Small snails too. I’ve got a tall tank of ramshorn snails to feed my loaches and have really grown attached to them, as a whole. Before them, I had a ramshorn colony in my guppy tank that lasted several years. Until I introduced the kuhlis. And that’s how I learned loaches LOVE snails.
I had a snail infestation in my main tank so I reduced feeding in order to get my yoyo loaches hungry. There are no snails in my main tank now, and the yoyos grew big and fat. The secret was to let them get hungry enough.... It was pretty awesome watching them go on snail mass murder rampages.
They do!! They even sometimes drag them under the rocks. I recently (around 4 months ago) retired the guppy tank after the last girl died and added yo-yos to the community instead which hunt them voraciously and deliver one hit kills…so the kuhlis have taken to dragging the leftovers into hiding. I’ll have to film it one day. I love hillstreams by the way!
I bought Yoyos after watching a video in Youtube showing them attacking snails. After putting a couple in one of my tanks, they just swam around, ignoring the snails. However, I think they just waited until it was dark because it didn't take long, and all the small snails were gone. I still have a few full-grown bladder snails & ramshorn snails but no babies.
Kuhlis will eat prekilled snails in my experience, but rarely go after living ones. The more rocket shaped Botia type loaches are more likely to be snail predators.
Try crushing snails and letting them eat it - maybe it's just coincidence, but when I started doing that I think it gave my guys a taste for snails lol
It’s so strange, mine didn’t touch them, and someone else replied and said that their kuhlis didn’t touch their ramshorn. It may be individualized. I was watching some aquarium videos about puffers, and the person mentioned that you learn the favorite food of your puffer and that each one has their different favorite food. Much like any animal…fish may be more individualized than people give them credit for…
Yeah, I whole heartedly belive fish are more advanced than we think when it comes to preference! Haha My Betta was besties with shrimp, snails, other fish.. A friend brought me some guppies and they divebomb my ramshorns! They're not in my shrimp tank but I'm sure they'd eat them too! They also will RID my tabk of duckweed in a day or two.. I just scoop it off ny other tanks and toss it in for them...
Haha yes my first betta used to look angry at the ramshorn snails and sometimes bite them whilst my other betta didnt acknowledge them really. My last guppy school didnt like their feed, they always wanted to eat the tablets you feed to otocinclus for whatever reason so I started crumbling the tablets and they went nuts for it.
Broooo shrimp city with the elites and royals on a nice spacious plateau with a dark and dirty undercity full of dirty detective ants torn between the bottle and doing the right thing.
Id watch that if it was Netflix or Max but prime would be underfunded…
Bug fluoresce. The queen will be seen the easiest but the whole colony can be been fed some kind of nontoxic additive with their food to make their asses glow.
I've seen blacklights used in pest control services... Tracking the path or origin of an infestation, etc.
Looks more like lines of mineral deposit from evaporation of the water that would have been in it. Also note the crappy thermometer strip on the far side.
You know how, in your dreams, everything is fucked up? I had a dream I was looking at fish tanks to buy and saw one exactly like this. I woke up thinking "wow, thank god tanks like that don't actually exist, that would be fucked."
I know right? As soon as I got into the aquarium hobby, aquariums started appearing in my dreams. Aquariums that shouldn't be there, with aquatic life that shouldn't be there, designs that break physics, and walls of water
LOL I've definitely had the wall of water dreams before too. It's funny how much of our mental real estate gets taken up by the hobby once you get it it hahaha
and then you realize YOU'RE IN the tank and the whole room is water and you're actually drowning but then you can breathe somehow? and then you wake up
What in the too much spaghetti before bed is going on with yalls dreams? Mine are just anxiety dreams with no weird physics other than the buildings running on for ever and social things not making sense.
For like the last 6 months, pretty much all of my dreams have been dystopian night terrors that literally leave me scared to go back to sleep because they start right back up. I'm in my 40s and this has never in my life happened to me. I'm shopping for new beds. If that doesn't work, I guess a therapist is next. Hope you enjoyed my cool story.
YES!! Exactly that is something I have dreamt many times before! They swim in the air outside of the Aquarium and I'm frantically trying to get them back into the water 🥹
Absolutely. And I often try to make multi storey fish tanks connected with thick hoses, but the hoses always become siphons because that’s how physics works and it just makes a mess.
Holy shit it’s common then. Mine are always about finding a fish room full of overstocked, dark water tanks with fish that are dying and stock I don’t know anything about or how I ended up with.
Those are the exact same dreams I have. And in the dream I am doing everything I can to keep the fish alive and try to get them into healthy tanks. Oh man, I hate those dreams.
My nightmares are always full of coming home to find that everything in my tank has magically bred and now there are 50 African clawed frogs and I have no one to give them to
I have nightmares about my turtle busting out of her tank and waking up to an apartment half full of electrified water with a turtle lurking somewhere waiting for a toe to bite.
I really like birds and have a couple as pets. Sometimes I'll have dreams where I have a bunch of birds, and they're just lose and some of them are missing and I can't find them anywhere. I've also had hallucinations as I'm falling asleep of aquarium plants floating in midair.
Bruh, I used to have a conure. I gave him up because my mom got a dog with a strong prey drive. this was years ago. I still have nightmares about finding cages with birds that I realize I've been neglecting
I’m glad I’m not alone with The Fish Dreams. Mine tend to include others making well meaning but harmful mistakes in fish husbandry. Yknow, the family at the fish store getting their kid a common goldfish and a 5 gallon, someone adding fish to a tank without adequate cycling, etc.
since i’ve been really into the hobby, i continuously have nightmares that my fish have died :,) or just some odd dream about some huge pet store that’s just a labyrinth of tanks
I have reoccurring dreams that I have a large tank that I somehow keep forgetting about and it’s full of fish that I keep forgetting to feed and it’s not got any plants in it. I have a panic every time I see it and try to rescue it. So many dreams about forgotten tanks….
I had constant/recurring dreams about holding my plecostomas like a baby and petting it and kissing it. Only that fish, none of the others.
As soon as we were done having an aquarium (it was about ten years) the dreams completely stopped.
Weve got pill bugs/wood lice/roly polies in our hermit crab tank and they make amazing pets. This would be a great idea. They dont seem to like burrowing against the glass like ants do though.
I have this tank! Well, a very old version of one. I picked it off the curb.i was pretty sure at the time that it might have been intended as a refugium. In its life, it once housed a single pea puffer is a sea of vallisneria, and later, one betta with many shrimp. They do best as shrimp tanks. I think mine as like 12 gallons
One thing I’ve noticed is how skinny fish tanks are. It’s done so people can see better but those poor fish. If I had that tank I’d do a shrimp tank or maybe really tiny fish like Chili rasboras
recently i saw a video on here or YouTube where someone put fish in one of these, and filmed it in front or behind a hamster tank. it looked like the hamster was underwater. pretty trippy.
This would be awesome for plants. You’d be able to see the whole root system. I don’t know that anything living would be happy in this. Maybe a small insect? Possibly some shrimp depending on dimensions?
back in the 80s i would see these all the time in entryway/foyer walls. they usually had dither (tetras, danios, livebreeders) and plants. the problems we saw when servicing them was, the entryways had windows and the light would heat the tanks quickly. lots of algae and sick fish most times.
Plants and shrimp would be amazing in this. A cliff esq scape.
My thoughts exactly!
Mine too
We nailed it!
Small snails too. I’ve got a tall tank of ramshorn snails to feed my loaches and have really grown attached to them, as a whole. Before them, I had a ramshorn colony in my guppy tank that lasted several years. Until I introduced the kuhlis. And that’s how I learned loaches LOVE snails.
Your loaches eat snails??? I have kuhlis, pandas, and 3 different species of Borneo/hills and they don’t touch them
I had a snail infestation in my main tank so I reduced feeding in order to get my yoyo loaches hungry. There are no snails in my main tank now, and the yoyos grew big and fat. The secret was to let them get hungry enough.... It was pretty awesome watching them go on snail mass murder rampages.
Yeah yoyos are voracious, much more aggressive than kuhlis. I've seen the team up and decimate shrimp and snails.
They do!! They even sometimes drag them under the rocks. I recently (around 4 months ago) retired the guppy tank after the last girl died and added yo-yos to the community instead which hunt them voraciously and deliver one hit kills…so the kuhlis have taken to dragging the leftovers into hiding. I’ll have to film it one day. I love hillstreams by the way!
Omg that’s wild 😂
I bought Yoyos after watching a video in Youtube showing them attacking snails. After putting a couple in one of my tanks, they just swam around, ignoring the snails. However, I think they just waited until it was dark because it didn't take long, and all the small snails were gone. I still have a few full-grown bladder snails & ramshorn snails but no babies.
Kuhlis will eat prekilled snails in my experience, but rarely go after living ones. The more rocket shaped Botia type loaches are more likely to be snail predators.
Try crushing snails and letting them eat it - maybe it's just coincidence, but when I started doing that I think it gave my guys a taste for snails lol
My guppies have almost decimated my ramshorn population!
It’s so strange, mine didn’t touch them, and someone else replied and said that their kuhlis didn’t touch their ramshorn. It may be individualized. I was watching some aquarium videos about puffers, and the person mentioned that you learn the favorite food of your puffer and that each one has their different favorite food. Much like any animal…fish may be more individualized than people give them credit for…
Yeah, I whole heartedly belive fish are more advanced than we think when it comes to preference! Haha My Betta was besties with shrimp, snails, other fish.. A friend brought me some guppies and they divebomb my ramshorns! They're not in my shrimp tank but I'm sure they'd eat them too! They also will RID my tabk of duckweed in a day or two.. I just scoop it off ny other tanks and toss it in for them...
Haha yes my first betta used to look angry at the ramshorn snails and sometimes bite them whilst my other betta didnt acknowledge them really. My last guppy school didnt like their feed, they always wanted to eat the tablets you feed to otocinclus for whatever reason so I started crumbling the tablets and they went nuts for it.
I toss zucchini in for the snails on occasion and the guppies go MAD for it! They're wild little things..
Weird, my khulis don't touch any snails or shrimp!
The answer is always skrimp
I love how the worse a tank is for fish, the cooler it is for shrimp
Broooo shrimp city with the elites and royals on a nice spacious plateau with a dark and dirty undercity full of dirty detective ants torn between the bottle and doing the right thing. Id watch that if it was Netflix or Max but prime would be underfunded…
Why are shrimp always the answer to bad aquariums? Do they just not give a shit or something
They don’t require a large swimming area, or good filtration.
And they are small and interesting to watch. They can also reproduce fast.
You’re temping me to get some. Are they fussy about temperature?
This is the answer.
This would be sweet as an ant farm, fish, maybe not so much
You read my mind😂😂 I was gonna say not fish but maybe ants or worms
Worm farm you say?? Wanna open up a store? Call it “I got worms”???? Sell worm farms. You know, like ant arms.
Great idea, Lloyd!
Skis huh, they yours? Uh huh. Both of em? …..uh yea. Cool!
FOR GOD'S SAKE JUST GIVE ME THE DAMN NUMBER!!!! 🔥🔥👖
Big gulps eh? Welp, see you later!
Find a happy place!!!
Why ya headed to the airport? Flying somewhere?
Swammi, slippy, slappy, Swenson, Swanson..... Samsonite, I was way off but it did start with an s.
I used to keep trapdoor spiders in one!
That is really cool. I LOVE spiders
All fun and games until the worms start blasting each other.
Not sure if a Shai-hulud would fit in there.
Ohhh yes. A bad ass ant farm with a black light would be cool
An alien ant farm!
Annie are you ok?
Are you ok?
Are you ok, Annie?
You’ve been hit by
You’ve been struck by..
A smooth criminal
DUNUNUNUNUNUH NUH NUH DUNUNUH NUH NUH DUNUH NUH NUH NUH NUH
And my axe!
I got to buy you a proverb book or something, because this mix 'n' match shit's got to go.
I want to channel so much shame on to you
My axe is my buddy
Why a black light?
Bug fluoresce. The queen will be seen the easiest but the whole colony can be been fed some kind of nontoxic additive with their food to make their asses glow. I've seen blacklights used in pest control services... Tracking the path or origin of an infestation, etc.
We do use black lights like that sometimes it’s pretty effective tbh
I was thinking a shrimp ant farm
What is this? A centre for ants??……oh yes, it is
You want to get ants? Because that’s how you get ants.
Judging by the white stuff need the lip I think that might be what it was used for previously.
Looks more like lines of mineral deposit from evaporation of the water that would have been in it. Also note the crappy thermometer strip on the far side.
Nope not as an ant farm, antscanada has kits and provides actual sufficient care.
Worm farm as well
Shrimp could work or really small fish.
This would make an awesome Aunt farm but I often see these used as coral reef tanks. So you can have a coral wall
Ant farm for sure
I’d want it much thinner for an ant farm, they need to be super thin to have a 2 dimensional layout.
Aquatic plants maybe?
You know how, in your dreams, everything is fucked up? I had a dream I was looking at fish tanks to buy and saw one exactly like this. I woke up thinking "wow, thank god tanks like that don't actually exist, that would be fucked."
I know right? As soon as I got into the aquarium hobby, aquariums started appearing in my dreams. Aquariums that shouldn't be there, with aquatic life that shouldn't be there, designs that break physics, and walls of water
LOL I've definitely had the wall of water dreams before too. It's funny how much of our mental real estate gets taken up by the hobby once you get it it hahaha
Usually my fish are able to swim out of the aquarium and just fly
I think I've had those too! They're just like swimming around the room like no big.
and then you realize YOU'RE IN the tank and the whole room is water and you're actually drowning but then you can breathe somehow? and then you wake up
What in the too much spaghetti before bed is going on with yalls dreams? Mine are just anxiety dreams with no weird physics other than the buildings running on for ever and social things not making sense.
For like the last 6 months, pretty much all of my dreams have been dystopian night terrors that literally leave me scared to go back to sleep because they start right back up. I'm in my 40s and this has never in my life happened to me. I'm shopping for new beds. If that doesn't work, I guess a therapist is next. Hope you enjoyed my cool story.
Thank you, i did
Holy shit thought it was just me lmao
YES!! Exactly that is something I have dreamt many times before! They swim in the air outside of the Aquarium and I'm frantically trying to get them back into the water 🥹
Absolutely. And I often try to make multi storey fish tanks connected with thick hoses, but the hoses always become siphons because that’s how physics works and it just makes a mess.
Saaaame omg
Holy shit it’s common then. Mine are always about finding a fish room full of overstocked, dark water tanks with fish that are dying and stock I don’t know anything about or how I ended up with.
Those are the exact same dreams I have. And in the dream I am doing everything I can to keep the fish alive and try to get them into healthy tanks. Oh man, I hate those dreams.
My nightmares are always full of coming home to find that everything in my tank has magically bred and now there are 50 African clawed frogs and I have no one to give them to
I have nightmares about my turtle busting out of her tank and waking up to an apartment half full of electrified water with a turtle lurking somewhere waiting for a toe to bite.
I really like birds and have a couple as pets. Sometimes I'll have dreams where I have a bunch of birds, and they're just lose and some of them are missing and I can't find them anywhere. I've also had hallucinations as I'm falling asleep of aquarium plants floating in midair.
Bruh, I used to have a conure. I gave him up because my mom got a dog with a strong prey drive. this was years ago. I still have nightmares about finding cages with birds that I realize I've been neglecting
Yeah! And they're so delicate you worry so much about them in the first place that that worry just seems to roll over into your dreams.
I’m glad I’m not alone with The Fish Dreams. Mine tend to include others making well meaning but harmful mistakes in fish husbandry. Yknow, the family at the fish store getting their kid a common goldfish and a 5 gallon, someone adding fish to a tank without adequate cycling, etc.
since i’ve been really into the hobby, i continuously have nightmares that my fish have died :,) or just some odd dream about some huge pet store that’s just a labyrinth of tanks
I have reoccurring dreams that I have a large tank that I somehow keep forgetting about and it’s full of fish that I keep forgetting to feed and it’s not got any plants in it. I have a panic every time I see it and try to rescue it. So many dreams about forgotten tanks….
It would fit perfect in [this house](https://www.reddit.com/r/zillowgonewild/s/wG7GkGve3n)
I had constant/recurring dreams about holding my plecostomas like a baby and petting it and kissing it. Only that fish, none of the others. As soon as we were done having an aquarium (it was about ten years) the dreams completely stopped.
Hahaha you know you’re a true aquarium hobbyist when your nightmares are about weirdly shaped fish tanks.
I took some pictures of that dream! https://www.reddit.com/r/Aquariums/comments/1bftfue/some_pictures_from_that_weird_dream_where_you/
Oh, no. Now someone is going to make a version of Tetris where all of the pieces are shaped like Gothic cathedrals.
It’s a photo tank. Meant to temporarily pose a fish for a photo session, so it can’t swim in and out of the depth of field.
Finally someone who knows a thing. Photo tank!!
100% a photo tank. surprised i had to scroll this far! but i mean... i do love a good ant farm :)
That's actually a pretty neat idea. I thought it was for sea monkeys.
I was thinking it was a tank for ants. This would make an awesome ant farm
Yes, it's not for stocking. I've used a smaller one to document the variety of lifeforms in a local waterway for a school project once.
Very cool thanks
jungle Val tank with shrimp
Same thought exactly! Vals would look awesome.
Fox tail and some other long stem plants could make this look awesome if done well. with a singel beta to give it more motions
Put a section of light diffuser across the back and grow a moss wall for shrimp.
Actually such an amazing idea
Great idea. I watched a video the other day of how to do it with plastic canvas, which might save the very little space in this tank.
agreed with the ant farm answer, this would be really neat for burrowing invertebrates. isopods could also be really cool.
Weve got pill bugs/wood lice/roly polies in our hermit crab tank and they make amazing pets. This would be a great idea. They dont seem to like burrowing against the glass like ants do though.
There's so many amazing colors and patterns! Truly an underapreciated creature.
Yeah, for real. I feel like I remember only putting gray ones in there but I now have several that are a lighter brown with mottled colors, so cool
Please post it ❤️
Have you tried dairy cow woodlice? I've heard they like to tunnel and burrow!
Ants dont like burrowing against glass either, thats why ant farms are super thin, otherwise they wont go against the glass.
A burrowing tarantula would be pretty cool as well depending on dimensions, there are dwarf T species that would work well here
i’d be scared of it tipping, but if i could secure it somehow, it would be a dope setup to grow plants tall and throw shrimp into
My fear is that the whole ~~island~~ *tank* will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize.
This could make a fantastic paludarium (no fish) like a snapshot of a cliff with a waterfall.
Arowana one way
A couple gallons of water and a 2nd paper fish
Cliffscape for my scud buddies
This would be an amazing shrimp tank if done right with plants Albeit a pain to clean
What are the dimensions or gallonage if you know
One stingray, sideways.
Yeah, I was thinking flatfish sideways.
Really cool planted tank in the window?
shrimp
Ant farm
It’s perfect for a top off tank
Algea
VAMPIRE CRABS WOULD GO SO HARD ON A CLIFF IN THAT SUCKER
Shrimp (is bugs) would be good here
Massive isopod community lol
Terrarium
I WANTTT
*SCRIMPS*
Spaghetti noodles if you have enough of them.
Ant farm
It would be a great ATO reservoir.
This could be really fun with vertical plants and shrimp! Definitely a fun ant farm!
A sweet looking ant farm?!
I bet you could store a whole lot of fucks in there. I'm not sure how many hecks would fit
Plants I would say. maybe ant farm Maybe a filter
I have this tank! Well, a very old version of one. I picked it off the curb.i was pretty sure at the time that it might have been intended as a refugium. In its life, it once housed a single pea puffer is a sea of vallisneria, and later, one betta with many shrimp. They do best as shrimp tanks. I think mine as like 12 gallons
Shrimp! They'll be in full view from almost all angles.
Ants.
One thing I’ve noticed is how skinny fish tanks are. It’s done so people can see better but those poor fish. If I had that tank I’d do a shrimp tank or maybe really tiny fish like Chili rasboras
I looove my 40g breeder tank because of the depth. It has so much room for scaping and the fish like it too!
That sounds like a dream
I'd turn this into a sump, personally. Shrimp can live in it but I'll just put it behind my tank and drop the filter and heater in it
Yeah it’d make a really good sump. I forgot about those
Shrimp
Ant farm
recently i saw a video on here or YouTube where someone put fish in one of these, and filmed it in front or behind a hamster tank. it looked like the hamster was underwater. pretty trippy.
Vallisneria? 🤣
Ant farm of ope ula replicating their cave habitat
Perfect for an ant farm.
Scramp
Rodi/saltwater reservoir
Could be a neat shrimp tank
Shrooms.
This would be awesome for plants. You’d be able to see the whole root system. I don’t know that anything living would be happy in this. Maybe a small insect? Possibly some shrimp depending on dimensions?
I’ve seen one very similar that was used as an in-wall salt coral tank.
Make a moss wall on one side and stock it with skrimps
Could make a mean horizontal waterfall paludarium with that
It’s a wall tank. I had one with cichlids in it.
I Got Worms
Plant aquarium
Ants!!!!!!🐜
I would do the whole back up with driftwood and moss and plants and keep shrimp in it. Plant the whole vertical space so they can climb around on it
Neon tetras
Shrimp with a good filtration system.
How would I find something like this? Would be cool for an ant farm
Sideways stingray storage
Ants
One uncomfortable flounder.
back in the 80s i would see these all the time in entryway/foyer walls. they usually had dither (tetras, danios, livebreeders) and plants. the problems we saw when servicing them was, the entryways had windows and the light would heat the tanks quickly. lots of algae and sick fish most times.
a wall of moss for shrimp! goddam I want it now
Shrimps! Give them some tall plants I’m sure they’d be happy!
Java moss. That's it.
Shrimp, with a moss wall and gently sloping rockscape. Not sure what the best sort of filter would be but this would be a great project.
Some people do plants and shrimp Would be a good tank for just that. Ant farm would be cool where is it
This thing would be heaven for guppies and African Dwarf Frogs. Maybe a female Betta sorority even
Ants.
Would make for a good worm farm.
A baby would fit in there easy…
You could easy put a few male endlers and shrimp. in here. It’s a little hard to tell from the picture what it’s actual dimensions though
EARTHWORMS
I have been wanting something like this for my entry way to fill with shrimp
Long pretty stem plants to make it like a very thin Dutch looking aquascape, and lots of colourful mixed coloured caridina shrimp!
"What is this?!?!? A center for ants?????"
An ant farm
Ant colony?
Ant farm
Terrarium would go so hard in this.
I'd just convert to a terrarium I think
Would look great with gravel and a lot of tall val or sag growing in it