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Also I'm considering redoing my tank, but not certain of it yet.

Maybe when the fish becomes larger, and maybe do a riverbed theme, no plants and gravel instead of sand.
And lots of round stones and different type of driftwood.

But... I am sort of pleased with how it looks now, so maybe I'll do that in a different tank one day if I find space and permission to add one.

My main reason is that I'm worried I can't reach all the poop of the fish as it is now, water quality is always good, my no3 never goes past 10-15, but how will it be when they become larger?

What do you think?


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Never mind. I keep thinking that every time before a water change, but after I clean and do water change I'm back to being happy for 4-5 days, and 4-5 out 7 isn't bad. Going to perform a purigen and filter maintenance on Wednesday.
Also will start doing larger waters changes from now on, I usually do 25-30%, but today I did 35-40%.

Just worried the hot water tank in the house will be empty because of refilling the tank, it's not hot, but it's not ice cold either.
And I share the hot water tank with two other people, and I don't want my tank to be a problem for others.
So water changes I usually perform when no ones at home, so far no complaints.

Been 2 months or so since last time.


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ss720 said:
Never mind. I keep thinking that every time before a water change, but after I clean and do water change I'm back to being happy for 4-5 days, and 4-5 out 7 isn't bad. Going to perform a purigen and filter maintenance on Wednesday.
Also will start doing larger waters changes from now on, I usually do 25-30%, but today I did 35-40%.

Just worried the hot water tank in the house will be empty because of refilling the tank, it's not hot, but it's not ice cold either.
And I share the hot water tank with two other people, and I don't want my tank to be a problem for others.
So water changes I usually perform when no ones at home, so far no complaints.

Been 2 months or so since last time.


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i usually do a 50% water change once a week and i just use cold tap water. The thermostat in the aquarium might go down a tick or two but it doesnt seem to hurt the fish and its not even noticable in the summer...

i guess it might depend on the size of your tank and the tempature difference from your tap to your aquarium..
 
I've been feeding mine with beef heart this past two weeks, and it's far to messy.
Algae growth is noticeable. I dropped 25 algae eating snails that won't harm plants, might get 50 more.

But I received my Hikari massivore today, I ordered it from the U.S.
Rather cheap too, 20 dollars for the food, and 20 dollars for shipping.
I love Amazon. They ship to Norway faster than Norway ships to the 2nd largest city in their own country.....by several days.

I will just offered it to them every day until my bichirs eat it.
Will offer frozen blood worms 2-3 times a week, but no more beef hearts.. Mostly because my clown knifes love blood worms.

I might even drop 30-40 Amano shrimps to help clean up the algae mess the beef hearts have caused, and yes they eat the Amanos rather fast, but with 30 Amanos they cleaned my tank in less then 6 hours before when I had community fishes. And hopefully they can clean my tank within 6 hours with my bichirs lurking in the bushes.

Also need to do two large water changes this week, rather than the one I usually do, because my no3 is higher then normal, and the water smells a little from beef hearts that haven't been eaten..not good, but not a disaster either.

Now I just need to be disciplined about not feeding them beef hearts because they won't eat massivores.
A fish will eat new stuff if starved, I hope. So I'll just offer it to them every night, pick up what's left in the morning and repeat until there is nothing left each morning, and slowly start feeding them in the day time, so I actually get to see them to, but my hujeta's are extremely greedy. But I'll work around that.

Also...the smaller of the two knife fish has a small wound on its belly... I'm suspecting the endlicheri took a bite...



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Due to a algae breakout after feeding them beef hearts, I'm going to add a clean up crew.

This Friday I'll be adding 30 Siamese algae eaters around one inch, and 30 Amano shrimps and 30 more algae eating snails.

I'm expecting that the bichirs and hujeta's will eat the shrimps and fish within a day.
But if they just get 5-6 hours of work done, I'm hoping they'll get rid of most of the algae.
Previously I've had similar clean up crew (but ottos instead of SAE and no snails).

And they did clean my tank in less than 6 hours. So I'm going to feed my tank well before adding them and I'll turn the lights out so that the hujeta's don't eat them all within minutes. But I might add a shoal of tetras to keep the hujeta's busy and turn the lights on so that the SAE will work.

Do you think this will work?
I'll let you know of the results on Saturday or Friday night.



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3-4 days ago.

Feed them 6-7 cubes of frozen beef heart a day for 1-2 weeks.

Trying to make them eat pellets, with varying success at the moment, just need to keep at it, and maybe try different brands.
Are using Hikari gold and massivore for now, might order some nls pellets from USA when I get my paycheck and try that, but I'm a firm believer that if a fish is hungry enough it'll eat any food that's suitable.

Lights are off at the moment, but it's mostly thread algae.
And there is some BBA algae as well. But the BBA is only on the anubias, and thread algae on java ferns and driftwood.

Doesn't look bad from the couch, but up close I'm embarrassed.
I'll try to take photos tomorrow. Lights are only on for 6 hours a day.



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I had a then 6 inch senegal bite a farlowella literally in half. I've noticed if fish can live for 48 hours with the bichirs (there will be a blood bath with algae eaters) then they leave them alone forever.

Try nerite snails, particularly the zebra (they look like tigers though.) One per 15 gallons and you'll have nary a speck of algae.
 
Ponera said:
I had a then 6 inch senegal bite a farlowella literally in half. I've noticed if fish can live for 48 hours with the bichirs (there will be a blood bath with algae eaters) then they leave them alone forever.
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Not my experience, after 2 weeks they finally ate my Bolivian Rams, 30 ottos, 2 lizard catfish and couple of apistogramma vijeta and 3 SAE.
Not in one go, but gradually they disappeared, I think my endlicheri finally got the munchies.
They didn't show interest the first two weeks.

But the bichirs had just been added, so probably the reason they were left alone for that amount of time.

However, my 3 purple breasted acaras that are same sized as the Bolivian Rams are still doing fine.

But I'm expecting them to eat the SAE's and shrimps within a day, but if they can remove some algae, the remaining snails will be able to keep it clean, they have proven their worth at my work. We keep 5-6 in every tank, and it's spotless.

But the tanks at work are 20-60 gallons with small fish that don't produce much waste and are messy feeders.
So by Friday I'll have around 50 snails in my tank, and I'll try get around 100 snails or 120. (They are 2 dollar per snail..and that's what it costs straight from supplier...) but they stay rather small, don't reproduce fast, leave plants alone, yet eats algae 24/7. I've learned to love them after trying a couple in a algae ridden tank at work, after that I asked permission from my boss to maintain snails in every tank, and customers have started to notice and sometimes they spend more on snails then fish.



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