Fish_Docs - Fishroom

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Ill start a running journal for everyone to see what is happening in fish_doc's fishroom. Fish additions, water changes, new fry, and the works.

[fish_doc]

Yesterday - Adopted 4 different 3/4inch long Jack Dempsy Cichlids and placed them in their own pre-cycled tank.

Today - Adopted 1 male guppy and added to a tank with 2 female guppies. Blue-Purple in color.
Also adopted 6 swordtails. 3 of whcih are orange females 3 of which are orange males with black swords.
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In this Journal I will use the word Adopted when I buy a fish and rescued when I get a fish from another person.
Rescue does not always mean it was being kept in less then ideal conditions. Just that the owner no longer wanted the fish and was getting rid of it.

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My Gouramis are blowing a bubble nest. Love is in the air (er Water)

Specialname where are you? These were the fish you gave me back when. They are still around and happy. I remember you changed your call name awhile back but I dont remember to what.

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There was a suicide in my fishroom last night. One of my female swordtails jumped out of the tank. I found her about 4ft from the tank awhile ago. A little dried up. Time to redo the lid to close up the open backside.

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Scouting out one of the fishstores today. I got a gift certificate that I need to use. they get another shipment on thursday so "ill be back"

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LOL My wife told me that when we were getting our furnace fixed yesterday the repair guy made a few comments about possible humidity issues in the future. I know this and had already got a dehumidifier to get us by until I set the fishroom up with all the tanks and proper filtration, for both water and air.

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My new swordtails came down with ick. Its the first case I have had in any of my tanks in years. I am medicating them with malachite green and pumped up the temps a little.

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I am treating the swordtails with malachite green from korden and they already seem to be getting better. I increased the temps a few degrees.

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The 2 females in the tank are all but better. The male swordtails still have several parasites on them. The tank is still being treated but it looks like all will be well.

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Looks like they have all recovered. YEA Ill continue treating the tank for another week just to kill off anything left in different stages of the lifecycle.

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Another swordfish suicide yesterday in my swordtail tank. They seem to be alot of trouble. LOL. So today I fixed the lid so it was nice and tight fitting.

To celebrate my simple labor on the hood made simple with the rotozip I bought 3 more female swordtails. So I now have 4 females and 2 males in the tank.

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I guess now that Ive posted several times Ill let everyone know what all I keep. LOL

60gal
1- Pleco
1- White stripe cat

55gal
3- comets

55gal
1- tin foil
2- plecos
1- red tail shark
5- giant dainos

30gal
3- Ryukin
2- Comets
1- Pleco

30gal
?- Guppies
5- Corydora

30gal
3- Tin foil barbs
2- spotted loaches
1- Channel Cat

20gal
Pond fish holding tank currently some comets

20gal
5- Red w/black tail Swordfish

20gal
4- baby Jack Dempsy

20gal
1- Black ghost knifefish

20gal
1- Newt

10gal
2- sunset groumis

10gal
?- guppies

2 - 10gal set up and empty
15 - 20gal empty in storage
1 - 225gal empty in storage

I know most of you will have a heart attack when looking at what I keep and what size tanks they are in. They are all currently in the proper tank for their size. And I have the equipment to upgrade them to larger tanks or put fewer of them in each tank as necessary. But unfortunally most people dont and buy and overcrowd their tanks not taking the adult size of the fish into account. When you really look at my tanks you will realize they are stocked low and are for the most part single species tanks.

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http://www.aworldoffish.com/about/me/55gal.htm
My 55 gallon tank.

http://www.aworldoffish.com/about/me/60hex.htm
My 60 gallon hex.

These are older pictures. I am known as fish_n_hole on several other boards.

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Busy week, My sunsets laid some more eggs but once again he could not pull it off. But tonight my guppies had more babies again. WOW just think of it guppies and fry. Who is that luckey with their breeding to get that to happen. (Sarcasim)

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Darn, I lost my white strip cat last night. He was almost 9 years old. Now my oldest is the pleco in the same tank bringing up about 8 1/2 years of age.

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I added a new friend to the fish room. He is a Grey Tree Frog. And best of all he was free.

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Finally got some photos of the Grey tree frog.

[Lydia]

wow hes really cute!

ps. I just realized this is a journal (yah Im tired you have to give me a break) since when could we reply to journals?

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I picked up a Elite Stingray submersible filter today for my newt tank. It is a fairly new filter on the market.

I will be running a life and reliablity test and posting the results on the attached link
http://www.aworldoffish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=32

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This little filter is doing a great job. Water is clear and you cant even hear the filter running.