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Ken Burke

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  1. I run my python through the doggy door to a garden hose. Get the siphon going and shut the hose off. The tank water ends up on the lawn. I’m with you on keeping it simple though. A 50% wc on a 10 gal tank is like 5 min and one 5 gal bucket of fresh water. But my 75 gal is a whole different deal.
  2. I’ve not had that happen, that I know of. @Fish Folk have you read anything about frogs predating on fry?
  3. Google is going to tell you that panda cories won’t do well in the warmer temps of a discus tank, but mine seem to be doing ok. I think the concern is keeping weight on the pandas.
  4. @Dork Fish nothing wrong with going slow and enjoying the process, but you are on the right track if you aren’t seeing any ammonia after 5 days. What type of bottom dweller were your thinking about? Adding one BNP might be a nice addition and wouldn’t be too big of a shock to your bio load
  5. I wouldn’t do either, but would do the reverse respiration @Guppysnailis always talking about. Much more plant friendly Here is the post
  6. 1. I think you are on the way to a great looking tank! 2. Nothing wrong with adding more plants, but if you give the plants you have some time you’ll be surprised at how full it looks in a few months. The first picture is from when I set up my75gal June 22. The second the same tank from January 23. having never done the dark method or used ammonia I cannot comment on the rest
  7. I’m curious, what are you disinfecting from the plants? Plants are covered with the beneficial bacteria you are looking for. I normally just plop then in the tank, but I suppose I could leave them overnight in a seltzer bath if I worried about algae or snails.
  8. Plant wise, time is you best friend. You hornwort and pennywort should fill in pretty quickly. But I think you are missing some hardscaping. if you add a taller piece of driftwood in front of the sponge filter and in the other corner, and some rock in the middle, it will break things up a little and help fill things out. here are before and after pictures of my 75. Hope it helps.
  9. @tolstoy21 and @Fish Folk are two of the bigger fish shippers so I tend to listen to them first, though there are a few others that ship regularly. here is a thread from my first attempt if it helps.
  10. Toss in a couple labs. They’d make short work of it.
  11. So finally fixed the leak! I applied pond safe epoxy, allowing me to change the color to sand. But when I filled it again, it still leaked. Fortunately, the color change allowed me to see the check. A little silicone later, it holds water. I filled it a little over a week ago, holding water steady. So today I added these - they are a trio of red albino ribbon guppies! I was nervous ordering them as the daily temps are steady in the 90s, but all three arrive safe and healthy. Within a minute or two they started scarfing down the mosquito larva. They are gonna be so fat!
  12. agree with comments above, except I keep my red sailfins in a 10 gallon without any issues. I used to have panda cories in that tank, no problems there ether. I know, I’m a bit of a contrarian here.
  13. I just stumbled across this site - http://www.theangelfishsociety.org/phenotype_library_2007/NewIndex.html Thoughts?
  14. One thing about having 2 angels, you have a 50/50 on getting 1 male/1 female. That means, if you feed them well and keep the water clean, they likely spawn. When that happens they become very territorial. It’s not a problem with my discus, but not sure how it would go with an acara and parrots. Especially if the acara are spawning at the same time. fish calculators are wildly inaccurate. They may be useful to identify fish that need different water parameters like temperature, but the can’t factor in the room taken up with plants and other decoration. They also don’t calculate the amount of filtration needed very well, as they can’t factor in your water temperature or feeding practices very well. As a result, they make them pretty conservative. The good news is that if the say it will work, you likely can make it work.
  15. I like spray paint as well. But I use this: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Rust-Oleum-American-Accents-12-oz-Stone-Creations-Pebble-Textured-Finish-Spray-Paint-6-Pack-7995830/202057116 I've used it on a few tanks, but here is my latest build:
  16. it not such a bad picture. Just needed some cleanup
  17. Very interesting. Seems like the results are all over the place. sometimes seasonal in the spring summer, others in the fall winter sometimes wc triggers a sawn, but not always sometime a low front will trigger, but not always. so here is my hypothesis- in the fall my interest migrates to deer hunting. Less attention to the tanks results in less spawning
  18. My tub is not doing it’s best just now. I’m gonna paint it w/ a pond epoxy to address a leak I can’t find. Then it is guppy time!
  19. Not sure what it was, other than “tasty snacks”
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