Search results

This is Yoshi. He's 11 and his friendly nickname is "Champ" as a short for the Italian "campione di urina" ("urine sample" -> sample and champion are the same word in Italian: campione). You can guess by the nickname that he's not allowed on the sofa.

+1 on the health benefit convo. Having a corner in the office helps me with work induced stress. This hobby rules. Second only to motorcycles but a lot less weather dependent.

Ooof.. Not much that I can think of.. Most schooling fishes I know need longer spaces than 15G. And not sure about recommending any nano fish, given the high flow..

I just whipped together my quick water change life hack and used it:

Same battle here. Did not bring in the big guns (assassin snail), I just remove the pond snails manually and leave the ramsnhors. Every time I spend time looking at it I take the shrimp net and grab any pond snail that is easy to catch. I dump them in a flower pot as fertilizer.

Few days in with the emperor tetras: still good parameters (0 ammonia 0 nitrates, despite massive population growth and heavy feedings including brine shrimps this morning), no visible losses in the tetras, although getting a headcount is not really possible. The older Cory frys are now 1/3 the...

Ok F it. Next time I try Caridina instead of Neocaridina, since softer water is easier to do for me than harder water. Ordered a 10 gallons aquarium and some Gh/Kh+. Also inert substrate. Sigh.

Got the noplanaria to dose for hydra,made sure the dose was correct (easy mistake to make in a tiny volume), dosed it.... Killed all shrimp.

I'm here to ask questions too, I don't have any presumption of being a fish doctor. I share the limited amount of knowledge I have but this might be the first tilapia I see that wasn't a fillet. :)

I wish. I did minerals by the volume (tbsp) and sorta eyeballing it. Will be way more thorough and make a written table of exactly how much needs to go in

Dither fish added! 19 Emperor Tetras :) There is a fish in this pic that looks like it does not have a tail fin... It does not have a tail fin, completely nipped (not rot, nipped). Buch of them had nipped fins. Got them on sale from a local store, sadly one fish jumped out when the lady picked...

I use RO plus Equilibrium. Over a 1G water change it's easy to bring a large change in TDS

I have some No Planaria coming in the mail, but there are no larvae or dragonflies

Actually there is 7 blue dreams left,got a better headcount.. Will refrain from touching anything and hope

I _might_ have panicked and did a 60% water change and made the situation worse at some point

Years ago, I used to keep troves of neocaridinas in all my tanks, and they would reproduce WILDLY... but since I moved I can't seem to keep them alive. I used to use tap water from where I was, and now I use RO+equilibrium, so I guess the problem is problemy somewhere in that. I don't really...

are those older leaves that were born emersed maybe? guessing

It's dirted, substrate is a mix of 1/2 top soil (about 12L of it), 1/4 fine gravel (1/8 inch) and 1/4 larger gravel (1/2 inch). It's in bags and then it's capped with the 2 different textures of sand that are visible. Was going for a look as natural as possible. Ever 2 or 3 days i do measure...

few more current pics :) The Montecarlo was just planted on Sunday, it'll take a bit to carpet

I straight up used top soil for it. You need to mix in some crashed coral though, to buffer kh

Mi profile pic is a 2.5 gallons and I had a Betta in it for a while.

* 5 Julii Cory and a dozen 3 weeks old Cory fry * 10 otocinclus * a few neocaridina. Sadly I ****ed up something and killed quite a few of the shrimps from the initial 15 I had. I did not get what I did wrong

Hi all, went back in Photos to find some pic and put together a quick journal :) 2023/05/07 - setup tank, glue hardscape, fill up tank and start filter 2023/05/12 - 100% water change (woods were from a local beach so wanted to get all water out) then plants day! 2023/05/25 - some progress...

Of all the rocks I have in all my tanks, that is the only one I bought in an aquarium shop