Classroom Fish Tank Update and a new tank! What should go in it?

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Piscean Scape - 8 years ago

I wish you had been my teacher! Thanks for the upload! <<KZ Ellis

Jamy Lee - 8 years ago

Dart frog in the small tank and maybe some kind of lizard or skink in the big tank

IncogPollywog - 8 years ago

Ooh, if you get dart frogs may I recommend Ranitomeya imitator aka the mimic poison dart frog. They are the most amazing little dart frogs and fairly easy to keep. If I recall they're alright in groups though they are a thumbnail species of dart frog and are fairly small. I recommend them because they display a form of Mullerian mimicry--two poisonous species mimic each others' warning colors--which could be an awesome segue into a discussion on mimicry and convergent evolution. How could they get more awesome than that? Well they don't just mimic one species. Off the top of my head I can recall three species they mimic: R. variabilis, R. summersi, and R. fantastica. And within those species they can also mimic individual morphs. For instance the Highland and Lowland morphs of R. variabilis. Some of those morphs of R. imitator share ranges as well and there are these transition zones where the morphs can mix but the populations overall remain isolated from one another because the mixed don't mimic either non R. imitator species as well. I'm not explaining it well. There's an excellent article on the phenomenon on dendrobates.org but it would be an excellent talking point for evolution and speciation.

Tim Jack - 8 years ago

I am so glad you posted this video, I have been thinking about your tank (yeah, I know get a life); I was just curious how it was doing. Love the passion you are spreading. I think dart frogs would be super cool! Lastly, a plunger? That made me laugh every time it came into shot.

Critter Girl - 8 years ago

Dart frogs would be good in the smaller tank. The moisture needed may be difficult with the doors cut into the big tank.

miguel ramirez - 8 years ago

You're an awesome teacher, best of luck with all your tanks...so who feeds them on your 3 week hiatus? I too vote for dart frogs

MoreChannelNoise - 8 years ago

I have seen someone use a turkey baster to suck up pockets of duckweed. Just a tip for people if it gets too much. Tiger lotus is not that easy a similar but much easier one is dwarf lily. Snails sometimes don't move for days and you think they are dead.

Ecotone Aquatics - 8 years ago

Looks great!

VERDUCHI MAN - 8 years ago

The calvin/krebs cycle use to scare me :O

Inglorious Bettas - 8 years ago

Haha yep, still is tricky for me too! Even after all these years dealing with it lol

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Andrea Shelton - 8 years ago

I have a Tiger Lotus that needs a lot more than my other plants. Add a root tab and extra light.

Just Breathe - 8 years ago

It's so awesome that your students are interested in all these things! I was going to mention the lucky bamboo shouldn't be fully submerged, but you were already on it.

Re: having trouble getting duckweed to grow -- it prefers still waters & dry tops (same for pistia, Salvinia minima, limnobium laevigatum, and phyllanthus fluitans in my experience). Filter bubbles popping at the surface and/or snails and fish tugging them under can hamper growth or outright kill them. Actually, a great way to kill unwanted duckweed is to spray a fine mist of water over them regularly until they die off.

Re: Red Lotus - the one I have loves clay soil and has grown like crazy ever since the roots hit dirt. Last count, I had fifteen lily pads floating at the top of my 20g tank (kind of ridiculous, honestly. I need to trim several back but I haven't the heart). It doesn't seem practical for you to dirt the tank at this point (ha :d) so I think a root tab would be a safe bet.

Love the dart frog idea!

Oh! As a lover of short fin and wild bettas, do you have any idea how I might go about finding breeding pairs of betta mahachaiensis and betta siamorientalis here in the states?

Thank you for sharing what's going on in your classroom! Sorry for writing a novel. :)

Just Breathe - 8 years ago

You're welcome! I noticed all my betta tanks (baffled filters, no surface spattering) had super healthy floaters while the plants on the surface of my other tanks all had signs of melting where water had sat for too long.

Thanks for the advice on where to look! I guess I'll venture to the wild frontier of FB, hah. :) All the best!

Inglorious Bettas - 8 years ago

I would check out the wild betta groups on FaceBook - a lot of breeders post there :) And wow thanks for the tips on duckweed haha

Travion Bell - 8 years ago

Get a leopard gecko

Travion Bell - 8 years ago

Or crested gecko

Timmy Turner - 8 years ago

If you are going to get gecko you should look @ Brian Barczyk channel and go to his website

CJ Black - 8 years ago

So good to hear from you!! Looks like you're having a wonderful school year - thanks for tube update!

michael a - 8 years ago

Hi G, glad to see that the tanks are all doing well. The dart frogs would be a cool addition :)

Timmy Turner - 8 years ago

You should put hermit crabs in that tank

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