David's Aqua Nook

08/23/2024

Just enjoying a quiet breakfast with Kurama(yellow tailed spiny eel) and the gang. I ordered the egg sandwich, she ordered the grindal worms.

08/08/2024

We'll be at the CNYAS fish swap in September. The public is welcome, there will be lots of awesome sellers there including yours truely, and entry is free! Stop in and say hi :)

08/04/2024

Me and my longest held fish and plant confidant had a great time at the Northeast Plant Show at the OnCenter in Syracuse! There is something really great about getting out there for these events and meeting other enthusiasts, so we will definitely be attending more in the future. Stay tuned and I will be announcing some future swaps/expos and previewing some of the plants and critters coming with me :)

07/08/2024

eggs ready to hatch! Many of these will likely be in the outside world by tomorrow.

07/03/2024

Surprise babies! When they are fish, one of my favorite things. When they are mammals, not so much.

06/23/2024

Day olds!

06/19/2024

medaka outdoor tub time :)

05/13/2024

New babies! some.of them are 10 minutes old :)

05/07/2024

Hey ya'll! Just thought I would mention that to kick off summer, I am running a number of buy 2 get one sales. You can find my prices listed in a pinned post at the top of my page.

Send a message to learn more

05/06/2024

Let's talk a moment about parrots, feather. This is a plant I just started offering and there are some really interestin things about it, but also some quirks and drawbacks.
For one it is uniquely beautiful in texture, make little puffy cottonball like flowers when thriving and will ravenously absorb excess nutrients from the water, giving you a massive boost in water quality. This makes it ideal for unfiliterrd set ups.
It likes to grow out of the top of a tank. For some people that's going to be a major disadvantage, but for other people it will be just the thing. It's what you call an emergent, so it's base must be rooted under water, but the tops must be out of water.
While sime emergents can survive with peroids of being fully submerged and fully dry, this one cannot. It can survive fully submerged for VERY brief peroids while it breeches the surface, but too long and it will drown. In otherwords, this plant may not make it if you plant it in deep water where it is more than an inch or two from the surface initially.
It needs higher light than some plants, but can otherwise adapt to a wide variety of conditions. While it will not likely do well in gravel or sand, mine pictured here is growing in basalt substrate, so you can grow this without soil as long as your substrate is very porous.
This is an excellent choice for mini ponds like I have here, outdoor ponds, or tanks with high quality lighting above or near a window with space for it to pop out of the back, or in paladariums to beautiful effect.
It can be yours for $7 per three stems. Happy growing :)

05/04/2024

Fry update! we now have sub adults and they are ready for their next step.

04/25/2024

just showing off my rainbow shiners. They are a neat little fish, that probably should be more popular than they are, and they are quickly becoming one of my favorites.

04/10/2024

The majestic mating dance of the peacock gudgeon. Not bad, considering therr is no music.

04/08/2024

I dont want to count my chickens before they hatch... but this footage was too cool not to share.

04/05/2024

Time for some night vision fish spying.

04/03/2024

A friend of mine invited me to her new office to help her aqua escape a tiny tank that she inherited. This is a 5 get more tank and it's going to house. Either shrimp or a Nano species that will be comfortable in this environment or some mix of. I'm sharing this because, with a couple species of tolerant plants a little bit of glue and some hard materials, even a tiny office tank can be a really pretty sight with a bit of simple scaping.

The plants featured are crypt. wendtii, narrow leaf java fern, a bucephelandra sp., sagittaria subulatta, salvinia minima (water spangles), and amazon frogbit.

04/02/2024

Just a quick update on the white cloud minnow breeding project and some notes about how you can feed a very small fry. Grow up big and beautiful little dudes 😁

04/01/2024

recovery tank, part 2:electric bugaloo. Here we check in on our sick fish, and talk a bit more about a gentle method for helping fish recover from stress and injury ans bounce back to prime condition.

03/31/2024

A quick update on the white cloud minnow breeding project and some notes on feeding very small fry. f4 generation is coming along nicely :)

03/31/2024

This is just a little information about recovery tanks and how to treat a fish that isn't deathly ill, but is not doing well. I hope some of you find this helpful.

03/30/2024

Update on my most current breeding project, white cloud minnows. Here we are at about an average of 10 days (they dont all hatch at once)

03/28/2024

Whoa! Someone knows its spring.

03/27/2024

A bit about armored catfish and their diets. Tldr, while many of them are herbivorous or wood eaters, plenty of them are not!

03/24/2024

Lets talk about snails!

03/22/2024

The beginning of the latest project. It doesnt get much smaller than this!

03/20/2024

A note on owning fancy crayfish. Sometimes you make them a really cool scape and they decide to rip it to shreds and make a giant mess. Still glad he came out though! This is Olrox, a Chelax bosmani.

03/17/2024

PLANTS FOR SALE!

Here is complete list of plants and food cultures currently in stock. For information regarding fish and shrimp, you can send me a message here, or email me at [email protected]

Buy 2 get 1 free items
-Frogbit $3 (6 plants)
Pearl W**d $3 per portion (golf ball sized)
Pogostemon stellata "Octopus"- $6 (3 stems)
Leopard val. $6 (2 plants)
Susswassertang $4 per portion (golf ball sized)
floating crystal wort (riccia fluitans) $5 (golf ball sized mat)
Dwarf sagitaria $6 for 4 plants
pennywort - $8 (3 stems)
Najas grass $4 per portion (softball sized)

Complete stock list

~~ROOTING PLANTS~~
-pennywort - $8 (3 stems)
-hygrophilia "willow" - $8 (3 stems)
-Pogostemon stellata "Octopus"- $6 (3 stems)
-Leopard val. $6 (2 plants)
-Dwarf sagitaria $6 for 4 plants
-Tall sagitaria $8 3 plants
-Rotunda roundifolia $5 per bundle
-tall hair grass $5 per bundle
-ludwigia ovalis $4 (3 stems)
-Parrot's feather $7 (3 stems)

~~NON-ROOTING PLANTS~~
-taiwan moss starter $4
-Java moss starter $4
-Christmas moss starter $4
-giant willow moss, Fontinalis antipyretica var. gigantea $5 (2 3-4 inch fronds)
-Najas grass $4 per portion (softball sized)
-Susswassertang $4 per portion (golf ball sized)
-Hornwort $3 per portion (baseball sized)
-Pearl w**d $4 per portion (base ball sized)

~~FLOATING PLANTS~~
-Frogbit $3 (6 plants)
-water lettuce - $5 3 plants
-spangles portions - $3 (~6 plants)
- spangles xl -$4 (per plant)
-floating crystal wort (riccia fluitans) $5 (golf ball sized mat)
-red root floater $4 (8 plants)

https://syracuse.craigslist.org/grd/d/little-york-aquarium-plants-live-food/7738768126.html

03/17/2024

Hello, fish friends. Today I just wanted to show you something nice you can do with several varieties of moss.
All you need to do is find yourself a nice piece of aquarium safe wood with lots of spindly little branches. You can often find pieces like that at aquarium stores marketed as "aquarium bonsais".
Once you have the wood and the moss, rip the moss into little managable bits and use crazy glue to wedge it into the elbows of the twigs and other surfaces, and then simply wait for it to grow! Some people also tie itndown with fishing line, but in either case it will anchor itself once it starts to grow into the wood.
In Im my experience, the most important thing to make this work well is just keeping the "tree" in a place with very little water movement.The moss species shown here is Christmas moss,. A small starter bunch is all you need, and I sell them for $4. You can also attach it to just about any other rough surface, or even plastic mesh to make your own mossy creations.

03/12/2024

This is a photo of a customers tank, shared with permission, that he planted almost exclusively with my plants. It's really beautiful work, and I'm happy to share it here. :)

03/10/2024

Come visit me and lots of other cool sellers and hobbiest at the fisb swap next weekend! I'll be bringing tons of different plants, and a few cultures and fish/shrimp as well.