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  1. martink

    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...
  2. martink

    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?
  3. martink

    separating 4 juvenile ivanacara from a pair today and not looking forward to it.

    so my Ivanacara head m and f paired and laid eggs and now I have the nigh impossible task to evacuate the other 4. My problem is that the females when colours are off are the same size as the sub males and almost indistinguisable from each other; so when i bag them i cant tell who's who. My plan...
  4. martink

    sandfleas from the beach as livefood

    i walk home from the beach and these guys are abundant. ive fed a few testers and my ivanacara like them but I thought id post incase someone could think of a reason why not.
  5. martink

    thinking of adding GHO ORGANIC HUMIC ACID SOLUBLE GRANULES 93% humic and fulvic.

    to lower ph from 6.8 . kh2 gh 3, tds 70. seems like it might be a nice additive along with ground beech bark. anythoughts from someone with better chem experience, im just experimenting. I was thinking of using acetic acid as i soak wood in ascetic acid/cinnamon solution and I think my fish...
  6. martink

    Ivanacara Adoketa. juveniles and seperation.

    So I recently managed to get Ivanacara again after messing up so badly last time with toxic substrate and this time im pretty confident my tank is good. My TDS is a little high at 97 (my meter might be busted as it measures differently depending on temp) but my gh is just under 2 and kh is 2, ph...
  7. martink

    evaporation and water hardness

    so i realised my tank evaporates a lot in my conservatory. so im trying to work out what affect this has for increasing GH. so for every inch lost i lose 2.687 gallons of pure water so i start at 32.46 not including a lot of wood decoration and end up at 29.77 . if my GH is 2. so 32.45 ppm...
  8. martink

    weird accident

    woke up to my sub male abacaxis tailslapping the female and was alerted and thought the male must have died. looked around and saw that he was there, alive, but he was skewerd by a peace lily root threaded through his mouth and out his gill??? I hope he will be ok, he had shock 4 days ago just...
  9. martink

    meaning behind shock in fish

    i took my sub male abacaxis to the shop but stupid me took the wrong male and the male i was keeping spent a few days in the fish shop. large shop but was in quarantine just. well when i retrieved him I carelessly put him back in my tank immediately, forgetting he had been in different water. he...
  10. martink

    anybody near fife scotland want an abacaxis male? its a long shot but thought id ask.

    male is nice colour and he looks good but smaller male and needs to have his own space which i dont have. free upon collection. im near kirkcaldy. sry maybe should put in buy sell but he is free so. put here.
  11. martink

    what to do about sneaker male who is no longer sneaking.

    So i bought 4 abacaxis 1 male 3 females. one has turned into another male. There is a pair which is fine and a submissive female. So far the small male has to submit but the chasing isnt terrible and he is not afraid or cowering; he explores and seems quite confident. but I gather this may not...
  12. martink

    bbs hatchery problems.... seawater?

    So as the title suggests ive been having real issues with bbs not hatching and im not sure if its my tapwater which is very soft or that all the salt i have is dead sea salt or celtic salt, so I decided to try actual sea water, which is as easy to pick up for me as salt is, and is the correct...
  13. martink

    Abacaxis sp.

    Got 1 male and 3 female abacaxis. They look still juvenile and are just settling in. No real aggression from the females as there is plenty hiding places in the leafs. Any comments will be appreciated to see if they look healthy and fit; I never kept them before.
  14. martink

    uvc steriliser?

    im using rainwater that hits my roof and thought i may start using a cheapish uv sterilser to clean water of bacteria. any thoughts? its almost impossible to ascertain if they are effective through internet reviews. what i do at present is to boil the water and let it cool before i put it in the...
  15. martink

    help with tank.

    my substrate was 30%peat 60% sand. i just left the tank for three months with no fish in it. unfortunately a week before I got my fish one of the tubing for the filter folded over and i added seed pods which absolutely crashed the tank. I fixed it got the water tested and bought fish. there was...
  16. martink

    tds and organic (wood and leaves) contribution.

    Hey so im starting a blackwater tank and im letting it cycle, i have plants rooting in the water, a bunch of dried vines and purchased driftwood, the dark wood kind. As in my old tanks i also add bay leaves and cinnamon sticks, because they are high q food grade and i know they have no bacteria...
  17. martink

    Water quality for blackwater tank for adoketa.

    Hi so im going to start a nice blackwater tank to house some Adoketa. I've been out of the hobby for a long time and I thought I'd ask help on water quality. I included the hardness review of my tap water by council and measured a ph one day of 6.9 then the next of 7.8 which was confusing. I...
  18. martink

    looking for nannacara adoketa

    I've always wanted these fish and finally im going to get a blackwater, meter long tank and try to get some, but there is none here in the uk. any advice?
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