• The SH Membership has gone live. Only SH Members have access to post in the classifieds. All members can view the classifieds. Starting in 2020 only SH Members will be admitted to the annual hunting contest. Current members will need to follow these steps to upgrade: 1. Click on your username 2. Click on Account upgrades 3. Choose SH Member and purchase.
  • We've been working hard the past few weeks to come up with some big changes to our vendor policies to meet the changing needs of our community. Please see the new vendor rules here: Vendor Access Area Rules

Aquarium progress

There is a whole cult of black water fish keepers out there too. They set up some really cool looking tanks. It’s really weird looking into a tank that’s not clear though.
 
Dutch, you’re in Md still right? I had heard rumors of longear sunfish in the c&o canal for years but never found any. Last year I found a bunch in the monocacy including this guy all colored up on a nest. You could actually see the reddish color from a distance and tell they weren’t bluegill or redbreast.
 

Attachments

  • 58089B21-3F2B-4C02-88BE-2FF80C0390CC.jpeg
    58089B21-3F2B-4C02-88BE-2FF80C0390CC.jpeg
    283.1 KB · Views: 22
A couple of cichlids and a bunch of guppies provides for some entertainment. Add in an albino frog and enjoy!
 
DanD said:
Dutch, you’re in Md still right? I had heard rumors of longear sunfish in the c&o canal for years but never found any. Last year I found a bunch in the monocacy including this guy all colored up on a nest. You could actually see the reddish color from a distance and tell they weren’t bluegill or redbreast.
Click to expand...
i am yes, that's a pretty fish, confirms that he sunfish i have is definitely not a longear if that's the color they're suppsoed to have. i need to work on my ID, it used to jsut be is it big enough for bait or to eat? then it goes in the bucket.

I did a partial water change today and the 4 bluegill/sunfish ive got in there seem to be hanging in for the time being. a few of them are starting to eat pellets without just spitting them right back out every time
 
d1deb72b22e3d69c683ebf25fc9411af.jpg

This is my son’s fish tank. He’s 9 and he’s allergic to dogs and cats so we got him a fish tank. We did just get a kitten which he loves to play with but man he gets stopped up. I love the tank when it’s clean but I really need to figure out how to keep it that way. He’s just not old enough to do the water changing stuff. I bought a siphon to empty out water with but it doesn’t work very well. We probably need to get one of those nice kits that connect to the sink.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
Last edited:
aclawrence said:
d1deb72b22e3d69c683ebf25fc9411af.jpg

This is my son’s fish tank. He’s 9 and he’s allergic to dogs and cats so we got him a fish tank. We did just a get a kitten which he lives to play with but man he gets stopped up. I love the tank when it’s clean but I really need to figure out how to keep it that way. He’s just not old enough to do the water changing stuff. I bought a siphon to empty out water with but it doesn’t work very well. We probably need to get one of those nice kits that connect to the sink.

The python kits for the sink work great. Right before you refill the tank you add enough chlorine remover to treat the entire volume of the tank. I believe “Prime” is 2 drops per gallon, so in a 10 gallon tank, no matter how many gallons you remove you add 20 drops. Then get the water temp right and switch it from suction to fill. This way there is enough chemical to where you won’t have to worry. If you only lets say remove 5 gallons and you only treat with enough for 5 gallons of water and it’s spread out in a 10 gallon tank, you may have problems.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
 
ive had good luck with the siphon so far, its a pretty wide one though, tubin ID is like 1/2 inch and the siphon itself is like 2 inch diameter, the thinner ones don't have enough flow to pick up the junk. this one almost has too much and sucks som of the sand out between the gravel.

going strong so far, 4 fish are enjoying their semi-blackwater tank. seen to be eating pellets pretty well now, i'm going to give the tank a good cleaning and partial water change again next week, and a few bigger feedings with mealworms etc., and then hoping for the best as i'll be gone for a week/ 9 days so the lights will come on/off on a timer but the fish are going to fast for a while. hope they hang in there and are alive, ifa bit hungry, when i return. if they aren't ill be headed bak to the creek to start over
 
They are hanging in there, gave the tank an algae scrub, filter scrub, and a partial water change yesterday, so far so good. Hoping they eat up today/tomorrow and survive the week without me coming up!
 
Tknapp said:
This thread got me wanting to build up another tank. so im in the process of getting and setting up a 55 planted community tank.
Click to expand...
I hope you have better luck with planted tank, my fish seem to enjoy midnight uprooting (of one type of plant more than the other, the smaller kind in front, forget the name but it's in an earlier post). Not sure if they are eating it or just tearing it out but I've pretty much given up on replanting it. Once it's gone we shall see if the ones in the back meet the same floating fate as well. These fish are going to town on cichlid pellets now though so I take that as a good sign. Hoping a few large feedings this week will get them through the week that I'm gone and I don't come back to a dead tank.
 
thedutchtouch said:
I hope you have better luck with planted tank, my fish seem to enjoy midnight uprooting (of one type of plant more than the other, the smaller kind in front, forget the name but it's in an earlier post). Not sure if they are eating it or just tearing it out but I've pretty much given up on replanting it. Once it's gone we shall see if the ones in the back meet the same floating fate as well. These fish are going to town on cichlid pellets now though so I take that as a good sign. Hoping a few large feedings this week will get them through the week that I'm gone and I don't come back to a dead tank.
Click to expand...
They will be fine. You are better off not to over feed them. My female cichlids are mouth broarders, meaning that they hold their fertilized eggs in their mouth until they are fully formed fry. That lasts 18-30 days with no food. Your fish will be fine for a week.
 
Just did another partial water change and big cleanup, I've got the sunfish and two bluegill remaining. The sunfish seems to have created a bed on the open /smaller gravel side of the tank, and as a result is being more aggressive than "normal" to the bluegill, interesting to see how this will play out. I'll take a pic tomorrow or later if the bed is recreated, I messed it up a good amount vacuuming the gravel.

Edit: caught him rebuilding the bed already.
 
Last edited:
And the rebuilt bed, complete with almost all the dang plants pulled out again and my sign knocked over lol. And a fish wondering why I'm taking a photo instead of feeding him.
Screenshot_20230809-123148.png
 
Years ago I had a longeared sunfish in my aquarium. After a couple of years I put a bullhead in there and somehow it killed the sunfish shortly afterwards.
Also you can put vegetable/olive oil on the background and it will stick to the glass and not look as washed out.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top