I'm a fishlore reject. My real name is not jake but i should have been born a jake. I'm pretty clueless but things mostly work most of the time but not always. I find most rules are best not followed but understood. Rules have a purpose and the purpose should be followed - esp when it comes to aquarium. I have 5 tanks 120 (hi-tech), 40 (hi-tech), 29, 29 and a 5. 4 of the tanks are fine but one is not going well - it is a bba factory even though it is low tech. Here are pictures of a couple of my tanks. I know they are a mess so please pardon. Also understand that I have no clue what I am doing and one day i'll get it right just not today.
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The first tank is a 40B - it has only been setup since this summer. It was meant for my nannacara but i tossed in some cockatoo and a few orange laser cory along with kubotai rasbora (yea yea they are asian but they are pretty) and a few guppies to make sure things work out. Guppies make everything work out.
The next tank is my guppy tank. It has been setup for 18 months. It used to be densely planted but then i added a baby female betta from petco. One of the disadvantages of being in a condo is no qt tank. This little betta caused my 4 adult female betta to die; my favorite 2 kuhli and 2 other kuhli to die a few guppies died and my female bn pleco died. What lived. Well swordtails - nothing hurt swordtails - my 7 other kuhli but without my 2 favorite ones - most of the guppies and my male bn pleco (last picture). I treated the tank with furan-2. It claims it doesnt' harm plants but it zapped all the stem plants and hornworth. Lucikly i put a little bit of hornworth from another tank (tiny bit explained below) but guppies fix all problems and the hornworth and stem transplants are growing quite well - the frogbit came from the 5 gallon (not shown). furan-2 also kills frogbits and water letuce. If you want to get rid of your frogbit just toss in some furan-2.
Next is my 29 gallon white tank. It is also 18 months ago but it is a bba magnet. It has the same equipment as the one above but different substrate and no guppies so it grows bba. Also lots of diatom or rot on the surface plants. My frogbit roots are white in the 5 gallon tank (they grow from top to bottom in that tank - in this tank they turn brown). I'll blame the substrate but it is probably the lack of guppies to fix all problems. Also i know the substrate is not level. It was level when i put it in and i've leveled it a few times but well my fishes don't like it level. You will also notice that above in the black tank. In the black tank for 4 weeks in a row the male bn dug the right corner down to the glass then i threw in a cave behind the driftwood were no one can see it and he stopped - well mostly stop - every now and then he still does a bit of re-arrangement just to annoy me. Well the bn didn't do it in the white tank (this paragraph is about the white tank); not not the pleco - instead the kuhli all ganged up and kept digging down to the glass on the right side. I put a small stone there to discourage them but it doesn't work. They also dug out under the drift wood behind the coconut shell and after all that digging they mostly hang out under the sponge filter in the back corner. Why not the coconut shell. Well there is an L333 in there (i'll add a picture of him in a sec) so they aren't allowed in there. I have 6 pleco in this tank - can you find them all ?
Last is my 120. It is 20 months old. I had 3 angels but they bred so now i have 11. I also have clown loaches (5) zebra loaches (5) and yoyo loaches (6). I had 9 yoyo loaches but they jumped. Guess I didn't treat them well because well they couldn't tolerate things. Oh and 27 cardinals 9 pangio meyersi and some other stuff. I can't find any of it in that weed but i know i have other stuff.
This is my male bn that is now by itself since the betta killed the female. This on is in the 29; but i also have one in the 120 (with a female) and 2 more in the 40B. I had ordered 4 but they sent me 6 (they were tiny when i got them) and one was killed by a nasty female betta so now I only have 5. The one in the 120 are least shy the one in the 29 only comes out when i put in zuc. The ones in the 40B well they went 6 months without being seen which left a lot of zuc for the ottos. People say otto are suppose to die so i got 10 for the 40B (over time 3 sets expecting them to die). None of them died so now i ahve 10 in the 40B. I also have a few in the 120 - i was actually qt'ing the ones in the 40B for the 120 but then i was too lazy to catch them even though they refuse to move when i do a water change so i left them all in the 40B and the school in the 120 is well i dont' know. I have at least 5 in there because i saw 5 the other day but who knows how many are in there - probably just 5 - for the longest time i thoguht it was only 3 because for 9 months i only saw 3 then i saw 5.
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Ok last picture my lonely bn in the 29:
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Oops now i have to add the l333 since i edited the above text - here he is (or is it a she?):
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Most of the hornworth in the white 29 is worthless because of that brown muck growing on it but i was able to cut out a 1 inch piece to toss in the black 29 after the furan-2 wiped out the plants and that 1 inch piece in 6 or 8 weeks has grown in to a nice 3 foot piece with lots of branches.
Well I hope this description tells you who i am and now you understand why i should have been a jake.
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The first tank is a 40B - it has only been setup since this summer. It was meant for my nannacara but i tossed in some cockatoo and a few orange laser cory along with kubotai rasbora (yea yea they are asian but they are pretty) and a few guppies to make sure things work out. Guppies make everything work out.
The next tank is my guppy tank. It has been setup for 18 months. It used to be densely planted but then i added a baby female betta from petco. One of the disadvantages of being in a condo is no qt tank. This little betta caused my 4 adult female betta to die; my favorite 2 kuhli and 2 other kuhli to die a few guppies died and my female bn pleco died. What lived. Well swordtails - nothing hurt swordtails - my 7 other kuhli but without my 2 favorite ones - most of the guppies and my male bn pleco (last picture). I treated the tank with furan-2. It claims it doesnt' harm plants but it zapped all the stem plants and hornworth. Lucikly i put a little bit of hornworth from another tank (tiny bit explained below) but guppies fix all problems and the hornworth and stem transplants are growing quite well - the frogbit came from the 5 gallon (not shown). furan-2 also kills frogbits and water letuce. If you want to get rid of your frogbit just toss in some furan-2.
Next is my 29 gallon white tank. It is also 18 months ago but it is a bba magnet. It has the same equipment as the one above but different substrate and no guppies so it grows bba. Also lots of diatom or rot on the surface plants. My frogbit roots are white in the 5 gallon tank (they grow from top to bottom in that tank - in this tank they turn brown). I'll blame the substrate but it is probably the lack of guppies to fix all problems. Also i know the substrate is not level. It was level when i put it in and i've leveled it a few times but well my fishes don't like it level. You will also notice that above in the black tank. In the black tank for 4 weeks in a row the male bn dug the right corner down to the glass then i threw in a cave behind the driftwood were no one can see it and he stopped - well mostly stop - every now and then he still does a bit of re-arrangement just to annoy me. Well the bn didn't do it in the white tank (this paragraph is about the white tank); not not the pleco - instead the kuhli all ganged up and kept digging down to the glass on the right side. I put a small stone there to discourage them but it doesn't work. They also dug out under the drift wood behind the coconut shell and after all that digging they mostly hang out under the sponge filter in the back corner. Why not the coconut shell. Well there is an L333 in there (i'll add a picture of him in a sec) so they aren't allowed in there. I have 6 pleco in this tank - can you find them all ?
Last is my 120. It is 20 months old. I had 3 angels but they bred so now i have 11. I also have clown loaches (5) zebra loaches (5) and yoyo loaches (6). I had 9 yoyo loaches but they jumped. Guess I didn't treat them well because well they couldn't tolerate things. Oh and 27 cardinals 9 pangio meyersi and some other stuff. I can't find any of it in that weed but i know i have other stuff.
This is my male bn that is now by itself since the betta killed the female. This on is in the 29; but i also have one in the 120 (with a female) and 2 more in the 40B. I had ordered 4 but they sent me 6 (they were tiny when i got them) and one was killed by a nasty female betta so now I only have 5. The one in the 120 are least shy the one in the 29 only comes out when i put in zuc. The ones in the 40B well they went 6 months without being seen which left a lot of zuc for the ottos. People say otto are suppose to die so i got 10 for the 40B (over time 3 sets expecting them to die). None of them died so now i ahve 10 in the 40B. I also have a few in the 120 - i was actually qt'ing the ones in the 40B for the 120 but then i was too lazy to catch them even though they refuse to move when i do a water change so i left them all in the 40B and the school in the 120 is well i dont' know. I have at least 5 in there because i saw 5 the other day but who knows how many are in there - probably just 5 - for the longest time i thoguht it was only 3 because for 9 months i only saw 3 then i saw 5.
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Ok last picture my lonely bn in the 29:
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Oops now i have to add the l333 since i edited the above text - here he is (or is it a she?):
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Most of the hornworth in the white 29 is worthless because of that brown muck growing on it but i was able to cut out a 1 inch piece to toss in the black 29 after the furan-2 wiped out the plants and that 1 inch piece in 6 or 8 weeks has grown in to a nice 3 foot piece with lots of branches.
Well I hope this description tells you who i am and now you understand why i should have been a jake.
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