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rivendell_jw
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Ok ... I have a male and female curvicep. I've had them for about 4 months or longer. When I first added them things were fine. They looked happy and colors looked great!. They roamed my 75 gal tank and things were fine.
I added some rainbows in the tank and I had an outbreak of ick or something like it but it actually killed the rainbows .... the ick got on the curviceps but they responded to treatment. I have no idea what actually went through that tank ... It may have been a combination of things because the ick never really got that bad. I pulled the rainbows and treated them but to no avail.
However, before the rainbows died the curviceps were still doing fine and in the morning would lock jaws and looked like they might pair up. Suddenly the curviceps started acting very strange. The male would hide in the back on one side of the tank and he was pale. The female would hide under a leaf and would turn herself almost black.
When I feed them they come out and things are fine. An hour later , they are right back in their respective corners. This behaviour is still going on to this day. Now I mentioned the sickness and all because that ocurred during this transition. With the sickness I was doing a lot of water changes.
Originally I had been using R/O water in the tank before I got the curviceps but that was proving to be too difficult and too expensive. I had started topping off with tap water before I got the curviceps. So gradually I was probably removing the R/O water and replacing it with my tap water. The fish seemed fine. I was monitoring the ph and the other standard indicators. During that transistion the ph went from 7.5 to 8 over a month and a half. The hardness was gradually going up as well.
What I'm driving at here is what is going on with these curviceps and is it possible that I have something in my water supply (either by the water company supply or by something coming from internal plumbing) that is causing this change in behavior? Is this behavior the result of a relationship gone bad? Any thoughts at all?
I'm nervous about the water supply for obvious other reasons ... namely I drink the stuff but also because I was thinking of starting another tank for some African cichlids and was concerned that it would be futile if something was fundamentally wrong with my water.
Thanks in advance
John
I added some rainbows in the tank and I had an outbreak of ick or something like it but it actually killed the rainbows .... the ick got on the curviceps but they responded to treatment. I have no idea what actually went through that tank ... It may have been a combination of things because the ick never really got that bad. I pulled the rainbows and treated them but to no avail.
However, before the rainbows died the curviceps were still doing fine and in the morning would lock jaws and looked like they might pair up. Suddenly the curviceps started acting very strange. The male would hide in the back on one side of the tank and he was pale. The female would hide under a leaf and would turn herself almost black.
When I feed them they come out and things are fine. An hour later , they are right back in their respective corners. This behaviour is still going on to this day. Now I mentioned the sickness and all because that ocurred during this transition. With the sickness I was doing a lot of water changes.
Originally I had been using R/O water in the tank before I got the curviceps but that was proving to be too difficult and too expensive. I had started topping off with tap water before I got the curviceps. So gradually I was probably removing the R/O water and replacing it with my tap water. The fish seemed fine. I was monitoring the ph and the other standard indicators. During that transistion the ph went from 7.5 to 8 over a month and a half. The hardness was gradually going up as well.
What I'm driving at here is what is going on with these curviceps and is it possible that I have something in my water supply (either by the water company supply or by something coming from internal plumbing) that is causing this change in behavior? Is this behavior the result of a relationship gone bad? Any thoughts at all?
I'm nervous about the water supply for obvious other reasons ... namely I drink the stuff but also because I was thinking of starting another tank for some African cichlids and was concerned that it would be futile if something was fundamentally wrong with my water.
Thanks in advance
John