Love your tank janny edition.Discuss anything aquarium related here, including MD fishtanks, tanks, bowls, inhabitants, bettas, shrimp, decor, plants, duckweed 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.phpArticles 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 >>5038459
Also I know it's not a big deal but we should probably update the OP with info about cycling, since the majority of people now seem to be keeping small planted tanks for shrimps we shouldn't be recommending ammonia dosing as the default route.
Resting janny
>>5057644they snuffle around, I wonder what they actually eat must be microfauna things
Decent success with a diy planaria trap, bait: crushed Malaysian snail :(
>>5057613and can we keep it freshwater this time? i'm tired of all the saltwater turds spazzing around about their "no maintenance, no water changes, very stable" reef tanks.TL;DR: they're ugly, a betta looks better
>>5057645you should feed them, stuff like sinking pellets and blanched veggies. don't rely on them finding food on leaves, that's how you end up with a dead oto.
>>5057732No consolewar cringe
>>5057734that's a pygmy cory, they seem to be foraging but they're not algae eaters
Got this lad to replace my honey. I was a little hesitant because I had heard that larger gouramis can be assholes, but he’s been very behaved. Haven’t seen him chase or nip anybody.
>>5057837it's an oto catfish
New peakhttps://youtu.be/UuU0DItqj8c
>>5057929It's a pigmy cory, I have bothOtos pugmy cory and siamese algae eater all look alike, some covergent evolution think idk
how would i go about removing an aiptasia polyp from a dead hammer coral skeleton? would it fuck up the healthy one right next to it?
>>5058004>vid starts with a woman fucking everything uplol
>>5058004wtf happened? his videos are usually really nice and relaxing to watch> ugly ass fish> missing one eye> half the fish is just the head> nasty lips, looks like serena williams painted blue> rushed build> short video
For several seconds I saw my pleco standing tripedal on his fins. Cryptid sighting.
Female oto is super plump and the male shows interest in her. I tried the "water change with softer and cooler water" thing to get them to spawn, fingers crossed.
>>5057905my mum ruined gouramis for me when she pointed out the fins look like they're doing a really long shithope it works out for you
>>5058265Pretty as they otherwise are, my honey and now this opaline have had habits of munching on my hornwort which- since they can’t entirely digest it- leaves them trailing behind shit chains held connected by plant matter.
>>5058309One day I’ll stop posting these images at a 90 degree angle…
>>5058265god damn it lol now i can't unsee
I haven't seen my crabs for like 2 weeks
>>5058472that's not good, it's crab posting time, better get it together
More disgusting planaria captured with mysis bait
don't mind me. just posting in a dead thread on a dead board.
>>5058597These threads used to be way more activeWhere is everyone
>>5058597>>5058668I blame the jannies. We need to bring him back.
>>5057732Cope harder, poorfag.
could this work or is it just meme content?twitter.com/worldsokuho/status/1977309277904679349>fish poop gets sent out of nozzle>add clean water to top
Can I put betta fish in a 200 gallon rubber horse trough under a Paleo Verde to eat the mosquito larvae? I live in the southwest, where people successfully grow banana trees in their front yards.
>>5058744Do guppies instead they are much hardier and faster
>>5058799It's too bad I already put one in my horse trough then. It it survives the winter I'll give it a friend of the opposite gender.
>>5058857bettas are tropical fish so your fish isn't going to last more than a week in cold water.it's a shame nobody told you this earlier but this thread is dead because janny did tranny things
>>5059033>this thread is dead because janny did tranny thingstrips of truth!
>>5059037>5059033>033>trips of truth!what?
>>5059104those shrimp absolutely don't give a fuck.shouldn't they be skittish around fish?
>>5059033Jannie rhymes with tranny. Coincidence?
>>5059107I think they learned that the small fish doesn't bother them
>>5059149I have some amano shrimp that are probably over 6 years old now in my planted freshwater tank. They’re hardy and not really afraid of much >>5057732I haven’t done a water change on my reef tank in probably six months. Algae doesn’t even really grow in it
>>5059169>no water change in 6 monthsare saltie tanks free of bacteria or how does that work
>>5059186Similarly to freshwater tanks. You have to balance load vs consumption and export. For freshwater tanks, it is mostly just making sure you have enough plant biomass to offset nitrate generation, then trimming plants when needed. Some tanks may require dosing other things to keep the plants vibrant.For saltwater (particularly reef tanks), Nitrate export for no water change systems tend to be handled by a combination of any number of the following: mechanical filtration (roller mats, filter socks, or filter floss), protein skimmers, macro algae refugiums, and, rarely, algae scrubbers (not the scrapers for glass, but a device that focuses on intense light on a small isolated area that is easily removeable/cleanable that specifically tries to grow hair algae). Testing for and dosing elements is a far bigger deal though. For instance my reef tank I dose alkalinity and calcium every day, and dose magnesium and a plethora of minor elements every week. For my planted tank, I haven't dosed anything in months.The alternative (actually doing water changes) for reef tanks is something I don't find particularly appealing, because even if I did water changes, I would still have to test and dose, just slightly less. Doing regular WC does give a bigger buffer against variance over time though.
>>5059147mind = blown
>>5059338That Molly looks healthy. What’s the big round rock?
>>5059033Water here isn't too terribly cold. Banana trees grow in people's front yards here.
Thoughts on Amano shrimp?
>>5059358it's the skull of a monkey that i killed while holidaying in brazil. it was a bit chewy but overall it was a delicious meal that we all enjoyed.
>>5059411I should probably do that will one of the stray cats around my property.
>>5059412>zoosadists are also retardedevery timethat's a fake ass fish tank decor skull
>>5059338How are those platties so incredibly red
>>5059416>thinks the fish decor is fakekek
>>5059411That’s cool AF bro. Congrats on doing a good deed and making something out of it so that innocents could share
>>5059409Mine is like count dracula, sweeping from the shadow, steals the fish's food, and swims back to disappear.
>>5059426People inbreed for certain traits, in this particular case; its for intense red color, tea cup size/dwarfism, and very extreme hardiness
>>5059448Does it hide all day?
I have a five gallon aquarium sitting in storage, is there anything I can actually do with it in terms of keeping animals and plants?
>>5059474Open ula.
>>5059474Buy a real fish tank, then use it as a refugium and put chaeto in it
Should I add a water heater to my horse trough?
>>5059516How do you tame a horse in Minecraft?
>>5059518I don't know how you do in Minecraft but in the real world it takes patience and feeding them daily and an enclosed space they cannot get too far away from you easily. Now I was asking about putting a heater in my horse trough because there's a betta fish in it.
>>5059471Almost all day, I see him time to time on the filter guard sponge and at feeding time ofc.
>>5059539I agree with the other guy that you should put guppies in it too. Put a heater but it’ll probably be too small for the water volume. Horse troughs are huge, right?
>>5059543It's literally this but black and I only keep it half full. So around 160 gallons of water. A huge plus though is that I never have to feed them. There's bugs all over the surface. Mosquito larvae in the water, something small speck like that moves around, and some kind of red worms.
>>5059556don't waste your money on a heater because your horse is going to eat your fish when he has a drink
>>5059426Because they're healthy, and I'm using a Chihiros WRGB II 10th Edition LED Light that I bought with the money that I saved by eating monkeys in Brazil. Food is expensive in Brazil.
>>5059565Horses generally don't eat fish. And I don't imagine betta fish like going into the mouths of other things.
>>5059540He is out now enjoying some cucumber
Cool looking wild type rcs spotted
>>5059186Bacteria is good for you>>5059229Imagine reading all that
>>5059618Have you considered that the Betta might bite the horse, though?
>>5059699Bacteria gave my poor betta a columnaris infection that melted his flesh away and killed him in 2 days. It's realy, realy important to clean up mulm.
It's been like 6 months and I now have probably 100 shrimp starting from 10. Starting to be worried about a crash or something.
>>5059742sell some
>>5059702I'd be shocked if the horse could even feel it.
>>5059742I have about 50-60 in a 10L tank and they are doing fine. If you feed them well, have plants and a filter you are gonna be fine.
>>5059745Market's peaked, I was speaking to a guy at my lfs and they don't even take them for credit anymore.>>5059780I'm thinking of using it as an excuse to keep a Scarlet Badis pair but it's probably a bit mean.
>>5059782>Scarlet BadisYeah that would be not a nice life for shrimp.
>>5059618>Horses generally don't eat fishHorses generally don't eat chickens either.
>>5059879That chick should have moved. Betta fish would move if such a big creature went close to them with an open mouth.
would a device made to keep horse troughs warm in the winter be usable in a fish tank?
>>5060081How big is your tank?
>>5059925Lol no betta swims straight up to my hand when I reach into the tank
>>5060100A 320 gallon horse trough that's only ever half full.
>>5059708There's all kinds of bacteria, both good and bad. Our aquariums would not function at all without them.
>>5060357Ofc, but bad bacteria also populate tanks, not only beneficial bacteria. The more organic waste, the more bacteria breeds.
>>5060081If it's got a thermostat then it's pretty much the same thing as a tank heater. Question is what that thermostat is set to, if it's not adjustable. It seems like those sorts of things are mainly for preventing ice, rather than keeping it actually warm. I could get a much better idea if you'd tell us what region you live in, or just an average low temp in the winter.As other anons have said, guppies will be way more competent at mosquito control, and hardier. I think I have to echo the concern that your horse(s) might just eat the betta, they're not very fast or flighty, and are pretty much bite sized. Pretty much any little fish can do well, if the place you live has some actual cold then mosquitofish or japanese rice fish will be hardier for it.Also, if you live in Cali your gov't will give you mosquitofish for larva control for free.
>>5059742How do you even get your shrimp to multiply like that? I got my shrimp colony started four years ago and it's nowhere near the numbers I expected now.> inb4 feed them moreIt feels like the more I feed, the more the snails multiply and the shrimp are autistic.> inb4 your fish are eating themI only have a few endlers in that heavily planted tank, the young'uns have a ton of hiding spots.
>>5060599Cherries are prolific breeders, if you're seeing berried shrimp but no pop increase it's most likely the endlers grazing on the babies regardless of your cover. Endler's have a pretty wide mouth for their size so the babies will be vulnerable for a long time. The only other thing I guess if you're not feeding a lot is if you dose something like excel you might not have a lot of biofilm for them but it's like 95% the endlers. I don't even have botanics in mine the babies I guess just each biofilm off the hardscape.
>>5060505Fine! Tell me, would comet goldfish be fine for a 180 gallon horse trough? Average low in December is 53 and the average high is 75.
>>5060599The filter intake could be sucking them in tooI saw my embers snatch up baby shrimp too so endlers could definitely chomp some of the shrimplets
>>5060633They'll be fine. Just one or two will eat everything. They'll eventually outgrow the pests living in the water, but if the horses are drinking from it regularly and it's getting refilled that's basically a water change. Goldfish will be okay over winter too.
>>5060840When will I know they won't be no longer able to sustain themselves on the wild game?
After 4 months, I caught one finally going to town on the LTA at around 2am, after harassing the torch colony and completely ignoring the 10 RBTA's.Once the lights came on they went back over to dance through the torch polyps like children under a willow.
>>5060899You won't be able to find any more, and they'll probably start to visibly lose weight. In the summer, in the winter that can be normal. Don't feed them much when it's cold.
>vallis suffers after first planting but stablises>fairly slow growth for 3/4 months>all of a sudden goes fucking berserk, runners absolutely everywhere, shitting out new strands, twice as thick as it was beforewhy are they like this
Any tips for dealing with aggressive fish? My Midas blenny has been the dominant fish since I added him, but he’s usually left everyone alone aside from my flame hawkfish he’d occasionally chase it around but never caused any real trouble. Since adding the new fish yesterday, he’s been noticeably more aggressive getting nippy with the new additions. I haven’t seen any damage on the anthias, but I’m more worried about my earmuff wrasse. He’s on the smaller side at around 3-4 inches (just a little bigger than my Mccoskers), and I haven’t seen him since a few minutes after introducing him. They mentioned the Midas immediately went after him, so I’m guessing he’s buried himself in the sand. I’m just worried he might get bullied if he comes back out.
>>5061164>Any tipsYeah, nano tanks. Keep the species separated.
>>5060616Yeah they're cherries. And I occasionally see them berries. I guess the endlers are destroying them.Too bad they're not eating the snails, their population is just going up, unless I move them to the saltwater tank.>>5060696I don't have a real filter, it's just a pump in a sponge behind the scape, SerpaDesign-style.
>>5061174I only have a spare empty 13.5 gallon tank lying around should I just try to rehome him then? Midas Blennies need at least like double that.
>>5061177Your snails are a bit fucky looking, I suppose it could be a water parameters thing. Still unlikely compared to Endlers but there's maybe a parameter sweetspot where adults survive but babies don't develop.
>>5061062I don't know, but I'm a few months out from this exact scenario. There's literally a runner that's been in the same spot since the insane growth spurt ended, with the exact same amount of root growth not quite reaching the soil. I think this plant is actually intelligent and enjoys fucking with people.
>>5061231O yea the old snails are from the "before" time - after adding cuttlefish bones the younger ones don't have those white spots on their shells.I didn't care much since the snails are multiplying so quickly, I just don't want them to steal all the calcium.
>>5060924neat
>>5061262if you're taking snails out of there and putting them in the saltwater tank (wtf?) and they keep multiplying then you're basically exporting calcium out of your tank and will need to dose
I made RO water out of my 7.6 ph tap, and got 7 ph water. How do people go lower on that and keep a stable ph for soft/acidic water fish and shrimp?
>buy aquarium pump>turn it on and put the tube in the fishbowl>go to work next day>goldfish swallows the tube while the pump is on>Deviantart.exe>come home to find it bloated and dead with bubbles coming out of its ass and mouthObviously I've seen worse stuff on the Internet but this is the worst thing I've ever seen IRL due to how it was my pet if only for a short time.
They love Vipachips
>>5061820why haven't you used airstone?sorry anon i'm laughing my ass off.
>>5061777With proper RO water you can use botanicals and/or a soil substrate, doesn't really do anything if you have any KH at all though in which case you pretty much need CO2. Honestly though I think pH is one of those things that's overstated, in many cases fish that need acidic water are fine in harder water as long as it's clean they just have developed weaker immune systems due to the antibacterial effect of low pH water. People are even keeping discus in hard water now which would have the fish police doing a 3am raid some time ago.
>>5061820Did you film it? Post video
Unpopular opinion: bettas actually do better in < 10 gal tanks
why are plecos so fucking lazyjust sitting in a burrow sucking driftwood all day
>>5062134They evolved in fast flowing waters
>the mutts are berriedits a shame they revert to wild type would be funnier if they just got weirder and weirder
>>5062291one of my wild types is preggers with blue babies, I'll try to shoot a pic if I find her
>>5062214that makes sense
Shrinp
Is possible to manually mix the eggs and sperm of betta antuta and PetSmart betta fish together? Would such a cross be viable, and fertile?
I had black mollys for over a year before they randomly started breeding; maybe a water change triggered it or something?
>>5063113maybe the girls reached maturity
>>5063113i put my heater on for the first time this year and suddently my corries were going at it like mad
>>5057611what could cause guppies to start arching to one side like that?in a month I've found 3 like this, and this one was still alive. They don't present symptoms for long, the same day I see them doing this they die, or the next.This one was a 2.5cm fish, not an adult. And the other ones that die were about the same size too. There are smaller fry but they look healthy, in fact a female gave birth these only a few weeks ago.weird shit brosI have some corys that are like 10 year old already, fucking immortal.is it true that guppies aren't the resilient fish they once were due to inbreeding?
>>5064033Yeah they're all smashed and slammed inbredmaxxed, proper breeders are trying to fix it but most chain stores and LFS will have garbage in with no resilience. People started switching to Endlers because of it but the same thing is happening again.
>>5061777>I made water and got the pH of water wtf Damn leave some IQ for the rest of us bro. To get a lower pH, you need the presence of acids, humic, tannic, carbonic etc., removing the hardness is just removing things that would otherwise neutralise the acids, I.e., it just makes producing an acidic environment easier, and the primary compound that is influencing your waters pH is calcium carbonate. If your tap water is low KH, then you don't even really need to run it through an RO filter. >stable pHLargely a meme. Without buffering salts like CaCO3, pH is free to wander with the dissolved CO2 level and organic acids. For the lake calciphiles like Malawi cichlids or sulawesi shrimp you just add some buffering salts to your RO mix and maybe some oyster shell into the filter and job done. Pretty much everything out of a river can easily cope with a fluctuating pH between 5 and 6.5 (for example, in high tech tanks with CO2 on a 10 hour timer).
What is the most cow like fish besides goldfish? I want something cute that will float around and graze on algae and stuff.
>>5059411uma delicia
>>5064067>What is the most cow like fishBALLOON MOLLY
this thread is DEADunlike my fish tank which is TEEMING with life
>>5064383can a tank like this reach a kind of stability point where spawn would get eaten faster than they can be produced
>>5064387ofc. if the fry can't hide then the fry will be eaten. now imagine eating your own children.
>honey, i'm hungry. what's for dinner?>hold on while i push out a few babies..
>tfw i approach the tank wearing my hi-viz work uniform and about a million fish come to the front and start kissing the glassi'm like a GOD to these fish.does anyone else know this feel?
>>5057611Can someone please go to 2:07 of this video and tell me what this plastic sheet is? Everything I find locally is toxic to fish. Do you know what he is using, or what I can use to build support for my layouts? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZIiGZD3AQ0&t=2s
>>5065042I think sometimes it's called foam pvc but I don't do any diy or crafty stuff. I don't know enough to recommend it, it's waterproof but if it's advertised for outdoor weatherproof stuff then it might be treated with anti fungal chemicals which might kill your tank.
How many people in the whole world have an aquarium? Trillions?How many people lurk in the aquarium thread on 4chan?
Peaceful coexistence
>have two 5yo merited>today find one upside down, not moving>other nerite hanging out on the rock>move the messed up one next to the glass and flip him on his side to see if he wakes up>no movements>ffw 30 mins>his snail-pussy opens up, catches on to the glassPhew! That was a close one, lads!
>>5065679>>have two 5yo meritedNERITES, fuck you autocorrect
>>5065679>Snail pussyKek
>>5065776snussy
>>5061777>>5061937I use CO2 with a Milwaukee pH controller, like the other anon suggested. 7 pH RO water is expected. Keep in mind though that it has no buffer and will change just by being exposed to the air. It can actually go slightly acidic if there is high enough concentration of CO2 in your house, but it is far from stable.But yeah, unless you have a really good reason, I wouldn't worry about trying to get acidic water. I've done plenty of fish and shrimp in 7.4-7.8 pH water.>>5062046I found that during their end-life stage this is especially true. It was way easier to care for my senior betta when it was 5+ years and couldn't swim very well.
>power goes out then comes back on, been happening more lately>have aquarium at office where everything else was off>heater (H2Pro) resets itself, both screens show 0000>goes unchecked overnight>next morning notice temp’s off, we add ice in a baggie to the sump to try to stabilize it>2 out of 5 newly introduced lyretail anthias die from stress>midas blenny also doesn’t make it>everything was plugged into a surge protectorwhat could I have done to prevent this? How can I prevent this from happening in the future? battery investment? I thought a surge protector would of prevented this. I don't want to lose more fish. do you think it was the heater? I got it around 3 months ago.
>>5066275Dis nigga thought a power strip would still hold power during a blackoutLol
>>5066275Kek, my dad thought the same thing because the old surge protector for our entertainment center was one of those big ones with like 12 outlets.So one day he takes that one and replaces it with a cheaper surge protector because he wanted to listen to a radio while in the garden, plugs in the radio and is disappointed that there's no power.Throws the surge protector in the trash because "the battery was dead", didn't tell me until weeks later when I realized the bluray player was unplugged.
i just switched to saltwater and it's been fun so far. does it have a walstad equivalent system?
>>5066660Not really, can’t afford to not have a fair amount of flow in saltwater systems. But you can’t rely on live rock for most of your filtration if you don’t want to have a large sump.
>>5061777I wouldn’t bother with RO unless I’m keeping fancy shrimp or some very specific blackwater fish. If you have it, great, use it, but I got a tap water that goes up to 8.2 after it airs out (low kh and hardness, somehow, thankfully) and I get it to a comfortable 6.6 via CO2.Im switching to a buffering substrate soon, though.
>>5066708>>5066125>>5061937I just wanted to soften the water for my ember tetras and possibly try some shrimp other than cherries. Now I mix 50% RO with 50% tap and has a kh around 4 and gh around 8. Gh was around 14-16 when I started.
>>5066660Of course - corals and macro algae will get rid of nitrates and phosphates, similar to plants in a freshwater tank. And an aquascape is an aquascape. A deep substrate, too, it's a 1-to-1 equivalent.>>5066702t. brainlet
been breeding snails lately, sold like 30+ apple snails the past month :3and my ramshorns ate algea in spots at my dads aquarium which had had algea for a decade without cleaning, they eat algea so well
What is this? Local breeder says it's Malayan Shrimp, but I'm not sure if it's Caridina or Neocaridina.https://www.wirbellose.de/artendatenbank/caridina-cf-babaulti-green-gruene-zwerggarnele/https://www.garnelenhaus.de/wiki/neocaridina-palmata
>>5066660Pic related. Although I'd probably do a thicker substrate, as >>5066730 suggested. In addition to the microbiome part, it lets you see interesting behavior with certain fish/inverts that you couldn't see otherwise. Like pistol shrimp + watchmen goby, or certain wrasses that bury themselves.>>5066710>Gh was around 14-16 when I started.Damn dude you could fucking walk on your tap water.
>>5066798Yeah, lots of calcium residue is a pain in the ass.
>>5066771my Neocaridina woul randomly get those color patterns
>>5066798Can mangrove do well in freshwater?
