Recent content by chkltcow

YUP! That's why I'm experimenting and seeing what else he'll take. Really wish he'd eat frozen brine shrimp since the rest of my fish in other tanks do, but he treats those the way I treat broccoli.

Hrmmm..... funny enough, I could probably get mosquito larvae. A few weeks ago I pulled some plants out of my pond to put in a different tank, and a few days later I saw what looked like white cat hair floating in the tank. Then I realized the "cat hair" was wiggling. The next morning, I...

Yeah the "snail farm" is a 2.5g I've had lying around for over a decade. It's been acting as a holding tank for plants that I didn't have room for in my tanks. Now it's full of snails, and hopefully more snails breed in there... quickly.

I got a Pea Puffer last week and he's acclimating well to his new home. My only problem is that he's a VERY picky eater. In the store, they said they had fed them with Vibra Bites, and suggested that and some ramshorn snails as a treat. So I now have a ramshorn farm in another tank, but this...

So I just went to the bedroom to check the tank, and there's new growth since this morning! That little green shoot coming up towards the camera is new! Okay, I feel better now about not screwing it up.

I have a Cryptocoryne Undulata that has gotten HUGE since I put it in my 29g a few months ago. I'm setting up a new nano tank and wanted to put some of it in there. I know that you're supposed to pull up a runner that's not attached to the main root ball, so I started pulling a bit on some of...

Anubias Nana and Java Ferns are almost impossible to screw up. I've had a couple Java ferns sitting in a 2g aquarium in the corner of my kitchen with no light for YEARS and they're still alive. I pulled one out and put it in the tank I set up a few months ago and it was growing happily, until...

Yeah almost certainly the diatom outbreak that almost every new tank gets. It's fine... possibly even considered "good". It's a sign that your tank is getting cycled and is no longer sterile.

As an update on my Petsmart... I went by there today to grab a cheap heater for a quarantine tank. I decided to take a look at the tanks, and... shockingly... everything looked great. It actually looks like everything has been stripped out and removed in the past month or so since I...

I emailed Petsmart corporate to complain about our local store. I went in one day at lunch killing time with a buddy of mine. One of their guppy tanks had 4 dead guppies in it. I told him it's unfortunate, but sometimes things happen and tanks crash. Things can go downhill really fast if you...

Asking everyone to destroy everything they own seems rather extreme.

This was posted on reddit. They're calling for you to destroy the moss balls, destroy any plants in the aquarium, remove the fish, and bleach the tank. That seems a bit extreme. https://www.maine.gov/ifw/news-events/single-release.html?id=4262584...

@Barry Tetra asked the question and his tank looks to be around 20g, so I'm basing my thoughts on that. My contention is that for $100, it's possible to take an existing "low tech" planted tank and supplement the lights, supplement the CO2, and start adding ferts... and make it a "high tech"...

I still don't see how any of that differs dramatically from the low budget system I'm talking about. My tank is a 29g "All Glass Aquarium" framed tank, so it's not as fancy as his.... but I'm using Fluval Stratum plant substrate, I've got a DIY CO2 injector, I've got a Fluval Plant 3.0 light...