Steph’s Fish and Plants

I’ll fix the repashy tonight after work, thanks for the tips! I’m worried about the salt with my plants, I have ammania gracillis which was just in transit a week and is starting to come back, same with s Repens, I’ve got scarlet temple, a Crinum, lots of crypts, super red ludwigia, and a rotala (can’t remember which one). Oh and some val. I’ll move the other plecos back to the tank today as well bc they’re looking a bit better. They’re currently in salt and ichX in the bucket.

Thanks for the help! I dosed the main tank with IchX today, I need to work on the repashy still (it never gelled 😢). Woke up to the schoutedeni having it too so I’m very stressed about that 😅 but I think the IchX will help.

I will dose IchX and erythromycin in the morning. I imagine the temp got fairly cold for them in the bucket during transport, I didn’t have any heaters that would work (where’s that USB heater at…? Lol) I did make some kana repashy that I’ll feed off as well. I won’t be dosing salt per the plants unless I get real desperate.

Does anyone know if kanaplex is plant safe? Or should I dose tank with erythromycin? I made up some repashy with kana but it needs time to settle and stuff. The plecos in the bucket definitely look better than the one in the tank; not sure if it’s bc of the salt or the IchX. Should I dose main tank with ich x?

Here’s a pic from the 397 in the tank just now. I turned the heater down to 80, I’m gonna dose with ich X and feed kana repashy. Gonna pull and check one of the bucket plecos as well. Any other advice or help would be greatly appreciated.

Plan is turn heater back down to 78, make repashy with kana. Should I still dose IchX? Should I move the other llecos to the main tank? I threw a nano coop sponge in the main tank to establish so I can throw it in bucket

Meds i have access to: Ich X, kanaplex, erythromycin, maracyn, Prazi pro, para cleanse, and general cure. I do not have the space or capacity to setup a QT tank, just a QT bucket. Tank is planted. I can do salt in the bucket. I have non cycled sponge filter I can throw in the bucket. I do not have focus, but I do have repashy . It is only the plecos that seem affected.

Buckle up this may take a minute. I recently moved 4 hours away and left several of my fish boarding at my LFS from where I used to live. Once moved, I setup a 40 breeder, cycled for a week, got 6 silver tips, then a week later went back for all my fish. In all I had 3 super red bristlenose plecos, 2 L397 plecos, a pair of apisto viejita, and 3 male halfbeaks all in a QT tank at my lfs to board. I also had a schoutedeni puffer at my friends house and got a yellow spiny eel. I drove 4 hours back with fish in buckets with air. I didn’t get a good look at the plecos before they went into the bucket at the store. After drip acclimating for over an hour I added the halfbeaks, apistos, and plecos to the tank and was about to add the eel when I noticed what I initially thought was ich on the big male bristlenose. Pulled him back out and into the bucket, and noticed similar spots on the other plecos and pulled who I could along with deco. One of the 397s was too crafty so he stayed in the tank. In the bucket I put salt to 1.003 and a heater which is currently at 83 degrees F. In the tank I didn’t salt bc I have live plants, but I did turn the heat up to 83 as well. The 397 that had stayed initially only had a few spots on his face and fins, but today is covered. Bucket has an airstone and heater, tank has 2 heaters, a coop sponge, an aqua clear 20 and an aqua clear 70. Yesterday I dosed 2.5 mL of IchX to the bucket but not the tank yet. After 3 days, no one else in the tank seems to have it but it’s gotten worse on the 397. Pictures are from night 1 and then today. Pics of water test from just now as well. so, is this ich? Epistylis? Something else? And if so how do I treat it?

I placed an order a week ago and my package only just now arrived and was in transit for 6 days. I got S Repens, Ammania Gracillis, and Scarlet temple. The scarlet temple is loving life but the ammania and Repens melted back HARD while in transit. I got them placed as soon as the package arrived. I’ve got a fluval plant 3.0 cranking out a lot of light and use easy green ferts. Tank has a decent fish load and is still pretty new but I cycled it really well. Plant experts, is there hope? I know plants can bounce back but I don’t always have the best luck 😅 but I only recently got the fluval light and upgraded the tank.

That’s what I would do, throw em in the breeder box at first. If you can setup a small temporary 5 gallon with a sponge to raise them once they outgrow the breeder box will be your best bet. They’ll get too big for the breeder box but probably won’t be big enough to avoid getting eaten by the parents or the honey gourami. Live BBS, vinegar eels, I had em on the CoOp fry food and Hikari First Bites as well. I ended up getting lazy/overwhelmed with life and only ended up with 1 fry surviving after a month, and then lost the female so I’ve only got males. Good luck!!

A lot has happened just in the last week alone much less the last few months. Didn’t realize I hadn’t updated this in so long! Lets dive right in. About a month ago I tore down all my tanks, brought my fish back to the LFS I used to work at, and moved several hours away into the city. I upgraded to a 40 breeder freshwater tank, and cracked and upgraded my saltwater tank to a UNS 60A or 20 gallon all in one. After a week of cycling the 40 I got silver tip tetras, threw in some crypts, and another week later I have returned with half of the fish I had before. I now have 3 super red bristlenose (1 male 2 female), my viejita apisto pair, 3 male wrestling halfbeaks (my 2 original males and my 1 remaining fry) and 2 L397s. I also FINALLY took my Schoutedeni Puffer named Domino, who was chilling at my former managers house till I could move and upgrade. I also grabbed some plants and a yellow spiny eel. And my mantis shrimp and corals. As if the 8hour trek there and back weren’t enough, as I’m adding fish to the tank I discovered the plecos had ich 😔 and now so do the halfbeaks, and 1 apisto. I’ve got the majority of the plecos in a bucket with salt and a heater and an airstone, I’ve got the heat turned up, and I’m getting IchX tomorrow. First time dealing with ich in a personal rank and I’m not looking forward to it. Hoping the eel and the puffer will be ok. The mantis shrimp is settling in very well tho, and I’ve got a skimmer coming later this week for that tank.

Well guys, just over 3 weeks later and we have another spawn! Just woke up to some babies, initial count is 12. Depending on when the male spawned the female after last time, she was pregnant for 3 weeks to maybe 3 weeks and 4ish days, or anything in between there. Gonna get her moved to the main tank and get some BBS in with the babies and get em eating. Here’s some pics, first set of babies is today’s and then there will be the mom, then the first round of babies which are about 3 and a half weeks old.

I’ve got everything moved, I unfortunately lost one during the move 😞 but everyone else seems to be doing perfectly fine! I expect the female to give birth within the next 5ish days, tomorrow will be exactly 3 weeks from when she last gave birth and was moved back to the main tank. Now unfortunately I don’t know when exactly her and the male did the thing once I added her back, but he was pretty much right by her side again as soon as I added her in, and they seem to cruise the tank together, the male always right behind the female

Alrighty, lots of light shuffling is occurring in the fishroom rn. The planted 3.0 has been running just over a week and I’m getting some great growth on my plants and my Val absolutely exploded. I mounted it using zip ties to the underside of the shelf above, and I’m not sure how I feel about it yet. The workroom is really nice being able to see and not worrying about dropping or bumping it, but I’m getting wayyyy too much light spill into the room and the black strip in the lid is cutting out the entire middle of the tank. I may end up either finding a new solution for the lid or taking the light back down. here’s some pics of the tank before I moved a bunch of plants and deco around. And here are some photos from after. I moved the caves around to give the apistos some better, easier to defend areas to spawn as well as removed a pleco cave to have more room for plants, which I also shoveled around.

3 weeks ago today is when I originally pulled the female, and she’s looking pretty round once again. Gonna try and get the fry moved tomorrow to the 5 for growout and pull her to the breeder box again. If I’m right that puts them at somewhere around 2/12-3ish weeks for pregnancy. Time will tell. In other news the babies are getting so big 🥺 there’s a couple that are smaller that are being outcompeted a bit, I’m hoping when I upgrade them that’ll even out since they’ll have more space.