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- Tucson. Arizona
Hi All- Well my 150 community has become nightmarish. In order to fill it I saved R/O but we had to resort to my garden hose through the window and try as I may I have been unable to get my pH below 7.2 and all 18 of my apistogrammas-mostly agasizzi and cockatuoides began dyring off-plus seven of my eight Laetacara curviceps and all but one male Bolivian Ram.
I lost all my cardinal tetras including the gorgeous golden clone and my beloved Ancistrus. I tried everything I could find in my local store to get the Ph. down to 5.8 in slow and small increments but nothing has worked. I also lost one of my three gorgeous Wattley high fin turquoise discus. So at the end of month one I have a single cardinal (of 17) and a single curviceps (of 8) and I lost Golda, my albino Ancistrus.
I have called Home Depot and they are taking back the GE R/O which only
produces 1.33 gallons per day and I have ordered a professional model that produces 150 gallons per day and has a backflush which lengthens the life of the membrane to three or four years. It is manufactured by Osmoticwaterfiltration in Indiana. Any comments on this system and business?
And I am purchasing from Neil a nice assortment of dwarfs and one of my favorite cichlids-Cleithracara maroni-the first cichlid I ever bred. I keep seeing photos of a xanthistic morph of Etroplus maculatus. Where can I
buy a group of youngsters? Oh, I lost all 12 Blue German Rams.
The plantings are doing great and my huge schools of characins also.
I adore my 5 Cory pandas and the Siamese algae eater is doing a good job. Neil, I will mail you the money order tomorrow-please send snail mail address once more tonight. Sorry but things are so confused here. I am
thrilled that my rust Cabomba furcata is doing well. The scape is based heavily on red plants and rust stones and bogwood with many red fishes-bloodfins, flammeus, rosaceus, Microgeophagus altispinosus, usw.
As I get better at this hobby again i will try an all red aquascape with a
running dwarf form of Crypt. wendtii as the ground cover and these fabulous "Indian Red" swordplants. My baby kribs are big guys and gals now eating full sized black-worms and mysis shrimp. I adore them. I
ended with 23 survivors who are now between 0.8" and 1.3" The males are huge.
Have a safe and healthy holiday weekend form your still optimistic friend.
checkered barbs
I lost all my cardinal tetras including the gorgeous golden clone and my beloved Ancistrus. I tried everything I could find in my local store to get the Ph. down to 5.8 in slow and small increments but nothing has worked. I also lost one of my three gorgeous Wattley high fin turquoise discus. So at the end of month one I have a single cardinal (of 17) and a single curviceps (of 8) and I lost Golda, my albino Ancistrus.
I have called Home Depot and they are taking back the GE R/O which only
produces 1.33 gallons per day and I have ordered a professional model that produces 150 gallons per day and has a backflush which lengthens the life of the membrane to three or four years. It is manufactured by Osmoticwaterfiltration in Indiana. Any comments on this system and business?
And I am purchasing from Neil a nice assortment of dwarfs and one of my favorite cichlids-Cleithracara maroni-the first cichlid I ever bred. I keep seeing photos of a xanthistic morph of Etroplus maculatus. Where can I
buy a group of youngsters? Oh, I lost all 12 Blue German Rams.
The plantings are doing great and my huge schools of characins also.
I adore my 5 Cory pandas and the Siamese algae eater is doing a good job. Neil, I will mail you the money order tomorrow-please send snail mail address once more tonight. Sorry but things are so confused here. I am
thrilled that my rust Cabomba furcata is doing well. The scape is based heavily on red plants and rust stones and bogwood with many red fishes-bloodfins, flammeus, rosaceus, Microgeophagus altispinosus, usw.
As I get better at this hobby again i will try an all red aquascape with a
running dwarf form of Crypt. wendtii as the ground cover and these fabulous "Indian Red" swordplants. My baby kribs are big guys and gals now eating full sized black-worms and mysis shrimp. I adore them. I
ended with 23 survivors who are now between 0.8" and 1.3" The males are huge.
Have a safe and healthy holiday weekend form your still optimistic friend.
checkered barbs