What Did You do With Your Tank Today?

[TXaquaFanatic]

Water change and a vacuum when I get home. speaking of vacuuming. Should I take my fish out of the tank during this process?

 

[Angela1108]

Love it Angela1108


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Thanks! I love this tank! Very happy with the occupants. Now to do some scaping when I have a bit more time!!


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[Angela1108]

Water change and a vacuum when I get home. speaking of vacuuming. Should I take my fish out of the tank during this process?

You can leave them in just be careful as some fish can spook and jump (I have to be careful of my biggest tank - I have a few jumpers )


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[ImACoolguy]

Water change and a vacuum when I get home. speaking of vacuuming. Should I take my fish out of the tank during this process?

Na they are fine. Plenty of us vacuum with fish in


Caleb

 

[Anders247]

Na they are fine. Plenty of us vacuum with fish in


Caleb

Yep. Agreed.

 

[10gal_nano]

Got my order in from reefs2go.


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[TXaquaFanatic]

Cool. Figured since Alvin has usually chilled in the oppisite side of where I am cleaning, that he would be fine. Just wanted to make sure.

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[FishieKeeper429]

So much. Set up a new 2.5g for a male breeder, bought a whisper filter for 1-3 gallons and a mini heater from Aqueon to sustain him and I added 5 ghost shirmp to my new 5g that will be for a new sorority of female Bettas. Need to get a new bulb for the hood tho cause it's at the dark side of my room. I have soooooo many tanks now. It all started with one simple Betta... 2 years of fish keeping will do that to you, I guess.


46g Red tailed shark tank
10g Betta and Ember Tetras
10g Betta breeding tank
5g Female Betta Sorority
5g Male Breeder Betta
5g Crayfish

 

[ImACoolguy]

Probably going to find another 10g or something and go bare bottom for some cultures with dividers. If not I'll use leftover white sand and use MTS for a culture as well.

Puffer still not taking frozen sadly.

Going to use a gate valve prob and some splitters for an air stone in each culture.


Caleb

 

[Angela1108]

http://i.imgur.com/NcRw1q2.png


So I got a slightly better pic of one of the cpd babies. He's be biggest one in the tank please ignore the carrot for the shrimp lol


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[enrgizerbunny]

Water change and a vacuum when I get home. speaking of vacuuming. Should I take my fish out of the tank during this process?

Leave them in, just keep the siphon low to the gravel when changing vacuum locations and it will reduce the chance of a fish getting too curious.

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[TXaquaFanatic]

Leave them in, just keep the siphon low to the gravel when changing vacuum locations and it will reduce the chance of a fish getting too curious.

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Sucking up Alvin would be very bad, as funny as it might be, it would be very bad! Sorry I have a weird sense of humor!

 

[FishieKeeper429]

4 of my 5 shrimp died last night... :/ all the parameters are normal... I don't know what to say. Hopefully when my breeders go in, they won't die too


46g Red tailed shark tank
10g Betta and Ember Tetras
10g Betta breeding tank
5g Female Betta Sorority
5g Male Breeder Betta
5g Crayfish

 

[ImACoolguy]

4 of my 5 shrimp died last night... :/ all the parameters are normal... I don't know what to say. Hopefully when my breeders go in, they won't die too


46g Red tailed shark tank
10g Betta and Ember Tetras
10g Betta breeding tank
5g Female Betta Sorority
5g Male Breeder Betta
5g Crayfish

How long did you acclimate them? Inverts are much more sensitive than fish when being brought into new conditions.


Caleb

 

[FishieKeeper429]

I did a drip acclimation for 30 minutes. Probably should've done it for an hour :/


46g Red tailed shark tank
10g Betta and Ember Tetras
10g Betta breeding tank
5g Female Betta Sorority
5g Male Breeder Betta
5g Crayfish

 

[ImACoolguy]

I did a drip acclimation for 30 minutes. Probably should've done it for an hour :/


46g Red tailed shark tank
10g Betta and Ember Tetras
10g Betta breeding tank
5g Female Betta Sorority
5g Male Breeder Betta
5g Crayfish

When I did my SW cleaner shrimp I dripped for 3.5 hours I would pinpoint it to a short acclimation.


Caleb

 

[FishieKeeper429]

Yeah figured.


46g Red tailed shark tank
10g Betta and Ember Tetras
10g Betta breeding tank
5g Female Betta Sorority
5g Male Breeder Betta
5g Crayfish

 

[Mebbid]

Sucking up Alvin would be very bad, as funny as it might be, it would be very bad! Sorry I have a weird sense of humor!

I wraps a rubber band around a filter bag covering the intake of my siphon. If you give it enough slack the bag will get sucked inside the siphon and collect detritus. 100% fish safe although it does cut down on flow a bit

 

[Angela1108]

I got a couple more pics today of my new guys

http://i.imgur.com/ymfND5r.png
http://i.imgur.com/cBqnECS.png


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[enrgizerbunny]

Did a partial water change on my qt tank and look how my substrate is being changed in the 55!

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