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Test results:
A. Hongsloi tank:
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 3ppm
pH 7.4
Hospital tank:
Ammonia 0.1
Nitrite 0
pH 7.4
Since we have soft water right out of the tap I haven't put much thought into pH issues. How harmful is it for apistos to be in water with 7.6 ph?
"Both KH and GH are around 2 in ottawa. With a CO2 concentration in equilibrium of approximately 2ppm (my experience and assumption) and a KH level of 2, pH should settle at around 7.4 as stated above. "
I've only been keeping fish for a few months so I appreciate the advice. I dont think of myself as an accomplished fish keeper :)
I dont have a KH test kit. The water in my city is considered very soft with quite low mineral content. I have two other tanks, the one with a play sand substrate...
Their tank is a new tank but with a filter from a cycled tank. It cycled with plants and some food in it for about two weeks before I got the fish and it was converting ammonia to nitrate and I've been testing it every day to make sure theres no ammonia or nitrite. The ph is a bit high though...
Do you think its columnaris?
I am treating with salt now too.
I wonder what I should do for the other fish. One of them is flashing occasionally.
This was a new tank that I set up and cycled before I ordered the fish. I suppose something could have come into my tank from the plants I added...
Here is the male in the hospital tank. Perhaps he has mouth fungus rather than a mouth injury. That could explain why the other male died, if they both have fungus. I'm treating him with malachite green. Sadly that seems to be the only fish medicine available in canada anymore.
Now sleeper occasionally appraoches female, does a bit of tail slapping, and female will either stay still or swim away a few inches. Then sleeper follows her, sometimes in a way that seems threatening, but female stops and doesn't seem that concerned. then sleeper maybe wags his tail and the...
I should add.. before separating the male, after rearranging the tank into 3 distinct territories, sleeper and female had a fight. After I put male into a breeding box, sleeper and female stopped fighting. But female would go close to the breeding box, possibly showing interest in male. I...
The one facing left is Female 1, the one under the oak leaf facing right is Sleeper.
The male (not pictured) is in a 5.5g hospital tank hiding under his cocohut, still looking very red and gold.
I moved the definite Male to another tank, and now with just Sleeper and female in the main tank, sleeper has gone back to looking female. This is really strange.
Here is my main tank where I had happy success with the Viejita, which encouraged me to try this. I guess the plastic "caves" and "logs" are what give it structure, providing many different places for them to hide. The apistos get along well there even with the golden killifish and tetras...
Not to minimize the work you put into your beautiful aquarium, but is the key essentially to have a big pile of hard things in the middle, with the cocohuts or other huts around the central pile that breaks up the line of sight? I have some larger granite rocks here that I can use until I find...
The surviving Male 1, has what looks like a torn lip or part of his lip missing. Could this be from fighting with the other male? Do they have fatal fights like that? I thought apistos were less aggressive.
I wonder if they fought in the bag while being shipped. They were packaged two fish...
I'm trying to catch Sleeper right now to put him in his own tank so that the female gets a break. She must be stressed from all the males expressing their interest and chasing her.
Bad News :( One of the males died overnight. It was the one I thought was actually the most healthy and had the nicest colors. I don't know whether it was caused by stress from shipping or because I had 3 males in too small of a tank. Or something in my tank. And I had just arranged for...
My initial plan to try having two pairs in a 20 gallon long was pushing my luck, but now with at least 3 males in there I will have to rehome two of them.
To make matters worse, two of them are flashing their gills occasionally. And in canada we can't get medicine for worms without visiting a...