Those are your measurements right - you did it yourself? Did you buy it use and someone tell you it was 40g? What we both did wrong the first time was figure the volume of the Styrofoam and the volume of the rest of the tank. We needed to add it together. I finally drew a picture so I could visualize what went wrong! lol
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You can try and make a fish trap out of an old soda bottle. I haven't tried it but I've heard good things about it.
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the 40 gal breeder is more like around 45 gals in reality. idk why they keep calling it 40 gal ._.
I have had great success in catching skittish and very quick fish, by catching them with a net at night. after a few hours of darkness in the tank room, prepare your net, quickly turn on the light in the room (not the tank) and start netting out your desired fish(you'd have to find them quick while they're still dazed though)
I have had great success in catching skittish and very quick fish, by catching them with a net at night. after a few hours of darkness in the tank room, prepare your net, quickly turn on the light in the room (not the tank) and start netting out your desired fish(you'd have to find them quick while they're still dazed though)
I've used the dark-then-light stunner technique to get my pleco once. I usually just leave one net in the tank, then try to scare whatever fish I'm after into the net. It usually works okay, but it works great in comparison to the time a friend of mine and I had to trick his fish into swimming into ziplock bags...
Well that's no good!
Random announcement! I got Amun moved into his 10gal and now I'm working on Jasper's 9gal. Only problem is that I don't know what substrate to use...I can pirate the black gravel/red Flourite out of the 18gal (replace it with the PFS in the 5gal bowfront) or go through the arduous task of cleaning some play sand.
Random announcement! I got Amun moved into his 10gal and now I'm working on Jasper's 9gal. Only problem is that I don't know what substrate to use...I can pirate the black gravel/red Flourite out of the 18gal (replace it with the PFS in the 5gal bowfront) or go through the arduous task of cleaning some play sand.
@ aakaakaak-Rinse the heck out of it. That's just about the only advice there is. Basically, stick it in a bucket and stick a hose in the bucket. Turn the hose on full blast and sit there stirring the sand and dumping some of the water until the water runs clear. Takes for freakin' ever!! I will never use play sand again because of what a PAIN it is to clean.
@ freash_water_fish-Did you get three angels in the hopes that two would pair off and then the third would be returned to the LFS? Because, honestly, if you're thinking of keeping the third angel if two pair off, you're going to need another tank or you'll have World War III. Breeding angels are notoriously aggressive, ESPECIALLY with an "intruder" of their own species.
Two more random announcements from me...
1) I got Jasper's tank done! Woot! Decided to go with the black gravel/red Flourite from the 18gal.
2) I'm glad I'm on glorified well water because I keep forgetting to add water conditioner to the tanks as I set them up!
@ freash_water_fish-Did you get three angels in the hopes that two would pair off and then the third would be returned to the LFS? Because, honestly, if you're thinking of keeping the third angel if two pair off, you're going to need another tank or you'll have World War III. Breeding angels are notoriously aggressive, ESPECIALLY with an "intruder" of their own species.
Two more random announcements from me...
1) I got Jasper's tank done! Woot! Decided to go with the black gravel/red Flourite from the 18gal.
2) I'm glad I'm on glorified well water because I keep forgetting to add water conditioner to the tanks as I set them up!