Rams get their own place!

[sinibotia]

I always liked a pure black background myself, I wouldn't say it hides anything but I haven't found a background that does Female ram looks good to me I like how your plans sound, cant wait to see it come together

 

[nirbhao]

They are Mikrogeophagus....Mini earth eaters...That is how they forage in the wild.. Besides letting some food settle for a short time , I add food into the HOB outflow and it makes it move jut enough sometimes...
MTS can live through them but maybe not the others...They are live bearing snails I believe so maybe the young can run just fast enough!
Egg eaters eat eggs....
My apistos were whipping the assassin snails before I moved them...And ate all the eggs. I moved the fish into the tank without thinking it through...

They don't eat rabbit snails, either. I wonder if it has something to do with the shape of their shells.

What kind of food do you add to the outflow?

I always liked a pure black background myself, I wouldn't say it hides anything but I haven't found a background that does[emoji14]Female ram looks good to me I like how your plans sound, cant wait to see it come together

It's actually a deep blue. With the color of the prefilter and heater, there's no hiding them. I think there are 3D backgrounds that incorporate them, but.... I'm cheap I guess. Fabric remnant was something like $2.50.

I think the bit that I'm struggling with for the centerpiece is scale. What can I put between a tree and amphora that are close to the same size? ?

 

[coralbandit]

I add all food into out flows!
Flake,NLS type pellets ,even the frozen.
It just shoots the food into the water column where the fish can get it more comfortably.
If not in the water with the fish ALL other predation comes from above!
Our fish have not lost every natural instinct just because we have broke them to eat ...I am sure most held out as long as possible...
Few fish naturally feed from the surface and in some it causes physical issue[bloat].
I pre wet my foods in a cup of tank water for decades now since having 'reef ready' tanks with surface overflows! Nothing worse then watching your money go down the drain and then having to clean filter more often for it!

 

[nirbhao]

I add all food into out flows!
Flake,NLS type pellets ,even the frozen.
It just shoots the food into the water column where the fish can get it more comfortably.
If not in the water with the fish ALL other predation comes from above!
Our fish have not lost every natural instinct just because we have broke them to eat ...I am sure most held out as long as possible...
Few fish naturally feed from the surface and in some it causes physical issue[bloat].
I pre wet my foods in a cup of tank water for decades now since having 'reef ready' tanks with surface overflows! Nothing worse then watching your money go down the drain and then having to clean filter more often for it!

I really only do frozen and gel foods because EVERYTHING ELSE HAS GLUTEN.

And, yes, I *hate* removing uneaten food. It's either expensive or stuff I've made.

 

[Brookster123]

Is gluten bad for the rams? Mine inhale earthworm flake, frozen Spirulina Brine and mysis shrimp.

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[nirbhao]

Is gluten bad for the rams? Mine inhale earthworm flake, frozen Spirulina Brine and mysis shrimp.

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I don't think gluten is *bad* for them, but they don't have the enzymes to digest it. It just goes through them.

My daughter and I both have celiac disease (organ failure severe on my part), and so we do our best to just keep gluten out of the house entirely. Obviously we don't eat the fish food, but, since they don't benefit from it, there's no need to risk it.

 

[Autumnsky]

The filler/binders (grains / gluten is in most foods to one degree or another - Just like a dog or cat food. I have food allergies and corn is one of them so I read labels all the time.) Such crazy differences in food quality.

 

[nirbhao]

The filler/binders (grains / gluten is in most foods to one degree or another - Just like a dog or cat food. I have food allergies and corn is one of them so I read labels all the time.) Such crazy differences in food quality.

Corn is a miserable allergy. Do you have to avoid things with high fructose corn syrup as well?

Our current dog was a rescue. He was only a few months old, but had been beaten and starved. We've had him almost two years and he still won't eat when people are standing. I have no idea how people do these things... Anyway, I guess his digestive system's development was messed up, and he gets skin issues if he has food with too many grains. Fortunately there are good commercially available foods for him.

Our pet supply budget is kind of embarrassing.

I'm going to both the fish nerd place and Petco tomorrow. I have $10 rewards cash at Petco and $10 store credit at the fish nerd place. I need plants, possibly a fertilizer, and maybe the other piece of quartz. I have to wait until after school, though, which already has me antsy!

 

[Autumnsky]

Corn is a miserable allergy. Do you have to avoid things with high fructose corn syrup as well?

Our current dog was a rescue. He was only a few months old, but had been beaten and starved. We've had him almost two years and he still won't eat when people are standing. I have no idea how people do these things... Anyway, I guess his digestive system's development was messed up, and he gets skin issues if he has food with too many grains. Fortunately there are good commercially available foods for him.

Our pet supply budget is kind of embarrassing.

I'm going to both the fish nerd place and Petco tomorrow. I have $10 rewards cash at Petco and $10 store credit at the fish nerd place. I need plants, possibly a fertilizer, and maybe the other piece of quartz. I have to wait until after school, though, which already has me antsy!

Yes, over the years the cost for pet foods are pretty high, but due to the high quality of foods we feed, hardly any vet necessary issues.

It's great to get the discount / $$ to spend. One day I had 4 $5. rewards, somehow they had got saved up I guess. That was a sweet day.

Corn proteins, which is bad enough - syrups fine - yummy! hahaha

As for you dear, please be careful and take good care. (- you already know about reading labels )

Your fish eat well!

 

[nirbhao]

Turned on the light this morning and Fast Sparkles flipped the eff out. I felt terrible. I moved it over to the 29 gallon because it's just so bright, and I noticed the guppies were hiding from it. It's got to go.

 

[Barliman]

Turned on the light this morning and Fast Sparkles flipped the eff out. I felt terrible. I moved it over to the 29 gallon because it's just so bright, and I noticed the guppies were hiding from it. It's got to go.

Marineland makes a nice LED that's meant for low-light plants: it might be better for that 29 of yours: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KL8TPC0

 

[nirbhao]

Marineland makes a nice LED that's meant for low-light plants: it might be better for that 29 of yours: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KL8TPC0

Yeah the Current is on this tank now. I have really nice, fancy..... expensive... plants in this tank.

 

[Autumnsky]

Turned on the light this morning and Fast Sparkles flipped the eff out. I felt terrible. I moved it over to the 29 gallon because it's just so bright, and I noticed the guppies were hiding from it. It's got to go.

I turn on the main room light now to "wake up" the fish when I get up and then before I leave turn on their lights and the main light off again. The room they are in is pretty dark and the 72G is in a very dark corner. Same with the SW nano.

 

[nirbhao]

The decorative garnet "sand" came today.

I can see three pockets of ramshorn eggs, which I'm excited about. I was pretty sure I killed all of my snails yesterday, and at least two of those pockets weren't there then.

I'm very much looking forward to the rams having their favorite food, and hopefully I'll make the fish nerd place puffers very happy as well.

Stubby is chasing Fast Sparkles around a bit more than usual. Spawning maybe?

I was thinking about doing some rearranging to help with scale. I would move the amphora to the left and put the larger Asian water ferns and green ozelot near it. I would move the tree to the right and put the echinodorus and smaller Asian water ferns around that. Force perspective. Mulling it.

 

[Autumnsky]

Changing things around is the fun part!!

 

[nirbhao]

Changing things around is the fun part!!

Fast Sparkles is fed up with me. I'm not touching that amphora for a bit.

 

[nirbhao]

The Harlequins are schooling much better with the rams.

Of the three remaining ramshorn snails, two more died. One was stuck between the heater and the glass. I'm afraid to test for ammonia, because that had to just be pouring out toxins.

The snails laid boatloads of eggs before they passed, though. Hopefully they survive better.

 

[Autumnsky]

That's too bad about the deaths.

Have you had any snails survive in the tank, for any period of time? Is it a used tank, have you ever used any medication with copper in it? Methylene Blue, potassium permanganate, malachite green, formalin, MetroPlex, others...

 

[Barliman]

I turn on the main room light now to "wake up" the fish when I get up and then before I leave turn on their lights and the main light off again. The room they are in is pretty dark and the 72G is in a very dark corner. Same with the SW nano.

I do the same thing: my tanks are in my living room, and I turn on the lights further from them first for a while to give them a wake-up period. Same with the evening, I'll turn out the lights nearest them to give them "evening."

 

[nirbhao]

The Harlequins are very fast!