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I haven’t moved them yet but I plan on setting up the bottom tank for breeding. So far it only has plants, 1 endler fry that got caught in moving duckweed from the top tank to the bottom tank, and tadpole snails.

I just modified the hood and replaced the stock 36″ ballast/light with a 36″ dual T5 fixture from home depot.

before_and_after_hood-mod by mikeytitan, on Flickr

I’m not sure though what kind of plants I’m going to put in there but I do plan on following the the techniques that I’ve come across here… One in particular which was to buy this plastic canvas and then attach flame moss to it and line the entire bottom of the tank with it. Dennis gave me the idea with his breeding cage but I want to modify it so that my Danios aren’t in the cage. Another one was from a thread I came across here where someone put 2 or 3 females with 5 males and fed them heavily for a week then removed them from the breeding tank.

I’m not too sure yet!

Oh and yes, the guppies are hogs! My CPDs are starting to get a little pushy with the fatties that try to eat all the food which is nice to see since they were a little timid the first day I received them.[/img]

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@AquaGirl wrote:

Wow, your tank, and pictures are awesome. Love that outside pond and I am very jealous!

Thanks for giving us a peek at your setups.

Thank you for the kind words!

Here is a video of some of the endlers and CPDs…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaFn3m-fdxQ[/youtube]

They are hanging around by the moss that covers the canister filter spray bar.

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@ballpc wrote:

Hi lijojohn08, welcome to the forum.

I spawn my Pearls Danio in a different fashion than my Celestial Pearl Danio. For the Pearls, I use a breeder box that will allow the eggs to fall through to the bottom of the tank…

Dennis

I almost jumped out of my seat when I saw this breeder box! I think the material is perfect for an idea I have (if not the box itself). So I take it that you can’t use it for CPDs? If so I’m sad because I’ve been thinking of trying to grow Dwarf Hair grass in a 30g tank and then putting what looks like a platform using similar material to what your breeder box uses. Setting it up like yours would make my life so much easier!
May I ask where you got your breeder box? The hole sizes look to be just perfect for this idea I had if I can’t just setup a tank like yours where it’s just fish in a floating mini breeder crate looking thing.

Thanks in advance!

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This is a nifty little diagnostic tool to help diagnose fish disease/parasites/ailments etc…

http://www.fishyportal.com/diag/

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I can post the pics of where I want to put CPDs outside come springtime if anyone wants. Just let me know. In the meantime here is a thread on my Aquaponics setup on backyardaquaponics.com BYAP for short.

http://www.backyardaquaponics.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=7072

Here is the pond:

These are the buckets which are connected to the pond that I have filtering the pond water by growing veggies. I want to use 1 perhaps 2 buckets after the weather warms up in mid to late spring for CPDs

IMG_1960 by mikeytitan, on Flickr

aquaponics lifting the hatch by mikeytitan, on Flickr

roots in aquaponics by mikeytitan, on Flickr

haha temp ghetto hiding solution by mikeytitan, on Flickr

I figured that I could take either the first or last 2 buckets and put some duckweed on the top and a water sprite inside of them for added filtration/oxygenation/covereage. I have stainless steel scrubber pads on the bottom of the buckets which I use for the surface area for nitrifying bacteria to grow on. They are usually covered with mulm/fish poop the entire year so hopefully the CPDs don’t get hurt by it.

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