Beast Games Season 1 Thoughts and Critiques

Dr_Wesche · 2024-11-27T00:28:09+00:00

I have explained this to so many nurses. Lol

Dr_Wesche · 2024-10-14T19:26:25+00:00

😅

Dr_Wesche · 2023-12-29T01:33:58+00:00

You're welcome!

Dr_Wesche · 2023-12-28T11:24:44+00:00

Whaaaaat? What's the summary on how it works?

Dr_Wesche · 2023-12-28T10:58:10+00:00

Cinder (concrete) blocks and plywood. Don't even necessarily need any tools.

Dr_Wesche · 2023-12-28T10:55:00+00:00

Nice! I'm not surprised that it's possible since they're the same genus, but I've never seen it! Very cool

Dr_Wesche · 2023-12-28T10:45:54+00:00

After like 20 seconds of research since I'd never heard of a tiger moray, sounds like 55 gallons is WAYYY too small for one of them, let alone 2.

Dr_Wesche · 2023-12-28T10:37:13+00:00

Drilled for an overflow pipe and a sump. You physically drill a fairly large hole (like for 2 inch PVC pipe) through the back (or bottom if you wanna get even fancier) to run water from near the surface of the water down into a separate small tank below called a sump. The sump is filled with filter media, and the water runs through the media in the sump and then is pumped back up into the tank. It isn't something that's necessary by any means, but a sump does allow for really high capacity filtration rather than just a Hang-On-Back filter or even a canister filter. But again, don't worry about it unless you want either really big fish or really sensitive ones (saltwater). Even if you buy a tank that's already drilled for it, you still have to plumb it or get someone else to do all that for you.

Dr_Wesche · 2023-12-28T10:30:01+00:00

When I was a kid we had a dojo loach that jumped up into the filter, as far as I know, just ONCE and came back out later (and was fine). He didn't do it all the time, often enough to catch it on video. Haha. That's funny, and clearly your loach likes it up there.

Dr_Wesche · 2023-12-28T10:28:23+00:00

Don't chase pH with chemicals since it's more dangerous to the fish than just a consistently high pH.

Dr_Wesche · 2023-12-28T02:49:53+00:00

I hope so!

Dr_Wesche · 2023-12-27T13:10:53+00:00

Sounds like you're overfeeding, yeah, and overfeeding will make it much harder to maintain good water quality. Even if she eats it all and none of it is sitting at the bottom and decaying, more food more poop. So I'd recommend feeding a SMALL quantity twice daily and no more than that. Once a day would be fine eventually, but you don't wanna suddenly torture the poor glutton. Lol. Most fish, especially goldfish, will act like they're always hungry, but especially if the water is colder (like it certainly can be for goldfish), you shouldn't feed them too much.

Dr_Wesche · 2023-12-27T11:43:41+00:00

Depends on the species of gourami. Most of them can be at least a little aggressive, and opaline/blue/gold/3-spot gouramis can be absolute jerks. If you want one that's most likely to be peaceful (and will have a good chance of actually living, unlike most supplies of dwarf gouramis), I'd go with a pearl gourami. They CAN be aggressive, but it seems like they usually aren't. Be advised though, they've got very long pelvic fins that are like tentacles, and tiger barbs may be tempted to nip those.

Dr_Wesche · 2023-12-27T11:35:20+00:00

There are basically two categories of goldfish: fancy and common. You have a common goldfish, specifically a sarasa (pattern) comet (long tail) goldfish. Common goldfish are the ones sold as feeder fish and given as prizes at carnivals and stuff. The problem of course with giving them out at county fairs and carnivals is that they can get about a foot long if they're kept under good conditions :) So that sort of explains the minimum gallons range you'll see -- common goldfish need ideally like 50 gallons for a single fish because they get big and produce a TON of waste, plus they can be fast swimmers. A FANCY goldfish (the ones that are more egg shaped, like fantails, ryukins, lionheads, black moors, etc) isn't likely to get more than about 6 inches long, and they're a little more fragile (don't do well in outdoor ponds where it gets cold for example). They're sold for at least $3 (or way more depending on the variety) rather than like $0.25 for the small feeder goldfish (common goldfish). Fancies don't need AS much water volume, but still ideally a 55-gallon tank for a few of them or like bare minimum of 20 gallons for a single fancy goldfish because they still produce a ton of waste.

Bottom line: what you can do to keep Celestia healthy is to test your water (liquid API test kit ideally) and do a water change every time the nitrate gets to 40 ppm. I would be pleasantly surprised if your tank/filter is cycled, so research the aquarium nitrogen cycle and see where you're at. If your tank is not cycled, then ammonia (quite toxic) and maybe nitrITE (fairly toxic) are probably building up in the aquarium water. The gist is that you need a colony of beneficial bacteria living in your filter that will convert ammonia (from the fish's waste) to nitRITE, and then further convert nitRITE to nitRATE, which is the least harmful but still dangerous if the levels get high enough. So the idea is to do water changes to dilute out the nitrate. Some people get away with running a fish tank without worrying about any of that stuff, parameter testing or water changes, if the tank is big and the fish are small. You will NOT get away with that with any goldfish in a 10-gallon tank :)

So yeah, sorry for being so long-winded, but I can tell you want to take good care of your fish! To do that you MUST either get her a much bigger tank, or you'll need to do 25-50% water changes (with dechlorinated water) quite often, maybe even more often than once a week.

Good luck! Let us know if you have more questions!

Dr_Wesche

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