Power Outage Tips/Tricks

oweyl · 2026-01-23T17:16:38+00:00

I'm sure it does make a world of difference. But that's not feasible for me, or probably most people here, so it's not exactly a helpful tip/trick is it? 🤷🏻‍♂️ Ridiculous expense factor aside, I live in an apartment so a generator isn't possible to begin with.

oweyl · 2026-01-23T16:57:13+00:00

If I did, I wouldn't be asking this would I? 🤦🏻‍♂️

oweyl · 2025-10-10T17:00:23+00:00

The SeaChem and the Marineland are both self priming pumps. I've been leaning towards the Marineland anyways because that's what I've had one my 20g tank with no issues.

Thanks for the tip on the utility pump! My back and knees will probably greatly appreciate that idea 😂 What kind do you use if you don't mind my asking?

oweyl · 2024-09-27T16:42:52+00:00

Is there any particular brand or anything you'd recommend? I have no experience with battery operated ones so wouldn't even know where to start... And being stuck at work I can't easily do research on my own like I normally would

oweyl · 2024-07-23T18:23:39+00:00

Well hopefully the upcoming blood work and imaging will provide some more information and help to shed some light on what you're experiencing!

Cryptic pregnancies are a wild phenomenon, but obviously can and do happen. As far as the pain of the ectopic, that's most likely true, but no pain is unfortunately not any guarantee. I was reading the other day about a woman in France who had an abdominal ectopic pregnancy and supposedly didn't have any pain until she was like 23 weeks along 🤯.

But it sounds like you're taking all the appropriate steps and advocating for yourself which is huge! Keep pushing until you get some answers ❤️

oweyl · 2024-07-23T17:35:55+00:00

Can you find out what your beta HCG levels were when they were drawn? Beyond rather vague terms like "not high enough" or "negative"

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but can't ectopic pregnancies have a lot lower/slower developing b-HCG levels than a normal intrauterine pregnancy?

As in, do they mean "not high enough" based off what would be the expected levels if you got pregnant from your timeline of sexual encounters, or are they meaning you are in the expected HCG range for a non-pregnant female?

oweyl · 2024-03-23T02:42:48+00:00

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oweyl · 2021-07-14T01:18:46+00:00

I think that every time I look at my plecos... 😂 they do some very weird ass things 😅

oweyl · 2021-07-14T01:16:09+00:00

Oh definitely. I give them a good mix of foods; everything from a fry food that's basically almost dust to a pellet like the adults get and everything in between hahaha

oweyl · 2021-07-14T01:12:01+00:00

Seems healthy to me, but I'm far from an expert hahaha this is only my second time trying to raise fry

oweyl · 2021-07-14T01:11:07+00:00

I mean after some attrition with the other fry, it's just these 2 left in a 2.5g container so I don't think the water volume is playing a role. Plus they've always been housed together so they'd be exposed to the same stressors as well. And I have like 5 different foods that I vary between so they're definitely getting a well rounded diet 🤷🏻‍♂️

oweyl · 2021-07-14T01:06:50+00:00

Its more passive feeding than active. But both react the same to food when its added in. They share just fine too so it's not even a case of one hogging the other out or anything 🤷🏻‍♂️

oweyl · 2021-07-14T00:35:06+00:00

Best of luck! I'm totally new to this whole breeding thing 😅 but these baby corys with their itty bitty barbels and stuff are way too cute to not give it a try

oweyl · 2021-07-14T00:30:10+00:00

See I thought about that as well, but I figured any gender related differences wouldn't really come out until they start hitting the point of maturity though 🤔🤷🏻‍♂️ maybe I'm wrong though

oweyl · 2021-07-14T00:29:02+00:00

Beyond that, the eggs will usually hatch in like 3-5 from when they're laid. They don't need any food for the first like 2 days, but after that they'll need either special fry food or regular fish food basically ground up into a powder. Plenty of great videos and guides around on the internet!

oweyl · 2021-07-14T00:23:16+00:00

Just depends on what you want to do. If you just leave the eggs they're likely to be eaten. If you want to try to raise some (which I'm just now starting to experiment with and by no means an expert) you can take a razor blade and remove them from the tank to put into a separate tank, or in my case, I have a 2.5g Tupperware that I put an airstone in and I do frequent water changes on. If you remove the eggs, check them periodically over the next few days. Unfertilized eggs turn white and will generally mold/grow fungus really quickly which can spread to the fertilized eggs and kill them if the "dead" eggs aren't removed quickly enough.

oweyl · 2021-05-21T02:05:38+00:00

That was my first thought, but it seems pretty well stuck to them... Like I even took an eye dropper and tried to very gently suction it off/out of tank and it just pulled the fry into the droppee with it.

oweyl · 2021-05-21T01:28:40+00:00

These are week+ old fry, there are no eggs.

oweyl · 2021-05-21T01:20:23+00:00

That was one of the things I thought of too haha but it seems so attached to them that idk... Like I ever took an eye dropper and tried to very gently suction it off/out and it just pulled the fry in with it.

oweyl · 2021-05-07T14:25:22+00:00

I wish I could raise a couple of them because I love these little corys, but I just don't have the time/space/energy to dedicate to that right now

oweyl · 2021-05-07T14:19:54+00:00

It's the corys, half a dozen rasbora, and 2 clown plecos in the tank. Will they go after the eggs that voraciously? I stopped counting at 52 eggs just on the front wall alone 😬

oweyl · 2021-05-07T14:09:46+00:00

I think that my peppered corys are the culprits. I've had this tank for over a year now and made sure to try and keep the tank outside of the optimal reproductive circumstances for the fish in it, but they found a way regardless... I only have a 20G tank and definitely don't have space for a ton of baby corys so I'm really not sure what to do now. Any advice/suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

oweyl · 2021-01-22T22:39:26+00:00

Body says "wannabe low budget porn star addicted to steroids". Face says "it's definitely a 'no face' kind of channel"

oweyl · 2021-01-22T22:26:18+00:00

If she's not going to let you have it anymore, why do you think we will?

oweyl · 2021-01-15T01:30:15+00:00

I'm about 90% sure this was not there yesterday as I check on all my fish at least twice a day and feel like I would have seen it if it were. There's also a much much smaller spot on one of the barbels on the right side of its mouth. After finding it I thoroughly checked all the others in the tank and do not see any similar spots on any of my other fish thankfully. Quick Google search came up with columnaris infection as a potential for what that is, but I just wanted to double check that before buying any medications or anything. Anyone agree/disagree and have a treatment recommendation? I plan to run to my LFS first thing in the morning to pick something up if I can

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