My 1000gal Tank

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Yes, there is a chemical sealant in the last finishing concrete layer.
I think it had time to cure for about 2 years .
Good remark ,thanks.

I m actually making massive water changes plus adding neuprocide after it and do cover the pond when raining.

We treated and added glass shrimps and glass perch (chanda ranga)

A goramy is here too, since three weeks and is doing better than the P.bass.
 
Rained hard for a week , covered tank every heavy rainfall.
Water is at 27c
No lost since last week.

Found a smaller Peacock bass in 3rd filter with a white eye and almost all dark body, seems like he was stuck in the System for a while... I released him free in the main tank, hope he don't die from changement.:D

Made water change and added Neuprocide.

Tomorrow i ll look for ammonia tester and a "water heater stick" seen in a shop, i ll consider if it is effective in that tank...?

Called to my Peacock bass seller, he's having 3 sizes: 2 inches 2 1/2 inches and 3 to 4 inches.

Do you think i should buy some again?:confused:
Do you think i m good enough at fish keeping?:(


:D I think i ll buy more and continue to experiment :naughty:
 
Hi
Bought that amonia tester and Juvenile P.Bass a hundred.

Release fifty juv in one of our three 200 sq/m mud ponds these Bass are about 2 inches.
Aquatic plants, goramy, tilapia, frogs, heron and snakes are in or around that pond.
We ll see what happen.

And added another fifty fish of 2 1/2 to 3 inches in the system.
one week now .

Set up my planner for:

-a 1/3 water change every 5 days (followed by neuprocide)

-live shrimps, fish fry added to tank every 3 days (bathed for 1 minute in a product called MK 100 (nothing wrote in english nor about composition))

It rained a lot pH dropped to 7.6.

Because of the rain, the lake is high now and quite muddy and sometimes stinky (rotten grass) i am wondering if it would be wise to make these water changes?
Last made on saturday with surface water, muddy , not so stinky.
This water went clear after one day (due to rain? (like chemical precipitation)? or plants in filtration or shrimps feeding on micros?)

amonia was at 0.25mg/l (less than ok)
Nitrite at <0.3mg/l (ok)

Didn t check water after change :irked:

Temperature 25c to 28c today

Covered pond every heavy rain

Still feed artemias as well
Hey! No dead not even one!:headbang2

Try to make a solar water heater with about 15 meter of clear tubing exposed to the sun, shall i paint it black?? to be continued...

Amonia tester was very difficult to find, did find only two Tetra tester in two different shops with two different prices (a 30% difference) at 30 meters distance...
 
Thats great theres been no deaths recently, things may be looking up for you :thumbsup:
 
I think moonsoon is over.
Have to get ready for winter.

I think that Neuprocide kills glass shrimps and glass fish because i have losts everytime I use it.

I have not seen P bass dead in main pond or while opening valve from filtration tanks or floating on surface like it happened.

My dear wife that is doing the feeding witnessed a couples of Pbass with marked stripped head and marked lateral line that are more agressive than the rest of the school.They are part of the new batch and are smaller than the survivors of the last batch.

a cutted-tail pondybilly Pbass ( he use to stare at my wife on surface while she was providing the feeding) disapeared. She misses him...

Added Water Hyacinth in filter tanks and in mud ponds...

Thanks for the Ammonia advice mates , i really think it was the problem along with heavyrain pH changes.

hope
 
lol,
Hope to take some pics some days.
...but they are swift, the pond is big and round and i don't want to injure them.
Any trick to catch them safely?
 
One dead today, he was the smallest of the school and seems that he got bitten by the bigger one.
The bigger one like to kill the big shrimps as well; they are striking on them without eating them and about a day a day half after those shrimps die from their wounds.
(Wounds are turning shrimps white progressively up to their death.)
 
Last week i had 4 deads.

Wednesday:
First dead and we made a water change (1/3), brush algae out of the netty bags for media on 2/3 tanks,
The guy was whitish with 4 others with the same decoloration.
My wife says that he got beaten by the bigger ones as well.

Thursday:
I lost a second and third , i added neuprocide and brush the last media bags.

Discolored ones started to color again.

Friday:
A fourth one died, he was part of the discolored ones.

Proceed to an ammonia test: Yes i had ammonia.

Made a water change again and added water hyacinth.

Interesting facts:
-we had a good weather for several weeks and no problems and now it is raining again and we have problems.
-the size of the dead ones is the same size that we had lost on every batch. Could it be like a juvenile disease the same as pavo for dogs or varicella chickenpox for humans?



Now i have to feed them with glass shrimps more oftenly, every 3 days vs every 4 days, my wife continue to feed them with artemias every days.

My plan was to change water every 5 days but seeing ammonia test it seems not adapted now, so will I have to change water every 3 days???

What about my recycled water system design?
 
they probably died from iche from the rain changing the water temp.. if they are small and your water is under 87 i don't know if they will make it.. good to hear that you still have a few... ever try laying off the chemicals? in my experience it wind up killing everything ;) to net them try to big soft nets
 
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