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    33 gallon long - Dicrossus filamentosus and friends

    I didn't watch him for very long, but didn't notice anything unusual. The pair was at the store for about 10 days before I grabbed them. Damaged gill(s) while being netted? That's the only thing I can think of. He looks catatonic in the quarantine tank, I can pick him up with my hand and he...
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    33 gallon long - Dicrossus filamentosus and friends

    Do you like crappy pictures? Here's some crappy pictures. Ignore the fact that the male is half purple, my phone's camera is garbage. I just did a 30% water change and the male still looks stressed. I'll be surprised if he's alive tomorrow.
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    33 gallon long - Dicrossus filamentosus and friends

    I finally FINALLY got a pair of apistos, after researching and planning for 3 years or so. I got a pair of panduros yesterday and put them in my quarantine tank. The female looks right at home, bright colors, swimming around like it's her tank. The male has been pale, breathing heavily and...
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    Recommendations for sand?

    I use pool filter sand in my tanks, it's cheap, non-reactive, clean and uniform in size. It just works. With a really fine sand, you run the chance of a deep bed compacting and trapping organic material which rots. Pool filter sand has less tendency to compact, but I still stir it up once in a...
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    33 gallon long - Dicrossus filamentosus and friends

    I've got 18 pristella tetras in this tank now, all are doing great. The local saltwater store has finally put in some freshwater tanks, I'm going to see if they are going to carry any apistos. I can't remember if I mentioned this, I have a 14 gallon plastic barrel for aging water next to the...
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    33 gallon long - Dicrossus filamentosus and friends

    I got the quarantine tank down to 175ppm, the main tank was at 55ppm - I figured that was close enough. I plopped the tetras in yesterday and everybody looks good. Eight is not enough to fill out the tank, I'll be getting more of these guys.
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    33 gallon long - Dicrossus filamentosus and friends

    I've had 100% success ratios when adding fish and 0% success and everything in between. I can't find any correlation in what I'm doing either: I alternate between float and drop, 30-90 min acclimation then transfer to full on quarantine tank. I've actually had the worst luck with the quarantine...
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    33 gallon long - Dicrossus filamentosus and friends

    I've been extra annoyed with this tank lately. I ordered another batch of pencilfish a few weeks after 100% of the first batch died. Guess what? These new ones died too, in record time. All of them. All. So I said "screw it" and didn't even bother stocking anything else. I wasn't planning on...
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    33 gallon long - Dicrossus filamentosus and friends

    I returned the fish corpses today, got a refund and got a sample of their water. For the sake of thoroughness and because I really don't want to murder anymore fish, I'll do my best to match the parameters. Probably overkill, but I'd feel like a better fish owner knowing I'm taking more extreme...
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    33 gallon long - Dicrossus filamentosus and friends

    Then my hunch was correct. Argh. I think what I will do is get a sample of the fish store's water and then adjust the parameters of my quarantine tank to match as best I can. And then I guess over the course of several weeks, I'll do water changes until I bring the TDS down to match the main tank.
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    33 gallon long - Dicrossus filamentosus and friends

    Neat. I got 20 N. beckfordi on Tuesday night and by this morning, I have 2 left, looking like they are about to die. They are all in the quarantine tank that I used for my checkerboards and hatchets when I tore down the 33 gallon. I know the water quality is good. The water is this tank is very...
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    33 gallon long - Dicrossus filamentosus and friends

    A local Pet Supermarket is able to get me some N. beckfordi, so I'm going to go with them and hold off on the additional checkerboards for now.
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    33 gallon long - Dicrossus filamentosus and friends

    I turned on the air stone again last night, and that female started corralling bubbles almost immediately. So weird. I'm inquiring about getting 20x Nannostomus marginatus and 5x more checkerboards from a semi-local shop about 100 miles from me. Hopefully the shipping shouldn't be too bad.
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    33 gallon long - Dicrossus filamentosus and friends

    Current parameters: TDS - 50ppm pH - somewhere between 6.6 - 6.8 (down from 7.8 when I first added fish to the tank) Temp - averaging 79.5 F (26.4 C) Last week, I put a few sprigs of Brazilian pennywort in the tank in an attempt to combat the low oxygen or high CO2 imbalance. I also received...
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    33 gallon long - Dicrossus filamentosus and friends

    I put my remaining fish back in the tank on Wednesday night. Of course they are freaked out and breathing rapidly, not a big deal. The next day, still breathing a little rapidly, but otherwise acting normal. Friday - hmmm, still not quite breathing at a normal rate, how about a water change? Sat...
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