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It's two fold the temps in my office get really warm during summer months so ambient at 80 reflects in the aquarium. With the higher temp the water is less oxygenated which in turn creates a double whammy situation for me. I ended up doing another partial water change which gradually lowered the water temp from 81F to 77F I also have pump with dual airstones running now that is really oxygenating the water in an effort to tackle that issue as well. The last resort is once it gets warm enough I am having to adjust the thermostat for the house down to 74 to get this room down to 78 which really really sucks for my electric bill as you can imagine. I have a ceiling fan which keeps it okay for me but that does not cut it for the aquarium.. I might look at alternatives though because that is not going to work over the summer for me. Also it's not a foul water issue, it is a heavily planted tank all fish.. the big ones are accounted for leaving a few Cardinal Tetra, Celestial Pearl Danio and four cories which I can see are still there as well. I did the partial water change a couple of days ago so it would have eliminated that and not to mention I have upwards of 500 red cherry shrimp in there so overfeeding is literally impossible between them and the metric poo poo ton of snails that are all over the place - I'm looking at your Clown Loach you aren't doing your job! I'm really hoping the extra boost from the air pump blasting the two airstones remedies the situation and I am keeping an eye throughout the day to see where the temps peak and the situation in the tank. demonR6 fucked around with this message at 14:53 on Mar 18, 2016 |
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SynthOrange posted:
I showed this pic to my wife and told her it is some dude's outdoor salt water hot tub.. she won't let me get one.
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Mar 19, 2016 14:00
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Two foot long ray just chilling.
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That didn't work either, just tried it.
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Mar 19, 2016 14:27
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I'm about to prune a forest of moss from my 55, it's that time again.
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Apr 7, 2016 16:41
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Some funky moss I got from the springs, it's many generations on by now I have had it so long.. I have to prune it every few months then I sell it on fleabay or Aquabid for people who collect moss or a couple of dudes use it for shipping shrimp. It's the giant blob on the left.. 
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Apr 8, 2016 01:39
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I normally sell them off in packed golf ball size, ends up much larger though. For our dudes.. if you just want one or two I won't charge you except for shipping and if you want to throw anything additional that is fine. Fair warning though I have hitchhiking snails and cherry shrimp. Also in the right conditions this poo poo grows like a weed..
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I'm good to send out a few to goons.. shoot me an email at owwithurts@ that common email address that starts with g and we can go over the rest.
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Apr 8, 2016 02:24
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Cowslips Warren posted:I desire moss. Email sent! gotcha covered.
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Apr 9, 2016 03:08
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Cowslips Warren posted:I desire moss. Email sent! Your moss is en-route!  Anyone interested in the type, I got as best a pic as I could of some individual pieces. 
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Apr 9, 2016 14:52
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Cool! I thoroughly washed it but it wouldn't hurt if you did a second pass and inspection to remove anything that did not enjoy the trip.
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Apr 12, 2016 18:23
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Small aquariums are hard to fix when they go to poo poo. I had three bettas at one point and my routine was a weekly 50% water change with filtered water, had a small in tank filter and they were golden for years. One lived to be five which is really good for a betta.
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Soylent Yellow posted:I'm going to be setting up a 10 gallon tropical aquarium, and I'm shopping around for a cannister filter. I have an eheim 2213 going spare, but I'm thinking it would probably be a serious case of overkill for something this small. I can pick up a Fluval 106 locally, but was wondering if there are any other (possibly cheaper) options. I use two 275Gph canister filters on my 55. There is no such thing as overkill with filtration or water movement. http://www.amazon.com/TechnToy-HW-6...canister+filter Smaller but two of these in a ten would be nifty.
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He looks good to me..
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Clown Loach.. I have one in a 55g tank that is four years old now and he's not that big maybe 4-5 inches. He is the definite choice for snail control though, the bottom of the tank is a wasteland of snail shells. He also goes after my red cherry shrimp when the population gets low and there are not enough full grown snails to munch on. sharkbomb posted:Anyone have experience with using loaches for snail control? My new 75g tank has 8 happy corydoras catfish and approximately 50,000 snails. I was thinking of getting 6 loaches when they become available from one of the local stores. Don't do six, that is overkill and a school of loaches that big will devour everything in that tank then one day you have six hungry fish with nothing to eat. They start off small but can get to 8 inches in the right conditions.. mine is about 5 but again you don't want a starving school of fish in your tank. demonR6 fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Jul 27, 2016 |
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Start with 2, monitor the progress. He was slow to start off but one day I was sitting there and heard the cracking of snail shells and sucking of snail. He went to work. I'm not kidding the bottom of my tank before I cleaned it looked like that scene in the Terminator where it was walking on a sea of crushed skulls and bones.
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Jul 27, 2016 17:30
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That variety of sea monkey is very hardy and should survive just fine.
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Christ I am glad my wife just missed that pond post and did not catch me looking at the pics else I would be hosed. Brilliant job though!
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