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Number 2 is not Lilaeopsis Novae-Zelandiae. Perhaps L. Brasiliensis, but that's just a guess.
Number three is a M. Aquaticum. Doesn't look like it's gets sufficient light.
Usually when the females are ready to spawn, they look like they've swallowed a red grape. After the spawn they obviously aren't that big anymore. I've also seen that the purpel color tend to fade, and gets less intense.
I think you should leave them for a couple of days, and see what...
Have none experience with them but I don't think what Z man said is representative for all Teleocichla species. One of my LFS (with high quality) have had T. Monogramma in for several months now. I guess there's about 8 of them in a tank not bigger than 50L (about 12 gallons I think). They don't...
It's not the kind of CO2, but the amount of CO2 each bottle produce.
When one of the bottles produce at lot of CO2 the other one will produce little.
Does it make any more sense?
The first days, the yeast doesn´t produce a lot of Co2 but it produces more and more after each day. It also produces alcohol, and the alcohol eventually kills the yeast. This happens at an alcohollevel at around 14%
To make the Co2-levels in the tank more stabil you should rotate. When one...
Everything depends on your tank. Is it crowded? Are there many plants?
I've got a 160L planted, with DIY 1,5L CO2, and I never turn it of. My filter is keeping the surface moving, so the water get some O2 around the clock.
But if the fish is hanging in the surface every morning you'd...
My experience with the SAE is that it also eats quite a lot of fine plants. They loved my Cabomba, R. Wallichii and java moss. Amanoshrimps eats a lot more of threadalgea than they do.
I got this fish with a tank I bought. The guy who sold it, told me he couldn't remember the name, but said "it's a mouthbreeding pulcher of some sort." Obviously it's not even the same genus.
How fast can I expect it to grow?
I'm no expert. It's just what I've been told by people I belive know of what they are talking about, and to me it makes sense.
The way I've understood it, is that CO2 will dissappear faster when the surface gets bigger and when there's movement.
Maybe someone else could explain this better...
You can use CO2 and wet/dry, its just that a lot of the CO2 will disappear. It would be the same effect as if you place the tube which pumps the water in to your tank above the surface.
It was sold to me as a Taeniatus "nigerian red" but i have some doubts.Can anybody ID it?
There's a picture of it here: http://www.nettakvariet.no/forum/showthread.php?t=14456[/img]