What did you do with your tank(s) today?
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Well I didnt finish my tanks but finished another project. Not directly fish related, lol
Years ago when we bought the house this was what the area looked like
When we moved in, we had remodeled and this space was just beauty barked. But I just got through doing my dry riverbed look and now it looks like this
Years ago when we bought the house this was what the area looked like
When we moved in, we had remodeled and this space was just beauty barked. But I just got through doing my dry riverbed look and now it looks like this
FishBeast
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Looks awesome but it would be a perfect place for a little pond/water feature.
Is gladly take some festae of your hands, and maybe some carpintis depending on what my stock looks like then.
Jexnell
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I'll keep you in mind. It will be awhile yet before rehoming comes into play. Carpinitis are double the size of the Festae so should come up available first. No signs of pair bonding yet, just lately been able to tell the difference between Males/females. Looks like 2 Males and 4 females.
Surprise! 23 days ago I had another spawning of my WC Ophthalmotilapia nasuta Kipili Gold, and four days later I moved the brooding female into another tank, because the alpha male was harassing her (this doesn't happen in the wild because the brooding females leave the males' territories and congregate together in shallow water). But my fish room is torn apart at present due to the ongoing upgrade, so I didn't have much choice where to put her, so I moved her into a 100 with a group of young O. nasuta Chimba Tiger and some Xenotilapia singularis. The plan was to move her into a tank that will become free this weekend, to release early next week, but today she released her fry, only day 23 by my count (28 is usual). None of the other fishes seemed to be hassling the fry- there seem to be 16 of them- but I installed a tank divider just in case. In 6-7 days I should be able to move the fry into my Kipili Gold grow-out tank, at least temporarily. Here they are-
Meanwhile, back in the main colony, I had another spawning tonight; female#4, her first.
Here is my very busy alpha male-
Meanwhile, back in the main colony, I had another spawning tonight; female#4, her first.
Here is my very busy alpha male-
Jexnell
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Today was Carpinitis WC and filter clean day.
I started with 1M and 6F swords. One of the female's changed into a male and was getting tormented by the original male so I moved it over to the Festae tank.
The male at the top of the pic is the new one. The one on the bottom is the original.
In it's new home
The Festae are curious, checking out the newcomer.
I started with 1M and 6F swords. One of the female's changed into a male and was getting tormented by the original male so I moved it over to the Festae tank.
The male at the top of the pic is the new one. The one on the bottom is the original.
In it's new home
The Festae are curious, checking out the newcomer.
I know this is only tangentially related to your post, but I couldn't resist because I find it so interesting...
Sex determination in swordtails- if you can call it 'determination' at all- has a complex genetic basis that makes the 'male' vs. 'female' distinction in these fishes both labile and evolutionarily plastic. This has actually been demonstrated experimentally; for example, a recent study in Nature Communications ('Long-term experimental hybridisation results in the evolution of a new sex chromosome in swordtail fish,' https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07648-2) documented the evolution of a new sex chromosome during the course of a 30-year experiment in which they hybridized two different Xiphophorus species. This was the unwitting consequence of selecting for fishes with particular color patterns. Fascinating. This is one of many reasons that so many interspecific hybrids are sterile.
fishguy1978
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Sold about 2 dozen multies over the weekend to some local hobbyists. Two said they would join the box.
Full fish room water change and cleaning. Also ordered up 14 new family members, no cichlids though. Will post pics when they arrive tomorrow.
Also trying to decide on how exactly i want to set up this new pleco tank. So many thoughts and ideas, i just need to bring it alive.....
Also trying to decide on how exactly i want to set up this new pleco tank. So many thoughts and ideas, i just need to bring it alive.....
John58Ford
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Bought some multies over the weekend and joined the group...lol.
Today we'll be doing some extended parameter testing to make sure the bacteria and archaean colonies have adapted to the kh/gh/ph buffering added to the long term quarantine.
If all looks good I will be doing some trimming in one of the more planted tanks.
Today we'll be doing some extended parameter testing to make sure the bacteria and archaean colonies have adapted to the kh/gh/ph buffering added to the long term quarantine.
If all looks good I will be doing some trimming in one of the more planted tanks.
Lots of cichlids get quite dark in breeding dress. Here's a pic of my Ophthalmotilapia nasuta Kipili Gold alpha male in breeding dress-
And in normal coloration-
I like the normal dress better.
John58Ford
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Today we thinned all of our swords, reset all the plants in the trash can tank, getting rid of most of the crypt, separated and replanted our lace java fern. Just a reset cycle as we don't fertilize so thinning plants and adjusting nutrient load are how we do what we do.
From this (which I really liked):
To this:
Well actually this (which will grow back even better, but I miss the jungle, my wife however had forgotten there was a whole school in there still so...):
All of the other tanks got the love, and we ended up selling some extras to another member, was awesome visiting when we dropped them off. Good day playing with the fish tanks
From this (which I really liked):
To this:
Well actually this (which will grow back even better, but I miss the jungle, my wife however had forgotten there was a whole school in there still so...):
All of the other tanks got the love, and we ended up selling some extras to another member, was awesome visiting when we dropped them off. Good day playing with the fish tanks
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fishguy1978
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I was up north of Seattle Monday so I stopped by the Coop and snagged 8 coarse sponges for the 29g rack overflows. Murphey the puffer is huge!!
Sitting at work waiting for the work day to end. Hope to get some tank time tonight and work on the 300 a bit. It is needing some tlc, with a lot more algae than I like to see. But with a lot of major yardwork projects done, I do get a little more time to work on stuff again. I still need to thin down the trimac herd, lol.