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I haven’t treated him , what should I use ?

I’m feeeing him snails,flake and frozen blood worms. It’s been awhile now and he still just ha ha out I. The corner all the time unless feeding

Yeah, I was trying to avoid the ro waste water. I’m looking to spawn tetras in general. I fell like you hardly ever here about them being spawned. Specifically I’ve got a group of Phenacogrammus aurantiacus "Lamp Eye Congo tetras. That I’m trying to spawn

as the titles states I'm looking for peoples advise on a HMA filter vs a Ro system. i stumbled across hma filters when reading an article from England about using those filters for breeding soft water fish . but from my understanding is it doesn't have any waste water or lower the tds. so im looking for people who have experience with them. and is tds a good standard to be measuring water quality for breeding lets say tetras and apistos.

hello, my first question would be how is your water chemistry. im currently starting to work with tetras myself.

Hello I just got my first puffer. And it seems he was WC. But he won’t eat and stays I. The corner by the sponge filter. Any advice

What kind of water do you have ?

it can be hit or miss on the eggs being fertile, I will say keeping the cave away from high flow points seems to increase the good egg count . I normally turn the caves into the best dead spot in the tank.

yeah, I've had the opposite effect with using dithers. I feel like the parents can't really get the dithers away like the could in the wild. this just ends up adding more stress. now this depends on the size of the aquarium you are using. But experiment and find out what works the best for you.

I just use a wine bottle like in aquarium coops fish room tour of Greg sage. You don’t need much and I don’t worry about it effecting my ph, as I’m only putting in a few table spoons.

Yes you could leave them, it all depends on what your after. You should be fine. As far as green bean skins. They typically will eat the insides first but if left. They will eat the skins. Mine are like piranha

@Fish Folk I’ve got a strain of red largo’s and some eggs.

I’m goin to get some white clouds very soon. But currently my target breeding species is Lamprologus Meleagris – the Pearly Ocellatus. No dice yet. But I’ll get them eventually.

Depending on temp you may have wrigglers in the next 24-48 hours. But they’ll eat the egg sack for the next 3-4 days after that. Id pull them and put them in a separate tank with some wood if you plan on trying to raise them all. And you can feed them anything really. Flake, pleco tablets, I often feed canned green beans. Best of luck

It can be common for them to eat them. Stress, maturity, and other factors can take effect. They may eat them many times over before they get better. Once you get wrigglers I would typically pull the spawn so I have some future stock to work with and allow the pair to try and raise future spawns for following attempts. Some times I may only talk half a spawn and allow them to raise the other half. But some times they will eat them soon after messing/returning the cave. I also do not think dithers do anything helpful with apisto’s/rams at least not in my experience , at least from a breeding stand point. Other may have different opinions. But I’ve got angels that won’t spawn if they have other fish in the tank. I Remove the dithers and typically within 48 hours they’ll spawn. Useful tactic to get large spawns less often instead of getting smaller spawns every 10-14 days