Aquarists unite: fish are friends, and food
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I started using glut in my tank again and within a week my glass is basically spotless, leaves are getting very close to spotless, and already looking fuller, wider, more dense. Water column is clearer. Fish seem to be more active. I won't pretend to say it's providing carbon, but it is wiping out micro algae that allows the plants to absorb more light and take in more nutrients/co2 from the water. Shit works great.
Metricide 28, a gallon off ebay is $23-28, lasts several months (toss the small activator bottle that it comes with in the trash). 10mL every day initially, then every few days (65 gallons, probably works fine with less). I use a syringe from the baby isle (used for squirting medicine). It's effectively medical grade Seachem Excel. Don't get the shit on your hands or breathe it. Reacts quickly with algae so you can stick your hands in the water after a couple days. Doesn't kill off beneficial bacteria, because the nitrogen cycle isn't affected.
Anyone else ever used PPS Pro from Greenleaf Aquariums? That shit will make your plants take off. Macro and micro nutrient liquid dosing.
Metricide 28, a gallon off ebay is $23-28, lasts several months (toss the small activator bottle that it comes with in the trash). 10mL every day initially, then every few days (65 gallons, probably works fine with less). I use a syringe from the baby isle (used for squirting medicine). It's effectively medical grade Seachem Excel. Don't get the shit on your hands or breathe it. Reacts quickly with algae so you can stick your hands in the water after a couple days. Doesn't kill off beneficial bacteria, because the nitrogen cycle isn't affected.
Anyone else ever used PPS Pro from Greenleaf Aquariums? That shit will make your plants take off. Macro and micro nutrient liquid dosing.
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These are some of my GF's leftover Betta males thats not been sold yet. Not the best pictures.
And heres Bert, the culling machine for frys with bad genes.
And the permanent homes for the betta males she's keeping. Only shrimps in them at the moment though as we recently installed co2 in them.
And heres Bert, the culling machine for frys with bad genes.
And the permanent homes for the betta males she's keeping. Only shrimps in them at the moment though as we recently installed co2 in them.
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Not sure how it works if you live in the US but you can import Bettas from Thailand/Indonesia. Thats how my GF started, then from there she started breeding the imported ones. But yea shipping is the problem. It is illegal to send through the postal service and none have live transport around here (Sweden). We usally try to find people traveling through the country and have them carry the fish to the buyer for a small fee, or take them with us when we visit other cities.
I think the market is getting better everywhere with imports being an option, Koi Bettas was almost non existant a while ago here and now the market is over saturated.
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You ship em in a double bag with a lot of extra air, in a Styrofoam cooler, in a box. Usually add some meds to the water to keep them fucked up enough for transport without freaking out and dying in transit.
When I did saltwater I'd get shit shipped from all over. Only had one issue where they stuck a box full of about 100 corith snails in the shared apartment mailbox, in the large package lockbox, and the delivery service didn't update their tracking info, so it sat outside, in Texas heat, for three days. Surprisingly 50% of them were still alive.
Only problem with the delivery process, I should say. The other problems were spending $120 on a young, baby powder blue tang, and it dying a week later with no refunds kinna made me not want to do that shit again. Very roulette like with some of the more rare shit, but you'd pay around $3-500 to thousands for an adult healthy one that someone had raised locally.
When I did saltwater I'd get shit shipped from all over. Only had one issue where they stuck a box full of about 100 corith snails in the shared apartment mailbox, in the large package lockbox, and the delivery service didn't update their tracking info, so it sat outside, in Texas heat, for three days. Surprisingly 50% of them were still alive.
Only problem with the delivery process, I should say. The other problems were spending $120 on a young, baby powder blue tang, and it dying a week later with no refunds kinna made me not want to do that shit again. Very roulette like with some of the more rare shit, but you'd pay around $3-500 to thousands for an adult healthy one that someone had raised locally.
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You can find some rare stuff on AquaBid.com - Sell or buy aquarium equipment and fish in an auction format and if you find a local seller some of them allow for pickup.
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After not having any fish for almost 25 years (used to have a 50 gallon reef tank and a 30 gallon fresh water tank) my coworkers gifted me a beta-fish because reasons...anyways, I'm doing well taking care of him the last 4 months but even with regular water cleaning/changes in his 2 gallon tank I'm getting an algae problem. Can I get some snails in there to clean it up or will he go to town on those things?
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I wouldn't go over 10 gallons for a betta though. They are a still water fish, and wouldn't cope well with the flow needed for filtration of a larger tank.
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What would make a good tank mate for a betta? If you do male+female do they just keep making babies?
Going to get a basic 10gal for the betta... it is the only survivor of one of those 3 tier waterfall beta things.
Going to get a basic 10gal for the betta... it is the only survivor of one of those 3 tier waterfall beta things.