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@lemmy.worldhttps://danishgoldfish.com/101/feeding/you-can-make-your-own-fish-food/
I have been banned from Fishlore, and the worst part is, that I was actually enjoying my time there! Now, even if they lifted the ban, I wouldn't feel like it would be the right place to be.
After leaving Reddit due to Spez, and also Facebook/Instagram due to their subscription trick back in November, I have been pretty isolated when it comes to my hobbies. So I have been looking into forums that I already missed when they came out of fashion in the early 00s.
Anyway. I was enjoying my time on Fishlore, and got to get and share advice so everything was fine. At some point, I offered to help content creators (I assumed there were fish- youtubers, streamers, tiktokkers, facebookers) that may need help with logos, graphics, videos etc. A way of giving back to the community, with something that I was good at. I specifically mentioned that this was on a pay what you can basis, and free was also an option if any were struggling. I have previsouly done this with other hobbies that i have been involved in, and people have enjoyed plenty of free work. I even spend two days making examples of fish-logos and a fishlore promo video to show and inspire any who may have been intersted
This must have registered as spam, because I recieved an email stating that I had been banned due to breaking the rules. No warning, no details. I can see that i have 2 unread messages in the forum, that i can't read because i am banned. I get no replies to the emails i sent them and even their Privacy Policy mail is either ignoring me or not being checked.
Anyway - I just needed to get this off my chest. Thank for listening!
Back when I set up my 720 liter tank, I gradually came up with a DIY filter, based on sewage piles filled with filter materials. It worked really well, and although it had kind of a Super Mario feel to it, it didn't look quite as good as I'd like it to. I decided therefore, to take the experience I had from that, and built something that worked as well, but also looked good (or at least better). This is the original setup, with sewage pipes, stacked onto clay bricks:
As the tank is currently empty, while I am treating the fish for flukes in a smaller tank (a half filled 530L/140gal), I decided to plan this out a but better, and also take pictures while I was making it. I am not at all very handy, but it seems to be getting along pretty well. I must have spend more time making this video/illustration/render, than I have spend making the actual filter..
As explained, I am not very handy, so in order to mount the acrylic plates (ordered precut to measure) I had to freestyle a template using some bricks, wood and a little bit of paper.. If it works it works. Silicone dries fairly fast so I was able to complete this within a couple of hours. I am building two of these, and each will have two power heads that move 1000L/hour.
At the moment, I am waiting for the silicone to dry completely and for my order with filter mats and ceramic filter media (and filter bags) to arrive. I am also very excited to try out a phosphate remover that I ordered, as I was having issues with black beard algae and brown algae from too much silicate in our tap water.
I got half a dozen dwarf chain loaches to compliment my 6ft community tank... And the stupid things have spent more time in the weir and the sump than they have in the tank.
I literally just fished three of them out of the sump, and the second I put them back in the tank one went directly to the overflow and straight in to the weir again. At some point it'll reappear in the sump.
I don't even think they'll grow big enough to stop being able to squeeze through the weir guard so I guess they live in the sump now.
I have a concern with some of my fancy goldfish that seek the surface after being fed. They sit there gulping air in and I am concerned that they may get swim bladder issues from it.
Why do they do this? I have plenty aeration (2 Airstones and a lot of surface agitation). Also it is only 4 of them that do it. The rest just swim as regularly.
The tank is slightly overcrowded. They are in a 140 gal while I reorganize their 190 gal. but nothing extreme. Also they did the same when they were in the large tank so I don't expect it to be down to overstocking.