Through the wall / My Fish Room
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Rolled it into a milk crate. Raised it high enough to get a 5g bucket under it to rest it on. Heaved it out while using a packing blanket to protect the glass. Took me and my 18yr old son.
Would have been cool to see a video…. Except that it would need to be beeped out due to all the cursing, lol
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Looking like a tiger
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Changed out the gravel for sand. Now more compatible with more species.
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Unplugged all the heaters for the summer. Tanks maintain about 75F through the heat wave.
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My orange male swordtail jumped. Thankfully, he ended up in the tank next door
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I haven’t. The male choco eats what ever fits in his mouth
I found that out by trying swordtails.
Its funny how some fish pick up on that real quick and with others, its never an issue. I had an oddball Oscar that grew up with a school of Australian rainbows and never ate one. Was cool to see an almost 12" Oscar and this little school of fish together in the same tank.
Has the choco ever eyed those flagtail cats? They look pretty yummy, lol
Has the choco ever eyed those flagtail cats? They look pretty yummy, lol
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Surprisingly not. He did grow up with them so they weren't food size when he was introduced. The female swordtail he ate as soon as it was introduced. May not have tried if she hadn't just froze in place at the surface.
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I returned the pump I bought on Saturday and ordered a Hygger 800gph dc pump for the 140g instead. It was an open box item and arrived missing a critical o-ring so I initiated a return. I found the Hygger 1350gph was on sale for a better price and it arrived today. I’m now able to run dual returns from one pump. 
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Scared of the sunshine 
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While catching the C similis I noticed an oddball Cory in the mix of C aeneus. It’s grey overall with some metallic green on the gill plates. 
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Hard to see in the picture it these two males are roughly the same size. Except that the Gus is way chonkier and the tank boss. 
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I’m not entirely sure why the losses of woodcats but a member on MFK pointed out these are a rheophillic species something I was not aware of prior.
The system they were in is ~1000l distributed in eight 120l tanks and a 140l sump. All of the tanks are planted so nitrates are kept low.
I’m also running 1440l/h (1.5x) turnover with 100w DC pump at 50% power. I had not calculated my flow before so it could be that I am running an O2 deficit. Would this explain the losses?
I have a constant water change running with cold water dripping 15l/h. My municipality only runs 0.5ppm chlorine so it doesn’t even register when testing. Tap water on the right and T m tank on the left. Test strip reads from ph 8.4 (red), chlorine 0ppm (white), alkalinity 80ppm (green). The brown is stabilizer which might be 30-50ppm Gh? This a swimming pool test kit so I don’t know how accurate these strips are. My liquid AP kit shows a similar result for ph though.
The system they were in is ~1000l distributed in eight 120l tanks and a 140l sump. All of the tanks are planted so nitrates are kept low.
I’m also running 1440l/h (1.5x) turnover with 100w DC pump at 50% power. I had not calculated my flow before so it could be that I am running an O2 deficit. Would this explain the losses?
I have a constant water change running with cold water dripping 15l/h. My municipality only runs 0.5ppm chlorine so it doesn’t even register when testing. Tap water on the right and T m tank on the left. Test strip reads from ph 8.4 (red), chlorine 0ppm (white), alkalinity 80ppm (green). The brown is stabilizer which might be 30-50ppm Gh? This a swimming pool test kit so I don’t know how accurate these strips are. My liquid AP kit shows a similar result for ph though.
I remember reading something too (TFH article?) on the woodcats or maybe it was a specific one (honeycomb?) that even the way they ate was special. They were nocturnal surface feeders of insects and that the typical way to feed sinking pellets like you would for cories was not an ideal way to feed.
Found the article: https://www.tfhmagazine.com/articles/freshwater/bottom-of-the-tank-driftwood-catfish
Now that Im re-reading seems to be the feeding characteristic is for the honeycomb... unless Im reading it wrong?
Now that Im re-reading seems to be the feeding characteristic is for the honeycomb... unless Im reading it wrong?