Posts by Avery

When you are moving, either between houses or out of one location to another, how do you make sure that your corals are packaged correctly so that they don't die or break apart? Do you make sure that you bring along any cooling bags or heat mats if the temperature is going to swing when moving?

FYI, it looks like Petco is having a "Flash Sale" on all open tanks, similar to this type of sale, for the rest of the day (appears to be a random 24-hour window they selected).

Just a small update, I completely cleaned out the tank from all of the leftover lettuce over time leaving a lovely mess (drained about 30 of the 40 gallon tank). I’ve also purchased another surface skimmer to help push water around and moved the direction of water from counterclockwise to now clockwise. I’ve also stabilized the driftwood slightly more by adding more sand and fixing the rock points that it is surrounded by.

I still need to clean out the canister filter, but that will be at a later date. I’m also now down to just 4 of the original zebra danios, with the Chinese algae eater being eaten (it’s gone) recently. Turtle is a little bit bigger and doing healthy, no issues so far!

I might add some additional stocking of faster fish, possibly some of the smaller cichlids in order to add volume in the water column compared to the 4 danios that now school together throughout the tank. I need to also add in more plants, so far it’s left the Anubias alone but it still seems not so green compared to what I think it could be. Possibly thinking of Amazon swords (fast growing), Water wisteria (fast growing) or Java fern (bad taste) to add in around the driftwood.

What size do you normally purchase your corals at from any seller, and does the size matter on what type of coral it is, or is price more of the controlling reason?

Since mollies have a special ability to move through pure freshwater, to brackish, to saltwater, many people use these fish to determine if there are any issues with their water quality in their tanks since they are fairly cheap compared to many other saltwater fish that are common in the hobby. Have you ever used mollies inside of your tank in order to get used to saltwater (as a beginner), or do you use them as a dither fish in the background since they breed extremely easily and are very popular in the freshwater hobby?

Since many fish can actually be completely different in terms of behavior with other species inside of a tank, have you ever had to return a given fish because it just didn't fit well with the rest of your tank or other members of it's own species? Were you able to return it to the store that you purchased it for a credit back, or did you have to find another method to rehome the fish elsewhere?

Do you know how long that is has been like this by chance? Have you tested any of the water parameters, and if there are any other fish in the tank, are they showing similar symptoms or are they still looking healthy?

Most people tend to feed them food that they feed their fish, but ideally worms (smaller worms that can fit in their mouth), pellets that can sink, sometimes flakes, but ideally anything that can fit in their mouth easily without them having to struggle to find the food or fight it (or fight for it with other species in the same tank).

I've found that keeping African Clawed Frogs tends to be a species only tank (due to their size, and fast movement to catch any smaller fish that move around/above them) unless you have a large long tank. In terms of keeping them with goldfish, I've seen it done, although they come from totally two different habitats in the wild, so their care requirements are different and may result in one species suffering a tad more than the other.

I tend to buy an automatic feeder and place various food in it, but making sure my vacation isn’t longer than a week and a half up to 2 weeks (many of the automatic feeders on market can only supply enough food for about a week). If I need to take longer than 2 weeks, then I try to have a family member or someone I know feed them.

For their diet, it’s always highly recommended to feed a variety of food per week in order to make sure that they aren’t lacking anything from one specific food source. As far as growth, that is normally tied to the temperature of the water (warmer water will result in a faster metabolism which means faster growing compared to colder water).

Keeping up with the past 2 years now, the event has always ended around March/April, and started again on July. Therefore we predict the same, with it stating the first week of July and ironically ending the last week of July.

Do you just leave any new SPS frags upright and leave them on the frag plugs, do you remove them from the plugs and lay them down, in order to allow them to spread across the rock faster and at the same time while allowing for more natural like growth pattern inside of your aquarium?

Clearly, one thing to highlight is that tissue on polyps will invariably die so we don't want to lay down down incorrectly of having them faced any specific manner that may cause for them to not get any nutrients (or enough).

How do you decide how tall that you want your specific tank in your room, and what do you do to make sure it reaches that specific height? I've seen stands have options that can raise/lower, or people use DIY methods to build their own tank stand to make it that given height.

Can you ask your friend is the frog was always like this, or if after they added it to their tank, it lost it's webbed aspect on it's hand? If anything I'd watch for signs of the infection that you noted, since it's very very common and can lead to a loss of an arm/leg (and then be fatal). I'd also ask if they have any fish in the tank, or other decorations that might have caused for it to loose it over time (such as that SpongeBob Krusty Krab decoration in the photo if the individual webbed hands were caught in multiple times and ripped).

I'd recommend using boiling water, in order to kill anything that could be living or possibly might come alive (ex; eggs from any snails, bugs that have nested within, and even terminates if the wood has been left out for so long without any water touching it).

You could also dip it within white vinegar for a day to make sure anything on the outside is cleaned up (or the vinegar that soaks within the wood, is treated).

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Thank you for the dark themes! Can’t wait to see more!

We're slowly adding more and more in, so please let me know any specific colors you would want to see added!

Since hitchhikers can come not only from buying and adding new plants into your tank, but also from decorations, substrate, and even adding other fish in - what is the most interesting story you have from a hitchhiker making its way into your tank? Did you end up keeping the hitchhiker, or were they a pest and you removed them?

Since it is always is highly recommended to rinse any substrate that should be added to a tank, whether new or not, many don't do this since it can save time, or if the substrate is clean enough, might not be worth the overall time taken to wash out buckets and buckets of substrate. Ranging from pebbles, to gravel, to sand, do you personally wash your substrate - and if not, what is your reasoning behind it?

Have you ever had a filter that even on the lowest setting, that it was just far too strong for your tank setup/layout? What did you do in order to reduce the flow, or make sure that it wasn't just directed at a given specific point that would toss fish around inside of the tank?

Was your method something of a DIY with household items, or were you able to purchase something that fit your filter which was able to disperse the water output?