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Nothing has changed except for the water change and duckweed removal. I added prime to the tank as well. I forgot to mention that. He does occasionally flash but now that you mention it, I haven’t seen him do that in a couple of weeks.
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Oh sorry! The RO is 6.6. The tank after a 50% change (the second water change) was 7.6 (was 8 ). Thank you.
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Rambeaux came home with me a month or two ago and did extraordinarily well in my 20 long. He’s been interactive and eating well. I did a 25% water change a couple of days ago, replacing with pure RO water. I’m trying to soften and lower pH gradually. I added 2ml of easy green and easy iron and 1 ml easy carbon.
Last night I saw he was sitting on the bottom breathing hard. He ignored me when I approached the tank. He won’t eat. Color is still very good.
API Test kit
pH 8 - this has been stable since I had him.
Ammonia neg
Nitrite neg
Nitrate 10-20 (coop strip says zero for Ni and Na) - usually Na is 5. I did remove a lot of duckweed from the tank when I changed the water.
kh is 4, gh is 7
Temperature is 82
I did a 50% water change with RO. I tested RO - ph is 6.6 and Na neg. TDS is 8. He did perk up a little after the water change. I bumped the temp to 85.
Today he still won’t eat (even live mosquito larvae) and he had some white stringy stool. The juvenile endlers in there with him are doing great.
I know they are very sensitive to water quality. I’m afraid to just start dumping meds in there. Any help would be appreciated. I’ve attached a photo of him and of his setup. I can’t attach video to show his breathing. Thank you!
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I did! And it does kind of look like a moss ball broken into pieces but it grows so fast I didn’t think that could be it.
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@EricksonAquatics thank you!! They’re not serpaes. They are red phantom tetras and are one of the best fish I’ve ever owned. All the beauty of serpaes with NONE of the grouchy fish drama. They are active and funny, and I’ve never seen them even interact with my other fish. They just hang out together in a peaceful little gang.
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Have this fluffy algae accumulating at plant roots. Also algae growing on this large tank decoration. The plant root algae is green - we moved this tank for a house renovation and it’s coated in mulm.
I’ve had cyano before and it definitely had a more blue tinge to it and looked more slimy. The big fake wood piece is out of the tank and has been cleaned. Don’t worry - I have plenty of beneficial bacteria in the hob and 2 sponge filters.
I also lowered the intensity and hours of light. I use Easy Green, Easy Iron, Half dose of Easy Carbon (Val), and root tabs.
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Bummer but thank you!
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It’s pure RO with equilibrium and then buffers added. The leaves did look similar to when I bought the plant. Thanks for the idea to check the roots!
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Yes it was the emmersed version. I fully expected it to die back - and it did. But the new growth looked good but then it all disappeared.
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Fish are listed in the original post. The plant was planted and then uprooted initially and it sent out a ton of roots and pulled itself down towards the sand. I replanted it a week or so later.
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I bought this large, gorgeous sword plant from my LFS several months ago. Some of the leaves died back, but it also produced new ones. It rooted like mad. I added root tabs and some easy green. I also have fairly high nitrates in the tank. I often lose plants - they die back and never return. This mostly happens with stem plants. I don’t know if my fish tear them up or if there’s just a deficiency. There’s tons of mulm in the sand.
Details:
RO water with equilibrium, acid buffer and alkaline buffer
Temp 77-82
50gal with 2 turquoise, 3 goyder river, and 2 yellow rainbows. Also 3 Dennison barbs, 1 bn pleco, 7 red phantom tetras and snails.
Very stable parameters:
pH 8
0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, 30-40 nitrate
kh 3, gh 6-8
fluval light set according to the picture below. The sword is off to the side where the light is less strong but it was growing fine for awhile there. Light is 48” and doesn’t cover all the way to the edges. However the other plants on the right side in the “shade” seem to flourish.
Photos:
What the plant looked like when I got it (stock photo)
What’s left of the plant
The full tank - the plant is all the way on the left in the back
FluvalSmart light settings
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
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@Odd Duckthanks so much! I love it too although it frequently gets out of hand. All the tank inhabitants love it too
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@Odd DuckYES! The one that’s darker green and more substantial gets light from our kitchen LEDs that are 8 inches above and through a layer of duckweed (photo). The other has a Fluval plant light.
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Thanks everyone! I have guppy grass in another tank that is darker, holds its shape, and has shorter leaves. Maybe they are both types of guppy grass. Comparison and close up pictures below.
@Martinthank you! Yes it went crazy! The cherry shrimp are in hog heaven. I also have a bamboo shrimp, rabbit and nerite snails, P. Luminatus, and a scarlet badis in there. I cleaned out about 75% of the growth and searched it for Luminatus eggs. No luck 🤬
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Thanks! Hopefully I’ll have some success with breeding now that I have a mature female!
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I bought 6 P. Luminatus in early 2021. They were pretty small. I tried to breed them and got one egg in June 2021.
I just took a female from a friend who had lost the rest of her school. She said the fish is about a year old/had her for a year.
She’s huge compared to my only female (and to a couple of my males frankly). She does have the blue stripe along her back particular to Luminatus.
Pics showing the comparison. Do you think all these are Luminatus?
Thanks!
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So far they are eating green water, repashy powder and I think a few have been able to eat BBS. They’re more active and I don’t think I’ve lost any. Thank you!!
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I also have Repashy Spawn and Grow and Super Green powder.
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I have been struggling with breeding projects for months. Even my rainbows seemed to take a vow of chastity.
I had Red Phantom tetras in different combinations in my breeding tank for a month or so - no luck. Lots of breeding behavior, no eggs or fry that I could see. I put them back in my display tank Dec 18. I bought some ottos and isolated them in the breeding tank. I can't find stuff they like to eat so I tossed a hornwort covered in algae from my display tank into the iso tank sometime between Christmas and Dec 29.
Tonight, I found fry swimming in the upper part of the tank! I've attached pictures - one unedited from my Nikon with a macro lens on. The other is a cropped version of the same photo.
I was thrilled at first but now I'm worried - could these be hybrid rainbow fry? My display tank has turquoise, yellow, and goyder river bows as well as the RPT school and denison barbs. This plant was jammed at the top of the tank right under the light and above a large decoration. I never see any of the fish near it. I'm hoping that bit of blue in the eye means they are RPTs (the adults have this). They look like little slivers of glass. The fry are free swimming (sorry I couldn't get a video to upload) and I can't tell if they are big enough to eat frozen baby brine (it looks nearly as big as their heads). I have Co-op fry food, frozen baby brine, and a mosquito culture outside that has some algae growing in it (I use the water to feed my bamboo shrimp - it has all sorts of small particles in it). Are these ok to feed? The ottos didn't touch the hornwort/algae so I'm sure it's full of tiny food too. I can also squeeze my sponge filter out into the water for tiny food. They are very active and did go after the BB but I can't tell if they managed to eat it.
Thank you so much for any help!
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Thank you for the help. The pleco died this morning and it looks like one more Otto won’t make it. UGH
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I’ve had 5 ottos and a BN pleco in iso since 8/4. 4 days ago my BN had white spots all over. It was starting on the ottos too. I raised temp to 80 and started ich x treatment per the label. The ottos are already doing great (I did lose one). The pleco now looks like gold spots instead of white spots and its tail is frayed.
Everyone is eating and active.
pH 7.8
A 0
Ni 0
Na 5
kh 3
gh 7
Do I have two diseases going on?
thanks!
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My plan was for it to help me get on top of the nitrates and then see if regular water changes would keep me where I wanted to be. So if I use it until it’s “full” and then leave it until nitrates are trending up again would I have allowed the BB to build back up enough to remove it without disturbing the cycle? 🤔
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Update! He had an enormous stool and is eating again. Now every time I look at him he’s pooping. Guessing this might have been some constipation. He’s not 100% but he’s not scaring me anymore.