cybervseas

I need more soil. And to clean up my 3D printed pot when I’ve finished adding soil lol.

Everything is semi hydro. Except the Cordyline Ti Plant which does have an air stone because I wanted to and I have so much extra aquarium stuff.

The other three are alocasias: azlanii, variegated frydek, and a mystery maybe frydek.

Using hydroponic fertilizers and dosing rates suggested by the brilliant @Guenther_Amanita@slrpnk.net in a post here on Lemmy.

I know summer is almost over. Shush. Everything is semi hydro, using the dosing rates suggested by the brilliant @Guenther_Amanita@slrpnk.net in a post here on Lemmy.

Nah, everyone loved it a lot. The platinum medaka got all territorial it was adorable.

[CW: talk about losing fish]

I was so excited to get some more peacock gudgeons to join my one lonely one in a big, planted, 50 gallon+ indoor pond. I got them from the incomparable Dan's Fish. Followed his instructions to float the bags then add the fish.

For a day or so, everything seemed okay. Then it seemed like I couldn't see any of the peacock gudgeons for a couple of weeks. I didn't think much of it, as I know they can be shy while they're getting settled in.

One evening I noticed the first little dried out fishie on the floor. I wondered about the rest, but after a few seconds of searching about, I didn't see any others. The next evening I looked more closely and tangled up in the cables and tubes on the floor around the pond I found the other three.

I'm sad, but also I know they're just fish and these things happens sometimes. I hope I can learn how to prevent this in the future, if possible.

Interestingly, my local Petco had two peacock gudgeons, too. I brought them home, kept them in a mini quarantine (with a lid lol), and then drip acclimated them and added them to my mini-pond at night when the lights were almost 0%, one new fish per night. It has been almost two weeks, and both seem to have settled in, showing their cute curious faces sometimes on my underwater livestream or in person at the surface. Though Dan's Fish doesn't mention it, Aquatic Arts mentions that they can jump, especially in the first couple of weeks.

What do I think is going on? What do you think is going on?

• Could it be the stress of different environmental conditions? Dansfish keeps fish in relatively hard 8.2 pH water (16dGH, 16dKH). In NYC, my water is 6.8pH and very soft with 1 dKH and 2dGH.
• Could it be the stress of how they were added? The jumpers were added all 4 at the same time, and the lights were on.
• Could it be the lack of drip acclimation? For fish coming in the mail I know it makes sense to not drip acclimate, but now I wonder if it's better to keep them in a small acclimation tank and only then introduce them to the rest of their new family.

Instead of giving a regular feeding I kept a bit of prepared repashy in Dora and had my Barlus underwater camera trained on it. Every kind of fish and even the shrimp came over to enjoy it! Peacock gudgeon, gold laser corys, platinum medaka ricefish, and white cloud mountain minnows all came by for a nibble.

Clip I captured from my 24/7 indoor pond underwater livestream.

They don’t move like daphnia and I do hatch baby brine shrimp. Did I get some eggs in here somehow? This many?!

So many fry; send help 😅

These are baby brine shrimp I hatched that are being circulated by the current of the filter/bubbles.

The medaka are growing up in a tiny hatching tank because my planted grow-out tank is still cycling. This is just a portion of the fry. I don't think I transferred this many fry over from my indoor pond; I bet a bunch of eggs came attached to the plants that I added in. Not pictured are also a few white cloud mountain minnow and peacock gudgeon fry.

Semi-hydro is so popular now, but everyone says to replace the water every few days because it runs out of oxygen. Coming from the aquarium/pond world I thought, "what if I put an extra bubble thing+pump into the pot?"

Apparently that's DWC. But so many of the ready-to-use DWC setups are...kind of ugly. I think people use them more for vegetables or weed. The caladium are from bulbs (etsy and Home Depot), the tradescantia are cuttings I took from a coworker's plant, and the "Ti" plants are still just logs I'm propagating that are showing their first little nubs now. Using aquarium liquid fertiizers.

I just want to avoid having a bunch of dirt in my apartment. Sweeping it, vacuuming, dirt stains...

This was while I was rearranging a few things in my indoor pond.