One of my favorite parts of Sunday is meal prepping the weekly gel foods for my tanks and look at how cute this mold is! I've only just started using a cute mold versus slicing up a plain brick of gel food, and it's really brightened up the prepping process. One fish is enough to feed all of my tanks for the day (210g, 125g, 10g)
Anyone else have a favorite ritual for their tanks?
Hi friends!
I am split between the ADF and the ACF. This will be a planted, 10 gallon, species only tank, and I will ensure the substrate is appropriately fine enough to not cause impaction.
Which one of these is more active and entertaining to you? I am leaning more towards a solo, male ACF (xenopus sells sexed frogs!) because I like their size and activity level, and the long lifespan as well, but I'm open to either!
Hi friends! I have wanted a pet frog for ages! They are undeniably so cute! My dream species is the marvelous WTF, but I am too fearful and intimidated I may not be able to meet their care requirements for some reason! They seem so much more fragile than my current critters! I also like the tomato frog and the pacman frog, but I am looking for something more active.
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I am experienced in aquarium keeping, and that's my comfort zone LOL! So, in come the aquatic frogs!
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I am split between the ADF and the ACF. This will be a planted, species only tank, and I will ensure the substrate is appropriately fine enough to not cause impaction.
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Which one of these is more active and entertaining to you? I am leaning more towards a solo ACF because I like their size and activity level, and the long lifespan as well, but I'm open to either!
Hi friends!
My powder isopod colony in this enclosure has definitely crashed. I can still see my other cuc still active, like my springtails and the few darkling beetles from escaped superworms, but nary a powder isopod.
I am clearly struggling keeping my isopods happy in this setup, I have a little area under the cork bark at front where I make sure they have extra food and calcium, in addition to watering the moss around the waterbowl for their humid gradient. I have leaf litter, botanicals, plants, and lots of hiding spots. What went wrong?? Any advice on how you keep your isopods happy in the bioactive setups? Thanks!
Hi friends! I posted earlier about my fish showing lethargy with no obvious issues (ie. Dropsy, injury, burns, gasping, flashing, external parasites, etc) and now I'm going to go through the generic catch alls for potential issues!
Like bloating! She doesn't have raised scales, but before I suspect anything internal, let's address without meds...
What worked for you to treat bloating when a Goldie doesn't have a high appetite? She refused frozen brine shrimp, and that's one of her favorite things. I'm thinking Epsom salt baths, but any suggestions? What worked for you??
ETA: image is NOT NSFW, that was automatically added
Hey friends!
My favorite fantail goldfish is seemingly under the weather. She is usually very active and engaged, but lately, she has just been a bit listless in a tank corner, and not eating very much. I'm not sure what the matter is. Her body condition looks great - no redness, fins tattered, dropsy, and all the other goldies in the tank are very active as usual!
Tank size: 210 gallons (72x24x29 inches) this setup is around 2 years old
Filtration: 2 FX6 filters + 4 XL sponge filters
Stocking: 12 fancy goldfish (3 small ranchu, 2 medium oranda and ryukin, 7 large fantails, veiltails, and ryukin)
Water changes: 50% 1-2x a week
Parameters: temperature is 73 degrees F, pH is neutral-slightly alkaline, 0 ppm ammonia, 0 ppm nitrites, 20 ppm nitrates
Feeding schedule: 1 to 2x a day, fast on Wednesdays, they're fed a rotation of sinking pellets (hikari, kenta, mizuho, fluval, NLS), repashy gel, and hikari frozen.
No signs of external parasites, no flashing behavior, she is not having buoyancy issues, and is approximately 4-5 years old
What could be the matter?? She's my favorite, I'm very worried...