#75 gallon tank

[fishaccordingtosteve]

Lake Tanganyika Biotope upgrade...

I love the fish that come from Lake Tanganyika! It’s kind of like if you are a sports fan, you probably have some kind of personal connection with your favorite team. Maybe it was a team you watched or saw live when you were young. Maybe you have some family member playing or associated with that team. Whatever the reason is you might be a fan…. For those that have followed along through the…

[l3irdl3rain]

do not get an aquarium. just spilt multiple multiple gallons of water while cleaning Otto’s tank

[scopophobia-polaris]

Happy birthday! Hope you have a good day ^^

[lionblaze03-2]

Happy four year adoptiversary to my handsome little boy Montgomery Montgomery Python!!!

Got him august 11th 2019 in lieu of my 16th birthday three days later. I’m turning 20 now. I cannot BELIEVE I’ve had this stupid little rascal for four entire years it does NOT feel like it. Hobbies include hiding in my computer, staring at nothing, and trying to escape his glass prison in the dark. I love him

[keydekyie]

Little world.

[butchyena]

cleaning up and putting away jasper’s tank today. getting too sad seeing it empty all the time. got myself a small hobby tank for plants from work for cheap to make myself feel better lol

[waxingwintersun]

well well well. if it isn’t the blowjob brothers.

[bespectacledbookworm]

I. NEED. this Nate and Jeremiah Petsmart exclusive cabinet for 75 gallon fish tanks

Look at it. It's lovely! And it holds up to 900 lbs of weight. The electrical cord holes!!!

[swagging-back-to]

so there's been debate recently if hamsters are actually ethical to have as pets, particularly in comparison with other rodents like rats and mice, and the answer is almost always a resounding no.

They run five miles in the wild every night and often try to escape their enclosures or go depressed being confined even in massive cages that are the size of a medium closet. they're also completely nocturnal and are often woken in the day by us. and lots of people mentioned how their hamsters either did not like human interaction or did not like it enough to justify keeping them as pets (for the debate)

meanwhile mice are happy in 50-75 gallon tanks and a wheel. House mice, the species fancy mice were bred from, typically don't go very far from their nests. 10-50 feet. rats go a few hundred feet, still not comparable to the MILES that hamsters run.

and then there's the tamability. both mice and rats can grow to truly love human interaction and most do with a little bit of taming. for example, all of my girls who were rescues and had horrible experiences coming to me warmed up to me less than an hour after getting in their new cage (except for two. I've had twelve mice.) rats very often are referred to as pocket puppies BECAUSE OF how affectionate they are. hamsters arent really like that.

I feel like hamsters are cute, yes, but they're sought after more because they feel less 'rodenty' than mice and rats (who almost every culture sees as pests and dirty), even though they really should not be kept as pets.

[is-the-snake-video-cute]

sorry if you’ve already answered this but I’ve been considering getting a corn snake for a long while now so I was wondering around how much it costs to get all the stuff for the tank set up and whatnot, as I can’t really find a concrete answer online :) many thanks!

Hi there! Corns are awesome snakes, I'm so excited that you're considering one!

The reason you haven't been able to find a concrete answer, I'm afraid, is because it will vary very heavily based on where you live, the choices you make, and what's available to you. Here's a cornsnake shopping list that might be helpful, and in general I recommend budgeting no less than about 300 USD for initial setup.

A breakdown of that (specific to the US but hopefully you'll get the idea):

Enclosure! The cost of this will vary wildly. Adult cornsnakes need an enclosure that's at least 4 feet long and ideally 4 feet high, and bigger is always better. For baby snakes, you might very well want a smaller enclosure. It all depends on how old the snake is and your preferences, but I recommend no smaller than a 20 gallon for even babies, and you should be aware that you will need to upgrade. Depending on where you look you could spend 50 dollars here, or you could spend 500.

Depending on where you get it and the style of enclosure you choose, you might need to buy the lid separately, and they can be surprisingly expensive (anywhere from 20-75 dollars depending on size).

Heat and lights plus necessary accessories! You'll need, at the absolute minimum, a lamp, a thermostat, and the bulb itself. Ceramic heat emitters are no-frills options that'll last a good long while but cost in the realm of 30-50 dollars depending on where you find them, you can expect to pay about 20-40 dollars for the dome, and thermostats are another area where you can buy a cheap option (I have a 20 dollar one linked in the shopping list!) or you can buy a thousand-dollar one.

Hides! You can go as expensive as you like here, but my honest recommendation is to buy a soldering iron (~15 dollars) and cut doors into plastic containers.

Substrate! This will depend on what you choose and the enclosure size. Corns are very versatile here and you have lots of options, pretty much anything they sell in the reptile aisle will work just fine.

Decor and clutter! Again, you could go as expensive as you like, but at minimum you'll want climbing branches and clutter to give your snake things to explore for encrichment and provide hiding spots. On a budget, things like cardboard tubes, crumpled paper towels, and sticks and branches taken from nature (sanitized first!) are great options.

The nice thing about snakes is that, once you've got the enclosure set up, you can expect to budget about 20 dollars a month at most to keep your snake fed. But the intial setup can be pricey! I recommend making out a shopping list and checking the websites of your local pet stores so you can plan your budget.

[screechingjellyfishnight]

I watched “Under The Boardwalk”

Don’t promote this movie. Don’t show anyone this movie. It’s a good movie but it WILL lead to the death of millions of hermit crabs. They show land hermit crabs living on the Jersey Shore. They don’t live there. They aren’t native there. You can’t release them there (it’s literally illegal) if you see a purple pincher crawling around in a painted shell, pick that bitch up and get a travel tank and call the LHCOS. They will take it for free and care for it PROPERLY. Unless you’re willing to spend upwards of $500 and 30+ years of care, do not get a hermit crab. Otherwise you WILL kill it. You WILL be an animal abuser and possible animal murderer. They are NOT disposable.

Let me say it again

THEY ARE NOT DISPOSABLE

They are not throw away pets. They are not cheap pets. They have the same care requirements as some harder to care for reptiles, with the added difficulty of learning how to properly set up and manage their substrate! They need 75-80° F. They need 80% humidity. They need 6-10 inches of 1:5 eco earth to playsand substrate at sand castle consistency so they can molt. They need both salt and fresh water pools they can fully submerge in! They need leaf litter, greensand, wormcastings, and supplemental calcium.

They need 50% protein, 30% veg/fruit (fresh is best but dried is fine. Citrus COULD be deadly to them, but it’s widely argued. I’d say better safe than sorry) and 20% carbs (rice/oats/corn/popcorn) not to mention oil! (I use olive, some people use coconut and some use sesame. They cannot have canola)

They cannot have iodine or iodized salt. They need marine salt for their water.

They can’t have exposed metal as rust is toxic to them. They can’t have painted shells, painted shells and paint in general is toxic for them. ANY paint. Period. It does not matter what the person in the shop told you. They are lying. They purposely give you information that will kill your crabs so you have to buy more. Don’t feed your crabs the crab food they give you, it’s literal poison. They need 10 gallons per crab in a sealed aquarium. You should get a minimum of 2 crabs. They need 3-5 shells (Turbo, petholatus, jade turbo, snakeskin turbo, lace turbo, Mexican turbo. Any turbo) per crab in the same size and in other sizes. They need a lot of care and work. They are not the easy and cheap pets they are sold as.

[fishaccordingtosteve]

Aquarium Life Hack....Fry holding box.

Hi everyone, and so glad to be back. Today I would like to provide some hack knowledge regarding the breeding boxes that you can have at the top of your aquarium to hold newly hatched or released fry. These boxes come in a variety of sizes and shapes and also material. Some are made of mesh. To hold your fry in a mesh box you must be absolutely certain that there are no fish in your tank that…

[beemovieerotica]

Tell us about your fish tank! :)

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YAY FISH TANK

big ole 75 gallon planted, current residents include pearl gouramis, blue gouramis, emerald cories, clown plecos, guppies, and too many fucking snails

[endangered-aquarium-fish]

Samurai gourami (Sphaerichthys vaillanti)

Endangered

The samurai gourami is a small fish from the area of the Kapuas River in Borneo and its SO FUCKING COOL LOOK AT THEM I WANT ONE RAHHHH

They don’t actually live in the river, they’re way too cool for that-  

They live in a wonderfully bizarre habitat called a peat swamp, where pure rainwater pools over a meters-thick layer of decomposing leaves and wood fallen from the dense canopy above. The acids released as it all decays mean the pH of the water is so low (sometimes 3-4) that nothing can even decompose when it dies, and the tannic acids bond to any dissolved minerals and sink them into the soil. 

The water has the dark color and distinct scent of tea. It sits perfectly still, too dark for any plants to grow, so nearly every fish that makes its home there has to use a specialized organ called the labyrinth organ to get their oxygen from gulps of air. 

…btw, most adult fish will die within minutes in water like that - it’s nearly as acidic as pure vinegar. Samurai gouramis are literally so fucking metal… they live in the fucking Evil Death Water of Doom and theyre just. chilling. unbothered. thriving :3

The gouramis live in pairs, hidden in the tangles of submerged roots and branches and leaves. Their thin shape helps them mimic a dead leaf- and they play into that by acting like one too!! their slow, calm movement looks like they’re simply drifting peacefully through the water, even as they stalk their prey (mostly insects like mosquitoes). Also, they’re some of the biggest fish in the swamp- at a whopping 3 inches long. 

They usually form a social hierarchy where the biggest females get the best territory, food, and mates. And when they choose a mate, it gets really funky and weird :3

The males are less colorful than the females, but they have a pouch in their throat that they can extend as a display, kinda like an anole. The females lay from 10 to 40 eggs at a time before the males fertilize them and scoop them up with their mouth. It’s a lot like the toba betta, but it’s even more specialized - they keep the eggs in their throat pouch, even after they hatch 0.0 The babies spend a while growing up in there, just living in their father’s throat, and so he has to find a way to feed them…

He uses the tannic acids in the water. He absorbs them and mixes them with his own mucus, using their natural stickiness to form sort of a fishy tannin slime that he excretes into his throat like milk for the babies. They spend weeks nibbling at it until they get big enough that he can let them out to swim away. He doesn’t eat anything until they’re free. 

Overall 10/10 fish very funky does a masterful imitation of a leaf. but like if the leaf was fruity or something

They’re endangered by deforestation and pollution from illegal gold mining upstream. The efforts to protect them in the wild have failed, but not in aquariums :3

Luckily they don’t have to live in vinegar or acid rain or something. They’re okay in any soft water with a pH of 6.5 or less, which may even be how your tapwater is naturally. If not, you can gather fallen leaves, seed pods, and sticks from local trees and let those soak in your aquarium, and the tannins they release will give the fish what they need just like in the peat swamps. They really do need very soft water though, so if your water isn’t already naturally soft, this may not be the best fish for you. 

They do best in a shallow tank of at least 30 gallons, with very clean and warm water (75-82 F) and minimal flow. They don’t like bright light so add plenty of floating plants to cast shadows, and make sure the water has plenty of tannins to keep it that dark color. They can be very shy and reclusive sometimes so they really need a lot of cover to feel safe and comfortable enough to come out. It’s easy to give them that, just add lots of wood, dark caves, dead leaves, and plants to the tank. Most plants won’t do well in blackwater, but there are plenty that will - I like to use frogbit, cryptocorynes, water lilies, mosses, and some stem plants like rotala rotundifolia if you let them grow up to the surface. You can also use plants like pothos and peace lilies that like to grow with only their roots in the water - these are amazing at keeping the water clean and your gouramis will love the roots. There should be about an inch of air at the top for the fish to breathe from, and a lid to keep it humid enough so the babies’ labyrinth organs can develop properly. 

Samurai gouramis are wonderfully peaceful and harmless, so whatever you keep with them (except shrimp) is perfectly safe. The only thing you need to worry about is that the gouramis are slow and timid enough that a lot of other fish will eat all the food before they can get any- and if the other fish are aggressive at all the gouramis are done for. The best tankmates for samurai gouramis are small, slow, peaceful, and unintimidating, so I’d suggest a small school of pygmy cories or tiny rasboras like chili, kubotai, or axelrod rasboras. You could probably also keep them with similar peaceful gouramis like chocolate gouramis, licorice gouramis, or snakehead bettas. Just make sure you have plenty of other samurai gouramis (at least 6) since they need company almost as much as we do.

Breeding them is easy, just have a group and they’ll form pairs. The difference between males and females is really easy to see - the males are chocolatey brown like an old fallen leaf, and the females look like a psychedelic rainbow. They’ll all find their own spots in the tank when they decide to breed and eventually the males’ throats will be filled with eggs and they’ll become reclusive and stop eating for up to three weeks while they care for them. It’s best to move the adults into another tank temporarily for a few days after the babies are released or they could get eaten. The fry need to eat the microorganisms that grow around dead leaves, and they should be fed other tiny live foods as supplements like microworms and baby brine shrimp until they get big enough to eat what their parents eat. Even the adults are a bit picky and they prefer live foods but they can usually learn to eat protein rich prepared foods too.

Have fun with ur gouramis :3 

[onenicebugperday]

Hello! I have a garden snail that had lots of babies and was hoping for some advice please! :) I want to make their enclosure as comfy as possible for them but I don't know how. Do they prefer dark environments? Hidey holes? What kind of substrate is best? Etc. Thank you!

(I'm in Southern California)

Congrats on your snabies! Firstly I would not take any substrate or decor for the tank from outside unless you want a lot of hitchhiker creatures in your snail tank. If you do, you'll want to bake it first.

A standard 10 (or larger) gallon aquarium with a mesh lid works great, but you'll want to modify the lid to cover most of the mesh to keep the inside humid. I just bought a squeeze tube of silicone and attached some plastic sheeting inside the lid to cover about 75% of the mesh.

Substrate can be any sort of animal-safe soil-like substrate - so soils meant for bioactive reptile and amphibian enclosures or for isopods. Repti-soil, Creature Soil, organic potting mix, etc. I personally have my snails in with my millipedes, and use a combination of eco earth and Josh's Frogs milli mix - can't recommend milli mix enough! Josh's Frogs ABG mix or isopod substrate would also be appropriate.

No matter which soil you choose, it should be 4-5 inches deep both to hold humidity and for burrowing. 10 quarts will fill a 10 gallon aquarium to the proper depth.

As for decor, I would avoid rocks since snails WILL climb the glass and other decor and probably will fall off from time to time. Rocks can shatter their shells. I would stick to wood - any aquarium safe wood is fine. Cork bark, mopani, spider wood, etc. I'd also recommend some dry/dead reptile-type sphagnum moss to keep up humidity and for nibbling, and some kind of leaf litter - I buy bags of dry/brown live oak leaves on amazon for pretty cheap. My snails don't seem to hide in holes or crevices much - when they're not active, they mostly hang out on the lid or the top glass of the tank.

You do not need lighting or heating unless your house gets particularly cold in the winter - they may be less active if it's too cold. You can put a low watt reptile heating pad on the side of the tank to keep the temp up around 70+ if need be. They are primarily active at night, so if you want to see what they're up to, a small light that doesn't give off heat near the tank would be okay.

Most important is humidity. Get all of the substrate and moss damp as you put it into the tank with distilled water. I use a reptile mister bottle and buy gallons of distilled water at the grocery store. They last a long time so not a big investment. You'll also have to mist the whole enclosure probably daily, maybe twice daily. It should be moist and humid but not sopping wet. Don't let the substrate dry out entirely. Occasionally you may have to stick your finger into the soil to make sure it's staying damp under the surface.

And finally, snails need calcium for their shells! I occasionally dust the top of the substrate with powdered reptile calcium, or you can throw a cuttlebone in there for them to nibble on.

Here's a list of safe/not safe foods for snails.

If you ever have more questions about setup that I didn't answer here, feel free to IM me! Happy to share creature keeping tips.

[brostateexam]

Now painting the central room. Am about 40 minutes away from being finished with the first coat. Hopefully, I can finish this up this weekend, then put both this room and the office back together, hang up paintings, mount ceiling hooks, and add area lighting the week of Thanksgiving.

I also have to move my little 29 gallon aquarium tank to the office and then assemble my 75 gallon that will be in the central room.

Doing all of this this week has not been easy. It is definitely validating my decision to take time off to get it done, though, because otherwise it never would have happened.