Not sure how long it's been since I've been around here..., just a few months I suppose. I am sure my threads are somewhere around here, but I'll just post the update here :]
The 40 gallon:
As usual I definitely have far more fish than I probably should in there (but I reduced the amount of fish in the 36 gallon!). I still have the Silver Tip Tetras, Panda Cories, Kuhli Loaches, Yoyo Loach, Von Rios, Rummy Nose Tetras and I recently added the Cardinal Tetras.
As for the Cardinals I believe 2 or 3 of them have ich, I think it's ich. It's the typical white spots, it hasn't gotten worse and they have had it since I went on hiatus from the forum. Nobody else has caught it in the 36 where they originally were or in the 40 where they are now. All I know is that I can actually see them and I was really tempted to just get rid of them.
Besides the Cardinals the tank is doing amazing, plants are doing pretty decent, still waiting for them to fully get going. I don't think the tall stick like plants I bought will survive since when I came home after buying them found that the lady at broken all the stems, I attempted to just fix them up and plant them. They are still alive which is good, just not sure how long it will last. The log still turns the water brown as you can see, I actually did a water change a bit ago so it isn't as brown as it gets, I've pretty much begun to embrace the tannins.
The 36 gallon:
There is seriously ALWAYS something going on with this tank. Everything was fine and dandy, had fed the fish, watched them then went down into the garage after turning the fish light out. Seriously everything was FINE crystal clear water, just beautiful. Then I come back up and am standing in the kitchen and feel like something is wrong, I'm looking around then look at the tank and it looks cloudy. So I turn the light on and I see all of my shrimp at the top gasping for air then all the Cardinals (when they were in there) gasping for air in the back and lifelessly swimming. The fake Julii Cories didn't seem to be affected nor did Betta Man. So I took this as an opportunity to finally catch the Cardinals, moved them, saved everything else, did a water change and now it is just the 4 Juliis in that tank because I can't catch them, my shrimp, dwarf frogs, and Betta Man. To this day I have no idea what went wrong. Oh and I had tested the water during this and nothing was out of whack. I'm thinking maybe the CO2 or filter back-fired and shot garbage into the tank? No idea.
But after all that and minus the bit of ich everything is fine and doing well. And my Betta is obviously spoiled rotten, it's funny to watch him enjoy all 36 gallons to himself.
Now here are some photos:
Other tank:
The 40 gallon:
As usual I definitely have far more fish than I probably should in there (but I reduced the amount of fish in the 36 gallon!). I still have the Silver Tip Tetras, Panda Cories, Kuhli Loaches, Yoyo Loach, Von Rios, Rummy Nose Tetras and I recently added the Cardinal Tetras.
As for the Cardinals I believe 2 or 3 of them have ich, I think it's ich. It's the typical white spots, it hasn't gotten worse and they have had it since I went on hiatus from the forum. Nobody else has caught it in the 36 where they originally were or in the 40 where they are now. All I know is that I can actually see them and I was really tempted to just get rid of them.
Besides the Cardinals the tank is doing amazing, plants are doing pretty decent, still waiting for them to fully get going. I don't think the tall stick like plants I bought will survive since when I came home after buying them found that the lady at broken all the stems, I attempted to just fix them up and plant them. They are still alive which is good, just not sure how long it will last. The log still turns the water brown as you can see, I actually did a water change a bit ago so it isn't as brown as it gets, I've pretty much begun to embrace the tannins.
The 36 gallon:
There is seriously ALWAYS something going on with this tank. Everything was fine and dandy, had fed the fish, watched them then went down into the garage after turning the fish light out. Seriously everything was FINE crystal clear water, just beautiful. Then I come back up and am standing in the kitchen and feel like something is wrong, I'm looking around then look at the tank and it looks cloudy. So I turn the light on and I see all of my shrimp at the top gasping for air then all the Cardinals (when they were in there) gasping for air in the back and lifelessly swimming. The fake Julii Cories didn't seem to be affected nor did Betta Man. So I took this as an opportunity to finally catch the Cardinals, moved them, saved everything else, did a water change and now it is just the 4 Juliis in that tank because I can't catch them, my shrimp, dwarf frogs, and Betta Man. To this day I have no idea what went wrong. Oh and I had tested the water during this and nothing was out of whack. I'm thinking maybe the CO2 or filter back-fired and shot garbage into the tank? No idea.
But after all that and minus the bit of ich everything is fine and doing well. And my Betta is obviously spoiled rotten, it's funny to watch him enjoy all 36 gallons to himself.
Now here are some photos:
Other tank:
Missed you lots around here, seems a few regulars haven't been posting much recently (myself included for the most part). Why did you disappear?
