Unlabelled Aquariums - [Auto-Post] Weekly Question Thread! Ask /r/Aquariums anything you want to know about the hobby!

February 04, 2019
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Aquariums - [Auto-Post] Weekly Question Thread! Ask /r/Aquariums anything you want to know about the hobby!

[Auto-Post] Weekly Question Thread! Ask /r/Aquariums anything you want to know about the hobby!

Posted: 03 Feb 2019 11:16 PM PST

This is an auto-post for the weekly question thread.

Here you can ask questions for which you don't want to make a separate thread and it also aggregates the questions, so others can learn.

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2 year transformation: PetSmart Boesemani Rainbowfish

Posted: 03 Feb 2019 06:55 PM PST

Inverted aquarium on a goldfish pond at my local plant nursery

Posted: 03 Feb 2019 09:01 AM PST

Pam and Saucer

Posted: 04 Feb 2019 01:51 AM PST

Not exactly a tank post, but I started building a wrap to cover my stand this weekend.

Posted: 04 Feb 2019 06:16 AM PST

My 75 Gallon FW Tank

Posted: 04 Feb 2019 03:40 AM PST

Mine and my boyfriends first tank.

Posted: 03 Feb 2019 08:04 AM PST

happiest girl in the world

Posted: 03 Feb 2019 09:14 PM PST

I love my bed room

Posted: 03 Feb 2019 04:14 PM PST

Sometimes you just have to appreciate the beauty of your mainstream cherry shrimps

Posted: 04 Feb 2019 01:18 AM PST

3 Months of Progress

Posted: 03 Feb 2019 11:13 AM PST

Fresh batch of Cory fry!

Posted: 03 Feb 2019 07:59 PM PST

I’m so pleased with the coloration in my Rainbow! Also, the Clown Loaches are pretty cool

Posted: 03 Feb 2019 08:01 PM PST

Snarky water puppy

Posted: 03 Feb 2019 02:20 PM PST

Longest time without seeing fish?

Posted: 04 Feb 2019 03:55 AM PST

What's the longest you've gone without seeing one of your fish?

I've got a male neon dwarf rainbowfish that I could have sworn has been dead and eaten for about 2 months that has happily reappeared as if nothing has been wrong. I've got a group of 6, 2 of which are males, but since the end of November I've only been seeing 1 male despite several attempts to find any trace of the other. The tank is heavily planted but they're such active fish that it's not hard to find them. I'm now left questioning my counting skills but very happy to have him back!

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Pea Puffers saying hello!

Posted: 03 Feb 2019 08:35 PM PST

Currently on baby watch!

Posted: 04 Feb 2019 04:07 AM PST

The dark knight of my tank. Only comes out at night. My tiny micro spider crab.

Posted: 03 Feb 2019 10:30 AM PST

Oddball clown loach (4 stripes) at a fish farm I visited in Florida

Posted: 03 Feb 2019 10:03 AM PST

Happily Co-existing!

Posted: 03 Feb 2019 08:58 PM PST

The indoor pond and it’s blooming

Posted: 03 Feb 2019 05:38 PM PST

New Nano shrimp tank. Ready to be Aquascaped. Any tips on shrimp tanks will be appreciated.

Posted: 04 Feb 2019 06:39 AM PST

My (& my boyfriend's) Blue Diamond Discus

Posted: 03 Feb 2019 02:52 PM PST

Flew halfway across the world to meet someone I met on the sub here and see their awesome tanks in person.

Posted: 03 Feb 2019 01:13 PM PST

Siamese guppy twin?

Posted: 03 Feb 2019 08:10 PM PST

Setting up a tank for my disabled fish (or do I need to?)

Posted: 04 Feb 2019 05:40 AM PST

Long story short - I was given 8 guppies a few months ago without notice. I'm a preschool teacher and it was a gift for my classroom. I know nothing about fish of any sort. I've been doing my research and learning as much as I can, but I still don't know much. I'm absolutely the worst about figuring out when my pregnant fish are getting ready to give birth and separating them. I'll separate one for a while, then eventually she wont give birth so I return her to the tank, and then suddenly I'm chasing tiny fry around with a net to save them. From 6 pregnancies (4 female guppies) I've saved 11 fry. In order: 1, 4, 2, 1, 1, 2. Thats alright though. Not trying to overpopulate my tank.

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Before I explain what is going on with my fishies, let me be clear that I will not be putting these fish "out of their misery" as was suggested by some people I know IRL. My fish are growing and coming in to their color. They are active and playful, even if their play looks a little more ridiculous. They do not strike me as too miserable to go on, and I haven't got the heart to put them down.

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Two of those babies, from the third birth (first pregnancy of that particular guppy) have what I can only assume are swim bladder troubles from a birth defect. At first I thought they had gotten injured. My tank was leaking, I had a spare but it needed to be in the same place that my leaking tank was. I moved the (known) fish to bowls, drained the tank with a siphon saving water in various buckets and put the water into the new tank once I got the other out of the way. It was in those buckets that I found two tinies. One of them was able to swim - I didn't notice his troubles right away. The other only moved when I disturbed it. He would flop around like a fish out of water, then go still. I did not expect him to live through the night, and worried I'd hurt him, sucking him through the siphon.

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For a few days he flopped about, becoming more active every day but less flip-floppy. At first he could only move by flapping and rolling, but now he swims, gently dragging his belly across the bottom. He's able to remain upright now, and can swim/steer as long as he doesn't try to move vertically. When he tries to swim upwards, he flops around again. I make sure his food sinks to the bottom of the tank for him. Sometimes he gets stuck in corners, but he can usually flail his way out eventually.

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After a few days of observing them closely I noticed the other fish, the one who CAN swim has to expend far more energy to do so than is normal. He's visibly working hard, compared to other fry. When going upwards towards the surface he goes STRAIGHT up, nose in the air. He usually seems able to maintain normal swimming at any given depth, but he becomes tired easily, and sometimes just.... loses control. He will occasionally stumble while swimming, flopping around and sinking to the bottom of the breeder box, sometimes upside down, and when he gets upside down he sometimes seems to struggle to right himself. This isn't often, but happens enough. More often, he swims with great effort, but mostly effectively and needs a long rest after. Occasionally these two babies get playful and flip and flop around together at the bottom.

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They are currently about 3 or 4 weeks old. They can't live the rest of their lives in the breeder box, but I worry about returning them to the main tank, where they might get bullied or even killed by the bigger, more agile fish. Even at full size, I don't know if they could survive in there. I also worry about the one who slides on the bottom rubbing his belly on the rocks I currently have in there. Maybe I'm just paranoid. Maybe they'll do fine. I don't know much about this at all.

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I was thinking of setting up a tank at my home for these two. I have gone back and forth with myself several times about things.

  • size: do I want something small because they don't get around well and this would be easier for them, or normal sized so they actually have the space to practice swimming. Maybe long and shallow so Swimmy can surface feed?
  • about substrate: Floppy drags on the bottom and I definitely dont want to do rocks. He does well in the plastic-bottom of the breeder, but don't important bacteria live in the substrate? I dont want the water quality to become a problem due to lack of substrate. Maybe sand, but I worry that could impede his movement.
  • I've never seen a tank with such a small number of guppies - will they do okay with just the two of them?
  • Plants? Decorations? They get stuck in corners all the time in the breeder, and I worry about putting any more obstacles in their path in a tank, but I also want them to have the opportunity to hide if they want.
  • And then of course there's the fact that I haven't looked well enough to see if they are males or females (hoping both the same, whichever)
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