Describe your schedule

[FancyGuppyGuy]

For starters heres my feeing schedule.

Feeding schedule for fish 2 months and older. ( 3-4 feedings daily )


Mon: Vita-Pro Flake, Spirulina Flake, Freeze Dried Brine Shrimp.

Tues: Daily Flake Mix, Brine Shrimp Flake, Freeze Dried Tubifex Worms.

Wed: Brine Shrimp Plus Flake, Earth Worm Flake, Freeze Dried Beef Heart.

Thurs: Vita-Pro Flake, Spirulina Flake, Freeze Dried Brine Shrimp.

Fri: Daily Flake Mix, Brine Shrimp Flake, Freeze Dried Blood Worms.

Sat: Brine Shrimp Plus Flake, Spirulina Flake, Freeze Dried Beef Heart.

Sun: Daily Flake Mix, Brine Shrimp Flake, Earth Worm Flake, (Treat)


Treats: Powdered Earth Worms, Crushed Salmon Roe, Crushed Krill, Live Baby Brine Shrimp, Bloods Worms.

Live Baby brine shrimp a couple times a week.





Feeding schedule for fish 2 weeks and older. ( 4-6 feedings daily )


Mon - Sun: Baby Brine Shrimp, Mike Reeds Fry Food, Crushed Daily Mix Flake.

Mon, Wed, Fri: Spirulina Powder.

Tues, Sun: Crushed Freeze Dried Beef Heart.

Thurs, Sat: Freeze Dried Tubifex Worms.


Note: If Live Baby Shrimp cannot be fed then replace with Mike Reeds Fry Food/Decapped Brine Shrimp Eggs.





Feeding schedule for New FRY. ( 6-8 feedings daily )


Mon - Sun: Baby Brine Shrimp, Hikari First Bites, Azoo Artificial Artemia, Spirulina Powder.

Mon, Wed, Sat: Finely Crushed Freeze Dried Beef Heart.

Tues, Fri, Sun: Finely Crushed Daily Mix Flake.


Note: If Live Baby Shrimp cannot be fed then replace with Azoo Artificial Artemia/Decapped Brine Shrimp Eggs.

[FancyGuppyGuy]

tanks and water changes,

All water gets 1 drop of tap water conditioner per 2 quarts and 1/4 teaspoon aquarium salt. Temperature is measured with a digital thermometer to within .5 degrees.

no plants

29 gallon w/flourescent hood
200W heater
[acronym:1058f5a039="Under Gravel Filter"]UGF[/acronym:1058f5a039] w/ Dual Powerheads 340 [acronym:1058f5a039="Gallons per hour"]GPH[/acronym:1058f5a039]
[acronym:1058f5a039="Hang On Back"]HOB[/acronym:1058f5a039] filter with Sponge on the intake 180 [acronym:1058f5a039="Gallons per hour"]GPH[/acronym:1058f5a039]
Maintenance weekly vaccum and water change
4 females guppies 2 1/2 - 3 months old.
3 Stud males 2 1/2 months old
5 female fry 4 weeks old
1 small pleco
1 flying fox

10 gallon w/flourescent hood
100W heater
[acronym:1058f5a039="Under Gravel Filter"]UGF[/acronym:1058f5a039] w/ Power Head 170 [acronym:1058f5a039="Gallons per hour"]GPH[/acronym:1058f5a039]
[acronym:1058f5a039="Hang On Back"]HOB[/acronym:1058f5a039] filter w/ Sponge on the intake 140 [acronym:1058f5a039="Gallons per hour"]GPH[/acronym:1058f5a039]
Maintenance weekly water change and vaccum
3 female Guppies
1 male Guppy
1 rubbernose pleco

10 gallon w/flourescent hood
50 W heater
[acronym:1058f5a039="Hang On Back"]HOB[/acronym:1058f5a039] filter with Sponge on the intake 140 [acronym:1058f5a039="Gallons per hour"]GPH[/acronym:1058f5a039]
Maintenance twice weekly water change and vaccum
15 guppies 2 1/2- 3 1/2 months old
40+ 1-2 week old fry in breeding net
8 male fry 4 weeks old
1 cory cat

2 1/2 gallon w/ flourescent hood
25W heater
[acronym:1058f5a039="Under Gravel Filter"]UGF[/acronym:1058f5a039] air driven 16-20 [acronym:1058f5a039="Gallons per hour"]GPH[/acronym:1058f5a039]
[acronym:1058f5a039="Hang On Back"]HOB[/acronym:1058f5a039] Azoo palm filter w/ Sponge on the intake 16 [acronym:1058f5a039="Gallons per hour"]GPH[/acronym:1058f5a039]
maintenance twice weekly water change and vaccum
1 female pregnant 3 1/2 months old

2 1/2 gallon w/ flourescent hood
25W heater
[acronym:1058f5a039="Under Gravel Filter"]UGF[/acronym:1058f5a039] air driven 16-20 [acronym:1058f5a039="Gallons per hour"]GPH[/acronym:1058f5a039]
[acronym:1058f5a039="Hang On Back"]HOB[/acronym:1058f5a039] Azoo palm filter w/ Sponge on the intake 16 [acronym:1058f5a039="Gallons per hour"]GPH[/acronym:1058f5a039]
maintenance twice weekly water change and vaccum
1 female pregnant 3 1/2 months old

1.6 gallon
25W heater
[acronym:1058f5a039="Under Gravel Filter"]UGF[/acronym:1058f5a039] air driven 16-20 [acronym:1058f5a039="Gallons per hour"]GPH[/acronym:1058f5a039]
maintenance twice weekly water change and vaccum
1 female pregnant 3 1/2 months old

[BrianNY]

To answer your question Blucat, it's fine to gravel vac weekly. That is assuming your tank is fully cycled and you aren't disturbing the roots of your plants.

Desribe my schedule? I have 13 tanks and ten of them contain discus. Two are heavily planted. I probably spend as much time cleaning sponge filters, sponge prefilters, HOBs, and cannisters as I do on wcs.

All but one planted discus tank are barebottom. I feed 2 or 3 times a day. Tetra bits, frozen blood worms, frozen spinach are the morning feeding. The evening feeding is always live blackworms. I go through 2lbs a month and fly them in from California.

Am I nuts, or what?

[funwiththefish]

Tank: 55 [acronym:df63ae9cb8="Gallon"]gal[/acronym:df63ae9cb8]
Fishies: 1 adult and 1 juvenile severum, 1 rusty cichlid, 1 young catfish
Plants: Mostly plastic, but some live: 2 medium swords, small bunch of microswords, a few bits of duckweed
Food: Twice daily, pellets/flakes/bloodworms ** I've never heard anything good about Tubifex worms. Apparently they're scraped from some muddy riverbank and are teeming with diseases. Just what I've heard. That's why I stay away from them.
Waterchanges: about 10% weekly. My tank is just newly established, so I take out a bit more depending on my parameters.

Q: I noticed that most only gravel vacs once a month. Is it bad to do gravel vacs once a week?

--I do vacuum once a week, just not my whole tank. Usually about a 1/4 of the tank, or whatever I can get vacuumed in the time it takes to get my 10% water out.

[Fluff]

I currently have 11 tanks. But only 7 of those are fw. I do 35-30% waterchanges weekly. I gavel vac about half the tank each time. I do filter maintenance once a month. My tanks are lightly planted so I don't dose anything and the fish get fed once a day with the addition pellets and disks at night for the plecs and cats every other day.

[Mazdaman]

20 [acronym:e205903423="Gallon"]gal[/acronym:e205903423] with plastic plants
[acronym:e205903423="Partial water change"]pwc[/acronym:e205903423] 20% once a week and gravel 1/4 once week.
The plants that are in the section that os being vaced will be pulled from tank and cleaned with tank water and some good ol fashioned elbow grease.
clean filter media and filter once a month or more if needed.
feeding is once a day and is flake, fozen brine shrimp, blood worms and pellets
test for ammonia and nitrite twice a week and [acronym:e205903423="power head or Measure of the concentration of hydrogen ions, depending on context"]ph[/acronym:e205903423] and [acronym:e205903423="General Hardness"]gh[/acronym:e205903423] once a week (just before water change)

[Blucat]

Speaking of cleaning and all that, can magnetic tank scrubbers be used for acrylic/plastic tanks?
Cuz, I will get some plecos and otos in the future, but in the meantime, the algae looks terrible.

[RoK]

I see you guys saying things like "25% once a week, vac once a month". I always do a gravel vac when doing water changes, do you use a gravel vac but just not vacuum the gravel when doing the water changes or what?

[Jchillin]

(see sig for tank specs)

I do 20% [acronym:60274c9367="Partial water change"]PWC[/acronym:60274c9367] once a week (including a light gravel vacuum)
I do a complete maintenance (25%-30% [acronym:60274c9367="Partial water change"]PWC[/acronym:60274c9367]...heavy gravel vac and filter cleaning and media exchange/cleaning) once a month.

Feedings:

Flakes (twice a day for 5 days)
Freeze dried brine shrimp (once out of the remaining 2 days)
Tubifex worms (the remaining day)
Algae wafer (once every other day for Sailfin)

*Note: During the monthly maintenance, may move some tank decorations around and remove any excess algae that Sailfin can't get at.

[Punkymom]

75 gallon:

Occupants - 1 Large Oscar, 1 Jack Dempsey, 1 Pleco

I have been changing 20-25% of the water about every other day give or take a day sometimes in between. I vacuum the gravel (usually 25%) every time I change water. Oh, I should hope there's no live plants in this one

20 Long:

Occupants - 1 Dwarf Gourami, 5 Von Rio Tetras, 4 Cory Cats

Tons of live plants, 2 65 watt bulbs (one of them only runs 6 hours out of 12 that they are on), Red Sea [acronym:7d8defd34c="Carbon dioxide"]CO2[/acronym:7d8defd34c] system with a stronger airhead on it...

This tank is almost a first for me and is still in the testing stages as far as where my chemicals balance...so far this is what I've been doing - 50% change once a week, Add trace elements and all other chemicals except fert. Day 2, add fert. Day 3, add needed nutrients, day 4, add fert, so on a so forth with a topping off about mid week...like I said this one is touch and go...

30 gallon

Occupants - 4 Goldfish (one Red Cap Oranda, one Lion Head, one Black Moor, one Ryukin

I know this is slightly over stocked for a 30, but as soon as I move (sometime this year) these guys are going in my 55 and everything in my 20 is moving over to my 30...I'm changing 40-50% once a week with these guys with a slight gravel vac...there's not much to vacuum right now...haven't had them that long. Plastic plants [acronym:7d8defd34c="By the way"]BTW[/acronym:7d8defd34c]

Oh geez I forgot about feedings...I'll post that tomorrow...I'm really sick and need to get to bed...