Photojournal: Second-hand Fish
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Did I see a puffer in there?
Folks are always v giving me their unwanted fish. I even got a pair of 17 year old elephant noses who lived their whole life in a 30g. Boy were they thrilled to be living the remainder of their lives in a 125g!
Folks are always v giving me their unwanted fish. I even got a pair of 17 year old elephant noses who lived their whole life in a 30g. Boy were they thrilled to be living the remainder of their lives in a 125g!
wow! tank and fish are looking good^_^..first time finding your thread.
and its a three spine stickleback ^_^.
and its a three spine stickleback ^_^.
Finally, a first-hand fish!
Tank looks even better now, I went and got some of that black sand so the sand is a nice charcoal color. The water is clearing up again, and the tank cycling. I need to go get some of that free granite to weigh down my logs. And I need plants. I can't bring myself to put the fake ones in.
Here are pictures of my new betta, who will probably go into the hex once the 20g is cycled for my motley crew. The pictures aren't great because all I have at the moment is my phone. It was also dark.
I love the black edges on his fins.
This is the best representation of his body color, but still not totally accurate. He's a copper, and looks just like a dirty penny.
Tank looks even better now, I went and got some of that black sand so the sand is a nice charcoal color. The water is clearing up again, and the tank cycling. I need to go get some of that free granite to weigh down my logs. And I need plants. I can't bring myself to put the fake ones in.
Here are pictures of my new betta, who will probably go into the hex once the 20g is cycled for my motley crew. The pictures aren't great because all I have at the moment is my phone. It was also dark.
I love the black edges on his fins.
This is the best representation of his body color, but still not totally accurate. He's a copper, and looks just like a dirty penny.
After our waterchange today, I stuffed some of the rooting sprouts from our philodendron into the betta's bowl, as well as removed about half the rocks for more water volume. I think he likes them, he's even more active now.
My stickleback is getting bigger as well as increasingly iridescent.
My stickleback is getting bigger as well as increasingly iridescent.
Bad news for Mr. Betta, good news for my wallet
Bad news for Mr. Betta, good news for my wallet:
I bought a 29g from a pawn shop, with a hood, light, filter, and heater (all work for sure but the heater, still heating the bathroom sink ATM) for $25.
The other good news is that this is the biggest tank I can do until I live somewhere else, and its a complete setup, which means I can FINALLY stop moving stuff around.
I need to get new filter cartridges for it, and might get a new bulb. I will make Kaosu help me with this. The whole thing looks like a kit from All-Glass Aquariums, and seems to be pretty new. I think it was a salt tank though, as it has some hardy scratches on the bottom glass like there might have been liverock, and it has those tell-tale salt stains.
Bad news for Mr. Betta, good news for my wallet:
I bought a 29g from a pawn shop, with a hood, light, filter, and heater (all work for sure but the heater, still heating the bathroom sink ATM) for $25.
The other good news is that this is the biggest tank I can do until I live somewhere else, and its a complete setup, which means I can FINALLY stop moving stuff around.
I need to get new filter cartridges for it, and might get a new bulb. I will make Kaosu help me with this. The whole thing looks like a kit from All-Glass Aquariums, and seems to be pretty new. I think it was a salt tank though, as it has some hardy scratches on the bottom glass like there might have been liverock, and it has those tell-tale salt stains.
Stopped by Kaosu's today and stole more plants and snails. The 29 is up and cycling with substrate, and her dirty filter bag stuffed into the 20/40. I also stopped and picked up some free granite pieces to hold down my driftwood. No pictures just yet, not much progress to see.
Finally added things to the 29 gallon!
I finally got some stuff into the 29 gallon.
I love the rainbow lighting effect in these pictures. I don't have the hood on for obvious reasons, and the table lamp wasn't casting enough light for the pictures so I grabbed a fluorescent worklight and laid it across the other end.
I also love my driftwood piece. It's not waterlogged yet, so I had to attach it to a chunk of granite. The crotch where the two limbs meet has a big crevice, and I plan on running the rhizome of the anubias through it. The rock isn't holding the log up, or vice versa--they are just touching. I didn't want anything to come crashing down on a fish.
The left end of the log has a nice little bowl shape to it, and I'm going to plant something in it when I figure out what. In the back corner I have some kind of native plant that Kaosu just gave me a clump of. It's growing quite tall in her guppy tank, so I think it should fill in the back nicely. There's also errant java moss everywhere now.
I moved what I thought was all the java moss to the 29 gallon. I'm hoping it will grow up along the rock.
This is a local plant that I found. I have several pieces of it. The leaves it had are dying off because my tanks are warmer than the frozen-over pond I got it from, but it's growing new leaves.
All I had to attach the log and the granite was floral wire. I know that metals can leech into the water, but it's coated in plastic and I wired it so that the ends are under the granite slab where they can't hurt anything.
The betta is still in his bowl, but he seems pretty happy now that he has philodendron starters to clean his water. I took the rocks out because he wasn't using the cave at all. I'm still not bored of his coloring.
Fluorescent light makes his blue come out.
But, all the action is still in the hex tank. It was packed with plants until I moved some to the 29, after I went and stole things from Kaosu.
The anubias is doing well. I lost some of the leaves to algae, but more have grown in. It also came from Kaosu. The leaves have gotten bigger since I got it. Hers still have small leaves but have grown a longer rhizome and more leaves.
Kaosu's female betta is a flaming *****. I wouldn't think any fish could work over the stickleback, even as small as he is. She's very territorial and she's decided that the little hut is her spot and no one is allowed to LOOK AT IT.
One stem of Kaosu's native plant broke in half in the move, so I left the sprig floating in the hex for now where there's less water movement to see if it will sprout roots.
This little stem is coming back. Kaosu says its duckweed. I don't really care what it is. It turned up in the native plants I collected.
On the anubias are ramshorn snail eggs. The snails are from Kaosu, of course. I missed getting a picture of the batch that hatched already. First thing to ever be born in one of my tanks. I know it's just snails, but its a technicality.
Some java moss escaped the move and I didn't notice it stuck to the bottom of the filter until I had filled the tank back up and couldn't stick my arm in without overflowing it.
The fluorescent light brings out the gourami's blue a lot more.
Two days ago I got at least a half dozen more snails from Kaosu. This is the only one I could find, hiding under the lava rock with another sprig of java moss.
More of the native plant I collected. I have two stems of it in each tank right now, but the ones in the hex are doing the best because it has more light.
This is a sprig of mystery plant. I don't know what it's called, but I think its the same as what my mom had in with her white cloud at work. Or it could just be a horsetail sprout that was stuck to the cat. I don't know when it arrived or where it came from.
Kaosu also gave me a sprig of her coveted pennywort. I heard about this stuff for like a month before she got it.
By the time I was done taking pictures the snail had climbed halfway up the anubias.
The stickleback has at least tripled in size in the past two months. I think his eye is growing even faster.
I finally got some stuff into the 29 gallon.
I love the rainbow lighting effect in these pictures. I don't have the hood on for obvious reasons, and the table lamp wasn't casting enough light for the pictures so I grabbed a fluorescent worklight and laid it across the other end.
I also love my driftwood piece. It's not waterlogged yet, so I had to attach it to a chunk of granite. The crotch where the two limbs meet has a big crevice, and I plan on running the rhizome of the anubias through it. The rock isn't holding the log up, or vice versa--they are just touching. I didn't want anything to come crashing down on a fish.
The left end of the log has a nice little bowl shape to it, and I'm going to plant something in it when I figure out what. In the back corner I have some kind of native plant that Kaosu just gave me a clump of. It's growing quite tall in her guppy tank, so I think it should fill in the back nicely. There's also errant java moss everywhere now.
I moved what I thought was all the java moss to the 29 gallon. I'm hoping it will grow up along the rock.
This is a local plant that I found. I have several pieces of it. The leaves it had are dying off because my tanks are warmer than the frozen-over pond I got it from, but it's growing new leaves.
All I had to attach the log and the granite was floral wire. I know that metals can leech into the water, but it's coated in plastic and I wired it so that the ends are under the granite slab where they can't hurt anything.
The betta is still in his bowl, but he seems pretty happy now that he has philodendron starters to clean his water. I took the rocks out because he wasn't using the cave at all. I'm still not bored of his coloring.
Fluorescent light makes his blue come out.
But, all the action is still in the hex tank. It was packed with plants until I moved some to the 29, after I went and stole things from Kaosu.
The anubias is doing well. I lost some of the leaves to algae, but more have grown in. It also came from Kaosu. The leaves have gotten bigger since I got it. Hers still have small leaves but have grown a longer rhizome and more leaves.
Kaosu's female betta is a flaming *****. I wouldn't think any fish could work over the stickleback, even as small as he is. She's very territorial and she's decided that the little hut is her spot and no one is allowed to LOOK AT IT.
One stem of Kaosu's native plant broke in half in the move, so I left the sprig floating in the hex for now where there's less water movement to see if it will sprout roots.
This little stem is coming back. Kaosu says its duckweed. I don't really care what it is. It turned up in the native plants I collected.
On the anubias are ramshorn snail eggs. The snails are from Kaosu, of course. I missed getting a picture of the batch that hatched already. First thing to ever be born in one of my tanks. I know it's just snails, but its a technicality.
Some java moss escaped the move and I didn't notice it stuck to the bottom of the filter until I had filled the tank back up and couldn't stick my arm in without overflowing it.
The fluorescent light brings out the gourami's blue a lot more.
Two days ago I got at least a half dozen more snails from Kaosu. This is the only one I could find, hiding under the lava rock with another sprig of java moss.
More of the native plant I collected. I have two stems of it in each tank right now, but the ones in the hex are doing the best because it has more light.
This is a sprig of mystery plant. I don't know what it's called, but I think its the same as what my mom had in with her white cloud at work. Or it could just be a horsetail sprout that was stuck to the cat. I don't know when it arrived or where it came from.
Kaosu also gave me a sprig of her coveted pennywort. I heard about this stuff for like a month before she got it.
By the time I was done taking pictures the snail had climbed halfway up the anubias.
The stickleback has at least tripled in size in the past two months. I think his eye is growing even faster.
