cjag
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Haha you're right. That pair will be going in my empty, planted 40 breeder though.Rainbow cichlids do well with plants
What did you do with your tank(s) today?
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cjag
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Also don't know if they lend themselves well to a species tank. Sounds like you had some behavioral problems with yours @fishguy1978
fishguy1978
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Only because they were crowded in the 60g. They would be fine in my 90g if it was still available.
fishguy1978
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Pulled a dead Aqueon 300w heater out of the 220g. It has been running really cool and I hadn't seen the light on this heater for a while. Temp was around 72F when it should have been 80F. Thankfully, I had another heater I could use.
That was a good save, catching it before the temps went too low. I wish heaters were better built but they just dont see the need for a high quality heater for us more 'extreme' fish keepers. Even the fancier heater with separate controllers are pretty poorly built. I have had fairly good success with my Aquarium master heaters in the garage but notice one is starting to loose part of its digital readout already... My Eheim + Fluval E series mixture in the 300 is working, for now, lol.
fishguy1978
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My Eheim heaters just keep on going.
Good catch. I have tried to get in the habit of feeling the front glass of each tank when I feed the fishes, but even so, sometimes I forget. Another way I've caught instances in which the tank temp is not right is to just watch the fishes. Tanganyikans are not adapted to dealing with fluctuations in water temperature, so a change of only a few degrees in either direction is often apparent in their behaviours.
I do not trust the pilot lights in aquarium heaters: I have had instances in which the light seemed to be working fine, but no current was going to the heating element, and others in which the heater was working fine, but the pilot light was no longer functioning. The only heaters that I really trust are Eheim.
fishguy1978
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This one was cold when I removed it. I have had others fail in the full hot position. Thankfully those didn't cook the fish.Good catch. I have tried to get in the habit of feeling the front glass of each tank when I feed the fishes, but even so, sometimes I forget. Another way I've caught instances in which the tank temp is not right is to just watch the fishes. Tanganyikans are not adapted to dealing with fluctuations in water temperature, so a change of only a few degrees in either direction is often apparent in their behaviours.
I do not trust the pilot lights in aquarium heaters: I have had instances in which the light seemed to be working fine, but no current was going to the heating element, and others in which the heater was working fine, but the pilot light was no longer functioning. The only heaters that I really trust are Eheim.
Last summer I picked up a bunch of unfaded red Dovii fry ( culls) from modest man to feed my puffers. They ate most ( about 15+) but the 3 largest ones were too big, so I scooped them up and put them into my red jewel tank. They were probably 2.5-3” at that time and standard looking blue Dovii. After a few weeks, two of the Dovii were killed by my jewels. The last one has survived and is now almost the same size as my large 5” red jewels. Here’s the crazy thing, I did a water change Friday night and he was a standard blue Dovii, I fed them Saturday and he was a standard blue Dovii, yesterday they fasted. Just a moment ago I went out to feed them and turned on their light…. Surprise: he’s beginning to fade!
here’s the video
here’s the video
I've had that happen too. I woke up one morning a few years ago, and one of my Tropheus tanks was at 105 degrees. Lost the whole colony, obviously. I made quite a fuss with the manufacturer.
Even though I did a water change (just a drain and fill) on Sunday on the 300, I just couldn’t take how dirty the tank looked. So I pulled out the plants and scrubbed the algae off, scrubbed down the large mopani wood and back wall glass. Gravel vac’d and refilled. Tank looks much better now.
John58Ford
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Gotta convince you to try some big snails. I've heard of mixed success with golfball size snails cohabitating with bichir, ever try it?
Never tried it… my bichir have eaten tankmates that I thought they should not have with some fishes being at least 4 inches. The shell might prevent them from being eaten but Im not sure if the bichir would attempt to test taste them….
Wow, Petco just sucks... lol, no surprise. My online order place on November 4 has been divided up in at least 3 shipments, with one coming this Friday, the food items show as "In process" and I got notification the Python cleaning stuff I wanted was "back ordered". Amazon has spoiled us with Prime and fast shipping! I guess the $25 eGift card is supposed to come in two weeks according to their customer service person. Thankfully none of this is needed right away, just stock up items.
Had a 6-hour power outage yesterday during the windstorm. There are 218 homes along the shoreline in this area that seem particularly susceptible to outages; I don't know why. I was just serving lunch to a special guest from Bainbridge when the power went out, so we lit some candles, opened a bottle of wine, and enjoyed ourselves. An hour later, I started the generator, and with the fireplace already blazing, we were just fine. It was crazy watching the rain, wind, hail, and sunshine alternately over Liberty Bay.
One of the things I did last summer when I did my fish room upgrade was to either repair or retire any filters that would not start themselves after being turned off, so now I can switch between generator power and main power without having to fuss with anything at all in the fish room. Nice!
One of the things I did last summer when I did my fish room upgrade was to either repair or retire any filters that would not start themselves after being turned off, so now I can switch between generator power and main power without having to fuss with anything at all in the fish room. Nice!
After cleaning up and resealing the FX6 yesterday, I notice a small leak. The one part I never touch at all is leaking! The drain valve down below has a slow drip, so I take the valve out and grease it with silicone where it goes into the filter bottom and I take the valve apart and grease the special o-ring there. Put it back together and think its fine but having wife check on it during the day, and just to be safe, I ordered a spare valve. I have cleanings coming up on the other two filters and will make sure to grease the drain valves on these before filling them back up.
Last week I purchased a small yo-yo loch to eat the snails in my planted 75g….. it is nowhere to be found now. It’s crazy since this isn’t the first fish to go missing in this tank. Nothing in there would kill it nor would anything in their eat the entirety of its body ( I removed all of the wood to double check it wasn’t just hiding).
i may rescape this tank to resemble some of the Bermuda Triangle conspiracies that circulated in the 1990s. Haha
i may rescape this tank to resemble some of the Bermuda Triangle conspiracies that circulated in the 1990s. Haha
That's a pretty tank. What are all the spaghetti plants? I like them; I wonder if they would grow in alkaline water.
cjag
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Some thriving Pogostemon stellatus maybe?That's a pretty tank. What are all the spaghetti plants? I like them; I wonder if they would grow in alkaline water.