60L Daisy's Ricefish Tank

[MattW]

The plants and fish are doing really well. Have been trimming and replanting a lot. Added P.Quadrifolius and P.Palustris (mermaid weed) a week or two back. I did add 3 of my largest fry a week back as well, some chasing from the adults did happen but quickly stopped after feeding. I removed the breeding box today and released 4 fry into the tank taking the total up to 12 now. The shrimp numbers have increased a bit as well. It seems to be a decent amount of wild-looking shrimp hatching now, which is great. The dense growth in the back of the tank has caused some plants to become leggy, so I probably will have to look into replacing the spotlight with a proper aquarium light soon. I may go with the Chirios B series again since it's done really well on my 90L. I recently have been feeding my shrimp with some shrimp sticks which they enjoy (bee pollen flavour). The ricefish also enjoy the sticks. They have even uprooted the stick in the past because of their mini tantrums on who eats first

I did a large removal of ramshorns the other day after finding this pile suffocating an algae wafer. Around 25 snails were removed in total with about 6 smaller snails remaining in the tank

This is the current state of the fry tank. 3 of the smallest fry from the breeding box in my 60L were moved back into this tank today, so numbers are probably above the 20 mark now. A wide variety of sizes in this tank but there is enough cover to avoid predation hopefully. The cloudy water is from my infosuria cultures. I used to feed one or two cups a day, now I just pour in half of the culture (500ml) wherever feasible along with crushed pellet food. Still thinking of what to do with them..

 

[Jinx_]

Those skrimpos

 

[MattW]

Only been a few changes since the last post on this tank. Firstly a new light is now on the tank! A Chihiros B30. It really brings out the colours of the fish and shrimp more than the spotlight I used to have. This is the second Chihiros B series I've had now and no complaints whatsoever, especially for the price. Secondly, I had been tweaking the filter over the last few weeks as weak flow had allowed stentors to flourish (left pic). I don't mind them, it's just they do make the tank a tad ugly IMO. In the end, I've changed the powerhead to a bigger one and have covered up half of the outflow rather than 3/4 like the old one (right pic). It is a DIY filter made from spare parts including a spray bar and some spongefilter components. It seems to work pretty well as I have to clean the sponges quite often. Onto the stocking, I sadly lost one fry so now down to 11 in the tank. All the others are very active and healthy which is good to see. The shrimp population is quickly increasing. I often see new baby shrimp pop up, usually the natural brown/wild types which I don't mind. I did find a red baby the other day examining the pothos roots with great interest

A close-up of the stentor colonies

Now onto the fry tank which is now a bucket (20L) . I transferred the fry over last week along with the contents of the tank. In the end, I counted 26 fry of varying sizes. I decided to make another custom filter using a small sponge filter and some extra filter parts I had lying around. It's a perfect fit for this bucket and fry. I've also increased feeding as well, twice a day now since the water volume is twice as big as the old tank + to get them up to size for selling/relocating quickly.