what are the coolest shrimp in the hobby? I have some OE blue dream neos but I think I’m gonna set up another tank for something more interesting and keep it with only shrimps.

>>5120344
>What did you add/change to get the most vibrant plants?

I've been using the cheapest LEDs from amazons on all my tanks, it's been fine. swords, crypts, floaters, moss, anubias, and stem plants grow
tank is lit, looks good

i recently started a tank on my back porch to propagate some more stuff for resale, needed a new light... bought a 40W LED instead for like $55
hot damn the reds and read, floaters look better than ever
i'm probably gonna do some substrate on one side to test carpeting plants that won't grow at all in my other tanks
they don't die, they just don't carpet
lighting definitely seems worth spending more on

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Time for operation: fish out of water

This guy is sitting on the check in desk in the gym
I need to come up with a ruse to liberate it

I said "that's not really a suitable environment" and the reply I got was "that's why we got one of these, they can survive anywhere"

>>5120378
I’m using a hygger light from Amazon on my 10 gallon CO2 injected tank, just put the monte carlo in this week. You think it’s strong enough for it to carpet? I’m also supplying ferts and iron for the red plants.

>>5120394
>posting a confession and timestamped photograph
Not off to a great start...

>>5120395
hygger makes so many of every product man
if it's hygger A with extra red diodes, sure
if it's hygger B for $15 then probably not

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>>5120398
This one

>>5120400
In general, you can plug it into Claude. Put your water depth too. It will estimate the par and if it's high enough.

I have that light in 36". It's 1200 par right against it, 200 par at 6 inches air. Probably like 180 in semi-clear water. By 1 foot you'd be over 100 which is enough for carpeting with co2.

>>5120402
My light is right on the surface so I’m just going to assume it’s okay. Idk wtf Claude is

>>5120344
I want to setup a tank with floaters using a hang on back. Thinking of hanging unraveled pot scrubbers, or tied on moss to slow the flow. Will this kill the oxygenating effect of the waterfall? I read the waterfall is better than bubblers at oxegenation, but i think it came down to it creating more surface agitation.

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Can i grow rotala rotundifolia without a light if i place it in a sunny window? Any sunny window aquarium tips?

>>5120444
Can you grow it? Yes. Will it be red? Probably not.

>>5120394
Amazing.
If the water quality doesn't kill it, the rotting pothos will.

>>5120453
Not even in a southern facing window with full sun? I was kinda hyped to see the red.

>>5119914
>>5120112
>>5119905
>>5119901
>>5119810
Thanks again everyone. Extra steps I did were
>put water conditioner in the quarantine bucket
>drip (more like very weak piss stream) acclimated for about an hour
>added an air stone because last attempt, every one of them were hanging at the top of the tank

It’s been about 6 hours, by which last time one of the shrimp had died. This time they seem to be doing good. One of my cherry shrimp was riding an oto earlier but couldn’t get a picture in time

>>5120405
>>5120402
Googled claude, it pointed me to the twinstar 450s V so I bought one

>>5120433
They make baffles. Unfortunately none of the filters have an official baffle so you have to buy one off Amazon or Etsy and hope it fits.

>>5120433
just make a floating boom that separates the turbulent surface area from the calm part. you can 3DP it, use airline tubing, hollow plastic sections from the warhammer store, etc.

>>5120433
I have tried all the diy and 3d printable things, it was all mediocre
Ordered this product and it was beyond worth it
https://a.co/d/0dHxLsEg
Hob put out so much surface agitation though if the water drops at all, it'll go over most dividers to a degree
Switched to a canister and no regrets
I just gave up on hobs. The rings that go above sponge filters with a hole in the center for airline hose so it stays centered work great as well

>>5120486
Huzzah!

>>5120394
Take an empty water bottle with a large mouth and just swooce right in when nobody is looking.

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>have 10 gal planted tank
>1 betta, 5 cherry shrimp, 1 amano shrimp, 1 mystery snail
>have a group of 8 chili rasboras in QT for a little over 2 weeks now

How does one safely introduce fish tankmates to a betta? He leaves the shrimp alone and very early on has harassed the snail but now couldn't give a single shit about it. I worry it would be a different tune when it comes to seeing other fish.

Pic related, my fella

>add 8 golden amanos to betta tank
>don’t see them at all now
>1 dried up on my floor this morning
I know my betta didn’t kill them. I’d have seen the bodies by now and he’d be fat. Where the hell are the other 7? This tank hasn’t grown in so much that they should be outright invisible.

I was just given a 20 gallon fish tank. realistically how soon can I have it set up with a species or two of plant and some beginner friendly fish?

>>5120611
Today. Not gonna rehash the basics but
>tank
>substrate
>heater or chiller
>filter
>light
>fish
>plants
>API freshwater master test kit
>aquarium siphon
>bucket
>fish
>plants
>fish food
Tank needs to establish a nitrogen cycle so you’ll need to use the test kit to check parameters daily and likely do daily water changes for the next 4-6 weeks until it’s done cycling and you can let it just take care of itself, excluding regular maintenance.

>>5120582
I read that they will attack newcomers. Maybe put him in his own tank for awhile, introduce the new fish in the main tank, then put the betta back in. They tend to not fight pre-existing fish.

>>5120613
Nice. I had it in my head that plants needed some time to establish themselves before fish could be introduced. I'm doing proper research now

>>5120619
No they’ll just melt and look like shit before they bounce back and acclimate to your tank. Aquariums are a game of patience. Every stunning tank you’ve ever seen is easily a year old and fully matured.

>>5120582
the chili Rasbora should be too fast for him to attack, why I put them with my pea puffers
They eventually give up and accept the presence

Starting up a Moina culture to consistently feed my new wild-caught pygmy sunfish. I've been giving them newly hatched baby brine shrimp in the meantime.

What color substrate goes best with a shrimp-only tank? Looking for something that will make their colors pop.

Probably gonna go with typical red, though I might go with blue if my LFS has them for cheap.

>>5120630
Black. You’ll get darker/deeper colors from black or dark substrate. They’ll lighten up and get almost clear eventually on a light substrate. This applies for almost all fish for some reason, regardless of if they’re top water or bottom dwellers, groupers or shrimps.

>>5120633
Also paint the back black, does wonders for aesthetics

>>5120633
You don't think black'll look edgy?
Actually, I'm looking at other people's tanks and the black does look nice.
But those people are good at aquascaping and I'm shit at it.

Alright, but the next question is sand or gravel?

>>5120637
I have one of those sticky-back thingies.

>>5120639
>edgy
Nigga are you retarded? Where have you ever been in nature that has white sand besides a nice beach? It’s not edgy at all, it’s the standard.

>>5120639
>sand or gravel?
Depends entirely on what you’re putting in the tank both plant and fish wise. Bottom feeders want sand so they don’t scratch themselves up, most of the cool plants want a softer substrate as well. But if you can get away with gravel it’s easier to clean and stem plants really like it.

>>5120652
>Nigga are you retarded?
Yes. Incredibly.
>Where have you ever been in nature that has white sand besides a nice beach?
Italy and the Caribbean.
Where have you been with black beaches?

I meant it as a joke, in any case.

>>5120653
>Depends entirely on what you’re putting in the tank both plant and fish wise.
Probably just neocaridinia, Java moss, and maybe Anubias.

>>5120657
If that’s all you’re putting in, do gravel. Just be warned that those are 3 very basic things and as fine as it sounds right now you’re going to end up adding more. I started with a 10 gallon shrimp breeder a couple months ago, meant to keep it as basic as possible so I could easily count and catch them. Now it’s a flame moss jungle with hardscape, an entire layer of floaters, and tiger lotus growing out the ass. This is a hobby of always wanting more, unfortunately. Genuinely don’t understand the people that get colored gravel with plastic decor and just let it ride for the fish’s entire life, takes all the fun and magic out of the hobby.

>CO2 injection
>drop checker was slow to get green but eventually got there
>green for a couple days and now it’s turning yellow
I’m confused. It comes on an hour before the lights and turns off an hour before the lights do. I’m around 1.5-2 seconds per bubble. What do I adjust? I have crushed coral in the HOB so the pH is stable too.

>>5120659
>started with a 10 gallon shrimp breeder
I'm doing a 5g so I'm not too worried about feature creep.

>Genuinely don’t understand the people that get colored gravel with plastic decor and just let it ride for the fish’s entire life
That's the parent "my kid wants a pet but I can't be assesd"-special.
It serves a very important role.

>>5120664
Nah, plenty of grown ass adults that run tanks like that themselves. Although I do assume it’s cause their parent probably did the same for them when they were younger and they just never learned better.
>starting with a 5 gallon
My first tank ever was a 5 gallon. Within 6 months it became one of the highest tech tanks I’ve ever run. I’m telling you, there’s no escaping it unless you truly just don’t give a fuck about the hobby that much. Not trying to put you off or anything, just make sure you look at lots of inspiration before you start making purchases and doing things to the tank that you can’t undo without severely disturbing the fauna. If you’re in this thread there’s a decent chance you’re more than just a casual enjoyer, leave yourself some options.

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>>5120639
>You don't think black'll look edgy?
no it looks great, makes everything pop and hides equipment and hoses (i'll switch these to black airline hoses at some point)
>But those people are good at aquascaping and I'm shit at it.
this is a tiny piece of driftwood, an anubias with it's roots jammed under the wood, and some anachris weighted down by plant weights(i started with just four 6" stems a month ago, just chop em in half and put the new bunch of 4 on a new weight, in perpetuity)
it's a divided 10 G, so this is a 5G space
>I have one of those sticky-back thingies.
you can try it but paint looks much better. i just did 3 coats of acrylic with a little roller on this tank yesterday

>>5120663
that's normal, plants put out co2 when lights are out and use it during the day
so you're accumulating at night and using it all up during the day
sounds like you have a perfect balance at the moment for not using a timer. wouldn't change a thing

>>5120666
they probably just don't know. i wasn't aware plants were a thing till I took over my dad's tank in my 30s and was doing research. he had always just done pet store special
really the problem is the pet stores not having any tanks demonstrating established plants. just shitty looking pots out of scape and maybe some anubias on rock on their gravel or a little piece of floating hornwort
if you aren't exposed to it you don't know

>>5120672
If the plants were using all of it, wouldn’t the drop checker be green instead of yellow? Yellow implies too much. And the CO2 is on a timer, unless you meant a bubble timer. Which, admittedly, I didn’t know exists.

>>5120673
my bad, i misremembered the color path; i'll reavaluate. (not an ai i swear)
so I also misread, thought you were saying it was yellow in morning and green at night
anyway.
well if it's yellow you're accumulating co2 faster than it's getting used. your timer settings are good.
i'd dial it back to get it out of yellow, even if you drop out of green. then address the following:
your plants are missing some other factor to not be utilizing the co2, maybe too little nutrients or light, maybe not enough o2 at night
what size tank?

>>5120674
It’s a 10 gallon breeder, heavily planted but only somewhat recently. Plants are growing but probably haven’t fully acclimated and taken root yet. I have a bullshit hygger light on there now but just ordered a twinstar 450s V >>5120494
Tank has been established running for months, I dose ACO fertilizer and iron.

>>5120675
>ordered a twinstar 450s V >>5120494
lmao I thought that was a joke mocking the guy telling you to use claude
alright well you're SET on lights
well you gotta give the plants time to acclimate. just dial it back to green. 2 drops is a lot in my opinion for a 10G. I was doing 2 drops on my low tech 75G, which everyone said was going to do nothing but I certainly saw noticable impact.
dial it back and be patient, once they settle in they'll pop off
it'll be really obvious the week they're ready for more

>>5120677
Nope I was dead serious. I’m not really into AI in fact I hate it. Never used Claude before but it seemed significantly more reliable than chat GPT and did all the math around my specific tank specs, PAR rating, wattage, color, etc. in a logical way so I decided to trust it. Even helped me find one in stock because they’re so hard to find right now in the US. I personally haven’t taken the time to get into lighting autism, so I trusted it. Certainly a more educated purchase than I would make on my own.

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couple months ago i got some endlers at the fish auction because they were freakin adorable
i. did. not. know. that they crossbreed with guppies, realized within a week and moved them to community tank away from guppies

apparently those fucks impregnated all my females and I didn't realize until this past week when all the juvenilles started showing color
so uh strain obliterated, new hybrid strain...
they look pretty cool though ngl

>>5120699
There’s like 40 fish in that video which one is the new strain?

>>5120666
>If you’re in this thread there’s a decent chance you’re more than just a casual enjoyer, leave yourself some options.
I'm lazy. The higher the tech, the more maintenance.
General tank maintenance I'm willing to do. Not trying to get myself involved in something crazy.

>>5120672
>this is a tiny piece of driftwood,
I was gonna get cholla wood.
>it's a divided 10 G, so this is a 5G space
What's on the other side?

>>5120702
>the higher the tech the more maintenance
Not really, unless you’re doing a walstad setup and literally don’t intend to do anything but top it off. less effective tech is going to lead to chasing down algae, more water changes, higher likelihood of crashes, things like heaters exploding in the water, and so on. Not to say you need all of the highest tech or most expensive gear by any means. I’m also not even saying just for tech. Plants, fish, substrate, lighting, filter type, etc.
I’m not gonna keep lecturing cause I truly do not care what you do. But if you go with gravel and then 3 months from now decide you want an HC cuba carpet you’re gonna be pissed that you chose gravel and spent $40 on a budget light when you could have just sprung for the $80 light and saved yourself the money. If that doesn’t make sense then it’s really not going to until you have a tank and find out for yourself.

>>5120707
No, no. I'm gonna spring for a good lights; I want good, happy plants.
And I'm gonna do water changes, and trim the plants, etc.

I know I don't want a carpeting plants. That requires too much up keep.

>>5120639
Black backgrounds are the standard for pro freshwater tanks. Everyone does it. Get coarse grade(as opposed to fine, or medium) silica quartz sand. It will allow all the waterflow of the Walstead method, while keeping the soil capped. Also make a soil tank lmao.

>>5120590
Okay so I found them, at least the handful that I can see. They’re hanging in the back corner by the filter low in a spot mostly inaccessible by the betta. I’m assuming he either scared the shit out of them or they’re acclimating still. I culled a yellow neo out of my shrimp tank into this tank a couple hours ago. It’s way smaller so if he wanted to eat it he could have, but it pretty quickly made its way into that same corner with the amanos. As far as I could see the betta didn’t even pay the neo any mind. My parameters are good though, so the Amano I found this morning was either suicidal or definitely got spooked by the betta and jumped. I’m running a sponge and HOB in this tank, if it was parameter related they would also be hanging on the sponge intake for the HOB, so it seems more like hiding to me.

Any insight on this? What are the odds they’re just acclimating to the new tank vs terrorized by my betta? The Amanos are too large for him to eat, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he wanted to just kill them for fun.

>>5120709
>pro freshwater tanks.
Any brand suggestions?

>>5120720
For the tank itself? UNS or ADA. If you’re a portage you can get tanks cheap as shit from petco during their 50% sale. The sale lasts either 1 week a month or 1 full month, but every other month. I forget exactly. But good chance the sale is running right now.

>>5120722
>portage
poorfag

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>>5120701
the luminescent bluey ones like endlers

>>5120702
>What's on the other side?
the kind of shrimp you don't want on a black background lol
small driftwood, hornwort, javamoss
i think it looks great
both sides running on a 12$ amazon light
i'll invest in better lights forever in the future though, but these work for sure. i've got a 6$ micro led on another 3g shrimp tank with just anubias and it's plenty

>>5120720
75G mainland at petco is $120 during their sale, which is all the time pretty much. trying to by used tanks is miserable, they're all in shit condition
i resold two i bought used that I was told were in good condition. filled em up, OH LOOK AT THOSE AWESOME SCRATCHES
resold same price with disclaimer regarding scratches
fucking reptile keepers don't give a shit lmao

I'm so excited to get my tank going. It's funny, my brother and I get to the pet store to buy dog stuff and I say something like "I want a fishtank but don't want to spend too much" and he says "dude, I have one in the back of my car I've been trying to get rid of for weeks". We get home and sure enough there is a nice 20 gal tank already in my driveway.
I've been doing some research and so far my basic bitch plan is
>dark substrate
>a simple piece of driftwood and a rock or two
>a couple plants like java fern and anubius
>school fish like cherry barb
>cool wormy dudes like loach
>maybe an african dwarf frog or something else neat as I get the tank cycled
It will depend on what my favorite pet store has of course but that's along the lines of what I want.

>>5120742
look to see if you have a local fish grorup the does monthly meetings/auctions
but hell yeha

>recommended 8 hours maximum of light to avoid algae
But what if I wanna look at it?

>>5120767
Low tech tanks often use weak lights for longer periods. You can also use the meme rest period where you turn off the light in the middle of the day for a few hours so you can have it on earlier in the morning and later at night. People thought this did stuff like disrupted algae growth and let CO2 replenish but I think that's all disputed now, but at least it shouldn't cause problems. I just gave up and have mine on 12pm-8pm so I can look at it after work.

>>5120783
My tank is high tech

>>5120538
It’s two days later and everyone’s still alive! The cherry shrimp are all hanging out at the bottom too, so it doesn’t look like they’re in oxygen distress

>>5120767
real men just fill their tank with bladder snails

>>5120767
I run my lights 12 hours a day, full blast. Very little algae because of how planted my tank is. I overfeed and don't water change monthly for TDS. My tank is also overrun with shrimp and snails. 0 nitrates and I pull plants out by the handful.

All things are possible

If you really want to be a sperg and go 8 hours. Do like 2pm to 10pm or something. The fish don't give a shit.

>>5120909
same. i run mine 6-9 and 5-12
see it when i'm getting ready for work and also all night i'm home. never a semblance of algae with all the plants and snails
top is also covered in floaters which may be helping reduce PARs

Giga Guppy

am I right on this?
>vallisneria leaves can be trimmed like grass
>sagittaria leaves will brown and possibly die if trimmed, whole sprouts must be cut out

>>5121089
Half the time you trim vallis it stunts and dies.

>>5121097
damn
well it's gonna get cut back at some point i guess its just a matter of rolling the dice

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Here's an idea for a tank I had. I've made terrariums before but wasn't very satisfied with the hardscape so decided to plan more thoroughly.
An arch made of Ohko stones, topped with spahgnum moss and covered with hypnum. Some plants also embedded in it (lemon fern, fig ivy). 60%fill with some waterplants like anubias. Pump is hidden in the back-leg of the arch, filter/heater in the table below it for accessibility.
Water goes from tank > pump > filter > tubes attached to the top of the stones covered in sphagnum to keep it wet.

idk if Ohko hardens water like limestone but I'm thinking of just keeping the livestock very minimal. Maybe just snails and shrimp.
Dimensions are 1'x2'
Appreciate any thoughts and warnings before I start building.

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i have this plant propagation tank on my porch that I had put a guppy i didn't want to breed with the others
i have also started a daphnia + green water culture for fun
the plant tank was getting pretty algae invested so yesterday I took some daphnia and dumped em in with 45(the guppy)
i doubt he can eat them all faster than they reproduce, maybe i'll get a good balance of algae<daphnia<45

>>5121104
Just snip it at the base. Easy cleanup. They grow fast

>>5121217
we were talking about lights, this is the light I got for the tank and it is blowing away all my others. all the reds are RED. it's a dramatic difference from all my other cheap lights, and relatively this one is still cheap.
https://a.co/d/0fCBCuDl

>>5121113
Cool idea. And no, Ohko doesn't really harden water as far as I've seen, and I've been keeping the same stones in my tank for about seven years now. My KH is like... 2. (Purposely, I top off with RODI and my livestock prefer it that way.)

I kind of want to try saltwater for my 29 gallon but everything about the ocean seems cursed. Brittle stars, bobbit worms, toxic corals gassing your family. I don’t have to put up with any of this bullshit with my guppies.

>>5121333
god gave us the earth, not the ocean

>>5121333
You should start a saltwater guppy tank.

Anyone in the US ever bought directly from Twinstar KR? I bought a light from them a few days ago and outside of an order confirmation haven’t gotten anything. No tracking info, no answer from support on a question I had for another product of theirs. Maybe they don’t answer English tickets. Idfk

>>5121333
Palytoxin is not common, and there's a super easy way to avoid it 100% if you really are worried: just don't get zoas/palys.
Bobbit worms are only a concern if you buy rock that was actually in the ocean and is still wet, and even then it is very rare.
Brittle stars are not pests. They are part of a normal tank's clean up crew.
There's lots to be concerned with though. Regardless of how cheap you try to be, it is always at least slightly more expensive than freshwater (the simple fact of buying salt, which is currently very inflated, makes it more even if you were doing FOWLR). And if you're keeping coral it is way more expensive.
Diseases are a lot scarier too. Ich goes from minor risk to major event. Velvet can wipe out tanks overnight. The ocean is not a friendly place.
Still, if I had to choose between my planted tank and reef tank, I wouldn't hesitate to pick the reef.

oof, I ordered a bag of seachem flourite sand thinking it would be enough for my 20 gal tank but I just noticed it's only 8lbs while the interent tells me I need more like 40lbs. At 40 bucks a bag that's rough. I'm heading to the pet store tomorrow, any recommendations on cheap sand to pad it out?

>>5121400
pool filter sand from home depot
blasting sand from tractor supply if you want black
they're both 1$/lb
aquarium sand is a huge fuckin scam

>have tank
>limited plant selection, everything came from tissue cultures
>looking at tank this morning
>see a baby bladder snail
How in the ever loving fuck is that even possible? This tank has never once had a snail, none of the plants could have possibly had snails in them. I’m so fucking lost. Crushed the little fucker immediately.

>>5121455
>blasting sand
my brother said the same thing. that's what I'll do then, thanks.
>>5121538
poor little feller

>>5121538
you just killed their peace emissary
expect a full invasion and defeat soon, hominid

>>5121396
Serious question. I'm a coastal chad. Can I just drive to the ocean, fill some jugs, and use that for WC/Top offs for a few weeks?

>>5120396
>t. Works at the gym

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I’m like 99% sure this isn’t clado. Is she making eggs?

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do you think this native american plummet would be suitable as tank deco? I pulled it out of the ocean a few months ago. I think it's granite, it passes a crude hardness test with steel and doesn't apear to react to vinegar under a magnifying glass.

>>5121939
i don't see any reason why it would be an issue

>>5121930
that's just a color pattern common with dark green shramps
look up venoms

>>5121985
Dawg that is NOT just a color pattern you can see physical objects and it’s fully internal.

>>5121996
well take better pictures fuckwad

>>5121996
Internal as in under the transparent shell maybe

Help me /aq/. I have a sponge filter on top of the intake for an HOB. Every 10 days it gunks up enough that I have to wring it out to restore flow. I think the problem is that it touches the gravel and is pulling mulm in. Anything I can do about that?

Alternatively, I only have the sponge to not suck up shrimplets. Is that even a concern? The shrimp literally climb up the outflow and forage in the filter box.

>>5122116
Coarse sponge instead of fine

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This rotala is really struggling, but still slowly getting vertical. Although it’s melting more and more, it was more green a week ago. Is it completely failing? Should I trim it? Everything else in the tank is doing great. It’s been in here about 3-4 weeks

>Recently got 4 Golden topminnows
>3 of them only eat frozen foods
>The last one only eats Vibra-Bites

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>>5122226
rotala is a slut for light. it doesn't do well in my tanks either where everything else is fine
you really need fancy light for it

what am i growin

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>>5122255
it's outgrowing their work
or they're working to grow it, idk. they're with it a lot

I have about 10-15 assassin snails in my tank. How many nerites would I need to add at once to make sure they actually populate and sustain?

>>5122283
like 60
just sell the assassins, people will pay like 5-10$ ea

>>5120444
>Any sunny window aquarium tips?
don't unless you want to scrub algae every week

all right lads I am fed up with my tank, I'm cutting size from 10g to 5g, full shrimps and plants, no filter, thinking about adding a beta a calling the tank 'the coliseum'

thoughts?

I'm getting sick of ai slop EVERYWHERE. so many aquarium guides are that fucking obvious chat gpt voice repeating the same info over and over in these long super articles. it's like click bait titles that never end

>>5122324
Sounds like the first thing every normie wants to do the moment they find out they can keep a fish with no effort or maintenance. Do what you want anon, sounds like a waste to me.
>>5122333
Just watch different channels there’s literally thousands of actual aquarium content creators

>>5122336
I prefer to read over watching videos but you are right. I have to stick to to avoid sales pitches and brainless slop now.

How long until my sponge filter stops floating to the top of the tank?

>>5122339
It shouldn't in the first place. Did you not attach the weighted base? The airline will replace any air that escapes the sponge, so if you do not have a weighted base, it will never, ever stop floating.

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>>5122343
It has a weighted base. it stays on bottom for a bit and then slowly rises. It's only been in the water for a few hours.
I know my decorating leaves something to be desired but I'll dial it in

>>5122346
Weird. Try just squeezing it then. It might just have a tiny bit more air than usual. You have lots of bubbles on surfaces too, so I imagine there was cold water being warmed up, causing some dissolved gas to bubble out.

>>5122255
>>5122264
Looks like staghorn algae to me, you'll have to manually pull chunks out I don't think they'll eat it just stuff on it. In general I find cherry shrimp won't actually remove algae (they may be able to prevent it from growing out in the first place though as most algae will grow out of the biofilm they graze), Amanos might do it if they don't get fed anything else for a while.

>>5122323
Alternatively if you have an overgrown tank, it will keep the algae down but you'll still have to remove plant matter.

>>5122333
>Trips
I only watch fish tank videos if the chick is cute or has big tits. Even the non-ai content is mostly rehashed content, OG slop.

>>5122283
You're have to start the assassin snails before they went after a nerite. Plus how do you get nerites to breed in a regular tank? I thought they needed brackish water.

>>5122437
>I only watch fish tank videos if the chick is cute or has big tits
did you bring enough for everyone?

>trying to clean up mulm
Is it viable to blast it off of everything with a turkey baster and then just do a water change while it’s all floating?

>>5122536
standard practice

I haven't got fish in my tank yet but just collecting the components and putting it together was very gratifying. I'm going down rabbit holes researching breeding now. Looks like a lot of fun. I hope I maintain my enthusiasm but it's quite possible I'll stock this tank and end up just going through the motions after a while. Either way I think I'll enjoy fishkeeping very much.

>>5122606
Careful jumping into breeding too quickly unless you have a lot of space and disposable income. Otherwise have fun anon.

>>5122606
>>5122625
Also don't assume that if you're successful, you'll be able to sell tons of fry and make skrillions of dollars. You can absolutely end up with fish that nobody wants slowly filling your tank(s).

>>5120582
bettas are all vicious bastards

Shout out to Twinstar KR for shipping my light internationally, importing it through customs, and at my door faster than Florida Aquascaping could send some crypts and Monte Carlo

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>>5122795
Okay what should I do with this? Trying to get nice deep red plants and my carpet popping

>>5122806
should be good already, depending on tank depth lower the brightness
adjust blue/green slightly for the hue that looks best to you

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Perching catfish

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>>5122735
Not this guy he is as glorious as is gentle.
Favorite of the 4 I owned so far.

>>5122859
It’s pretty much right on the surface, I have it on my rimmed tank using my old hygger mount inserts. No shot in fucking hell I’m paying $40+ for the shitty plastic adapters, I don’t have a 3D printer, and this is the new V generation which doesn’t have hanging support yet.

Can you still grow a carpet if you have floating plants?

>>5123062
a carpet of moss

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>>5122917
talkin' about the oto or the cory below him?

I think I should thin out my plants a wee bit just to give mine more room to snuffle

>>5122919
That's because he's pink and effeminate

>>5122264
Nomnomnomnom

>>5123188
That may be so. I love and accept the femboy betta

>>5122806
48 hours and the difference is insane. My plants are already turning red. To all the poorfags psyopping this hobby by telling people there isn’t much difference between lights, you’re retarded.

>10g heavily planted betta tank
>mulm and algae are getting out of control
>add amanos because the tank has assassin snails
>amanos literally never leave the corner with the sponge filter
>never seen anything like it
>betta must have scared them shitless
I think I'm gonna try to wrangle all of the assassin snails and add something else to help. Any suggestions? Preferably nothing that'll wreck the substrate and my carpet.

>>5123428
Have you tried just manually cleaning out the algae and doing a lot more water changes?
>inb4 I have zero nitrates
Yeah, all the pro aquascapers have zero nitrates too, yet they do multiple water changes a week on all their tanks. Try it. It's just a 10G tank.

>>5123420
>To all the poorfags psyopping this hobby by telling people there isn’t much difference between lights, you’re retarded.
lmao
This will cause massive butthurt.
It's true though. Nice lights are just better. Things grow better. Things look better. Yes, the cost may not be worth it to some people, just as low iron glass isn't worth it for some people, but that doesn't mean it's just not simply better.
Although there are a few expensive lights that are legitimately shit.

>>5123894
Meh, the twinstar is like 15% better than a hygger for 3x the price. The main difference is max output. Even temu lights can mimic any spectrum. And if you aren't running a CO2 system the extra light is just feeding algae and floaters. With ambient light in the background, you won't really be able to see the difference.

Low iron glass is the same boat. Yes it technically does something, but not much. Water quality is 100x more important than the glass. Filter floss and purigen are more important.

>>5123428
Get MTS, stop buying assassins.

>>5123939
You have any statistics for that percentage you pulled out of your ass or are you just poor and coping?

Better lights do have an impact but
>I turned up the red profile and my plants are more red now chuds
Lol

>>5123979
You say that like the poorfags and retards who shill cheap lighting won’t froth at the mouth if you even hint that having control over the spectrum is better for the plants.

>>5123982
lots of cheap lights like Seoura also have control over the lighting spectrum

I have a tiger lotus going insane. It was originally down with a plant weight. I noticed a loose bulb with no leaves or stems and thought somehow it tore itself. Then I lifted the leaves and found the original bulb and another 2-3 that I can see that are tiny. The one that was completely detached is full size. How can I sell these? I only need 1 in the tank…

>>5123982
I think the argument is that the spectrum control has such a tiny impact on plant growth compared to everything else that can be done that there's no reason to worry about it, we're not commercial farmers interested in getting a low percent increase in growth rate. An "optimal" spectrum is going to be different from plant to plant anyway. All that you need to care about as a hobbyist is PAR and if the light makes your fish and plants look nicer with whatever profile you set up. I hate a lot of things about this hobby because separating snake oil from legitimate things that have a small impact needs a lot of research and people just parrot whatever they've read online. People say that spectrum does nothing at all which is completely wrong but the idea that you're going to get big improvements with small adjustments away from normal full spectrum is almost as bad.

The cherry barbs at my preffered pet store are shabbt looking. Not red at all, no stripe. I fired up the facebook burner assuming that was the place to be to connect with hobbyists and breeders but the fish keeper groups are awful. The biggest one in the province is mostly retarded stacys posting their "rescue" bettas from petsmart and smarmy redditors lecturing her with massive paragraphs she won't read. The rest is confused boomers trying to sell cars. I'm very disappointed and losing hope in getting some nice cherries.

>>5124044
t. poorfag

>>5124050
Show me a white paper with >10% dry weight increase from a spectrum change and I will buy ADAs finest bullshit when I do my discus tank.

>>5124052
How about you show us your tank first

>>5124053
So no evidence of anything then, just like always. Sorry you got scammed.

>>5124054
Enjoy your dirt brown scraggly tank poorfag

>>5124055
This is how boomers responded in the 80s when you told them to do water changes.

>>5124059
So true. My much older brother is life long tank enthusiast and I remember him coming home and having huge fights with my parents over the state of their horrible tank

>>5124059
Could easily dunk on me with a pic of your tank if it didn’t look like shit

>>5124064
Could easily advertise the effect of spectrum changes on plant growth with lights but no company does.

>>5124067
retard you do realize just adjusting the spectrum doesn't "reveal" the red in the plants right? it's not like plants are secretly red and just need the right light for it to be seen. That needs to be nurtured with proper strong light and honestly supplemental nutrients as well if you want real red that pop. Your rotala going from green to poop brown in your budget setup is simply not on the same level, if it was you'd have posted it.

>>5124090
fag

>>5124026
>facebook
>local fish group
>make a plant grow out tank
also cool i want one

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red plants are a Communist ploy and I simply will not allow them in my tank

gobbless

>>5124045
If you want cherries you're going to have to get used to a lot of non-red fish because you should have more females than males in a group.

Facebook is terrible for anything except laughing at boomer memes, you will probably have to go online. Which province are you in?

>>5124045
>The cherry barbs at my preffered pet store are shabbt looking. Not red at all, no stripe.
Cherry barbs are impossible to gauge if they're juveniles. All of them look drab at 6 months or younger. Get them in a stable tank with quality food they will take on the classic colors within a few months.

>>5124262
New Brunswick
>>5124266
That is a good point I should have considered

>>5123976
Manufacturers post their specs.

>>5123982
Lol sorry you paid 3x as much for a light that gets 50 extra par (I was wrong it's a 20% boost) which gets lost in ambient light. If you keep the room dark it will make a difference I guess.

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>no tanks posted by either of the two autists arguing about their tank lighting
sus....

>>5124300
dang, there's some for sale in MB but that would require fast shipping.

>>5124357
I never thought of having them shipped. Seems fucked but I guess that's how they get around lol. Where do you see those?

>>5124373
Concrete Blonde Aquatics has 8 listed, I believe they ship out of province. I know that the guys at Cichlaholic/aFishionados ship all over the place but they don't list cherries in stock now. I'm sure some places in Ontario and Quebec would have them and be closer to you, and maybe try checking Halifax stores.

personally I prefer to just buy whatever's available within a reasonable drive because I can pick them out myself and guarantee they arrive okay. it does suck when you see cool stuff that you can't get.

>>5124423
Thanks for broadening my horizons man. Like you, I'd rather pick them up in person but that gives me a lot of options I hadn't considered. It seems so obvious now

>>5124460
if you want some peace of mind i've ordered many batches of fish that arrived in good health
15 neon tetras from amazon
shrimp from amazon
shrimp from a guy on facebook(first batch were all dead but I didn't get home on time and it was very cold out. he also admitted he was experimenting with a heating mechanism; send me new ones for free that were all good)
12 chilli rasboras from imperial tropics (i think)

I only order from a couple of the more preem high end stores but I swear I always get better fish online than from my LFS
>the ACO physical location in Washington

>>5124460
>>5124469
couple of times when I was young I transported fish 8 hours home after visiting family, including African butterfly fish. 100 percent survival rate. also transported several margarine tubs of crayfish for 12 hours but they are extremely tough SOBs.

>40g low-tech planted/filtered tank
>shrimps n snails
>just some root tabs for ferts
Should I be concerned about a little bit of staghorn on the edges of my val? I have my lights set for 8hrs but I often turn them on for a bit at night to look at the tank.

one of my corys likes to rest/sleep while floating just below the duckweed layer. on two occasions i have been so convinced it was dead i got the net out and prepared to remove it. before i even put the net in the water it would snap back to reality and go do normal high energy cory stuff for the remainder of the evening.

Bro you've been arguing with people not me, but here you go:
>>5124311
>Manufacturers post their specs.
>Trusting any manufacturer's specs
lmao
I wouldn't even trust ADA's lighting specs, and generic Chinesium lights often don't publish specs. That's what reviews are for.
>>5123939
>Meh, the twinstar is like 15% better than a hygger for 3x the price.
So as a side note on Hygger, they seem very cool. Practically the only company really trying to evolve and innovate in the freshwater hobby at the moment, but I have yet to be super happy with any of their gear. Neat features, absolutely. Reliable and effective... no so much. I think all of their products need just a little more refinement.
People seem to only talk about their lights here, but they also make a LOT of other stuff like some interesting filters, a very versatile water changing thing (but it doesn't work that well with the filtration mode unfortunately), probably the smallest wavemaker I've ever seen (even smaller than a Nero, but its interface is dogshit annoying for no reason), very nice small form factor heaters (which unfortunately did not last very long).
I have no issues with their lights so far but I would not trust them to last.
>inb4 more butthurt
I assure you I have bought more Hygger gear than you knew even existed, so I do not buy just premium tier gear. But guess which gear I have had to actually replace due to failures? Yeah, it's not the expensive ones.
>PAR, spectrum, etc.
One thing no one is talking about above is CRI. When I said things just look better, it wasn't just spectrum. For instance, you can have an LED emit in the 450-465 nm wavelength (royal blue) and not look as good as another royal blue LED, simply because of CRI. It's why literally every museum and art gallery pay a premium for high CRI lights even if they are literally all the same color. It visually makes a difference. I do prefer spectrum control but not even all of my tanks have it.

>>5124704
Post went on too long. Anyway, to finish it off:
Autists here just post things growth rate or PAR or whatever, but forget that this is all for how something looks. Yes, you can, and I certainly have, grown plants effectively with the cheapest shit (I've done so with shop lights from Home Depot and DIY LED strip lights, the latter of which I still use in a quarantine tank). But that doesn't stop the tank from looking like ass. You take the same exact tank at the same exact time with the cheapest light you can find vs. something not shit, and the quality light will look better. Not two weeks of growth from now, but right now. You can cope all you want about cheap lights, but they are just not as good.
And as I've stated above, in the long run I haven't even found them to be definitively cheaper, as I've had to replace nearly every single budget gear I've owned, lighting or otherwise (most notably except some REALLY generic light that I've been using over 10 years, but I assure you its PAR is pretty shit and it REALLY looks like ass, but for spare/temp tank purposes it has been a champ), including Hygger. I still support Hygger because again, they are the only ones innovating in the freshwater space and they have unique features, and I really hope they do well in the future. But it's not really the lighting side I'm a fan of. I only have one light of theirs and it is too new for me to comment on reliability.

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Still no tank posted showing his lit tank... sus

>>5124770
>>5124331
this is the retard arguing against good lights that refuses to post a pic of his totally sick budget setup btw can't imagine being so poor that a $100-$200 purchase for a hobby would have you acting like this much of a retard. Just say you're broke.

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>>5124772
Im just the peanut gallery telling both of you autists to shut the fuck up and post lit tank... doing otherwise is sus.... fr

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>>5124777
Fr

>>5124786
>>5124775
>>5124770
>>5124331
Taking up image slots with this garbage should be bannable.

That that or that anon. I'm the anon shocked at the guy that bought the twinstar spontaneously, but based.
Working with a 4' tank

I was wanting to try new lights and couldn't find any availability by week aqua for a rimmed tank.
Ordered the most expensive one I could find that wasn't absurd on amazon, was the 72W $80 hygger. not the bluetooth one, 24/7 or day/night setting buttons.

Just installed it, it's a dramatic difference over my previous cheap af LED. I don't actually need a timer, it gives you 4 different time periods to set different brightness settings for each W/R/G/B
Currently it's just 1 of the time periods all day, plugged into a wifi timer because I don't feel like configing all that. Definitely cool though.
The visual color saturation is immensely more appealing, everyone in my house immediately noticed.

After I ordered that I looked at twinstars and can confirm they ship from korea in like 1 week, which is impressive. I'll have 1200E v5 here by weekend to compare. I don't think it'll be as impressive a difference this hygger is from the cheapest possible one. at $250 with tarrif it'll be interesting.

Anyway here's a before pic, i'll grab a pic with the hygger light on later tonight when there's no window obsfucation, etc. Another when the twinstar gets here for comparison.

Actually... the only picture I have is from awhile ago with way less floaters and it won't be accurate. I'll get both pictures later tonight.

I went from a hygger to a chihiros and it was night and day difference. Anyone defending cheap lighting in this hobby is only doing so because they can’t afford something better.

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>>5124845
I'm not the best photographer, it's a S22 and I just turned down exposure as low as I could
I think it's quite noticable in the pictures, this is both lights compared at 100%
I promise it's more noticable in person

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>>5124872
this is after I lowered brightness and changed W/R/G/B ratios
then after I modified ratios combined with keeping the old cheap light on for additional light
it is a 18" deep tank so really I'll probably keep two lights on it

I don't think these pictures are as distinquishably different than the first two

and I'm not knocking the $20 lights, I got all my growth on them and have been completely happy with my tank.
I haven't been able to get any of the dwarf hairgrass to spread though, it stays alive, but refuses to grow further
some stem plants I've added and they've essentially wilted away
so it'll be cool to see how things change, especially with the twinstar coming

>>5124872
>>5124874
also note my ENTIRE surface is covered by water lettuce besides the back left for feeding, a 4" circle over sponge filter, and a lil 2" circle in front right for my coreys to poke the top (they just seem to like doing that and were stressed unable to get through the floaters)

also i'm the guy that's been saying I sell frogbit, apparently it's actually water lettuce and i'm retarded and it's illegal in my state so I have to stop ):

>>5124872
>>5124874
>>5124877
on the topic of your dwarf hairgrass, I truly believe lighting is more important than CO2 for carpeting. I had a 5 gallon nanoscaped tank w/ CO2 a little while back and the only thing I cheaped out on was the light, because I used to believe the people online that claim their budget hygger "makes their monte carlo carpet and they don't even run CO2". I'm running a higher end chihiros now on a 20g and my plants were red and carpeting before I even added the CO2. Now it's just ridiculous in there. There's 0% chance I would get this growth with one of the generic hyggers. It does seem like you got a slightly nicer line of their lights though so I'm not surprised to see it looks decent. Curious to see how the twinstar looks on there, that other anon is singing its praises I might grab one myself.

>>5124850
How much do "good" lights cost that you're accusing adults of being too poor to buy? The "ur poor lol" argument in any hobby is quite possibly the original cope.

>>5124891
I had CO2 running in this tank for a few months when I started and the hairgrass still didn't want to spread AT ALL. I definitely got growth elsewhere, but those fuckers refuse. I cut it off because it just seemed unnecessary. I still have the whole setup with CO2 ready to go, literally could just turn a dial.
I'll give the new lights a few weeks and then pop it back on and see.
I'm gonna have to rip out these swords and replace them with some smaller plants though.
It's my first tank and first time with plants so I had no concept of how fast and big things grow. I think i'd just go crypts and anubias in the future, moss also didn't do well in here. Those printed grates in the back right were FULL of christmas moss and java moss and literally all wilted to dust.
With the better lights i'd like to also get ahold of some buce and red lotus and try more bushy things
idk yet
but the amazon sword has won the game and will be rehomed to some pond keepers

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>>5124775
You posted it 4 times and still no picture from you. Unless you posted it later on lol.

As for pic, it's 36w hygger shining through about 4-5 inches of water wisteria and duckweed in a 40g.

Yes I over feed. Yes everything is overgrown. The shrimp and snails take care of it.

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BTW I objectively know that a more expensive light shines better. My point was that there's a lot of other things you can do to make the tank look better and lighting is down the list.

This is the difference it makes when I turn the light on in the next room. Noticeably dimmer. With room lights on there be little to no visible difference between a mid line and expensive light. The only real difference is PAR output.

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>>5124832
>banned for posting an animal in an animal board
Frogs can be kept in aquariums my guy

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>>5124906
Make it 6 dawg

>>5124892
No that's actually the entire point. Lighting cost obviously scales with tank size but it's such a measurable improvement to both the appearance and for the plants that if you actually give a fuck about your tank/the hobby at all, then it's more than worth the $100-$400. That's not a lot of money, so sitting here insisting that a cheaper and less effective version is better can only be described as broke behavior. Would love for a saltwater guy to come dunk on this dude, $400 is a drop in the pan for them.

>Water flea culture numerous enough to start harvesting
>Put a few in pygmy sunfish tank
>Pygmy sunfish are actually too small to eat the bigger Daphnia; they can only eat the smaller Moina
Still more economical than baby brine shrimp every week

Can green leaves turn red? Or do they have to grow in red?

What brand substrate should I use? Does it even matter?
I'm checking amazon and they're all around $12.

What's the fucking difference?

>>5125146
I was told to use sand blasting medium and I'm going to try it in my next tank. I went with a couple bags of the expensive seachem stuff and it looks nice

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>>5125151
You think something like this would be fine?
It's my first tank, and it'll just be shrimp-only.

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I wasn't sure how best to take a pic of these but I think this one represents the colors accurately. What do you make of these levels?
>9 day old 20 gallon
>small anubias, java fern and a tuft of some kind of grass from the pet store
>kept at 25c, was sitting around 18c for a few days before I got a bigger heater
>recommended doses of seachem conditioner and stability
>indirect sunlight but it's been rainy
>5 hours a day under (probably cheap) led light
> I have fed the tank some fish flakes but haven't for three days now because I worried I used to much

>>5125163
From what I understand it's overkill so definitely acceptable but I am a total newb as well. Make sure you figure out the ammount you need for your tank size. Even after being reccomended cheaper alternatives, I was able to rationalize spending 40lb on a bag of nice stuff. Only after it arrived I realized it was 8lbs of sand and my 20 gal needed more like 25-30 lbs. I ended up going to the pet store for one more bag of seachem and building up a base with gravel I already had to stretch it.

>>5125167
I just realized I need to retest the ph because it's above the range of the test I used

>>5125127
Get a 150 micron mesh. The smaller dapnia will slip through then toss the bigger ones in a jar to make more.

>>5125146
Honestly go with whatever is the color you want. The substrate nutrients are going to develop over time or you can toss in root tabs to speed it up. With enough fert you can grow plants in petco glow pebbles.

Rule of thumb with anything going into an invert tank, check for copper. That's pretty much it. You can do whatever otherwise.

>>5125190
But what looks nicer? Sand or gravel?

>>5125167
>20 gal needed more like 25-30 lbs
I think it's 1lb per gallon.

>>5125167
stop feeding until you see your ammonia go down. you have both kinds of nitrifying bacteria active and growing right now.

>>5120433
I used some coarse foam filter or whatever as a diffuser it's easy to cut to fit. For a while I also put some of the foam on a floating ring and put it under the waterfall and that worked pretty good.
Or sometimes you can fuck with how the pipes fit to the pump and adjust flow, but maybe you want a certain flow rate

How do I match my tap water temp to the tank's temp when using a python to refill after a water change? so far the plan is to set the tap to a similar temp at a low pressure, hook the python up while it's running and deal with the low pressure. The tap is one of those shared levers between hot and cold so I can't count how many turns of the knobs gets my desired temp or something

>>5125384
A thermometer maybe?

>>5125384
It shouldn't matter that much. Your tap won't be cooler than 60 or so. It will quickly reach your tank's temp.

>>5125384
i use an infrared thermometer. it's not very accurate as infrared isn't well suited to this application but it's close enough and it gives an instant reading. however, my fill method is different than yours. i use an electric water pump in a bucket. tap fills bucket, pump submerged in bucket, pump is attached to a hose going to the tank. it's not a direct connection like the python which i guess is your complication. i'd say in your case just kinda ballpark it by running it until tepid, turn off but remember roughly where the tap was, hook up python, move tap to that general setting.

this isn't that fussy so don't sweat it too much.

>>5125390
gee, thanks reddit
>>5125405
Oh yes it will. I have a deep well full of delicious, freezing water. You're still right though. If it's not that sensitive I can eyeball the tap easy enough, and I guess I can just run it through the python and measure the output. I'm overthinking this simply because I'm nervous about leaving the python closed under pressure for any ammount of time around my electronics

>>5125417
thanks for the reassurance

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BROS DID MY HABROSUS FINALLY SPAWN?

>>5125384
Can't you just hook up the python and hose some water into a bucket and measure that? You have a pretty good amount of time before a standard 5G bucket fills to get it reasonably close. You don't have to get it SUPER exact.

>>5125146
The biggest difference is active vs inert substrate. Active has some quirks you should be aware of before setting up. If inert, it doesn't matter all too much aside from practicality in maintenance. A very find sand for instance is kind of a pain because the smallest disturbance causes it to go flying, so vacuuming it is not fun.
>>5125167
Interesting results. Obviously your NH4 and NO2 are sky high but it's good to see you already producing NO3 after only nine days. You should have a good culture going pretty quickly.

>>5125438
>Active has some quirks you should be aware of before setting up. If inert, it doesn't matter all too much aside from practicality in maintenance.
My tap water has low kh/gh.
So I should go for one that increases them?

What's everyone's favorite floating plants?

>>5125606
>>5124874
water lettuce, all of it. it's illegal in my state but i was able to get it on etsy

so my twinstar got here with rimless legs, fuckin around with some print files to try to be able to mount it

I started a shrimp colony in my 20 gallon tank after my betta died. Started with 5 and now 3 months later I have like 50. Is it weird that I'm tempted to get another tank with a betta and just use it to help keep the shrimp population in check? Otherwise I'm probably just going to bring them back to the store periodically. The local shop is cool and says they'll give a small amount of store credit for stuff like that.

Also blue shrimp > red shrimp

>>5125713
I used the legs from my hygger on the Twinstar, works fine for my rimmed tank

I'm taking a 5 gallon tank my mom used to keep a betta in. Not sure what I'll do with it. Maybe a nursery in case something in 20 gal I'm setting up decides to breed or maybe there's some kind of live food I can grow.
Most likely I will just let my gf fill it with gaudy plastic shit and incompatible fish that will kill each other while she taps on the glass in the hopes that she'll leave my tank alone

>>5125775
Is your girlfriend an actual child? Why can’t she just not fuck with your stuff? Anyways, use it for a cherry shrimp colony and floater propagation. Passive cash/LFS store credit.

>>5125606
duckweed is good, I have it in all 4 of my tanks

>>5120344
has anyone tried to keep lungfish?

>>5125843
You know how big lungfish get right?

>>5125793
>Is your girlfriend an actual child?
in many ways yes. she's just getting pissy that I'm not taking any of her input on the tank because her ideas conflict with my autistic vision. I'd like to include her in this.
That said, I love your suggestion to use the 5gal as a shrimp tank. I'm reading about them now and it looks they would be quite fun to keep.

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Thoughts on galaxy rasboras versus dwarf emerald rasboras? Versus rose danios or maybe 10 more hengeli or espei rasboras.

>>5125850
African lungfish aren't that big

>>5125885
2-3 feet is pretty big for aquarium fish

>>5125893
4 YOU

>>5125850
>>5125893
If you get a lungfish, it's like a low maintenance parrot because it'll probably outlive you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah_(lungfish)

just cleaned an alien colony off the bottom of my glass top. it had been a few... months.

>Overharvested greenwater
>Now have to wait weeks for it to recover

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>>5124874
and here's the twinstar alone
honestly meh
>>5125751
worked very well, thank you

in other news, the cool corydoras i've had (1 female, 2 male) that I haven't been able to identify and have been intending to make a point to breed for months... one of the males disappeared and must be dead
cool no signs in the tank, it can just absorb that
but they're really heckin cool corys and I've never seen them anywhere

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>>5126220
>heckin cool corys

my black neons somehow managed to produce one offspring in the thunderdome. i don't know how as the cherry barbs are very thorough at eating all fry. this one is the chosen one. he will bring balance.

>>5126220
>>5126222
looks like a very obese bronze to me

>>5126238
SHE'S HEALTHY YOU FAGGOT

>>5126242
your cory so fat when she fall down she get STUCK
your cory so fat she can't get sucked up through a vac truck hose
your cory so fat her pectoral fins in two different area codes
your cory so fat she can shoal with herself
your cory is so fat if she stop eatin' Hikari gon' go outta business

Do neocaridina really not need a heater?
My room stays around 70. Might drop if the a/c's on, but even then not below 67.

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>>5126243
>your cory so fat she can shoal with herself
she about to have to :(

>>5126244
yeah they're fine

>>5126200
>It has a funky smell now
Goddammit, time to get another culture

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I wish my cories were big and fat, I always worry about them not getting enough to eat.

easiest braindead plant that will work almost anywhere?
Except duck weed or valisineria

>>5126595
Anubias and mosses (any).

How do you kill algae in a tank with plants that demand high light? I’m not about to sacrifice my carpet and all of this growth.

>>5126703
If you have high light and algae is outcompeting plants, the plants aren't getting fertilized properly
If you're just counting on nitrates from fish they will bottle neck on lack of trace nutrients like phosphorous and gh. Do you use fertilizer?

I am now the proud owner of 7 celestial pearl danios. I hope they figure out where the food comes from soon and get nice and FAT

>>5126707
Yes I use the aquarium co op one but I assumed it was making the algae worse so I haven’t used it in 2ish weeks now.

>>5126732
do you have more than carpeting plants? the only way to beat algae is have plants more aggressively consuming nutrients
so depending on your plants, you might need additional supplements
carpeting plants aren't the most competitive in the ways of nutrients since they're so smoll
turning down lights is generally an effective way to balance, you can turn it down and gauge how the carpeting plants are/not stunted

>>5126733
I have a mix of Monte Carlo and pearlweed, some crypts, bunch of anubias, some buce, ludwigia, rotala, water lettuce, red root floaters, and tiger lotus

>>5126734
I would unironically say to increase your nutes significantly. That's a lot of plants, plus floaters.
My 75G planted is covered in floaters and I do maybe 2x dose bottle recommendation and never ever have algae
I would bet you're getting the problem I'm presenting
It might be counter intuitive, but fuck around and find out

additionally are any plants showing deficiencies? spots, thinning, etc?

>>5126737
When I started the tank it only had red root and the tiger lotus. Everything else was added over the last 3-6 weeks. I’m seeing new growth but the stuff that was originally planted is struggling/melting. For example most of the Monte Carlo looks like shit, but if you look at its roots and the substrate around it there’s bright, healthy green new growth around it. The crypts melted but now they’re shooting up pink leaves. The ludwigia and anubias and floaters are doing great. Only the rotala has really struggled.

Just tried to trim my massive christmas moss bush and accidentally knocked it off my hardscape, completely ruining the look and shape of it. Im so pissed off, it looks like absolute dogshit now. I will never recover.

>>5126804
It’s moss. Just put it back where it was and it’ll attach and grow. Trim it into shape.

is aqadvisor down?