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Posted 25 November 2012 - 08:03 PM

im not too worried about it. if it gets out of hand, ill just figure something out to get rid of it. when it comes to clado, i find that if you treat it like a fast growing moss, it will act like it. ive used it before, but it was always little clumps of stuff that i rolled into a ball, i had never thought about growing it into a pad before. besides, i want to set up a tank that is aquascaped with nothing but algae. this stuff will fit right in :)

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Posted 02 December 2012 - 05:16 AM

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so far the algae is behaving. i cut it into strips and lined a few small pieces of driftwood. if it works out well and continues to behave, ill try making a spawning site out of it. even if gilbertis wont lay their eggs in it, the fry will benefit from the copepods and ostracods that grow in it.

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Posted 02 December 2012 - 10:13 AM

I actually think the cladophora tank looks awesome.

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Posted 09 December 2012 - 04:56 AM

i am starting my newest tank. it will house a colony of young gilbertis. it wont have any plants, just driftwood and algae. i forgot to soak my driftwood first, so i had to pin it down until it stopped floating. and i stapled the algae to the log. and since i know many of you must be thinking it, yes, i am nuts. أشكر الله على الأسماك

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Posted 09 December 2012 - 04:51 PM

I woulda used 4 or 5 bungee cords to hold it on.

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Posted 09 December 2012 - 09:24 PM

well, i intended to use black thread wrapped around the whole log. as i was setting it up however, a stapler ended up in my hand(must have been within reach) and all prior planning went out the window. still, i think it will work.

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Posted 07 January 2013 - 02:07 AM

i just checked on the largest gilberti fry. some of them the females are almost large enough to breed. they cant be more than about 90 days old. they are growing much faster now that i modified their setup.

i added a filter with a spray bar to their tank as well as a whole lot of hair algae. lots and lots of little critters grow in the hair algae that the fish can eat. combine that with high 24/7 lighting and the increased oxygen from the surface agitation,(not to mention what the algae produces) and the fish are growing much faster. there has been a very noticeable difference in growth rates over the last three weeks. i noticed this for the smaller fish raised this way, but this is the first time i have taken a really close look at my original F1s since i modified their tank.

i was going to put them in the tank with the algae covered log, but it ended up being an emergency home for cherry shrimp. as it is, i put bluefin killifish fry in there to grow them out until they are big enough to go back in with the adults.

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Posted 16 February 2013 - 04:25 AM

for future reference, dont let a three year old anywhere near a tank. my daughter managed to stack some boxes on top of each other and climbed up and dumped a whole bunch of spirulina powder into the tank i had all my fry in. everything died :( .

at least i managed to move a group of the larger gilberties out of it a couple weeks ago...
in an effort to look at the bright side, im going to use this as an opportunity to test a couple ideas for breeding them faster. i just set up a breeder rack, and i will be putting several five gallon tanks on it. the idea is to leave a pair in each tank on the top shelf then move them(the fish) down to a lower shelf once a month. once a shelf goes two months without adult fish in it, it will be drained, fry will be collected, and adults will be put back into it. doing this, i hope to have more than i know what to do with soon.

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Posted 16 February 2013 - 07:39 PM

ooof, that stinks. I had a friend whose trouble-making 4-year old fed his tank a bunch of shredded cheese (she loved it so obviously the fish would too) as well as dropping in an... interesting... object that she had found in her mommies dresser drawer. But his fish survived, he just had a greasy film on the water for a while. Really sucks about your gilberti.
Hope your breeding scheme pans out though. Sounds like more work but hopefully it'll make up for the kid catastrophe.




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