I haven't yet mate, need the tripod out for that otherwise I just get a blurred mess!
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I haven't yet mate, need the tripod out for that otherwise I just get a blurred mess!
Luciën
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Looking really good
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Get out that tripod, you make us curious!
.Get out that tripod, you make us curious!
Looking really good
Get out that tripod, you make us curious!
Thanks mate, I'll do my best in the coming days!
Well the restraint has crumbled - 6x more Threadfins and 20x Axelrodia riesei (Ruby Tetra) incoming from Wildwods tomorrow!
nice! You’ll enjoy the rubys, great little species.Well the restraint has crumbled - 6x more Threadfins and 20x Axelrodia riesei (Ruby Tetra) incoming from Wildwods tomorrow!
Yeah, they look pretty cool in the videos I've seen - and luckily they're not too big lol 😉
hydrophyte
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Happy fish in there! Where did you get that Spathiphyllum pot?
I’ve linked to it earlier in the thread - it’s a bathroom container/accessory on Amazon, and I just drilled the holes in it. The hanging clip on the back would fit over the glass on most smaller tanks, but not the 15mm on this tank, so I added a stainless bracket.
Against the black background of my tank, they are almost completely invisible too.
So a bit of a sad little tale for a Monday morning folks. 😔
Over the past 2-3 weeks I have noticed my Chili Rasbora population dwindling, down from around 50 odd fish, to now around only 8.
I haven't been able to figure out what was going on - they were all healthy and showed no sign of any disease, they've been wormed, and are feeding well on a big diet of mainly live foods - in fact they were all colouring up beautifully. What is strange is that I've found no corpses, seen no sick or ailing fish, nothing visually to suggest a problem. Water is in tip top condition with a rock solid 93ppm TDS.
Then last night whilst we were out, my Mum (who was baby sitting for us) and son literally sat and watched one of the monster Amano's stalk and catch one of the smaller Pencil fish. Again none of the pencils look anything other than in the best of health - they tapped on the glass and the Amano let it go, and the fish dived into the undergrowth, with the Amano in hot pursuit. After watching it go crazy in amongst the leaves, it climbed out onto a branch with the fish firmly held by the tail - still struggling to get away - and proceeded to start eating the poor thing.
Now there is always food in the tank for the Amano's - always a whole quarter (4 inch section) of cucumber or courgette, and regular algae wafers and home made rapashy.
I know there is always the possibility of some invisible fish disease and I'm not completely ruling that out, and folks always say Amano's will only go for sick or dying fish, but to not see a single corpse or ill looking fish at all, I'm strongly suspecting that the long and short of it appears to be that some of the larger Amano's have got blood lust and discovered they can catch a more protein rich meal rather than graze on veggies. There is also a big size difference here - the Amanos are 3 inches long, vs sub-1 inch fish.
I'm gutted to be honest, even forgetting the cost of the fish, to have a whole shoal decimated like that. So now it's Amano hunting time, I know there were 6 large females in there, so I need to get them out ASAP, and they can live out their lives in the sump or another thank 😞
Over the past 2-3 weeks I have noticed my Chili Rasbora population dwindling, down from around 50 odd fish, to now around only 8.
I haven't been able to figure out what was going on - they were all healthy and showed no sign of any disease, they've been wormed, and are feeding well on a big diet of mainly live foods - in fact they were all colouring up beautifully. What is strange is that I've found no corpses, seen no sick or ailing fish, nothing visually to suggest a problem. Water is in tip top condition with a rock solid 93ppm TDS.
Then last night whilst we were out, my Mum (who was baby sitting for us) and son literally sat and watched one of the monster Amano's stalk and catch one of the smaller Pencil fish. Again none of the pencils look anything other than in the best of health - they tapped on the glass and the Amano let it go, and the fish dived into the undergrowth, with the Amano in hot pursuit. After watching it go crazy in amongst the leaves, it climbed out onto a branch with the fish firmly held by the tail - still struggling to get away - and proceeded to start eating the poor thing.
Now there is always food in the tank for the Amano's - always a whole quarter (4 inch section) of cucumber or courgette, and regular algae wafers and home made rapashy.
I know there is always the possibility of some invisible fish disease and I'm not completely ruling that out, and folks always say Amano's will only go for sick or dying fish, but to not see a single corpse or ill looking fish at all, I'm strongly suspecting that the long and short of it appears to be that some of the larger Amano's have got blood lust and discovered they can catch a more protein rich meal rather than graze on veggies. There is also a big size difference here - the Amanos are 3 inches long, vs sub-1 inch fish.
I'm gutted to be honest, even forgetting the cost of the fish, to have a whole shoal decimated like that. So now it's Amano hunting time, I know there were 6 large females in there, so I need to get them out ASAP, and they can live out their lives in the sump or another thank 😞
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Luciën
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Sad to hear that.. I have amanos with borraras. But as agrassive on the food as they are, they leave the fish alone. I think it's just tough luck with one exceptional aggressive amano.. You could watch them closely and pick that one out and see if the others have the same behavior before ditching all of them..
I think I suspect which one it is, it is the largest, and has a much larger and darker stomach and intestinal track that the others, which I guess might also be a give away.
I've removed them all now anyway (with the exception of one wily one that keeps eluding me), and they're temporarily housed in the sump. It looks like I've lost about 8 of the smallest pencil fish too - it can't be a coincidence that the smallest ones have gone, but the largest ones remain.
I'll leave it a few weeks before considering any restocking, to be double sure there are no more losses that might suggest a different cause.
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Luciën
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How is it going no losses anymore?
No mate, since I moved the Amano's out into the sump I had no more losses. I've since replaced the stock with 10x Marginatus and 50x Brigittae and they seem to be thriving since being added.
I also added 8x Dario Dario, but literally haven't seen a single one of them since being added, too many hiding places I think! 😂
Also got some new food the other day from TA Aquaculture as I needed to order some fresh brine shrimp eggs, so tried some of their soft pellet feed:
I tried some last night, and the whole tank went crazy - I've never seen anything like it. The fish went mad for it, but even the shrimp descended on-masse to the substrate to grab some I've never seen so many out at the same time, some shrimp even swam up to the top of the tank to grab bits floating on the surface.
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Yeah, I bought a pack of the freeze dried blackworm 'Bio Cubes' - they loved one of those too when I pressed it onto the glass. The Gourami's savaged it, and all the other fish sat down stream picking off all the other fits as they fell off.
I completely missed further down on that page that they do some freeze dried brine shrimp cubes too, so I'll have to get some of those next time to try.
zozo
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This setup is the most stunning, beautiful and well-thought-out build I've ever seen... 😎
Amazing!!! 💪
Amazing!!! 💪
Wow, thanks man , very kind of you to say 🙏🏻
