What Works for Me May Not Work for You
- Thread starter PopPopsfish
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i sometimes wish i had my red devil Chicken Skin here he would really freak them out but i leave my monsters at home
about the post above me i dont understand how i check my email come to the thread and im logged on in my daughter name :headshake2:
~Overfilter
~don't vacuum gravel as much as should.
~Heavily planted, but don't do hardly anything special for the plants (no ferts, only a 20 watt bulb)
~love Inverts, why waste fish inchage on clean up crew when Amari's and Snails will do it!
~Tend to overstock a little
~50% water change every 4 days or so.
~don't vacuum gravel as much as should.
~Heavily planted, but don't do hardly anything special for the plants (no ferts, only a 20 watt bulb)
~love Inverts, why waste fish inchage on clean up crew when Amari's and Snails will do it!
~Tend to overstock a little
~50% water change every 4 days or so.
Ok...my turn!
-4 tanks...20, 35, 45 and 72 gallon.
-water changes either 25% once a week or 50% every other week if I can't talk myself into doing a change...clean gravel with every change.
-love canister filters and clean them every 6 months whether they need it or not! Except my one HOB on my 20 gal which I clean when the media starts rising out of the container after popping the lid off...or if it doesn't start up again after a water change.
-don't treat sick fish...I don't want to add anything to the whole tank. I use the icy cold water bath...drop the poor thing in and run out of the kitchen! I've only had to do it 3 times so far.
-have never had ich...err, I mean my fishies haven't of course!
-still have 5 of the original 6 bleeding heart tetras that I cycled my first 10 gallon tank with nearly 3 years ago.
-have rigged my python to drain thru my washing machine drain thingy in the basement (I drain it into the junipers in the summer). I get a pretty good syphon going!
-I use tap water treated with Prime to clean my filters...that way I don't run out of clean water to rinse with.
-I once used urine (errr, yes, mine!) to see if my ammonia test kit was actually working...try it if you want to see the darkest colour on the test card! LOL!
-LOVE FISHKEEPING!!!
-4 tanks...20, 35, 45 and 72 gallon.
-water changes either 25% once a week or 50% every other week if I can't talk myself into doing a change...clean gravel with every change.
-love canister filters and clean them every 6 months whether they need it or not! Except my one HOB on my 20 gal which I clean when the media starts rising out of the container after popping the lid off...or if it doesn't start up again after a water change.
-don't treat sick fish...I don't want to add anything to the whole tank. I use the icy cold water bath...drop the poor thing in and run out of the kitchen! I've only had to do it 3 times so far.
-have never had ich...err, I mean my fishies haven't of course!
-still have 5 of the original 6 bleeding heart tetras that I cycled my first 10 gallon tank with nearly 3 years ago.
-have rigged my python to drain thru my washing machine drain thingy in the basement (I drain it into the junipers in the summer). I get a pretty good syphon going!
-I use tap water treated with Prime to clean my filters...that way I don't run out of clean water to rinse with.
-I once used urine (errr, yes, mine!) to see if my ammonia test kit was actually working...try it if you want to see the darkest colour on the test card! LOL!
-LOVE FISHKEEPING!!!
OMG!! LOL! An *angel* named Barbossa?! Now that's just hilarious, mate because Hector Barbossa is anything but an angel! :evil_lol: Tis great, girl, great!
All right, my turn to confess...
1. I rare QT (QT tanks have fish in them now).
2. I keep four fantail goldfish (one is about 4 inches) with two male mollies, a common pleco, and a female platy.
3. I keep said goldfish in an 80 degree tank and they're happy as clams.
4. pH is above 7.5 most of the time but never had any problems.
5. Don't do a water change unless the water won't clear.
6. Overstock.
7. Don't test my water very much.
8. I swear by Jungle's Fungus and Parasite Clear.
9. I swear by Aquarium Salt.
10. I swear by Cycle.
11. I swear by epsom salts (had a molly with popeye once and after using epsom salts for a few days, she healed).
12. Only cycle a tank for twenty four hours before adding fish. (Had few problems).
13. Don't wash hands before or after messing in the tanks.
14. I love all snails.
15. If new fish don't have their dorsal fin raised by day two, I'm pretty sure they're going to die (haven't been wrong yet).
16. Put water my fish come in in my tanks (never had a problem).
17. Use the float 15 minutes then release acclimation method.
18. Save bags (mostly use them to store dead fish in the freezer).
19. Freeze dead fish for burial later (I'm weird, I know but I get very attached to my animals no matter how long or short a period I have them).
20. Swear by carbon.
21. Hate using a gravel vac. Prefer to just take the tank outside and blast it (and substrate) with a hose a dozen times. Works great.
22. Toss molly fry in with male guppies in a divided ten gal and they do perfectly fine. Have a group right now that was born in December and I've never had a higher survival rate.
23. I buy fish from Wal-Mart. (Mollies only so far).
24. I'm obsessed with odd colored mollies (and I can only find 'em at Wal-Mart!)
25. Plecos and otos don't like to live for me.
26. Only a vague idea what a python is.
27. Don't participate much on here (except in the classifieds) for fear of being for being criticized more than helped (if I'm having a problem) since I don't do things "by the book".
28. I have very long hair and I shed like a cat so there are hairs in all my tanks (along with cat hairs because of my cat).
29. I name most of my fish after characters from my favorite movies or books. :dance:
30. No one's perfect and I most certainly am not. :mad2:
31. I'm terrified of someone other than me taking care of my tanks because they don't know how I do it.
There. I confessed.
I know what you mean... I don't do things 'by the book' either...
And I'm with you on 13 and 17, I don't wash my hands before messing with the tank (I wash them after) and I float them for 15 minutes before dropping them into the tank. Never had any problems.
OK, heres mine...
1. Have been known to go on holiday for over a week without feeding any of my tanks and with my planted tank lights on 24hrs a day.
2. Don't believe the goldfish police - I keep 2 common goldfish with 3 gold barbs and 2 weatherloaches in an 80 litre tank. I will move the golds into a bigger home one day, but for now they are fine thanks!
4. Have contemplated eating some of my fish, but never done it.
5. Never bought any equipment apart from filter media, bulbs and heaters - got everything else for FREE (including 5 tanks ranging from 20-200 litres and three heavy duty external filters, amongst other stuff).
6. Moved house with a 12 inch pleco 'loose' in a bucket of water in the footwell of my van. He made it though!
7. Rescued juvenile guppies from a friend only to put them in with my ravenous columbian tetras knowing full well they are going to get eaten.
8. Spend far too much time window shopping at the LFS when i have no intention of buying anything.
9. Only change water on my planted tank every 4-6 weeks. Whats the point of removing all those good nutrients and minerals and then adding them in again from a bottle?
10. Do 25-30% changes on my non-planted tanks evey week.
11. Use tap water (with Aqua plus) for all my tanks even though my local water is hard and alkaline.
12. Have more tanks than I have space for. Still want more.
1. Have been known to go on holiday for over a week without feeding any of my tanks and with my planted tank lights on 24hrs a day.
2. Don't believe the goldfish police - I keep 2 common goldfish with 3 gold barbs and 2 weatherloaches in an 80 litre tank. I will move the golds into a bigger home one day, but for now they are fine thanks!
4. Have contemplated eating some of my fish, but never done it.
5. Never bought any equipment apart from filter media, bulbs and heaters - got everything else for FREE (including 5 tanks ranging from 20-200 litres and three heavy duty external filters, amongst other stuff).
6. Moved house with a 12 inch pleco 'loose' in a bucket of water in the footwell of my van. He made it though!
7. Rescued juvenile guppies from a friend only to put them in with my ravenous columbian tetras knowing full well they are going to get eaten.
8. Spend far too much time window shopping at the LFS when i have no intention of buying anything.
9. Only change water on my planted tank every 4-6 weeks. Whats the point of removing all those good nutrients and minerals and then adding them in again from a bottle?
10. Do 25-30% changes on my non-planted tanks evey week.
11. Use tap water (with Aqua plus) for all my tanks even though my local water is hard and alkaline.
12. Have more tanks than I have space for. Still want more.
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Seriously, this needs to be a Sticky! 
Maybe not in the Freshwater Forum, but certainly in General for ALL to share in!!! =D
Great, great thread PopPopsfish!!
Maybe not in the Freshwater Forum, but certainly in General for ALL to share in!!! =D
Great, great thread PopPopsfish!!
Ok !
We do daily water changes on all tanks weather they need it or not
We do daily water changes on all tanks weather they need it or not
- Add heaters to tanks when it would be cheaper to heat the whole room . ( I do not like it too warm )
- run water filters to remove the chlorine , our WCompany uses chlorimines so it is kind of a waste.
- Cull too many fry, only reason I do this is our standards have risen to a whole new level. We could easily sell the culls to our LFS , but do not want anyone to start breeding these.
- Always changing our fish rooms around to see how many more tanks I can fit in the existing space.
- I love to build new rack and run the plumbing , there is a challenge every time.
- Watching our fish instead of writing new HTML codes for the New Web site.
- Breeding in general fascinates me, you never know when Nature will throw you a curve ball.
- My new pastime therapy is making sponge filters and testing them also our new regenerative air pump. More air than we know what to do with but it is more efficient to run than two Large diaphragm pumps.
- Bought a watt meter ( to teat the power consumption of every electrical item in the fish rooms) You would be surprise by our findings.
- Stopped hatching Brine shrimp after finding a better source of protein for our fry. I do not miss them.
