Bettafishlover Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 How do you keep track of your nano fish in a 90 or large tank. I always feel like I am missing somebody. Planted tank! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Silver Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 I don't think you do lol when my ember tetras were in my planted 75 one went missing for about a 3-4 days. I just assumed something happened to him and the cleanup crew took care of him since I couldn't find any remains. Then one day during feeding time, all the ember tetras were there again! guess he was just play a really good game of hide and seek! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bru Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 Just spending more time watching my tanks, maybe keep a fish journal, I'm always breeding something and taking note of things. Otherwise, in a planted tank that big it will be hard to keep track of those nano fish. I have lost track of a whole shoal of pygmy cories in a 10 gallon and I never know what's going on with my 14 kuhli loaches in my 20 gallon long. 😅 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 I keep cats and tropical fish for pets and honey bees for my day job. With the bees because there is money on the line, I need to keep records who is where and what I need to know about what needs to be done to whom when. These are bees records, but my fish records would look the same. I keep records on each breeding individual, including photographs: Every time I look at a hive, I take notes: I abstract my notes into a single sheet of paper to use as a visual daily to do list: And because I do a lot of breeding, I have to know who is related to whom so as to avoid consanguinity issues: If I start breeding discus more intensely again, I will use this same system to keep track of the discus. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solidus1833 Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 1 minute ago, Daniel said: I keep cats and tropical fish for pets and honey bees for my day job. With the bees because there is money on the line, I need to keep records who is where and what I need to know about what needs to be done to whom when. These are bees records, but my fish records would look the same. I keep records on each breeding individual, including photographs: Every time I look at a hive, I take notes: I abstract my notes into a single sheet of paper to use as a visual daily to do list: And because I do a lot of breeding, I have to know who is related to whom so as to avoid consanguinity issues: If I start breeding discus more intensely again, I will use this same system to keep track of the discus. wow this is neat. Do you have any footage of yourself putting stickies on your bees? is it a pretty much straightforward process? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H.K.Luterman Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 2 minutes ago, Daniel said: I keep cats and tropical fish for pets and honey bees for my day job. With the bees because there is money on the line, I need to keep records who is where and what I need to know about what needs to be done to whom when. These are bees records, but my fish records would look the same. I keep records on each breeding individual, including photographs: Every time I look at a hive, I take notes: I abstract my notes into a single sheet of paper to use as a visual daily to do list: And because I do a lot of breeding, I have to know who is related to whom so as to avoid consanguinity issues: If I start breeding discus more intensely again, I will use this same system to keep track of the discus. That is so neat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 6 minutes ago, Solidus1833 said: wow this is neat. Do you have any footage of yourself putting stickies on your bees? is it a pretty much straightforward process? I put a little glue on a numbered plastic disk, pick up the bee and then slide the disk on to the top of the thorax using a toothpick. When I help out at the NC State bee lab, sometimes we have to number thousands of bees for the experiments the grad students are running. I take photographs of my fish (mainly discus and angelfish) in order to keep track of individuals. Many fish look nearly identical. I glad I don't have to glue tags to fish. 🙂 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalmedByFish Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 C'mon, @Daniel. There's gotta be *something* about you that's boring. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 4 minutes ago, CalmedByFish said: C'mon, @Daniel. There's gotta be *something* about you that's boring. I am way more interesting on social media than real life. Showing my bee nerm stuff to my fish nerm friends looks cool, but the most of the world gives a big yawn. That's why is fun to hang out on the forum. 🙂 And I guarantee you my wife thinks I am boring this week. I have been reading a book called Einstein's Fridge about entropy. And I think if I talk to her about entropy one more time...I think she will hit me pretty hard. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandra the fish rookie Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 @Daniel That is soooo cool! Bee Nerm and Fish Nerm! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lefty o Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 lojack the fish, gps trackers! in a large tank, and smaller fish, especially large numbers, and add in plants......... good luck keeping track of them. or glue numbered disks on them.😎 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalmedByFish Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 32 minutes ago, Daniel said: And I guarantee you my wife thinks I am boring this week. I have been reading a book called Einstein's Fridge about entropy. And I think if I talk to her about entropy one more time...I think she will hit me pretty hard. Now that I've googled "entropy," I am definitely siding with your wife. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccurtis Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 @Danielthats kind of cool. How many times have you been stung adding the plastic label? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 I get stung every day because I’m in dozens of beehives over the course of several hours. It happens, but it’s not really that bothersome. I have never been stung marking a bee. I am holding the bee and there’s no way the bee can get at me. But when I’m facedown in a beehive and one flies up and pops to me in the ear there’s nothing I can do about that. 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jungle Fan Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 Funny, tracking all my fish in my heavily planted jungle tank all the time - impossible. Tracking the majority, and being able to identify anything that might be wrong with anything, or a particular fish - very manageable and part of daily maintenance and feeding sessions. Been kicking around the idea of identifying and tracking all my camera equipment for field trips with RFID tags for a while now, but I'm not sure I like the idea of electronic tracking in general whether for gear, or else; also not sure I like the size and how unsightly these stickers are still currently. Certainly not an option for anything living - yet. Thank goodness. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 9 minutes ago, Jungle Fan said: Funny, tracking all my fish in my heavily planted jungle tank all the time - impossible. Tracking the majority, and being able to identify anything that might be wrong with anything, or a particular fish - very manageable and part of daily maintenance and feeding sessions. Been kicking around the idea of identifying and tracking all my camera equipment for field trips with RFID tags for a while now, but I'm not sure I like the idea of electronic tracking in general whether for gear, or else; also not sure I like the size and how unsightly these stickers are still currently. Certainly not an option for anything living - yet. Thank goodness. Cool video, and I promise this is last time I will bring up honey bees on the forum today, but the professor and students in a neighboring bee lab use RFID to track the movements of individual bees. This study tracks queen mating flights. Imagine building up a map of everywhere your fish go and when and the interesting patterns involved. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jungle Fan Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 When they start making the camera gear RFID tags the size they use for honey bees maybe I'll consider using them, the most expensive piece of kit I ever lost, or left behind was a Really Right Stuff BH-55 Ballhead. That was a big financial ouch replacing it with the pan base, and pan clamp for landscape panoramas, $640 of ouch. For anyone that's interested there's one of those just laying around somewhere in the middle of the Mojave desert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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