BettaFishMommy

snail jello is a homemade food for my apple snails. it is made of baby food (or blendered veggies at home), fish food, calcium supplement, and gelatin to hold it all together. wonderful food to keep snails and other inverts healthy and supplied with the calcium they require! i have a recipe for anyone that wants it, just pm me.

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nice shots! love your rays!

here's some recent pics. enjoy, and tell me what ya think! Devlin, my gorgeous angel Jeebus, my lil jewel cichlid rescue from petcetera a shot of Gus the best photo ever of Blondie, my first apple snail snails going gaga over snail jello the planted tank after the most recent rescape the four stooges, lol just rescaped the cichlid tank tonight what my kitchen looks like prior to both tanks getting rescaped Chuck, my paratilapia polleni from Spencer Jack did i mention i have a pleco float for my mag float? lol. and of course the requisite begging oscar pic! Sherry.

without looking at the photos, it is hard to make a diagnosis. but from what you have described it could be septicemia.

that tank is looking awesome! i've been following this thread and it's great to finally see it up and running! kudos and great job!

a mild bleach solution, rinse, rinse, and rinse again! then let it sit in the sun for a couple days. you should be good to go after that. i wouldn't bother keeping any filter media or substrate though.

i have a small group (5) of long fin rosy barbs. they are not aggressive at all as far as nipping, even if they do like to chase each other all the time. i would suggest a small group of these barbs, perhaps a half dozen or so. they do get to be about 1.5 inches so they are not one of the smaller schooling fish, but their colours and long fins are absolutely beautiful.

here's my list, albeit small: Cladophora aegagropila (Marimo Moss Ball) Echinodorus amazonicus (Amazon Sword Plant) Echinodorus 'Rose' (Sword Var. rose) Cryptocoryne beckettii 'petchii' (Crypt) Vallisneria gigantea (Giant Val) Isoetes lacustris (Octopus Plant) Bacopa caroliniana (um...bacopa? lol) Heteranthera zosterifolia (Stargrass) Cryptocoryne walkeri 'lutea' Hygrophila difformis (Water Wisteria) i also have a small foreground plant that is unknown. all plants are in a 55 gallon without ferts, without co2, open top tank, two flourescent Eclipse "daylight" lights.

good to know that you can request this sort of thing from insurance companies. i think i'm going to do the same!

i believe the gas pockets and anaerobic bacteria will only build up if you have a deep sand bed. how deep are you wanting your sand to be in this tank?

Kevin, do you ever have your plants for sale? i'm looking for more for my tank (55 gallon, moderately planted right now, no ferts, no co2, low to mid light). any recommendation on which plants you have listed that would do well in my set up? thanks!

i'd go approximately 120 gallon since it's a breeding pair and you will have fry in the tank periodically.

i believe they meant plants that are collected from local areas, growing in lakes, streams, etc.

i would run the filter right from day one. ammonia builds fast in an unfiltered tank, especially when you have fry that you are feeding multiple times daily. yes, cover the top. saran wrap works well to keep the humidity in, or use a glass sliding or hinged top that seals fairly well around the top of the tank. keep the fry tank in a room that is draft free (its summer now, thats easy, lol).

one thing i would be sure to do is put a pantyhose or fine netting over the intake of your filter, so the babies don't get sucked up in it. sponge filters run by an air pump are actually the best choice for a betta fry tank. good luck!

very nice little tank you have there! i gots the mts too.......... 1/2 gallon to 110 gallons between two tanks in less than two years, with 4 tanks and 2 bowls at one point........ i gots the mts bad!

There are decent looking shelves called "Gorilla Racks" that you can buy at Costco, Canadian Tire, etc. i have a full set of them at my place and i used to put my 10 gallon tanks on them until i got bigger tanks than the shelves would allow, lol. the box mine came in claimed that each shelf would hold 500 pounds but with the shelf being akin to thick particle board i don't think i would quite trust the full weight they claim. a 33 gallon with substrate, decor, water, etc. would probably be getting close to the 500 pound mark, but with the weight distributed evenly over the shelf as a tank would it might work for you. i wrapped my shelves with clear shower curtain from the dollar store to ensure water did not spill on the shelf and warp it. the stand was really easy to set up. rubber mallet was all i needed. no screws or bolts. the shelves can be configured as one tall unit or the way i did it was to put the two halves of the unit side by side with an upper shelf and lower shelf on each. mine came with metal clips to secure the two halves together side by side, making the whole thing a little more stable. if you do it as a tall one piece unit, i would definitely anchor it to the wall, into a stud, and not put a tank any higher than halfway up the upper half of the unit.

i am having the same issue with my tenant's insurance. i called once i set up my second 55 gallon and asked if my sewer/flood coverage that i had added to my tenants/contents insurance when i first signed up was sufficient to cover the possibility of the tank leaking or busting. the lady on the phone said 'yep, it covers the tanks'. i am also wondering if they said that just to make me go away, lol. but with tenants insurance your belongings/contents are covered, so i don't know if it would cover the replacement of the tank or if it would cover the flood damages to the apartment that the tank leak/bust would cause????? confused! lol.

i don't think i'd attempt to move a 55 gallon tank still 1/4 full of water, plus gravel, plus decor, plus fish. that could be a disaster in the making. agree with Parachromis, drain the tank completely, put fish into buckets during this time, and transfer it to the new stand and refill. just think, this would more than take care of your water change for the week, lol!

Welcome!!! and that's awesome you are branching out to FW soon!

awww, shoulda had a video camera rolling!

keep me posted on your pleco finkid, and if you do decide you need the 10 just let me know. IMO, it's always good to have a spare tank laying around that could accommodate any size fish you have for quarantine purposes. in my case i have four empty tanks, lol!

i have a 5 gallon tank i can quarantine him in if need be. i don't believe that size tank would be large enough to hold him for the length of time needed without stressing him and the water quality going way downhill fast. you are in edmonton? i have a 10 gallon that would work much better i could lend to you or if you wanted you could buy it off me. i could also spare some media from another filter in an established tank so that your quarantine tank is not going to be cycling while you tend to the stressed pleco. the tank is about 2-3 months old. i would say this isn't a fully established tank yet. although it may have cycled fully, a few months is not long enough and you may still be going through mini cycles and spikes. and I changed the filter earlier this week, which may may have contributed to the small ammonia spike. yes, changing out all the filter media would contribute to the spike, as you are removing all the beneficial bacteria from the filter when you replace media. it is better to rinse out the media in a bucket of tank water you have removed during a water change, as this preserves a majority of the good bacteria. i've never replaced sponges or biomax in any of my filters, and the only media i fully replace is the filter floss, since it gunks up too much and is not really rinse-able.

gorgeous betta! and i would say super delta too, since it doesn't look like his back fin would flare out fully to a 180 degree (which is the determining factor for half moon). i think the colour would be considered tri colour, as his fins do show three different colours. if the red was all through the fin with a crisp edge to the black on the ends and there was no other colour then i think he would be considered butterfly pattern. he may also be considered 'black mask' (i've heard this term in a few places) due to the black on his face.