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    Selling Ivanacara Juveniles (small) listed ebay. UK . post only to UK. sold in small groups.

    oops ivanacara adoketa
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    Selling Ivanacara Juveniles (small) listed ebay. UK . post only to UK. sold in small groups.

    hi im selling ivanacara juveniles on ebay in uk. quite small but mum has spawned again quickly and so need to sell on...
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    Ivanacara eggs help

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    Ivanacara eggs help

    so she hid them for a month, no i dont think thats possible, or she failed and tried again, but either or i have free swimmers!! yeeahh, oh success feels real good. anyone near fife in scotland wants them give me a shout, mum and dad are great looking specimens.
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    Ivanacara eggs help

    well i think she got there. she moved them onto the little sack of peat but there are a few wriggling but not many maybe 5. I feel so good for her shes been trying for over a year, tirelessy once a fortnight then getting chased all because i couldnt seem to get the EC low enough. to see one...
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    Ivanacara eggs help

    think she ate them all but usually she would be hiding and shes hanging around one spot so im not sure. wish Id cleaned the glass before.
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    Ivanacara eggs help

    thanks
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    Ivanacara eggs help

    I finally got my EC down to 16 in my ivanacara tank and this brood of eggs looks like it is doing ok. The eggs are about 50/50 white to orange after 3 days whilst before they would all have fungused overnight. My question is do i remove the white eggs as the female is just leaving them. I dont...
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    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.
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    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.
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    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
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    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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