What did you do with your tank(s) today?

sir_keith

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Ordered 10 Tropheus moorii 'Mpulungu' Sunspot from the Wet Spot, for delivery next Tuesday. Odd timing given that I'm about to tear a corner of my fish room apart, but you don't see these very often, and I've been looking to expand my young colony of 'Mpulungu' with fishes from another genetic background. It's odd that of all the Tropheus in Lake Tanganyika, Tropheus moorii, the type species (1898), is perhaps the least common in the hobby, and 'Sunspot' is one of my favourites-

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sir_keith

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77 degrees. Sunny. Light wind on the water. Fish room? What fish room? :whistle

Got to meet and have a nice visit with another Forum member yesterday. We need to start doing more of that once we're all vaccinated. :thumbsup

Will post a pic or two of my watery activities later.
 
DMD123

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This time of year Im busy in the yard so the tanks get put on the back burner a little. This weekend involved widening out some flower beds and planting a small tree and shrub. Also took out an old diseased rhododendron and multiple store trips to Home Depot, Lowe’s and Ace Hardware. Busy, busy, busy but I still got to water change the garage cichlid tanks. Did gravel vac water changes on both the 65B’s and both 90’s.
 
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My 75g in the living room has become a graveyard..... I believe it started when I introduced those five wildcaught bn plecos to the tank.....I had two dead prior to my ocean shores trip, this also led to a couple of my neons dying too ( not sure if that’s related but I suspect). I did a water change right before leaving but then I came back from my ocean shores trip only two nights later to find the rest of those plecos dead and in a thick jelly like film. I also found all but 1 of my neons dead too. I got all the death out and did a large water change and gravel vac. Over the last few days I’ve been losing fish like crazy... first my five cherry barbs, then a bosmani rainbow, then my paradise fish, two Molly’s, and today the final neon and angelfish ( all wiped out in just over two days).

so today I did another very large water change, like 65-70% and then treated the tank for ich ( as I saw my last bosmani had some ( which I hadn’t seen previously).

I’m left with 3 angels, 1 Siamese Algae eater, a couple of juvenile bn plecos, and four sterbai corys.
I’m not sure if any of the fish are going to make it, but the plants appear to be growing like crazy. I guess that’s a silver lining.

side note: all of my cichlid tanks in the garage are doing well, no outbreaks of anything and I’m making sure to not cross contaminate. I know how a python, net, and bucket dedicated to the cemetery tank

if everything does die I also plan to leave the rank empty for about a month to make sure whatever is in there has no hosts
 
fishguy1978

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lloyd378 said:
My 75g in the living room has become a graveyard..... I believe it started when I introduced those five wildcaught bn plecos to the tank.....I had two dead prior to my ocean shores trip, this also led to a couple of my neons dying too ( not sure if that’s related but I suspect). I did a water change right before leaving but then I came back from my ocean shores trip only two nights later to find the rest of those plecos dead and in a thick jelly like film. I also found all but 1 of my neons dead too. I got all the death out and did a large water change and gravel vac. Over the last few days I’ve been losing fish like crazy... first my five cherry barbs, then a bosmani rainbow, then my paradise fish, two Molly’s, and today the final neon and angelfish ( all wiped out in just over two days).

so today I did another very large water change, like 65-70% and then treated the tank for ich ( as I saw my last bosmani had some ( which I hadn’t seen previously).

I’m left with 3 angels, 1 Siamese Algae eater, a couple of juvenile bn plecos, and four sterbai corys.
I’m not sure if any of the fish are going to make it, but the plants appear to be growing like crazy. I guess that’s a silver lining.

side note: all of my cichlid tanks in the garage are doing well, no outbreaks of anything and I’m making sure to not cross contaminate. I know how a python, net, and bucket dedicated to the cemetery tank

if everything does die I also plan to leave the rank empty for about a month to make sure whatever is in there has no hosts
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Wow, that really sucks. Sorry to hear:(
 
DMD123

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lloyd378 said:
Thanks, in the history of my fish keeping (28 years give it take) I’ve never experienced wide spread loss like this. I’m more in shock then anything
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Been there, years ago I lost almost an entire tank due to something brought in with two wild caught cichlid. I didn’t quarantine and added them into my 210 gallon. All seemed great and then the deaths started happening...

@lloyd378, hang in there! Good call on using separate equipment for that tank, just in case.
 
sir_keith

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DMD123 said:
This time of year Im busy in the yard so the tanks get put on the back burner a little. This weekend involved widening out some flower beds and planting a small tree and shrub. Also took out an old diseased rhododendron and multiple store trips to Home Depot, Lowe’s and Ace Hardware. Busy, busy, busy but I still got to water change the garage cichlid tanks. Did gravel vac water changes on both the 65B’s and both 90’s.
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I have a garden, too, and really enjoy working outside, but I also have a fish room project going this spring. Sometimes threre isn't enough time in the day... :)
 
sir_keith

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lloyd378 said:
Thanks, in the history of my fish keeping (28 years give it take) I’ve never experienced wide spread loss like this. I’m more in shock then anything
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That's terrible! What do you think is going on? It sure sounds like the WC pleco's brought in something nasty. That's one downside of WC fishes: they can introduce parasites into your system to which TR fishes have no immunity, and they are defenseless. Another is that the WC fishes never get rid of those things, and are more susceptible to stress-induced flare-ups. I've noticed that WC Tanganyikans sometimes get cloudy eyes when stressed; never seen that in TR fishes. Try to focus on the good side- an opportunity to re-stock, maybe with something different that you've always wanted?
 
DMD123

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sir_keith said:
I have a garden, too, and really enjoy working outside, but I also have a fish room project going this spring. Sometimes there isn't enough time in the day... :)
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Yep, just not enough hours in the day!

We are going on 5 years in the home with the full gut remodel done and feel as if everything is 100% on the inside.

Outside is a different story. We are replanting after a massive yard overhaul with multiple large fir (4), pine (3), silk tree (1), maple trees (3), large rhodies (2), large shrubs (2) and a massive laurel hedge taken out. Many were just too close to the house, near a driveway which the roots busted out and just all around poorly planted/planned/diseased. So now with the proper planning we are putting in the correctly sized plants for the locations where they are needed. This year should finish all the larger foundation trees and shrubs, then just some smaller fill in plants and we will be done with that part. The expensive stuff like a new driveway comes next.
 
fishguy1978

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Chauffeured my oldest to work up in Kent so I stopped by Sierra pets. Tanks are sad. Lots of dead and many with green cyano bacteria. I did pick up a male and female krib to expand my group and another chocolate. Prices at Sierra are much better than AP. I also stopped by Manufactured Minerals for gravel to do the 260g. Planning on doing a 3 way mix of .08 - 1.2mm lapis lustre sand, chinook 5/16 and ozark 5/16.
 
DMD123

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fishguy1978 said:
Chauffeured my oldest to work up in Kent so I stopped by Sierra pets. Tanks are sad. Lots of dead and many with green cyano bacteria. I did pick up a male and female krib to expand my group and another chocolate. Prices at Sierra are much better than AP.
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Yeah, I have to agree that Sierra has not been the greatest lately. Not sure why, but used to be better.
 
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fishguy1978 said:
Chauffeured my oldest to work up in Kent so I stopped by Sierra pets. Tanks are sad. Lots of dead and many with green cyano bacteria. I did pick up a male and female krib to expand my group and another chocolate. Prices at Sierra are much better than AP. I also stopped by Manufactured Minerals for gravel to do the 260g. Planning on doing a 3 way mix of .08 - 1.2mm lapis lustre sand, chinook 5/16 and ozark 5/16.
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That's kinda what i did, i believe my other 2 mixes are similar
 

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