fishguy1978
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AP does the same.
What did you do with your tank(s) today?
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Got the 30 gallon tank in place on the rack
Waiting on my Aquaclear 70 to come in to set up. I will pull the fine sand from the 46 gallon and the bio media out of the 46g filter so the tank will be cycled and ready to go for the puffer. I will then use sand from the 65B to the right in the 46g and move the community fish over. This will be a nice active tank in the area where your eyes go when you walk into the room.
Waiting on my Aquaclear 70 to come in to set up. I will pull the fine sand from the 46 gallon and the bio media out of the 46g filter so the tank will be cycled and ready to go for the puffer. I will then use sand from the 65B to the right in the 46g and move the community fish over. This will be a nice active tank in the area where your eyes go when you walk into the room.
fishguy1978
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Water change and rock change for the 120g.
That rock is sooooo little, lol. What happened with the giant one?
fishguy1978
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I want one that will nest in the crook of the log better.
fishguy1978
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Dosed Paraguard yesterday and cupramin today in the 220g. Ich 
Sorry to hear that. I hate dealing with tank issues like those. Takes the fun out of the hobby. Hang in there.Dosed Paraguard yesterday and cupramin today in the 220g. Ich
fishguy1978
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Thanks, my fault for not quarantining a newbie.
Been there, I introduced two wild caught fish into an established tank. Almost wiped out the entire tank with some sort of internal parasite thing.
That's a big issue with WC fishes: they tend to be loaded with all sorts of exotic parasites, and there really is nothing you can do about that. Tank-raised fishes have no natural immunity to such things, so they are easy prey. My solution is not to mix WC with TR, if possible, and to wait for F1's from the WC before I think about mixing them with TR. That's why I have been so excited lately about getting F1 fry from my WC Ophthalmotilapia nasuta 'Kipili Gold's.
fishguy1978
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2nd dose of cupramin. First dose was 15ml and second dose 10ml. Directions call for 1ml/10.5g so if dosing 200g that would mean 19.3ml. Seachem recommends half dose for freshwater. I am guesing tank volumn is 200g when accounting for sand and the giant rock.
I can see white ich specks on all 3 sevs, geos and some of the SD. Now for the 2 week soak.
I can see white ich specks on all 3 sevs, geos and some of the SD. Now for the 2 week soak.
Got the 30 gallon finished and arrowhead puffer is in his new/old home. This is just one of the coolest fish to watch eat but also like owning a pet rock. Glad I kept him and just added another tank. He has his sand to bury himself in and I put a java fern in there but I need to do an aquascape of some sort for him. Its pretty boring.
I still need to move over substrate and fish from the 65B community to the 46 gallon bowfront but will wait until I can figure out the plant situation in there. I glued my plants onto some pretty good sized rocks and wood which take up a ton of floor space. I may need to cut the bases down a bit to be able to aquascape the bowfront the way I want. I wanted to add my large spiderwood as a centerpiece and there is not enough for it and all the plants!
I still need to move over substrate and fish from the 65B community to the 46 gallon bowfront but will wait until I can figure out the plant situation in there. I glued my plants onto some pretty good sized rocks and wood which take up a ton of floor space. I may need to cut the bases down a bit to be able to aquascape the bowfront the way I want. I wanted to add my large spiderwood as a centerpiece and there is not enough for it and all the plants!
Cleaned 4 Aquaclear 110’s today along with light scrub downs and water changes on the tanks they were on. I noticed that there are two different sponges that Aquaclear had been using. One which I believe is the stock sponge is a lot more rubbery and smaller pores and the other kind of crunchy and very large pores which Im sure was a replacement. Just an observation but the finer sponges really hold a lot of material compared to the coarse. And harder to clean compared to the coarser ones!
Yesterday was gravel vac/water change in the 300 and two 90’s. Getting prepared for upcoming fish stock changes with quite a few rehomed fish happening. I have been interested in trying my hand at Cuban cichlids but have been waiting on Imperial Tropicals to get in 2-3” ones. Im just being impatient and didn’t want the little 1” fish to start with. But then Ive also been considering a red wolf, bleekeri, or maybe breeding a smaller type cichlid. At least I have a couple tanks available to do whatever I decide to do.
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Now that we have a weekend of dryness and i don't work, yesterday i continued on the stand for my stacked 120s that are being built. Should be finished with stand this morning, then i will be setting up a 75 temporarily. Then its relocate time, moving the loaches into the 75, the chancho and midas into other tanks, so then @lloyd378 can bring over his male chancho to breed with my little female. got a busy day ahead of me.
got a busy day ahead of me.
Scrubbed the showpiece spiderwood and put it in the 46 bowfront. I need to get the diamond blade and cut the slate base down to be able to get plants closer to the wood. You can kind of see in the picture that there are a lotof plants in there. I want to downsize them just a bit...
Also am looking at stock I currently have and want to keep. Since this tank is right in the main viewing area the fish need to be active and or super active. All hiders or non-essential will go. If the fish does good like eat algae or keep the glass clean then I will keep them as ‘essential’. So albino bristle nose pleco stay and likely a SAE coming soon.
Also am looking at stock I currently have and want to keep. Since this tank is right in the main viewing area the fish need to be active and or super active. All hiders or non-essential will go. If the fish does good like eat algae or keep the glass clean then I will keep them as ‘essential’. So albino bristle nose pleco stay and likely a SAE coming soon.
I'd like to suggest that if you keep 4-5 SAE's you will have pretty fishes that are both very active and 'essential.' These are schooling fishes and do best when kept in groups. I just shot this (lousy) pic to make my point; it is a close-up from one of my 125's, and you can see that all 6 of the SAE'e in this tank are hanging out together. You can also see a couple of points I made in an earlier post about the SAE's; namely, their lightly pigmented fins, and the median black stripe that extends all the way into the tail. These particular SAE's are ~2.5" TL.
Thanks @sir_keith for the SAE info. Ive read a bunch of different stuff that said to school them. Just need to see where I want to get them from.