FLFishChik Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 Spent the day getting equipment placed and the hardscape into my 75g. Next is making sure it’s all level before putting some water in, then PLANTS! 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountaintoppufferkeeper Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Grabbed this action shot of the larger cross river going for his frozen raw crayfish. 7 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLFishChik Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 Got my very first Pleco today! Longfin Blue Eye Lemon Bristlenose! So tiny and so cute. He’ll eventually move to the new 75g, but he’s gonna live in the 29g Community tank until he grows up! 6 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anewbie Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 (edited) I put a black background on the discus aquarium. One of the discus kept getting spooked so i hope this calm him down. Unfortunately the a. lineta can catch a reflection of himself in the glass and starts to flare. Not sure what to do about that. This is actually a spare aquarium in the basement but then i thought i'd try some wild caught discus.... oh well gotta learn self control. Anyways it doesn't get a whole lot of attention... but i do feed them twice a day. There are 40 or so cardinals in there but they don't much care for the discus - here the school got split in two with a small group on the left where you can see them and the rest are on the right. Edited March 21 by anewbie 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitecloud09 Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 Unbelievable, discuss is like, my third fav fish, and you also got a great looking aquarium @anewbie! Nicely done ✅ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyxxl Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 Planted a few of my plants that needed to get some roots 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odd Duck Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 Water changes on my pair of 100 G’s while a storm was rolling through today. Everybody is stirred up! Probably have some cory eggs soon and might get some blue-eyed lemon pleco eggs, too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLFishChik Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 (edited) I used my brand new hygger auto water changer for the very first time. I have had it for a couple of weeks and admittedly, I’ve been intimidated by it (IDK why… 🙄). BUT… literally changed the water in my 29g under 5 minutes. NO MORE BUCKETS!!!!!!! I’m so dang over the moon about that! would take at least 30-45 minutes using a bucket (2 gallons at a time). I bought it for the new 75g and needed to test it out. Game changer. My back is thanking me already! Edited March 16 by FLFishChik 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Guys Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 I did a clean and added some new plants to my aquarium. I have spent hours researching shrimp. I want to set up a shrimp tank. I have pretty much decided to go with a 10 gal rimless tank. I will plant it and probably add either a couple of Amano shrimp or some Pygmie Corries. I am trying to decide what to do with excess population. I think I will go to the local Petsmart and see if they will take them. Otherwise perhaps a couple of Tetras to keep it in check. I am setting this up because I like them, not particularly to become a breeder and sell them. Here is my tank, it is coming along. I had some lessons in plant addition when some of them fried. The snail shell is from one that died. It was the biggest snail we had. My sister gave me a lovely gray blue snail and now we have babies. Sigh. There are actually fish in there, they hide when someone walks by. My new plant is the dragon claw in the bottom right corner. Now I am mad in love with them and have a few more ordered. I took out the dead plants and replaced them with a few Criytos. I might try a Bucephalandra next. Just tank puttering and having fun. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anewbie Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 Did a little work on my blackwater aquarium: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLFishChik Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 It’s up and running!!!!! Got the 75g going today and starting cycling! 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyxxl Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 I started on a shelf for my stand and it took longer than I planned because cutting corners out is trickier than I remembered lol but it's coming along as well as a small table for the air pump. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyxxl Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 Finished a temporary shelf for my tank stand need a better piece of wood for it 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anewbie Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 (edited) Well today was a very long day - and a heck of a lot of work but we replaced the sump on my ~600 gallon aquarium. @xXInkedPhoenixX might find this interesting since they are about to setup the same type of aquarium: This is what it used to look like (picture from 8x4): And this is what it looks like now - minus some cleanup work: Edited March 21 by anewbie 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyxxl Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 (edited) Just planted more of my plantlets as the roots look long enough. Edited March 21 by johnnyxxl Auto correct 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EggShappedFish Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 Today, my very effective and highly appreciated DIY filter, fell apart! 😱 It turns out that Acrylic does not stick very well to glass. At least not using silicone! The good news is, that I run multiple filters, so losing this one, is no as catastrophic as it could have been. The bad news is, that I have one more of these that seems to be slowly breaking apart. I am actually quite sad that they didn't hold, because I was really happy with the way they had turned out, and how effective they were! Here is a short animation that I made, showing how one of them works: And here are a few pictures from when I was putting it together: Arguably, it took me longer to make the video than the filters... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schuyler Posted March 24 Share Posted March 24 Found "pennywort drink" at an Asian market Makes me wonder how many aquarium plants are used as food elsewhere 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLFishChik Posted March 24 Share Posted March 24 Took a trip to the BB Pet store for some frozen foods and also brought home 3 new friends for my Albino Cory. You forget how tiny they are when you first bring them home. My older girls are HUGE compared to the new guys! 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anewbie Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 On 3/23/2024 at 3:27 PM, EggShappedFish said: Today, my very effective and highly appreciated DIY filter, fell apart! 😱 It turns out that Acrylic does not stick very well to glass. At least not using silicone! The good news is, that I run multiple filters, so losing this one, is no as catastrophic as it could have been. The bad news is, that I have one more of these that seems to be slowly breaking apart. I am actually quite sad that they didn't hold, because I was really happy with the way they had turned out, and how effective they were! Here is a short animation that I made, showing how one of them works: And here are a few pictures from when I was putting it together: Arguably, it took me longer to make the video than the filters... I am very surprise that silicon does not stick to Acrylic; but havent' researched it myself. You could of course make the horizontal bars out of glass. swisstropical sells corner matten filters (very similar to your filter) with pre-cut glass bars. Of course there is probably a certain joy in doing it yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phirefase Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 Moved my Snow White Bristlenose Pleco to a fry tank to wait for the little ones to hatch. This is the 5th time they have spawned and hopefully the third time I will get the fry to raise up. Still amazes me how comically large the female gets when she's full of eggs and how small she is when they are all laid. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitecloud09 Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 I am doing Tons of Water changes because of an ammonia spike, not fun. Have done 4 in past 3 days lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountaintoppufferkeeper Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 I decided to move a "puffercam" and set up my lastest update to my spotted congonpuffer breeding tank. The intent is to make that contaimer their prefered spawning location. It should fill up with subwassertang in the next week of two. One puffer took up the inspection duties already: 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anewbie Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 On 3/27/2024 at 9:25 PM, mountaintoppufferkeeper said: I decided to move a "puffercam" and set up my lastest update to my spotted congonpuffer breeding tank. The intent is to make that contaimer their prefered spawning location. It should fill up with subwassertang in the next week of two. One puffer took up the inspection duties already: What camera are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountaintoppufferkeeper Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 (edited) @anewbie A kasa camera V2 serves as all of the current "puffer cams" with a micro sd card in each for 24/7 playback. I set them to 2k recording quality continuous recording Edited March 28 by mountaintoppufferkeeper 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyxxl Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 Planting cuttings from my stems, and the tissue cultures that have enough root to plant I also got some storage bins for under the tank 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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