nanmer

Welcome! Maybe you would be willing to share some of your betta raising skills?

Congrats, well done!

Green water is something you may consider. Great food for the little ones. Anyone in your area with a tank that has turned green?

Must have been awesome!

Boiling water may crack a glass tank. I have been told that baking larger pieces in the oven helps.

Sure sounds like it. Maybe the Nicaraguan is trying to get american citizenship lol.

welcome!

Great picture!

Amazing fish!

I have belonged to quite a few clubs in the past. I quit due to the self serving nature of members. I joined the CAS and found the opposite to be true. The membership are always eager to share knowledge. My success is also their success. The knowledge each member brings to the table is amazing! The guest speakers and the regular membership do a great job of providing informative topics at each meeting. Running the club and putting on events is not an easy task. People have lives and to give so much of their free time is to be commended. Do they do a perfect job? No, but certainly good enough for me to be proud to belong. A club requires members to donate time and skills. If someone has a personal specialty, then please step up and offer any assistance. New people and new ideas keep a club growing. Hats off to the executives and members who work hard to keep things running. Thanks for a night out with some great people that make the club so much fun!

Welcome!

Chat with cainechow, on this forum. He has one of the most incredible carpet of HC "Cuba", in his tank, that I have ever seen. I tried to recreate it and failed but I also did not ask his advice.

Retail therapy and fish seem to go hand in hand. A nice fish purchase seems to brighten up my day. From the number of fish I own perhaps I should be treated for depression lol.

I use to have two big worm bins but an extended holiday saw to their demise . I buy bags of it now from garden stores, I should really start a new bin but worms have really increased in price and are hard to find. What I would do to harvest the castings was to move all the compost to one side when it looked rich. I would place new peat/garden soil/sand on the other side and add scraps on the new pile. The old pile was left for a few weeks so the eggs had time to hatch and the worms to move to the new pile. I found that the process was much faster than a compost bin which never seemed to compost! I would post a pic of my 50 gallon but I have removed most of the plants to my 110 tank. My fish also miss eating red worms :cry:

I use worm casting in my substrate, Vals love it! My tiger vals are actually flowering. My 50 gallon grows plants like crazy and all I have in the substrate is a layer of peat mixed with worm castings and topped with sand. I have the tank in a south facing window and use no supplemental light (not a hint of algae anywhere). I add fertilizer when I remember, which may be once a month or two lol. The tank has been running for a year and a half now and growth has declined a bit, time to replace the substrate and go for another year or so. My other planted tanks are higher tech and do grow plants faster. If I had another south facing window, I would do this with all my tanks ... low cost and no work.

Welcome!

Welcome fellow beta lover!

I imagine I would have to get Pancur from a vet. Mine is all the way in Strathmore. Sounds like something hubby could go buy lol. What dose did you use?

I am sitting here looking at the things and am tempted to do an experiment I was told about in elementary school ... cut the head down the middle and they grow two heads. That would teach them to slide around my tanks! Then again, I would have to touch the things!

I always wondered what was inside ... now I know! I needed to cut up a moss ball for one of my crazy projects. I placed half in a small dish and started with my project. I was happily working away and needed a bigger piece. I grabbed the half ball and saw something in the water in the dish ... 16 honking big planaria! I, like many people on this site, have a battle against these wee beasties. Obviously they were living happily inside the moss ball. A long time ago I waged a war against them and obviously lost, then gave up. I took out the moss balls so the shrimp had something to climb on. They were not treated, not thinking they could be a major source of planaira. Now if I can ever find a source of fenbendazoleI will take the war to a new level!

Last year I had a four year old crowntail male produce the largest clutch of babies yet. Good luck with the endeavor!

Welcome!

I have Endlers with my shrimp. The population keeps growing ... both shrimp and Endlers. I have also found that the temperament of the fish is important. I have a male Beta with shrimp and he has never eaten one shrimp. Many people would disagree with keeping a Beta with shrimp, I don't really recommend it. It was out of need that I put the Beta temporarily with the shrimp and it worked, and they live happily ever after lol.

Sorry, must have been a bad day for you. I can't see the logic.

Welcome to the site!