Don cheech
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Hi,
l am new to this forum and just obsessed with wanting to have a pair of a apistogramma. l have a 75 gallon nano tank and spent a lot of money on a pair of apistos. l put them in and they never did well from the beginning and died a few days later. l gave up on getting anymore because I didn’t have the best water parameters for them. Well l can’t get them out of my mind so I purchased a 20 gallon, thats all l could afford and that’s the biggest size that my wife would allow, anyway I want to house just a pair and devote the tank setup and water parameters just for them. Please any advice would be greatly appreciated. l am going with easy plants with enough led lighting some mopani wood and spider wood. maybe some almond leaves if the ph is too high, will the mopani wood be enough to get the ph down with the tannins also any particular stone that would works better . l understand that regular sand would be the best substrate is that true, any particular brand of sand. And again anything else you could throw at me to help me get started. Also l am going with a Sechem tidal 35 do you think that’s plenty?
Thanks
l am new to this forum and just obsessed with wanting to have a pair of a apistogramma. l have a 75 gallon nano tank and spent a lot of money on a pair of apistos. l put them in and they never did well from the beginning and died a few days later. l gave up on getting anymore because I didn’t have the best water parameters for them. Well l can’t get them out of my mind so I purchased a 20 gallon, thats all l could afford and that’s the biggest size that my wife would allow, anyway I want to house just a pair and devote the tank setup and water parameters just for them. Please any advice would be greatly appreciated. l am going with easy plants with enough led lighting some mopani wood and spider wood. maybe some almond leaves if the ph is too high, will the mopani wood be enough to get the ph down with the tannins also any particular stone that would works better . l understand that regular sand would be the best substrate is that true, any particular brand of sand. And again anything else you could throw at me to help me get started. Also l am going with a Sechem tidal 35 do you think that’s plenty?
Thanks
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