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The problem seems to have gone away all by itselft.. I don't know how really, but after my latest water change (saturday) I haven't seen the previous rise in conductivity.
But still thanks to all of you for being helpful trying to figure this out :)
I feed them with frozen daphnia (I get rid of as much of the water as possible), FD black worms and newly hatched brine shrimps. And yes I rinse the brine shrimps a few times before feeding with them.
Normally the conductivity in the tank is about 157 and when I do the water changes this is...
My RO water has a conductivity of 6 as it has always been, and as I mentioned the only thing I've added is food and a ketapang leaf once in a while. And of course I've been doing the regular water changes.
The driftwood that I've got in the tank has been there for a little more than a year...
Currently I have T. candidi as the only fish. I have one pair where they regularly spawn, however, I've only seen fry once. I believe that it is because my conductivity has started to slowly rise.
When I had the eggs hatch a couple of months ago, which was when they spawned for the first time...
Didn't have time to raise the last spawn (final exam project going on in school), but there's eggs once again. And I actually do have time now.
Since this is my first time breeding dwarfcichlids, I've got to ask kind of a stupid question..
Would it be okay to do waterchanges while the female...
Just wanted to throw in a couple of pictures I took today..
They're the best I could manage. My water is really dark and they're fast. And as a bonus I had a reflection of some kind.
Couldn't figure out what caused the reflection.
Seems like they're gonna have a go at it again.
Female is back in the black colors, and been like that since wendnsday this week.
Hoping for a larger spawn and that I'll be able to raise them this time...
kH is about 0 and same goes for gH and my pH is 5.6.
But yea my conductivity is quite high, which was what I thought could have affected the size of the spawn.
You're probably right, but was afraid to do waterchanges while the fry was that small because the female tends to get really stressed when I do the waterchanges.
And I've been wondering why the spawn was so small. Could it be that my waterparameters still aren't right? Or is it just because...
Haven't done any waterchanges while the fry have been free swimming, but suppose it could have happened anyway.
But yea.. I'll keep feeding them lots of bbs and live mosquito larvae, aswell as some freezedried australian blackworms which actually seems to be one of their favorites. And then...
Afraid that the fry is dead..
The female is swimming around the tank like she normally would and she's being chased around by the male..
No clue what could have done it.. They always had little orange bellies so they didn't seem to starve.
But of course it's also her first spawn, even though...