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  1. TCMontium

    Dicrossus filamentosus fry care and death

    I did buy fish from private sellers I think twice since I came to Germany. They said they wouldn't take responsibility if the fish arrived dead and asked if I accepted that condition. They arrived just fine fortunately. It was like this in Turkey too. If you bought animals from private people...
  2. TCMontium

    Dicrossus filamentosus fry care and death

    I sadly have no places that sell any rare species nearby, pretty much always the same species have been available for years. Buying fish from online stores is a gamble for sure but it's fine more than 50% of the time in my experience. Sometimes they send different species or famished or sick...
  3. TCMontium

    Dicrossus filamentosus fry care and death

    If I had a car and a licence I would have so many more tanks in my room... Ebay Kleinanzeigen is torture for me with all the rare species people breed and sell at absurdly cheap prices just with "no shipping" in description. But it's understandable, I would also not be able to send fish via...
  4. TCMontium

    Dicrossus filamentosus fry care and death

    2 weeks old fry (well, almost)
  5. TCMontium

    a few Biotoecus opercularis of mine

    I do not know if they really are B. opercularis or another Biotoecus species but they do look like it. They are just around 3 cm right now so they have some growing to do. They were listed as wild fish, but they did accept dry food relatively fast. I keep them in an aquarium with the values of...
  6. TCMontium

    Pure R/O or Distilled water health effects

    Yeah buying R/O water is certainly more expensive than buying a R/O unit. I pay 20 cents per liter and carry 25-30 liters to my home from the pet store everytime with shopping bags and a backpack. Thankfully both the store and my home are very close to tram stations. Distilled water at grocery...
  7. TCMontium

    Pure R/O or Distilled water health effects

    Interesting, I thought neons and cardinals were both mostly captive bred at this point. Good to know. when I take some Hydrocotyle out of the tank and put it in other aquariums with soft water they also melt to a point and then develope micro leaves and more pale colors. These other aquariums...
  8. TCMontium

    Pure R/O or Distilled water health effects

    Thanks for all the information, very helpful answer. All my fish except cardinal tetras were listed as wild caught fish, so I suppose I should keep them without mixing and tap water or maybe just a little. I do plan to slowly acclimate the juveniles of the fish I breed to 100% tap water as well...
  9. TCMontium

    Pure R/O or Distilled water health effects

    Hi, I usually see measurements of 1-50 microSiemens of conductivity from wild collection sites of many dwarf cichlids, tetras and pencilfish etc. And some internet articles such as Seriouslyfish pages recommend water with close to or straight up 0 ppm TDS for many low pH preferring species. But...
    • TCMontium
    • Thread
    • #waterchemistry conductivity distilled health lowph minerals r/o softwater tds
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Water Chemistry
  10. TCMontium

    Dicrossus filamentosus fry care and death

    The fry are doing well, seems like their number is still stable and they are growing. Here are some videos of the fry at their first day of swimming:
  11. TCMontium

    Dicrossus filamentosus fry care and death

    I removed the male yesterday, a few hours after the fry started to swim. It was hard to feed him while he mostly hid in the jungle part and whenever he came out the female would push him back into the jungle even when he was more than a foot away from the fry. I feared he might eat the fry since...
  12. TCMontium

    Dicrossus filamentosus fry care and death

    Well, good news. Most of the eggs turned into larvae and the fry are starting to swim now. I added a full pack of Eheim torf pellets to the 50-60 liter aquarium 2 weeks ago, so I think that played a major part in the success. The pH value is 4-4.5 right now! The eggs from the batch before this...
  13. TCMontium

    Dicrossus filamentosus fry care and death

    Oh the fry did not even use up their yolk sacks. They were just 2-3 days old, still wriggling on surfaces the mom placed them on.
  14. TCMontium

    Dicrossus filamentosus fry care and death

    I did not measure oxygen levels. I can buy a test for it. I'm guessing if oxygen is low I probably need an oxydator? Since I'm guessing strong water movement method for more oxygen wouldn't be comfortable for the adults or the fry? Yeah I do throughly rinse all kinds of live and frozen food...
  15. TCMontium

    Dicrossus filamentosus fry care and death

    Yeah I know TDS isn't conductivity. I just have a "TDS meter" which just measures conductivity and displays an approximate TDS value. I don't know how exactly it calculates TDS from the conductivity so I just tell the calculated TDS value it shows on the device. (Which is not the actual TDS, I...
  16. TCMontium

    Dicrossus filamentosus fry care and death

    Peat I guess? The product is Eheim Torf Pellets. TDS dropped from 25 ppm to 17 ppm, but I did have the water at 5-10 ppm for almost a year once and had no eggs hatch so that should have no correlation to success in my case. pH has always been 4.5 to 5.5 in liquid tests. It is 5.0-5.5 right...
  17. TCMontium

    Dicrossus filamentosus fry care and death

    Hi, After years of unsuccessful eggs from several pairs of Dicrossus filamentosus, this last batch of eggs managed to hatch. I suppose using distilled instead of RO water or using peat moss and alder cones instead of catappa leaves did the trick. But after 2-3 days of their hatching, most of...
    • TCMontium
    • Thread
    • breeding checkerboard cichlid dicrossus dicrossus filamentosus eggs fry larvae
    • Replies: 29
    • Forum: Husbandry / Breeding
  18. TCMontium

    Dicrossus filamentosus pair egg and fry care

    Hi, My Dicrossus filamentosus pair laid eggs in a densely planted aquarium with a bottom area of 24x16 inches. Female's nest is in a corner and doesn't see the male except if male were to go to the 1/3rd of the aquarium where the felames nest is. Plants are dense enough that I can't find the...
  19. TCMontium

    Water parameters of South American rivers

    Thanks a lot, Am I mistaken or do both maps show the same values? In some locations there is only ph and in most locations there is ph, temperature and EC values plus sometimes even more information such as NO3 or O2.
  20. TCMontium

    ortegai

    Prominent bars and seemingly only yellow coloration with just a little bit of blue dots really do look different from A. cf. ortegai males of any size. Again, maybe A. ortegai males do have different colors or maybe females can have prominent bars and naturally have yellow coloration. I am not...
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