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I keep my water quite soft and ph 6.0 and have the same problem. 16 apparent females and 1 male (which I gave to a friend as soon as they were sexable).
I was wondering what people do when one of an adult breeding pair of fish (especially an older pair past their prime) is widowed. I currently have 2 widows and one widower (3 different species) taking up an entire tank each. they are too old to sell and likely well past their breeding prime. Do...
I have seen discussions here in the past where some people have had problems with feeding bloodworms to Apistos and others have not. I am coming to believe that some species do not tolerate them well.
I particular, I have lost two sets of A. caucatuoides after feeding bloodworms. Their...
Lesson learned #1
A 50 gallon tub can evaporate to less than two gallons in two days of Texas sun if it is dark blue and allowed full sunlight.
I alost lost all my juvenile borelli. If my son had not gone out to check on them today, I'd have had a tub of bird fodder tomorrow.
Alan
Thanks Marc. I will try to read through that sometime. I took a look, but my 2 years of German study from 25 years ago allows me to understand just enough to be really frustrated! <grin>
You're not really putting fish out NOW are you? Today it's like 55 degrees here, and I know it's colder in Amarillo!
My tubs are outside getting "green", and I'll put the daphnia in soon, but I don't plan on putting any fish out before late May or June.
Alan
I just bought and hooked up a new R/O system. The model I have is a RD-102 by Water General. I was surprised to find it had a drain connection, as I had figured the water all went through and the bad stuff just collected in the canisters.
So my question is:
Is it typical/normal for...
I understand our tap waters will be completely different, but I was under the (perhaps false) assumption that many people start with straight R/O water and then add back some trace elements (as mentioned above) and use other chemicals (it appears a lot of people use boiled or long-soaked peat)...
So you aren't worried about missing trace elements in such a high percentage of R/O water? I could certainly go the peat boiling route. There's nothing wrong with the tap water here except the pH and hardness.
I'm inferring that your mixture works well long-term for fish, and am assuming...
Thanks to everyone who has posted so far. I have hard slightly alkaline water and have tried both peat moss and the refined peat as described above, neither of which had any detectable effect, though I didn't try the boiling route.
I am really hoping someone will actually provide a specific...