beastie Posted March 14 Author Share Posted March 14 Fry is still alive, so yay Now who is volunteering at helping me decide what to do with the darios, if to catch few and move away. I assumed I will be able to tell by behavior and I was wrong. It has been a month that they have been in the tank, and the behavior is consistently the same. Two hang out under the floating plants, these fish are lightly colored, one has bands, one doesnt. Three are hanging out in the right corner, right middle, left corner. Those three will chase each other but stop and posture, chase the pale banded one, not chase the pale one. I assume the pale banded one is a submissive male the other pale one may be a female. How long should I wait to be sure and when to remove the fish that is getting bullied the most? I would hate for any of them to sustain injuries or suffer due to my neglect. Any tips appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjoma Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 On 10/10/2023 at 6:57 AM, beastie said: I like this tank a lot. Is that a giant anubias in the middle!? How long did it take to grow that thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beastie Posted March 15 Author Share Posted March 15 On 3/15/2024 at 4:40 AM, Ninjoma said: I like this tank a lot. Is that a giant anubias in the middle!? How long did it take to grow that thing? I have since cut it into several other pieces. All anubias in all my tanks come from one that I had 12 years ago and I just plant them, bathe them in bleach sometimes, cut them and they do that. It was sold as a nana variant, though I do not really believe that, some leaves are large as a hand.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 (edited) On 11/9/2023 at 4:26 AM, beastie said: Indostomus picture dump. They are almost impossible to properly focus on. Plants are in the way too 🙂 Next time, bare tank WHAT is this fish?!?!?! I MUST have it....lol. I've never seen anything like it before. This is one of the coolest looking fish I've ever seen! Is it in the Whiptail Catfish family? Edited March 15 by Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beastie Posted March 15 Author Share Posted March 15 On 3/15/2024 at 12:13 PM, Jeff said: WHAT is this fish?!?!?! I MUST have it....lol. I've never seen anything like it before. This is one of the coolest looking fish I've ever seen! Is it in the Whiptail Catfish family? No, it is in a seahorse/pipefish family 🙂 also they are super small, look at the picture next to a regular red cherry shrimp. I have had them for a year now, and they are interesting but sort of very specific. Live food required, and not even all of them ( mosquitoes are a no go) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 On 3/15/2024 at 7:20 AM, beastie said: No, it is in a seahorse/pipefish family 🙂 also they are super small, look at the picture next to a regular red cherry shrimp. I have had them for a year now, and they are interesting but sort of very specific. Live food required, and not even all of them ( mosquitoes are a no go) What's it called? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beastie Posted March 15 Author Share Posted March 15 On 3/15/2024 at 12:21 PM, Jeff said: What's it called? Indostomus paradoxus/crocodilus they have a minute differences and I am not sure which one I have 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjoma Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 On 3/14/2024 at 11:57 PM, beastie said: I have since cut it into several other pieces. All anubias in all my tanks come from one that I had 12 years ago and I just plant them, bathe them in bleach sometimes, cut them and they do that. It was sold as a nana variant, though I do not really believe that, some leaves are large as a hand.. That's rad. I'm glad it didn't catch anubias rot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beastie Posted March 17 Author Share Posted March 17 Because I suffered an unexplained loss of most cryptocoryne leaves in the clown killifish tank on two out of three plants there and basically overnight, I had to make a quick/rash decision. The crypts were most of the tank visual barriers and without those I feared the darios would not be doing ok, so I caught the pale striped one and one of the colored males and moved them to the cube with my remaining (four?) pygmy corydoras and least rasboras. The footprint is 40x40cm, so two should be ok there, tunnel, coconut, large plants... I had to reduce the temp a bit and did a cold water bucket change to not have such a huge temp difference, since dario tank is 22, this was 25, after the change 23 I saw a pygmy swim up to the dario to say hello 🙂 Wil monitor closely, ofcourse, and I know I lost any chance of the rasboras breeding naturally, but it was always a small chance. I hope the remaining three in the clown killifish tank will have much easier time 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beastie Posted March 24 Author Share Posted March 24 All the crypts melted, the tank is very strange now. I put fertilizing tabs under the roots and will wait. The three darios work ok, the two new in the cube still do a lot of chasing, the male will chase pygmy cories or rasboras away, especially from his food, but no damages. I lost a sewellia. No reason, was active, was feeding and suddenly dead. It was the female purchased in June last year. Ah well. I hope the remaining one will do ok, and I am never trying them again. I even have no idea what to replace them with, if anything. The garras are ok and fun, the minnows are doing ok and there is so many shrimp I cant even put anything in, they go on my hands, to all the plants, during the water change it is so hard !!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beastie Posted March 26 Author Share Posted March 26 Basil is doing fine btw. I still have not eat it, but it is doing ok. I also planted a bit of a cilantro, but I doubt it will do half as good 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beastie Posted April 4 Author Share Posted April 4 I think it is a time for a change The indostomus are with me for over a year now. I know when I moved them last June, there were 8, as I managed to count all of them when moving their bamboo tubes, easiest fish to catch ever. I know I lost one a month ago, and I know I have two for sure, cause I keep seeing two fish. However not more. I keep feeding like there are fish int here, which creates an algae, and with the removal of shrimp, noone cleans up. The tank looks empty all the time and having the fish did not result in them breeding, removing the shrimp didnt result in breeding, so I am done trying to breed them. I want to add something to the tank to liven it up. I have two options: move a pair of clown killifish (and get a lid) from my other tank, or get least killifish (Heterandria formosa), have a trio perhaps, two pairs, something like that. People here keep them in small volume without issues, should have their own breeding cap. Or I could move my last remaining endler male in here Not sure yet, advice much appreciated! spot the fish The darios work so far, trio is not having issues, I saw only two for a long time but during feeding the third popped up. Also issue with algae, because darios are slow eaters and force me to overfeed, also crypt melt. I am not as in love with the dario as lets say the clown killifish. Maybe I was too excited, or maybe I have a spring gloom, not sure. I mean it is nice, all works, the colors, but... The spawning mop is there for some day, to collect clown killifish eggs, once the luminatus fry grows up and moves from the cube behold the "crypts" Speaking of the fry in the box, it is doing ok, growing steadily. Will wait some more before moving it to parents tank. No picture because... tiny 🙂 So what do you think? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennie Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 On 3/26/2024 at 3:57 PM, beastie said: Basil is doing fine btw. I still have not eat it, but it is doing ok. I also planted a bit of a cilantro, but I doubt it will do half as good Fish poop aroma pesto pasta when? I hope I'm invited for the special dinner bud 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSwissAquarist Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 On 4/4/2024 at 9:45 AM, beastie said: I think it is a time for a change The indostomus are with me for over a year now. I know when I moved them last June, there were 8, as I managed to count all of them when moving their bamboo tubes, easiest fish to catch ever. I know I lost one a month ago, and I know I have two for sure, cause I keep seeing two fish. However not more. I keep feeding like there are fish int here, which creates an algae, and with the removal of shrimp, noone cleans up. The tank looks empty all the time and having the fish did not result in them breeding, removing the shrimp didnt result in breeding, so I am done trying to breed them. I want to add something to the tank to liven it up. I have two options: move a pair of clown killifish (and get a lid) from my other tank, or get least killifish (Heterandria formosa), have a trio perhaps, two pairs, something like that. People here keep them in small volume without issues, should have their own breeding cap. Or I could move my last remaining endler male in here Not sure yet, advice much appreciated! spot the fish The darios work so far, trio is not having issues, I saw only two for a long time but during feeding the third popped up. Also issue with algae, because darios are slow eaters and force me to overfeed, also crypt melt. I am not as in love with the dario as lets say the clown killifish. Maybe I was too excited, or maybe I have a spring gloom, not sure. I mean it is nice, all works, the colors, but... The spawning mop is there for some day, to collect clown killifish eggs, once the luminatus fry grows up and moves from the cube behold the "crypts" Speaking of the fry in the box, it is doing ok, growing steadily. Will wait some more before moving it to parents tank. No picture because... tiny 🙂 So what do you think? Move the clown killis because @Guppysnail can vouch for least killis breeding like CRAZY... apart from that I think they look cool. 😎 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 @beastie definitely give Heterandria Formosa a go. No lid needed. They do not breed out of control. Just enough to always have a few babies about. I adore these little dainty, friendly fish. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beastie Posted April 15 Author Share Posted April 15 I may have to move this summer ,so I am not going to be buying any new fish, because i will most likely even have to downsize. I moved the spawning mop from the clown killifish tank to the 25 liter with the indostomus. I am unusre if there are eggs, but I dont care at this moment. Will see We had a nice weather and then sudden temp drop, not fun. But I collected some nettles, fed today to the shrimps in asian tank, otocinclus and the tylomelania tank. The pseudomugil fry in the box survived my long weekend away, the fry I saw last time in the main tank, I cant find anymore. Weird. Anyways, I was at this place, called a public aquarium, the owner does a lot of ecosystem talks, young kids and fish talks, but what he focuses most on is father fish method and weirdly specific ways of having a tank, and for him it works. He has like 100 tanks, most single species, loads of them large. His focus is a branch of cichlids, for us they share a common czech name, in english/latin it is a variety, I know I saw a midas cichlid, elliots cichlid, blue eye cichla, heros. He had one last 14 year old pirhanna and I never seen such colors. He had many old fish, an emperor tetra, visibly blind and not well, 10 years old. Several tetras, worse for wear but ignored by the rest of their shoals, around 9 years. He also had an amazing pair of oscars and plant eating piranhas there, a sucker of like 60 cm length and a mouth that would eat a baby 🙂 His methods are not what I would do, he doesnt do water changes, he has filters only in some of the tanks, he has so much plants it is hard to see the other side of the tank, he has colonies of some sponge things that start of on the surface, then fall down to the substrate where they create a mulm and so much algae, like a small african dwarf frog tank, filled half with hair algae 😉 or even cyanobacteria, he says it comes, cleans glass, is gone in few months. He had so many babies in these tanks, including red neons, including emperor tetras, colombian tetras ( those should be called pirhanas), he had many variants of the Phenacogrammus not just the congo tetra. Was an experience for sure. I loved the most a special tank he had with Cutter's Cichlid, it was wide and long but shallow and he had two males, lots of females including a grandma of the line and so many youngsters under one year. No plants, LOADS of mulm on the sand and the tank was hit with a sunlight beam and oh my, the fish behavior was amazing and there was zero aggression and the fish looked amazing. Oh and he even had Yunnanilus cruciatus which I havent seen in europe and I love them. And he had the choprae danios too, love the colors on those guys. I will use some pictures from his fb page, since there was no photography allowed, but I spent over 2 hours there. Really massive oscars the last pirhana Pygocentrus nattereri ( they have the other 13 in a freezer for a taxidermist, as they are not shown in these colors anywhere else except the amazonia) the cutters cichlids, too bad he doesnt have the full tank picture this was one of the old old old fish and few of the tanks It was a wicked experience, I chatted with him about corydoras, he said a perfect tank for them would be a long wide shallow sand filled dunes with a flow 🙂 I am so tempted to do a long shallow wide one, maybe if/when we move He also knows personally Heiko Bleher and some other fish famous people that I know only because the fish are named after them. My tanks now look too clean and too empty 😄 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beastie Posted April 17 Author Share Posted April 17 So, luminatus fry has been in the box since 11th of March. It is growing slowly, I feed it once or twice a day, microworms, bbs, hikari first bites. It is like 3-4 mm I would say However, next week I am going to be away for 4 days. Does the fry have higher chances of finding food in the box, or in the tank with adults, who should be not able to eat it, as it may be large enough? Thanks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beastie Posted April 19 Author Share Posted April 19 Sad news, I found not one but two dead indostomus, stuck inside a filter tube. The very same not changed filter that was there for a year... I dont understand The tank is empty, there may or may not be 5 more indostomus in there. I moved a pair of annulatus in, as I cant watch the emptiness anymore. Super annoying, but hey, I guess not all projects are supposed to end successfully... This will be one of the tanks I will reduce if we move which is sad since I like the setup, and it is the newest tank, but it is the smallest volume. Will see 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beastie Posted April 22 Author Share Posted April 22 I did a bunch of new pictures of the tank and most came out...horrible 🙂 guess I didnt clear the lense or smth Anyways "big tank" pearls smudged b-ram Asian tank ,the maintenance was pain. Not one but two fish got into the hose between me running to turn the water on/off, so had to scoop them out of the output strainer and return back to the tank. One fish swam into the gravel vac cleaner, had to stop suction and restart it, and then I did a big big big scoop of salvinia out, as it was full surface, and guess what. Two more fish in the salvinia pile I wonder how many shrimp I took out, am trying to figure out how to determine that and save them, if needed and the scooped out salvinia The no longer indostomus tank The horrible after crypts melt dario/annulatus tank side view And a completely meh picture of the cube tank, I put the bbs hatchery there instead of the big tank due to maintenace, I think I scared all the fish, as they huddled somewhere in the background and could not be seen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beastie Posted April 22 Author Share Posted April 22 Some pictures of my shrimp, i bought culls and clear but the color morphs are fun 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beastie Posted April 24 Author Share Posted April 24 Panda garra appreciation pic 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beastie Posted April 30 Author Share Posted April 30 Today was the day. After heavy feeding live bbs both the fry and the parents tank, I moved the fry to the parents tank. It is about 1/4 of the adult size, and it integrated beautifully It is now swimming alongside the others, so yay Good news, everyone survived my vacation (including me, given we managed to catch the worse possible weather which included snow, at the end of April). I am hoping the eggs I collected last week will hatch out in the bucket in the next few weeks and I will keep the cube for pseudomugil fry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beastie Posted May 2 Author Share Posted May 2 I made a quick feeding video, darios in the clown killifish tank. Slow eaters. Looking at them now, I think my largest ember tetras are about as large as the darios. Strange 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beastie Posted May 2 Author Share Posted May 2 Zucchini party. Not the intended audience though 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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