Oliver's Recovery

[Morphkid03]

Your fish is very cute. If you want to avoid any further damage I would get a silky plant. Those are much safer for them.

Thanks.
Yeah, in retrospect I should have gotten a silk plant, but I'm working with what I've got right now. I bundled the stems of the plant and melted the sharp edges on them as well, so there should be no way to get any cuts now.

Just picked up a small piece of mopani wood which I am about to work with to get it to leech out as much of it's tannin as I can... I hope the little pleco likes it.

Edited to add: Woo! 100 posts!

how big is your tank? is that a dwarf plec??

plecos get 1ft + i had to get rid of mine in my 55 gallon it was too big and yours dosent look like a 55 gallon...you need alot bigger tank for them...

if you look above, you'll see the information about him, he is a clown pleco (they grow to be about 3-4 inches max). My tank is a 5 gallon, I was given him because a friend was leaving my college and had nowhere for him so I was her only option. He is a year old and is only about 2 inches max. In August I should have a 10 gallon set up in my apartment and he will be moved there. For now he has to stay in the tank I have. Better then him being abandoned... Not to worry, the tank is being cleaned more frequently to deal with the heavy bio load, which is the best I can do for now.

 

[love4aquatic]

Your fish is very cute. If you want to avoid any further damage I would get a silky plant. Those are much safer for them.

Thanks.
Yeah, in retrospect I should have gotten a silk plant, but I'm working with what I've got right now. I bundled the stems of the plant and melted the sharp edges on them as well, so there should be no way to get any cuts now.

Just picked up a small piece of mopani wood which I am about to work with to get it to leech out as much of it's tannin as I can... I hope the little pleco likes it.

Edited to add: Woo! 100 posts!

how big is your tank? is that a dwarf plec??

plecos get 1ft + i had to get rid of mine in my 55 gallon it was too big and yours dosent look like a 55 gallon...you need alot bigger tank for them...

if you look above, you'll see the information about him, he is a clown pleco (they grow to be about 3-4 inches max). My tank is a 5 gallon, I was given him because a friend was leaving my college and had nowhere for him so I was her only option. He is a year old and is only about 2 inches max. In August I should have a 10 gallon set up in my apartment and he will be moved there. For now he has to stay in the tank I have. Better then him being abandoned... Not to worry, the tank is being cleaned more frequently to deal with the heavy bio load, which is the best I can do for now.

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[Totally hooked]

Hi

Your Betta is beautiful he looks almost exactly the same as mine (Homer) doesn't he flare up well!!

 

[Syphoniera]

What a cutie Oliver is - and the others as well!
I guess you don't have enough lighting to put in real plants?
Because they'd help purify the water to the extent of their mass and type.
Even some hardy duckweed, which is a great ammonia sucker, although also a clingy pain you'd likely be wearing after changes every time, or, to avoid that, a strand of floating Pennywort - I have some in a non-Walstad (with mainly low-light plants, for a messy, growing cichlid who's practicing to be an archaeologist when she/he grows up) with roots about 4 inches long.
Never seen them quite that length before.
Looks odd, but it's reassuring because it's after any speck of ammonia it can find - and it certainly wouldn't have roots that length if any ammonia problem existed.
And, because it's floating, it can manage very well without getting all that much light.
You might find something like that a no-care comfort both to you and your fish.
If it starts taking up too much of the surface, you just pinch off and remove the extra - no hassle at all.
Looks rather like chained lilypads from the top - personally, I love the stuff, so thought I'd suggest.

 

[Morphkid03]

What a cutie Oliver is - and the others as well!
I guess you don't have enough lighting to put in real plants?
Because they'd help purify the water to the extent of their mass and type.
Even some hardy duckweed, which is a great ammonia sucker, although also a clingy pain you'd likely be wearing after changes every time, or, to avoid that, a strand of floating Pennywort - I have some in a non-Walstad (with mainly low-light plants, for a messy, growing cichlid who's practicing to be an archaeologist when she/he grows up) with roots about 4 inches long.
Never seen them quite that length before.
Looks odd, but it's reassuring because it's after any speck of ammonia it can find - and it certainly wouldn't have roots that length if any ammonia problem existed.
And, because it's floating, it can manage very well without getting all that much light.
You might find something like that a no-care comfort both to you and your fish.
If it starts taking up too much of the surface, you just pinch off and remove the extra - no hassle at all.
Looks rather like chained lilypads from the top - personally, I love the stuff, so thought I'd suggest.

Hmm, sounds interesting, I'll consider it.

Jusy added the mopani wood after soaking it a few times in hot water last night and boiling it twice today. It really makes the aquarium look nice! Hopefully the pleco enjoys it.

 

[Syphoniera]

Hope we're getting more pic soon so we can see pretty wood, too?
Bet plec LOVES it - apparently many plecs need the lignan in order to digest properly, so lucky little plec to have wandered into your tank!

 

[Morphkid03]

Hope we're getting more pic soon so we can see pretty wood, too?
Bet plec LOVES it - apparently many plecs need the lignan in order to digest properly, so lucky little plec to have wandered into your tank!

Of course!

"Oh, hey."

Threw an air stone in the tank that I had, it's on very low so there is practically no current to bug Oliver. The cories love it and I like to let them play with the bubbles every so often... might keep it in there now, it looks nice.

I love when he looks at me like this. :3

Running from the camera

He'll probably explore the wood tonight, during the daytime hours when the lights are on he usually stays here.

 

[Morphkid03]

Well the pleco seems to love the wood, he's found a little nook in the wood he seems to like to hang on.