Hi there,
I have recently purchased some Chilli Rasbora to go in my fully cycled planted tank and they are displaying behaviour that suggests to me they are a bit stressed/not happy.
They are constantly pacing at the back of the tank, and also went through a period of glass surfing . They are almost never calm in the middle of the tank, are pretty pale save for the red gills that is accentuated by their paleness. They eat pretty well once they figure out food is in the tank and can be distracted from their relentless pacing. Just wondering if anyone has any advice on what this might be, otherwise i think i'll probably have to return them to the store as they just aren't happy.
The floating plants provide extra shade from the light as read they can find bright light a bit intense, and my pump, ehiem compacton 300 is on the lowest flow setting as I read that they prefer a lower flow.
1. Tank - Fluval Flex 34L (9g)
2. Filtration - Mixture of the built in mechanical and biological filter media, with an added bag of fluval biomax
3. Lighting - Built in tank lighting - 09:00 - 19:00 - medium intensity
4. Substrate - Tropica Powder soil
5. Co2 - Non-dosing Co2
6. Ferts - One pump of Tropica premium nutrition every other day
7. Waterchange - 20% once weekly
8. Plants - Hygrophila Polysperma, anubias nana bonsai, bacopa compact, rotala rotundfolia, marsilea hirsuta, ludwigia mini super red, Eleocharis acicularis and Salvinia auriculata
9. Livestock - 10 red cherry shrimp, 9 chilli rasbora, 3 amano shrimp, 1 nerite snail
10. Hardscape - Seriyu stone (3 pieces), redmoor wood (2 pieces)
Water params as of 23/03/21:
PH - 7.6
Amonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 10
GH - 3.5
KH - 13
Temp - 25 C
any advice would be very welcome as I can't figure out their behaviour at all
I have recently purchased some Chilli Rasbora to go in my fully cycled planted tank and they are displaying behaviour that suggests to me they are a bit stressed/not happy.
They are constantly pacing at the back of the tank, and also went through a period of glass surfing . They are almost never calm in the middle of the tank, are pretty pale save for the red gills that is accentuated by their paleness. They eat pretty well once they figure out food is in the tank and can be distracted from their relentless pacing. Just wondering if anyone has any advice on what this might be, otherwise i think i'll probably have to return them to the store as they just aren't happy.
The floating plants provide extra shade from the light as read they can find bright light a bit intense, and my pump, ehiem compacton 300 is on the lowest flow setting as I read that they prefer a lower flow.
1. Tank - Fluval Flex 34L (9g)
2. Filtration - Mixture of the built in mechanical and biological filter media, with an added bag of fluval biomax
3. Lighting - Built in tank lighting - 09:00 - 19:00 - medium intensity
4. Substrate - Tropica Powder soil
5. Co2 - Non-dosing Co2
6. Ferts - One pump of Tropica premium nutrition every other day
7. Waterchange - 20% once weekly
8. Plants - Hygrophila Polysperma, anubias nana bonsai, bacopa compact, rotala rotundfolia, marsilea hirsuta, ludwigia mini super red, Eleocharis acicularis and Salvinia auriculata
9. Livestock - 10 red cherry shrimp, 9 chilli rasbora, 3 amano shrimp, 1 nerite snail
10. Hardscape - Seriyu stone (3 pieces), redmoor wood (2 pieces)
Water params as of 23/03/21:
PH - 7.6
Amonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 10
GH - 3.5
KH - 13
Temp - 25 C
any advice would be very welcome as I can't figure out their behaviour at all