What's Happening with My Summer Tubs!
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- About a month ago I set up 5 summer tubs in my back yard. Let's check on these tubs and find how things are going.
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Looking good! I really like the underwater footage. Good luck seeing lots of fry!!
Thanks. I really enjoying filming the underwater stuff as well
Very cool. Hope you get some babies. Thanks for sharing
Your welcome Mark! Looking forward to seeing the results at the end of the summer
Thanks for the update. It hit 113 today in Northern California. Fish club members were trading tips about cooling off tubs.
Wow that pretty hot. The highest this summer has been low 90s
Two reasons why your plants are struggling: A. green water tends to out compete all but the hardiest submerged plants. B. Even really powerful aquarium lighting is weak compared to sunlight. Plants brought out from inside are often shocked for a period by the light, and I've even have them fully bleach out and die off. I've had some luck putting indoor plants in a container on a shaded porch or other area which doesn't catch any direct sun for a couple weeks to acclimatize them to outdoor light.
You might also want to try checking a local nursery or garden center for emergent or trailing plants like rushes (Juncus sp.), Creeping Jenny (Lysimachia nummularia) or mint. The latter two can be planted in pots coming out of the water and they will send out runners into the water which throw down dense roots, great habitat for fry. Floating plants like water lettuce (Pistia), water hyacinth (Eichhornia), frogbit (Limnobium) and others are also great for outdoor tubs, especially for providing shade in the hottest days of summer. Getting a bunch of plants going will help fish feel more secure, and will be more visible when they feel like they have multiple places to hide.
Thabks for all the info. I will have to look into those other plants
My Orange Rice Fish are breeding in outdoor tub like crazy!!
Nice!
Thanks for sharing, Mike! I’ve got one tub out in the backyard. Hoping to see some fry soon.
Your welcome! Good luck with your tub. Hopefully you will have tons of fry
This year I have xenotoca eiseni, variatus platy, staeck, and lime green endlers, Platinum rice fish and the obligatory white cloud minnows in tubs. Also 3 tubs of various mixed or mutt guppy variations.
Happy tubbing!
Nice. Sounds like a good mix of fish
Duckweed sale!! 😁
Yep
you should find someone who has extra water lettuce that will help give you some cover for those tubs.... when they flower i hear that is extra points for you clubs HAP program too...
Yeah maybe
wow very awesome video update nice footage
Your welcome. Glad you enjoyed the under water footage. I really like filming the under water stuff as well
@@FishTankBarn thnx you so very much my friend
Great update 👍👍👍
Thanks 👍
I thought Goodeids preferred cooler water temperatures?
They do fine with warmer daytime temps as long as the tubs cool down at night - it's sustained heat that's detrimental to them. Also, if a tub is deep enough the surface water can be 90F+ while the water at the bottom remains in the 70s.
Bathyphila pretty much answered it. I really keeping Xenotoca outside in the summer. They always seem to do pretty well