DreamScape_Aquatics Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 (edited) Hi everyone who comes across my post! I'm Shane and well I really like fish. Been keeping fish primarily livebearers for the past few years ended up selling a lot just because I made so many babies and life was good. I moved from houses and all my fish started dying. Didn't know how, didn't know why. I gave them "all they needed". So of course I began researching. One thing led to another to another and soon I went from somebody who just had some fish that pooped extra fish to actually understanding and caring. All this led me to aquarium Co-op along with some other places. But the coop is where I feel I belong. All this has most definitely hurt the wallet(going from a 20 high to 20+ different aquariums) but in the process my knowledge has grown immensely. I hope to open my own fish store one day. If anyone has questions about any livebearers I hope to be able to be the one to help you. Can't guarantee what I do is the best way but hey it works really well for me. That house change I was talking about, my water went from very hard(~200TDS) out of the tap to very very soft(~30TDS) out the tap. So to keep my livebearers take a bit of extra work. Anyone who has experience with Angels, Apistos, or Discus. I would love to hear from as my water is almost perfect out the tap for South American cichlids. Attached a couple pictures of my 2 main display tanks. 60 Cube with mollies, platies, and swords. and a 75 with angels a pearl gourami diamond tetras and a few bristlenose and other oddballs (farowella cat, sterbais, kuhli loach, probably a couple others I'm forgetting) also love discussing hardware. Filters, skimmers, media, etc Always open to constructive criticism, I truly believe you can devote your life to this hobby and not even scratch the surface. Knowledge is always better in the form of a collective. Thank you everyone. ps the photos were taken at the time of the post so not perfectly pristine tanks, we all know that only lasts for a few days. Edited May 6, 2022 by DreamScape_Aquatics 8 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xXInkedPhoenixX Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 Welcome to the forum Shane 🙂 Beautiful tanks. You'll find lots of good peeps here to trade stories and info with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lefty o Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 welcome to the forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadMaxi Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 Welcome to the cool kids club! Beautiful tanks btw! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted May 3, 2022 Share Posted May 3, 2022 Welcome to the forum. Your tanks and fish are beautiful. I’m looking forward to hearing more about them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jawjagrrl Posted May 3, 2022 Share Posted May 3, 2022 Welcome Shane - what beautiful tanks! I've never experienced really soft water like you have now, but we've seen Cory keep lots of stuff successfully in it with soft water before his last move. I've got really hard water but had never really been into livebearers before finding the Co-op, but my endlers thrive in our water and finding babies often (ditto for our shrimp) is always exciting! Would love to hear about what your diamond tetras are like in terms of behavior and with other fish. I'm planning south American 75s that will have angels and geos in one tank and tetras, etc., in the other. Really love the diamonds but wondered if they are bullies to other types like neons, etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamScape_Aquatics Posted May 3, 2022 Author Share Posted May 3, 2022 (edited) Thank you all for your warm welcome 🙂 looking forward to learning and sharing with all @Jawjagrrl In my experience with the diamond tetras they tend to stay mostly docile. They get along seamlessly with head and tail light tetras they can't tell the difference between each other it seems. I have also kept them with rummy nose and noticed at times they would school together. I will occasionally see what looks the be a bit of a spar but nothing crazy. Their temperament seems very similar to smaller tetras except they seem less afraid of larger fish and school rather loosely. They do eat VERY aggressively, if you could call it that. I have to way overfeed my 75 because the diamonds will ravage every scrap of food before any other fish know there is food in there. I think keeping them with other tetras would be perfectly fine as most tetras are pretty quick when it comes to eating just make sure your diamonds aren't getting chunky while nothing else grows. Edited May 4, 2022 by DreamScape_Aquatics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griznatch Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 Welcome to the forum, nice looking tanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardedbillygoat1975 Posted May 5, 2022 Share Posted May 5, 2022 Wow holy soft water batman!! Do you have a monthly subscription for crushed coral from coop or Amazon? I saw some Texas Holey Rock in one of your tanks! Welcome to the forum and all us other livebearer geeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick_G Posted May 5, 2022 Share Posted May 5, 2022 Welcome to the forum! Those tanks look great, especially the top one. Wow, very nice 😀 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndreaW Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 Welcome and beautiful tanks! I love Farowellas, but don't have any currently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry the fish keeper Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 Welcome to the forum! I love your sailfin mollies! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PineSong Posted May 10, 2022 Share Posted May 10, 2022 Welcome. I can relate--I kept goldfish for years in one place and then moved a few states away and never got my water right again...whatever I had done that worked in one place just did not work in the other. Your tanks look great, I'm always happy to see livebearers and I'm planning for diamond tetras to be my tank-iversary gift to myself this year 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colu Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 Welcome to the forum nice tanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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