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I got a 4-bulb, 48″ T5 aquarium lamp WITH lunar LEDs on ebay for 99 bucks! Hot diggety damn! Shipping is $25 but I e-mailed CurrentUSA and they said I can come pick it up. Sa-weet!
And to think I almost bought a 2-bulb one without lunar lights from the local pet store for $180! They’d charge about $270 for the rig I just bought on ebay. I am SO stoked right now. My fish are gonna need sunglasses!
chrisherself wrote:I got a 4-bulb, 48″ T5 aquarium lamp WITH lunar LEDs on ebay for 99 bucks! Hot diggety damn! Shipping is $25 but I e-mailed CurrentUSA and they said I can come pick it up. Sa-weet!
And to think I almost bought a 2-bulb one without lunar lights from the local pet store for $180! They’d charge about $270 for the rig I just bought on ebay. I am SO stoked right now. My fish are gonna need sunglasses!
Wow! What a deal! 😀 Do you have a picture of your aquarium? (or Harley for that matter? lol) I have a male betta, but just a 5 gallon tank 😳
NICE! That is an awesome deal! I have a 4 bulb high output T5 light, but I had to buy seperate lunar lights for it. Awesome that your lunar lights came with!
Those bulbs are so bright and hot, it raised the temp of my water by 3 degrees! 😆
Eleu wrote:I have a male betta, but just a 5 gallon tank 😳
I also have a male betta in a 5 gallon. Nice to know someone else besides me gives their betta a decent home and not some tiny little bowl. :yes:
Yeah, I heard that was a myth, how betas need to be in tiny bowls. They thrive much better in larger environments.
bayoudragon wrote:Eleu wrote:I have a male betta, but just a 5 gallon tank 😳
I also have a male betta in a 5 gallon. Nice to know someone else besides me gives their betta a decent home and not some tiny little bowl. :yes:
I know just what you mean! We started with a 2.5 gallon tank, but I switched to a 5 gallon cause I thought the other was a bit small. Cleo seems very happy in his home :* It makes me just SICK when I go down the pet isle in Walmart and I see a little Betta “tank” that holds literally about 4 or 5 CUPS of water, and it comes with a divider so you can put two in there 👿
Oh shoot, be careful what you ask for…I just needed an excuse to take some new pics of the tank 😀
Here’s Harley too! A kitten picture and a grown-up one.
And here’s some shots of the tanks:
Starting small, here’s my 2-gallon. Right now I’m using it as a fry tank to raise out the first batch of fry from my Cockatoo Cichlids. I only got about 6-9 but it’s my first try. I’m hoping my pair will breed again. The female’s more than eager, the male seems to have lost interest!
DIY Sea Monkey factory! The fry grow faster on live food.
Casa de Apistogramma Cacatuoides…and a blurry shot of the dad. Best I could do.
And…tra la! My BABY! All 60 gallons of it. I spend way too much time on this thing. All the plants are live–nothing in there is fake. Current fish species: Harlequin Rasbora, Mircorasbora, Gouramis, Peruvian Rams, Rhino Garras, and a Clown Loach. The plant species are too numerous to list, heh.
And here we have my fluffy pink Cabomba Furcata, my lovely Nymphaea Lily, and my dwarf Anubias, with an appearance from the camera-shy loach. (And…guess what! Labradorite stones!)
Oh, I love my tanks. I have another 10-gallon and a betta bowl, but they’re not as pretty 😀
oooh, pretty…. Do you use CO2? I coulnd’t see a diffuser anywhere. I you do, you hid it well (behind the pretty Cabomba, maybe). 😀
Ohh your apisto is sooo pretty. *wistful sigh* Always wanted them but I can’t afford to get them shipped to me.
I am having a wretched time with my tanks since I moved. I think that the live plants are disliking my well water, which is frustrating, because my house plants love it. Too much iron? I’m not sure what to do.Volunteer mod- I'm here to help! Email me for the best response: nambroth at gmail.com
My art: featherdust.comActually Bayou if you can believe it I don’t have a CO2 system at all–haven’t gotten around to saving up for it! That’s actually one of the things I’m proudest of, getting my tank to grow without a diffuser. I’d love one, but it has to wait for now. I add organic liquid carbon each day, as a replacement for a diffuser. The plants seem to do ok on it. The past couple weeks I’ve experimented with adding regular seltzer water (NOT club soda!!) to the tank each day instead of the carbon. The water seems clearer, and my java fern seem to have increased their growth a little. Too soon to tell much though.
That’s too bad Jennifer! I love keeping Apistos. They’re a pretty popular fish among fishkeepers since they’re pretty easy to keep and breed. You might be able to connect with a private breeder in your area through CL or asking around in the fish store. As far as the water, I’d get a test kit and figure out your new water profile. Most plants (and ALL the prettiest fish, it seems…) like real soft, mildly acidic water which is the exact opposite of what my tap is. My PH is about 7.8 and the general hardness is something like 15-18, pretty bad for the stuff I want to keep. Rather than mess with a bunch of buffers and chemicals, I just purchase reverse osmosis deionized water from the aquatic store. After messing around with my water test kit and a bunch of ratios I figured out I need a 1:9 mix of my tap to RO-DI water to get the ideal profile. It’s a bit of a pain lugging several 5-gallon jugs around all the time, but it’s worth it to keep the fish I love!
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