It certainly came at its price... big one was $40, little one was $20... but I do like them. Lots of large openings for my loaches and cories to explore and hide in... it was fun watching them all check it out last night.
Finally giving my 55 the overhaul it deserves
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It certainly came at its price... big one was $40, little one was $20... but I do like them. Lots of large openings for my loaches and cories to explore and hide in... it was fun watching them all check it out last night.
The only changes I am likely to make is perhaps add 1-2 more cories, add a small school of maybe 8-10 cardinals, (so my one lonely little cardinal isn't so lonely anymore) and perhaps another 1-2 of each harlequin, blackskirt, and scissortail. (I stay on top of the water changes, and have a good number of live plants... so though it might be overstocked a little bit, I genuinely believe the fish will be healthy and happy)
I found mine at PetsMart, when I still worked there over a year ago. I actually bought 2 of them... I've had this one since, and the other one mysteriously disappeared. They're kinda fun... they morph between yellow and a very vibrant red depending on their mood. (the shrimp was yellow in the most recent picture because I had moved his house around and taken his favorite spot with a plant) Thank you for the compliment.
Love the tank! is that a xp filter I see
Indeed it is. XP3
I've been trying to figure out a better way to hide the intake tube. I had some fake plants covering it, but I didn't really like the look of it anymore.Tetras, to my best understanding are egg layers. Do the females become more plump as they begin producing viable eggs? I have one blackskirt tetra, of 4, (planning to add 2-3 more) which is not only more square in the belly (when viewed from the side) but is MUCH more plump. (when viewed from the front) Is this fish potentially a female?
I've never kept blackskirts, but based on the way my glowlight tetras (one female) and black neons tetras (two females) look, the one on the left in the center looks like a female to me. My fish, which have spawned in my tank, get that swollen, tight, cylindrical belly when they're making eggs. The week or so before they spawn, they're so full it looks almost painful. Since the females matured, they have always been plumper and fuller bodied than the males, but the difference is really obvious when they are about ready to spawn.
Nice tank! Love that driftwood.
I'm rather excited to see how this turns out... would be awesome to see them spawn.
Another tetra-related question... they prefer the darker water produced by tannic acid being present in it, yes? My tank went from crystal clear to nearly amber overnight, and I had been soaking that driftwood and changing the water daily for 2 weeks... :angryfire:I think that yes, they prefer acidic, dark water, but mine are doing fine without it. It's probably more important for wild-caught fish than farm-raised. The pH in my tank is about 6.9, and the water's clear. I wouldn't mind tannin stained water, but my driftwood never really put any out. I collected mine from a river and it was pretty weathered already. If you don't like the dark water you can run fresh carbon in the filter and I think that'll help. Otherwise, it should stop leaching on its own after a while.
I took a video a couple weeks ago of my glowlights' first (observed) spawning, and posted in this thread.
I took a video a couple weeks ago of my glowlights' first (observed) spawning, and posted in this thread.
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