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Ed
Thanks for your reply. I actually just took a plant out from in front of the heater as it wasn't coping very well. Will get something to cover it soon.
Hopefully the Keyholes will keep on leaving the Apisto's alone and everything will work out well, fingers crossed
Cheers
Andrew
I have a 190 litre tank (101x40x55cm) which, due to various problems and issues with other tanks, now houses the following:
2 Apistogramma nijsseni
4 Keyhole's
13 Cradinal Tetra's
5 Diptail Pencil's
3 Clown Plec's
4 Ott's
PH - 6.5
Temp - 26
NO3 - 5
NO2 - 0
NH3 - 0
The Nijsseni...
Hi
I have a 220 litre tank (set up since Jan 07) with the following fish:
4 Cleithracara Maronii
4 Mikrogeophagus Altispinosus
1 Otocinclus Flexilis
3 Otocinclus Arnoldi
2 Crossocheilus siamensis
13 Paracheirodon axelrodi
5 Nannostomus unifasciatus/eques (diptail)
3 Panaque...
Sorry it's not a dwarf cichlid problem but they share the same tank as my Bolivians and Keyholes. Got 2 SAE a week past Thursday. Yesterday I noticed that one of them as a protruding white blob! pushing open it's gill cover. Has anyone got any idea's of what this could be and if you do is it...
Ed
I have a group of 5 otto's so between them, the clown plecs and the SAE I should have no algae left at all!!
I must admit, can't wait till the swords grow a bit, the oldest ones are only 3-4 months old so now I need to leave the tank to mature a bit (easier said than done though)...
Thanks to all of you who took the time to pass on your advice. I have added more plants, including the fast growing one Ed mentioned. Got 2 SAE's which are doing a good (slow) job. Looks a lot better now although am still concidering the florish excell and more co2.
Cheers
Andrew
Spine
Thanks for the advice, I have heard about the flourish excel and might give it a go.
The 2 SAE have been put in today and I have ordered some fast growing plants. I Did my usual 25-30% water change today and put in some liquid ferts (API) so will see what happens over the next week...
Ed
I will check with a friends test kit and see if there is much difference.
The angels went back to my LFS last Sunday. The story was.....
I bought 2 very young blue acara's, which afer they grew up a bit turned out to be green terrors so took them back to my LFS. After they were taken...
Beleg
My NO3 (nitrate) is 5 and have never been higher so don't think thats a problem. Will hold off the other CO2 system and try the Hygrophila polysperma, water changes and SAE's for now.
Cheers
Andrew
Beleg and Ed
Thanks for your advice. I will start introducing ferts straight away. I will be getting my 2 SAE's from Tri-mar tomorrow (all ready ordered so can't up the order) and will try to introduce more co2 (the hydror system is basically a posh pop bottle so should be able to join one...
Tried to edit my last post but it didn't like it.
My parameters are:
PH 6.5
Temp 26.5
Nitrates 5
Nitrites 0
Ammonia 0
I use an Eheim 2026 external filter.
Lighting 2 x 30 watt Arcadia Original Tropical
Cheers
Andrew
Hello all
I have a 220 litre tank which I started in February this year. Since about June/July or so it was overcome with algae (see below)
I was using liquid ferts (API) and had an air stone going and was advised to stop both. I then introduced co2 (hydror natural yeast system) which...
Guys
Thanks for your help. Initially I have stopped API ferts (looking to get Flourish excel) although in the mean time also trying to source some SAE.
I will let you know how I get on.
Cheers
Andrew
Hi
I've had this tank set up for SA Cichlids since January 2007, plants since March. Recently I have been fighting against brown algae, I purchased Otto's which cleaned the whole tank but unfortunately they died and I now have 3 clown pelco's. Over the last week or so I have noticed this...
Thanks
Thank's to everyone who has replied and helped me out. My tank was sitting at 27.5 and I am slowly increasing that to the proper temp. I do have another wee query, in my tank I have the 5 Rams, 4 Keyholes, 2 Otto's and 14 cardinals, would any of these suffer from the higher temp...
Cageman
Fantastic, thanks for your help and information. They certainly looked slightly different from the one's I have seen pictures of lately as the colours are more subtle.
They were purchased from Ultimate Aquatic, Cupar, Scotland. I had no reason to doubt them but other forums found it...