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  1. martink

    help needed with ivanacara spawn.

    I want to add that I took out a lot of wood and instead I added about 40 cherryblossom tree leaves presoaked in boiled water; It seem that not all tannins are the same as the water is tinted decent and has only added 5ppm since adding the leaves and removing the wood.
  2. martink

    help needed with ivanacara spawn.

    thanks for all your info thats really helpful. I may get a better Ro unit but my water is so soft it takes little to get it to 0 ec. its at 80 from the tap. but thanks this has given me some perspective.
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    help needed with ivanacara spawn.

    yeah its black peat and im adding a bricket so likely its far too much. but I just dont understand how you can tint the water brown and have conductivity at 20 which is recommended. its like magic. I have a jar of alder cone water which is black, but the EC is 1200 and so i darent add it to my...
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    help needed with ivanacara spawn.

    ok it might be ph. i havent even been testing it tbh just obsessed with the tds.
  5. martink

    help needed with ivanacara spawn.

    So ~Ive been trying to get the water quality right and I am having trouble. I guess I could just strip my tank, but it kind of annoys me that it doesnt work. The water goes in pure 0 EC and overnight jumps to 80. ~I even tried to do a 100% change, soaking up residue water with a towel but still...
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    making the water RO with ivanacara in the tank

    ok thanks
  7. martink

    making the water RO with ivanacara in the tank

    i have ivanacara pair and they are laying eggs which are not hatching at 50ppm tds rainwater. I have a RO filter the cheap one and i was wondering how safe it is to slowly replace the tank water to pure RO and maybe some peat as well. will this kill the bacteria in my filter?
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    separating 4 juvenile ivanacara from a pair today and not looking forward to it.

    afraid so.
  9. martink

    separating 4 juvenile ivanacara from a pair today and not looking forward to it.

    eh was quite easy. I made a divider out of cardboard and covered with tarpaulin which was kind of ok but reminds me i should have a plastic divider as i had to weight it down with a bamboo stick wedge. but yeah it worked the male was like sheepdog keeping everybody to one side and with the...
  10. martink

    separating 4 juvenile ivanacara from a pair today and not looking forward to it.

    so my Ivanacara head m and f paired and laid eggs and now I have the nigh impossible task to evacuate the other 4. My problem is that the females when colours are off are the same size as the sub males and almost indistinguisable from each other; so when i bag them i cant tell who's who. My plan...
  11. martink

    sandfleas from the beach as livefood

    yeah am doing that, worse is the shell debri but they get a little quarantine. thanks
  12. martink

    sandfleas from the beach as livefood

    i dont need that many its just a bi weekly treat to bolster the earthworms and bbs
  13. martink

    sandfleas from the beach as livefood

    i walk home from the beach and these guys are abundant. ive fed a few testers and my ivanacara like them but I thought id post incase someone could think of a reason why not.
  14. martink

    thinking of adding GHO ORGANIC HUMIC ACID SOLUBLE GRANULES 93% humic and fulvic.

    thanks macz
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    thinking of adding GHO ORGANIC HUMIC ACID SOLUBLE GRANULES 93% humic and fulvic.

    to lower ph from 6.8 . kh2 gh 3, tds 70. seems like it might be a nice additive along with ground beech bark. anythoughts from someone with better chem experience, im just experimenting. I was thinking of using acetic acid as i soak wood in ascetic acid/cinnamon solution and I think my fish...
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