Propagation: Propagation efforts and results ( the basics) Dec ,, 2 by oxdriftgardener

oxdriftgardener wrote:
1) plastic barrel with all the bigger fish squeezed in between the heating oil tank (we heat primarily with wood but have fuel oil as a back up) and the electrical panel.
2) 20 gallon aquarium with smaller fish. You may also remember that my grandkids keep quite a few of the smaller fish at their house. I bought this tank in the fall of 2016 because we had so many new babies that year. It gave me nothing but grief last winter. I lost a whack of the babies. The water was constantly fowled up like gross pea soup. I had to almost weekly dump most of the water and chsnge it. I had it on a dresser in the other spare bedroom in the basement. The dresser had a window behind it. We kept the blind closed but there was always a crack of direct sunlight coming through right onto the tank. After struggling through all last winter I decided that crack of sun must be the culprit so knew I had to try something different this year. In the furnace room there is just a narrow space between the furnace and the back wall where I stack a large pile of kindling for starting the wood furnace. There was nothing above the kindling and this area gets no natural light so I built a heavy duty shelf there last fall. What a difference. I haven't had to change the water all winter and it is always crystal clear

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