40GallonsOfDoom
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Thanks, it's a work in progress, like most everyone's. Lol
What did you do with your tank(s) today?
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40GallonsOfDoom
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After putting in the decorations I'm noticing all of the fish are a lot less zoomy. Calmer.
Started my Saturday water changes with the Shellies. Got bit multiple times cleaning the tank. Doesn’t hurt, just a bit startling when you have 1” fish biting your hand, lol. Would be interesting if these guys got big. I can imagine how bad it would be if these guys got 12”… they would draw blood.
fishguy1978
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Rehomed the 2 green sevs and the S. Angelicus.
40GallonsOfDoom
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One of the dojo loaches kept coming over and nibbling at my hand and wrist as I was putting in the new stuff. Was a bit funny.
Saturday was supposed to be my garage water change day but I only did the Shellie tank. So this afternoon/early evening I finished off the rest of the 5 tanks. All got good glass scrubbing and gravel vacs.
The puffer was hilarious, as I was vacuuming the tank there was an earthworm that had escaped previously and was living in the gravel. Despite all the gravel vac and stuff going on the puffer got that worm. They really dont have much of a sense of fear. Mine is way to comfortable eating during a water change. In fact I have seen them use the lower water levels to their advantage in the past to catch ghost shrimp or feeder fish.
The puffer was hilarious, as I was vacuuming the tank there was an earthworm that had escaped previously and was living in the gravel. Despite all the gravel vac and stuff going on the puffer got that worm. They really dont have much of a sense of fear. Mine is way to comfortable eating during a water change. In fact I have seen them use the lower water levels to their advantage in the past to catch ghost shrimp or feeder fish.
cjag
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What kind of puffer?
cjag
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Ah makes sense. They were being used for some kind of neurobio study. Researcher abandoned them and so I might be bringing them home.
Hairy puffer
They are nice fishes; moderately aggressive and easily bred. A. burtoni- called Haplochromis burtoni back in the day- were the first mouthbrooding cichlids I ever kept, way back when in graduate school.
John58Ford
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I took a good long look at what I got when I tossed it all in there and let the shellies figure out out:
In honesty though, today was a testing day. After lily-magedon that tank has been all over the place with mineral usage as the ludwigia grow back. I let the pads shade the tank too much and 50-75% of the stuff died/shed. My network tanks are using too little, likely because I decided to change half the lights out to something "better". Don't fix what isn't broken I guess. And well, the multis in their tiny little qt tank I've been working on moving them out of are the only thing that is testing right (that deserves testing anyhow). The success of a stubbornly low tech group of tanks all with different needs is a fun challenge indeed. I've been tempted to grab a CO2 tank and bring in my terrestrial grow lights on the pent 45 just to see what happens when you do it the "easy" way lol.
In honesty though, today was a testing day. After lily-magedon that tank has been all over the place with mineral usage as the ludwigia grow back. I let the pads shade the tank too much and 50-75% of the stuff died/shed. My network tanks are using too little, likely because I decided to change half the lights out to something "better". Don't fix what isn't broken I guess. And well, the multis in their tiny little qt tank I've been working on moving them out of are the only thing that is testing right (that deserves testing anyhow). The success of a stubbornly low tech group of tanks all with different needs is a fun challenge indeed. I've been tempted to grab a CO2 tank and bring in my terrestrial grow lights on the pent 45 just to see what happens when you do it the "easy" way lol.
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fishguy1978
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Stopped by Aquarium paradise to get a larger pump for the 120g. They have J. Dickfeldi 
but I have no room and I won't risk hybrids.
but I have no room and I won't risk hybrids.
cjag
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Saw this amazing photo on plantedtank.net. Beautiful oscar AND a sev being kept in a pretty lush planted tank. I've never kept an oscar but based on years of hearing about them it sounds like this isn't how they would usually treat a planted tank. Would be cool to have it work though. 
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John58Ford
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Ghost knife (I've heard make good wet pets) with a few electric blue acara and a posse of cory could do well in a full CO2 rig. Would be pretty cool.
cjag
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Black Ghost Knife? That's a cool idea, I never would have thought of that. Does anyone know of any medium/large ish (6+ inches) fish that wouldnt destroy a planted tank?