Spent my day in a mad rush, finished work to come home and found the strangest thing... my dwarf gourami had been biting my angelfish's eye and it was bleeding so set up a hospital tank and moved him to be treated and recover
Check the water parameters. Sometimes an issue.
Sometimes a mean fish. I just had a similar situation, it was a male Swordtail biting the eye of my Angel. Then started after my Gourami, both fish MUCH larger then he.
Finally got the CO2 system up and running. Have a Saga inline diffuser. Milwaukee regulator. 5lb bottle. Injecting right after the return pump @ 1bubble/sec to start. Will check the drop checker in a few hours to see how things are going.
NICE!!!
Tried to put a very large piece of driftwood in my new 60G. Wow is it bouyant. I think I would need a cinder block to sink it now. Forced it under water and hoping it soaks up some water soon. A lot of water.
I have 5 recently purchased new driftwood floating for over a month now still bouncy like a buoy!
Watching the neons shoal. Shrimp are still eating...
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Pretty!
I would say easy. I wish I had another
Check the edges of the plant, they split off and make new ones and can find them at the base sometimes.
Rabbits love lotuses. Be ware.
The spouse brought home something shiny new made for the CO2 system. Very excited. He asked how the fish would react to him drilling the tank stand. I suggested that we partially drain the tank, move it, and then he can take the stand elsewhere to work on it. He asked if that would be stressful for the fish.
I'm sure drilling angle iron would be very relaxing.
Yes, the fish would love that. ROFL!!!
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Fed Tubifex and Plankton.
20% pwc on SW nano. Saw at least 7 Dwarf Brittle Stars grabbing for the foods. My Stylophora frag is bleaching in spots. Was warned about that from SniperHank.
Nice thing is the 12G SW fishless cycling tank is getting lighter color Nitrites test every few days, so it is getting closer, probably another week and we'll be in business. Fingers crossed, lol.
~38G pwc on the 46G tank. Had a touch of ammonia maybe .05-.10 and a little nitrate, probably 30-40, (0 Nitrite) have a bunch of fish in there because of the Platys. Cleaned out the AC 110 too. Bunch of Platy will hopefully go to the pond.
Was trying to save a gallon pitcher of seeded media but ran out of air bubblers to keep it circulating and after 2 days was a lot of die off and it was stinky!!! Dumped water and added some water from cleaning out the AC110, maybe save enough to keep it able to cycle the QT tank.
1.5G pwc on the Spec V (5G) with the baby Albino bn plecos and the Poppa BN still in the cave. Saw at least one of the tiny babies still zipping around the tank, from the 2 that fell out of the cave when being moved, and he's 2x as big as last week!!! Been keeping the light on it a little bit longer to grow more algae for when they come out of the cave.
The lone Discus seems to have decent color, no black stress bars and I think she ate a little bit.
Tested her water maybe .15 ammonia, 0 Nitrite, and maybe 2 Nitrate Tomorrow pwc on that tank of 75%. She is the one of the pair that would come out and watch me, still coming out from behind her blanket covering and looking at me, a little swimming around rather than sitting in the corner, and that seems good.
Adding some Prime just to make sure the water stays good til morning after feeding cubes of both foods in an attempt to entice eating.
Maybe going to move the Angels from the 72G and switch the Discus back to the big tank which is where I would like her to be, sometime this week, need to redecorate the tank a little to make more room for swimming. Maybe will buy a moderate size companion for her, or a number of smaller ones, still trying to get best consensus for the decision. The stress from this fish is making me old faster than I'd like!!!