Thread 5057611

Love your tank janny edition.

Discuss anything aquarium related here, including MD fishtanks, tanks, bowls, inhabitants, bettas, shrimp, decor, plants, duckweed and issues. Before asking questions in this thread, make sure you give us at least some details when asking a question, such as:

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>Unusual Parameters (nitrate, pH, GH, KH)
>Any inhabitants + how long you've had them
>Age of the tank
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previous >>5038459

Also I know it's not a big deal but we should probably update the OP with info about cycling, since the majority of people now seem to be keeping small planted tanks for shrimps we shouldn't be recommending ammonia dosing as the default route.

Resting janny

>>5057644
they snuffle around, I wonder what they actually eat must be microfauna things

Decent success with a diy planaria trap, bait: crushed Malaysian snail :(

>>5057613
and can we keep it freshwater this time? i'm tired of all the saltwater turds spazzing around about their "no maintenance, no water changes, very stable" reef tanks.
TL;DR: they're ugly, a betta looks better

>>5057645
you should feed them, stuff like sinking pellets and blanched veggies. don't rely on them finding food on leaves, that's how you end up with a dead oto.

>>5057732
No consolewar cringe

>>5057734
that's a pygmy cory, they seem to be foraging but they're not algae eaters

Got this lad to replace my honey. I was a little hesitant because I had heard that larger gouramis can be assholes, but he’s been very behaved. Haven’t seen him chase or nip anybody.

>>5057837
it's an oto catfish

New peak
https://youtu.be/UuU0DItqj8c

>>5057929
It's a pigmy cory, I have both
Otos pugmy cory and siamese algae eater all look alike, some covergent evolution think idk

how would i go about removing an aiptasia polyp from a dead hammer coral skeleton? would it fuck up the healthy one right next to it?

>>5058004
>vid starts with a woman fucking everything up
lol

>>5058004
wtf happened? his videos are usually really nice and relaxing to watch
> ugly ass fish
> missing one eye
> half the fish is just the head
> nasty lips, looks like serena williams painted blue
> rushed build
> short video

For several seconds I saw my pleco standing tripedal on his fins. Cryptid sighting.

Female oto is super plump and the male shows interest in her. I tried the "water change with softer and cooler water" thing to get them to spawn, fingers crossed.

>>5057905
my mum ruined gouramis for me when she pointed out the fins look like they're doing a really long shit
hope it works out for you

>>5058265
Pretty as they otherwise are, my honey and now this opaline have had habits of munching on my hornwort which- since they can’t entirely digest it- leaves them trailing behind shit chains held connected by plant matter.

>>5058309
One day I’ll stop posting these images at a 90 degree angle…

>>5058265
god damn it lol now i can't unsee

I haven't seen my crabs for like 2 weeks

>>5058472
that's not good, it's crab posting time, better get it together

More disgusting planaria captured with mysis bait

don't mind me. just posting in a dead thread on a dead board.

>>5058535
hai guize check out my parasites!
you ppl deserve each other

don't mind me. just posting in a dead thread on a dead board.

>>5058597
These threads used to be way more active
Where is everyone

>>5058597
>>5058668
I blame the jannies. We need to bring him back.

>>5057732
Cope harder, poorfag.

could this work or is it just meme content?

twitter.com/worldsokuho/status/1977309277904679349

>fish poop gets sent out of nozzle
>add clean water to top

Can I put betta fish in a 200 gallon rubber horse trough under a Paleo Verde to eat the mosquito larvae? I live in the southwest, where people successfully grow banana trees in their front yards.

>>5058744
Do guppies instead they are much hardier and faster

>>5058799
It's too bad I already put one in my horse trough then. It it survives the winter I'll give it a friend of the opposite gender.

>>5058857
bettas are tropical fish so your fish isn't going to last more than a week in cold water.

it's a shame nobody told you this earlier but this thread is dead because janny did tranny things

>>5059033
>this thread is dead because janny did tranny things
trips of truth!

>>5059037
>5059033
>033
>trips of truth!
what?

>>5059104
those shrimp absolutely don't give a fuck.
shouldn't they be skittish around fish?

>>5059033
Jannie rhymes with tranny. Coincidence?

>>5059107
I think they learned that the small fish doesn't bother them

>>5059149
I have some amano shrimp that are probably over 6 years old now in my planted freshwater tank. They’re hardy and not really afraid of much

>>5057732
I haven’t done a water change on my reef tank in probably six months. Algae doesn’t even really grow in it

>>5059169
>no water change in 6 months
are saltie tanks free of bacteria or how does that work

>>5059186
Similarly to freshwater tanks. You have to balance load vs consumption and export. For freshwater tanks, it is mostly just making sure you have enough plant biomass to offset nitrate generation, then trimming plants when needed. Some tanks may require dosing other things to keep the plants vibrant.
For saltwater (particularly reef tanks), Nitrate export for no water change systems tend to be handled by a combination of any number of the following: mechanical filtration (roller mats, filter socks, or filter floss), protein skimmers, macro algae refugiums, and, rarely, algae scrubbers (not the scrapers for glass, but a device that focuses on intense light on a small isolated area that is easily removeable/cleanable that specifically tries to grow hair algae). Testing for and dosing elements is a far bigger deal though. For instance my reef tank I dose alkalinity and calcium every day, and dose magnesium and a plethora of minor elements every week. For my planted tank, I haven't dosed anything in months.
The alternative (actually doing water changes) for reef tanks is something I don't find particularly appealing, because even if I did water changes, I would still have to test and dose, just slightly less. Doing regular WC does give a bigger buffer against variance over time though.

>>5059147
'janny' also rhymes with the maltese word 'flandersisbased'

>>5059147
mind = blown

>>5059338
That Molly looks healthy. What’s the big round rock?

>>5059033
Water here isn't too terribly cold. Banana trees grow in people's front yards here.

Thoughts on Amano shrimp?

>>5059358
it's the skull of a monkey that i killed while holidaying in brazil. it was a bit chewy but overall it was a delicious meal that we all enjoyed.

>>5059411
I should probably do that will one of the stray cats around my property.

>>5059412
>zoosadists are also retarded
every time
that's a fake ass fish tank decor skull

>>5059338
How are those platties so incredibly red

>>5059416
>thinks the fish decor is fake
kek

>>5059411
That’s cool AF bro. Congrats on doing a good deed and making something out of it so that innocents could share

>>5059409
Mine is like count dracula, sweeping from the shadow, steals the fish's food, and swims back to disappear.

>>5059426
People inbreed for certain traits, in this particular case; its for intense red color, tea cup size/dwarfism, and very extreme hardiness

>>5059448
Does it hide all day?

I have a five gallon aquarium sitting in storage, is there anything I can actually do with it in terms of keeping animals and plants?

>>5059474
Open ula.

>>5059474
Buy a real fish tank, then use it as a refugium and put chaeto in it

Should I add a water heater to my horse trough?

>>5059516
How do you tame a horse in Minecraft?

>>5059518
I don't know how you do in Minecraft but in the real world it takes patience and feeding them daily and an enclosed space they cannot get too far away from you easily.
Now I was asking about putting a heater in my horse trough because there's a betta fish in it.

>>5059471
Almost all day, I see him time to time on the filter guard sponge and at feeding time ofc.

>>5059539
I agree with the other guy that you should put guppies in it too. Put a heater but it’ll probably be too small for the water volume. Horse troughs are huge, right?

>>5059543
It's literally this but black and I only keep it half full. So around 160 gallons of water. A huge plus though is that I never have to feed them. There's bugs all over the surface. Mosquito larvae in the water, something small speck like that moves around, and some kind of red worms.

>>5059556
don't waste your money on a heater because your horse is going to eat your fish when he has a drink

>>5059426
Because they're healthy, and I'm using a Chihiros WRGB II 10th Edition LED Light that I bought with the money that I saved by eating monkeys in Brazil. Food is expensive in Brazil.

>>5059565
Horses generally don't eat fish. And I don't imagine betta fish like going into the mouths of other things.

>>5059540
He is out now enjoying some cucumber

Cool looking wild type rcs spotted

Cool looking wild type rcs spotted

>>5059186
Bacteria is good for you
>>5059229
Imagine reading all that

>>5059618
Have you considered that the Betta might bite the horse, though?

>>5059699
Bacteria gave my poor betta a columnaris infection that melted his flesh away and killed him in 2 days. It's realy, realy important to clean up mulm.

It's been like 6 months and I now have probably 100 shrimp starting from 10. Starting to be worried about a crash or something.

>>5059742
sell some

>>5059702
I'd be shocked if the horse could even feel it.

>>5059742
I have about 50-60 in a 10L tank and they are doing fine. If you feed them well, have plants and a filter you are gonna be fine.

>>5059745
Market's peaked, I was speaking to a guy at my lfs and they don't even take them for credit anymore.

>>5059780
I'm thinking of using it as an excuse to keep a Scarlet Badis pair but it's probably a bit mean.

>>5059782
>Scarlet Badis
Yeah that would be not a nice life for shrimp.

>>5059618
>Horses generally don't eat fish
Horses generally don't eat chickens either.

>>5059879
That chick should have moved. Betta fish would move if such a big creature went close to them with an open mouth.

would a device made to keep horse troughs warm in the winter be usable in a fish tank?

>>5060081
How big is your tank?

>>5059925
Lol no betta swims straight up to my hand when I reach into the tank

>>5060100
A 320 gallon horse trough that's only ever half full.

>>5059708
There's all kinds of bacteria, both good and bad. Our aquariums would not function at all without them.

>>5060357
Ofc, but bad bacteria also populate tanks, not only beneficial bacteria. The more organic waste, the more bacteria breeds.

>>5060081
If it's got a thermostat then it's pretty much the same thing as a tank heater. Question is what that thermostat is set to, if it's not adjustable. It seems like those sorts of things are mainly for preventing ice, rather than keeping it actually warm. I could get a much better idea if you'd tell us what region you live in, or just an average low temp in the winter.

As other anons have said, guppies will be way more competent at mosquito control, and hardier. I think I have to echo the concern that your horse(s) might just eat the betta, they're not very fast or flighty, and are pretty much bite sized. Pretty much any little fish can do well, if the place you live has some actual cold then mosquitofish or japanese rice fish will be hardier for it.

Also, if you live in Cali your gov't will give you mosquitofish for larva control for free.

>>5059742
How do you even get your shrimp to multiply like that? I got my shrimp colony started four years ago and it's nowhere near the numbers I expected now.
> inb4 feed them more
It feels like the more I feed, the more the snails multiply and the shrimp are autistic.
> inb4 your fish are eating them
I only have a few endlers in that heavily planted tank, the young'uns have a ton of hiding spots.

>>5060599
Cherries are prolific breeders, if you're seeing berried shrimp but no pop increase it's most likely the endlers grazing on the babies regardless of your cover. Endler's have a pretty wide mouth for their size so the babies will be vulnerable for a long time. The only other thing I guess if you're not feeding a lot is if you dose something like excel you might not have a lot of biofilm for them but it's like 95% the endlers. I don't even have botanics in mine the babies I guess just each biofilm off the hardscape.

>>5060505
Fine! Tell me, would comet goldfish be fine for a 180 gallon horse trough?
Average low in December is 53 and the average high is 75.

>>5060599
The filter intake could be sucking them in too

I saw my embers snatch up baby shrimp too so endlers could definitely chomp some of the shrimplets

>>5060633
They'll be fine. Just one or two will eat everything. They'll eventually outgrow the pests living in the water, but if the horses are drinking from it regularly and it's getting refilled that's basically a water change. Goldfish will be okay over winter too.

>>5060840
When will I know they won't be no longer able to sustain themselves on the wild game?

After 4 months, I caught one finally going to town on the LTA at around 2am, after harassing the torch colony and completely ignoring the 10 RBTA's.
Once the lights came on they went back over to dance through the torch polyps like children under a willow.

>>5060899
You won't be able to find any more, and they'll probably start to visibly lose weight. In the summer, in the winter that can be normal. Don't feed them much when it's cold.

>vallis suffers after first planting but stablises
>fairly slow growth for 3/4 months
>all of a sudden goes fucking berserk, runners absolutely everywhere, shitting out new strands, twice as thick as it was before
why are they like this

Any tips for dealing with aggressive fish? My Midas blenny has been the dominant fish since I added him, but he’s usually left everyone alone aside from my flame hawkfish he’d occasionally chase it around but never caused any real trouble. Since adding the new fish yesterday, he’s been noticeably more aggressive getting nippy with the new additions. I haven’t seen any damage on the anthias, but I’m more worried about my earmuff wrasse. He’s on the smaller side at around 3-4 inches (just a little bigger than my Mccoskers), and I haven’t seen him since a few minutes after introducing him. They mentioned the Midas immediately went after him, so I’m guessing he’s buried himself in the sand. I’m just worried he might get bullied if he comes back out.

>>5061164
>Any tips
Yeah, nano tanks. Keep the species separated.

>>5060616
Yeah they're cherries. And I occasionally see them berries. I guess the endlers are destroying them.
Too bad they're not eating the snails, their population is just going up, unless I move them to the saltwater tank.
>>5060696
I don't have a real filter, it's just a pump in a sponge behind the scape, SerpaDesign-style.

>>5061174
I only have a spare empty 13.5 gallon tank lying around should I just try to rehome him then? Midas Blennies need at least like double that.

>>5061177
Your snails are a bit fucky looking, I suppose it could be a water parameters thing. Still unlikely compared to Endlers but there's maybe a parameter sweetspot where adults survive but babies don't develop.

>>5061062
I don't know, but I'm a few months out from this exact scenario. There's literally a runner that's been in the same spot since the insane growth spurt ended, with the exact same amount of root growth not quite reaching the soil. I think this plant is actually intelligent and enjoys fucking with people.

>>5061231
O yea the old snails are from the "before" time - after adding cuttlefish bones the younger ones don't have those white spots on their shells.
I didn't care much since the snails are multiplying so quickly, I just don't want them to steal all the calcium.

>>5060924
neat

>>5061262
if you're taking snails out of there and putting them in the saltwater tank (wtf?) and they keep multiplying then you're basically exporting calcium out of your tank and will need to dose

I made RO water out of my 7.6 ph tap, and got 7 ph water. How do people go lower on that and keep a stable ph for soft/acidic water fish and shrimp?

>buy aquarium pump
>turn it on and put the tube in the fishbowl
>go to work next day
>goldfish swallows the tube while the pump is on
>Deviantart.exe
>come home to find it bloated and dead with bubbles coming out of its ass and mouth

Obviously I've seen worse stuff on the Internet but this is the worst thing I've ever seen IRL due to how it was my pet if only for a short time.

They love Vipachips

>>5061820
why haven't you used airstone?
sorry anon i'm laughing my ass off.

>>5061777
With proper RO water you can use botanicals and/or a soil substrate, doesn't really do anything if you have any KH at all though in which case you pretty much need CO2. Honestly though I think pH is one of those things that's overstated, in many cases fish that need acidic water are fine in harder water as long as it's clean they just have developed weaker immune systems due to the antibacterial effect of low pH water. People are even keeping discus in hard water now which would have the fish police doing a 3am raid some time ago.

>>5061820
Did you film it? Post video

Unpopular opinion: bettas actually do better in < 10 gal tanks

why are plecos so fucking lazy
just sitting in a burrow sucking driftwood all day

>>5062134
They evolved in fast flowing waters

>the mutts are berried
its a shame they revert to wild type would be funnier if they just got weirder and weirder

>>5062291
one of my wild types is preggers with blue babies, I'll try to shoot a pic if I find her

>>5062214
that makes sense

Shrinp

Is possible to manually mix the eggs and sperm of betta antuta and PetSmart betta fish together? Would such a cross be viable, and fertile?

I had black mollys for over a year before they randomly started breeding; maybe a water change triggered it or something?

>>5063113
maybe the girls reached maturity

>>5063113
i put my heater on for the first time this year and suddently my corries were going at it like mad

>>5057611 (OP)
what could cause guppies to start arching to one side like that?
in a month I've found 3 like this, and this one was still alive.
They don't present symptoms for long, the same day I see them doing this they die, or the next.
This one was a 2.5cm fish, not an adult. And the other ones that die were about the same size too. There are smaller fry but they look healthy, in fact a female gave birth these only a few weeks ago.
weird shit bros
I have some corys that are like 10 year old already, fucking immortal.

is it true that guppies aren't the resilient fish they once were due to inbreeding?

>>5064033
Yeah they're all smashed and slammed inbredmaxxed, proper breeders are trying to fix it but most chain stores and LFS will have garbage in with no resilience. People started switching to Endlers because of it but the same thing is happening again.

>>5061777
>I made water and got the pH of water wtf

Damn leave some IQ for the rest of us bro. To get a lower pH, you need the presence of acids, humic, tannic, carbonic etc., removing the hardness is just removing things that would otherwise neutralise the acids, I.e., it just makes producing an acidic environment easier, and the primary compound that is influencing your waters pH is calcium carbonate. If your tap water is low KH, then you don't even really need to run it through an RO filter.

>stable pH
Largely a meme. Without buffering salts like CaCO3, pH is free to wander with the dissolved CO2 level and organic acids. For the lake calciphiles like Malawi cichlids or sulawesi shrimp you just add some buffering salts to your RO mix and maybe some oyster shell into the filter and job done. Pretty much everything out of a river can easily cope with a fluctuating pH between 5 and 6.5 (for example, in high tech tanks with CO2 on a 10 hour timer).

What is the most cow like fish besides goldfish? I want something cute that will float around and graze on algae and stuff.

>>5059411
uma delicia

>>5064067
>What is the most cow like fish
BALLOON MOLLY

this thread is DEAD

unlike my fish tank which is TEEMING with life

>>5064383
can a tank like this reach a kind of stability point where spawn would get eaten faster than they can be produced

>>5064387
ofc. if the fry can't hide then the fry will be eaten.

now imagine eating your own children.

>honey, i'm hungry. what's for dinner?
>hold on while i push out a few babies..

>tfw i approach the tank wearing my hi-viz work uniform and about a million fish come to the front and start kissing the glass
i'm like a GOD to these fish.

does anyone else know this feel?

>>5057611 (OP)
Can someone please go to 2:07 of this video and tell me what this plastic sheet is? Everything I find locally is toxic to fish. Do you know what he is using, or what I can use to build support for my layouts?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZIiGZD3AQ0&t=2s

>>5065042
I think sometimes it's called foam pvc but I don't do any diy or crafty stuff. I don't know enough to recommend it, it's waterproof but if it's advertised for outdoor weatherproof stuff then it might be treated with anti fungal chemicals which might kill your tank.

How many people in the whole world have an aquarium? Trillions?

How many people lurk in the aquarium thread on 4chan?

Peaceful coexistence

>have two 5yo merited
>today find one upside down, not moving
>other nerite hanging out on the rock
>move the messed up one next to the glass and flip him on his side to see if he wakes up
>no movements
>ffw 30 mins
>his snail-pussy opens up, catches on to the glass
Phew! That was a close one, lads!

>>5065679
>>have two 5yo merited
NERITES, fuck you autocorrect

>>5065679
>Snail pussy

Kek

>>5065776
snussy

>>5061777
>>5061937
I use CO2 with a Milwaukee pH controller, like the other anon suggested. 7 pH RO water is expected. Keep in mind though that it has no buffer and will change just by being exposed to the air. It can actually go slightly acidic if there is high enough concentration of CO2 in your house, but it is far from stable.
But yeah, unless you have a really good reason, I wouldn't worry about trying to get acidic water. I've done plenty of fish and shrimp in 7.4-7.8 pH water.
>>5062046
I found that during their end-life stage this is especially true. It was way easier to care for my senior betta when it was 5+ years and couldn't swim very well.

>power goes out then comes back on, been happening more lately
>have aquarium at office where everything else was off
>heater (H2Pro) resets itself, both screens show 0000
>goes unchecked overnight
>next morning notice temp’s off, we add ice in a baggie to the sump to try to stabilize it
>2 out of 5 newly introduced lyretail anthias die from stress
>midas blenny also doesn’t make it
>everything was plugged into a surge protector
what could I have done to prevent this? How can I prevent this from happening in the future? battery investment? I thought a surge protector would of prevented this. I don't want to lose more fish. do you think it was the heater? I got it around 3 months ago.

>>5066275
Dis nigga thought a power strip would still hold power during a blackout
Lol

>>5066275
Kek, my dad thought the same thing because the old surge protector for our entertainment center was one of those big ones with like 12 outlets.
So one day he takes that one and replaces it with a cheaper surge protector because he wanted to listen to a radio while in the garden, plugs in the radio and is disappointed that there's no power.
Throws the surge protector in the trash because "the battery was dead", didn't tell me until weeks later when I realized the bluray player was unplugged.

i just switched to saltwater and it's been fun so far. does it have a walstad equivalent system?

>>5066660
Not really, can’t afford to not have a fair amount of flow in saltwater systems. But you can’t rely on live rock for most of your filtration if you don’t want to have a large sump.

>>5061777
I wouldn’t bother with RO unless I’m keeping fancy shrimp or some very specific blackwater fish. If you have it, great, use it, but I got a tap water that goes up to 8.2 after it airs out (low kh and hardness, somehow, thankfully) and I get it to a comfortable 6.6 via CO2.
Im switching to a buffering substrate soon, though.

>>5066708
>>5066125
>>5061937
I just wanted to soften the water for my ember tetras and possibly try some shrimp other than cherries. Now I mix 50% RO with 50% tap and has a kh around 4 and gh around 8. Gh was around 14-16 when I started.

>>5066660
Of course - corals and macro algae will get rid of nitrates and phosphates, similar to plants in a freshwater tank. And an aquascape is an aquascape. A deep substrate, too, it's a 1-to-1 equivalent.
>>5066702
t. brainlet

been breeding snails lately, sold like 30+ apple snails the past month :3

and my ramshorns ate algea in spots at my dads aquarium which had had algea for a decade without cleaning, they eat algea so well

What is this? Local breeder says it's Malayan Shrimp, but I'm not sure if it's Caridina or Neocaridina.
https://www.wirbellose.de/artendatenbank/caridina-cf-babaulti-green-gruene-zwerggarnele/
https://www.garnelenhaus.de/wiki/neocaridina-palmata

>>5066660
Pic related. Although I'd probably do a thicker substrate, as >>5066730 suggested. In addition to the microbiome part, it lets you see interesting behavior with certain fish/inverts that you couldn't see otherwise. Like pistol shrimp + watchmen goby, or certain wrasses that bury themselves.
>>5066710
>Gh was around 14-16 when I started.
Damn dude you could fucking walk on your tap water.

>>5066798
Yeah, lots of calcium residue is a pain in the ass.

>>5066771
my Neocaridina woul randomly get those color patterns

>>5066798
Can mangrove do well in freshwater?

>>5066801
have you considered a water softener to reduce the damage on your entire fucking house?

>>5067150
everyone in the country just have this water and live with it

>>5067150
No water softener in romania

>>5067257
not romania but close
it is a big house with rental appartments, as I understand the whole house would need to get together in a meeting and agree on installing a softener system for the water supply

>>5066798
That looks fucking awesome, but why do you have those ogo microalgae around your power head? Are you worried something might eat it?

>>5067257
Why did the gypsies steal all of it before running off to Paris?

WHAT IS THIS FISH

backstory: I moved into this house to a neglected tank and decided to take over it's care.
I have never managed an aquarium before, have enjoyed the process and probably watched 30+ hours of content to educate myself.
couple weeks ago i ripped everything out, removed substrate, redid with sand and some living plants and driftwood. cycling is all done and it's stable. i wish i had put substrate under the sand but I didn't know. did add root tabs. i'm looking for a new tank that isn't scratched where I can put a substrate and move everything over. anyway.

now I'm trying to stock the tank properly.
currently there is 2 x-ray tetra, 3 buenos aires tetra, 3 bronze corey, and this fucking guy.
i'm planning to buy 1 at a time each type to increase their schools so they're happier and not to disrupt whatever heirarchy they've already developed being together for many years. frankly the coreys seem happy, i might not get more of those. focusing on the others.
i've already added neo shrimp and ramshorn snails.

>>5067801
Giga smashed and slammed tetra.
https://www.glofish.com/glofish/long-fin-tetras/moonrise-pink-long-fin-tetra
It is both line-bred for extra long fins and genetically modified for the ultra pink coloration.

>>5067303
That one's not mine. I had a similar tank a long time back when I was still doing nano saltwater, but my rabbits ate my mangroves. I'd literally never heard of it happening but considering they've taken a nibble of pretty much every plant I have, I shouldn't have been surprised. As for stuff eating ogo or any other ornamental algae, yes, that is most definitely a concern. I had a really nice patch of Blue Hypnea a while back that was eaten in a single night by an urchin. I thought the patch was too big to be eaten all at once and the urchin too well fed to care but it did.
I unfortunately can't find any of my old tank pics from that era which really bums me out because I had quite a few unique things at the time, like my bonsai tree CRS + CPD tank (a literal bonsai tree that didn't take a wintering too well and died and got turned into hardscape), and a really bright pink Radianthus magnifica anemone that I have never seen since.
>>5066946
Mangroves often do better in freshwater. Give it a shot.

>>5067993
Ok so researching, that's a product of breeding the black fin tetra. If i got some black fin tetra would they school together? I think it would be really funny to have a school of black fish with one aryan leading the charge

If not the black fin tetra, is there anything else it would school with?

>>5068094
Well, it should school with its own kind regardless of coloration. But it should school with normal tetras as well. Tetras as far as I've observed are pretty indiscriminate with who they shoal with as long as they are vaguely the same body shape. I do not have personal experience with GloFish though.

Around about 8 months in to the pseudo blackwater non-biotope experiment. This is just occasionally adding catappa leaves and staining the water with rooibos tea. No meaningful drop in ph or any of the other aspects of a true biotope.
>Pros:
looks cool, low effort, more forgiving as algae does not grow well in the darker conditions. Seems to curb some aggression in my cherry barb males. They chill out a little bit for a couple weeks every time I re-up the tannins.
Cons:
>has to be maintained. Water will clear up quickly with routine evaporation top-ups nevermind significant water changes. Adding more leaves, putting rooibos bags in the filter or extracting them in boiling water, then adding that water once cooled to the tank. This is a potential pro if you want to experiment with the appearance of your tank though. It will be back to clear within a month if you don't like it.

Finally did something today with this tank I hadnt touched in 8 months or so. Trimmed everything way back. Gave the old ehem canister filter a good washing chucked some old Purigen from the filter to get a beefed flow. My starving/neglected guppies seem to be fine eating all the moss. I’m staring to feed them again now. Co2 has been restarted so I’m expecting rampant growth to resume, I just need to figure out a better look. The carpet in the front left is fubar, so I need to cut it out. Fucking Java moss is ridiculously annoying never ever get it. Strangely, in my other big 36g tank (which uses a sponge filter) it won’t ever grow in.

Some better pictures of fish

Guppies are quite hearty, I do however feel a need to add more fish to this tank. Ideas?

Shrimp I’ve done but I was thinking of getting a few amanos to keep algae down. CDPs are nice but expensive.

AI can also be used for good. Here is A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE:

https://streamable.com/ewdtpv

>>5058101
Shouldn't. Just dab some F-Aiptasia or calcium hydroxide on that fucker with the flow off.Let it sit for a hot minute (or 30) and then slurp it up in a syringe just in case there's sneaky little aiptasia eggs.

>>5058472
>Laughs in crack noodle
Saw one of my... Actually forgot what they're called. Striped crack noodle, for the first time in months. I should probably do a head count when I rearrange the tank really...

>>5058472
>>5068432
I haven't seen my pistol shrimp since April. I know it's still alive because I hear it snapping at shit in the middle of the night. Unfortunately I'm pretty certain that its goby partner is dead.

It’s improving. I still need to add a bag of crushed coral in the back right for height and ph adjustment and move the stone around some more.

>>5067801
Same guy
Got some black skirted tetras and they're warming up!

New problem, i got these red root floaters 2 weeks ago. At first i was struggling to protect the leaves, but printed a ring and they're ALL making new floating leaves and buds; which is awesome. However the past couple days the roots have been going brown. Any suggestions?

>>5068783
What’s your filtration like? Floaters like low flow like sponge filters in my experience, not fast canisters.

>>5068804
Big hob nearby, i moved them right next to it when i saw the browning thinking it was stagnant water
https://streamable.com/znj7v5

>>5068992
https://streamable.com/dm7zwa

>>5068992
move ring to opposite corner of the tank from the HOB. it's the surface agitation that causes issues with floaters. as long as they are in a calm part of the water they will be fine after some random die offs. that always happens with new floaters for me. half the original culture dies off but enough survive to start propagating. once that kicks in the whole thing will thrive.

>>5068992
Yeah floaters don’t like surface water movement. This is why I can’t grow ‘em in my turbo tank which uses a canister filter and lily pipes but floaters thrive on my sponge filter tanks.

>>5068783
I can't tell which way is up and which is down.
Why did you get substrate plants that look like floaters?

Egad why is /aq/ so completely inactive? Did Flanders scare everyone off?

>>5069429
seemed pretty cool to me

i bought an RV carbon dechlorinator, inline for garden hose in attempt to bypass softener to get minerals in my tank
found out it's not removing any chlorine and some shrimp died last top off
i am PISSED

>>5069714
Losing shrimp is rough. Always a good idea to keep a backup colony in a small tank in case of such events. I salute your stalwart efforts to dive into the hobby by the way.

>>5069722
unfortunately i found this out after just obtaining a pre seasoned shrimp/snail tank with dozens of each tank for $50 that i drained half the water to tote home
also had like 15 java ferns, filter, light
crazy good deal
day before i was saying i needed to do a shrimp/snail tank before getting a puffer tank and it just showed up on marketplace immediately
there's still a bunch more but there was immediate notable death and i assumed it was stress
BUT NO APPARENTLY MY CHLORINE FILTER IS ASS
so i have the choice of unchlorinated water softener water
but apparently salt bad
i have conditioner for the chlorine but it's very not efficient unless i just do ml in 5 gal bucket before adding
i want to be able to just drop a hose in tank

>>5064402
Do you wear your “HI-VIZ work uniform” because the wayward outback judge decided you needed to be cleared visible to the public at all times due to your relentless pedarestry and slaughter of fish?

>>5069743
Yeah I have to haul buckets when I do my water changes. Which is of course why I get lazy and don’t do water changes for long periods of time sometimes. Then again I don’t have 15 fish per 1 cup water like our Australian psychopath does.

>>5069744
no, i just like to stand out in a crowd.

>>5069746
>I have to haul buckets when I do my water
changes
haha. it must really suck being you. xD