A friend roped me back into fish keeping

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anderson_p_r

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Howdy all, my name is Pat and I'm in Olympia. A few months back a friend gave me a 10g tank that she didn't know how to take care of and woke the monster in me. That 10g is now a mineralized soil tank, moderately planted, DIY CO2, DIY light hood- in progress, 52w CFL 6500K, ghost shrimp, RCS, oto's, SAE, assorted snails. I also already have a 20g long waiting in the wings with no real concept yet.

I'm excited to get back into the hobby, I haven't had a tank for a few years and this is my first time keeping shrimp. Looking forward to meeting and possibly working with some of you.
 
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Lamental Jester

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Allow me to be the first to say....
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CrazedAce

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Welcome! There are quite a few of us in the Olympia area. I have a 10gal with RCS as well, though their tank mates are just a pair of BN plecos. Hope you enjoy the forum as much as I do!
 
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BillHN

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anderson_p_r said:
Howdy all, my name is Pat and I'm in Olympia. A few months back a friend gave me a 10g tank that she didn't know how to take care of and woke the monster in me. That 10g is now a mineralized soil tank, moderately planted, DIY CO2, DIY light hood- in progress, 52w CFL 6500K, ghost shrimp, RCS, oto's, SAE, assorted snails. I also already have a 20g long waiting in the wings with no real concept yet.

I'm excited to get back into the hobby, I haven't had a tank for a few years and this is my first time keeping shrimp. Looking forward to meeting and possibly working with some of you.
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UH OH planted tank guy! :]

You'll be happy to know there's a lot of us here southbound :O

Can you tell me what you did to the "mineralized soil"


Anyways, welcome!
If you ever want some free floaters or plantlets hit me up lol
 
PokeSephiroth

PokeSephiroth

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Welcome to WaFishbox! It's nice to see that you're back in the fish keeping hobby once again! You'll have a blast with all the new possibilities of keeping shrimp. I have some Red Cherry Shrimp in all 5 of my tanks, and they just breed and breed and breed and breed... =P

Share some pictures of your tank(s)!

As for the 20 gallon long, you should definitely do a planted tank with it, with more mineralized soil. :D

Something about Long tanks makes it perfect for plants, IMHO.
 
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anderson_p_r

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I largely followed the directions from a Aquatic Plant Central post made by Aaron Talbot

Works really well. It's best luck I've had with a planted tank, but I've heard of people having odd problems further down the road. We'll see, so far I'm sold on it.

I definitely plan on doing a the 20g as a planted. I have to finish up this 10g first.

I have to wait 7 days to post links, I'll get photos up when that's lifted.
 
DMD123

DMD123

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That is a good friend to rope you back into the hobby. :welcome!:
 
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anderson_p_r

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Do you Olympia area folks ever do a get together? A fish keepers pot luck? That could be fun. I know I'm interested in meeting others who enjoy the hobby and picking their brains.
 
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CrazedAce

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anderson_p_r said:
Do you Olympia area folks ever do a get together? A fish keepers pot luck? That could be fun. I know I'm interested in meeting others who enjoy the hobby and picking their brains.
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There are people around here that carpool up the the GSAS meetings in Seattle, that's the closest thing to a get together as we have. Everyone knows everyone, but I've never seen two other members excluding myself in one area lol. I'm still pretty new myself though.
 
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BillHN

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CrazedAce said:
anderson_p_r said:
Do you Olympia area folks ever do a get together? A fish keepers pot luck? That could be fun. I know I'm interested in meeting others who enjoy the hobby and picking their brains.
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There are people around here that carpool up the the GSAS meetings in Seattle, that's the closest thing to a get together as we have. Everyone knows everyone, but I've never seen two other members excluding myself in one area lol. I'm still pretty new myself though.
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Idk bout meetings (too late at night lol).. but I took a fishboxer / gsas members, and met up with Lj and went to edmonds for a fish adventure last weekend.
 
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Lamental Jester

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BillHN said:
Idk bout meetings (too late at night lol).. but I took a fishboxer / gsas members, and met up with Lj and went to edmonds for a fish adventure last weekend.
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Yes, good times! You left out the awesome feast we had in chinatown!

BTW, anderson_p_r, where did you get that pic of me and why are you using it as your avatar? lol ;)
 
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