I had a lot of small thoughts and questions but I didn't really want to start a thread for each one, so here goes...
I had two loaches, and one died. I now have one left, and I know that loaches are fish that need other loach friends. I still one have one because a) the lfs hasn't got any new loaches, and b) I'm a little afraid to get one after researching loaches and diseases a little more.
Despite all that, I feel like my loach still has a friend:
He is constantly hanging out with my whiptail, and its pretty much the coolest thing I've ever seen. Humans could learn a lesson from this very open-minded fish.
I recently built a DIY wet dry filter out of a rubbermaid box and I have it running off a powerhead. I was looking at some stuff on aqadvisor the other day, and I realized I have no idea how to input a DIY project into that site
Also, because my wet-dry box is more horizontal than it is vertical, I'm having a lot of evaporation. Is there any easy way to reduce this? I'm losing like an inch of water a week, which, if my math is right, is somewhere around 4 gallons of water. My math is probably wrong.
In my fry grow out tank I've realized that over 90% of my fry (guppies and platies) are females. I know that all aligator eggs are born with no sex, then the temperature of the eggs during incubation determines the sex before the egg hatches. Is something similar going on with my fish? Does temperature effect gender?
I'm thinking about maybe someday upgrading from my 40 gallon to a 65 gallon. The tank has the same footprint, its just a little taller. Do you think the stand I built would hold it? Is there really a difference in what fish you can keep in a 40 breeder versus a 65?
Dark window tint works great if you want an easy way to "paint" the back of your tank black. They sell DIY peel and stick kits for like 10 dollars, and you can even save more money by mixing a drop of baby shampoo into a squirt bottle instead of buying their Application Fluid.
Yeah, that's it for now. I guess feel free to add to this thread with anything else that crosses your mind?
I had two loaches, and one died. I now have one left, and I know that loaches are fish that need other loach friends. I still one have one because a) the lfs hasn't got any new loaches, and b) I'm a little afraid to get one after researching loaches and diseases a little more.
Despite all that, I feel like my loach still has a friend:
He is constantly hanging out with my whiptail, and its pretty much the coolest thing I've ever seen. Humans could learn a lesson from this very open-minded fish.
I recently built a DIY wet dry filter out of a rubbermaid box and I have it running off a powerhead. I was looking at some stuff on aqadvisor the other day, and I realized I have no idea how to input a DIY project into that site
Also, because my wet-dry box is more horizontal than it is vertical, I'm having a lot of evaporation. Is there any easy way to reduce this? I'm losing like an inch of water a week, which, if my math is right, is somewhere around 4 gallons of water. My math is probably wrong.
In my fry grow out tank I've realized that over 90% of my fry (guppies and platies) are females. I know that all aligator eggs are born with no sex, then the temperature of the eggs during incubation determines the sex before the egg hatches. Is something similar going on with my fish? Does temperature effect gender?
I'm thinking about maybe someday upgrading from my 40 gallon to a 65 gallon. The tank has the same footprint, its just a little taller. Do you think the stand I built would hold it? Is there really a difference in what fish you can keep in a 40 breeder versus a 65?
Dark window tint works great if you want an easy way to "paint" the back of your tank black. They sell DIY peel and stick kits for like 10 dollars, and you can even save more money by mixing a drop of baby shampoo into a squirt bottle instead of buying their Application Fluid.
Yeah, that's it for now. I guess feel free to add to this thread with anything else that crosses your mind?
