Guppysnail Posted October 6, 2023 Share Posted October 6, 2023 Im extremely excited for your dwarf emeralds. I also have been interested in them for some time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay Posted October 6, 2023 Author Share Posted October 6, 2023 On 10/6/2023 at 7:29 AM, Guppysnail said: Im extremely excited for your dwarf emeralds. I also have been interested in them for some time. It's going to be a fun tank once the pygmys gets thru qt and everyone can be together. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nabokovfan87 Posted October 6, 2023 Share Posted October 6, 2023 On 10/6/2023 at 4:14 AM, TeeJay said: As well the substrate in the 10 gallon for the danios and pygmys has been switched over to the carib sea jungle river sand as well. So @nabokovfan87 I finally have sand! Ha! I know it will sound massive but I moved my modded tidal 55 onto there 10 gallon tank. Yes it will work I just used the first section of the uptake tube with a pre filter sponge out directly onto that. As well with the custom baffel I already had on it makes the perfect amount of surface agitation without being to stong. As well as a sponge filter. And if anyone knows me I always like to run 2 types of filtration on all my tanks. I was able to get a few pics of the new pygmy corys at least. That's awesome. That's the nice thing about the adjustability. 🙂 Congratulations on the sand too. That's awesome. I don't know why, but it's just a fun thing to have in the tank for me. Just reminds me to be a kid I guess. On 10/6/2023 at 4:14 AM, TeeJay said: So these are the two newest adventures I have been working on lately. I am up to 7 tanks now 😱 mts is alive and kicking. Very cool! Those corydoras look good. They'll do awesome for you! *Cheers* now it's coffee time for me way over here in the west! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSwissAquarist Posted October 6, 2023 Share Posted October 6, 2023 On 10/6/2023 at 1:14 PM, TeeJay said: am up to 7 tanks now 😱 mts is alive and kicking. You’ll be at 15 before you know it 😜! Time for coffee - I’ve come of age since your last post on this journal ☕️. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay Posted October 6, 2023 Author Share Posted October 6, 2023 On 10/6/2023 at 1:58 PM, TheSwissAquarist said: You’ll be at 15 before you know it 😜! Time for coffee - I’ve come of age since your last post on this journal ☕️. No no I'm at my limit right now..... technically one over. But the 2.5 is pretty much self sustainable so not much to maintain there. As well I live in an apartment so I have to be careful on how much I have going on. That's why I won't have a tank larger than a 29 gallon. On 10/6/2023 at 12:37 PM, nabokovfan87 said: That's awesome. That's the nice thing about the adjustability. 🙂 Congratulations on the sand too. That's awesome. I don't know why, but it's just a fun thing to have in the tank for me. Just reminds me to be a kid I guess. Very cool! Those corydoras look good. They'll do awesome for you! *Cheers* now it's coffee time for me way over here in the west! Yes maybe someday I'll switch over the other tanks to the jungle river sand. Well mainly the 29. I do like the midnight pearl gravel that's in the 20 long and 10 guppy tank. If I were to change and the 29 would be first. But that seems like a huge undertaking in comparison to 5 and 10 gal tanks. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chick-In-Of-TheSea Posted October 6, 2023 Share Posted October 6, 2023 Hey @TeeJay! Great to see you and it’s exciting about emeralds. I’m glad the ghost didn’t get you because then who would take care of your fish tanks? 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay Posted October 7, 2023 Author Share Posted October 7, 2023 On 10/6/2023 at 4:51 PM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said: Hey @TeeJay! Great to see you and it’s exciting about emeralds. I’m glad the ghost didn’t get you because then who would take care of your fish tanks? I would make the ghosts take me to check on them and do water changes 😱😆 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay Posted October 7, 2023 Author Share Posted October 7, 2023 Good morning fellow nerms. A little cooler morning here in Ohio. Let's have some coffee shall we?! I figured this morning I would give a rundown of each of my tanks and what they are stocked with so everyone can be caught up with what I have. 1. 29 gallon. This is my "main" tank. This is the home to lemony and Luna my pair of lemon bristlenose plecos as well has 3 of there juvenile babys from there first spawn. Going to find homes for these guys soon. The other 8 that I had I took to my local fish store for credit. Also my gang of paley corys and least killifish call this tank home. I have never actively saw the paleys spawn but I know they have because I have had a few baby corys show up from time to time. That's they kind of breeding I like. The surprise ones. Rounding out this tank is a horde of neo shrimp and a few nerite snails. 2. 20 long. This is the home to my crew of cpds. Counting in at the odd number of 11. As well as the magnificent 7 group of aspidoras spilliotis. My single hillstream loach mochi and the one lemon pleco that I'm keeping from lemony and lunas first spawn. I'm pretty sure she is a female because she is thicc in the hips 😆. So I named her moonbeam. Rounding out this tank is my crew of wizard snails and the gang of blue jelly dream shrimp. 3. 10 gallon shrimp sanctuary. As the name of the tank says this is the home to my minions my red neo shrimp colony. I recently added a piece of dragonstone that looks like a mountain to one side of there tank and I'm really enjoying the look. I have only ever used slate before so this was a fun change. 4. 10 gallon number 2. This is the dwarf emerald rasbora tank. This was the former home of George Tammy and Crystal the trio of apistos borelli that @Guppysnail now has. And starting to breed. Within 2 weeks of getting them just like I told her they would 😆. And once they come out of at my new group of pygmy corys will join the emeralds in this tank as well. Rounding out this tank is a few piano snails and one again more tiny terrorists a mixed batch of neo shrimp. 5. 10gallon number 3. This is the home to my colony of blue galaxy guppys. Yes I have guppys once again. I blame my youngest daughter Hannah for this. She talked me into getting them at the last fish swap over the summer..... Finishing out this tank is my main breeding group of piano snails. 6. 5gallon "permanent" at tank. Right now this tank is home to my new 6 pack of pygmy corys. I figure they will be in here until the beginning of November if the continue to do as well as they are. But the permanent residence to this tank are a mixed group of neo shrimp and piano snails. The shrimp and snails will always stay in here to keep the tank well seasoned. That way any new fish I have coming in for new adventures can qt here before moving on to other tanks. I figure 5 gallons is sufficient for a qt since any fish I will most likely ever keep will be small and will do ok for there first 30 days with me. 7. 2.5 gallon. This tank is just mixed neo shrimp and devil I mean ramshorn snails. This is suppost to be my daughter's tank. But Dad takes care of it. Honestly it takes care of itself. It's very self sufficient. In all of my tanks except the 2.5 I run 2 types of filtration. Either sponges with hobs or canister with hob. I find this works best for me. That way with each water change or two I can rotate between what filter types need to be cleaned. That way I can keep good amounts of bb going. Well by now I'm sure your coffee is either finished or cold because you were so enthralled with this post. I will include a pic of each tank how it looks now. Hopefully I'm the order I listed them. As always keep it fishy my friends. Ps every tank is a jungle enter at your own risk! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay Posted October 7, 2023 Author Share Posted October 7, 2023 On 10/6/2023 at 1:58 PM, TheSwissAquarist said: You’ll be at 15 before you know it 😜! Time for coffee - I’ve come of age since your last post on this journal ☕️. Yes you must be this tall and drink at least 3 cups of coffee a day to ride this ride....😆 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chick-In-Of-TheSea Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 We thought you got bored with fishkeeping but you come back and have like 4 more tanks 🤣 I’m not sure what a blue galaxy guppy looks like, but it sounds cool. ⭐️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay Posted October 7, 2023 Author Share Posted October 7, 2023 On 10/7/2023 at 11:11 AM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said: We thought you got bored with fishkeeping but you come back and have like 4 more tanks 🤣 I’m not sure what a blue galaxy guppy looks like, but it sounds cool. ⭐️ Yes we all know it's an addiction. It's just seems like I have way more but it's really only 2 more than before. The guppy tank and the 5 gallon permanent qt. Tank. I don't have a fish room persay. My dinning room doubles as a fish room. At least that's what I tell myself. It still has a dinning room table so it's not a lie 😆 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay Posted October 7, 2023 Author Share Posted October 7, 2023 After may failed attempts I finally got a few picks of the emerald danios. I'm thinking the males have the brighter color and the females are a little less bright. If my assumption is correct I think I have 2 male 4 female. That would be perfect. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSwissAquarist Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 (edited) Nice fish! They’d be a really fun fish to breed…a step up from Zebra Danios. Edited October 7, 2023 by TheSwissAquarist 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay Posted October 8, 2023 Author Share Posted October 8, 2023 Not much to report in today so here are a few pics of the pygmy corys and one of the 3 pleco babies left. This one is a longfin 😍 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay Posted October 8, 2023 Author Share Posted October 8, 2023 Well not the fun posts that I like to make but you can't have the good without some bad. I just found one of my new pygmy corys dead 😔. Checked the water and I had an ammonia spike. So I figured they would have a better chance of making it by getting them into the 10 gallon with the danios since is way more established. I'm not to concerned about disease so I just got them in now. I have noticed just in the few mins of getting them into that tank they are swimming around more mid water. Way better "typical" pygmy behavior. Hopefully that's the only one I loose. I know these guys take it really hard being shipped as well. I should have got 10 instead of 6 for this reason. But this is how we learn sometimes. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chick-In-Of-TheSea Posted October 8, 2023 Share Posted October 8, 2023 Pretty cool pattern on that shrimp 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay Posted October 8, 2023 Author Share Posted October 8, 2023 On 10/8/2023 at 4:13 PM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said: Pretty cool pattern on that shrimp Yes a lot of those I got from @Guppysnail. They have been producing some fun colors and patterns. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSwissAquarist Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 On 10/8/2023 at 5:38 PM, TeeJay said: pygmy corys I almost thought you had a long fin Pygmy Cory 😅 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay Posted October 10, 2023 Author Share Posted October 10, 2023 First day off this week. But that's only a day off from work. Still many other things need to be done. 2 loads of laundry done so check that off. Now for the fun part of the day off tank maintenance. Water changes and gravel vac done on the 20 long. 10 shrimp tank and 10 guppy tank. As I was watching the danios and pygmy corys I noticed them mostly just swam back and forth along the back wall of the tank so I did a little adjust of some hardscape and gave myself a better view in the middle of the tank so I can watch them better. I hope this will encourage them to come out to the front more. Since I moved the pygmys over to there permanent home they seem to be doing much better. I figured I had a better shot of them making it in a more established tank. So I still have 5. They have jumped right into swimming with the emerald danios and sometimes breaking off in to a group by themselves. I know ammonia poisoning can still show up some days later but so far they are looking good. If they can make it thru the next week we should be in the clear. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chick-In-Of-TheSea Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 I like that little plant in the front left corner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay Posted October 10, 2023 Author Share Posted October 10, 2023 On 10/10/2023 at 2:07 PM, TeeJay said: First day off this week. But that's only a day off from work. Still many other things need to be done. 2 loads of laundry done so check that off. Now for the fun part of the day off tank maintenance. Water changes and gravel vac done on the 20 long. 10 shrimp tank and 10 guppy tank. As I was watching the danios and pygmy corys I noticed them mostly just swam back and forth along the back wall of the tank so I did a little adjust of some hardscape and gave myself a better view in the middle of the tank so I can watch them better. I hope this will encourage them to come out to the front more. Since I moved the pygmys over to there permanent home they seem to be doing much better. I figured I had a better shot of them making it in a more established tank. So I still have 5. They have jumped right into swimming with the emerald danios and sometimes breaking off in to a group by themselves. I know ammonia poisoning can still show up some days later but so far they are looking good. If they can make it thru the next week we should be in the clear. Anubias nano or gold coin. I can't remember for sure cryps and anubias are pretty much all I have in my tanks besides hornwort and guppy grass. I do great with all anubias except bartieri. I can never seem to keep those alive 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chick-In-Of-TheSea Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 On 10/10/2023 at 2:28 PM, TeeJay said: Anubias nano or gold coin. I can't remember for sure cryps and anubias are pretty much all I have in my tanks besides hornwort and guppy grass. I do great with all anubias except bartieri. I can never seem to keep those alive I don’t think my barteri lived either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay Posted October 10, 2023 Author Share Posted October 10, 2023 Just made a little video of the danios and pygmys swimming back and forth together. Can't believe how chunky they pygmys are. For coming from a fish wholesaler and only having them for 5 days they look good. https://youtu.be/4IlWWfcb2iU?si=bIS9KvvtzEQsiUOa 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay Posted October 11, 2023 Author Share Posted October 11, 2023 Man down! Man down! This is not a drill. The wood broke free from the slate rock. Guess tonight after work I'll have to silicone them together. The super glue cracked under the pressure. 😱😆 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted October 11, 2023 Share Posted October 11, 2023 Salute 🫡 We honor our fallen men at at arms. I see a pink snail 🥰 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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