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The Nitrates in our tap water are really really high; we are getting them down, but it's been about 50mg/L since we got the fish (3ish months ago) and now it's down to 25mg/L. They came from the LFS who keep them in hard tap water...
Tap water around here is high pH with chloramine...
I did wonder about that, but talked it through with the shop and they figured it would be fine. The firemouth's chase each other and we have a careful eye on them, but the loaches just seem to keep themselves to themselves (only 2 of them). The apisto also holds/held their own agains thte...
Well I just did a test using a different test kit and the results are interesting.
I was using Interpret tablets, which were showing Nitrite at 0.1 on Sunday, and 0.25 today, and Ammonia at 0.1.
Used a Nutrafin liquid kit today to compare with the Interpret results, and it has shown 0 of...
Hi - water change is c.30% once a week (give or take a couple of days). After testing the water and seeing high KH etc. we did a 65ish% water change - will test the water tonight again.
Fish were behaving completely normally until then, and the other fish still are. In fact, I forgot to...
The tank is about 4-5 months old now, and the water has always been good - have been tracking.
The tank is over-filtered for its size, filter is for a 500L tank, and the tank although its 120L is heavily planted with loads of hidey holes; it doesnt seem to be a problem in terms of space etc...
I had a pair of agassizi's who got on really well and were really healthy; female was really strong yellow with a strong black stripe, and the male was really colourful.
The female just disappeared about 10 days ago, and the male seems a bit lonely. Then today his colours have gone really...
Thanks for the advice - I caught the new fish yesterday and separated it, as otherwise they would have killed each other. Will take them both back and try with a pair from the same batch, otherwise we will be on single numbers I think.
It was a very spectacular display last night, but...
Oh okay, I understand. I don't think they are - haven't been in the tank more than a few weeks.
We swapped the quiet firemouth for a "female" but due to the fact that the 2 firemouth's had a major face off tonight, gills and ended up a fight, either it's 2 females, 2 males or just one very...
They are Apistogramma Agassizi (male has red/orange/gold tail). Getting some digital photo's today - he's gorgoeus. His dorsal and 2 lower fins are so long and streaming, and the female is yellow with horizontal stripe and a reddish/gold tinge to her tail and fins. Sometimes she has a fairly...
Trust me, the apisto's are fine - I thought it may be an issue as well, but they are fine! In fact surprisingly so - the firemouth's are the ones that suffer!
I have a pair of firemouth's in my tank (along with a pair of apisto's, shoal of silver tip tetra, oto's, cory's and loaches). The tank is heavily planted with lots and lots of hidey holes.
The firemouth's got on fine for a while but now one has gone very dark and just hides in the corner...
I posted ages ago as I was after advice whether I could put Apisto's into my tank (which I was setting up at the time).
I got a bit of advice so thanks for that !!
I did get a pair of Apisto's in the end and they are very happy in my tank. The male is beautiful and his dorsal fin, and the...