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What is the pitbull of fishes?
>>5078581I'd guess piranhas have eaten more kids over the years in the amazon than sharks have everywhere else in the world, but if it's not piranhas then it's sharks.
>>5078580Overstocked
>>5078580Calling PITA on u
whats the recommended sized thread per anon? can we keep 20 anons in a thead this size?
>>5078791We habe done this experiment on ur mum m8
Since I moved the otos in this tank, the pigmies stay huddled next to them
>>5078872They are friend shaped.
>>5078581In terms of popularity among casual crowd and the willingness of fish shops to sell with minimal warning, I think angelfish might fit that category. But on second thought angelfish might be more analogous to something like a husky or german shepherd. Maybe Oscars.
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>>5078581Tiger shark.
Mag is starting to flesh out a little. Went for a wander today but seemed happy returning to its perch. I think the max mini I can't remove from said perch upset its foot.
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>>5078581Dwarf gourami varients can be nasty as fuck and kill smaller fish and they seem to always be sold as community good boys.
>>5079086now i finaly understand why they are called clownfish
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>>5078581Piranhas. Dumb mexicans will buy them if they can so they can brag about having piranhas. Fortunately, the ones that do buy them are too stupid to understand tank requirements, the nitrogen cycle, etc. If the fish don't kill each other out of stress, they'll die from poor tank conditions. I guess you could say, they get filtered (har har har).
What fish would you put in an indoor pool?
>>5079157I had one I liked him, one day his ass hid so good that I thought he jumped out of the tank and died but no he was just a ninja
the dave posted a 22 minute video on ramshorn snails. this is now the most comprehensive video about them on youtube.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HUfkJDlJ7I
Hi anons, I am currently in the process of moving my 12-inch albino tiger Oscar out of his 36 gallon grow-out to a new 75 gallon. He is blind, as he isn't able to eat without me splashing the surface or snapping the feeding tweezers together to get his attention, as well as ignoring any surplus feeder guppies I give him (there is approximately 2 fully grown females and about 3 dozen fry of various growth stages living among him). I was wondering if I would still be safe to house him with any other fish, particularly mid-sized schooling fish like silver dollars or roseline barbs, or perhaps a spiny eel of some sort?
Uhh, does anyone else's fish watch tv when it's on? Also any opinions on round fishbowls? I haven't measured it, but it would comfortably fit over my head like a cheesy astronaut helmet if the hole was a little bigger and the fish seem p. happy
>>5079565If you like them aesthetically then they're fine but objectively there's no reason not to just get a cube tank with the same footprint and you get almost twice the volume. I personally don't like the distortion from bowls, rounded corners and flex tanks but Im just autistic.
>>5079338several million shrimp
>>5078581Oscars.
This female Least killifish on the right's been thinner and had slightly paler colors than the other 3 for months now. Aside from those symptoms, she still eats a lot and even chases away the others for food. I tried an antiparasite treatment a while ago that didn't seem to do anything. Any ideas over what else it could be?
>>5079665Another shot of the same fish
>>5079193At night, all you can hear is muffled honking and the sound of whipped cream being sprayed into paper pie dishes. Very annoying.
Im so fucking pissed and depressed right now. probably going to lose both of my chocolate cichlids tonight. I got a blue acara a couple weeks ago and everything was fine. then suddenly last week the acara had ich so I treated the tank (75 gallon) and it got worse but all the other fish were fine and had now ich. did a water change and treated again and it died, took it out. All the other fish were fine then today I got home and six of my plecos were dead and my chocolates were really stressed. did a big water change but I feel like that just stressed them more out and they look dead now. I dont care about anything in that tank but I dont want to lose my big chocolate cichlid. he was just getting to a good size after months of having him and has such a good personality.I always have this cycle with cichlids where I add one fish to the tank, everything gets thrown out of control in a week and I lose everything and get depressed.tank and stock:>75g>2 juvenile chocolate cichlids>2 adult male super red bristlenose plecos>a handful of juvenile super reds that I bred
>>5079571>I personally don't like the distortion from bowls, rounded corners and flex tanks but Im just autisticThat's not autism. The vast majority of people in general don't like visual distortion. That's just biology.>>5079672While water changes (i.e. improving water quality) is usually the way to go, for ich I found just following directions of the medication is best. You need the fish to soak in the medication at a certain concentration for an extended period of time. You make it sound like you only medicated for a very short period.
>>5079676well the only fish that had ich was the acara, and no one else started dying until a day or two after he did. I dont know why they are dying suddenly or why the acara got ich so suddenly when he was fine for the first two weeks
Can you spot the amano?
Gonna set up two 5 gallon tanks for high grade cherry shrimp breeding, one blue tank and one red. I’ll also put assassin snails in one and purple mystery snails in the other for some easy money. I’m planning for a simple and clean setup to make nabbing the bastards easier. I’m thinking white sand, some moss balls of varying size, what’s a nice plant that won’t crowd the tank or give the shrimp too much space to hide that still will consume a good amount of nitrate?
>>5080561guppy grassassassin snails might kill shrimp
>>5080564If a shrimp is dumb and slow enough to get eaten by a snail I don’t want it reproducing in my tank anyways
Any of you breed live food for your fishes?
>>5079689Sometimes it do be like that. Anyway, probably best to stick to a full ich regimen (10-14 days) for the whole tank at this point. Last time I had it, what I did was did a massive water change first to make the water quality as good as possible BEFORE treatment, then started treatment. Keep in mind that both the major types of ich treatment lose efficacy pretty fast over time, hence why all directions say to re-dose after 24 hours, so consistency is important. I've actually tested this myself with Copper Power in a saltwater quarantine tank and a Hanna checker. It's pretty surprising how fast and how much it drops. Seems like the other medication, Methylene blue (what I use for freshwater), breaks down at a similar rate or even faster.Anyway, good luck.
>>5080577I used to do my own phyto and pods for my reef tank and brine shrimp for my baby apistogramma. The brine shrimp was super not worth it. Yields to get to adulthood were shit, took up way more space than just an egg hatchery, had to carefully clean out all the molted exoskeletons and shells all the damn time, surprisingly sensitive to parameter changes (they can live in a wide range of parameters, but they certainly won't breed in a wide range of parameters). Never again.Phyto and pods were pretty fun though. I'll likely do it again in the future, especially when I finally get a dragonette.
>>5080577White worms for my newts and very picky marine fish. All of them eat the worms, but my canary blenny will only eat worms, copperband only clams and worms, I've seen the mandarin eat tiny ones but usually only a couple then it's back to copepods and staring pensievely at small amphipods. Sometimes I'll over-feed the culture before splitting them into new substrate and give my freshwater fish a feast, but I always keep two cultures alive in case one crashes.
>>5080696I can't seem to get my white worms to breed or gather around food, they go to the bottom of the box, what's the trick? I feed them oats or cat food.
>>5080709Unsure.I keep my cultures in potting mix, damp but not wet. I feed them a blend of oats, bread, yoghurt, yeast, beans and blend that shit up into a resealable bag and freeze it, breaking off chunks when I feel like it. Some fish pellets every now and then. I fast them every other week to make sure they actually consume all the food. I keep the lid partially ajar for air and to keep the humidity up, but they seem to do best between 12-18C.I get them, I just dig a kebab stick in and 'plough' the substrate, the worms tend to collect on the stick and it helps turn the substrate over.I've had a single culture last over 16 months and counting without replacing any of the substrate this way, whatever it is that I'm doing, it's working.
>>5080561okay decided im gonna get on the OE neo hype train and try to stabilize a line myself, r8 my shopping list>15 Juvenile High Grade Neocaridina Blue Dream OE>8 Assassin Snails>5 Purple Mystery Snails>2 6 gallon rimless cubes>2 hygger lights>2 hygger heaters>2 ACO sponge filters>1 ACO dual outlet air pump>25ft airline tubing>ACO Magic Small Fish Feed>Bacter AE>Hikari algae wafers>ACO Root Tabs>ACO easy green fertilizer>White sand>6 Marimo Moss Balls of varying sizes>6 low clutter background plants, selecting at store, still open to suggestions>API Quick Start>Aquarium Stand
I bought microworm and grindal wirm cultures from a local aquarist to make my little fish happy
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My shrimp will clean it up
made a 5 gal pea puffer tank. stuffed it with snails so they could eat the babiesunfortunately no puffers were around while recording
>>5078912The friendship grown strong
>>5081429Weee
>20G Long>Aquaclear50>8 Zebra Danios>4 Albino Corys>3 Amano Shrimp>1 Honey GouramiAqAdvisor says I have room for more stuff, but I worry that the zebras are too spastic for another small school of mid-top swimmers. Is there anything that I should or could add to this setup?
>>5080577I breed my fish to feed to my cat.
>>5081310>ded hobbynot true. worldwide there must be millions of aquariums.>ded thredtrue. but why?
Anyone got an idea why I often find my snails on their backs with open clap? They just chill like this for up to a day. Next day I check they are turned around and burrowed into the sand and then park like that for a day before moving again.The store said they are thiara winteri and I had em for many months.
>>5081533More honey gourami
>>5081665when my ramshorns do this it usually means they're going to die in a week or so
>>5081533Aqadvisor and similar sites are a bit of a meme, would stick to what you've got and just see how it plays out. Like you said, danios are very active and albinos will get a bit big for a 20gal (no actual issue as long as you have plenty of open sand). You're probably fine to get another few amanos
>>5081749how do you know it's the same snail? can you tell them apart and give them all names?has anyone superglued little flags to their snails?
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>>5080838I finally had my first encounter with detritus worms a couple weeks ago not knowing what they were and went through the process of panicking about it until my fish ate all of them.
What should I look into if I want to buy a camera to take better pictures of my fish and shrimp?
>>5082035The camera isn't the issue. You could buy a pro DSLR or mirrorless camera for $5k and you'll still be taking shit pictures. The problems are generally lighting and reflections.1) You may find your pictures to be blurry and think it's a camera problem. It's not. It's a low light problem. You may think your aquarium lights are really bright, but they are nothing compared to daylight, thus your phone is automatically increasing ISO (which adds noise) and lengthening shutter speed (which causes blur). Turn your tank lights all the way up and consider even supplementing it with other directed overhead lights (i.e. spotlights, not room lights and DEFINITELY NOT camera flash).2) Turn off/shade all the ambient/room light in order to decrease reflections. This is tricky because of #13) Learn a little about focal distance. Pressing the camera may seem like a good idea to avoid reflections but your lens may not be able to focus on something that close, and you will invariably have greater geometric distortion shoving your face and phone up against the glass like an autist. 4) If you want to spend some money, get a polarization filter. This will cut out reflections quite a bit but there is a tradeoff of a bit of received light attenuation. It is well worth it though.5) If you want to spend even more money, get a macro lens attachment for your camera (they're actually not very expensive for phones, mine came in a set with filters for reef tanks and it cost $30) and you should be able to get much closer to your subject without focus issues.6) Clean your shit. REALLY CLEAN it. Make sure your glass is absolutely spotless. Do a big water change, make sure the glass is clean while the tank is drained, use water clarifiers. Whatever you can do to get absolutely clear water and glass, it will help immensely.
>>5082045>>5082035OOH, forgot to mention: 7) Don't freehand your camera. Preferably use a camera stand, but setting it up against a chair and books or whatever you can cobble together is fine. Similar to #1, you may think you're steady: you're not. The more your camera has to rely on picture stabilization, the higher chance your picture will come out like shit.Also 8) You can always isolate your subject in a small box. It's super easy to take pictures of fish/inverts in a tiny water box, but then you won't have any scenery.
>>5082035I just bought a cheap clip on lens for my shitty smartphone camera and was pretty happy with the results compared to the blurry stuff I was getting before. You can spend thousands on cameras and stuff but I don't think you'll get a good outcome without a load of research. With the clip on there are limitations with focus distance but otherwise they turn out good.
