he didn't budge. His head was really solid which I didn't expect. I then tried to push him all the way through the hole from the inside but he stabbed me with his spine and I realized that he was reacting the way they do when they are being eaten by a bigger fish. He had all his fins out and was ridged. I tried again to push him back into the decore and it worked this time. I can't tell which Corry it was that got stuck but I'm hoping he will be fine now. He has lots of other (safe) places to hide and I don't know if I can even see him right now. Is there anything you all would do at this point? Obviously if I see him not doing well I will put him in a QT

Looks great, what light and what substrate is that? And what's the tank size?

Just set up this tank to try to grow some stuff that I have struggled with. I'm hoping it will do better for me than the previous attempts. I recently moved and my plants have suffered as a result. The plants I'm trying to save are: Crypt parva Crypt lucens Anubis nana petite Hydrocotyl Japan Christmas moss Pogo octopus Java Fern The tank is just potting soil that's fully wet. A 10 gallon aquarium. A tight fitting glass lid. A fluval aquasky light on a timer for 12 hours a day. The plants were added on 1-8-23 and only the hydrocotel is doing noticeably well. I'm hoping the rest are growing roots. I open the lid daily and spray water on the plants. Is there any tips anyone has on growing emersed plants with the intention of planting them back into an aquarium one day? I did leave the rhizomes of the annubius and java Fern out of the soil but they are resting on the soil. I want all the plants to grow but the plant I'm really in love with and want to grow the most is crypt parva so specifically any advice on that plant is appreciated.

Hi all, I got a free reef tank that I'm setting up as a dirted aquarium for sword plants. In the past I had a 37 gallon aquarium with an Amazon Sword plant that grew to the top of the aquarium and sent out a spike just as we had to move and I unfortunately lost it but I have been keeping that swords plants babies alive for months and I finally got settled enough to set up this tank. Anyways my new tank is 19" tall and my plan is to have an Amazon Sword plant grow out of the tank one day. The rest of the plants are dwarf chain sword and micro sword. Which I hope to slowly carpet across the back and front respectively. This tank is unique (to me) in that it's the only tank I don't plan to ever put a lid on and I would really like to light with a pendant light. So currently I'm using a free shop light which to my knowledge doesn't actually affect the aquarium lighting in anyway. The lightbulb in the light housing is a GE led grow light. Is this enough light in your opinion? Are there better pendant lights that aren't crazy expensive? Is micro sword a real sword plant? Any other advice? Tank is about 65 degrees 1 inch of organic dirt 2 inches of pea gravel 19 inches tall aquarium 10 inches between light and surface of the water Easy green once a week 2 goldfish and bladder snails for livestock but the goldfish are temporary Circulation is an airstone Dwarf chain swords were both planted in their pots Amazon and micro swords were both planted without pots Amazon Sword plant was planted on December 15th The other swords were planted January 15th

So sorry to hear about your struggles. Remember that you can always put aquariums on the back burner even if they look terrible they can usually be brought back to life somehow. Just feed lightly and take care of what's really important

Haha the funny thing is that I don't even care about the ants but my wife will lose her mind if she saw them so I'm trying to get rid of them without her seeing them for her sake not mine lol

Can you take a picture of specifically what points you are measuring to?

Wow those snails were not too happy. What parameters is your water? Do you have a test kit? Are the other inhabitants looking normal?

Well keep us posted. I'd say maybe but in a bigger hungrier fish for a few days to try to eat up the midge fly eggs or larva but that might not be good for your shrimps. I currently have ants in my tanks lol

Well I think almost all sand came from the beach at some point but I could be wrong. My plan was to soak and rinse it well for removing the salt and as far as critters go I doubt that anything that lives in the ocean could survive in my freshwater aquarium that's 35 to 55 degrees warmer. But I have not tried it yet. Let me know how it goes if you do it first

I'm also looking for larger sand than the fine stuff. I'm starting to think I'm going to have to go to the beach for it. I know of a beach with really large grains of sand but it's a long ways from me. Good luck

They do great with Corry's loaches and guppy's in my experience. It's really funny to watch kuhli loaches and ADF fighting to hide under the same leaf. ADF are very fun to keep but they are terrible eaters. Anything that eats quickly will out complete them for food. I have 1 ADF currently in a 10 gallon with 6 Corry's that I'm trying to spawn so I'm feeding them heavy and there's always enough for the froggy too. They also do well with my cherry shrimp fyi.