46 Gallon Bowfront

[unwritten law]

Thanks guys. The keyholes are pretty great and have some nice gold and blue and green colors, especially the male... They laid eggs in the tank twice (once getting to free swimming) before I added the gourami and shark.. I doubt they will be successful now. In the pic with the sag and the two keyholes, the smaller female on the right has some white scraps on her scales... does it look like she just scrapped something or is it worse?

Im gonna get a pressurized CO2 system up and going off of this idea: Pressurized CO2 System what do you guys think about it? Once that gets going I'm gonna add some anacharis and try to grow some ludwigia repens/or/palustris and bacopa carolina. Its gonna be pretty full but I like that look, especially if the sword starts to grow.

 

[PerenGee]

It's filled in quite nicely! Very cool!

 

[teevee]

WOW!!!! this is sooo beautiful! good job!!!

 

[unwritten law]

keyholes laid eggs this evening. I'm going home for the weekend but my room mate is gonna keep an eye on the tank. So far they are doing a good job at keeping the RTS and gourami away... they are kinda hesitant of what to do with the pleco tho cause the pleco usually sneak attacks them all the time and they are a bit afraid of her.

Also I bought some more plants, ludwigia for the 46, when we decided to set up a 10 gallon with spare parts. Took 40 bucks fr a tank, hood, light, and sand, we had the rest. Ordering Dwarf puffers through a store and hopefully they can get them monday with the normal shipment. We can get free snails from petco and I think frozen food would work fine for the rest of the time. Might throw some otos in there with the DP considering how well the three we just got for the 16 gallon work out.

Good tank day today... besides the sudden onslaught of MTS.

 

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The other day I burned my arm with oil making fried chicken, which turned out amazing. Due to the new eggs and since im going home tonight I did a water change and a bit of rescape cause I didn't like my foreground, still needs work. Why I was just burying roots my tiger barbs actually swam up to my semi-motionless arm and started nipping at my burn mark. It's still a little bit of a blister and it didn't hurt at all but was hilarious. I realized it can't be the best for me or the fish so I made sure they stopped for the rest of the rescape but for 3 or 4 nips it was the funniest thing they have ever done.

 

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Got back after the weekend. The BN pleco has burrowed under my wood to eat all the eggs. Also in the 16 gallon the betta has eaten 2 of the 3 otos. Dwarf puffers weren't available for the 10 gallon so I'm gonna have to wait and try to order them from someone else later.

 

[emmanuelchavez]

Oh snap! Sorry to hear. I'm afraid of leaving for 6 weeks at a time this summer, because I'm afraid I'll have some kind of malfunction, and my pops won't know what to do.

Are you sure the Betta ate the otos though? Was he an aggro betta? None of my bettas have bothered any of my other fish, unless they were another betta.

 

[unwritten law]

I doubt the rasboras or cories at them. ONe was a skeleton apparantly that must have been striped clean by the cories and the other was a floated with no tail... sounds like the betta.

Heres a video of my tigers attacking my room mates arm just because it is in there... sorry its sideways.

 

[Whiskers]

looks like you got some attack fish lol. protecters of the tank.

 

[unwritten law]

they like that 1/4 end of the tank

 

[Whiskers]

apparently so hahaha. now when your friend took their arm out they said something about the nibbles hurt? is that what was said?

 

[unwritten law]

doesn't really hurt but its like a little pinch and is mostly just odd.

 

[Whiskers]

ok just wondering. my acei will do that to my finger when i feed them and it is kind of trippy to feel them nibble. here goes a odd question if anyone can answer it. do fish reconize you buy nibbling on you? taste, smell or something like that?

 

[zigzag131]

idk but thats kinda cool... when i go to feed my pink kissing gouramis if i have a little food in my fingers when i put it in the water they kiss my fingers its kinda cool lol

 

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Do you guys think I could keep any shrimp in my tank? Right now my stock is listed in my signature. I've seen these bamboo shrimp at Petco all the time and since those are actually filter feeders they would eat all the particles I seem to have floating in my tank. Either those or some cheap RCS from aquabid are my two ideas. What do you guys think?

 

[emmanuelchavez]

If you have plenty of hiding spaces, you can do RCS. You won't have a big population though, the fish will eat the shrimplets. If your keyholes are about the size of my bolivians, they'll even go after adult shrimp. The shrimp in my 100g are always in hiding, I rarely see them come out of their blyxa bush(es).

Bigger shrimp aren't too much of a hassle in tanks with fish though. My amano fish can fend for themselves pretty well, my fish don't bother them.

 

[ishar]

I like the idea of the bamboo shrimp (aka wood shrimp, aka taiwan shrimp, aka flower shrimp lol). They get quite big actually- the biggest freshwater shrimp or something like that??- and you won't need to worry about them getting eaten by your fish. They are pretty cool to see too, IMO

 

[unwritten law]

Yeah. I went to get a python yesterday since I'm moving my tanks downstairs to a different apartment within a week and saw the bamboo shrimp. They have always had them but this time they looked bigger than my tigers. Unfortunately they are pretty expensive, like 10 bucks a piece so I might try one but will probably wait till after the move.

 

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So I moved my tank today and rearrange it a lot. I think it looks pretty cool and I might have pics up in the next few days.

 

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So since it seems that my pleco keeps eating my keyhole eggs... Would it seem smart to move the pleco into the 16 gallon for a while or just set up a fry tank and move the eggs in next to an airstone?