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YUP! That's why I'm experimenting and seeing what else he'll take. Really wish he'd eat frozen brine shrimp since the rest of my fish in other tanks do, but he treats those the way I treat broccoli.

Hrmmm..... funny enough, I could probably get mosquito larvae. A few weeks ago I pulled some plants out of my pond to put in a different tank, and a few days later I saw what looked like white cat hair floating in the tank. Then I realized the "cat hair" was wiggling. The next morning, I...

Yeah the "snail farm" is a 2.5g I've had lying around for over a decade. It's been acting as a holding tank for plants that I didn't have room for in my tanks. Now it's full of snails, and hopefully more snails breed in there... quickly.

I got a Pea Puffer last week and he's acclimating well to his new home. My only problem is that he's a VERY picky eater. In the store, they said they had fed them with Vibra Bites, and suggested that and some ramshorn snails as a treat. So I now have a ramshorn farm in another tank, but this...

So I just went to the bedroom to check the tank, and there's new growth since this morning! That little green shoot coming up towards the camera is new! Okay, I feel better now about not screwing it up.

I have a Cryptocoryne Undulata that has gotten HUGE since I put it in my 29g a few months ago. I'm setting up a new nano tank and wanted to put some of it in there. I know that you're supposed to pull up a runner that's not attached to the main root ball, so I started pulling a bit on some of...

Anubias Nana and Java Ferns are almost impossible to screw up. I've had a couple Java ferns sitting in a 2g aquarium in the corner of my kitchen with no light for YEARS and they're still alive. I pulled one out and put it in the tank I set up a few months ago and it was growing happily, until...

Yeah almost certainly the diatom outbreak that almost every new tank gets. It's fine... possibly even considered "good". It's a sign that your tank is getting cycled and is no longer sterile.

As an update on my Petsmart... I went by there today to grab a cheap heater for a quarantine tank. I decided to take a look at the tanks, and... shockingly... everything looked great. It actually looks like everything has been stripped out and removed in the past month or so since I...

I emailed Petsmart corporate to complain about our local store. I went in one day at lunch killing time with a buddy of mine. One of their guppy tanks had 4 dead guppies in it. I told him it's unfortunate, but sometimes things happen and tanks crash. Things can go downhill really fast if you...

Asking everyone to destroy everything they own seems rather extreme.

This was posted on reddit. They're calling for you to destroy the moss balls, destroy any plants in the aquarium, remove the fish, and bleach the tank. That seems a bit extreme. https://www.maine.gov/ifw/news-events/single-release.html?id=4262584...

@Barry Tetra asked the question and his tank looks to be around 20g, so I'm basing my thoughts on that. My contention is that for $100, it's possible to take an existing "low tech" planted tank and supplement the lights, supplement the CO2, and start adding ferts... and make it a "high tech"...

I still don't see how any of that differs dramatically from the low budget system I'm talking about. My tank is a 29g "All Glass Aquarium" framed tank, so it's not as fancy as his.... but I'm using Fluval Stratum plant substrate, I've got a DIY CO2 injector, I've got a Fluval Plant 3.0 light...

But why does it need to be? Yeah some people define a "gaming computer" as a $5000 Alienware, but I built mine for under $1000. I can put together a tank with a $50 set of Nicrew lights, $30 DIY CO2 generator, $10 diffuser, and $10 bottle of ferts and it will meet the definition of "high...

Why? To my knowledge, "high tech" just means better lighting, CO2 injection, and ferts. There's no need for any of that to be super expensive.

I'm in the process of setting up a 20g Iwagumi tank. This is "guide" I went off of: https://www.aquasabi.com/aquascaping-wiki_aquascaping_iwagumi Basically.... a centerpiece rock (Oyoishi), a rock that compliments it (Fukuishi), several others as support rocks (Soeishi) and a sacrificial rock...

Sounds like a Black Kuhli Loach. They're really cool fish, but yeah they're super skittish if they're not in a comfortable shoal and will hide a LOT. Most of the time when you go into a fish store and see a tank with a Kuhli Loach tag on it, you won't find one. Once the employee reaches in...

Sounds like you got a Kuhli Loach!

A) wow is that a REAL Julii and not a false Julii?! B) If he's alone, he needs some friends. They like to be in a shoal

When I read your initial post about wanting something more shallow and easy to reach into, I was going to suggest a 40G breeder. That's awesome that you settled on that, and that's a great filter that should last forever. What are your stocking plans?

Alright, so.... here's the long version if it. Fire extinguisher style I got an Fzone 2.5l CO2 generator from Amazon a few weeks ago: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07YCPKBV3/?tag=ff0d01-20 It's based on a fire extinguisher with a regulator and needle valve that screws onto it. It's decent, but...

In the past month since I got into this, I bought one of the "fire extinguisher" types as well as one of the "two bottle DIY" types. I'm planning on making a video reviewing them this weekend, but my advice is to go with the 2 bottle DIY stuff like this...

Bumping a semi-dead thread.... are there any check valves that AREN'T trash on the market? In the old days, I remember check valves looking like they had some poly fill and a little flapper disc in them. These new ones look like one of the old pencil eraser toppers we all used in elementary...

Getting back into the hobby recently, this is still the most amazing thing to me. In years past, $150 would get you some crappy Compact Fluorescent lights that would go through bulbs moderately quickly. If you wanted TRUE 'high tech' lighting you had to build your own High Pressure Sodium or...

HAH! I just noticed your location. Yeah... there's probably quite a bit of aquarium plants that could just be harvested locally.

You can definitely do plants cheap and do it as a "low tech" without CO2. Things like Water Sprite, Hygrophilia and Anacharis will grow like crazy even with moderate light, no ferts, and no CO2 injection. And because they grow like weeds, they're usually pretty cheap or even free since people...

Back in the old days, I did it with a 2 liter drink bottle, some air hose, check valve, diffuser, sugar, water, and yeast. These days it seems to be Citric Acid and Baking Soda, but still just drink bottles, air hoses, check valves, and a diffuser

What do you recommend as a quality brand now? 15 years ago when I got into the hobby, Eheim Jager was the gold standard for heaters. It's what I just bought for the tank I set up. It needed some serious calibration because as it came out of the box, the set temp was 5 degrees off what the red...

I didn't know this was "a thing" until I started watching Fish For Thought on Youtube. It's disturbing, but for a lot of people it's "just a fish" and there's nothing you can do to convince them that it's a living thing in their care and maybe they should make SOME attempt to take care of it...

I am the son he is referring to. I set up the tank on Saturday, and after the dust had settled (literally.... Fluval Stratum is very dusty) I dosed the tank with Ammonia on Sunday and Fritzzyme 7 on Monday. As of this morning, I'm already seeing Nitrate levels, no Nitrite, and still a bit of...

To clarify, there are two main types of 3D printer. The one you're talking about is FDM, which is basically a "hot glue gun" for plastics. A heated print head moves around extruding a plastic filament that is being fed through it, basically what your pen is doing. There's PLA, ABS, PET-G and...

I just got back into 3D printing as well, and I'm not sure there are any resins I would trust in an aquarium. Pieces that I have made and "hollowed" as you're supposed to have had liquid resin in them when they broke. I would NOT want that in a tank. I have made some pieces solid, and to be...

HAH! I wonder how many of the old folks from those days are still around. I remember this place was always full of great people! And yeah.. it's hard to leave. I've wanted to really get back into it for a while, and I had a small 10g a few years ago.... but the trip to see a big aquarium and...

Hi everyone! Long time no see!! It's been quite a while since I was into the fish hobby. Recently after taking a trip to the Chattanooga aquarium and talking to my dad (rdd1952 on here) about his 75g aquarium, we decided to get his cleaned up and stocked again, and I'm going to set up his old...

Trimmed off all the yellow leaves on the swords... added a cheap crappy CO2 setup (better than nothing, right).... and adjusted the lighting period. The cabomba is growing like mad.... the replanted stems are about to break through the surface and need trimming/replanting again. The swords are...

Durr.... forgot pictures :P Tank overview Windelov Java Fern spores

Hi everyone. Just checked my PMs and the last one was from 2005... so.. it's been a while since I was around :D Not sure if any of you remember me or how many of you I'll remember, but.... glad to be back :D Recently went through a "marital status change" and moved out on my own. After a...