TeeJay Posted February 19 Author Share Posted February 19 Caught a sale this morning on tanks at pet supplies plus....so I'm picking up 2 20 longs and one lid because they only had one lid in stock for the new upgrades. It's starting to come together. It will still take me a few weeks before I have everything ready to go. But as Johnny cash said "I got it one piece at a time" oh and for 2 tanks and one lid. 60 bucks woot woot! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay Posted February 24 Author Share Posted February 24 The Amazon and chewy vans made some deliveries to TeeJay today. I got a couple of new heaters one of the nicrew light timers for the 29 gallon. I have been wanting to try one of these for awhile now. I will get it programmed tomorrow to see how it does. As well a new hose for the 207 since it's going to be going into the 29 gallon. A couple pieces of spider wood and 40 pounds of dried coral. My goal is by using the dried coral as to k work in the tanks I won't need to mix cc into the sand substrate for the kh buffer anymore. I got 4 really big chucks if it in the box. I'm going to break it down a bit to make some med size pieces to stack together. The chewy van will be back tomorrow with the 40 pounds of jungle river sand and some smaller pieces of spider wood. I sealed one of the new stands this evening so it will be hopefully nice and dry for tomorrow so I can start more moving of tanks. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay Posted February 25 Author Share Posted February 25 So tonight old TeeJay and his buddy Chuck got the second new tank stand in place and got the new air pump and loop system going tonight. Yes I have waaayyyy more air than I need so we just ran some 2ft lengths of air line off of extra taps in the loop to help lessen the pressure and keep the system flowing right without being to noisy. I will be putting more lines to use because I plan on running dual sponges in each tank so it will be nice to have extra air any time I need. It's coming along nicely. Next I need to get the danios and pygmy tank ready and moved over to there new home.. I got some new heaters and inkbirds for the tanks as well. I want to get that tank ready so it will be good to go for the extra danios I'm getting for @Guppysnail.. since TeeJay is too slow at breeding them. This way I will have good room for them until we get food shipping weather to send them out. The top tank in the left stand is what will be that new tank. The tank below it is the cpd aspidoras tank. Then the right shelve system will be the killifish tank and then a fourth 20 will be added to make a new project tank. I'm going to set it up a a livebearer tank to start working on breeding 5 different species of live bearer for my bap award. I'll do one species of fish at a time for this. Ok it's bedtime. Gotta get some sleep for the fish auction tomorrow. Not looking for fish but I hope to get some plants and maybe a light or two. As always keep it fishy my friends. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 Those STANDS 😉 look great. It seems you will have more room to move back in that corner. Great job 👏 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nabokovfan87 Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 Looks great! Congratulations on all the progress and interesting/fun projects. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay Posted February 25 Author Share Posted February 25 First buy of the auction! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay Posted February 26 Author Share Posted February 26 Was a good day at the auction today. I picked up a total of 4 medium to large anubias plants. A nice java fern. A bag of susswasertang and a small piece of mopani wood. Spent 40 bucks today so I think I did very good. When I got home I put the plants thru the for a couple of hours before putting them in the new 20 for the danios and pygmy's. I pulled the tidal 55 off of there tank and put it on the new tank. As well I added a nano and large sponge filters. The 55 should help sees those new filters to keep the new tank going well. When I finished that I got the danios and pygmys out of there 10' gallon and put them in there new home. It was a solid day. There new tank got a new heater and inkbird to go with it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 Looks amazing. You should float a little hornwort in that center super bright spot. It will make both fish feel safer. The larger space the danios should start coming out of hiding more. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay Posted March 5 Author Share Posted March 5 Got the new 20 long live bearer tank setup last night. I still need to add a few more floating plants. The first love bearers I'm going to start with is xenotoca doadrioi or thr san Marcos live bearer. I was able to pick up a couple bags of these at my clubs fish auction on Sunday. A club friend is holding them for me until my day off tomorrow. I'm going to put one of the pro 125 hobs off on the 29 on there tank so I have a cycled filter. As well I'll swap out one of the seeded sponge filters in the 29 to put in there as well. I'll move the 207 over to the 29 and we should be in good shape. I'm starting with a group of 11 fish of varying sizes so it will be a good adventure. As always keep it fishy my friends. As well I can't forget my partner in crime @Guppysnail for recommending these guys. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 You will enjoy the XD. Very fun and active fish. Do t forget to register them on the cares for fish web site for endangered fish. You need a photo and include the San Marco collection location https://caresforfish.org/?page_id=884 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay Posted March 5 Author Share Posted March 5 On 3/5/2024 at 11:11 AM, Guppysnail said: You will enjoy the XD. Very fun and active fish. Do t forget to register them on the cares for fish web site for endangered fish. You need a photo and include the San Marco collection location https://caresforfish.org/?page_id=884 Oh yes once I get a pic of them in the tank and settled I'll register them. 😁 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay Posted March 6 Author Share Posted March 6 Afternoon fellow nerms. Hope all is well. Some fun here at teejays fishy adventures. My fish club friend brought my redtail split fin goodeids this morning!. They held them in there fish room for a couple of days until I had there tank finished. I have a group of 11 for this breeding adventure. I'm pretty sure I have 1male and 10 females. So I shouldn't have a problem getting some fry. The one girl is huge! She is full grown and the male has to be really close to full grown. The other 9 are of varying sizes. I'm including a little video. You can tell the male buy the very red tail. As always keep it fishy my friends. https://youtu.be/DMSg8xjvWkY?feature=shared 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay Posted May 25 Author Share Posted May 25 Hey fellow nerms...has anyone missed old TeeJay? 🤪 It's be almost 3 months since my last update...ugh bad boy. But anyways the redtail goodeids are doing well....I actually got my first batch of fry from them a couple of weeks ago so woohoo...these guys will be my first turn in for breeder points to my fish club. I think they will be of good size for our July meeting. As well today I built the tank of all step stools. I'm not a small fella by no means. I check in at 365 so I needed something beefy.. I checked through everything on Amazon and found some with a good weight rating but they were 40-100 bucks. So I borrowed a fish friends circular saw and picked up 22x4s and a box of deck screws. So for the cost of 18 bucks I build one that could hold a mack truck. I just need to get the varnish on it and I'll be in buisness. As well my coop order arrived today 🎉🎉 I ordered yesterday morning and it arrived today..this shipping from Kentucky deal is going to be a game changer since I'm in Ohio. So I got a little treat for myself to go along with easy green root tabs and brine shrimp eggs. Hope everyone is well and as always keep it fishy my friends! 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chick-In-Of-TheSea Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 Great to hear from you @TeeJay! I got a milk brother so I can have fancy coffee with @TeeJay. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 I also ordered yesterday and got it today in PA. Loving the Kentucky warehouse ❤️ 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay Posted May 26 Author Share Posted May 26 On 5/25/2024 at 6:44 PM, Guppysnail said: I also ordered yesterday and got it today in PA. Loving the Kentucky warehouse ❤️ I figured it would take two days so when I got it next day I was doing the happy dance. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay Posted May 28 Author Share Posted May 28 (edited) Evening fellow nerms. Hope everyone has a good memorial day. So I been playing around with moving bio bed filters.i found a brand that I'm liking off of Amazon. There cylinders are green and black tops and bottoms. So they blend in with plants pretty well. I like the idea of having something that's primarily for extra BB to grow. I added one to the cpd/aspidoras tank first about 4 weeks ago. Today I added one to the danio/pygmy tank. I plan to add one to the goodeids tank then one to the 29. They make two different sizes. The smaller works great for the 20 longs and I'll get the larger one for the 29. The only real con I have found to it so far is they make larger bubbles so it makes them a bit louder than traditional sponge filters. I may get some coarser sponge material and cut some to fit into the top lid to see if that helps diffuse the bubbles down in size and make it a little quieter. As well the original media that comes with them is ok but I switched it out for actual micro k1 media that works much better on a consistent basis. Also I found a new small light that I put under my ziss brine shrimp hatchery. I have a fresh batch going that should be ready tomorrow night. Edited May 28 by TeeJay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nabokovfan87 Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 (edited) On 5/25/2024 at 2:50 PM, TeeJay said: Hey fellow nerms...has anyone missed old TeeJay? 🤪 It's be almost 3 months since my last update...ugh bad boy. It's been weeks and I just got coffee... How did you know. Of course we missed you! On 5/28/2024 at 3:39 PM, TeeJay said: So I been playing around with moving bio bed filters.i found a brand that I'm liking off of Amazon. There cylinders are green and black tops and bottoms. So they blend in with plants pretty well. I like the idea of having something that's primarily for extra BB to grow. I've got three or four of the ziss ones, if you want them just shoot me a DM. 🙂 If you want to hear "thoughts" on them, I can also share those based on my use of them. Edited May 29 by nabokovfan87 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay Posted May 30 Author Share Posted May 30 On 5/29/2024 at 6:33 PM, nabokovfan87 said: It's been weeks and I just got coffee... How did you know. Of course we missed you! I've got three or four of the ziss ones, if you want them just shoot me a DM. 🙂 If you want to hear "thoughts" on them, I can also share those based on my use of them. Check your inbox 🤣 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay Posted June 2 Author Share Posted June 2 Morning fellow nerms...how it's a good morning for all...I got something new delivered this morning for coffee with TeeJay. It's my first cold brew coffee pitcher! I'm excited to try this out tomorrow once my coffee has steeped enough. I'm looking for some new whole bean coffee to try out on the new pitcher. That does not cost a million dollars per oz lol. Anyways everything is going good this morning I been working crazy hours now that I'm the assistant manager at work so not a lot of extra time for new fish adventures right now. My first fry of the San Marcos goodeids is doing well and growing at a fairly good rate. I think I'll be able to turn them in for my first bap points at my clubs July meeting. Next weekend is the next fish swap and auction so if course I'll be looking for more plants as always and I'll be picking up 5 more panda corys to go with the 5 I picked up two weeks ago at the Youngstown fish swap Hope everyone has a good day and as always keep it fishy my friends 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay Posted June 3 Author Share Posted June 3 Morning fellow nerms ...ok not much to report this morning except about coffee...I'll say it now cold brewing your coffee is the way to go...now I know hot brewing is instant satisfaction but if you can wait for cold brew it's tooootaly worth the wait. It's so much smoother and rich. None of that sharp bite and sometimes bitterness. I think I need to buy a second brew pitcher to keep up 🤪 this is all for now. As always keep it fishy my friends. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nabokovfan87 Posted June 4 Share Posted June 4 On 6/2/2024 at 5:44 AM, TeeJay said: I'm looking for some new whole bean coffee to try out on the new pitcher. That does not cost a million dollars per oz lol. Like from amazon or? Columbian / Ethiopian is really good when done via cold brew. Mostly chocolate malty notes which tend to lend themselves well to that type of brewing. The main thing is going to just be finding something "fresh". It could be an on-sale bargain at the grocery store, some peets from wherever has this italian roast that is greatly underappreciated. Lavazza is another one and they come in 50-200 different random blends which may or may not be discounted from one week to the next. I enjoyed stuff from these guys too. https://www.amazon.com/Copper-Moon-Colombian-Full-Bodied-Acidity/dp/B01L9YE26S?ref_=ast_sto_dp On 6/3/2024 at 3:59 AM, TeeJay said: Morning fellow nerms ...ok not much to report this morning except about coffee...I'll say it now cold brewing your coffee is the way to go...now I know hot brewing is instant satisfaction but if you can wait for cold brew it's tooootaly worth the wait. It's so much smoother and rich. None of that sharp bite and sometimes bitterness. I think I need to buy a second brew pitcher to keep up 🤪 this is all for now. As always keep it fishy my friends. I have a hario switch. Best thing I've used in a while. For when you want it NOW! (or... for when you're making cold brew and you want to take a few spoonfulls and make some fresh) Since you're on a coffee venture and mentioning bitterness, here's this! On 6/2/2024 at 5:44 AM, TeeJay said: Next weekend is the next fish swap and auction so if course I'll be looking for more plants as always and I'll be picking up 5 more panda corys to go with the 5 I picked up two weeks ago at the Youngstown fish swap What kind of plants are you searching for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay Posted June 9 Author Share Posted June 9 I may or may not have picked up some snakeskin guppies at the auction today....don't judge me 🫣🤪 https://youtube.com/shorts/lX0XEm8IIog?si=nvUD1NS72S4vtr6m 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay Posted June 10 Author Share Posted June 10 (edited) As to go alone with the last post I may or may not have upgraded the snakeskin guppies tank to the extra 10 I had and put the 5 on the bottom for plant storage. Don't mind the cloudy water from adding the whole dried coral rock to the 10. And how messy my table is from doing tank stuff. Edited June 10 by TeeJay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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