NaBarney Posted November 26, 2018 Share Posted November 26, 2018 This has never happened before. Spent most the night on and off ignoring and then debating whether it would be worth it to clean and set up the spare ten gallon to hatch them and raise the babies, or just let themfend for themselves (probably get eaten before I wake up tomorrow) ... I put a net over them bc the betta found them and started feasting right in front of me but she'll probably find a way at them. There's no other fish beside the Corys, and theres a good bit of moss and plenty of hiding spaces, and I could add oak leaves from outside to give any surviving babies leaf litter to hide under and eat. I think some can make it.. Also I accidentally crushed a few w the net already.. Fish dad 20q8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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NaBarney Posted November 26, 2018 Author Share Posted November 26, 2018 Also check out these aquarium rocks Walmart was trying to sell lol, last package on the rack. That would rust and fuck up your tank so badly if you put that in there w out looking 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyberbully Posted November 26, 2018 Share Posted November 26, 2018 Great Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doom Metal Alchemist Posted November 26, 2018 Share Posted November 26, 2018 I don't know much about fish but the phrase "the Corys" made me want to find pics of Corey Feldman and Cory Haim drawn / photoshopped as fish-people to post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garbagepailcat Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 I can smell your aquarium now. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaBarney Posted November 27, 2018 Author Share Posted November 27, 2018 1 hour ago, garbagepailcat said: I can smell your aquarium now. ｄａｎｋ ｗａｔｅｒ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPM Jr. Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 Looks like you need a new water filter for the tank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaBarney Posted November 27, 2018 Author Share Posted November 27, 2018 23 minutes ago, RPM Jr. said: Looks like you need a new water filter for the tank. Why? It has two brand new ones, I just set this up this season. Goodwill tank, $7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPM Jr. Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 (edited) My mistake. It just looks like you have dirty water. For all I know, it could be how the light is in the pics. Edited November 27, 2018 by RPM Jr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaBarney Posted November 27, 2018 Author Share Posted November 27, 2018 (edited) Wandering jew Edited November 27, 2018 by Nabloom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garbagepailcat Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 You sure that’s a wondering Jew? I don’t think those are water plants. I miss having big tanks. I downsized from a 50 gal to a 2.5 gal a while back. It’s a lot easier to maintain and never smells like a hydroponic system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discolé monade Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 14 minutes ago, garbagepailcat said: You sure that’s a wondering Jew? I don’t think those are water plants. I miss having big tanks. I downsized from a 50 gal to a 2.5 gal a while back. It’s a lot easier to maintain and never smells like a hydroponic system. devil's ivy? or pothos? are those the same? and wandering jew has purple i thought but also, a lot of people mistake most vine plants with wandering jew. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuggstop Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 @Nabloom im so happy your tank is way dirtier than mine so i can stop feeling so guilty 😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wacky1980 Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 50 minutes ago, discolemonade said: devil's ivy? or pothos? are those the same? and wandering jew has purple i thought but also, a lot of people mistake most vine plants with wandering jew. wandering jew is purple. i have a plant that's probably 20+ years old and has put so many babies out into other pots over the years. it's the cockroach of potted plants, i swear. nabs' plant doesn't look anything like a wandering jew to me. but the water doesn't look dirty. it looks brackish or maybe has tannins leached from a new piece of aquarium wood, but pretty clear for what it is. good luck with the cory fry nabs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaBarney Posted November 28, 2018 Author Share Posted November 28, 2018 10 hours ago, garbagepailcat said: You sure that’s a wondering Jew? I don’t think those are water plants. It's actually behind the tank! Rooted firmly in dry soil I'm actually not sure abt it's ID but wj is what my neighbor said it was when I first brought it home and google images mostly corroborates that. 9 hours ago, discolemonade said: and wandering jew has purple i thought 8 hours ago, wacky1980 said: wandering jew is purple. i have a plant that's probably 20+ years old and has put so many babies out into other pots over the years. it's the cockroach of potted plants, i swear. nabs' plant doesn't look anything like a wandering jew to me. Abt a yr and a half ago my work got these big pots of long purple ropey plants out by the front entrance, I think they all died last winter. I took home a short skinny stalk I found on the ground and stuck it in a jar of dirt, it flowered purple last summer and generated a little baby shoot of a few leaves, then seemed dried up and dead the whole winter in my bedroom. It finally started showing signs of life again this summer with the offshoot growing a little on my shady porch, big green and purple spotted leaves, but it's only since putting it under the lamp that it's done this growing. Like a month ago almost none of the mass of this plant was there. Which is why it probably looks so green and different Here's the og stalk which itself has just started to sprout new leaves where its old flower used to be. I feel kinda bad bc I repotted all my other plants for winter and didn't bother to do this one bc it's in a tricky glass jar and never seemed interested in growing much, didn't know it would do all this shit 9 hours ago, discolemonade said: devil's ivy? or pothos? are those the same? They're the same, tho the three potted plants I've bought were all labeled different possibly just made-up pothos names. Marbled pothos, queen (?) something pothos, and a third one from Kroger that I can't remember. But they all look pretty similar and the leaves change color/shading over time anyway, what's important is they all like to eat fish shit 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaBarney Posted November 28, 2018 Author Share Posted November 28, 2018 (edited) I found two more clusters of eggs, on another side of the glass and a tank ornament. I re-covered the original eggs w the net to give them a chance. The betta has been feasting on the other wall cluster. Havent seen it notice the eggs on the ornament, but they look more shite and fungus-y than the others... Corys still seem like they're spawning, dancing along the glass in pairs, but they could just be fucking around idk. Gonna throw in some more moss to give em a chance Edited November 28, 2018 by Nabloom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaBarney Posted November 28, 2018 Author Share Posted November 28, 2018 (edited) 12 hours ago, garbagepailcat said: miss having big tanks. I downsized from a 50 gal to a 2.5 gal a while back. It’s a lot easier to maintain and never smells like a hydroponic system I can't even imagine having 50 gal to work with idk what I'd do I have two 20s, both w just a female betta and corys. Pretty boring just like I like it Also have a betta in a sterilite tote that's abt three gallons, with a ton of snails... Might actually be my fav tank The smell comes and goes.... Definitely there in the summer stuck hanging in the wet air but alls good right now. It really doesnt help that I do everything open top. Edited November 28, 2018 by Nabloom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaBarney Posted November 28, 2018 Author Share Posted November 28, 2018 9 hours ago, wacky1980 said: good luck with the cory fry nabs Thx after browsing some forums I don't expect to see any but it's possible so I'll always be hoping some show up one day. Just found some new eggs which are def from today, so it's only a matter of time before I try to do this right w a fry tank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaBarney Posted November 28, 2018 Author Share Posted November 28, 2018 (edited) They laid eggs on the glass right in front of me and my rm as we were watching a male and female playing around w each other and I was narrating how beautiful it is to see them fucking and I'm not even sure when it happened, one of them did a weird seizure like twerking on the glass but at the time I thought that was the male just doing something weird to be showy, moments after they swam off I saw this new freshly lain line of eggs next to the most recent ones I mentioned in the above post I guess this might just be an all the time thing now. Edited November 28, 2018 by Nabloom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discolé monade Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 you're going to have to get a bigger tank though. i mean, can't have all those little guys hatching in such a tiny space. i don't know anything about fish. also, good job on the green thumb. i've been looking for a 'purple passion' plant. it's got purple fuzzy leaves. also, when you clean your tank, you can use the water for your plants. and if the eggs don't make it, or the fish die, you can put them in your soil. makes for the most excellent fertilizer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CutieQuesadilla Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 Whoa, lots of babies! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wacky1980 Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 10 hours ago, Nabloom said: They laid eggs on the glass right in front of me and my rm as we were watching a male and female playing around w each other and I was narrating how beautiful it is to see them fucking and I'm not even sure when it happened, one of them did a weird seizure like twerking on the glass but at the time I thought that was the male just doing something weird to be showy, moments after they swam off I saw this new freshly lain line of eggs next to the most recent ones I mentioned in the above post I guess this might just be an all the time thing now. with any tank fish i've seen spawn (and most of the pond fish as well), the female deposits her eggs on whatever substrate, and the male releases sperm in the water around the eggs to fertilize them. unfortunately, no smashing takes place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Owl Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 15 hours ago, Nabloom said: It's actually behind the tank! Rooted firmly in dry soil I'm actually not sure abt it's ID but wj is what my neighbor said it was when I first brought it home and google images mostly corroborates that. Abt a yr and a half ago my work got these big pots of long purple ropey plants out by the front entrance, I think they all died last winter. I took home a short skinny stalk I found on the ground and stuck it in a jar of dirt, it flowered purple last summer and generated a little baby shoot of a few leaves, then seemed dried up and dead the whole winter in my bedroom. It finally started showing signs of life again this summer with the offshoot growing a little on my shady porch, big green and purple spotted leaves, but it's only since putting it under the lamp that it's done this growing. Like a month ago almost none of the mass of this plant was there. Which is why it probably looks so green and different Here's the og stalk which itself has just started to sprout new leaves where its old flower used to be. I feel kinda bad bc I repotted all my other plants for winter and didn't bother to do this one bc it's in a tricky glass jar and never seemed interested in growing much, didn't know it would do all this shit They're the same, tho the three potted plants I've bought were all labeled different possibly just made-up pothos names. Marbled pothos, queen (?) something pothos, and a third one from Kroger that I can't remember. But they all look pretty similar and the leaves change color/shading over time anyway, what's important is they all like to eat fish shit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Owl Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 That's the types of plants that came up for wandering jew species It's also classified as a weed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wacky1980 Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 fair enough. for the record, i've had the top right (Tradescantia zebrina) for years, but i've never seen the other three versions in that picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wacky1980 Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 we just got our 55g back up and rolling in the last couple months. i've been fighting alkalinity problems, but i think i'm about to get that straightened out in the next week. haven't been able to keep any plecos alive, assuming because of the ph levels being too high. once the ph is down, i'll be adding plecos again and hopefully getting everything in perfect balance. then my mated pair of angels will hopefully start spawning once again. angel fry are the cutest little things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaBarney Posted November 28, 2018 Author Share Posted November 28, 2018 16 minutes ago, wacky1980 said: fair enough. for the record, i've had the top right (Tradescantia zebrina) for years, but i've never seen the other three versions in that picture. The bottom right looks like the plant my cutting came from, it was basically a mass of ropey vines laying on top of each other hanging out the pot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Owl Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 1 hour ago, wacky1980 said: fair enough. for the record, i've had the top right (Tradescantia zebrina) for years, but i've never seen the other three versions in that picture. This is mine granted it's winter and now it's dormant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wacky1980 Posted November 29, 2018 Share Posted November 29, 2018 21 hours ago, Kuroko said: This is mine granted it's winter and now it's dormant i don't have any pictures of mine, but it never flowers nor goes dormant, and i've never killed a piece of it unintentionally. it will grow in a cup of water, in a pot the size of a baseball, and in low / no light for weeks without taking damage. there are about half a dozen pieces growing in different places around the house right now, and i've given cuttings to several family and friends. the original one i have is 20+ years old, and it was a cutting from someone else. he's been named "bobbie lee" and he's lived happily in front of a window at the bar since 2006, if that tells you how resilient the damn thing is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaBarney Posted November 30, 2018 Author Share Posted November 30, 2018 On 11/28/2018 at 6:10 PM, Kuroko said: This is mine granted it's winter and now it's dormant That's how mine's flowers looked but your leaves look completely different Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Owl Posted November 30, 2018 Share Posted November 30, 2018 2 minutes ago, Nabloom said: That's how mine's flowers looked but your leaves look completely different several different species mines an 8 leave 4 petal flower mainly outside Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaBarney Posted November 30, 2018 Author Share Posted November 30, 2018 Found mine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tradescantia_pallida Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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