What Works for Me May Not Work for You

[tcarswell]

over filtering (1000 GPH on a 55 overfiltering plus an undergravel) and doing 60% a week water changes.

I love under gravel filters for their stability. Many swear at me for using these

using a 35 day quarantine on all new fish.

I use Carbon in most of my filters unless I am medicating (almost never with the 35 day quarantine)

Instead of using a python I use 5 gallon buckets by choice(I have a python yes) I temp match the water perfectly and use a whisk to stir and give the dechlorinator 15 minutes to set in the water before adding. ( I have never had fish stressed as a result of a water change. While I did using the python. Chlorine burns gills.

Ive never grown a plant under water.

 

[tcarswell]

-i treat everything bad with salt. and it works for everything.:thm:
-sometimes i forget to clean my filters for a few months
-i never use carbon, but cut sponges to fit the whole box part of my filters
-i pet my lungfish, at risk of losing a hand:devil:
-my lungfish only has a cheapo homemade filter that sucks so i have to clean about fifty gallons of water bucket by bucket often. i scoop his poop with a pooper scooper daily
-i just added some loaches to my twenty-nine gallon, knowing it's not big enough for them
-my husband feeds the angelfish like a hundred times a day. his tank is overflowing with mts.
-i already have seven tanks. i just ordered two more.:help:
-i do about 30% pwc on all my tanks weekly.
-sometimes i leave the lights on for way too many hours, because i'm usually busy all day and i want to see my fish

Want to see pics of my hand after being bitten by an aussie lung ? I got a hematoma !

 

[bluekrissyspike]

Want to see pics of my hand after being bitten by an aussie lung ? I got a hematoma !

yeah!:lipssealedsmilie:you are lucky it didn't take off a finger or two. were you petting it or just doing maintenance?

 

[tcarswell]

Urine, human waste, has large ammounts of ammonia in it. Works pretty fast for me, and beats buying pure ammonia, who would pay out for that when your body naturally produces it. Thats all i mean.

Not to be the first flamer. But it actually does not have high amounts of ammonia. Just FYI not a flame I realize this is a confessional

 

[tcarswell]

yeah!:lipssealedsmilie:you are lucky it didn't take off a finger or two. were you petting it or just doing maintenance?

lol Petting my friends lung while I was baby sitting it.
Heres a pic this is perfect for this thread as I still hand feed my large bichirs

This is after the hospital had its way with the hematoma

He caught the tip of my pinky finger and it swelled up like a golf ball. They had to drain the wound by burning holes in the fingernail which fell off a few days later.:thm:

 

[Fish-Addict]

I forgot to mention:
I have NEVER quarentined a fish, and never intend to,
I hoard everything to wit fish. Nothing goes to waste. I still have about 50 fish bags about 2 years old, because I think I will find a use for them some day...

 

[Fish-Addict]

lol Petting my friends lung while I was baby sitting it.
Heres a pic this is perfect for this thread as I still hand feed my large bichirs

This is after the hospital had its way with the hematoma

He caught the tip of my pinky finger and it swelled up like a golf ball. They had to drain the wound by burning holes in the fingernail which fell off a few days later.:thm:

:yuck: :barf::sick: Did it hurt? !!

 

[tcarswell]

:yuck: :barf::sick: Did it hurt? !!

I was lucky enough to have a doctor that helped someone for a snake head bite before. He gave me a ton of vicodin and anti biotics. I never take vicodin my pain thresh hold is pretty high sparring 3-4 times a week. In fact I just took the anti biotics. And yeah it hurt it felt like my pinky was slammed in a door.

 

[bluekrissyspike]

perhaps it is time to rethink my lungfish petting habit....

 

[nahrie]

Oh this is a fun one! Let's see what I can think of.
I have 4 comets, an oranda, a rosy minnow and 2 plecos in a 37 gallon tank. Nobody gets underfed, the largest comet actually "protects" the oranda from the "monster" rosy minnow. I often have been way too poor to replace my filter media more often than every 3, sometimes, 4 months. I rarely remember to rinse the media to prolong it during those long stretches, and have NEVER had an ammonia spike due to it. The only one I've experienced was due to overzealous cleaning, and it was still only in the "caution" zone of reading. Thank goodness for 2 biowheels and a filter rated for 80 gallons, right? LOL My 10 gallon is overstocked according to everything I've read (18 dwarf rasboras, a dwarf gourami, a snail, and 3 amano shrimp), but I check the cartridges monthly and test weekly. Often my filter media isn't dirty enough to require changing at the 4 week mark, it's usually closer to 6 or 7, and lots of testing has always revealed perfect results. My water comes out of the tap under 2 kH and 6.0 pH every time. I often wonder if I should keep discus, or some other soft, acidic water loving creature, because I apparently don't need to worry about using an RO unit LOL