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Post by naturenut1233 on Nov 11, 2017 21:35:13 GMT -5
I've been an almost life long aquarium fanatic and usually have had numerous fresh and salt water set ups all through out my house, but have moved a few times in the past few years and had major life changes so in that time I went down to basically one tank, sometimes no tanks. Well now I'm looking to get back into raising fish, inverts, plants, and live foods and figured instead of buying everything I want online or trying to find them at petco (not likely), I figured I'd post below what I'm looking for. If you want to sell, give away, or trade, let me know. Looking for: Green water culture Daphnia culture Walter worm or Banana worm culture Vinegar eels Halfmoon Betta Females Maybe other Bettas Possibly some pure strain guppies Cory cats maybe? Any floating plants, duckweed, water sprite, salvinia cucullata would be awesome, frogbit, water lettuce, etc. Snails other than red ramshorn or mystery snails Might be interested in some shrimp What I have to trade: This list will grow over time... Java Moss Microworm culture Mixed Guppies Red Swordtails (True red, not the washed out chain store ones) Maybe a few bristlenose plecos Some nice whelk shells that help stabilize ph / harden the water and helps snails have great shells. Red ramshorn snails with no damage to shells In the future I will have a linebred strain of albino koi guppies but will take some time, and lots more. If you have anything else that you think I might be interested in that is aquarium related let me know.  Thanks. |
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Post by scoobnoob on Nov 12, 2017 13:09:48 GMT -5
I have more duckweed than I know what to do with weekly. Im in Old town you can have a quart of it if you head up this way.
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Post by georgemygoldfish on Nov 12, 2017 13:31:40 GMT -5
Hey lady, we should meet up! I'm located in Wayne, right next to Winthrop. Not too far away. I checked out your farm page... We used to have organic veggies and livestock. Finn sheep, mohair goats and a llama. I got rid of everything a few years ago when I got Lupus and it was just too much. I still want chickens darn it! Next year LOL!! I've got 5 planted aquariums. But I'm overhauling them all now. The silicone's wearing out on the 40 gallon in the dinning room, and I'm redoing my goldfish setup. They were my Nephews goldfish that I inherited when he went away to collage... George and Gracie. They're in a 40 gallon with a 30 gallon refugium to help with water quality and cut down on multiple water changes every week. Redoing the deep sand bed. It really helped with the nitrates, but it's gone stagnant. Going to add tunneling mountain trumpet snails to the new one to aerate it. Also re-doing the plumbing to make it better. I'm also tossing the plants in the dining room tank as it has a terrible infestation of pest snails and limpets that are out of control. Limpets are awful... Nothing kills them. You don't want them. I've given up and that's one of the reasons I'm re-doing it.  So I won't have a lot of plants for about 2 months. But the dining room tank is a high tech setup and when I re-do it they'll grow really fast! I've got Bloody Mary and Pure Red Line shrimp - opps! I mean feeder shrimp... This is Maine LOL!!! I've got Panda Cories that breed constantly. They're a really fun cory. Their little black masks are adorable and they're hysterical in numbers. Total mischief! I could collect some eggs if you want. They hatch really quick. 2 days. I tried to grow daphnia but found it too high maintenance having to grow green water to feed the food. Plus the cultures can crash on a regular basis and you have to start them all again. So I settled on micro worms and grindle worms that I keep on pot scrubbers. And frozen bloodworms from Petco... But fish do LOOOVE daphnia, and they're awesome to bring them into a breeding condition! I've done walter and banana worms, but they're so close to microworms I just stick with the micros. Grindles would be great for guppies. They're too big for fry, but great for smaller fish like guppies and small schoolers. A nice in-between food. Bigger than micros, but smaller than bloodworms... And easier to keep than daphnia. But that's just me - I'm lazy LOL!! I love frogbit, but I don't like duckweed. It takes over too much. And frogbit looks like little lily pads... I love it. Getting some more for the new set up. Tried red root floaters but didn't have a lot of luck with them, even in the high tech tank. Used to have salvinia and it did very well, but weeded out everything for the beloved frogbit. I never tried water lettuce. They do have a smaller variety of it though... I don't have anything larger than a 40 gallon. Would love to but I live in an old farmhouse that I'm renovating, and I don't trust too much weight on my old floors... I'll be getting elodea densa again, jungle val, sprite and probably some more wysteria. Those are always essential fast growers for me. I have christmas moss that I'll be scaling up for the new tank, fissendens (grows slowly even in high tech), java and star moss. And I'm definitely getting some buces! I have some other high light and needy plants but I'm tossing them so I can try some new ones... And I have some bronze crypts in my PRL tank that I'll be diving up and replanting in the new tank. Like I said, I won't have much for about 2 months, but it would be nice to have someone local to trade cuttings with! Oh, and it you want some shrimp they're free. They breed like guppies and I have plenty. LOL!!! (I promise the hateful limpets will be gone) Don't think I have anything else on your list... But I've also got otos, pseudomaguil gertrudae ARU II that I need to breed again and threadfin rainbows. Lost my cardinals in the power failure but I'll be getting more. But they'll get quarantined for at least 2 months... Cardinals can carry some nasty stuff... not just NTD!   |
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Post by naturenut1233 on Nov 12, 2017 16:59:50 GMT -5
I like duckweed however old town is a bit far. If you wanted to put a little in a zip lock bag and mail it to me that would be cool but I'm sure I can find it in local ponds in the spring. Shrimp would be neat but my tanks are new so probably should age the water a bit first. Would be fun to get together at some point and check out each others tanks maybe. Picked up old fashioned red swordtails today. Excited because it took years to find them. I just was looking in the wrong places.... |
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Post by naturenut1233 on Nov 12, 2017 17:35:42 GMT -5
Oh and I'd love some panda cories. I love cories. |
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Post by grassy on Nov 13, 2017 12:13:35 GMT -5
Have you ever had a Pea Puffer? they love to eat snails and freshwater limpets. I highly recommend them for that. They aren't the best with shrimp or small fish but great for pests.
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Post by georgemygoldfish on Nov 13, 2017 14:32:02 GMT -5
OMG pea puffers are soooo cute!! I don't think one would do well in my community tank. I don't think he'd play well in the sandbox with the pandas and otos... But I've thought of putting one in my 20 gallon shrimp tank. If he got a few shrimp, oh well, I've got lots... Yeah, the only practical solution to the limpets is to start the tank over. Seriously, I've done my own experiments on the little buggers. I set up a 5 gallon tank and put some in and nuked it with everything imaginable. From ammonia, copper containing stuff, No Planaria, drugs, algicides and everything nasty I could find. Nothing killed them!! When the world comes to an end, the only thing left will be cockroaches - and freshwater limpets!! LOL!!! I've heard some folks have had some luck with baby assassin snails, but they have to be baby snails. The adults won't bother with them. And the silicon is starting to age on the tank. So it's time for a re-boot anyway... Death to limpets!!! |
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Post by georgemygoldfish on Nov 13, 2017 15:09:43 GMT -5
naturenut1233, I'll be breaking the tank down in about 2 weeks. I have at least 1 baby running around, so there may be more.
Or I can get eggs any time.
The eggs are really easy to hatch. A drop of methylene blue ( I have some) in a container with an airstone and they hatch out in about 2-3 days. They hatch quick. A month or so in a small grow out tank and they should be good to go into a community tank with smaller fish. Feed them greenwater for a week or two, then graduate to microworms. I've even just used algae I've scraped from the side of my aquarium instead of greenwater. Works great if you only have a few to feed. I've got some powdered spirulina, sera micron and golden pearls I've mixed in as well. And I've used decapsulated brine shrimp eggs... I have a ton... I just mix it with the algae scrapings.
Cories are a stitch! They're the comedy factor in any tank! Yeah, I love them to!
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Post by naturenut1233 on Nov 13, 2017 16:10:16 GMT -5
I've never had pea puffers but it would be fun to set up a species tank for them. I've always loved puffers but never tried them due to the debate about salinity and the various species at the time. Now I'm comfortable with brackish, marine and fresh. Tell me more about pea puffers though. I don't really know much about them.
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Post by naturenut1233 on Nov 13, 2017 16:11:57 GMT -5
Would love any babies and/or eggs. Keep me in mind for sure. |
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Post by grassy on Nov 13, 2017 16:42:57 GMT -5
I have had a pea puffer for awhile now. They are totally freshwater so that is a plus. He has only bothered baby fish and the occasional shrimp if he is very hungry. Bigger fish such as ottos and cory cats he has left alone. I had a bunch of limpets in a "stream" tank that I would collect and feed to him along with snails. I eventually moved him into the stream tank and I haven't seen a limpet since.
The biggest downside to the pea puffers is their diet. They only eat live or frozen food so that can get tricky if either runs out. I have resorted to breaking open trumpet snails so he can eat them, otherwise they close up too tight/ burrow into the substrate so he can't get them. For the most part mine gets frozen blood worms and the occasional snail. On a side note, if you don't like seeing trumpet snails all over your tank a pea puffer will drive them into hiding but not eat them all, which is nice.
I would really like to set up a tank just for him and maybe a girlfriend or two but just don't have the space right now. Wondering how long they live because mine must be over 4 by now.
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Post by georgemygoldfish on Nov 13, 2017 18:48:40 GMT -5
Wow! What size tank did you keep him in, and did you have any other fish in there in addition to the ottos and cories? Most sites say they're aggressive and should be kept alone, like betta fish. But a lot of folks have found you can keep male bettas in community tanks, myself included. The tank just has to be large enough to give him space to himself, and maybe planted to help break up the line of sight. So maybe there's some wiggle room on the pea puffer rule as well...
I thought I remember reading somewhere that someone would put pellets or a little lettuce in the tank to lure the MTS out from hiding, and then the pea puffer would get them! Maybe that would work?
I'm also re-doing a deep sand bed/refugium set up. I'll be adding some MTS to it for better aeration of the bed. Hmmmm.... maybe a little pea puffer in that instead of the overflow shrimp tank? They are adorable!
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Post by georgemygoldfish on Nov 13, 2017 18:50:02 GMT -5
naturenut1233 - I'll message you when the I break the tank down. I'll see how many babies I have, and if not enough I'll grab some eggs...
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Post by naturenut1233 on Nov 13, 2017 19:35:24 GMT -5
k, ty. |
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Thanks. 
