Arnie's 100L Planted Tank

[ArnieStinger]

The puffers are semi-brackish fish and your very hard water is probably helping them survive without the salt. The betta splendens is definitely not a brackish fish but mine have shown a huge ability to adapt to differing tap water conditions. As long as you have only one tank, fish that different in their needs will be asked to adapt quite a bit.

You're right. I think the fact that the betta is breed from london and it's last owner was 3 or 4 miles away would mean that the water would still be very hard, the betta and the puffers are probably well adapted by now, I think they are at least a couple of months old, if not 7+? Long enough to adapt or perish I would think.

Im 100% sure the water conditions are better than their last tank, the last owner did not use salt, a filter, clean the gravel or change the water often.

 

[Assaye]

The male betta looks bloated - I'd starve him for a couple of days and then start feeding a tiny amount (the size of his eye) once a day.

Are the puffers still in there with him?

 

[ArnieStinger]

The male betta looks bloated - I'd starve him for a couple of days and then start feeding a tiny amount (the size of his eye) once a day.

Are the puffers still in there with him?

How can you tell he looks bloated?



Puffers are in another tank

 

[Assaye]

The male betta looks bloated - I'd starve him for a couple of days and then start feeding a tiny amount (the size of his eye) once a day.

Are the puffers still in there with him?

How can you tell he looks bloated?



Puffers are in another tank

His belly (just behind his head, above his ventral fins) is very rounded. If you starve him for a few days, you should see this go down.

 

[ArnieStinger]

The male betta looks bloated - I'd starve him for a couple of days and then start feeding a tiny amount (the size of his eye) once a day.

Are the puffers still in there with him?

How can you tell he looks bloated?



Puffers are in another tank

His belly (just behind his head, above his ventral fins) is very rounded. If you starve him for a few days, you should see this go down.

I think I had just fed him before I took the pictures, his belly gets really big when he see's food, same with the puffers


Puffers have gone to my LFS who will look after em he should sell them in about 1 week or so, he fed them cockless and they went nuts.

 

[Assaye]

The male betta looks bloated - I'd starve him for a couple of days and then start feeding a tiny amount (the size of his eye) once a day.

Are the puffers still in there with him?

How can you tell he looks bloated?



Puffers are in another tank

His belly (just behind his head, above his ventral fins) is very rounded. If you starve him for a few days, you should see this go down.

I think I had just fed him before I took the pictures, his belly gets really big when he see's food, same with the puffers


Puffers have gone to my LFS who will look after em he should sell them in about 1 week or so, he fed them cockless and they went nuts.

Feed a bit less then getting bloated is not at all good for them. They need about as much as the size of their eye in one sitting so I feed two betta pellets twice a day.

 

[ArnieStinger]

The male betta looks bloated - I'd starve him for a couple of days and then start feeding a tiny amount (the size of his eye) once a day.

Are the puffers still in there with him?

How can you tell he looks bloated?



Puffers are in another tank

His belly (just behind his head, above his ventral fins) is very rounded. If you starve him for a few days, you should see this go down.

I think I had just fed him before I took the pictures, his belly gets really big when he see's food, same with the puffers


Puffers have gone to my LFS who will look after em he should sell them in about 1 week or so, he fed them cockless and they went nuts.

Feed a bit less then getting bloated is not at all good for them. They need about as much as the size of their eye in one sitting so I feed two betta pellets twice a day.

I need to find him pellets, ive been feeding him tetramin, my LFS doesn't have betta pellets.

I asked if they had planted substrate and he pointed me to coloured cheapo gravel, i asked again, he said that plants only need gravel so that their roots can grow, and that his gravel was fine for it lol...

ill upload some pics of mr betta today, his fins have been making progress

 

[ArnieStinger]

Just took these pics a few moments ago.

my male has grown rapid grown all round, pics will speak for themselves.

Added a nice chunky indian almond leaf that is tanning the water very nicely.

Ive got a emerald female halfmoon I bought, its 2.5 months old, about 2.5cm in length, arrived as a pale pink colour and has changed colour multiple times since yesterday.

I need to workout what kind of algea/mould/fungus is in my tank, I have a small amount of this time of hair algea thats on my moss, and ive got black spots in my filter tubing, which is quite weird as its only in my filter tubing.

Note; I have used NO Medicine to date

2-3 weeks ago

Enjoy the pics..

my new female

 

[ArnieStinger]

Tank development

day 1

last week

today

 

[ArnieStinger]

I've got some kind of oily substance on the surface of the tank water, it was there before the water change and developed again after the water change, I think its due to the heavy wooden hood and humidity.

 

[Vidster]

I had the same thing on top of my water. I found adding a 6" air tube quickly dispersed it.

 

[Timmy_Bee]

are you feeding high-protien foods? the oil can be a side-effect of this

 

[ArnieStinger]

Im feeding bloodworms once a week (good portion)

tetramin flake every day.

I moved my spray bar so that it was pushing water and the substance got dissolved in the stream and created thousands of tiny bubbles, I scooped them out and everything is looking fine for now.

 

[ArnieStinger]

Pictures taken on 4th January 2011

After a slow arctic winter, im getting into gear and going to work on this tank alot, just added some more plants, did a major clean up and water change and trimmed the mopani wood hatched java fern up.

next introduction will be amazon frogbits for the surface

I originally saw 1 of these types of snails, now there is about 2 of this size and a saw a baby one
Also have an assassin snail small baby

What type of snall is this? they do a good job or cleaning up algea on my suckers for spray bars

Here he is, hiding as usual when in front of the camera

together ( No shes actually angry and bit him the other day )

 

[ian]

moved for you...

Can i just point out before i give the thread a good read, the plants at the back of your set up appears to be non aquatic. I could be wrong as there seems to be a spider plant relative that looks like Echinodorus.

Welcome to the planted side.

you may want to edit the title as the journal could get moved back into the freshwater section.