Ghostface

Welcome, soon enough you'll run out of room for tanks :banned: I wish there was more room at my place.

I would love to have a Gym AND a huge fish tank in my house!...give me 5 years!!! Looks great, congratz, how is the whole setup working out? Any more pictures with tank stocked? I hope you still have lots of room for the gym equipment.

I would just keep her in there, turn the lights off so shes not stressed. If theres only 1 baby theres plenty more to come.

Oh, and I pretty much have the same plants as you in my tank(15 gal), and they grow just fine w/out Co2, I bought a good sand substrate, and add 1/2 a cap of flourish excel every 2 weeks. Got the Flourish Excel for 15.99 on sale, and its lasted me for over a year now. Plus, with Co2 your tank will grow a lot faster, which will require weekly trimming in most cases. I dont think I would Co2 anything lower than a 50 gal tank...most plants outgrow the 10-15gal so quick.

I have a Fluval Flora tank that came with the Co2 system, it worked great for the first 6 months, then a leak started. I wouldn't waste any money on a cheap system. Checkout the DIY section on how to build a correct system for just over $100 that will last you a long time, plus much cheaper to maintain (refill tank every 3-6months depending on size). The problem with the Fluval systems is the upkeep cost of the tiny co2 canister, and the cheap build of the system overall. You might find someone who will build a system for you for a fee & parts, or i've seen a few sold in the classifieds, just keep your eyes open.

I feed NLS Pellets daily to my GBR / Cherry Shrimp / Rainbows tank, I have sand substrate and never had this problem. I feed very little, 2-3 pellets at the most, along with some other type of food. They usually eat it up within 5-10minutes. Like Vallisneria suggested, you might be feeding too much. Do you have any snails, shrimp in the tank that can help clean up? If your pleco isn't cleaning up leftovers, then theres def way to much food in the tank...they are like garbage trucks.

Wow, looks amazing man, you got some real talent there. Thanks for posting and keep up the good work. Enjoyed your videos on your youtube channel as well, well done.

Nice video's, the 1600 gal you got is crazy...Is your whole basement filled with Tanks?...thats def quite the investment you got going there, your electricitybill must be huge!

wow, thats awesome...did you watch the birth?

Welcome, Ottawa is a beautiful city! Might take a bit of time to get use to the cold, and short summers we get here! Hope you settled in good, good luck with setting up the new tanks!

If you want to give the eggs a chance, you'll want to move them into a barebottom tank. You could move them into the shrimp tank, but the eggs need very clean water, and aeration since the parents are no longer taking care of the eggs (fanning the eggs). You will also need to treat the water with methylene blue or 3% Hydrogen Peroxide in order to prevent fungus from growing on the eggs. If your not seeing any black dots in the eggs after 3 days, then they probably weren't fertalized. Is this their first spawn? It will take them a few tries before they get it right. I would just prepare for the next batch of eggs, which will happen in 2-3 weeks. If you want to let the parents take care of the eggs to see how they do, you can toss them into your 36 bowfront, add a couple spawning surfaces, and leave it barebottom with a sponge filter. 50% water changes weekly. If you pull the eggs from the parents, you may consider a 5-10 gallon tank with sponge filter, let the eggs hatch, and raise them for 2-3 weeks in the small tank, then move them into your 36 gallon to grow out (still a bit small for grow out) Check out this video, Jazzy did a great job explaining the breeding of Angel's Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBF4CfUCVpY Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fs6lhBn6V0&feature=related Good luck

I have one. Make sure you secure the 3d backdrop with the lamp clamp before you add water...I know with mine the pads that are suppose to make it stick didn't hold. You might want to add some extra sand or substrate first before you add the pebble substrate that came with the tank (its not alot). A lot of the tanks when they first came out had faulty lamps that would short circuit, if you have any problems with it, the Fluval rep will replace it for free (they did on my tank anyhow). Thats about it, its a great lil tank, but Co2 system sucks and gets expensive. The seal on my nozzle wore out after just 4 months. Plants grow like crazy in it though, I like the fert for it. Good luck, post some pictures when your done setting it up.

This happened to my first pair as well. LIke Al said, give it time...I think they will be fine after a few tries.

I look forward to it

Dont use the meth blue if your going to leave the parents in the tank to take care of the eggs. I've heard that meth blue damages the scales of adults, plus it will dye them blue. Only use it if you place the eggs in its own tank. Like Al suggested, hydrogen peroxide will be fine with the parents in tank.

I been culling yesterday and today....I probably removed about 20-30 that had short gills (still have at least 100+ left, didn't even put a dent into the population :P)...not really sure what else to look for, but I remember seeing something about culling on the angelfish.net forums, so I will check there. They are eating a ton of flake now, heaing 100 snaps on the surface when they feed is pretty funny and exciting. I been hand feeding them some frozen BBS cubes, they love it. Every once in a while they will tap my finger thinking its food hehe. I usually shut off the sponge and hang on filters during feeding as I dont want to waste the food, plus with the hang on circulation it gets messy all over the tank. No more have died since the mysterious deaths which I'm pretty sure was due to a bad batch of BBS. Rebel, its natural that some eggs will turn white, if you want to check to see if your eggs are fertile just pull them once you see that they have finished, and are fanning the eggs. If they are new parents, it will take them anywhere from 2 to 5 days (or in some cases never) before they will get the hang of it. If you see that the eggs turn white after just 2-3 hours then maybe they are doing something wrong. If you see that they are slowly turning white over time, its most likely just fungus, which either means that your water quality is bad, and or your parents arent eating the white eggs preventing fungus from spreading to other eggs nearby. Either way, one sure way to check is to pull the eggs, throw them in a 5-10 gallon tank, use an air stone or just the tube and stick it near the eggs, add some anti-fungi and wait 48 hours and check for wigglers (hard to see, you really have to look close). What kind of tank setup are your Angels in? Are they in a breeder tank or community? Thanks for the replys

Hello all, Been a while since I posted any pictures. I haven't had any more fry die until today. I got home from work and fished out 12 dead, and half dead fry at the bottom of the tank...not really sure why, all I can think of is a bad batch of BBS. I have been adding crushed flakes over the last week with the BBS feedings. They seem to be eating it all up. I started giving only crushed flakes in the morning feeding for the past few days. I think my tank is getting a bit overpopulated, the fry are getting fairly large, and I have a ton of em. Here are some more pictures. First one is fry at day 39, the rest I took tonight, which would be day 49. At what point can I start selling / giving away these guys? I'm also thinking about selling / trading the parents, and getting a Philippine Pair from Fairdeals. Day 39 Day 49

I picked up a nice female Ram at Riverside yesterday, They are already showing signs of spawning behaviour. The Male was pretty excited to see another female, hes been following her around the whole day...Lets hope they find the nice cave I built for them using half young coconut, covered with java moss.

very cool, the female will usually approach the male and torque her body slightly and start fanning her fins really fast...its one of the reasons I like them so much. They have so much personality, and are super cool to watch. When my female is ready to spawn, she gets right up close to the male and start doing her thing, then sprint away to her spawn spot, back and forth until the male finally catches on and follows her hehe. If you see her belly get really pink, you'll know shes ready. Mine spawn for me usually every 7-9 days.

My GBR's would attack the cherry shrimp I had in the tank as well. I've removed them since, only had about 4 out of 12 left by the time i noticed. Hopefully they can repopulate, I got 1 baby, 2 females and 1 male left.