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liquidsquid wrote:Wow, Necro thread! Since this thread went dead, I broke down and got a 110 tall, and re-finished a stand to go with it. A few weeks ago I introduced something nasty into my aquarium and lost 3/4 of all fish. Nothing visible, but I think it was some microbiome in my canister filter had a major battle and lost so my water quality went to hell. I tried everything to recover, and all I could do is wait for it to settle out.
The kiddo got bored with the hobby and dropped it for a few years, but then won a goldfish at the fair a few weeks ago. He set up a 10 gallon and off we go again!
Oh, then I got a real aquarium: https://goo.gl/photos/79GpFEpTBjA8enqi7
Best, most fun thing I have ever done! This album was a few years ago, and we are still enjoying it. It is fun to swim with the fishes! It however has taken a lot of time away from the computing hobby.
Mr Bill wrote:I lost 6 loaches, 6 calvus, 6 lelupi, 30 julidiochromis (6 adults), 6 austrailian rainbows, and close to 100 brichardi (3 breeding pairs 20 adults and too many fry to count;
drfish wrote:I haven't had an aquarium since we moved about 4.5 years ago. I've had the itch for awhile though and finally did something about it last week by cleaning up a tiny tank that we grew out some tadpoles in last spring. I outfitted it with some local beach sand, a couple rocks I saved from one of my old tanks, and some java moss delivered via Amazon Prime.
I added the first inhabitants to it a few hours ago, two cherry red shrimp and four ghost shrimp. I'm pretty happy with it so far, even though it's incredibly basic. I think I'll probably add a female betta to it in a couple weeks and call it fully stocked at that point. Time will tell if I want to go all in and setup a larger tank, but it's nice to finally dip my toe back into the hobby that inspired my handle more than 20 years ago. Although, at this point I guess I only qualify as drshrimp.
BTW, Mr Bill, how's your tank coming along?
Mr Bill wrote:Had a pretty good looking tank until I added some floating plants from a local nursery. Something came in on the plants and I lost all but 3 fish to a disease that resembled dropsy.....
....I lost 6 loaches, 6 calvus, 6 lelupi, 30 julidiochromis (6 adults), 6 austrailian rainbows, and close to 100 brichardi (3 breeding pairs 20 adults and too many fry to count).
Mr Bill wrote:drfish, is javamoss pretty good a sucking up nutrients faster than algae can grow? At crushed aragonite pH, most aquarium plants get algae covered faster than they can grow.
drfish wrote:I'm torn, I really wanted to do a tank with a big school of corydoras habrosus as the primary attraction, but the allure of cichlids is calling me...