Photojournal: Second-hand Fish
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Thanks. I am hoping to get some first-hand fish in a week or so. I am planning on rasbora heteromorpha for sure, they are my favorite. I even saw some black ones recently. I am still trying to decide on my centerpiece fish for my 29g. I have a few ideas, but need to do more research. Any suggestions?
I have a few more pictures today. Our digital camera has really crapped out for some reason, so After taking about 80 pics these are the only decent ones.
I rescaped the hex a while back, and this weekend I switched out the mixed gravel for some black. I'm happy with the black gravel, but the scape overall doesn't do much for me. Just gives me an excuse to redo it.
This is the small log in the hex. I found it on a beach and some mussels had bored holes into it. My female betta loved it, but them male doesn't use it at all, so it's kind of wasted now. I will have to move it to the other tank for the female at some point.
This is the only picture of the 29 that came out at all. I think I am going to take the long weekend next weekend and go get some more black sand. The sand in here is mixed 50/50 black and slightly lighter. I would like it to be darker, and I also want to get some sand and keep it for future use.
I just picked up a nice little tank for free off craigslist, with a ton of stuff in it, including a bubbler that I might actually be able to leave on for a while without wanting to /wrist. The nice thing is that it fits perfectly on the shelf under my big tank, even with the center shelf support. Now I just need 3 more.
I rescaped the hex a while back, and this weekend I switched out the mixed gravel for some black. I'm happy with the black gravel, but the scape overall doesn't do much for me. Just gives me an excuse to redo it.
This is the small log in the hex. I found it on a beach and some mussels had bored holes into it. My female betta loved it, but them male doesn't use it at all, so it's kind of wasted now. I will have to move it to the other tank for the female at some point.
This is the only picture of the 29 that came out at all. I think I am going to take the long weekend next weekend and go get some more black sand. The sand in here is mixed 50/50 black and slightly lighter. I would like it to be darker, and I also want to get some sand and keep it for future use.
I just picked up a nice little tank for free off craigslist, with a ton of stuff in it, including a bubbler that I might actually be able to leave on for a while without wanting to /wrist. The nice thing is that it fits perfectly on the shelf under my big tank, even with the center shelf support. Now I just need 3 more.
I haven't updated in a long time, due to the development of a busy schedule. (If only I was making money!)
So, rather than lots of photos, I decided to just do some videos. I currently only have 2 tanks. The first being a 29 gallon tropical community.
[video]http://s10.photobucket.com/albums/a125/dewmonger/Fishtanks/?action=view¤t=FishMay15bigtank.mp4[/video]
Fauna:
1 Dwarf Gourami male
3 Sterba's corydoras - 1f 2m
4 Oto's
10 Rasbora Hets (they are like dwarf harlequins) - though I suspect some are not
2 Zebra danios - 1f 1m I think
Flora:
Anubias
Braz. Pennywort
Southern Waternymph
Val grass
Java fern
Crypt of some kind
Java Moss
some strange floating thing
Equipment:
Aqua tech 20-40
a random heater from Kaosu
A Whisper air pump running 4 stones
A 15w light that came with the setup, and a Wal-Mart grow light under a reflector I made out of metal roofing. (I didn't show that part)
My male betta is now residing in a 4-ish gallon tank on my desk. Recently, he got some tank mates.
[video]http://s10.photobucket.com/albums/a125/dewmonger/Fishtanks/?action=view¤t=FishMay15betta.mp4[/video]
Fauna:
Betta splendins (m)
3 Pygmy cory (havent sexed)
3 BABY STERBA'S CORIES OMG!!!
- My cories breed like rabbits, but none of the eggs were escaping being eaten. So I set up a 10 gallon for a grow out. My research lead me to believe that the eggs should hatch within a week. After letting the eggs sit in the 10 gallon for a few weeks with no sign of fry, I decided they hadn't survived, so I dropped the pygmy cories and 2 danios in that tank for QT when I got them off of craigslist. That was almost 2 months ago. Last week I decided to take apart the 10, and move the fish into their intended homes. To my surprise, there were 3 tiny, pale-yellow, spotless corycats. They are happy and healthy and growing like weeds.
Flora:
Philodendrons
eared water-moss (salvinia)
1 remaining pondweed
a poofy mystery plant
Equipment:
Tetra heater
Whisper 10i filter
Hood with a CFL bulb (100 watts?)
More cory fry:
After giving up on the grow-out tank, I got a net breeder and started dropping the cory eggs in there. I use a soft-bristled toothbrush to collect the eggs, it works great. I had a batch of fry of different sizes in the breeder box for almost a month (I was up to about 7). However, one day I was away from home all day and didn't get a chance to check on them. When I woke up the next morning, the female betta was in the breeder box AND HAD EATEN ALL MY FRY. I now have a new batch of fry, though, which just hatched this week. Next time I set up a grow-out, I will either go bare-bottom, or get white sand instead of gray.
The female betta:
Kaosu's female betta died quite suddenly two days after eating all my cory fry. I think she might have gotten injured or just stressed from getting into the box, or possibly the babies did not agree with her. She was always somewhat aloof, except when there was food. And I have 3 cories and a lot of snails, so I never even saw her body. She was there one day, then the next evening I looked for her and there was no sign of her.
The stickleback:
The stickleback was a victim of an older heater. I had to put a heater in the tank for my growing tropical community. The stickleback seemed to adjust to the warmer temperatures okay, provided that the heater didn't go berserk. Unfortunately, it did. He did fine for a couple of months, then one morning when I woke up the tank temp had spiked to almost 90 degrees (instead of hovering just below 80 as it had been) and the stickleback was beyond recovery. He was still moving his gills, but was listing on the bottom of the tank so badly that snails had attached to him, so I put him out of his misery.
Next:
I need to replace some furniture, so until then I'm not changing anything. I have decided that I want a grow-out tank for cory eggs (hopefully the pygmy cories will start breeding as well) with some shrimp, a cold-water tank for local plants, and a paladarium, also for local plants. I have the tanks and equipment for all of this, just not the shelf space. Hence needing new furniture.
Thanks for looking!
So, rather than lots of photos, I decided to just do some videos. I currently only have 2 tanks. The first being a 29 gallon tropical community.
[video]http://s10.photobucket.com/albums/a125/dewmonger/Fishtanks/?action=view¤t=FishMay15bigtank.mp4[/video]
Fauna:
1 Dwarf Gourami male
3 Sterba's corydoras - 1f 2m
4 Oto's
10 Rasbora Hets (they are like dwarf harlequins) - though I suspect some are not
2 Zebra danios - 1f 1m I think
Flora:
Anubias
Braz. Pennywort
Southern Waternymph
Val grass
Java fern
Crypt of some kind
Java Moss
some strange floating thing
Equipment:
Aqua tech 20-40
a random heater from Kaosu
A Whisper air pump running 4 stones
A 15w light that came with the setup, and a Wal-Mart grow light under a reflector I made out of metal roofing. (I didn't show that part)
My male betta is now residing in a 4-ish gallon tank on my desk. Recently, he got some tank mates.
[video]http://s10.photobucket.com/albums/a125/dewmonger/Fishtanks/?action=view¤t=FishMay15betta.mp4[/video]
Fauna:
Betta splendins (m)
3 Pygmy cory (havent sexed)
3 BABY STERBA'S CORIES OMG!!!
- My cories breed like rabbits, but none of the eggs were escaping being eaten. So I set up a 10 gallon for a grow out. My research lead me to believe that the eggs should hatch within a week. After letting the eggs sit in the 10 gallon for a few weeks with no sign of fry, I decided they hadn't survived, so I dropped the pygmy cories and 2 danios in that tank for QT when I got them off of craigslist. That was almost 2 months ago. Last week I decided to take apart the 10, and move the fish into their intended homes. To my surprise, there were 3 tiny, pale-yellow, spotless corycats. They are happy and healthy and growing like weeds.
Flora:
Philodendrons
eared water-moss (salvinia)
1 remaining pondweed
a poofy mystery plant
Equipment:
Tetra heater
Whisper 10i filter
Hood with a CFL bulb (100 watts?)
More cory fry:
After giving up on the grow-out tank, I got a net breeder and started dropping the cory eggs in there. I use a soft-bristled toothbrush to collect the eggs, it works great. I had a batch of fry of different sizes in the breeder box for almost a month (I was up to about 7). However, one day I was away from home all day and didn't get a chance to check on them. When I woke up the next morning, the female betta was in the breeder box AND HAD EATEN ALL MY FRY. I now have a new batch of fry, though, which just hatched this week. Next time I set up a grow-out, I will either go bare-bottom, or get white sand instead of gray.
The female betta:
Kaosu's female betta died quite suddenly two days after eating all my cory fry. I think she might have gotten injured or just stressed from getting into the box, or possibly the babies did not agree with her. She was always somewhat aloof, except when there was food. And I have 3 cories and a lot of snails, so I never even saw her body. She was there one day, then the next evening I looked for her and there was no sign of her.
The stickleback:
The stickleback was a victim of an older heater. I had to put a heater in the tank for my growing tropical community. The stickleback seemed to adjust to the warmer temperatures okay, provided that the heater didn't go berserk. Unfortunately, it did. He did fine for a couple of months, then one morning when I woke up the tank temp had spiked to almost 90 degrees (instead of hovering just below 80 as it had been) and the stickleback was beyond recovery. He was still moving his gills, but was listing on the bottom of the tank so badly that snails had attached to him, so I put him out of his misery.
Next:
I need to replace some furniture, so until then I'm not changing anything. I have decided that I want a grow-out tank for cory eggs (hopefully the pygmy cories will start breeding as well) with some shrimp, a cold-water tank for local plants, and a paladarium, also for local plants. I have the tanks and equipment for all of this, just not the shelf space. Hence needing new furniture.
Thanks for looking!
Both of your tanks are set up so beautifully! I love the betta at the beginning of the second video. So pretty!
I need to update!
Okay, so...
I now have 6 Sterbai Cory babies in my betta nano, along with two pygmy cories (which are now smaller than most of the baby sterbai). I realize this is kind of crowded, especially if the sterbai are in there much longer. There is also a new juvenile guppy male. I've never had a guppy before, and there are not a fish that I had planned on having, but I was at the store and always like to check out eh guppies and bettas (since they have so many color variations) and saw a male that was very unique (at least of the guppies I have seen). I'm always curious what they will look like after a month of recovery and allowing their fins to go without damage. The pygmies also laid about three dozen eggs one night, most of which appeared to have hatched. I expect in a month or so I will find some new fry.
I have plans prepared to make my 3 x 10gallon stand, and the materials. I just havent had the time on a nice day to do it. But within the next two weeks it should be done. Then I'll have a 10 gallon riparium, a cory spawning tank, and a cold tank, probably with guppies now that I have a male.
My community tank has one new addition: I finally got a girl for my dwarf gourami. She's adorable, and they seem to have hit it off quickly. Right now my nano is where all the excitement is, though.
Okay, so...
I now have 6 Sterbai Cory babies in my betta nano, along with two pygmy cories (which are now smaller than most of the baby sterbai). I realize this is kind of crowded, especially if the sterbai are in there much longer. There is also a new juvenile guppy male. I've never had a guppy before, and there are not a fish that I had planned on having, but I was at the store and always like to check out eh guppies and bettas (since they have so many color variations) and saw a male that was very unique (at least of the guppies I have seen). I'm always curious what they will look like after a month of recovery and allowing their fins to go without damage. The pygmies also laid about three dozen eggs one night, most of which appeared to have hatched. I expect in a month or so I will find some new fry.
I have plans prepared to make my 3 x 10gallon stand, and the materials. I just havent had the time on a nice day to do it. But within the next two weeks it should be done. Then I'll have a 10 gallon riparium, a cory spawning tank, and a cold tank, probably with guppies now that I have a male.
My community tank has one new addition: I finally got a girl for my dwarf gourami. She's adorable, and they seem to have hit it off quickly. Right now my nano is where all the excitement is, though.
