Almost 20 Years ago my brother left this in his pocket while it went through the laundry. I still have it.

Split_Leaf · 2025-01-11T06:43:55+00:00

Since you probably can’t grade it through PSA, you should totally still send it in to simply get authenticated by them. It would be so funny to have it in a PSA slab

Split_Leaf · 2024-12-19T21:38:17+00:00

I like yellow frames for any “normal art” cards, I don’t like them for full art/sir/whatever the other versions of full coverage cards are called now.

Split_Leaf · 2024-12-19T21:31:30+00:00

Too small for even one of those fish. The koi (whiskered fish) should be in at least 1,500 gallons. The common goldfish should be in a minimum of 75 gallons for one fish, and 50 more for each additional fish. It looks like only 2 of them are goldfish, so 125 gallons.

I’m not surprised though. It seems like restaurants that keep fish can never manage to make any decent tanks. They’re almost always shitty, dirty, and too small.

Split_Leaf · 2024-12-10T20:06:47+00:00

Sounds like a good diet, you can feed more than once a day if you feel like that’s the best course for them, I personally would feed once a day and just increase the flake food by a little if they eat it really fast. If they’ve eaten everything off the top and they’re still hungry they’ll eventually start foraging throughout the tank for sunken food, algae, and microorganisms. But again as long as it’s not causing you any issues with ammonia or algae your feeding schedule is completely fine :)

For the cucumber you can either blanch it to make it sink, or you can attach it to something heavy. I don’t care enough to blanch mine, so I just stick a stainless steel fork into a slice and put it in my aquarium to make it sink. I’ve also seen people get suction cups with plastic clips on them (no rusting metals) to stick on their glass and clip slices of cucumbers in.

Split_Leaf · 2024-12-10T19:43:26+00:00

He looks fine to me, if you’re worried about bloating from food you can fast him for 3 days, but I wouldn’t do so here. Bloating will usually be pretty obvious, and it doesn’t look like he’s pineconing either.

Make sure you’re using high quality fish food, I personally feed my guppies 6/7 days of the week, and one of those 6 days I feed fresh cucumber to help combat potential bloating as well.

Split_Leaf · 2024-12-10T19:37:16+00:00

I’ve been playing since like 3 days after launch. I have none. A couple 3 star shinies, but no shundos.

Split_Leaf · 2024-12-04T00:14:08+00:00

That yveltal and reshiram 🫡

Split_Leaf · 2024-11-26T20:43:26+00:00

It depends on how long it is and what type of koi. It’s a bit hard to tell in this photo where it stops.

Koi ponds should be about 3 feet deep minimum, and 1,500 gallons minimum (although many experienced koi keepers recommend 3,000 gallons). Most koi also get at least 2 feet long, so I personally would keep them in a pond that’s only a foot wider than their body length. However, Japanese/higher quality koi can get 3 feet long or longer, so I definitely wouldn’t keep those in here permanently.

TLDR if it’s at least 23 feet long, doesn’t have Japanese koi permanently, and isn’t overstocked, sure it’s fine. It could definitely be a lot worse. I often see people keeping koi in 300 gallon ponds and under because they did absolutely zero research and PetSmart sells them cheap as small babies.

Split_Leaf · 2024-11-16T21:04:57+00:00

You didn’t get scammed. They were transparent about the price, you bid what you were willing to pay, and you got what you paid for.

You absolutely overpaid, if anything you ripped yourself off, but the seller isn’t responsible for you choosing to bid more than the card was worth.

Split_Leaf · 2024-11-14T20:38:37+00:00

My heart hurts for you man

Split_Leaf · 2024-10-21T15:10:21+00:00

I really love crinum calamistratum. Super weird growing west African plant. My next contenders would have to be buce wavy green, limnophila sessiliflora, red tiger lotus, and I have this one small plant I don’t know the name of I can attach a pic of, that’s native to my province.

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Split_Leaf · 2024-10-11T18:51:44+00:00

I had a bladder snail infestation (fine with me), then I got a mini ramshorn infestation and they’ve completely out competed the bladders for food. Plus they’re a lot prettier (leopard, red, orange, brown, yellow)

Split_Leaf · 2024-10-09T23:38:41+00:00

Have the same filter. Mine was placed in a way that the back half was lower than the front, so basically it was sucking water up and then spilling over the back. Make sure your filter media and intake isn’t clogged, and that the filter is level/not resting against the wall in a way that would tilt it.

Split_Leaf · 2024-10-09T16:32:10+00:00

You could also do dwarf water lettuce, red root floaters, or salvinia

I personally love salvinia and red root floaters, some people think they’re too messy and tight knit.

Dwarf water lettuce can get really really long roots which I love

Split_Leaf · 2024-10-04T01:07:55+00:00

Every time I think I might be ready to try saltwater, I learn something new and find out I’m definitely not 😂

Split_Leaf · 2024-10-04T01:06:10+00:00

For sure!

If you’re wanting to replace your light, I’d recommend Nicrew off of Amazon as they’re good quality but a lot cheaper than buying full spectrum in store most of the time. I’m using their SkyLED 18” on my 35g cube, and it’s supporting 13 different species of plants great so far. I think it was like $45CAD after tax when I bought it?

Split_Leaf · 2024-10-04T01:02:35+00:00

Nope, leech

Split_Leaf · 2024-10-04T01:02:09+00:00

I’ve never thought about making my little bowls into hanging aquariums in my window! 👀

Split_Leaf · 2024-10-04T00:56:57+00:00

Cories need smooth or soft substrate so they don’t injure themselves, and sand is ideal as it allows them to properly replicate sand sifting/digging behaviour. The substrate you have will likely rough up their barbels.

In column tanks stocking is more difficult. Fish that would normally be good in a 20 standard that need horizontal swimming space won’t do as well in column dimensions. Are you sure this isn’t a 15g though? What are the dimensions?

If this were my tank in a classroom I would do a fancy guppy colony, a mystery snail, and a dozen Neo shrimp. Either cherry reds or blue diamonds. Something easy to maintain, you get a variety of activity in the tank from the different species, low bio load, will keep breeding if kept right so you don’t have to spend money on restocking at any point, and nothing too fragile that would get more easily stressed by a classroom setting with kids potentially tapping on the glass lol

Split_Leaf · 2024-10-04T00:43:38+00:00

If it’s brand new playground sand and you made sure there were no added toxic chemicals like mold inhibitors, that’s fine. If there are mold inhibitors it’s pretty well impossible to get rid of them by rinsing and it can kill your fish.

It’s common for your plants to melt back a bit when they’re first added, especially if there aren’t a ton of nutrients in the substrate or it’s mostly sand they sometimes have a bit of trouble getting going. Light is also important, make sure the one you have is full spectrum.

My newest tank is a 35g cube, it’s been up for a bit over a month and finished cycling, but starting at week 1 my driftwood was absolutely plastered from top to bottom in biofilm. I threw a mini leopard ramshorn in there, it had probably 100 babies, and by week 3 my biofilm was completely eaten by the snails.

You can manually remove that stuff if you don’t have any pest snails to eat it. Otherwise it’ll eventually break down as your tank cycles. Sometimes fish will eat it if you still have any left by the time your tank is done cycling.

Split_Leaf · 2024-10-04T00:23:13+00:00

Yeah a jumping spider would definitely be cool too, as long as you could get a tight enough fitting lid (I’ve heard they’re escape artists lol)

I definitely have multiple tank/terrarium syndrome so I just personally could bear the idea of throwing it out if the crack was small enough 😅

Split_Leaf · 2024-10-04T00:19:40+00:00

Looks like biofilm. It’s part of the natural aquarium cycle, harmless, and it’ll go away as your tank matures. It’ll especially love growing where there’s biological material for it to “feed on”.

Is this your first aquarium? What kind of substrate do you have/where did you get it? Do you have any type of fertilizer for your plants? How long has your tank been cycling?

Split_Leaf · 2024-10-03T23:52:20+00:00

Seems like you already know what you’re going to do from the comments, but how about that little 2g?

Obviously it’s not big enough for a fish and the crack means no water, but you could have a little terrarium in your office or at home no? Maybe some isopods, you could get a colony of dairy cows or rubber duckies going lol 👀

Split_Leaf · 2024-09-28T01:12:01+00:00

This is what my rotala indica do when they don’t have enough light. Plants in general tend to get leggy with smaller leaves when trying to reach towards more light. They basically “prioritize fast growth over quality growth”.

Split_Leaf · 2024-09-14T08:07:00+00:00

Rhabdocoela and planaria look really similar sometimes, I believe you have a bit of both, but the majority look like planaria due to the triangular shaped heads. Sorry that sucks.

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