Elephant Nose

[Gankutsuou]

yes, I had origonally inteded the rams to be te centerpiece of the 38, and hopped for a pair, but only found males. That was before I found out of the elephant noses, and wanted to try to give one of them a better life.

I haven;'t seen much waste coming directly from the candy stripe.... And I'm thinking....

But do you really think adding any more waste to the 38 would be wise? Once these are all adults (if the elephant doesn't get too long), then I think it'll be maxing in space and Bioload. The problem it, the ceramic house I put in before safely housed the syno and cat in the middle of my wisteria forest (as if it isn;'t crowded enough with all three eels and my elephant nose trying to live in it. He's rejecting the cave. I'm gonna make a second wisteria forest to try to get things to calm down)

and I'll get some pics around christmas I do hope! I wanna buy a camera. Proably not THE best digital one, but it'll be one. No use in buying disposables over and over again, and at christmas I should be able to properly fund A nintendo Wii and a crappy digital camera, and then maybe have a little left over to go into my car funds

 

[pica_nuttalli]

the 38 would be easier to overfilter and i always find cleaning out the 10g to be much more annoying than cleaning out my larger tanks--so hard to get the stupid gravel cleaner to fit in there. adding the candystripe would be pushing it, but its already pushing on the 10g.

but you are right to want to let things settle out with your cycle before moving anything around. if and when you do, allow me to suggest making caves out of broken terra cotta pots. they're very inexpensive to use and if one size/shape doesn't work out, you can just chunk it!

(PS: mmmm tasty Wii)

 

[Gankutsuou]

Indeed.

Imagine christmas time.

Nintendo Wii + Crappy digital Camera + fish stuff.



By then I hope to have the second wisteria forest, or some other plant forest going on, as really my fish are accepting that over the slate cave.

Inhabitants/ trying to inhabit wisteria or around include

Syno cat.
The three eels
The elephant nose.

and it's the place the senegal hoves around most. Lately the elephant nose has somewhat made the eels uncomfy, and they've moved to wrapping around onions....

 

[karin15]

I've set up an aquaclear that does filtration up to 5.28x total gallons per hour on my tank, gotten it planted, dug out under slate to make a cave big enough....

I've made sure my water is good on ph and ammonia.

It's not that competitive an enviornment, with a senegal I can hand feed and peacock eels, whom people also worry about not eating. I've moved things into my 10 in order to help with the bioload.

(1) 5x filtration is adequate not exceptional

(2) you have a single cave in that tank; the vast majority of territorial fish that like to hide in caves don't like to share. you'd need as many caves as you have fish plus at least one extra.

(3) what do you mean "good on pH and ammonia"? its really best not to fiddle with pH using additives and you really shouldn't have to even worry about ammonia levels once your tank is cycled. what you really need to make certain that you have under control are the nitrAte levels--that's the end product of the waste cycle and what you are trying to remove via water changes and plantings.

(4) you have too many fish in the 10 gallon. fixing the stocking of one tank by overstocking another really isn't solving anything. its just creating a different problem. you need to stop buying fish until you have more tank space available.

very true, thats the most redicules thing ive ever heard, i dont even have to test my amonia or nitrites (But i do anywais.)

 

[Gankutsuou]

just to say, stockings have self fixed in a few ways.

I turned one cave into two. The peacock eels go in and out of the caves, and the perm. Inhabitants are the blue vampire shrimp and the candy stripe pleco on the left cave, and the false flying fox in the right.

The senegal is all over the tank as usual.
The eels share the wisteria with the elephant nose.

And the feathfin syno is still a wuss up by the filter.... sigh~

He comes down all night though! I don't get it.

The ram died due to some issues in the 10, I think it happened due to the initial stress of the change of space and happenings, he just never looked the same directly after the move.

the African butterfly is great and eats flakes and betta pellets acceptingly. As does the glowlite neon. Algea is beginning to run rampant as all pleco. form has left. I think I'll get some ottos, since the ABF hasn't eaten my glowlite.

 

[karin15]

just to say, stockings have self fixed in a few ways.

I turned one cave into two. The peacock eels go in and out of the caves, and the perm. Inhabitants are the blue vampire shrimp and the candy stripe pleco on the left cave, and the false flying fox in the right.

The senegal is all over the tank as usual.
The eels share the wisteria with the elephant nose.

And the feathfin syno is still a wuss up by the filter.... sigh~

He comes down all night though! I don't get it.

The ram died due to some issues in the 10, I think it happened due to the initial stress of the change of space and happenings, he just never looked the same directly after the move.

the African butterfly is great and eats flakes and betta pellets acceptingly. As does the glowlite neon. Algea is beginning to run rampant as all pleco. form has left. I think I'll get some ottos, since the ABF hasn't eaten my glowlite.

x_X senegal? john has one of those its almost 2 feet long in a 200 gallon and a few others that are much smaller.

 

[QuotheRaven]

the issue with the feather fin could be that its by itself aswell as that it is a african cat and if the water specs aren't right it may be timid I almost bought one today but thought since it's african going into a non-african tank wouldn't be safe

 

[karin15]

just to say, stockings have self fixed in a few ways.

I turned one cave into two. The peacock eels go in and out of the caves, and the perm. Inhabitants are the blue vampire shrimp and the candy stripe pleco on the left cave, and the false flying fox in the right.

The senegal is all over the tank as usual.
The eels share the wisteria with the elephant nose.

And the feathfin syno is still a wuss up by the filter.... sigh~

He comes down all night though! I don't get it.

The ram died due to some issues in the 10, I think it happened due to the initial stress of the change of space and happenings, he just never looked the same directly after the move.

the African butterfly is great and eats flakes and betta pellets acceptingly. As does the glowlite neon. Algea is beginning to run rampant as all pleco. form has left. I think I'll get some ottos, since the ABF hasn't eaten my glowlite.

x_X senegal? john has one of those its almost 2 feet long in a 200 gallon and a few others that are much smaller.

or no the sental's are the smaller pink ones.

 

[Gnatfish]

x_X senegal? john has one of those its almost 2 feet long in a 200 gallon and a few others that are much smaller.

Yeah, I thought a Senegal bichir grew to like 12".

or no the sental's are the smaller pink ones.

http/www.polypterus.info/p_senegalus-pic.htm

 

[corbypete]

Elephants also have a high mortality rate. No-one has kept them longer than 6 months as far as I am aware.

Tropical fish mag wants them band for sale in the UK

 

[Gankutsuou]

well, I'm going for a record then, since over here he's still healthy and going at it