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[davros]

A fish thread? how refreshing!. ~20 years later my daughter still talks about walking in on the cat playing with her Betta on the floor. It survived Enjoying my vigorous endlers (Japan Blue) after some poor results from the chain store guppies available here. Will be a bit more selective from now on.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

I'm also starting to plan a 30 gallon hillstream biotope. I am thinking either Assam, Darjeeling, or Yunnan, because those are my favorite tea-growing regions. A Darjeeling tank would revolve around rosy barbs, zebra danios (or mustached danios, D. dangila, if I can find any), and various smallish loaches. I'm having trouble finding much info on the Assam and Yunnan areas. Yunnan borders on northern Myanmar, which has some very interesting fish, so I'm fairly hopeful about that one.

A mountainous-looking backdrop will be needed, and it probably will need rows of anubias to simulate tea plants.

This is all just a twinkle in my eye at this point, but I know in another year or three I'm likely to get tired of the Sumatra rice paddy and be ready for a change. Doesn't hurt to plan ahead.

 

[JuiceBox52]

I'm also starting to plan a 30 gallon hillstream biotope. I am thinking either Assam, Darjeeling, or Yunnan, because those are my favorite tea-growing regions. A Darjeeling tank would revolve around rosy barbs, zebra danios (or mustached danios, D. dangila, if I can find any), and various smallish loaches. I'm having trouble finding much info on the Assam and Yunnan areas. Yunnan borders on northern Myanmar, which has some very interesting fish, so I'm fairly hopeful about that one.

A mountainous-looking backdrop will be needed, and it probably will need rows of anubias to simulate tea plants.

This is all just a twinkle in my eye at this point, but I know in another year or three I'm likely to get tired of the Sumatra rice paddy and be ready for a change. Doesn't hurt to plan ahead.

That sounds amazing!

 

[WhistlingBadger]

That sounds amazing!

Should be, if I ever get around to actually doing it. I just found out something very interesting: Type "seriouslyfish assam" or "seriouslyfish yunnan" into google, and boom, more biotope species than you know what to do with!

 

[Rocky998]

Should be, if I ever get around to actually doing it. I just found out something very interesting: Type "seriouslyfish assam" or "seriouslyfish yunnan" into google, and boom, more biotope species than you know what to do with!

I need to try that definitely

 

[JuiceBox52]

Should be, if I ever get around to actually doing it. I just found out something very interesting: Type "seriouslyfish assam" or "seriouslyfish yunnan" into google, and boom, more biotope species than you know what to do with!

 

[Lajos_Detari]

Updates about water changes, random fish talk that doesn’t seem to be worthy of its own thread, fish and tank pics etc! I’ll start
This is not for general what are you doing today chat

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Nice tank! It looks so natural like in the wild.

I managed to start a tank outside my house last Sat just before the Christmas. It was a busy weekend for me with the Christmas celebrations and feasting...
I transferred my 10 African Electric Yellow Cichlids fry to the tank and I put some Hornworts, driftwoods and rocks.
The Electric Yellow Cichlids are one of the easiest fish to breed and their fry are starting to show brighter yellow at 4-5cm size.

 

[GaryE]

Yellow labs (their street name isn't electric here) are the only Malawi I would ever consider keeping again. I used to breed them in numbers, because there was always a market for the young so there were no overcrowding issues. But if I put mine outside they'd be in ice cubes here. Last night was solid cold, the coldest in this late arriving winter and the coldest my fishroom has been subject to. When I took the dog out in the early morning darkness, I checked the thermomter in the room through the window - it held steady at 23. I want it to be 21. The room has a mind of its own - the thermostat is set at 17...
The room is 279 square feet (in that great Canadian some things metric, some things not measuring system) and there are only 6 heated tanks, all at 25. So far, the installed heaters have barely come on. The test will come as winter humidity drops, and the dehumidifier becomes less used. That has started. That's when just good insulation won't cut it. I'll need the electric on then. Still, it's almost January and the heating bill out there has been very low. In about 2 weeks, if patterns hold, that will change. It'll likely stay cold for about 6 weeks, once it gets to -20.
The room is warm, but the tapwater isn't. I now have to do 25% of the room each water change, or the cold overpowers the water heater. I'm an extreme early riser, up long before the rest of the house, so I wander over and get things done on a daily basis.
Today I'm looking for pencilfish fry, from N. beckfordi, as well as newly hatched killies from 3 species. Maybe those barbatus cats will get started. I'll check on the dwarf cichlids I combined yesterday, to make sure they aren't fighting. I really like having tasks with my fish, and I doubt I could keep myself amused with one tank.
In the evening I'll finish a blog and maybe finish a video. I have to do paying work in the room too, as I want to order my annual 3 pounds of brine shrimp eggs. They ship far far better in the coldest months - they go from the mailbox right into the freezer.

 

[Rocky998]

My gudgeon fry that jumped out has regained a bit of color and swims better now. His tail is still recovering and his anal fin is a bit messed up but he's doing well.
I just did a nice large water change on their tank, so he has some good fresh water!
Right there he is trying to hide but he has been coming out more lately!
He's making a good recovery!

 

[WhistlingBadger]

We got my wife a betta. Won't go into the whole story, but it's a special fish. I know better than to buy a fish that doesn't have a tank set up yet; in this case I made an exception. Today while I was setting up his tank, I had him in a cup. I haven't really slept in about three nights, lots of multi-hour driving and extremely stressful time in hospitals. I guess I can chalk it up to that, but I had Mrs. Badger's special betta in a cup, uncovered. I know better than that, too. Sometime while I was working on the tank, he decided to go for a walk. I found him on the floor, still struggling, skin partly dried out, alive but just barely. He's in the tank now, resting on a leaf, not looking great. I sure am going to feel terrible if he dies. Hope he makes it.

 

[GaryE]

I was in Nova Scotia yesterday, and took a quick look in a large, well set up store there on my way back home. I got myself a nice group of Corydoras panda, a fish I haven't kept for years. They are in QT now, and looking good. I fed them whiteworms last night and artemia this morning., and I think they are impressed. They'll take a little work because they're skinny, but if they haven't got any farm diseases, they are are a good pickup.
It's such a nice and little Cory.

 

[JuiceBox52]

We got my wife a betta. Won't go into the whole story, but it's a special fish. I know better than to buy a fish that doesn't have a tank set up yet; in this case I made an exception. Today while I was setting up his tank, I had him in a cup. I haven't really slept in about three nights, lots of multi-hour driving and extremely stressful time in hospitals. I guess I can chalk it up to that, but I had Mrs. Badger's special betta in a cup, uncovered. I know better than that, too. Sometime while I was working on the tank, he decided to go for a walk. I found him on the floor, still struggling, skin partly dried out, alive but just barely. He's in the tank now, resting on a leaf, not looking great. I sure am going to feel terrible if he dies. Hope he makes it.

Oh no! Poor little guy. It happens sometimes

 

[PewPewChris]

Really enjoying how my little 7-gallon pea puffer/shrimp tank is coming along...I wish there was a little more "action" in the tank...but honestly, trying to find the little guy at times is a game in itself. A little "Where's Waldo" if anyone remembers those books.

 

[connorlindeman]

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Really enjoying how my little 7-gallon pea puffer/shrimp tank is coming along...I wish there was a little more "action" in the tank...but honestly, trying to find the little guy at times is a game in itself. A little "Where's Waldo" if anyone remembers those books.

Nice tank!

Pea puffers and shrimp? Not sure if that's a good idea...

Going to my lfs if they are open tomorrow. Gonna get some pea puffers.

 

[PewPewChris]

Nice tank!

Pea puffers and shrimp? Not sure if that's a good idea...

Going to my lfs if they are open tomorrow. Gonna get some pea puffers.

I have 4 cherry shrimp and 2 blue shrimp in there since day one with the puffer...not a single issue. The shrimp are his size or bigger than him. He also gets a regular diet of live ramshorn snails, frozen blood worms and frozen brine shrimp...so he doesn't go after them.