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Stoca Zola posted:My sister is at it again, her 15g tropical tank with its tetra and Cory inhabitants is no longer entertaining enough for her kids, they’ve browbeaten her into the idea of getting “a couple of goldfish” instead. I straight away told her the tank isn’t big enough and she said “Actually, I can fit two” so no idea where she’s getting her info from but it isn’t anywhere I would trust. Her tank is well planted and under stocked right now so she can get away with going a couple of months without a water change, I told her she will absolutely need to water change more often with goldfish but her eyes had glazed over already and I don’t think she was listening. Just realising now her filter isn’t going to be big enough either! And she doesn’t have room where her tank is to add a canister filter. She’s still in the mindset of “it’s just two fish” without the realisation that gold fish are not the same as pristella tetras. She’s going to give her existing fish to me at least, instead of flushing them. Don't goldfish tend to murder plants? She is not thinking this through at all. You can't stock your tank based on the whims of children.
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Lareine posted:Don't goldfish tend to murder plants? She is not thinking this through at all. You can't stock your tank based on the whims of children. if i did that my tank would have like 10 axolotls in it
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May 30, 2023 11:14
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In this situation it is my sister that is the child - I think the actual children are more likely to do water changes than my sister is. I fully expect to have to rescue two goldfish in a year or two but before that, I'm going to be teaching those kids how to water change because there's no chance the fish will survive if it is up to my sister.
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May 30, 2023 12:35
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gently caress that reminds me—I gotta go downsize my dad’s swordtail population I’m gonna need at least two 10s or one 20-30, and I rly don’t know where I’m gonna set them up
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May 30, 2023 16:49
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I've had a mystery snail for almost four months. I love him. His name is Sned Asner. I recently introduced a black devil snail, he's fine. He's lazy. His name is Patrick Snayze. I also added a gold rabbit snail. I love him. He's a dumb little dink and falls over all the time and I giggle whenever he's poking his little snoot around. His name is Carl Snagan. There's also a nerite named Linda Snamilton. He's whatever. See him once a week. Since introducing the rabbit snail, the mystery snail is constantly trying to ... gently caress him? Strangle him? Eat him? Not sure what to do about that, or if I should just leave them alone. Rabbit snail attempting to drag a mystery snail 5x his size around the tank is pretty sad to watch, though. He leaves the devil snail alone entirely. Has never one bothered him. Just the rabbit snail.
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May 30, 2023 16:52
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Mystery snails are horny gluttons. Real bulldozers too. They just shove stuff around in my tank all the time. I can't keep anubias or java fern attached to anything. The most entertaining thing I've seen them do lately is climb up the jungle val leaves. Usually once they get near the surface, they're far enough along the leaf that it bends over, and lowers them back to the bottom. Like they're in a Kung fu movie, fighting on treetops, but in a super clumsy slow motion way.
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May 30, 2023 17:03
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We added some panda cories a little under a week ago and they've been rooting around in the sand so much the entire floor is now even and smooth.  That said, I hope they're getting food. We've been dropping in wafers and they mostly ignore them. Plus our amanos snap them up and carry them off to horde. I'm hoping they're still settling in a bit.
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May 31, 2023 15:11
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z0331 posted:We added some panda cories a little under a week ago and they've been rooting around in the sand so much the entire floor is now even and smooth. Hope you get a population of benign sand bugs and worms. Fingers crossed for yah!
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May 31, 2023 17:46
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So my boyfriend has a 55gal freshwater tank with some skirt tetras, Cory cats and 3 dwarf gourami males. We recently added in one powder blue female gourami. Then we had an incident. The biggest male gourami ate both of her eyes  I don't know why he picked her when there's other males in there you'd think he'd be more aggressive towards but no he picked the only female to maim I'm not sure what to do, I know with bettas a blind fish can still function pretty well with a feeder ring but I'm still feeling pretty lovely about it and not sure if euthanizing is the better option.
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May 31, 2023 21:06
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hypoallergenic cat breed posted:So my boyfriend has a 55gal freshwater tank with some skirt tetras, Cory cats and 3 dwarf gourami males. We recently added in one powder blue female gourami. Then we had an incident. Gouramis, especially males, are often (usually?) hostile to gouramis of other species independent of sex I’d definitely pull the injured female out of the tank if you haven’t done so already, and she’ll probably have to spend the rest of her life in a solitary tank If she’s not doing well on her own then yeah, I’d probably consider euthanasia next
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May 31, 2023 21:17
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I've been obsessed lately with this guy that turned an old rain cistern into an underground eel pit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4hiokLpmuQ
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Enos Cabell posted:I've been obsessed lately with this guy that turned an old rain cistern into an underground eel pit. this is sick
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Southern Cassowary posted:this is sick
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I successfully moved my betta! I had the advantage of having a week where I had both apartments, and during that time I set up the new 10 gallon tank in the new apartment. I moved the decorations from the 5 gallon tank to the 10 gallon tank during the week in a 5 gallon bucket I got from Lowe's. I then added some quick start and let it cycle for a week while the move date approached. On the day of the move I pumped two gallons of water from the 5 gallon aquarium back into the Lowe's bucket and put the fish in, and transported him like that. After I got him to the new place I put him and some tank water in a baggy, and put it in the new tank for thirty minutes to acclimate temperature wise before putting him in. He's been swimming happily around his new home, barren as it is (just decorations, no plants) and seems to be more active than he was in the 5 gallon tank. It was nerve wracking and I was only moving a single fish. I don't know how people move way more at a time than that. Now I just need to go and get more aquasoil to completely cover the bottom of this tank and plant some more plants for him to swim in. Maybe some corys and a snail or two to act as a clean up crew and help out.
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Jun 2, 2023 00:34
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Parrot feather is a superior rice fish pond plant, because it occupies the same top 1.5" of the water column as the rice fish. Also grows amazing, the roots grow horizontally giving you a nice mat of pond plant mass In two weeks I have twice as much plant cover on the parrot feather as I do the water hyacinth in six weeks   Fish egg hatched  Found a second rice fish egg  Both are living in about 2x9x11" of water, seem pretty happy
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That's a reason why parrot's feather is so popular. That's also a reason why it's illegal in like half the states and the European Union.
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Goldfish question: If I still have a good patch of duckweed in the tub, can I take that as an indication that the goldfish are fed sufficiently? Ie, they haven't eaten all of it, they're certainly not starving?
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Lareine posted:That's a reason why parrot's feather is so popular. That's also a reason why it's illegal in like half the states and the European Union. Yeah, I just checked and it's banned in my state. Shame, it looks really cool.
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Sockser posted:Since introducing the rabbit snail, the mystery snail is constantly trying to ... gently caress him? Strangle him? Eat him? Not sure what to do about that, or if I should just leave them alone. Rabbit snail attempting to drag a mystery snail 5x his size around the tank is pretty sad to watch, though. I'm pretty sure but not for certain that this snail is now fuckin dead.
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Fishy not looking good. Typically these guys are beer bottle green or darker olive color. He has a weird string of fuzzy white stuff attached to his side (not butt) with a kind of sac at the end, doesn't seem to match any fish sickness photos I've been able to find. Here is he resting on some roots, looks really tired
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Wonder if that’s physical injury, if these guys are outdoors you could get dragonfly nymphs which could definitely have a go at a rice fish and do some damage. Colour change and behaviour change are usually stress related and being injured is pretty stressful. Do you have anything you could use for a hospital tank, or at least something to get a better look at what is going on?
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Sockser posted:I'm pretty sure but not for certain that this snail is now fuckin dead. I called it today. Rip Carl Snagan. You lived an entire week before you were probably killed by the mystery snail
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Hadlock posted:Fishy not looking good. Typically these guys are beer bottle green or darker olive color. He has a weird string of fuzzy white stuff attached to his side (not butt) with a kind of sac at the end, doesn't seem to match any fish sickness photos I've been able to find. Here is he resting on some roots, looks really tired RIP fishy  Didn't see him again after this photo was taken, got busy with family stuff (and it's really hard to keep track of individual fish in a school in a pond situation), was looking for a lilly rhyzome and found him behind some rocks  I think the neighbor's cat jumped into the pond, knocked over a bunch of poo poo trying to get out, everything was askew about 2 days before I found him like that
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Couple days ago I noticed one of my female rice fish rubbing up against my water hyacynth, pulled it out saw it had at least two, then saw another five or six eggs on it so threw it in a pot I'd been acclimating my water lotus plant in and had probably sufficiently "cycled". That was about 4 days ago, pulled the water hyacynth pulled at least six eggs off it into the water and put it back in my main tank/pond thing Secondary "tank" or bucket is a ~20 gallon plastic planter I kind of use as an emergency backup supply of water or whatever, with a couple of pond plants in there, is kind of modeled after this. Hoping the fish hatch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vogEuCaYrmE&t=55s My, what I can only guess are 4 females, are absolutely bursting with eggs every day  
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huh you’re a lot younger than I thought
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Dude, I love Ryo's enthusiasm for this stuff, and his chill style.
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Yeah he's pretty chill, his aunt and uncle seem to have figured out a good system After that post I picked through the "lucky" water hyacinth and pulled another four eggs off and put them in my baking dish in the kitchen with some java moss and water lettuce, I think at this point I've harvested like 10+ eggs Ordered more sponge filters, turns out the ones I'm using are rated for 10 gallons and I've got 150 gallons. Ordered 50 gal sponges this time. Going to get a 10 gallon tank tomorrow and set it up with one of my cycled sponges and transfer the "indoor" eggs to the new fry tank and keep harvesting eggs as I have time. Would like to add 10 new rice fish to the main pond by end of summer
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i am envious of those eggs! never had luck with my ricefish blooming with them.
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Hadlock posted:After that post I picked through the "lucky" water hyacinth and pulled another four eggs off and put them in my baking dish in the kitchen with some java moss and water lettuce, I think at this point I've harvested like 10+ eggs Devoid of context, it sure sounds like a gourmet salad you're making.
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Harvested a dozen additional eggs from my lucky hyacinth, those went into this tray of water. Apparently you can set the eggs on wet peat moss in the air and they'll hatch, the bar is pretty low. I do a 50% water change every two or three days. Apparently you can leave them in chlorinated water, the chlorine doesn't attack stuff inside the egg, supposedly and helps keep down fungus Not all the eggs I know of are in this photo  Wider shot  Also found four more eggs on another plant, threw those in the outdoor pot which has a couple random smaller pond plants I think hatch rate is really high but from what I've read fry mortality rate is ~50% so we'll see. My sponge filter arrives tomorrow so I'll transfer them to the 10 gallon then
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I made a floating plant coral out of air line and Lego. I was just making rings with air line and straight connectors, then using air line holder suction cups to keep them in place but I wanted to make a much larger area and have it raise and lower easily while doing water changes so the plants don't escape. It works pretty well, though it does occasionally require a quick tap of the finger to free it as it slides up/down during a water change.   
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^^^^ That's really cool. My FW angelfish has very long, stringy but NOT clear poops. They are reddish and brown. I've tried googling but keep getting results for clear or white fish poops. He otherwise seems healthy. Any ideas if this is related to the weird parasite problems I've had in the past or normal angelfish stuff? I don't have a ton of experience with them. I treated the tank weekly with PraziPro for the last month so I'd like to see any parasite issues are now nuked.
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I've only seen red poops from feeding red food like any of the color enhancing bright red foods, and usually only from greedy overeating fish where the food is just going straight through because they're eating way more than they need and it isn't even digesting properly. I don't know if angelfish are greedy like that, what's his attitude at dinnertime?
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Stoca Zola posted:I've only seen red poops from feeding red food like any of the color enhancing bright red foods, and usually only from greedy overeating fish where the food is just going straight through because they're eating way more than they need and it isn't even digesting properly. I don't know if angelfish are greedy like that, what's his attitude at dinnertime?
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Stoca Zola posted:I've only seen red poops from feeding red food like any of the color enhancing bright red foods, and usually only from greedy overeating fish where the food is just going straight through because they're eating way more than they need and it isn't even digesting properly. I don't know if angelfish are greedy like that, what's his attitude at dinnertime? He is a pig, only limited by having to dodge the Festivum's occasional charges.
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Bulky Bartokomous posted:He is a pig, only limited by having to dodge the Festivum's occasional charges. there’s the Festivum and there’s the rest of ‘em
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Not exactly fish, but fish adjacent. Bee Island. The bees just LOVE this island. They're obsessed with the moss. Fish   Can confirm fish like hotdog 
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One of my two cherry shrimp died after moulting in the fry tray Put 1/3 pond water, 2/3 dechlorinated tap water in 10 gallon fry tank two days ago, put cycled sponge filter in for 2 hours, slowly added tank water over an hour or so to fry dish, let it sit an hour, added fry dish to tank Second cherry shrimp died about an hour ago Actually exchanged cherry shrimp at Petco thinking I'd done everything right, it's hanging out on the sponge filter. Hopefully I did an ok job acclimating this third cherry shrimp  Water parameters seem within reason based on my pool chem strips.
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Sorry to hear that. Cherry shrimp are super super sensitive to changes but once they are acclimated they are like cockroaches. I usually use airline tubing and a regulator to drip in water over 4-5 hours. Also sometimes they just like to off themselves and theres nothing you can do about it.
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Ok Comboomer posted:there’s the Festivum and there’s the rest of ‘em New thread title, imho. E: Anyone else having trouble finding bleach that doesn't have any COLORGUARD/NO-SPLASH/FRESH SCENT additives? Bulky Bartokomous fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Jun 10, 2023 |
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