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    taeniatus colour variation?

    the salt conversations are very interesting. I think, for me, I'm going to continue salting, just because I've always done it in the past, and it's never seemed to hurt. I hear what you're saying, but I've tested my water again. I've done repeated water changes. Over and over, I'm getting...
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    taeniatus colour variation?

    that's why I use salt :) The salt I use is plain, pure, coarse pickling salt. It is Sodium Chloride, with no additives. I dissolve it ahead of time in a bucket. I didn't know that about the conductivity, although that makes sense, from a chemistry point of view. That's almost right, I...
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    taeniatus colour variation?

    thanks for the feedback guys. My ram passed this afternoon, but the rest of my fish seem better, or at least not worse. Whatever it is, at this point I'm saying definitely some very virulent strain of disease. Reason being, when I went to the lfs I got the taeniatus from to pick up a new...
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    taeniatus colour variation?

    Azur, the only thing that's fresh is the tank itself - the filter media is not. I feel like banging my head against a wall here - the vast majority of a tank's bacteria is in it's filter. If your tank broke, and you needed to move your fish to another tank, you would move your filter media...
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    taeniatus colour variation?

    sorry, the med is from API and is for flukes, lice, velvet, and anchorworm. It's metronidozole with praziquantel. The glowlight didn't perk up, he died during the water change, sorry if that wasn't clear. The platy perked up BEFORE the water change, on his own, and no change since then...
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    taeniatus colour variation?

    well, just did a 75% water change. My male platy seems revived (seemed revived before the change). My female GBR doesn't. I lost a glowlight tetra during the change (just keeled over and died without warning). So, in 48 hours, I've lost: 2 taeniatus 1 GBR 1 a. steelblue 1 glowlight...
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    taeniatus colour variation?

    nice fry! Well, I'm doing a big water change right now, even though it means I've wasted the meds I put in last night. The deciding factor was that my Angels are looking a bit dusky on the top of their heads, and one of my loaches is stressed. My female GBR is looking worse, my male platy...
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    taeniatus colour variation?

    thanks - sorry for going off, on you - I was just frustrated at being lectured on it being a new tank/stocking issue when I'd already explained why it wasn't. I've never seen fish drop off so rapidly with no previous sign of disease either, unless there was a MAJOR water quality issue...
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    taeniatus colour variation?

    okay, I have to say, while I certainly appreciate constructive feedback, I don't appreciate being labelled a newbie and all but called stupid. I am NOT new to fish keeping. This is NOT new tank syndrome. The fact that this tank has been running for a month has nothing to do with the deaths...
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    taeniatus colour variation?

    gaaaah! I'm losing fish :( It's either flukes, or it's the new decor I added to the tank on Friday - some naturally polished river rock. I lost my male GBR yesterday, my female is looking rough, and one of my a. steel blue is on his way out :( Before my male GBR died, he turned VERY dark...
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    taeniatus colour variation?

    okay, I'll try to answer everything here: Tank is new, but I'm not new to fishkeeping (although still lots to learn). I use to work in lfs years ago, and had a 20g dwarf cichlid tank back then. Recently (a year ago) got back into fish, starting with goldies for the first time. The tank...
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    taeniatus colour variation?

    bad news :( Last night, the taetianus were fine. This afternoon, when I went to check on them, the male was dead, and the female was dying - she died about 5 minutes after I first spotted her. I've no idea what went wrong. Water params are perfect (ammonia 0, nitrites 0, trace nitrates, pH...
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    taeniatus colour variation?

    I'll have to ask the lfs fellow again where the fish are from. He stated the village they were caught outside of - I believe it started with an "I", but all he wrote on the bag, when I asked him to write where they were from, was "ndowe - niger river". Regardless of where they're from, I...
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    taeniatus colour variation?

    Wow, thanks for all the responses. In regards to substrate, it's sand, with lots of river rock (various sizes) and some slate. Tank size is 90g, and I made sure to have more territories than fish. There are three "caves" from pots, a couple sites on the one piece of driftwood, another spot...
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    taeniatus colour variation?

    Hi, I picked these two little beauties up at my lfs yesterday. I'm quite pleased with them, as they're very pretty, and are pairing up already. They're F1s, parents were wild caught and special ordered for a customer - these two are from his first batch of fry off the parents, the second batch...
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    hello, need an ID :)

    thanks so much! I did a lot of reading, at it seems I *should* be disappointed, but really, I'm not. We almost never get apistos into my lfs - the two I bought are the first I've seen there in about a year. I don't really dig the fact that they may be hybrids, but they're pretty little...
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    hello, need an ID :)

    Hi there, my first post on this forum. I bought these two little guys, after watching them in the lfs for about a month. They were labelled "assorted dwarf cichlids" and their only tankmates were some rubberlip plecos. The lfs staff said they didn't know what they were, that they looked...
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