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My betta died after 3 years of having him :(
>>5038551That's a good life for a betta splendes. The males tend to start really degrading by 2 y/o.My current one is still going pretty strong but just hit 30 months with us (so is pushing 3 y/o). He's in hard water and I use the tank to breed various snails, but clearly doesn't care. They're basic bitch fish but I do love them. Might reuse the tank for a couple pair of sparkling gourami next, or get another betta.
How shallow can you make a aquarium? Are there any fish that could live in an inch of water?
>>5038459That's a cool white betta.How are there even so many variations of this one species of fish?
>>5038569Temporarily? A ton of them. Ricefish, bettas, tetras. Permanently? Only shit like mudskipper.
>>5038459How would you decorate this tank without obscuring the back wall? I like the how the red fish contrast with the black background but other than that the tank looks aesthetically boring. No plants.
>>5038615Inactive thread. I've decided I want to put a Java fern glued to Lava rock in the back right corner.Thanx for all the helpful advices!
>>5038578thanksbettas are easy to breed and old compared to most domesticated fish, they have had lots of time and chances to create different morphs.>>5038569consider the logistics of that, a heater would barely fit, cant use sponge filters, have to refill every hour, etc.>>5038615whispy non-stem plants like valis, whose excess growth is more vertical than horizontal
Anyone keep Sulawesi shrimp here? I plan on getting some in the next few months when enough algae and biofilm builds up
>>5038551He lived a long life
>pet store has been out of stock of my favourite tank size since i bought the last one nearly a year agomaybe i should learn glassworking
Can anyone here redpill me on microfauna in fish tanks?Ive come across some infomation lately that its a huge benefit to add microorganisms such as copepods into your aquarium to manage waste and detritus.
>breeding honey gourami pair>new tank>female introduced fine>male deteriorates, doesn't eat, dies in 3 daysthe only difference is that the male got his pecs stuck in the net for a few seconds during transfer, i guess he hurt himself trying to escape and that did him in. i used a jar to transfer the female, and will be doing so for every fish in the future. god fucking damn it. don't net gouramis
>>5038960the female spent all 3 days trying everything to court him while he swapped between lying in the sand and floating near the duckweed. it was depressing. he was even recovering for a while, getting more active, but he died overnight. i thought he would pull through. sorry for double posting but i really cared about him. he was so pretty when he was in breeding mode.
>>5038922The benefits are real, but it's hard to sustain them at populations to benefit the tank unless you don't have fish. Snails really do the same thing but without the same worries. One day I'd like to run a freshwater sump/refugium where I can grow daphnia that will slowly travel into the main tank.
>>5038971where could you even get copepods, daphnias, seed shrimps or fairy shrimp eggs for you tank tho?
>>5038984its very easy to ship eggs, some aquarium supply stores online should have them. or you can just try to capture small organisms from the wild and cultivate whatever you find in its own setup
>>5038987what's a good online store?I feel like getting them from the wild is also begging to get leeches and flatworms I wanna have vampire shrimps in a tank full of microfauna
>>5038994no leeches or worms if you raise them in a separate tank and isolate the animals you want. dont know any stores, but google should find something. its the only thing its good at now.
>>5038920Might be worth asking them directly if they can order it for you anon. Stores tend to get tanks on containers and if no-one requests an unusual/less sold model it typically won't be on the container.>>5038922>>5038984PhillipsFishWorks sells bags of bugs, scuds, isopods etc. Put some in a new tank a week ago and I see them often, swimming around or crawling over leaf litter. Really adorable little guys. I added Otocinclus lately and the microfauna started hiding, until they realized those fish weren't going to eat them. Adding tetra soon, hopefully they start hiding again and don't swim openly after that or they'll become snacks.
Shrimple as that
>>5038994Vid of a scud/microfauna enjoying life
Can you smell what the Rock is cooking?
Thoughts on getting six Chili Rasboras for my 5.5 gallon shrimp tank? I would consider it heavily planted.
>>5039247Forgot to add, ignore the water level, this picture is a few days old.
>>5039247I say go ahead
Thoughts on Pea Puffers?
>>5039667Adorable, they buzz around strangely unlike any other fish. Big eyes that hyper focus on food and they pounce surprisingly fast. I have a small group in a 10 gallon and absolutely loved them. Main downsides are you cannot really keep anything else with them, so algae tends to overrun a bit
>>5039667spherical snail hitlers
>>5039694>Main downsides are you cannot really keep anything else with themI have a plan for that. I have an idea for a 29 gallon tall community tank involving Pea Puffers modelled after some other people’s tanks that had success with breeding them in similar setups.https://www.reddit.com/u/pinkpnts/s/NGaeEFt1mShttps://www.reddit.com/r/PeaPuffers/s/KNNyKqqQXK15 Pea Puffers (4 males, 11 females)10 Kuhli Loaches6 Amano Shrimp20 Neocaridina Shrimp (apparently the Peas go crazy for baby shrimp).Kuhlis and Amanos will be the cleanup crew, picking up whatever the Peas leave behind. According to the people I've been talking to, the Peas get really curious about the Amanos but don’t attack them. Whatever isn’t a Puffer will be going into the tank at least 3 days before the Puffers themselves.This tank will be heavily planted with plants that are excellent nitrate absorbers. Java Moss, Moss Balls, Limnophila Sessiliflora, Hornwort, Hydrocotyle varieties, Salvinia, Frogbit, Tiger Lotus, Pearlweed, Monte Carlo, Amazon Sword, and Water Lettuce. I’ll try to make it look as much like a jungle as possible to provide line of sight breaks. I may even consider aquaponics with Pothos or Monstera.I’m also putting a fine mesh bag of Eheim Substrat Pro underneath my substrate for more biological filtration + a Hygger Double Sponge Filter (rated for 40 gallons). My substrate will be aquasoil (don't know which brand yet) capped with sand.I’ve set up a small 2L tank for Daphnia breeding and a 5 gallon tank for snail breeding. Both to be used for food. From the side of the tank will hang a Fluval 0.5 Gallon Breeder box where I will raise live blackworms. This tank will be connected to the main tank so it would constantly receive fresh tank water.Thoughts?
>>5039873I would worry that the puffers would stress the shrimp out, they might even pick off their legs. Even if the whole shrimp is too large to eat they'll likely still nibble on them. If you're doing a 29 gallon jungle tank, I'd recommend just getting Amazon puffers instead especially if you can stretch it to a 50/55 gallon. Put them in with some Otocinclus and loaches and have a blast. I'm not saying your 29 gal pea puffer community wouldn't work, just that I'd be concerned for the shrimp
>>5039895I understand your concern with the shrimp but that's exactly why I want to have so many plants as it offers them a ton of hiding spots. I would love to have some Amazon Puffers but I don't have the correct tank for them. They're fairly active swimmers so I would feel bad putting them in a 29 tall, not to mention I need to have a minimum of 6 puffers to reduce aggression.
Would apistos or rams bully corydoras if they were together in a 29 gallon? I want to do a South American tank but I worry about the lack of space at the bottom. I don't really care about breeding I just don't want them to fight over territory. I know I could probably get pygmy corys who don't hang out on the bottom as much but I'd like something a little bigger.Also, would it be bad to just get a single apisto or ram? I've seen conflicting info on group sizes, where some places say they do better in larger groups and others that they do better alone or in a MF pairpic unrelated
Am I looking at Scutariella japonica here?https://files.catbox.moe/dr128j.jpghttps://files.catbox.moe/7r52sq.jpgI noticed that white stuff on them a day after I bought them. Didn't think much of it but now I have 4 shrimp with that stuff. Also had 3 deaths over the past week.I found this guide http://www.shrimptank.ca/2014/03/white-worms-neocaridina-shrimp-head and it suggests salt water baths.. Anyone dealt with this before?
>>5039050cute!
I agree with the Professor on this one, and that's why I let my cat drink from the fish tank. It's what they would be drinking in the wild, plus it has more nutrients.
>>5038615
>>5040308Add some floating plants, they're great nitrate absorbers. Some of my favorites are Salvinia and Water Lettuce. You could add some carpeting plants if you don't want to obscure the background.
Confirmed I have planaria in my display tank. I was saying in the last thread, I was pretty sure because I found it in some of my jars (cough marcusfishtanks cough). Anyway I'm setting a trap now to at least thin it out. Has anyone had their neocaridina shrimp coexist with planaria? The shrimp already survive and breed with goldfish and two dozen minnows. I'm hoping I can ride it out. I have goat dewormer but I don't want to have to collect all my snails. I also don't want to zap the detritus worms. Pic not related. A vase I left in the sunlight and got swamped in Algae. There's a bladder snail hiker in there with the java fern. He got huge. I couldn't snap any planaria. >>5040308For the mid and foreground, look into cryptocoryne plants. The tend to grow 6-8 inches high and bushy. Good mid ground plants. Luteas are great, Lucens look like shit.
my java moss has been colonized by what I assume is hair algae, and it's trapping bits of detritus and I think contributing to cloudy water.Is there any way to salvage it or do I just have to throw all the moss out?
>>5040612If your tank is big enough, add 1-2 Siamese Algae Eaters. They tend to eat algae that no one else does.
>>5040612Flourish excel works. Either dose the tank in general or use a syringe and spray a capful mixed with water directly onto the algae. You can also just pick the algae out with your fingers or tweezers or use a turkey baster you blow the debris off of the moss. You can also snip a few cm long pieces and seed them in other spots in your tank. Then forget about them and let them take over.
>>5040624I'm a bit reluctant to introduce algae eaters because don't I then become dependent on having a certain amount of algae growing all the time? It never used to be a problem with my tank but I had a couple of weeks of elevated light levels and it seems to really have kicked off an algae problem, black algae on the leaves of other plants too.>>5040637So the fertilizer allows the other plants to out-compete the algae?
>>5038615needs more of those red fish
>>5039247how does the water level even get that low to begin with?
>>5040644It works way better ad an algaecide than a liquid carbon. Your plants are going to get almost all of their CO2 from gas exchange even with excel.
>>5040644>become dependent on having a certain amount of algae growing all the timeDon't worry, once the algae is gone you can supplement their diet with algae wafers, widely available and very cheap.
>>5040681Evaporation, I don't have a lid lol
Is she too fat?
>>5040308I replaced the barrels with a volcano!
>>5041055This tank looks good from every angle!
Which fish are the best to talk to and why is it livebearers?
TEEMING with life.
>>5038459hey guys, help me perfect my aquariumI haven't had a fish in like 15 years and back then I was just a teen that didn't carenow I really want to care. I got a 10g vertical fishtank kit on sale from petsmart. water here is pretty hard so gonna fill it 50:50 tap water and diluted, got prep fluid for the tap.got a tall hidey rock, and bought a java fern, amazon sword, and anubias. got some slow release fert pellets and liquid fertilizer, and biological starter too. also got an airstone I'm gonna bury under the gravel.did a lot of research, tank is too small for goldfish to thrive. I have a 30g tank in storage that I might try later if I feel confident for that. after I get the water in and cycled for a bit, I'm gonna plant into the gravel and run the tank for a couple weeks and check water balance periodically. if everything looks good, I was hoping to introduce maybe 6-10 tetras to the tank. then a little later, 3-4 corydoras and a nerite snailreally invested in making sure my new tankbros will be as happy and healthy as possible, so if any of yall have good advice or want to sanity check my plans i'd really appreciate it
>>5041097oh, sorry. here's additional deets.tank is a top fin column starter kit. 12.5 in L x 12.5 in W x 19.5 in Htap water in my area is pretty hard and is probably suitable for goldfish? carbonate hardness is 120ppm, but general hardness tops off the strip test at 180ppm. the fish I'm choosing seem to prefer half those values, that's why I'm gonna try half distilled.
>>5041097sounds like a good stocking plan I think you have everything to succeed with this
>>5041098Guppies and embers like harder water so you could also embrace it and go with them
>>5041100*not embers, endler's livebearers, typo
Livebearers are based and never stop fucking. Imaging living your whole life just swimming around fucking bitches all day. What a life!
>>5041107isn't that a bit too much livebearers?
>>5041101>endler's livebearersI looked them up, those are hella pretty fish! I agree they seem easy to care for. It seems they are enthusiastic breeders, though, which is not what I'm looking for.
>>5041098>12.5 in L x 12.5 in W x 19.5 in HA tank that size could hold about 30 guppies as long as you don't have any floating plants like hornwort or your guppies will multiply. But 20-30 seems like a good number. Or a single betta. But I'd go with the livebearers because livebearers are based.
>>5041110They will breed but if the fry don't have anywhere to hide then they'll all get eaten. These animals consider their own children to be a food source and will eat their own babies.
>>5041112I was considering salvinia, only reason I didn't buy any is cause it was out of stock today. How would they feel about that?
>>5041115>salviniaI'm not familiar with that plant so I googled it and found this pic and it looks like fry would definitely be able to hide in that so I might get some for my tank. For me the joy of having livebearers is watching them multiply and create life so if I was you I'd add three males and a female with the floating plants and watch them multiply. Then when the tank get overcrowded you can take out the floating plants and wait for them to die off (about 3 years). Then add more floating plants when the numbers get low. Rinse repeat. That's why I do with my 90 litre livebearer tank. When there's about 100 fish in there I'll remove the hornwort and watch them eat their babies.For this reason I prefer hornwort because it's easier to remove than salvinia which needs to be scooped out. I can just grab a handful of hornwort and lift it all out (shaking out the fry). So, yeah. Livebearers all the way.
>>5041090>>5041091Based. Just needs a blue Betta to act as the centerpiece. And name him Simon.
>>5041131I tried that but bettas are solitary fish that don't do well in a crowded environment.RIP Simon. :(
>>5041110>>5041124genuine exchange of knowledge in /aqg/
>>5041097Good luck my dude. That amazon sword is going to grow far too large for that tank so be prepared to trim it. Give it a good amount of substrate underneath, some sort of aquasoil. You can always put the soil in a zip lock bag if you want it to be really tidy, topped with whatever your top substrate is. I strongly recommend planting immediately, day 1. They'll take a while to get roots into the substrate and you'll want that before the bioload gets up when you add fish. As you add organics (or bottled ammonia, or a small number of tiny fish) to cycle the excess will be happily consumed by the plants instead of growing algae which will happen if you don't have plants. Remember that the water doesn't cycle on it's own, you're growing a bacterial colony which will grow to the size of the food available to it. Meaning if you aren't actively adding a little bit of food/ammonia to the tank (even with no fish in it), the colony simply won't grow. You'll know it's there once you start seeing nitrites and then later, nitrates. The tetras sound great, make sure they're on the smaller side for a 10g tall. Cory's are a bit more sensitive to water quality so it's good that you plan on adding them after. Add the snail when you add the first fish, there should be enough algae and waste in there right away to feed one snail. >>5041098Don't go for goldfish, you're right in your first post that the tank is too small for them. Don't worry *too* much about matching fish to your water type, unless they're wild caught most domestic bred fish are more used to their fish farm/store's water than their natural habitat. You can always ask your local store what their water is like and see how healthy their fish look before purchasing. Should tell you if they're totally fine in your local water or not.Good luck my dude!
>>5041186Oh also keep in mind water parameters can actually matter more for your plants than your fish. Amazon swords for instance can be a bit picky and like water close to, of course, the Amazon (softer, slightly acidic). It's worth looking into your plant choice as well as the livestock.
>>5041186>>5041188I didn't know that about amazon sword, I'll see what I can do. There's a lot of gravel in there but it sounds like that's not enough.I did realize the ammonia problem a little too late. I ordered some of the fish food pellets I can add to the water tomorrow. I also realized the java fern and anubias really need to be tied down, so I'm getting a volcanic rock or two.once I do get the food or liquid ammonia I'll check on things over 10 to 14 days and see if the nitrites and nitrates develop as expected
>>5041194Gravel isn't a great substrate in generally. It has no nutrition, allows fish waste to fall down between the pebbles and slowly rot over time and is hard to vacuum clean. My preferred method is a decent layer of aquasoil topped with sand, personally. Since you've already filled the tank you can still do the soil bagged in a zip lock (a mesh aquarium one, not the plastic food storage kinds) and just reach down and slip it beneath the gravel, it would do a world of good for any stem plants above it. Good move on the fish pellets. Add just a tiny bit every 3-4 days along with a little daily splash of your bacteria in a bottle and it'll get setup pretty fast. The java fern and anubias really do want to be bound to something yeah, I recommend an aquarium safe super glue or some twine and a rock as you said or a piece of driftwood. I'm a big fan of driftwood in tanks, they slowly leech organics into the water that provides a great start to your bacterial ecosystem and a lot of fish like interacting with wood. Some even need a bit of wood or biofilm in their diet to be in top shape (suckermouth fish mostly like Otocinclus or some species of pleco). You seem to have a really solid plan. Wish you the best of luck my friend.
>>5041205I heard a bit of conflicting information about driftwood, someone said it's fine to dump it in cause fish like the tannins, but I've also seen someone say you should boil/soak it for a couple days before putting it in
>>5041215They're both correct. The tanins they leach into the water are either completely neutral or slightly good for the fish, depending on the habitat the species evolved for and how shy/confident they are. A lot of fish come from blackwater streams/lagoons (particularly South American fish) and enjoy the slight murkiness. However it makes the tank look a little less clean from a human perspective so some people really hate it. It's an aestethic choice really, up to you. Some people go all in on tanins and make an authentic blackwater aquarium like this tank by a well known youtuber. Boiling the wood does two things - removes a lot of tanins (though some will still leech slowly into your water over the following months until they're gone completely) which makes the tank look clearer, faster and it also helps release trapped air inside the wood, which helps it sink faster. Driftwood, especially large pieces, can take weeks or even months of being fully submerged before they finally sink on their own. You can also get tanins out of water easily by adding some activated carbon, a lot of companies sell this stuff (look up Purigen by Seachem for example) which quickly removes organics from the water to make it crystal clear. There are downsides to that though. Organics in the water are beneficial to your microculture and to your plants, so I don't personally add activated carbon to my tanks for the first few months and even then, I only add it for a week or so to polish the water up.
My overly round ember died, lived about a month :(I thought she was gravid, maybe it was parasites, or some kind of infection? Before she died, the bloating went down but she developed greyish patches and some kind of fluid filled cysts.
>>5041297Sky (water) burrial, within hours the body is almost completely gone
>>5041124>add three males and a femaleBait! That's just bait!!! That's gooner bait for a fish gangbang!
>>5041090>>5041091Flanders :3
>>5041108>trying to talk sense into flandersHi newfren welcome to /aq/
Does anyone have experience with Red Headed Tapajos, the mid-sized Geophagus? I've read around about them and found conflicting info on their final size - do they end up around 5 inches, or do they reach 8 inches as some sites claim? Anyone kept them?
