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Most of my tanks have a Hygger 500 watt heater ( I also use AQQA brand ) on my tanks in the house, ( most are 45 gallon thru 65 gallon ) I only run one heater in each tank… but I have 2 tanks in an unheated entryway ( a 45 gallon, and a 65 gallon ) that room is insulated but unheated… it gets...

I don’t get to sit and watch my barb tank as much as I do the bigger group of tanks… but I saw the torpedo working the sand like an earth eater Cichlid, tonight… interesting, because it’s body type, looks predatory… the spot tail algae eaters still give that one a lot of space… and speaking of...

mostly sporting fish... smaller are usually Blue Gills, Sun Fish, Pumpkin Seeds, Crappies, etc... there are a lot of awesome fish in the minnows, Rainbow shiners for one, stickle backs maybe... you could look here ( I've not bought from them ) but they have a lot of pictures...

Cabela's & Bass Pro Shops maintain aquariums in most of their stores, if you want inspiration... floor to ceiling aquariums, always inspire me...

It may not actually be harder on the lines, as they all have a working pressure… the cheaper pump, being a piston pump, may actually not be as smooth, and pulse more than a better pump??? But it is a size bigger, so I may have to put a bleed of valve in the system… the current pump, is...

LOL… I had convicts 25 years s ago… they bred, and I had a lot of convicts…

So, this is my story… When I started setting my tanks back up, a couple years ago, I was excited about putting fish back into my tanks, that had sat empty for 20-25 years… in my time out of the hobby, lots of things changed, including the closing of all the local fish suppliers… I visited a...

So my main air pump went out, so I’m buying a much better quality air pump… which may challenge my air lines even more??? My bigger tanks are all heavily filtered, and OK without air… but my 2 - 10 gallon holding tank racks ( 4 tanks total ) use air driven sponge filters… while cobbling up air...

It took 2 days, but the “Borg” have started to assimilate the new fish… they haven’t really “joined” the group yet, but aren’t hanging in the corner anymore, and now occasionally swimming with the group… the new ones aren’t as brightly colored yet, so I can still easily tell which ones they are…...

Since I moved my Tin Foils to another tank… I’m missing them on mornings I’m up drinking my caffeine, before the tank lights come on… I could always see their big silver body’s circling in the dark, reflecting the night light across the room… no noticeable movement in the dark this morning… My...

Having some smaller fish ( the Mascaras ) seems to make the algae eaters feel more secure… one is working the driftwood, just a little ways away from them

This is one that has red in the dorsal, and is the smallest… so maybe it’s male???

This is my biggest 2 year old male ( assuming just by coloration, that I have 3 males and 2 females )… 3 of them have black n their dorsal fins… the other 2 have red, and are slightly smaller ( maybe it’s 3 males, and 3 females??? )he is just over 8 inches long

Coloring up a little more today… this fish is between 6 and 7 inches long

Acrossocheilus fasciatus there is next to nothing on them out there that I could find... they list them on Wet Spot... they only picture juvenal's, and call them railway barbs... ( the seller I got them from calls them... Red Fin Torpedo Barbs ) but they go through quite a transformation, to...

well it's been a long time since I've seen a new Sears catalog ... just think cloth diapers...

my hang on back filters are on each end, I add the powders to a shaker bottle, & pour it in the center of the tank, as far away from the filters as I can, & only supplement about once a week, or every other... the Bacter gets nasty ( stinky ) in the shaker bottle, if I don't wash it out within...

So, I have mentioned before, that I use Bacter AE to supplement my bio film, for my Hillstream Loaches ( I also do the same for Plecos, and Oto’s )… my Hillstream’s are thriving… but lately I’ve been thinking about going one step further… and starting to add some of the powdered “fry foods”...

You could look up calibrating Thermometers… being from the food industry, we are required to calibrate any critical process thermometers at least annually… and you are right, there can be a huge variance in thermometers, and just because they are digital, doesn’t necessarily mean they are more...

I had added a “gold form” Denison to the tank 6 months or more ago, and it took a week or better to integrate… at the time, I assumed that was because it didn’t look like the others, but it didn’t display any submissive behavior… one of the new ones is nose down in a corner, the other newcomer...

I received 2 new to me Denison Barbs yesterday… they are bigger in size shoalers than most I have experience with… which have been mostly Tetras… I had 4 in a tank already ( lost one a long time ago, those guys have been here well over a year )… since I moved the Tin Foils out of this tank, the...

Denison’s more slowly getting accepted to the clan… one for sure in submission posture

Starting to color up a couple hours later…

2 of the Mascaras have red dorsal fins... the Torpedo, being an adolescent, is changing from it's juvenal striped pattern... it almost looks like a Perch, until you look at it's mouth... it looks skinny, but ate 2 algae pellets, as soon as I put them in... will probably worm this tank, once it's...

FOB…

My Mascaras, & Red Fin Torpedo, are out for delivery this morning... along with 2 more Denisons... looking forward to these getting here...

I ended up getting 1 male and 2 females ( they are in my current TOM entry ) so you can see the environment they seem, to be thriving in... the females are just as colorful as the male, they just lack the very extended dorsal fin ( whip antenna ), mine eat well of my normal tank's varied diet...

@GaryE ... has said before they are a challenge to keep... I must be doing something right, as I've had 3 of them now, for over a year... https://www.wetspottropicalfish.com/product/phenacogrammus-aurantiacus/