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On 8/31/2021 at 8:22 PM, Keeg said:

The co-op sells this rick with a hole in it so you can just put the planter in side of it and so nothing can dig it up. Personally, when I had this issue I would just take three medium sized stones and put them in a triangle around the base of the plant. SO unless your eel likes to move stones, you should be good. You also just let the eel take them out, its all good fun for them. 

I have tried using rocks yet when i get back from work im still having same issue i was looking at something similar to what you recomded with a rack 

 

Thx for the help 

 

[Rescape and experience with seeds within aquarium]

Hello so im looking to rescape my aquarium as the substrate isnt to my liking i currently have 3mm black gravel along with some tetra fertiliser for the living plants i have various fish such as an eel ammarno shrimp wood shrimp hillstream loaches and various average fish like neon tetras 

The reason for the rescape is that the eel has dug up all of the fertiliser now and it looks horrible as well it has stained my water in the tank 

Im looking for some inspiration or ideas has anyone had any similar problems with this also he pulls plants out of the substrate so there floating in my tank lol  

 

Any help or ideas to prevent these issues  would be appreciated 

Thanks 

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Just now, Lloyd t said:

Thank you for making me aware 

I have been doing larger water changes i now do 20 % a week  it seems to have dropped it remarkably

 

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1 hour ago, Hobbit said:

( @Lloyd t @Chris the Fish just FYI, we’re not supposed to talk badly about specific companies on this forum so next time maybe just talk in general terms, i.e. “some big chain pet stores in the UK.” Just don’t want you to get in trouble. 👍)

Also I’m so sorry about your fish and I hope a warmer temp will help. Since they didn’t show any signs of being sick before they died, I’m guessing the temp is the problem. With ammonia poisoning I would expect you’d see signs of discomfort and/or red gills.

Just a warning—as you raise the temp, ammonia gets more toxic. So be sure to get your ammonia down before raising the temp too high.

Thank you for making me aware 

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On 1/19/2021 at 10:23 AM, Chris the Fish said:

Hi Lloyd - Yes as Colu said, Rams generally like to be warmer.  If it was Pets at Home who gave you the advice I'd always take it with a pinch of salt - When I first started out my only local fish store was Pets at Home and I listened to them and lost a lost of fish.  Since then I always try to find a small outfit / family run place, if I can; in my experience they tend to care more, and so be a bit more knowledgable, generally.

So in my opinion, Rams need to be warmer than that (i.e. 26 C or higher), and that is probably a bit reason why you lost them unfortunately.  As Colu said, maybe some cold water fish might be better options (danios, white clouds, or some types of platy, such as variatus, as well).  I agree your Ammonia is probably too high as well, but Nitrates are a little more flexible in my opinion.  I would recommend testing your tap water to see what the Nitrates come out at, because if you change loads of water but your tap is already at 25ppm, it won't make any difference.  A natural remedy of sorts to nitrates is to add plants to your tank - As they grow they will eat up the nitrates (and any ammonia) as fertilizer, so if you don't have any plants at the moment that might be a good option to help out.  You also don't necessarily need planted substrate or anything - Plants will readily grow in normal substrate, eating up fish poop, etc, but make sure the substrate is porous enough for their roots to grow (i.e. very fine sand is usually a no go, but everything else should be ok).

Hope this helps!

I hae quite a lot of plants in there i have 2mm black gravel and fertilizer

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On 1/18/2021 at 11:44 PM, Colu said:

What type of hillstream loach do you have

Im not sure would you like a photo

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3 hours ago, Chris the Fish said:

Could be temperature related - I think from your post you said tank temp is between 21-22 degrees C?  If that's right I would suggest that probably has something to do with it, so I would suggest heating to 26 degrees C.  

Other things could be the tank itself - Has been it been set up very recently?  I think a trace of ammonia can be expected (<=.25), but perhaps 0.50 is a bit high and indicative of your tank not being ready quite yet for the current stocking level or alternatively if the tank has been set up for a while there is a chance something put it out of whack.

Also, from your use of metric units I assume maybe you are in the UK?  If so, where did you buy the fish?  I have a million and one bad experiences with Pets at Home for example, so if you bought them there recently there is a chance they may have come in with some disease as well.  Not to say that LFS are perfect everywhere but Pets at Home in particular seems to take a very lax approach to fish care (and fish advice for that matter).

Hope this helps!

Ye i have gotten some african blue shrimp and they were from pets at home . The reason i have quite a low temp is because i have hillstream loaches in there and i was advised to keep at around that temp when i broughth the rams i was told they can be pretty tolerant to temp 

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Ive had 3 fish die over the last two week . One was a albino corey one was a white molly and one was a ram cichlid . My water parameters are ph =7.6   kh =100 gh =500  nitrate = 25 nitrite =0.5  my ammonia is 0.5 .   The tempature is 21 : 22 decrease its a 100 litre tank  

The fish seem to just deteriorate over about 5 hours there is no flicking the fish just sit at the bottom of the tank and slowly lose life 

 

There is no visible algae in the tank 

I have live plants in the tank 

I have an internal ciano filter 

I have a photo of the ram cichlid afer it had died  

Any help would be much appreciated you can reach me at llo7dey@gmail.com 

thank you