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Get brigitae, not sure why last time you try does not work. My guess either they are new or they eating shrimp food
Wah recently i having some mosquito breeding woes.. probably due to the weather, don't know is their breeding season or what.. anyway i have already placed my rainbar facing the surface, added 2 air pumps but to no avail! yesterday morning still spotted new larvae. water definitely having more than enough agitation but they still manage to keep breeding.
I'm not sure if I want to get boraras brigittae since the last time i had them to try and help me, they didnt seem interested in the larvaes and instead were quite affected by the current in my tank. besides, my shrimps are pregnant and the tank is quite bare from hiding places.
are my only options fan or a net? i really got no time to do-it-yourself some net, exams just next week.
ANYWAY i tried to place a plastic wrapping over the tank last night, but woke up to still see 5-6 mosquitoes flying inside and larvaes all over.. i want to "peng" and decom my fish tank already!
Last edited by shyta; 19th Nov 2011 at 10:21.
Get brigitae, not sure why last time you try does not work. My guess either they are new or they eating shrimp food
Do you have floating plants thus creating dead spot in the water surface which lets the mosquito breed there?
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nope no floating plants.. but i noticed dead spots are at the corners/behind rainbar/filter intake.. but i already took precautions in placing 2 air pumps to help more surface agitations at these spots..
i also went ahead to lift the rainbar above water level already.. hope to create more surface agitation.
maybe i will try getting some brigitaes again after my exams.. anyway the larvae won't be too big for brigitaes? the larvaes like bigger than shrimplets haha.. that was what i thought last time when it didn't work for me.
The larva should not be that big initially. Next fish inline would be enler guppy but they are bigger so might eat small shrimplet
my brigitae seems to be more busy snatching shrimp food then looking for mosquito eggs/larvae too
I also use 2 airstone at 2 corner to agitate the deadspot.. Note i place the airstone very near the water surface instead of in to the water
Another idea is I hang pandan leave on the glass tank on the sides to shoo roaches, Why dont you hang some commercial product out there that shoo mosquitos .. like the anti mosquito strip on the glass or put a sponge rub with insect repellent and hang there
idea right? going to patent it
Not keen on repellent as there is a risk that it might drop inside the tank. Shit happens.Originally Posted by marimo
Not a chance .. I used a S hook and hang it outside the glass , or invest in ultrasonic anti-mosquito battery/AC near your tank.
Sorry to hijack and ask a question, after making more surface agitation, I realize my Mosquitos no longer lays egg, but the problem is the eggs they laid previously and their pupa is in the tank, I put a few puffer in but they can't seems to find the pupa, I still see some pupa suddenly swims up to the surface and the Mosquitos being born. May I know how can I completely rid my tank of them?
Been awhile since i last kept shrimps/ fishes, please give me your kind guidance!
Put guppy instead of puffer
Hello bro, i do know that Guppy will eat the 3 stages of the Mosquitos (read it up somewhere) - but the thing is even i cant find the pupa, the guppy can? - plus i dont intend to keep guppy in the long term, its quite irresponsible, if i just use them to keep the mozzie, and then after that, i have no idea what to do with them...
Been awhile since i last kept shrimps/ fishes, please give me your kind guidance!
actually guppy is prety handy, not only eating mosquito larvae. It also cleaning the surface oil. I put at least one in any of my tank, assuming you don't have shrimps but puffer will also eat shrimps.
Hi bro, I have 2 X 2Ft tank, the current 1 that got mozzie is 1 which i am doing a new scape and injecting Co2. The mozzie came about probably because during the first 2 weeks, i have no surface agitation (hoping the co2 wont escape into the air) and there are no live stock inside. Bro may i ask you, having seen so many of your nice scaping - how did you manage to do it, without surface agitation and let the plants grow out so nice? My tank is currently still waiting for the HC to spread, and most of the moss and plants are not even lush and full grown yet... and then the mozzie came.. did you have such a problem? or did you also use surface agitation and inject co2 at the same time?
- The scape is really hard to achieve .... when we have to prevent the mozzie from breeding..
Been awhile since i last kept shrimps/ fishes, please give me your kind guidance!
The thing is all about balance. Say I want to keep shrimps only in a planted tank, then surface agitation is a must to prevent mosquito breeding which will eventually lead to loss of co2. But I believe shadow has fishes to prevent breeding in his scapes.
For me, I seem to have reduced the mosquito breeding incidents finally. To me, mosquito breeding issue > having a good growth on my plants > losing shrimplets due to adding of fish.
Yeah, balance, you need to get your priority right first. For me, scape is highest priority, followed by shrimps as an algae cleaner crew and lastly fish which is just an extra
Light surface agitation is fine, just inject a bit more of CO2
Hmm.. but then again my tank is still quite barren - ok, i will guess i do what was discussed previously in a thread that i started - i will inject more co2 to counter the loss of the surface agitation - by the way bro, can i ask i have some white stuff (like jelly/ mould) growing in my tank after i use Co2 and Fert... its like the protein built up but it is more clumpy and stringy at the same time... they grow on my tank wall and my DW - i read it up it in the forum - but still dont quite understand what they discussed - they say to do a few WC but it does not seems to work for me ehh.. May i know what are these white things..?
Been awhile since i last kept shrimps/ fishes, please give me your kind guidance!
That sound like fungus from your wood. normal. otos and yamato (other shrimps as well) will eat it
Oh ok ok - wah bro ... i read the whole forum - they give lots of advice.. but dont quite understand what is the thing... you summarize everything short and sweet... hahah thank you ehh! but cant put shrimps in the tank yet.. cause my tank now still waiting for HC to spread ... scare shrimp will uproot them..
Been awhile since i last kept shrimps/ fishes, please give me your kind guidance!
I also experience the mosquito problems.. after much investigation, problemn come from father's fish tank.. i was like "WTH" normally i tot fishes will eat those eggs? or the pump will make some movement in water so mosquitoes cannot lay any eggs?? guess i am wrong ba!!! so i had to ask my father to wash his fish tank cleanly...
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