What did you do with your tank(s) today?

[DMD123]

As I was watching my 90g with my 6 Congo tetra, I was thinking I should get a couple more. Tank just looks so empty! But if they get as big as my rainbows in the other 90, I guess that wont be too bad looking. Petco had one more male & female left, maybe I should go back and get them...

 

[BPSabelhaus]

No longer have my vernal pond to capture microfauna, I now have a real year round pond to capture microfauna. Got a lot of daphnia, couple scuds and water louse. Nice thing is it's been a couple days since adding them to the aquarium and there's still some larger breeders swimming around. Hopefully I can establish a permanent colony. Going to cut my former rain barrels in half or 3/4 and make a couple outdoor mini ponds.

Really miss the PNW, but life is starting to come back after the winter. Woke up around 11:30 last night to tornado sirens and had to wake the kiddo up and get him and the animals into the basement. It hit a town about 15 miles north of us. Meanwhile my sisters house a few hours north of us is in danger of flooding from dam overflow.

 

[DMD123]

Stopped by Petco and picked up 2 more Congo tetras, one more m&f for a total of 8 fish now

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Found this in the pond today, along with a leech :shudders: Knobby lipped fairy shrimp Thought it was a small fish at first.

 

[DMD123]

Scrubbed down both 90 gallon tanks and did gravel vac’s and water changes. Got busy over the weekend so I have tanks to catch up on.

 

[DMD123]

Over the weekend I replaced my last Finnex heater with a new Fluval. This was on my 90g community tank with my Congo tetras and syno cat. I have one in box Finnex that is my emergency backup and thats it. Been discussed before but why cant they make a quality heater that can last for a while?

 

[DMD123]

Had a moment of clarity because of a fish issue. I had a solo Madagascar rainbow that lived in my 90 gallon community tank with my sevrum's that as he grew developed a humped back with a curvature that just made it hard for the fish to swim, that fish would not have survived in nature because it would not have been able to swim away fast enough. In fact I was able to just reach in and grab it by hand and no net was necessary to catch it. I decided it was a healthy fish otherwise and fed it to my puffer. The puffer was brutal as he ate it and it made me cringe and rethink the whole thing about a convict (or in my case polar parrot) breeding colony to raise live food for the puffer. I just cant feed live fish to my puffer because they dont just gulp it down whole like a big Oscar but they totally tear into it with their beak-like teeth and obliterate and viserate it. Just too brutal to raise fish to be taken out like that.

So now what to do with a solo male polar parrot in a 40B? He has a ton of personality and is friendly and outgoing so do I get him a female and sell off or give away babies? Or try and get him some other tank mates that may work with him? For now he will be a bachelor.