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On 3/6/2024 at 6:44 PM, dasaltemelosguy said:
Beautiful fish. I have a jurupari, a mirabilis and a brasiliensis and I may pick up some tapajos. The mirabilis is the most aggressive fish I've ever owned but he's in a tank full of giants which keeps him under control.
Perhaps you may see yours in one of these charts:
Geophagus - List of fishes - Fishipedia (fishi-pedia.com)
Fish Identification (fishbase.se)
26 Geophagus species ideas | cichlids, aquarium fish, south american cichlids (pinterest.com)
I've been using this paper:
https://www.gbif.org/species/119600283
I believe if the stress marks are reliable there are at least 3 species in the bag of 7 fishes. I personally would prefer a single species.
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This is my newest mistake:
I purchased these 7 fishes (you can't see all 7 clearly) as one species. However, when i look at them closely i believe even in these poor pictures there are at least 3 different species. Look at the right side of the 2nd picture you see a fish with no mark on the gill plate. That is species 1. The fish next to it seems to have 7 bars and a mark on the gill plate that is species 2. And if you look at the top fish it has a striped tail but the one below it has a dotted tail (both have marks on the gill plate).
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On 3/4/2024 at 11:14 AM, Guppysnail said:
Now I’m ready 😁
But are they ready 😉
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I've not seen any issues with them caring invasive clams; but i have another problem with them growing over everything in the aquairum.
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On 3/3/2024 at 6:07 PM, Mmiller2001 said:
If the fish can take it, drop temperature to 70 or 68.
It won't go that low due to room temp but what do you expect to happen; which plant will it help ? For the fishes in that aquarium i should keep it at least 74; but if there is a specific plant it might help i could move it to another water box.
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On 3/3/2024 at 6:04 PM, Mmiller2001 said:
Try lowering temperature and see what happens!
Lower to do what? This one is 76 the other one is 78.
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This is an updated picture from my bed room aquarium:
Population includes 16 cherry barb- 2 years ago i purchased 8 from aquahuna and they were all males; then about 6 months ago i purchased 8 more and they were 7 females nad 1 male so i guess that kind of balance things out. A few young guppies that i failed to catch when i moved (most ended up in the basement); a bunch of pygmy cory (15? 20? 25?); a bunch of orange laser cory (15? 20?); 7 keyholes 6 l. araguaiae; some random pleco (i think 2 blue phantom and 3 or 4 Wabenmuster). I had a bunch of kubtai rasbora - my favorite rasbora but over the past 6 months they vanished - many were 3 or 4 years old - i hate to think the keyholes have been snacking on them but can't imagine they all died. However a lot of my pygmy cory are quite small - oh well who knows. I'll probaby buy some more and put them in a more friendly aquarium as they are such a lovely fish.
I do consider this 180 over stocked and will trim down the keyholes and l.a. when they form pairs.
Here are some closer up:
Getting a fair amount of bba and i think i need to add more of something - probably phosphate. This is the only aquarium i regularly put in fertilizer every week but it seems to not be enough (i use thrive liquid and root tabs).
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This little fellow has really suffered. This is an opacus sword plant; in the previous aquarium before i moved anerobic pocket developed and killed a lot of its roots; i checked 2 months ago and some decent roots have regrown and it put out two very tiny small leaves. This is the same plant in another aquarium which is growing quite well - that one gets a lot less fertilizer and the water is a lot softer but similar temp - slightly warmer:
Maybe it prefers the warm ultra soft water 😉
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Horrible picture but only new plant i've added the past 3 months; it was sold as a sunset wenditti; and it does have slightly more colour but in recent years i tend to favor green and green greco over these other variants of wenditti.
This is on the right side of the aquarium and it is blood red rotala; not super red in this low tech aquarium but the tops and two left most stems are all new growth; you can see how hte lower growth didn't really adapt from hi-tech to low tech environment but the plant is growing well considering it is lo-tech (no co2). It has been there since sept so it has taken it 5 solid months to send up two new sprouts. Now if it was in @Mmiller2001 aquarium it would be a strong lovely red so there is some advantages of adding co2.
And totally unrelated this is a green wavy (werid name) buce grown emersed. Growing quite fast - only been there a couple of months I think:
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On 2/28/2024 at 3:37 AM, EggShappedFish said:
RIP my quarantine tank! 🪦
Yesterday it started leaking quite heavily. I was able to empty it within 30 minutes but there was a lot of water on the floor nonetheless.
I assume it is the silicone seams that were bad. I had bought it used by a guy who had resealed it. It has worked well until yesterday. I don't thinknits worth the trouble and risk of sealing it once more
It is (was) a 530 lit (140 gal) that i used as a backup and quarantine tank.
Don't know if this is true but i've been told black silicon will last longer than clear.... and several custom aquarium companies refused to use clear for that reason - unfortunatley i don't know the specific item #.
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Little bit of fungus on fins never bother me - they get into scrapes; fungus forms while the wound heals and then poof it is gone. The worse mistake i ever made was trying to treat a fish that had some fungus on a wound. To be honest i'm not even sure what the difference is between 'fungus' the disease and fungus on a wound but it seems like different stuff because one actually seems to eat into the fish and needs to be treated the other frequently appears while the fish is healing from a wound and seems normal.
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Well to be blunt 0; the tank doesnt' really offer enough swimming room for kuhli. You could try pangio shelfordii; these are sort of like mini kuhli and they would do better in an 8 than kuhli but ... sometimes larger is better and in this case a larger aquarium....
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On 2/26/2024 at 8:31 AM, Guppysnail said:
All of my Apisto are relatively shrimp friendly except my cacatoides. They are voracious neocaridina hunters including full grown adults. Wiped out a 209+ shrimp colony in weeks. Amano may be a bit bigger so a bit safer until the cacatoides breed.
My moms are fierce fry protectors. I have watched them kill a stray leaf floating too close to their babies.My cockatoo (old names for cacatoides) are excellent guppy hunters. I can only imagine what they would do the smaller shrimps. This itsy bitsy female has killed more guppies than fingers on my hand. On the bright side the aquarium is no longer over populated 😉
(i had uncountable number of guppies in my 40B many of them are a bit deformed from inbreeding as they have been in there for years and years).
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If you are doing shrimp buy a $5 sponge filter; more than enough once cycled. Well the air pump will cost $10 or $15 but a simple glass 5 is a lot cheaper than those fancy wancy things that just jack up the cost.
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On 2/23/2024 at 12:35 PM, Gideyon said:
So I've explored the option of putting a live plant or two in here. I've never done plants so I'm not certain just yet. I absolutely do not want snails. But would shrimp be okay in a 5 gallon to help with the plants? I really like the look of cherry shrimp, but not sure about water parameters (some say it doesn't matter), and in a 5 gallon, can I have fish with it.
Any wisdom on this?
Shrimps are an excellent choice for a 5 gallon aquarium; as for plants i recommend a nice wenditti green; a nanna anuba; perhaps a mioa wenditti (nicer red than red wenditti); you could try a nurii rosen crypt but they are kind of over priced; i mean they are nice but they are a $5 plant usually sold for $30. hornworth or pearl weed floating are excellent also for the shrimps. This is my 10 which is twice as large as 5 but still it shows you what you can stuff in there with plants:
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Well one of my sweet little ladies found an excellent use for a shell:
(and yes there are eggs in there)
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So yesterday was a pia. In my blackwater aquarium there is an 18x48 inch land mass behind the aquarium where i grow plants emersed. Well.... the plat-form was built out of plywood and while we felt it wouldn't last long - we did expect it to last longer than 4 months but it didn't. So we had a new one built. this one is made out of milk crate - yea lets see the water dissolve the milk crates in 4 months. The top is actually this other stuff i can't spell which is sort of like ply wood but is used in constructions outside. As part of the project we also added some of this plastic poster board along the glass so it wouldn't be visible any longer from the front. So the first picture is from the front where the fishes are - see how many you can find - this is nominally 30x48 (inch) (all the roots you see are from the floating plants you will see in the third pictures):
This from the back but with the black poster board you can't see much past the milk crate (the plug you see down there is actually the back wall of the room reflecting off the glass - lovely optical illusion)
And this is from the top where you see all the floating plants and hte emersed aquatic plants:
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The festivum is a quasi social fish and doesn't like being alone. The chocolate fish will be fairly large when it is an adult. Quite frankly you have too many species; too many fishes for the aquarium (when they are adults); incompatible species and well if i were in there i too would hide.
Don't take this wrong - but I think you shoudl return everything and plan out the aquarium. I think you have enough in there to fill a 300-400 gallon aquarium. Many of those species require companions to feel safe. Any dither you add will have to be large since the festivum, bush fish and chocolate will eat anything smaller than 3 inch and as an adult that chocolate fish might eat those rainbows.
I'm also concern about that nitrate level - some of those cichild long term really require the nitrate to be lower - esp if they are wild caught. It is an indication of rising organics esp on an aquarium this young.
Last but least cichild by nature are territorial and you have too many large fishes in a small area. I don't know much about bichir but vaguely i read somewhere they are predators - too lazy to look it up right now but you shoudl double check on how large they get and their level of aggression.
Remember as cichild reach maturity their behavior will change.
If you like live plants you definitely dont' want severums. I didn't cross check temp/water requirements for these fishes - though the species i do recognize prefer soft water - you also have several african species in there. As a general rule i don't like mixing african fishes with territorial south american fishes since they dont' recognize the warning signals and there is more likely to be aggression between them.
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Hum. In my low tech aquarium it hasn't laid over in 4 months; of course it grows very very slow and doesn't quite has that rich colour but straight it has stayed 😉--Of course in your hi-tech aquarium it probably grows a lot faster and taller.
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If you go with guppies; go with smaller endlers; they aren't quite as colourful but they are live breeders so your sons can marvel at the babies 😉
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On 2/18/2024 at 3:59 PM, Mmiller2001 said:
Such a beauty
I esp like the rotala - hum what is it called - oh yea blood red; a bit deeper than ha'ra.
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I have a piece of drift wood next to the glass; can't remember if i put it there or the fishes pushed it there; but either way this little guy (and it is always this one) hides behind it next to the glass several times a day 7 days a week; basically he'll have a rough day of playing and then when it is time for a nap he'll go there and rest. Guess no one can see him on the other side 😉 Alas i disturbed him when i took the picture so he moved a bit to the front - normally he lies flat so his top is below the edge of the drift-wood. This was sold as a yoyo several years ago but it is much lighter than the other 3 - either a different catch location or perhaps one of the many similar species. I'm pretty sure it is a he as the females as adults tend to be a bit wider girth; i have at least one large bossy female.
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I just took these in a hurry so they aren't my best pictures but here are two pictures of the same fish. He (or she) just happen to be the one closest to me and politely rotated when i ask him or her. Alas the phone didn't cooperate and make it critically sharp - these are wc brown/orange discus and the marks on the face and vary in intensity et all depending on individual fish and mood - they can go from quite dull to very fluorescein (sp) like:
Not sure what do about this phone - really starting to bug me - well it is 4 years old maybe time for an upgrade with a better camera.
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Well i love mine just the same even if they aren't as colourful; I'll get some better pictures and post them in my own thread one day - unless @Fish Folk doesn't object to thread crapping. They do look a little nicer than the picture below esp now that they've been moved to the 180.
THere are wc hekel that are much more colourful but i don't want to run the aquarium at 88-90. Just too warm for my fingers.
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A group of 8 of these arrived yesterday out of thin air - just showed up - sort of makes me think of flying fishes - maybe a bird dropped them; unfortunately the other 7 said this one wasn't allowed to join them:
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Added a group of these yesterday but the others didn't like this fellow; poor fellow all alone:
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a newbies mistakes ?
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We identified them as 4 g. dicrozoster and 3 g. abailos.
So mix batches - but definitely wasn't what they were sold as.