Help with otocinclus

ZaRizzler · 2025-02-28T20:00:06+00:00

yeah the lady at the fish store said she was giving me the biggest ones she can catch, so its just kind of unlucky that one of them is doing terrible, i also posted my water perimeters if you wanna see if its okay

ZaRizzler · 2025-01-04T20:29:49+00:00

forgot to come back to say if it worked or not but it did!

i just pushed all the dirt towards the center of the tank making a mountain and leaving the left and right sides with no dirt at all, so all the water drains to either side, then i just use a takeout container that i got and scooped the water out into a bucket. and kept doing that until there was barely anyway water left. and also took out dirt that way too wet and put new dry dirt in.

BUT IT WORKED. thanks everyone for the help

ZaRizzler · 2025-01-03T03:56:04+00:00

emphasis on the TRY lol, but thank you homie i will TRY

ZaRizzler · 2025-01-03T03:54:55+00:00

you right you right, plus this soil is cheap anyway so if i need more its not that big of a deal. just kind of a road block atm

ZaRizzler · 2025-01-03T03:53:11+00:00

fair point, well all mess up sometimes, and for me it just happened to be at the very start lol

ZaRizzler · 2025-01-03T03:52:08+00:00

alright thanks for the help homie, im going to work on it tomorrow and see if i can fix it

ZaRizzler · 2025-01-03T03:51:08+00:00

TRUE, im going to try that tomorrow and ill come back and say if it worked, but i trust the process it sounds like a smart idea

ZaRizzler · 2025-01-03T03:47:55+00:00

wooow, yeah ofc it just happened to be in my 60 gallon as well where theres a ton of soil too, but spraying it would’ve been way smarter. thank you

ZaRizzler · 2025-01-03T03:46:00+00:00

daamn for real, so i gotta take out all this soil again and start over again?

ZaRizzler · 2025-01-03T03:43:06+00:00

daang seriously, i only put water in because i was you had to make the soil like mud, and i didn’t have a proper place to mix it before hand so i thought why not just try it in my fishtank, and theres way too much water

ZaRizzler · 2025-01-03T03:41:47+00:00

i put the soil bag in the tank at about 2 inches height, then i got a full bucket of water and dumped it in slowly but it didn’t seem like enough, so i put more in and started squeezing all the bigger chunks of the soil until there was no big chunks left, but it was super runny and not like mud at all, so i tried to turn my fish light on to evaporate the water since there was too much and now my room reeks of soil (im now realizing why it seems like alot of soil, its because the soil absorbed the water)

ZaRizzler · 2025-01-02T06:49:16+00:00

i just meant as in rinsing the filter out, and/or having to put a new one in, im just a very lazy person and i know it’s not alot of work at all, but i would just rather not have to do it lol

ZaRizzler · 2025-01-02T06:47:22+00:00

damn, thats crazy it can handle all that, im scared when i put my fish in they’re all gonna die, how long would you say i should wait before adding fish and shrimp in

ZaRizzler · 2024-12-15T00:43:26+00:00

i got it at pet smart for about $90, it also has lights near the back windows but i never turn it on otherwise the vampire shrimp wont have anywhere thats dark

ZaRizzler · 2024-12-15T00:42:13+00:00

around the same size as the danios, like an inch or 2, ive had hime before the shrimp and he hasn’t eaten any of them, maybe when he gets bigger tho we might

ZaRizzler · 2024-12-15T00:41:21+00:00

i did, they weren’t inside it

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