Dwarf Redtail Eel edition.Discuss anything aquarium related here, including tanks, bowls, inhabitants, bettas, logs, decor, plants, and issues. Before asking questions in this thread, make sure you give us at least some details when asking a question, such as:>Tank size (include dimensions, not just volume)>Unusual Parameters (nitrate, pH, GH, KH)>Any inhabitants + how long you've had them>Age of the tank>Pictures are always helpfulTank Cycling:>www.modestfish.com/how-to-cycle-your-aquarium/Stocking and Water Change Calculator:>www.aqadvisor.com/AqAdvisor.php>www.hamzasreef.com/Contents/Calculators/EffectiveWaterChange.phArticles and Care Guides:>www.seriouslyfish.com/knowledge-base/>www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/>www.aquariumcoop.com/>www.theaquariumwiki.com/wiki/Aquatic Plant Database:>www.aquaticplantcentral.com/forumapc/plantfinder/all.php>www.flowgrow.de/db/aquaticplantsPrevious thread: >>4876386
Anyone try keeping American eels in an outdoor pond?
Tank is no longer red from beetroot, am I the retard here? I read it was used as fish food but not even the snails seem to like it.
how can I avoid mosquito larvae in a still water tank without fish/animals?
>>4883911cover it with a fine mesh
>>4883579>aquarium in the picture looks really good and healthyhey thanks OG. a bit more algae than my liking but I'm working on it>dont mislead anons into thinking they “need dirt” if they want many plantsI said they don't 'necessarily' need it. you're right about gravel. I think a lot of newcomers go for dirt or sand for that natural look, not realizing the extra work. thats what I did lol. and I don't know if I can get rid of all this algae. I'm thinking about scrapping it, uprooting and bleach dip all the plants. but for now I'm going to wait and see.
Tank ist gud, ja? Or at least close to it, anyway. I just did a water change yesterday so IDK why the nitrates are that "high" (if that is high. Everywhere I read says keep it under 100 and you're good).
>>4883983the lower the better. how much water did you change?
>>4883993About 30-35%. That red is more in the orange, too. The wall's making it look darker. It's somewhere between 20-40ppm. all the plants have settled alright, albeit I've got a bit of a diatom issue and I need to get some root tabs for the swords and sag.
>>4883998If its still 40ppm, do a 50%
>drove 20 minutes in heavy rain to a new fish store>had lots of shrimp I hadn't seen before like galaxies and rilis>came back home with a fat blue neo and a crystal redSadly no preggie carids but the blue cherry looks big enough to be a female.I'm really liking the crystal red so far. Whereas the cherries are off hiding in the rock stack corner, this little guy is actively scouring the tank.If I do decide to get him a mate, what kind of carid should I try mixing him with? He's probably between a grade B or C and has clownfish-like color patterning.It'll be cool watching them if they survive my shitty acclimating or if I survive the hurricane.
>>4883514tfw you trolled this general posting bowls and creating threads rewriting the copypasta to include bowls and logs kek
Can I just buy one of these sets https://dennerle.com/en/products/aquaria/nano-cube/nano-cube-basic/and throw shrimpies and sand inside or is it more complicated?I want shrimpies, the big ones like tiger shrimp.
>>4883983Nitrates should be detectable for plant function, ammonia should not.I agree with the other anon, just do another water change and keep it under 20. Water doesn't cost much.
How many pet articles are made entirely by AI these days do you reckon?I know "Top x" lists are low hanging fruit, but jesus. Half aren't even fish.https://www.thesprucepets.com/cute-aquarium-sea-critters-4146506
>>4884155My parents told me to just use the white gravel we had and I didn't know any better I was going to go with sand but two guys from different aquariums told me not to, so I just did what they said to avoid doing anything wrong.
>>4884225I like caribsea sunset gold
remind me - why do we have two /aqg/ threads?..
>>4884402Old one hit bump limit, newfag
>>4884072you'll want a much larger tank for tiger shrimp. those boys get big.>>4884225put a thin layer of lava rock over it, if it bothers you that much.
>>4884419ah, now i see! thank you for the explanation anonive been lurking since ~2010 but havent noticed that until now - when someone mentioned "bump limit", i ignored it like lots of other fourchan mumbo jumbo shitpostswell, its never too late to learn>>4884225now i feel bad for you anongive it some time, and if you have any issues, you can cover it with lava rock like the other anon wrote, or toss some small river stones over itif you dont vacuum for a while, the exposed surfaces will grow some algae ( not 100% though ), and it will look more natural
>crystal red didn't make itSigh, knew I should have acclimated the guy for longer. There goes $8. Sorry, little Nemo.
>>4884463Buying one shrimp is kinda dumb, ngl. You need to drip acclimate Caridina Cantonese shrimp (such as crystal reds) over an hour or two, and you'd best be using remineralized RODI water if you're not willing to roll the dice. Most tap water is unsuitable for any acidic-requiring shrimp.Too much effort imo. Take the Caridina Mariae (Pic) or Babaulti pill.
>>4884008>>4884114Ok. I'll do a 50% when I get home from work. I didn't wanna do it immediately one after the other and shock what's already living in there. Dumb question, but can't I use the old nitrate water to water my houseplants? shouldn't they like it for fertilizer?
>>4884495Yes it’s good for plants.You don’t water your plants with chlorinated water do you anon?
>>4884495Also forgot to mention, ammonia and nitrites are both 0 and the pH is I'm guessing around 7.5-7.6. it's just out of range for the regular stuff but just low enough for the high range test. Kinda glad I got a free cleaning crew. I don't mind cleaning algae every once in a while but so far they're doing a decent job keeping it down.
>>4884497I let it sit and air out first to dechlorinate, but yeah, I've just been using tap/hose water. Most plants are fine with it, but the water here is shit for other reasons, like having 25x the recommended amount of Manganese in the water. Or 63x the recommended amount of haloacetic acids (HAA5). HAA9 has 92x the recommended amount so IDK WHAT the fuck they're treating the water that much for. I think I need to invest in one of those inline 5-stage ro systems.
>>4884495I use my outgoing water for house plant watering, it has a noticeably better result than using tap or RODI.
>>4884502HHAs? What is this rabbit hole.Damn I wish my city used ground water now..
>>4884467I get what you mean.. I'm still relatively new to aquarium-keeping and didn't know if I wanted to throw down lots of money for shrimp that would die from dumb negligence. I'll keep stuff like more suitable species in mind.Are there any other notable species of shrimp that can be kept relatively fine in the cherry-oriented parameters?
Hypothetically speaking, if I was trying to propagate aquatic plants for my own use or to sell to pet stores/trade for credit, would it be better to use left or right as a container? I'm not sure how deep the roots run for common and popular aquatic fauna.
>>4884523Ghost shrimp (watch out for getting whisker shrimp on accident), amano, and caridina longirostris all do fine in neocaridina (cherry) parameters. Also Malawa shrimp (picrel, though most aren't so brightly colored), which are the only of these four that you're likely to have reproduce alongside neos.If you want a mix, I'd recommend Neos, (zebra) Babaulti, and Malawa together, all three are easy to breed and mostly won't prey on the others' babies - note that Babaulti are pretty temperature sensitive and will likely die if the water gets above 78F, other two use the "if it's wet it's bet" parameter target ranges.
>>4884525bigger would be better. I used small containers and it was a pain.>>4884540hey shrimpanon what kind of shrimp can I get for my tank with a ph of 5.5? I use ro water that my ADA substrate buffers down to 6.5 then my co2 pushes it down to 5.5 in the day.
>>4884509Bruh idk what my city is on but Yellowstone needs to go off and wipe this place out.
>>4884543Dwarf aquarium lily? Looks nice
So i put my first soft coral in, he seems to be doing well after the primer, do sexy shrimp pair up with anything? also for harder coral how long should you wait? i've heard anywhere from 1-5 months after you put fish in
>>4884578everything* because I thought they only really paired with anemones
buenos aires tetras are bad motherfuckers
>>4884578When your parameters are stable under an ordinary lighting schedule, go ahead.
>>4884549That's a lot of fucking manganese, holy shit mate.Motherfuckers out there ready to destroy ocean seabeds when the nodules are literally pissing out of municipal water.
>>4884661Yeah. I don't think they care. The shit builds up horribly on everything.
>>488466210,000ft chemosynthetic biotope when
>>4884543Any of the fancy caridina cantonese colors should be fine in that, or crystal reds/blacks of course. Co2 doesn't really change the mineral availability, so short term changes won't hurt them - if you check your ph in a planted tank during the night vs right before lights out for the day, you'll often see similar swings. Low KH water changes pH very easily, as long as it doesn't spike up past 7 or down below 5, you're good.
>>4883514>browsing lfs site
>>4884818Even with one less g its still funny
>>4884761ok I will, thanks. this is my first time running a tank with RO water and I'm a little skeptical about keeping shrimp in it. all I'm using is some seachem equilibrium to bring the tds up to 120ish. but I figured if I feed them calcium supplement occasionally they should be fine.
>>4884761How much can pH swing in a heavily planted tank?
>>4884951In my tank with buffering aquasoil, so zero KH, it'd swing more than a point, from roughly 7.6 max down to about 6.2-6.3 min.
>buy aqueon rimless 5.5g because tanks are half off at petco and i need something smaller for a betta>it's just a normal 5.5 gallon with the top rim taken off>cost almost 2x the sale price of a 10 gallonscammed myself
Anyone here going to the Keystone Clash this week?
>>4885107Gross, it still has the black trim on the bottom too. Aqueon, man, get your shit together. Don't feel too bad about buying a smaller tank for the same price as a larger tank. The issue with buying the best bang for your buck tank is that it ends up as an arms race of upsizing. I once got an insanely good deal on a brand new 75G tank, which cost far less than the 40G breeder I wanted. But the tank was so much larger that I needed to rethink everything (stand, equipment, how the fuck to fit it in the fish area) that it ended up just sitting there for a year before I sold it. Had I stuck with my original 40B plan for more money, I would've had a new tank set up within a month. Sometimes it's just best to stick with your original plan.
>>4884578>do sexy shrimp pair up with everything?They'll inhabit a lot of stuff that provides them potential cover from predators. Same as clownfish inhabiting hammer coral and the like. Sans a suitable coral or anemone, they'll probably just find rock work to hide in. Although unlike an anemone hosting clownfish, it seems far less likely for sexy shrimp to irritate its host coral/anemone, which is nice.
>>4885177yeah like it was $25 for the 5.5 vs $30 for a 20g and the 20g was very very tempting but I just couldnt unfortunately. Honestly though I should have snagged a 10g for only $14 cause that's a good size to have in reserve
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Natural evening light hitting the right side of aquarium - imo creates an attractive illuminationMost of the fish dont like it though - probably instinctively hiding away behind plants
>>4885325It's got to be really weird for fish to experience sunlight coming in from the side, not above
>>4885325Jesus Christ that's one huge Garra hiding in the plants
Fed my lobster a beetle larva (orange worm in pic)
>>4885446Yeah, its massiveBeen sold as an algae-eater - Crossocheilus latiusThey were even eating algae as juvenilesThey alpha is about 15 cm, maybe more. And hes fat as fuck - eating pretty much anything.
>>4885501If he doesn't have a name already, name him fat albert
>>4885501Looks like a really big garra rufa to me.They get hella fat from my experience, though I've never had one quite that size. Mine starved out all the panda garras he cohabitated with, sadly.
>>4885501Try to teach him (or her, based on the girth) how to eat from ur fingers
Lads I'm getting a free 30ish g (3*1*1'5 ft) tank from my jeet neighbor who is moving back to his cunt.Can you list some stocking options? A center piece fish, two schooling/shoaling and couple of bottom dwellers with shrimps. Tank will be heavily planted.
>>4885762Odessa Barbs, kyathit danios, pencilfish, and corys. Kino.
>>4885762It won’t be heavily planted for months. One thing at a thime
>>4885510>name him fat albertit might be a lady though>garra rufasounds about right, since its the common "doctor fish" - although who knows where it came fromthere are like 10 other garras that look similarhttps://fishbase.mnhn.fr/identification/specieslist.php?genus=Garra>>4885672he/she is so gluttonous that it wouldnt take long time - im afraid it will bite my fingers though
>>4885904I've had garras nibble on me, it doesn't hurt, feels like a rough sponge being rubbed on the skin.
Mom frustrated my plan to seize her pot to make a little pond in the yard, she told me it's only mean for decoration because it'll collapse under its own weight because it has no rod support. It's so over.
>>4885970just get a half barrel and make one
>>4885979Well the idea was to not spent money on it and I have never seen a wood barrel.
>>4885970i was about to suggest a few alternatives, but realized that you want it completely free - unless you already have a well established aquarium, there is no way to setup anything for freei mean, even a plastic bucket or a ceramic pot of the equal volume will cost more than in the pictureeven if you dont want any hardware at all - the plants are not freewhat was your plan with the pot?..
I placed a fish trap near a storm drain to catch some guppies and oh man I have not felt this level embarrassment in a long time, it really hits hard when you're an adult doing dumb things.>>4886006I was going to buy some vallisneria from a guy and use some of my own plants and the fish from above, assuming I catch any I saw one but It could have been a tadpole and the water was so brown.
Got my first fish and tank back in mid-July. How do we like it anons? It's come a long way imo
>>4886165large snail enjoyer. good lad.
>>4886172i didn't expect to love them they were just supposed to help with hydra at first. turns out they didn't help with the hydra at all and i ended up loving them. performed some snurgery over the weekend on the one, seemed to have a big crack in its shell for some reason. superglued some eggshell, I'll figure out a way to get the glue off in a couple of months.
>>4885776Kyathit are kinda threatened aren't they? I'll pick up some jeet danios instead in honor of my neighbor. Never kept pencil fish before but I also have some extra cardinal tetras I've been wanting to rehouse. Would they do okay with barbs and danios? Corys are my fav, have a nice breeding colony of pandas...>>4885838Obviously anon.... I won't just plop and drop lifestock into it till there is some decent plant coverage.
How does this sound for a 55 gallon?2 dojo loaches5 yoyo loaches1 horseface loach1 rainbow shark
>>4886073I sat at the local boat ramp a couple weekends ago pumping saltwater into 3x 200L drums for a water change. Done it before too and there's always a couple people like 'can he do that" 'why is he doing that?' 'should we do something about it?'.Noone said I couldn't.
>>4886390Its literally seawater. What's the fucking harm? I've been contemplating going out and trying to snag a chunk of freshwater sponge when I get my big 75g set up. I don't see them sold but according to what I've read they're easy to care for, just treat them like shrimp and don't go wildly dosing the water with shit. Not sure how to get the branching form seen in pic related since how they grow is apparently dependent on environment.
>>4886413I think it was more the fact that they saw someone doing they've never seen, but also TAKING it for themselves like some primal or covid FOMO kicked in.>He's just taking it>Should we be taking some?!
>>4886413I think it was more the fact that they saw someone doing they've never seen, but also TAKING it for themselves like some primal or covid FOMO kicked in.>He's just taking it>Should we be taking some?!As for sponge, or any local biological, fucking go for it. Sure a cookie-cut instagram aquascape is 'the thing' but imagine taking something from a local 'biotope' and making it work. Worst-case scenario you take pictures and learn something.
>>4886433>>4886434Sorry, drunkpost.
>>4886413Some species of sponge (both fresh and saltwater) don’t take well to shipping. If you do get them, avoid exposing them to the atmosphere just in case by moving it into a bucket underwater.>>4886433It’s because it breaks the capitalist mindset. It’s primal appropriation, which is not supposed to happen. A glitch in the system. Unless you’re a government-authorized miner or something like that.
>>4886165Me like it. Why so many bubbles, though? Is there a powerhead off-cam blowing the co2 that way?
>>4886458yes
>>4886073The total number of guppies I caught is, ONE fry.I'll try again later.
>>4884495YES and YES!Fish piss and shit in the water its perfect fertilizer
>>4886480So let me get it right - do you have wild guppies swimming around through some drainage?..
>>4886529Yes, I'll take a picture later.
>>4886306>kyathitAll the ones on the market should be captive bred, they're not any harder than zebras to breed. Odessa Barbs are also endangered in their natural environment but easy to source captive bred.Cardinal tetras would do fine with barbs and danios. They're all three mild fin nippers but fast and not flowy finned. Odessa barbs are the least bitey of the commonly found barbs, they're not like tiger barbs which will ravage their neighbors.Pencilfish should wait until the plants come in, they mostly eat microfauna/"biofilm" - I've never seen mine actually eat fish food in the year+ I've had them. Otherwise they act a lot like cardinal tetras: hang around in small groups unless threatened, pretty active but not to the level of danios, leave other fish alone.
>>4886546Pic from the water drain, I forgot to say, it's the end of the drain since there works stopped for some reason, I saw some really big guppies down there.I was still dying of cringe and the embarrassment was stronger than the heat.
>>4886597That’s very unusual anonWhat country do you live in, if you don’t mind me asking?We only have a few small sized freshwater fish where i live, and they are very boring to look at.. none of them are suitable for aquarium as far as i knowI would definitely try to catch some fish for my aquarium if there were any options
>>4883516Yes. Few years pond set up here. Caught a pencil length eel at the boat launch. Never saw him until after a heavy rainstorm that made some deep puddles for a few days, I found a foot long thumb width dead eel in my backyard. I have a couple more eels in there I think that were like earthworm sized when I put them in. I'm sure if you raise one to adulthood you will be able to see. Same with the pollywog sized yearly bullhead spawns you can find. You won't see cryptic bottom feeders in a pond 90% of the time, but if they get big I'm sure they have wetpet potential. You make me want to catch another eel lol. >>4883514also no dan I'm not buying your 50+ dollar peacock eel with a discolored tail when I can get a cheap one at the lfs.
>>4883911>Wants to avoid mosquitos as an aquaristNGMIYou WANT to collect as many mosquito larvae as you can, they are pretty much the best fish food and once you are hooked you will be wishing you had more, more, and more.
>>4886679He said he doesn't have fish/animals, bro. But,>stillwater>no fish/animalsThe most boring tank ever.>>4883911Technically you could disrupt surface tension and they couldn't float via some type surfactant, but I have no fucking clue how it'll effect whatever the fuck you're putting in your tank.https://shop.naturalwaterscapes.com/aquatistick-aquatic-surfactant-1-gallonThere are tons of other common surfactants, but the vast majority would be detrimental to plant/algae/bacteria. That one above likely is to some extent too, but I really have no idea. I just googled surfactants to see if there were aquarium safe ones.
>>4886613Paraguay, I live near the Parana river.
>>4884639This. Satan fish. Don't be fooled>>4886455This. People have been trained to think that civilian harvesting of anything from nature is somehow dangerous to the environment, when in reality large licensed entities are the biggest threat to the ecological status quo. This of course is not black and white, the higher up on the foodchain an animal is and the less that are naturally in a habitat can make civilian overharvesting a real possibility. But there is a dogmatic mindset/sentiment that is promoted by big eco that nature is extremely fragile and that human interaction is always bad unless it's government approved. >CapitalistThat is a misconception. Captialism at its core encourages harvest of natural resources. What you are adressing is manegerialist authoritarianism mixing with capitalism. The captialist conglomerates bribing the government to legislate out any competition is simply the capitalist leaders naturally taking advantage of a wide open and virtually purposefully inviting niche provided by the manegerialist authoritarian system. Banning of lobbying would gravely injure the captialist oligarch's ability to manipulate the rules and regulate for its own benifit, but the manegerialsits and buearaucracy is either too scared or benifiting too much to do that. Under alternatives to captialism it would just be the same kinds of people under a different name in power abusing it just as much
>>4886500I started getting using my own shit and piss(scales up easier than with my limited tanks) to fertilize my houseplants. The buckets smell up my house and I've yet to see any positive growth(mostly negative if I'm honest), any tips to improve my mix or is fish waste magical?
I went to check on the storm drain again and the only thing I caught was a tiny little snail but I believe it's a land snail that fell into the trap somehow.Wild guppy project it's so fucking over.
>>4886684wow!do you have any other fish besides guppies?
>>48867634 copper corydoras, 1 bristlenose female, 4 ghost shrimp and 4 otocinclus boring stuff since I just started out and people here don't keep fish so there is no market.
>>4886730if you found one guppy I'm sure there are 100 more unseen. a lot of common pet store fish come from south america, but most of them are native closer to the equator than paraguay is. idk how connected the waterways are but I wouldn't be suprised if you found neon tetras and corys and shit like that.
How many guppies can you fit in a 20 gallon?
>>4886803Yes
>>4886693Fish have magic properties desu and their water has electrolytes Plants crave electrolytes
>>4886811some retard in a fish group im in was chirping off literal google AI results stating that 1 guppy requires 5 gallons and you need 2 additional gallons per added guppy. i called her out and she had a meltie>so you're telling me you need a 40gal for 20 guppies?>IT'S NOT ABOUT WHAT'S ADEQUATE IT'S ABOUT WHAT'S BEST REEEEEI don't even keep guppies and I knew this bitch was retarded. She then proceeded to post a 20gal with probably 20+ cichlids>you're not serious>IT'S A QUARANTINE TANK IT DOESN'T COUNT>tank is fully planted>fully scaped>clearly agedgod I love shitting on retards
>>4886813Based
>>4886813To give a more serious answer, if you have no filter or plants, you'd probably be limited to 5-10 guppies and changing a quarter of the water every week. But with even a medium sponge filter and a few stem plants, sky's the limit. Guppies are both pretty hardy (the ones that aren't inbred as shit) and very small, producing very little waste even if you overfeed them. At one point more than 30 adult guppies in a heavily planted and filtered 7 gallon tank, and that wasn't all that was in there, and the water never got cloudy, and nitrates never were measurable. It wasn't a good idea, but the point is you're hard pressed to overstock anything but a nano tank with tiny fish.
>>4886830yeah that's about what i figured. i wanna keep guppies but i know i'll end up wanting to breed them and that would get out of hand quick
Posting my first tank ever because why not>20g>8 cardinals >3 platys>1 swordtail>Like fucking 15 platy fry
>>4886914I really like it. Looks great.
Guys I found a worm (branchiobdellid) on my crayfish should I be worried?
>>4886914Looking really nice anon! I love blackwater aquariums - what kind of leaves do you have there?.. catappa are expensive where i live, so im adding 2-3 every other week. You seem to have like 50 leaves there. Are you using some “common” leaves like oak and such?..
>>4886995Thanks. Yep, just oak from a nice clean place at the top of a mountain
>>4886914>fucking 15 platy fryGive it a year, those will be 90+ fry and we'll have a new Flanders on our hands.
I didn't consider this when I bought it, but a shallow tank on a table is so easy to look into. it's a nice viewing angle. I may get the 4ft version of this tank one day.
>>4884461cool concept brotherdon't let these libs get you down
I got bubble algae! what would i need to deal with it? i've heard emerald crabs do a good job but they're reef safe with caution so I'm hesitant about them
Perhaps I got screwed over because I can't tell if the fertilizer did anything.
>>4887279It's also incredibly easy to maintain in a lot of ways. Every nook and cranny is easy to reach.>>4887379That's not bubble algae. Those are dinos. Bubble algae bubbles are like fruit boba. Liquid filled skin that you can pop. The bubbles themselves are single cell organisms.The bubbles you see is oxygen being given off as the dinos go through photosynthesis (vs. bubble algae being filled with water). Unfortunately emerald crabs won't do anything with what you have.I'm 100% sure someone below will tell you a single solution for all dinos; they're idiots. There are quite a few types of dinos, and not all of them can be dealt with the same way. Some can be easily dealt with via UV sterilization; some aren't even affected by that as they aren't free floating. Some are better dealt with via silicon dosing. Some are better dealt with via increasing nutrients. You are unfortunately going to have to figure it out.
>>4883514What are these white dots on the glass in my lobster tank? They move somewhat in a zigzag motion, occasionally stopping. Are these ciliates?
>test planted tank last week>0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, ~50ppm nitrate >Do water change in preparation of buying skrimps when paid, assuming tank is cycled>This week, do tests again>0 ammonia, 5ppm nitrite, 10ppm nitrate Nani the fuck? I'm pretty good about digging rotting stuff out and I refuse to believe the bladder snails alone are putting off that much waste. There aren't even that many of them yet.On a somewhat related note, does surface area of the sponge media matter for how much water it filters or is it flow rate? Both? I'm using pic related as a replacement for the piece of shit Sunsun Filter I bought, and it's doing a good job of moving water and not getting plugged up so far, but I noticed that the actual bacteria sponge is puny, just sitting at the bottom of the inlet.
>>4887420Could just be variants of copepods.
>>4887448Surface area. More the better, you really can't have too much until your filter is bigger than the display. Even then.Most in-tank filters are really only mechanical filtration, doesn't mean you'll be limited as such, just that majority of the work will be done on the surfaces of the aquascape/substrate.As for the spike, I wouldn't be too concerned so long as the ammonia stays low, it will naturally lag behind as the population increases due to availability. It could be that you generated too much recently, or too little and there was subsequent die-off until things even back out again.
>>4887481Yeah I did a 50% change to help clear out the excess nitrates, and then promptly killed my heater by forgetting to unplug it because I'm retarded. Thankfully had a spare lying around so no harm no foul. I think I'll just go minute of eyeball with it from now on and add a small sponge filter down the line. Might help move the damn frogbit around more since it just clumps in the front center of the tank now. Also Jesus Christ people weren't memeing when they said that shit takes over the surface in no time cause it's been a month and I started with like 2 little clumps. Looks nicer than duckweed imo.
>>4887534Presumably easier to harvest than duckweed too. Never again. Good export but jeez.
Talk me out of buying one of these rimless aquascaping faggot tanks. They're a ripoff but look so nice I think they might buy me some points with the wife.
>>4887568Once you hit about 80g it's usually cheaper to get one made locally and have a stand built.Personally, I'm a bracing guy even if it is just the perimeter.Get serious with a smaller one, see how it goes.
>>4886812So if I up my electrolyte intake, I'll grow gills?>>4886852Just cull the babies, my lemon and black phantom tetras both enjoy the snack. It kind of sucks to catch and send them to death, but it's good food and saves hassle down the road. >>4887534Frog leg also has sexy long roots. Between that and Hornwort, I've been dick weed free and happy for the past year.
>>4887568if you are not going to actually go all-in with top tier equipment, gluing plants to driftwood, using glass pipes, carpeting with co2 and using lots of time on it in general - then its a waste of moneywhen aquarium is healthy, where everything is thriving and stable - it will look great regardless of how the rims are madeand if you fuck up with fundamentals and neglect it - it will look like a big old ass regardless of being rimlessone of my coworkers went all-in, despite my advice, while having a house and two small children to take care of - i wonder if he can keep it up on the same level after a year, or i get to buy some cheap ADA hardware soon ( pic related )in short, think about how serious you are going to be about fishkeeping - its a hobby for years, not weeks or months
>>4887587>So if I up my electrolyte intake, I'll grow gills?Only if you believe in yourself enough
My mphanga used to be a top dog in the aquarium everyone feared him, now I come home from work and the now bigger saulosi bullied him so bad he has a hole in his head :(
>>4887763might want to give him metro and kanamycin in food. Hole in the head in cichlids is usually a symptom of an internal bacterial/flagellate parasite infection. If so, the fish will slowly become sicker and sicker and then eventually die.I would give metro (gram positive antibiotic) for the internal infection causing the HITH and also give kanamycin (gram positive antibiotic) to keep any opertunistic secondary infections at bay so he can heal.
Got one of my dream fish today! 100$ but worth it. Chameleon whiptails get up to 12 in long (mine is hand sized) and bury themselves in the sand like stingrays. Here is the catch however. I just put him into a dirty planted father fish style sand capped dirted 125g that has been up for about a year now. A tank I don't waterchange nearly enough, which is an issue for a fish built to live in rapids. I waterchanged and cleaned a ton of stuff recently though, and today while I was acclimating him, I did a massive 30% water change and cleaned out all of the mulm catchers and propellers in my tank. I will have to be very on top of things for this fish.Most of this concern stemmed from a video by wierd british girl who is a loracarid expert saying its a horrible idea to put loracarids in dirted tanks, while she also made passive agressive vauge jabs at americans, father fish/walstad aquarists, and those without college education every five seconds throughout the video. I lost a big wild caught royal farlowella I had for around a month for seemingly no reason, so I am definitely too nervous when getting big rare loricarids to not take her advice seriously. Or maybe he just had internal parasites that killed him? Wild caught and all... We will see what becomes of the chameleon. Officially most expensive fish I have purchased.
Is there really no intervention I can take to help clear bacterial bloom? I had to leave my tank unattended for about 12 days, during which I had to have the light turned up higher for the timer to work. Either that or the automatic feeding has caused bacterial bloom and cloudy water.Do I just have to wait it out?
>>4887835 (me)Here's the tank viewed from the front, the bloom is only really apparent when looking down the length of the tank
>>4887837Don't think that's specifically a bloom, just classic cloudy water caused by higher organic load than the filtration can manage. Probably mostly the plant bits, you don't have a lot of fish and I'd guess your nitrates stay low without intervention. But you do have a very small filter, if that one on the right is all you've got.
>plants have started growing so much that my options are either to sell or trash the trimmingsis it worth the hassle of facebookposting bros?
>>4887860What plants? If it's cheap shit, no, if it's rare, yes.
>>4887845The picture doesn't show the HOB part of the filter, it's rated for 55 gallon tanks (130 GPH) and this is just a 30. Dead plant matter sounds like a possible cause though, I was previously letting some big java fern leaves turn brown and disintegrate on the basis that it would be natural, but I ended up trimming them off the other day.I want to put about 10 more neon tetras in there but I think I should wait for the water to clear up first.
>>4887864blood red rotala
>java fern turned into a turd and now it's sprouted a new rhizome>rhizome is getting healthy leavesshould I yoink it off? or?
>>4887901You can trim off the brown/yellow parts and let the new grow in. This happens with aquatic plants sometimes.
>>4887914so just cut off the old plant?
>>4887948Be careful and don't massacre the rhizome but essentially yes. You don't have to do it all in one shot.
hey aquanons thoughts on dosing tanks with hydrogen peroxide?
What Barley Extract would you recommend? I used smartpond naturals Liquid Barley from Lowes that's rated for 9,000 gallons and it didn't clean up my pond which is 650 gallons after a few water changes
>>4887471Yeah I looked at them under a microscope and they're harpacticoid copepods, I also saw some rotifers and paramecium
>>4887794I literally saw how the other one bite the chunk out of his head
spooky scary skeletons
>>4887958Yeah depends on what you're trying to accomplish. Algae destruction with a side of oxygen depletion, go for it.Spot removal, eh, spot with caution.
>>4887583I keep going around and around about a stand. Reddit retards always saying 'just build your own' is about as useful to me as telling aspie virgins to 'b yrself.' I also don't want a big ugly dark wooden fucker but I also feel like everything I can find new is a terrible ripoff.So having one made locally does sound appealing, if I can find someone.
>>4888144>dad never showed me how to work a circular saw or a drill>projects people who can as r*dditshiggy diggy, nice dubs though
>>4887804You got the link on that vid?Also, that's a cool ass fish
if a red plant turns green is there a way to make it turn back red?
>>4888199aquarium safe paint. i use krylon fusion.
>>4888202xd
>>4888204seriously though redness is usually iron. something like easy iron or some other iron supplement will usually be your best bet. Some plants will go red again on the currently extant leaves, but some will only go red on new growth. And some plants naturally have redder new leaves that will dull into a green over time so to keep them red you just need to keep them trimmed and fertilized.
>>4888221will the iron effect the fish?
>>4888222picrel is a fatal dose of iron but norealistically no reasonable dose of iron is going to cause issues with fish in a planted aquarium. most iron issues are from very high levels related to pipes or groundwater in iron rich areas. the other thing is light. Most red plants also need high light levels to show optimal redness. And you can also kind of bullshit things with custom or expensive lighting where you can adjust redness.
>>4888224also i forgot to add the main non-fish related side effect of trying to redmaxx is iron+light is also what most filamentous algaes like so you need to be kind of meticulous with maintenance and/or biosec to avoid a bba/staghorn/hair algae mess.
>>4888199Increasing the light intensity can help bring out reds. You could also drop water level and lower lights, but depends on your setup
>>4888231by lower the lights, I mean get them closer to the water surface
>>4888167Oh sorry, I thought I put that in the posthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXn5DIBjzFoI have mixed thoughts about her. On one side she is surely a high quality source of information and a rare fish enjoyer, but on the other hand she has that "errm actually the science says you chuds are wrong and killing your fish" kind of attitude. Yeah the catfish is cool. I was checking on him throughout the night and while breathing a little quicker than I am comfortable with he was moving around the tank while I wasn't looking. He would always bury himself when I shined my light on him. Ironically, buyers regret and anxiety over my tank not being good enough for this fish was the final straw that broke the camels back of me accepting I have an anaerobic soil problem in that tank. I think both my sand and soil are too deep, which I did on purpose becuase I made the tank with geophagus and burrowing fish in mind (I know, retarded) and was worried about them digging up the soil. I have had the tank up for a year, but since 5 months ago all the substrate plants stopped growing and became sickly. Does anyone know a way to fix the issue with my substrate without polluting the water with soil/unbalancing everything and killing this prized catfish?I am thinking of adding some more MTSAlso my stupid snakeskin gourami keeps shitting 24/7 and making a giant mess in the tank because the shit is too heavy to vaccume.
>>4888224Made me laugh award
>>4888244i agree with the dirted aquariums being retarded for plecos but i don't like dirted/capped aquariums anyways. I prefer just running aquasoil for heavily planted tanks. For a lightly planted tank I prefer UGF.i disagree with the idea that our aquariums should actively try to mimic wild habitats though because aquariums are managed aquatic systems and are about as natural as a flower bed or garden pot arrangement. truly natural aquatic systems are incredibly complex and only function on very large scales. attempting to cargo cult nature is an exercise in futility, just design what you like looking and and want to maintain. and dont be retarded and try to keep a too big fish in a too small box obviously. like people are still throwing baby plecos in a 10 gallon and you're worried about what kind of substrate they use?note that i am not actually watching this video because I refuse to listen to women speak. i will consider their arguments in writing though.
>>4888234>>4888224it's a 5 gallon tank, I just have a hygger 14W full spectrum light, lowered as much as possible on the tank. I also have a blackout curtain behind the tank that gets opened during the day (unless it's hot) to provide more light through the whole tank.
>>4888261>lowered as much as possiblethat's probably your main problem. higher light will cause more algae, but that's part of why a lot of the showier plants are considered harder to take care of/higher maintenance.
>>4888258Yeah, her idea was pretty straight foward to me. Plecos are river and stream/brook.creek fish, not lake fish or swamp fish, and do not live in dirty/mucky areas naturally. (Chameleon whiptails are rapids fish, so this is especially true with them) That seems fine enough for me to grasp. But then she also let on that she wouldn't put any fish in a dirted tank (supicion meter rises) and made a jab that she thinks that soiled tank methods are built off of a misunderstanding of ecosystems (So you are calling us stupid?) in north america of all places (and insulting american the american? As a european, and a br***sh "person"?) First of all fuck off, and also you say that as if your country is not completely paved over for your 6 gorillion people and immigrants packed like sardines. I think you have a misunderstanding of ALL aquatic ecosystems because the only ones in your kingdom are manmade canals!Retard rant aside>i disagree with the idea that our aquariums should actively try to mimic wild habitatsI dissagre with that. Fish thrive more the closer an aquarium is to their natural local habitat. A flower bed CAN be made very natural and with the right management and additions can be made very close to a mini version of a natural habitat. Sure, while a bed of flowers left alone will never be natural, we, through understanding how wild environments work, can maintain things that our little artifical habitat can't handle due to its small size, and make it very close to a tiny slice of the real deal. Such is so with aquariums. We will never be able to replicate the constant water turnover of a running body of water, but we can waterchange, employ plants, and the like to cover for that enough for the aquarium to be like a slice of the environment we want to mimic. I think if possible, it is important for example, to establish as many of the food chain (below the fish obviously) as productively and sustainably as possible. Eg, inverts.
>>4888294i mean you can do that and pursue that, but at the same time that is not required for a fish to be well cared for, healthy and happy. If you're doing that because it makes YOU happy more power to you. similar deal with ecotope tism, i personally don't care for it but i can understand why people would like doing it, but the fixation on a naturalistic environment is more of a human fixation IMO, fish will adapt to what they have. A few generations in pet store conditions divorce fish from anything strictly 'natural'. Even at a biological level. And a lot of the fish we keep have been in captivity for hundreds or thousands of generations. my main thing is this hobby is a big enough space for lots of different styles and as long as you're not neglecting your fish or obviously doing things designed to harm them, I don't see a point in crying 'abuse' or 'improper care'.
>>4888285honestly my algae isn't that bad. the hydra is another story.
>>4888321if you're keeping any livebearers or anabantoids just dont feed for a couple of days and that should solve the hydra issue, they'll eat them all. but like algae hydra are mostly just an aesthetic issue.
>order 10 Malawa shrimp>receive like 25Guess that's a good sign that they breed well... Hopefully more than just males survive this time.
>>4888327just a betta and snails
>>4887568it's only cool on the shallows imo. the rim isn't that noticeable on standard sizes.
Anybody have experience mixing betta and pea puffers? I have a pair of puffs with pygmy corys that I'd like to swap into my 20 long(make room to grow guppy fry) with a betta, cardinals, and a mix of cory orphans from my lfs. Both the betta and puffs seem to be chill(all females too) with eachother and their community tanks. Betta just a plakat body, so fins shouldn't be tempting. Just looking for thoughts. >>4887568Buy whatever tank you want, rimmed are just as functional but lack the variety of shapes of rimless.>>4887860See if lfs will take, mine doesn't give me a ton(not that i care as i take mainly guppies and val), but I come out with freebies and she's open to cutting me deals anytime I go(people remember kindness).>>4888010Dude has a microscope and ability to identify copapod species...You're supposed to answer our low iq questions wizard man. >>4884639I think most tetras have some killer in them, they're the terriers of the nano fish world imo.
>>4888492so long as it's a plakat or female i think they *should* be fine especially if you've kept them awhile and monitored temperaments. Pea puffers in a community tank is one of those things that most people advise against mostly because most advice is targeted at the lowest common denominator. I've never found that bettas have cared to pick fights with puffers. Face/finnage is very different so they don't get pissy with them and plakats are faster swimmers and can get away as long as you have some los breaks. I used to keep one with amazon puffers a long time ago and they were fine. I even have a pair that I keep with neocaridina/amano shrimp, no babies in that tank but they don't bother the adults. Aquarium co-op actually has an amano in their pea puffer tank, it's one of those ancient dinosaur amanos thats like 3 inches long though so it can defend itself. Puffers can be utter shits though. Had another group pick the eyes off of every oto in their tank.
>>4888495nta call me a faggot but bettas are the one fish i wont risk shit like that with. too much personality it feels awful when they die.
>>4888512a pea puffer is not going to gank a betta. nipping fins sure, but if you're paying attention you will be able to extract them from that situation before it becomes a problem. I sort of agree and have done some silly things to keep SMASHED and SLAMMED bettas limping along for a few more months, but I consider Pinky to be the only fish in my collection who has a soul.
Can a nigga get some fishy memes
>>4888593i forgot to save the soigeon one
>>4888593NoYou should start a tank and watch your fishies do fishy meme shit and it will be just as good if not better
what would cause a sponge filter to start pulling in on itself like this? It looked normal yesterday.
hammock axo (rarely uses it)
>>4888692I want an axolotl but they seem like such sensitive creatures that it wouldn't be fun.
>>4888701I've had one or two scares in the first year where he had the white puffy fungus on gills, I didn't end up doing Methalene blue it just went away with enough water changes. He gets the zoomies at night but it's coming up on 2 years now, only chore is weekly 10Gal water change in his 20gal tank. Did it this morn took only 20 mins. I love him so much give them a try someday anon I got mine from a breeder ivysaxolotl for less than $100pic rel is how smol he was when i got him now he's > 11in!
>>4888706>11" animal in 20g tankMaybe get him a bigger tank, anon. 40G breeder or better.
>>4888602wtf is this real??
>>4888692>>4888706what a beautiful creature!post more pictures anon
>>4888725Thank you! I need to make some gifs
>>4888733obesity is an epidemic
Still tinkering around with GIF quality to get under the 4mb but here is a CHOMP
how can I make my tank stop looking so "dusty"? i assume it's just a mixture of algae and detritus but I do 2 water changes a week even though it's been cycled for months and still can't get ahead of it. there's only a betta and some snails and a couple shrimps.
>>4888743Haha yeah he can get bloated, I'm not a "heckin wholesome chungus" owner bloat and overfeeding can kill. He's mostly normal now
>>4888744whtas that hes eating?.. frozen brine shrimp?
Would a 14 gallon be enough for a pair of ocellaris clownfish?
>>4888744GIF nigga? Make a webm
>>4888829Yes. I have mine in a 14gal. Although it helps if you have some coral that they can host. Then they mostly stay in one place. Picrel my two clowns playing peekaboo in the xenia.
>>4888747What do you mean by "dusty"? Is there stuff on the bottom? Can you add some more details? And maybe a picture?
>>4888667obstructed flowsomething stuck in the pipes
>>4888244>looks like a british woman>has a horrible accent that you can't understand; it's straight out of "secret eaters".>doesn't know the difference between "plecos" and "pleco's", but claims she's a phd student keksus maximus>makes a 16-minute video that nobody's gonna watch>gets her knickers wet over plecos, of all things>the ugliest fucking fish on God's blue planetoh my, what a channel pogchamp
>>4888972>ugliest fucking fish on God's blue planetmaybe if you're a poorfag
>>4888829>>4888887Probably the biggest saltwater youtuber, coralfish12g (now George Mavrakis), got his start by keeping a pair of clownfish in a 12g tank in his dorm room (and I believe he still has them). So I agree, not just possible, but also a rather common thing in pico saltwater tanks. People have even kept anemone to host clownfish in a 10G cube before, although I've personally never done anemone in less than 20G. Note: I am not advocating for coralfish12g. He's gone to the dark side of YouTube/social media farming and very likely scummy behind the scenes. Definitely no longer the kid putting out solid saltwater info in his bedroom. On the other hand he does put out entertaining videos. When you've been in the hobby for a long ass time, how-to video channels are absolutely useless and his videos travelling the world are interesting even if they're super clickbaity.
>>4888972>can't be ugly/autistic and talk about a nicheAlright
>>4888972>makes a 16-minute video that nobody's gonna watch>gets her knickers wet over plecos, of all thingsThat sounds 100% like a PhD candidate, lmao. Didn't watch the video though so I have no idea if what you're typing is spot on or what.
>>4889000NTA, but pleco's and cories are just fucking ugly.
>>4889004>On the other hand>Interesting if clickbaityDude.
>>4888967How would a blockage in the pipes cause a low pressure upstream?The sponge is the blockage.
>>4888244Your soil isn't anaerobic, it's run out of nutrients for the root feeders. Use root tabs, get burrowing snails or more burrowing fish just to be safe, and you'll be fine.
>>4889000That thing is hideous. What a waste of digits for some fish that looks like ass.>>4889019She's British, too. Don't forget about that.>>4889094Based
will ramshorns eat hydra?
>>4887095>Give it a year, those will be 90+ fry and we'll have a new Flanders on our hands.You say that like it's a bad thing. Flandertanks are based.
>>4887804>Most of this concern stemmed from a video by wierd british girl who is a loracarid expertYour first mistake was listening to a woman.Your second mistake is listening to a self-declared 'expert'.
>>4888972And what kind of fish do you find attractive, pleco-hater-anon? There's fishes out there like stargazers that make plecos look like beauty queens (they are)
>>4889094Cringe. What did Loricariodei do to you?
>>4889095Feel free to keep watching the same videos about the nitrogen cycle then. He's one of the few fishtubers that actually put out content for people who aren't new to the hobby. It's just really unfortunate that his videos are edited to catch the attention of tiktok rotted brains. Like do I want to see a video of someone discovering a new species of fish in the middle of the Amazon? Or going to Dubai to see crazy aquariums? Yeah, I would definitely rather see that then Joey playing musical chairs with his fish gallery or some giga-autist talking about how to set up a planted tank for the 1000000th time.
>>4889436They're just not pleasing to look at, all goofy looking and turn into huge ugly fuckers. IMO.>>4889457You make it sound like those are the only options lol.Fuck Joey though, he's a certified cunt..
>>4889457His content seems to cover a wide breadth but not enough depth for non-beginner hobbyists (or hobbyists in general). The tiktok editing is to catch the general audience his stuff appears to be geared towards. As for content for people past the rainbow gravel livebearer phase there's a dearth of autists talking about the fish's adaptations and taxonomy. One of those people was the subject of some discussion earlier in the thread. There are others out there, however.
tourist here, any down side of feeding tubifex to guppies?
>>4889610>any down side of feeding tubifex to guppiesnot to my knowledgeyou cant feed them only the worms though - fish need other vitamins/minerals tooat least feed them some good quality flakes along with tubifex, and they should be finea tiny concern - live and frozen tubifex might be too long for a small male guppy to consume, so chop them up before feedingits been a while since i had guppies though, so other anons might be more up-to-date with their diet
>>4889610There's no downside to doing anything with guppies. Some of them die, the rest of them reproduce, no matter what you do.
Met father fish at the convention this weekend. Good guy. All father fish haters are obsessed. Also the british pleco woman was there.
>>4889673what about our One True Fishlord?!did you have a chance to bow down to the Glorious Cory McElroy?!
>>4889694he wasn't up to flying to PN I take it
>>4889796>PNFreedom hater detected
>>4889657>>4889664My main concern involve the sludge worms may contain toxins and make the fish sick or even die.Alternatively, I have been feeding them flakes and moina/daphnia, been searching for live wigglers or bloodworms even, but I cannot get the live version, my local store only sell freeze dried versions of them, but there shouldn't be any difference with the live version right?
>>4889610guppies breed like rats no matter what you do with them. Hell, you don't even have to bother with the live food and they'll still turn your tank into aquatic Mumbai in a few months
>>4889949>aquatic Mumbai I kek'd
>>4889949
>>4889960Do the Poecileedful
I want to build an aquarium, 600 liters/158 gallons one.Do I have to get treated/laminated glass and so forth?
>>4890124No. It is exceedingly rare for an aquarium made from laminated glass. Tempered glass is sometimes used but not if you are planning to drill the tank, which I imagine you would at that size. Generally just float glass is used, and with larger sized tanks, often low iron.These are really basic questions and I'm a little concerned you're taking on a large project without knowing these things already.
>>4890129I should mention not all the panels need to be the same. E.g. a single aquarium could have tempered glass bottom but float sides with low iron only on three of the five panels, so it would have, in total, three low iron float panels, one normal float panel, one normal tempered panel.DIY people tend to just use one type of glass all the way around though for simplicity and sometimes cost as sometimes getting multiple types shipped is more expensive than getting one type shipped.
>>4890129Yes it will be my first one, I want to make a freshwater mangrove aquarium.I only have experience fish farming Colossoma macropomum, I have zero experience with aquariums.I had a few Colossoma macropomum left in a pond I made but the giant otters ate them.I just like to look at the fish swimming.
>>4890132i would never recommend anyone to build their own aquariummost definitely not a 600L aquariumthere was a guy from the middle east itt, several years ago, who actually built a rather big aquarium, having zero knowledge about aquariums and fishkeepinghe was very active, posting pictures of the progress and such, and disappeared shortly after finishing that DIY project - i am absolutely sure that it ended up in a disastermain reasons for not building your own aquarium, especially one of that size:>risk of having to repair your floor is much higher than cost of buying a factory-made aquarium>materials will end up costing up to 2/3 of a new aquarium of that size ( pic related, even though it was the first page i found, and it might be cheaper where you live, it will still be pricy )besides, if you dont have experience with building aquariums, you will end up having ugly "seams", where the silicone glue is unevenyou will need to reinforce the structure with additional glass pieces in the top - it usually looks like assalso, unless you have have all the needed gear, workshop space and prior knowledge of how to work with glass, it will cost you additional money and timeim sure its not something you wanted to hear, and you are welcome to jump right into it i would love to see and read about your progress - such projects are always very entertaining
>>4890242I'd never buy those plants, I'd just go by a river and pick some up.Same as rocks and every thing else.Also, the fish, plenty of acaras here, several other ornamental types that die on seasonal dry season.I'm only banging my head around getting the mangroves, which, I think some are protected by environmental laws and I do not want any trouble.I've seen the DIY youtube videos with acrylic, some other people bought the parts and so forth.I will do a little more research, there is no hurry.For 600 litters I would need 12mm glass, I can get the sizes and ask for it to be fitted, same as every thing else.The only bother would be the support, I have been in dire need of another book stand, maybe I will get a really sturdy one and put the aquarium on top of it, there is mahogany and other types of sturdy furniture here.
>>4890253>book stand>that will hold 1500lbsLol, lmao. You're gonna do so much fucking damage to your house.
>>4890255These are regular 600 liters aquariums, the furniture to hold them is not sturdy at all, really thin plywood.The floor in my house is concrete with ceramic tiles.
>>4890261Okay anon, I will offer this advice once because I mean it and because I want to say I told you so if you go putting large aquarium on shitty paperboard stand:If your stand fails, it's not like a tank leak where it slowly drips out over several hours. When the stand fails it will tip and deposit the entire tank on to the floor from height, tank shatters, entire 600 liters go on your floor instantly. This is not the part you ever want to play fast and loose on. Besides which, it is not difficult or expensive to build a stand that can easily handle it with a saw and a drill and an arm load of 2x4s.
>>4890268I am aware, there are wood protected by law where I live which I can easily acquire from trees that were cut many years ago, it will last forever and a half regardless of how much weight you put on top of it.
>>4890270please post progress pictures when you start on your project!
>>4890282I will try, if I can make it work I will probably turn it into some sort of 24 hour camera or something, if I can figure out how, although I am in a rural area with starlink and the internet goes down sometimes when it switches satellites.
I don't hate father fish but why does everyone do tricks on his dick when he literally just yoinked the walstad method, called it his own, and used it to grift retards into buying his backyard mud?
I love facebook groups because they confirm every stereotype in this hobby without fail. Just saw a female chink with a 50gal asking if flakes were good enough for the 9 comets inside of it.
>>4890292I don't know much about father fish but Diana walstad didn't invent the method. And doesn't father fish never do water changes and walstad suggests you do still? Im sure there are some other differences
>>4890309>Diana Walstad didn't invent the Walstad method...anon?
>>4890318it was invented by Duke of Walstad in 13th century, and was widely used by European fish keepers of that periodDiana Cohen stole his idea from some medieval manuscript, and later changed her last name to Walstad - capitalizing on "her" invention
>>4890327I wish this was true
>>4890318"The first attempts at creating aquariums that closely mimicked natural ecosystems began in the mid-1800s, following the development of public aquariums in cities like London and Berlin. Early aquarists experimented with creating sustainable environments for aquatic plants and animals, but their understanding of ecology was limited."
I never understood using soil or fertilizer in aquariums. Don't you want the plants to use fish waste?
>>4890255https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqzgn1MkEpU
>>4890336victorian aquariums are pretty dope. they used to have tanks with cast iron bottoms and little bunsen burners built in, for keeping tropical fish.
ahh, betta fish groups never get old>guys please help my fish is visibly bloated here's a pic>UHMMM PLEASE UPLOAD 18 DIFFERENT ANGLES SO WE CAN TELL YOU TO DO A WATER CHANGE AND SEND YOU ON YOUR WAY
>>4890342Fish waste is not nutritionally complete, usually high in Nitrogen and phosphorus but low in potassium and trace elements. Furthermore it isn't immediately available for plant uptake, it needs breaking down further by microbes, which live in the soil and root systems. Fertiliser salts in comparison are immediately available for plants. If you have even moderately bright lights, your plants are going to struggle to stay healthy with just fish waste. With modern high light high CO2 systems, plants simply tear themselves apart without additional fertiliser.
how the fuck do you gravel vacuum sand substrate that's also carpeted? feels like im destroying my tank any time i try to clear some of the mulm and detritus
sometimes i think about the day I'll have to put my betta down and start crying randomly i dont think im cut out for this hobby
>>4890510just own a guppy tank until you've seen enough death to become numb to it.
>>4890503you don't. use a turkey baster to shoot water into your carpeting plants and vacuum the stuff that floats up. you can just tie it to the end of your hose for quicker work.
Can anyone tell if this blue rcs is male or female?It kind of looks like a female from the shape of its abdomen, but the translucent portion's actually its abnormally large swimmerets. I'm genuinely unsure because I shined a light over and could see what looks like greenish yellow organs/guts inside that could be eggs, but they're not in the typical location for a saddle
>>4890557Fuck forgot the pic
>>4890421>Feed it a pea>Glowup>One or two pellets per day>Leave a mirror next to his tank to keep him company if your tank is too small fr two
>>4890558>>4890557No saddle = almost certainly male
>>4890309>walstad suggests you do stillShe doesn't, but nice try shilling though.
>>4890421How tf does a water change help with bloating?
>>4890612less available fluid means less fluid for bloating my guy
>>4890610Yes she does you clown
>>4890610This same bozo probably tells people using a filter and heater isn't a walstad method also
>>4890656>less water changesGood morning sir, this is Steve from the local fish store, asking for a direct quote of Diana Walstad stating that. Please to do the needful and include the quote, sir.
>>4890621pls help i took my betta out of the water and rolled him in desiccating silica sand. he's not bloated anymore, but he might also be dead? what do?
>>4890654See >>4890713. I'm not reading some shitty article written by a brown guy who doesn't even speak proper English.If you have a source of her saying that, then post it; otherwise go back to looking at your shitty tank, if you even have one.Father Fish says not to change your water in basically every video (except the ones where he's preaching in church).
>>4890713>>4890725Are you bozos even doing a walstad tank or you heard a few things and talking out of your ass? Cause if you are you really need to research more about the method
>>4890748>heard a few things and talking out of your assthat'd be 80% of fourchan poststhe best criteria for post quality itt, is posting your aquarium along with anything you say
>>4890759>that'd be 80% of fourchan postsAn optimist. I like it.
So /aq/ I have your bog standard 40g breeder that I want to turn into a saltwater tank, would I be able to put a seahorse or 2 in there or is there not enough room/vertical height for one? If not I can settle for my original plan of some clownfish.Also can I settle with buying a regular canister filter for the tank or will I need a sump
>>4890796https://www.aquaticplantcentral.com/threads/no-water-changes-ever-walstad-vs-father-fish.145423/Dumb cunt thinks it's from 2006 when it says joined 2006, I actually cannot. No one gives a shit what you do with your 5 gallon ignorant peasant
It's hilarious how everyone on the internet discusses the Walstad method but no one has ever read the fucking book.I mean I haven't either, but just saying
>don't change water for a month>TDS has slowly dropped from 350 to 300 in that timeThanks plants, very cool
>>4883514Just got a new betta buddy for my 10 gallon tank. He's a dragon scale, and was marked 50% off because his one eye (not shown) had diamond scaling almost all the way over. A bit of a rescue pet in that regard. He just called to me out of all the fish at the store.Here's my question, how much of a risk does his clear eye have in developing diamond scaling? Not at all as it should have happened by now, or almost guaranteed? Either way I'm going to train him to feed from the same spot after a soft tap on the tank in case he loses his vision.For anyone who cares, cycled ten gallon at 80F with 0ppm parameters and planted live plants and sponge filter.
>>4890270nigga go to the hardware store
>>4890292Father Fish welcomes fags into his church and discord
>>4891021I haveit's a good book but I have only ever kept one tank that way and I hated it. technology that makes your life easier is good, technology that makes it harder is bad. both exist in aquatics. But for some people fucking with some finicky shit to get some dumbass parameter optimized is half of their fun.
>>4891021>>4891267imagine not only listening to women, but actually spending money on their books.i'd rather sell my aquarium
>>4890856>make false claims about the walstad method>gets owned by diana walstad herself>from the very same link he posted>picrel for proofmany such cases
>>4891289Holy shit you're such a faggot no wonder you're single
>>4891289gayest shit ever posted in /aqg/ holy kys
>>4891283>Based department? You're not gonna believe this.
if im trying to get dwarf hairgrass to spread should i pull some out and replant it? i have co2 and everything i just want it to spread faster.
>>4891348>>4891355You're either samefagging and shitting up the thread, or taking the bait and shitting up the thread.You're a retard either way, take your attention-seeking behavior somewhere else.
>>4891402lmao sneed about it
1 day old caradina mutt, it's got blue bolt and crystal black genes.I love shrimp, simple as.
is it true that japanese fish keepers put crystals and shit on their filter's outflow to 'harmonize' the water?
>>4891412yesalso, based behaviorOH MY SCIENCE I CAN'T BELIEVE PEOPLE FALL FOR THIS STUPID SUPERSTITION YOU JUST NEED TO WATER CHANGE EVERY WEEK NO MATTER WHAT EVEN IF YOUR NITRATE IS 0
>>4891362you can. I would stick scissors into the substrate and try to snip between runners. but it's best not to disturb it. buy another clump and propagate it outside.
>>4891417Take your meds schizo. You literally just triggered yourself on a completely unrelated topic.
>>4890778It's a little short for a lot of the seahorses that are kept, however dwarf seahorses exist. I wouldn't personally run a saltwater tank of that size or larger without a sump, but many people do just fine.
>>4891412Sounds more like a Chinese thing. Similar to how they'll put like fucking seven or 11 goldfish in a tiny bowl because of fengshui (and they cope by saying when the fish die, they are absorbing all the bad juju).
>>4891402Pretty sure the faggot that is making up shit and posting shitty gifs is the attention seeker and you're most likely samefagging instead of shutting the fuck up. Get over being wrong and looking like a fool it happens to all of us, but this is an anon board and you don't need to drag it on.
>Faggot duckweed is accumulating in a corner so hard from dual flow that it's piling up below and above the surface so hard that mould is growing on the peakFucking beast.
>>4891348i've been married for 8 years, meanwhile you're ChatLGBT's best friend>>4891402not bait. go to the link shared by that discord butt-nugget. she did say that a walstad tank can go without water changes indefinitely. those quotes are real (especially the last one). even in his own screenshot, he had this: "a well-established planted tank can be kept without water changes". not sure why everyone has such a hard time understanding this concept:1) you add food for the fish2) the plants take care of the fish waste, while also absorbing salts/metals/whatever3) you remove plants regularly (especially floating ones)4) you top off with waterversus1) you remove some water from the aquarium2) you add some waterthere is new water added to the aquarium either way, why tf some autists feel the need to remove water out of their aquarium is beyond me.>>4891430>nooo, i'm not samefagging, you're samefagging>no, you>has anyone seen my gluten-free tofu supplements?go back
>>4891423take drugs normalfag, loosen up, have some fun>NOOOO ONLY SERIOUS DISCUSSIONS HERE YOU CANT SHITPOST >:(
>>4891525>married for 8 years>gay marriage legalized for 9 yearsalready knew you were a fag but thanks for telling us
>>4891525Jesus if I was this desperate and lonely I'd kms
I put Roseafolia in a jar of bio-stratum what next? GSA has taken over the leaves. It's never been more over than it is right now huh?
>>4891425yeah that makes sense, I was planning on getting dwarfs if I can.that being said I wanna get algae "plants" for the tank which I don't know where they're sold online since I'm not familiar with saltwater websites
>>4891418cool thanks
>>4886830Platies are pretty similar in this sense and will interbreed with guppies right
>>4891668Similar but quite a bit larger - depending on the particular line, females are anywhere from 1.5x to 5x the size of guppies and males are 2x that because male guppies are very small.They won't interbreed, but swordtails will hybridize with any sort of platy (variatus and maculatus are separate species for some reason). Most big box platys are likely some mix of those three, but you can cross any of them with wild types, too
kinda mad i didnt clean the glass before he started flaring but still a cool pic i guess
Roseafolia beyond saving?
>>4891769is that green spot algae? kind of looks like beneficial bacteria, which you can wipe off the leaf easily. can be avoided by having a filter.
>>4891859mustache betta
>>4883983I had a similar thing happened, I did a water change and when I checked it was still red. I think you have to change more water/do more regular water changes and eventually you'll get most of the nitrate out. The way I see it, if your water is at 80 ppm and you do a half water change, you'll be around 40ppm which is still very red, so its hard to even see the difference just by looking at the test kit.
>>4891931betta steveharveyi
>>4891526>NOOO UUUUULmao I wasn't the one that was triggered (double triggered now), snowflake. Feel free to keep posting cope below though.
>>4891580Well, the defacto place is algaebarn.com, but they're expensive and out of stock all the fucking time. I believe they restock on Friday. Regardless, it's a decent place to get some idea of what you want and what is commonly available. Reefcleaners.org has much more reasonable prices but lower selection (however a huuuuge selection of cleanup crew inverts).I've actually had a lot of good luck with ebay sellers in the past, but that is pretty risky in terms of pests and store guarantees. One of the guys I've ordered from a couple times is pickyouraddiction (has a website here: https://addictivereefkeeping.com/), but I would only order from him if you're on the east coast (he is in Florida, I imagine he maricultures his stuff there, so again, there is a risk of pests that may be greater than the big online retailers). It's not something I do anymore now that I have a much larger system that's been established for years. The thought of a big pest outbreak or having to restart is not that big a deal back when I had a tiny little 20G, but now it'd be absolutely crushing. I do have a quarantine setup now but quarantining inverts, coral, and macro is less certain than proactively medicating fish and takes a lot more observation, which I cannot do at the moment (I'm a new dad).
