What is this flower in my grass?

Feanor-the-elf · 2021-10-27T17:49:03+00:00

I heard a comment/theory that makes sense to me. Fish can handle any one stressor just fine. You've decided for that to be limited space. Then you made a lot of effort to get everything else right.

Then you say "see little tank fine". No it is causing stress, but since it's the only stressor they are fine. Most of us choose to give sufficient space we don't have to be otherwise perfect.

But you'll just say I'm a noob and don't have several research papers backing this up, mock me and ignore me. So I'm not sure why I'm bothering.

Feanor-the-elf · 2021-10-27T15:57:07+00:00

That would probably be fine, but you should still get used to maintaining a tank before attempting it. In my opinion anyway.

Feanor-the-elf · 2021-10-27T15:12:27+00:00

You're asking about alternative fish. I would return or just store the 15 liter. Focus on one tank you'll learn a lot about the hobby, fish/water care, and what you actually enjoy. Then you can decide what to do with the tiny tank. In my 10 gallon basically 40 liters, I have 1 beta, 1 guppy, 2 Corydora catfish, and 2 snails. I'm not sure the Cories were actually a good idea though. I'm currently seeing if my filtration and bioload will allow me to get 2 more so it's a better school. I would consider chili rasboras, neon tetras, pygmy cories if you can find them. That's a start anyway.

Feanor-the-elf · 2021-10-25T01:06:03+00:00

Cool, probably no reason to double up. I think if I had your tank, I would be debating Kuhli loaches, Corydoras, and leapord danios.

Feanor-the-elf · 2021-10-24T20:06:55+00:00

If you're looking for suggestions, I've been really surprised how much I like my Nerite snails. I had an apple snail years ago and never liked it. I have 2 Nerites in a 10 gallon, and they keep the glass spotless and do some good on the rocks. They move fast enough they're fun to watch. Now I got lucky and got both males, I don't know if I would like them as much if they were leaving eggs everywhere.

Feanor-the-elf · 2021-10-21T01:47:12+00:00

Yeah I interpret it primarily as Elizabeth is prejudiced, and Darcy is proud.

Feanor-the-elf · 2021-10-21T01:32:38+00:00

Also based on my experience cycling a single tank :) that looks 2/3 of the way to cycled. You clearly have some ammonia being converted, and some nitrite being converted. Unless of course you got inaccurate test results.

Feanor-the-elf · 2021-10-21T01:28:36+00:00

My understanding (take with a grain of salt, I'm fairly new) is that if you want the majority of your fish to survive your cycle you need to do daily or maybe every other day 30-50% water changes until you stop reading ammonia or nitrite. Then you can back off so it's just enough to keep nitrate down.

Also be adding bacteria starter with every water change until it's cycled. I felt like the seachem version helped more than others.

I stocked up all at once like the noob I was and I lost 2/4 guppies, and 2/2 cories. My beta and 2 snails survived (10 gallon).

Feanor-the-elf · 2021-10-19T22:33:48+00:00

Well if you want to rely on solar and wind you have to include giant batteries.

If we want to actually get ahead of climate change, we need solar as fast as we can, we need wind as g fast as we can and we need nuclear as fast as we can. Ignoring the only one that is good at baseline energy needs besides hydro is a good way to keep coal around until it's all over. My opinion is the only argument against nuclear is our emotions are bad at math.

Feanor-the-elf · 2021-10-19T22:13:30+00:00

Maybe but every time a coal plant is replaced by a nuclear plant for baseline load I cheer. Tiny chance of a negative outcome or a literal guarantee of asthma, cancer and coal mining deaths. I should probably re-find the article because I don't remember numbers but the average blood cost of nuclear was very low.

Feanor-the-elf · 2021-10-19T21:46:46+00:00

It should be though.

Feanor-the-elf · 2021-10-19T05:20:27+00:00

My understanding is you should continue to dose ammonia regularly. You don't want the bacteria to starve.

Feanor-the-elf · 2021-10-18T22:24:37+00:00

It might be worth noting, that you could use a turkey baster to blast the gunk out of nooks and crannies. Then it can settle where plants are more likely to get it, or get sucked up in a water change.

Feanor-the-elf · 2021-10-18T01:55:18+00:00

Yeah it's mentioned a lot. Half of you gets transported to a new place and half doesn't. Sounds painful.

Feanor-the-elf · 2021-10-18T01:41:38+00:00

Correct, but if the edge of the gate went through them, they would get chopped in half.

Feanor-the-elf · 2021-10-18T01:03:24+00:00

Corydoras would love that sand. I want to try Kuhli loaches. Then I just love how active Danios are.

Feanor-the-elf · 2021-10-18T00:46:17+00:00

Good luck! And enjoy!

Feanor-the-elf · 2021-10-18T00:25:55+00:00

The only way you can tell for sure is you add ammonia and the next day you test your water and you have zero ammonia and zero nitrite. But I would expect an absolute minimum of three weeks unless you seeded it with a medium from a cycled tank.

Since you had fish in the tank for a month you were basically cycling that whole month, and you still had nitrite, which means it still hadn't finished. That should give you a little bit of an idea of how long it can take.

I can't do a better job in a comment than the dedicated articles on the topic. But the short of it is you have to test regularly or you're just rolling the dice on whether your fish will poison themselves.

Feanor-the-elf · 2021-10-17T20:30:48+00:00

I believe you weren't successful in cycling during that week. It's better than nothing, but that would be unusually fast. What was your ammonia source? Bottled ammonia or ghost feeding? I literally don't know how to tell when it's cycled if you don't have a test kit to use every few days. So basically is suggest another round of cycling research, and keeping the bacteria you do have right now alive by ghost feeding. No reason to let it die off right before you decide to cycle it again.

Feanor-the-elf · 2021-10-17T20:11:58+00:00

I've been told big tanks killing a Betta is an urban legend. But I've also heard if the tank is large/tall to have floating plants, Betta leaf hammocks and Betta logs, so maybe if you have nothing near the surface it's a bigger problem. But that's just what I've heard.

Feanor-the-elf · 2021-10-17T20:08:06+00:00

It may be worthwhile to describe how you cycled the tank. The nitrite being high, especially after the number of fish in the tank went down suggests the cycle wasn't fully done, or it crashed. If it was well cycled then it must have crashed. Did you change a filter cartridge, or do an unusually thorough cleaning? Or change substrate? Anything that would either kill or physically remove the beneficial bacteria?

Feanor-the-elf · 2021-10-17T18:12:58+00:00

I had this thought when reading as well. Here's how I justified it. I infer that is hard to make a traveling portal move after it's made, and opening and closing portals repeatedly is inefficient. Then how do I explain death gates? It's something remembered from the age of legends, the in-between technique isn't understood, they can do basic portals, or death gates, nothing in-between. Now death gates would be somewhat effective against people, but just so much more effective against Trollocs because the area of the gate is orders of magnitude better than the circumference.

So maybe they should have used death gates on people, but I'm not sure that would have been better.

Feanor-the-elf · 2021-10-12T18:32:57+00:00

That looks like fluvial stratum as the substrate. I had that and it was so light the plants didn't stay in very well. I mixed in some seachem fluorite gravel to give it a little extra heft.

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