McTurtle

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Beautiful tank. The shrimp shots are stunning.

Welcome to the forum.

+1 for All Season Garden Center- just remember they don't accept credit cards.

Gorgeous!

Lotus it is. Thanks for the photo. Still looking forward to having a flower since none of my other aquatic plants have bothered to before.

Noooo! Run away!!

Great looking fish! Wow, that is going to be one enormous new tank. Lucky fish.

I think I have Nymphaea rubra... red leaves on my lily anyway. It's sending up a flower which has now reached the top of the water. I've moved the lid of the tanks so that is has a little more room, but if it goes much farther it will hit the light. Anyone have this happen to them/ know what the flower looks like? I'm so curious/ impatient!!!

115? What do you do with them all? You could make an entire wall of bettas...

Looks great.

100 bettas!!! wow!!!

Looks great!

Welcome to the forum.

Has anyone kept these guys successfully in Edmonton tap water? They are supposed to like soft, acidic water so I'm a little leery of adding them... I'm not going to do much except add Prime to the water.

I haven't updated in a while, but the mts keeps getting worse. I think I've hit capacity though, so I'll just have what I have work. I also have hit about the limit on the amount of time I want to devote to water changes. Currently the 65 gallon has a lot fewer plants. I cleared out a lot so that the plants I do want to keep can get more light and recover. They got pretty straggly due to overcrowding. I also had an algae issue because the flow is pretty low and I'm feeding brine shrimp to keep my fry going. The snails were going nuts and claiming all of the pellets for the corys before the corys could get at them. So the flow has been raised, most of the snails removed, I'm doing water changes a little more aggressively and upped the ferts a bit. The plants seem to be recovering and my lilly is sending up what I think is going to be a bloom. I've never had it do that before. It is a monstrous plant though, I finally had to refill the 10 lb CO2 tank. Not bad considering it's been going for 6 months. The celestial danios are happy. The fry seem to come in sets of 3.. or at least survive in sets of 3. I have 12 or so now and the oldest one is an adult. The original adults are getting a little worse for wear. The life span is supposed to be 3-5 years, and these guys weren't fully mature when I got them in the summer. There is at least one male that is very thin and is losing his colour. I'm not sure why, but I've heard others have had similar problems. They're getting brine shrimp and eating the pellets I drop in for the corys. I still have 2 black corys, 2 pandas, 2 bandits and one spotted guy. The wild caught corys did not do well. I don't think I'll go that route again if I can avoid it. I added 7 little sailfin corys and they're quite happy and are good company for the pandas. The only other fish in the 65 gallon are the otos which are fat and happy. The 40 gallon tank has 6 rainbows, 5 neons and 4 tiger barbs and a catfish. The rainbows are gorgeous. I can't believe the difference between the colouring in my boys vs any in the stores. The tiger barbs are having aggression issues. One died while I was away on vacation. Another is not swimming totally normally. I'm not sure who is causing the problem... I'm not sure if getting a few more will help or make the problem worse. I still have my male betta in a 5 gallon and now have a female in a separate 5 gallon. I'm thinking of maybe dividing a 10 gallon so they can see each other. My male has yet to build a bubble nest on his own. If I present them to each other the female does get her vertical stripes, so maybe they would breed. I'm not 100% sure I want to breed them though as separating all of the fry (eventually) would be a major undertaking. I have my 4 female and 2 male adult guppies in a 10 gallon and they continue to breed prolifically, as guppies are wont to do. They also don't seem to snack on the fry so there are as many as 30 - 40 fry in there with them at a time. It means I'm doing water changes on that tank and the other 10 gallon fry tank twice a week. I have a 20 gallon grow out tank that's been going for a while. The guppies in there are young adults now and I'm just about ready to decide which are the keepers. I will have to decide which females to mate back to my original males and then what to do with the females I have been breeding so far. I bred the males to 2 red females and 2 blue females and now have two lines of fry. The plan is to put the most promising dark female back with the original males to eventually breed a line like the fathers. The red line I'm not so sure what to do with or if I should even bother with. I do like having a mix of adults though.... hrmmm.... I have a new (to me) 25 gallon set up as a second grow out tank and another 25 gallon waiting to be cleaned and cycled that will also probably be a guppy grow out tank. Lastly is my 10 gallon tank that held pygmy corys. These guys just didn't make it. I think they're just too fragile and I did too large of a water change. I normally do about 40% and I'm guessing 5% would have been better. There were only 6 in the tank and I can only find one. It could also be that they didn't like the change in pH when I add CO2. I'm thinking I might try ember tetras in there... I just don't want them to harass my nerite. Next time I will add photos.

I think I'd rather use a razor blade than nail polish remover. I'd be too afraid of getting something nasty in the tank. Here's a "before" and after. (Before is actually the 2nd tank I haven't gotten to yet. ;p ) Anyone else who bought from the lady selling a fish room out of a storage unit may recognise them.

Hmm... I'll give it a shot. The paint I scraped off the 1st one had a kind of plastic texture so I just brute forced it off with a razor blade. Can't hurt to soak the 2nd one and see how it goes.

I would need a case of them. Scraping the paint off is no fun.

Thanks! I went with the 2x4s and then foam without the plywood. I think it turned out well. I'll put up a photo, but I'm too tired tonight. Between water changes and setting up the new tank my day disappeared... 2nd tank is going to have to wait until next weekend.

So I picked up a tank to go on the bottom of my 20 gallon stand... and it's not 20 gallon but 25 gallon. So It's 30" long instead of 24". If I put it on my stand there will be ~2.5" overhang on either end, width is fine. Is there any way I can set this up and not put too much stress on the tank? I was thinking maybe 2x4s or a plywood sheet... Anyone have suggestions/ experience with this?

Lovely! I know how hard it is to get a decent picture of a guppy.

Nice!

I have mineral oil in mine

Trying to fish the duckweed out of my guppy tank... all I get is guppies! Swim away from the net! Swim awaaay from the net! Seriously, my fish are totally mentally deficient... they swarm around the net. Maybe I have to blame it on inbreeding...