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Eifert Posting posted:
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Mar 9, 2014 23:54
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Goldmund posted:Water! Teabags, milk and sugar.
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Mar 10, 2014 00:51
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After various attempts to get my Peacock Gudgeons to breed, both pairs are finally holed up together in their chosen PVC pieces. I guess dropping the temp by a degree to 77 with PH at 6.8 and low hardness finally hit the mark. Hopefully all goes well and I have quite a few fry in four days or so.
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Mar 10, 2014 01:12
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Lacrosse posted:I finally have the money to upgrade my 37 gallon's lighting. The tank is currently housing goldfish, but once I get a stand and light for my empty 55 gallon, I will be converting it into a planted tank and moving the goldfish into the 55. I bought one of these for my 29 and couldn't be happier. Beefed it up with some of the colormax light pods they sell and holy crap am I Happy with it. The indica and the hornwort in my tank have doubled in volume in the 2 weeks I've had it (they were struggling under flourescents) ...The fish are happy that there is a night lighting option as well (I am too, my pleco and synodontis are not fans of the light, and everything is much more colorful and active. And you can ramp up the lighting like crazy the pods are not at all expensive and you've got a lot more control over the spectrum the unit puts out. I love what it's done for my tank and I spent half of what I would have on other LED systems. It may be premature but I would highly recommend this.
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Bait and Swatch posted:I usually use melafix because the LFS in my area seem to have issues with harmful bacteria causing bloat and swim bladder issues.  You, uh, got a second favorite?
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Eifert Posting posted:You, uh, got a second favorite? Holy poo poo that's expensive over there. My friend uses Maracyn powder. I can't provide a testimony, but he swears by the stuff. I don't think it's all natural and I have no idea about the price, but it might be worth checking out. I still can't believe that price.
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Mar 10, 2014 06:56
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Bait and Swatch posted:I still can't believe that price. It's one of two things: 1. Korea is a huge fan of crazy huge tariff on things that they don't even produce for no apparent reason. Want to know why there's a literal 400% tariff on oatmeal in Korea? Me too. 2. There are hardly any online marketplaces in Korea, so the level of competition would be on par with 1900 era steel in the United States. My friend Don'tAskKant noticed today there was a product that sold in Korean dollar stores last year that's selling for 168 USD on Gmarket right now. It's six plastic non-trademarked fondant molds. Yup.
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Mar 10, 2014 13:41
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Bait and Swatch posted:What's your price range? It doesn't really matter. Just looking for something I'm not going to have to scrape crud out of every day with q-tips, and quieter is better since it's in my bedroom.
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Mar 10, 2014 20:01
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candywife posted:It doesn't really matter. Just looking for something I'm not going to have to scrape crud out of every day with q-tips, and quieter is better since it's in my bedroom. The Fluval 105 is quiet, only needs to be cleaned once a month or so and its parts are easy to clean. You can always go with one of the larger filters in the series if you want extra filtration, functionally the are all nearly identical.
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Mar 11, 2014 01:03
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candywife posted:It doesn't really matter. Just looking for something I'm not going to have to scrape crud out of every day with q-tips, and quieter is better since it's in my bedroom. I have two of these in my 55 running 2 years strong now.
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Mar 11, 2014 02:18
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 Puff n Stuff died today. He seemed healthy yesterday, but when I got home from work he was stuck in the intake for the filter. My levels are fine, and I've been feeding him 5-6 days a week and his tankmate the tetra is fine... Puff n Stuff!
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Mar 12, 2014 08:42
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pulling the trigger on these guys tomorrow.
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Mar 13, 2014 12:06
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Eifert Posting posted:pulling the trigger on these guys tomorrow. Whatisthatiwantone
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^^^^ seconded Ok, I've been quiet about my cheesed out 80s 55g tank, but it is very nearly finished. Yesterday I was finally able to rehome a few mbuna that couldn't hang with the others in the 120, so now the 55g is empty and ready for decoration. I will post some pics later tonight hopefully when all is done. Enos Cabell fucked around with this message at 20:18 on Mar 13, 2014 |
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Mar 13, 2014 20:16
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One of my albino senegal bichir babies died today. No marks on him, he was just floating at the top of the tank. But some of the others don't look so great either; two look almost like they are sloughing skin. Aweeeeeesome. The tank is instant-cycled with a seeded sponge filter, is about 40 gallons, and last week finished its major bleach, dry, bleach with water, dry, and coated with Prime to get rid of any last bleach particles after the last swordtail in it died from some unknown disease. Did a 50% water change, upped the temperature, threw in a powerhead, and tons of duckweed and some new driftwood for more hiding places. Fingers crossed.
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Chichevache posted:Whatisthatiwantone Pretty sure it is Apistogramma Agassizii "Fire Red Flame Tail"  So I saw an Apisto at my LFS and grabbed it because this is the first one I've seen in my area, I have the aquarium space and no willpower. It was being sold as a male Apistogramma Agassizii 'Rio Tefe'. It doesn't seem to look like Agassizii 'Rio Tefe" at all, and I think it must be some other Apisto, perhaps Macmasteri. Does anyone have an idea of what Apisto species this is? 
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Mar 14, 2014 02:00
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Never mind, bad idea from my research.
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Mar 14, 2014 03:00
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Bait and Swatch posted:Pretty sure it is Apistogramma Agassizii "Fire Red Flame Tail" I think you're right on both. I was looking at a lot of Macs yesterday trying to figure out what mine was, it really looks like that.
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Mar 14, 2014 03:32
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Cowslips Warren posted:One of my albino senegal bichir babies died today. No marks on him, he was just floating at the top of the tank. But some of the others don't look so great either; two look almost like they are sloughing skin. Aweeeeeesome. Time to break down and bleach the gently caress out of this tank. I'll let it dry a week this time. Every bichir died overnight. Not a mark on them save a little sloughing skin. The shrimp and snails in the tank are fine. WTF is this poo poo? As much as it sucks, I'll have to throw out the powerhead and heater, just to be safe....the driftwood I'll use for a snake, and any other ornaments I will chuck. I wanted to move the other bichirs to this growout yesterday, thankfully I did not.
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Mar 14, 2014 10:26
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My Agassizi are in the quarantine tank. They also are really, really not amused. Poor things are scared stiff, though granted they've been in the tank for only 3 hours. If they don't show less fear soon I'll paper off the front of the tank too. Eating blood worms like they're starving though.
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Mar 14, 2014 15:58
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Make sure the lid's on tight before going to sleep for the night if they're still jittery.
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They're much calmer.
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So I started a new 55 gallon tank split with a tank divider about two weeks ago and am about one week into a fishless cycle. I added a filter from my 30 gallon and some old driftwood that I had in storage. My wife observed this morning that my fishless cycle is no longer fishless, as I somehow have at least 5 fry swimming around in the tank. I can only imagine they came with the filter somehow, but they are on the opposite side of the tank divider from it. Furthermore, the pairs of peacock gudgeons I had in the 30 laid eggs two days after I moved out that filter, so it seems unlikely that the females could lay again that quickly if they had been responsible for the eggs in the filter. I am truly baffled by where the fry came from. They can't be more than a few hours old, as I added pool filter sand to the tank last night, so do you think it's to early to move them to another tank?
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Hey guys, I have a quick question regarding a new tank. So I've had a 15 gal (I think?) nano tank doing a fish-less cycle for about 2 months now. By which I mean I put some water in, threw a couple algae pellets in and 3 plants. I didn't put a light on it so the plants are basically dead, but a new plant has thrived since the light came on. It has an inbuilt filter. I haven't been particularly happy with the water flow, so put a second internal filter in (for 55L so it's basically at double filtration by now if the inbuilt one works as it should) and now everything is flowing nicely. Yesterday I bought 4 more plants (a Java fern and some bunches of plants the LFS guy said would be good for my new fish), 4 Endler males and 2 pairs of Leopard Endlers (I take what I can get, as Endlers aren't allowed to be imported any more, blargh). How often should I be doing water changes and how big? The water is beautifully clear after planting (I've had aquasoil in the entire time) and the fish are all bright and happy and eating like pigs (both the girls are heavily pregnant in other shocking news). It's been almost 6 months since I've had a tank and I'm a bit worried about it as I worry about everything, haha.
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Help! We've started loosing fish and cannot work out what the issue might be. The tank is 150 litres, it's been setup since November, well planted and uses a good quality external filter. I setup a CO2 system in January which has been on a very slow rate and has seen the plants explode. Last week our red tailed shark started acting weird and died over night. We have since lost two danios and two guppies, one of the gups looked fine the day before though the other was clearly distressed, sat at the bottom of the tank. I've done a full schedule of tests and taken a water sample to the specialist fish shop for them to confirm my results. Nitrite and ammonia are both fine, nitrate is high but unfortunately it comes that way here it's not a new variable. PH is within limits and the fish show no signs of disease. I have been concerned about oxygen levels so I have introduced an airpump which runs when the CO2 is off. I have removed the inline mixer from the CO2 system and put in a separate delivery spiral thing as I think it was restricting the pump flow rate, and also given the filter a clean. I've also cleared the over abundance of floating plants. Currently the remaining gups and danios are hanging around close to the surface which is suggesting oxygen to me. The rainbows seem entirely unaffected by any of this. Any ideas? The LFS have asked me to track PH levels morning and evening in case the CO2 is causing fluctuations, other than that its confusing and a bit distressing.
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I know this is going to seem dumb...but I don't know chiclids at all really. A friend of a friend needed to get rid of him since he's breaking down his aquarium due to moving. He's not that old I guess, only a couple months. Is this a blue ram? He looks similar to most of the photos I've seen online but he's different enough I'm not positive...If he is what I think he is, he should fit in fine with my setup. If he's something different I'm not sure I could take him. 
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Mar 16, 2014 23:40
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Looks like a German Blue Ram, possibly Bolivian. I've kept them in community set ups with no issue ever.
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Jekub posted:Help! We've started loosing fish and cannot work out what the issue might be. The tank is 150 litres, it's been setup since November, well planted and uses a good quality external filter. I setup a CO2 system in January which has been on a very slow rate and has seen the plants explode. It could be that the plant growth is at the point where they're taking up too much oxygen at night. I dont think floating plants would do much since they'd take most of their gases from the air rather than the water. I'd suggest just cutting off the co2 completely just to make sure that's not the culprit.
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Jekub posted:Help! We've started loosing fish and cannot work out what the issue might be. The tank is 150 litres, it's been setup since November, well planted and uses a good quality external filter. I setup a CO2 system in January which has been on a very slow rate and has seen the plants explode. Wait, does the CO2 run at night too? CO2 tends to change the pH in the water as well, so your fish might be getting pretty stressed from pH swings.
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Git Mah Belt Son posted:I know this is going to seem dumb...but I don't know chiclids at all really. A friend of a friend needed to get rid of him since he's breaking down his aquarium due to moving. He's not that old I guess, only a couple months. German ram, he's probably just dark from stress.
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CO2 is on a timer with the lights, airpump is on the opposite schedule. No losses over night which is good but I'm going to continue to monitor things very closely. edit - spoke to soon, lost another guppie. I noticed he was swimming rapidly up and down earlier while the rest and hanging about near the surface, checked again just now and he was gone. This is confusing. Jekub fucked around with this message at 12:11 on Mar 17, 2014 |
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Temped to trade in one of my female Apistogramma agassiziis because she's... kinda a dick. I'm used to a little aggression, but she's just charging in and pecking at everything. She really mussed up one of the male's pectorals and I think she's overestimating her expendability.
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That ram is a German Blue they can be territorial and keeping them in a group of three is the best option with two females and one male. I have kept them for years now and when alone they do not do well for me at least.
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Jekub posted:CO2 is on a timer with the lights, airpump is on the opposite schedule. Til this stabilizes, kill the CO2 and run the oxygen 24/7. You may want to move the airstone to be under the outflow to make it gets mixed in. Speaking of outflow, have it point at or slightly above the water line to get some surface agitation going.
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Look for a small powerhead if you want to agitate the surface water. I have a 120GPH that I picked up for my 55 since I was having some issues as well at the beginning and it worked out well for me. Enough that I never bothered to remove it. Another option if you have a canister filter with a spray bar you can locate it closer to the surface and angle it in a way that it will agitate the surface.
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I have a canister and spray bar which as suggested is pointed at the surface, enough to create good ripples but not breaking the surface. I'll move the airstone tonight so it is in the flow. The CO2 is down to about one bubble every ten seconds or so but I'll shut it down completely for now and I'll look at getting a powerhead tomorrow from a local supplier. Thanks for all the advice, this has been going so well since we started and I'm amazed just how quickly it's gone wrong.
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Help me FW Aquarium thread! I need a 30" light fixture that puts out at least 60 watts at 6700k. If it can accept a 21" Compact Fluorescent bulb with a straight 4 pin connecter so much the better, so my spare bulb doesn't go to waste. Coralife discontinued my fixture, and I have no idea what I'm doing in terms of trying to find new lighting except knowing how many watts I need and what color spectrum I want. Edit: Never mind, going to bite the bullet and go LED. Welcome to the future, me. So If anyone has anything to say about LED lights for FW tanks, that'd be cool. Desert Bus fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Mar 18, 2014 |
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Now have free swimming fry as a result of both peacock gudgeon pairs shacking up at the same time. I have seen enough to approximate at least 60 or so, but there is probably more since the tank is heavily planted. Last time a pair mated I only got four fry, so I am thrilled at the surprising number. Also, I've been setting up my old 55 gallon for wild apistos. In looking for leaf litter options (didn't want to spend money on Indian Almond Leaves (IAL) unless I had to) I came across a good document that outlines which trees have dangerous foliage (http://plantsciences.utk.edu/pdf/PlantsthatPoisonFish.pdf). Since most of the other aquarium forums seem to recommend bad choices (pecan leaves for example) I figured I'd share this in case anyone wants to consider alternatives to IAL in their apisto tanks.
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Bait and Swatch posted:Also, I've been setting up my old 55 gallon for wild apistos. In looking for leaf litter options (didn't want to spend money on Indian Almond Leaves (IAL) unless I had to) I have IAL if you need some..
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