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I have definitely seen videos of people who have set up drink dispensers as aquariums. I like your ideas of using them for quarantine or photo vessels though.
That would be handy for temporarily housing my bettas when I rescape their tanks! (Which I do fairly often lol). Right now I just put them in a Tupperware container so this would be a nicer little hotel for them!
This is a great idea for quarantining a small amount of fish when I bring them home from the shop before they go into my main tank. I can even dose them for parasites etc in a smaller volume of water. Well done Joanna.
I had a single female peacock gudgeon along with 18 pygmy corys and a bamboo shrimp in my 15g, and it was a very harmonious tank. Lots of plants and stones along with botanicals really helped the pygmy corys feel secure. I actually prefer the look of the female peacock gudgeon better than the male because of the black stripe on the caudal fin on the females
3:19 I bought a glass "lemonade" jar just like that. I used it to dispense brine shrimp. Thought a net and water in the cup. This way keeps that water out of the tank.
Along the built-in siphon route, on a lot of new tanks I setup these days, I’ll make a pre-primed siphon out of PVC that’s always ready to hook up a hose to and drain (and even fill) with. Just some PVC, a few elbows, a ball valve, a hose adapter and a pre-filter sponge. On nicer display tanks, you can paint it black with some Krylon Fusion and you barely notice it. You just prime it once, shut the ball valve and it’s always ready to siphon.
❤❤❤ Hi, Joanna, I love this idea! I’ll be playing musical tanks this summer, and I’ll be using different sizes of these! I’ve finally sorted my tanks and moved a 125 gallon a few weeks while our workers had some doors of to make it way easier to get them downstairs. These small tanks will be handy to move the fish who are smaller than most I put in 125s, sorta like the fish in the tank behind you (which I love, BTW!) Thanks for the idea! ❤
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I have used the 3 gallon glass ones for years. I bought them on sale at the end of the summer and I still use 3 of them. I have a thin layer of sand and plants in tiny pots in the bottom and a sponge over the tap/spout inlet. I also use a nano sponge filter and the smallest Eheim preset heater fits perfectly. I use them in my guppy and molly breeding projects. If I need to separate a favorite female for a week or so until I decide which male to pair her with. I also sometimes let a female give birth in one and raise fry for just one week. For the first week of fry raising it's handy so they can find food easily and no larger fry or fish chasing them. After a week they can hold their own in a larger grow out tank with older fry and even adults if there are hiding places. Using smaller tanks and containers like this has more than doubled the amount of guppy and molly fry I get compared to any other method I've tried. I wouldn't use them to keep fish in long term and I wouldn't recommend newbies use them because you really have to understand cycling and testing in such a small amount of water.
Hi! We have done Saturday morning live streams here and there but you can always shoot me a question over on Prime Time Aquatics Wednesday night livestreams 8:-9:30 pm central. 😊
What an awesome idea! I never even thought to use a container like that for fish. At the beginning of this year I needed a couple small hospital tanks to treat a couple fish. These would have made the water changes way easier and much less stress on the fish. I’m getting a few of these in different sizes. Thank you for sharing this. You earned a thumbs up from me and my subscription
Wow you're kidding me, I'm in Australia and literally filled up last night a Cooper's home brew kit with a tap that's 10litres.. great for water on hand. unbelievable. Has its own stick on temp gauge too. Just to add. earnt a subscriber today!
I've been looking at these just for the container itself not even thinking to use the spout to do water changes. That's genius! I've been wanting to do shrimp tanks.
I can see that working. Attach a hose to the end of the tap, inside the container, and you can increase the height of that "syphon", allowing you to put more substrate. Cover the end of the hose with a net and you can protect your shrimp or sick fish. Not a bad idea for temporary tanks.
I love how creative you are Joanna. Yes, It does seem like a good idea. I am currently using a 30g tote to breed endlers, only 20g of water. I will keep this idea in mind. Thanks for sharing.
Love it for hospital tank. I do deep substrate minimal water changes in my tanks, so it wouldn't work for anything like that. But honestly great idea for hospital.
I have used these for scuds and daphnia cultures. The spout doesn't dispense the live food, usually they are fast enough to swim away, but its good for water changing.
So I've got a 1 gallon glass one from Hobby Lobby about 6 months back or so. I filled it with salt water I made using Instant Ocean with a specific gravity of 1.025, dropped some baby brine shrimp that I hatched and now they're completely self-sustaining. I'm going to try to drop some newly hatched Amano shrimp zoes in and see if they'll grow out in there. Cheers! ~Ron SUBSCRIBED!
Amazing scape! Using a piece of artwork really speaks to me! Now I am wondering how a honey gourami would go with Van Gough's Starry Night? Or maybe pennywort planted in front of Monet's Water Lilies! So many possibilities!!! ❤
