James V.
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Cleaned 4 tanks, upgraded 1 ten gallon to a twenty, set up a new 2.5 gallon for a mystery snail grow out, and moved fish out of my twenty long to make room for my pair of Apistos and my group of cherry barbs that I will hopefully pick up tomorrow!
(Sorry for upside down pictures lol)
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1 hour ago, quirkylemon103 said:
what filter could you run that could support a 400+
I think the cheapest way would be like 10-15 sponge filters 😆 is that being to cheap? I think so
You could do a few sponge filters and one canister filter.
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I have no experience with this big of a tank but the absolute cheapest way I could think of is to get like 30-40 concrete blocks and a piece of plywood as a stand. (About $150-200)
and get the tank used from Craigslist or something. (About $1000-1500) I’m not sure of this price it’s just a guess.
and the equipment like lights,filter,heater would b (about $400)
and you could stock it like @Spewing_nonsense_ said for. (about $50-60)
for a total of at the high end $2160 dollars. But I wouldn’t be surprised to spend around $2500 in the end.
Does this sound reasonable/realistic to you guys?
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I was looking in one of my tanks and I found this snail?
what kind of snail is it? The other snails I have in this tank are Nerite, mystery, MTS, and those other tiny ones in the picture.
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Hello everyone! Just thought I would give a day three update.
here they are
they had a HUGE growth spurt yesterday and now instead of being microscopic there are Super tiny 🤣.
I think they are going to be golden when they grow up, they have a light color foot and there shells are a little yellow color with black spots.
When I took this photo I was counting them and I counted 64 snails. Which is good for me, I didn’t really want hundreds and this seems more manageable.
(I actually have more than 64 because I found some baby snails on the bottom of the tank the rest were floating in, so I might have like ten more than 64)
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IT WORKED! I hatched them less than 5 minutes ago and here they are
I haven’t counted them but I have seen some start to move already. Thanks everyone for your advice. Now comes that hard part, raising them.
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Okay I think I’m going to hatch them out in the morning using the method that I saw Rachel O’Leary do in her video. I hope it goes well!
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27 minutes ago, BrandyLaRae said:
I used a mesh breeder box.
Do you think a Lee’s Specimen Container would work? Should I put the eggs in water?
I’ll check some YouTube videos out to, but do you think I could wait until morning? The top is still kind of pink?
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Help Again!
so I have been checking on the eggs every day and last night they started to turn grey and tonight I checked and they are even more grey and they are soft now! Are they ready to hatch? Here is a picture of both sidesSo what do I do! How do I help they hatch what should I put them in? please help im very exited and very inexperienced.
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42 minutes ago, David Ellsworth said:
I was checking on my rainbow shiners today and I think there are eggs on the bottom. They have been in quarantine for about 2.5 weeks. I have kept them at room temp, about 72 F and done frequent water changes about 50% every day or every other day to keep my ammonia levels down. One of them is quite a bit darker than the others, more orange, and several have red highlights in their dorsal fins.
The little round silica gel looking things are fish eggs? I've only kept live bearers before. I suppose I could collect them and place them in a Lee's specimen container with an airstone? I didn't expect breeding in quarantine.
Yes those are eggs! You could totally try to put them in a container with an air stone. I haven’t kept these fish before so I’m not sure how long they incubate, but a quick google could answer that.
Just put them in the container and set the air stone in there so there is some circulation in the box but don’t put way to much, also replace the water every once and a while.
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17 minutes ago, FrostiesFishes said:
The spawn failed to be fertilized I must have pulled the eggs during the process. But sure enough 3 days ago I had eggs again and now I believe I’m on day 2 or 3 of wrigglers. I left them with the parents currently. I will probably move them this weekend I’ll have to figure out where to move them. Now I’ll be able to keep updates coming fingers crossed
Wow that’s Awesome! Good luck!
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1 hour ago, Marnol D said:
You can remove and place them in a damp papertowel if you want to keep them and then place in a container and keep moist.
Like this?
is this right? Should I have holes in the lid? How long until they hatch? I have seen people float these containers, should I do that?
sorry for all the questions 🤣 I’m excited
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I’m so excited! I was going to clean one of my tanks when I found a Clutch of Mystery Snail eggs! I haven’t cleaned the tank in a while so the water level got low enough I guess!
The only problem is, I don’t know what I should do now? Do I remove them? How do you remove them? What do you put them in? And anything else I need to know should help a lot!
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I put a small heater a 2.5 gallon tank ,and then put my DIY 1L bottle inside that tank to keep it warm.
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As of this reply here are the total stats so far counting everyone’s tanks!
10,726.5 Total Gallons
34.37980768230769 Average Gallons
312 Total Tanks
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Currently running I have
160/ 26.6 / 6
a 75g
a 40g breeder
a 20G long
and three 10g
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Are you sure you got a Crypt wentii red, or could you possible have gotten bronze? What kind of light do you have on what size tank?
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I have a API master test kit and I was wondering if they ever expire? How long does it take to expire?
I ask this question because I just realized today that the test kit that I have is from 2008!🤣 I think it might definitely be expired but I’m not sure.
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Got my order in today! Complete with my brand new Apistos cave and plants! Now I just have to wait for them to grow in.😁 ( ps. Zebra Danios are only in to keep the cycle)
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1 hour ago, ADMWNDSR83 said:
Can a fella get a reminder of the plastic bag trick, @Irene?
Go to this video at 9:25 minutes, that’s where the plastic bag trick is. https://youtu.be/29aKqiu0b7w
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I’m just wondering what’s the most rarest most exotic fish that everyone has? Where did you get it? Why do you like it or not?
I think this will be fun to see some rarer fish in this thread! Thanks for your responses!
The rarest fish I have is a koi Angel 🤣 not very exciting.
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17 hours ago, Kyle Knox said:
I just tied the actual razor blade before going to chemicals and to my surprise it actually worked (whole lot better than the plastic scraper) I had to scrub each spot roughly 5 times a bit more on the thicker spots but after about a hour and 15min. It looks a whole lot better a whole lot of scraping but it was probably worth not resorting to chemicals
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My dad had the best idea I have ever heard of!
Its a Motorized algae scraper.
think of a Mag-Float algae scraper but the piece that’s goes on the inside of the tank (the scraper part) is a round very thin algae scraper pad with a some strong magnets. The piece on the outside would have a motor and some more strong magnets. You would turn it on and the magnets would rotate causing the inside scraper pad to spin, and clean all the algae on the glass.The thin and round scraper pad would cause minimal water disturbance, and since it’s motorized it could scrub off even really hard green spot algae!
i feel this would be a awesome and a very easy way to clean your glass.
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I’m trying Some Apistogramma Agazii for my display fish in a 20 gallon, maybe try that? Or a big school of Corydoras!
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What did you get done today?
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I love the smell of brine shrimp in the morning.😉