Need some opinions

[assortedsorts]

lol yeah mine are totally being adorable they are always swimming around the tank together and fighting off "enemies" together, +1 on the big waterchange, mine have always swam and hung out together since they been 2.5in but they started dancing and cleaning rocks when i did huge double 50% wc (did this to clean water after i scrubbed all this white algae stuff off my driftwood and to get out tannins, my driftwood leaches like no other)

I find my drift wood is weird...must be different kinds but my smallest pieces of drift wood tend to leach more than my large pieces.

 

[Sarah88]

well it has moer to do with age, if your bigger pieces are older or have been under water longer then they wont leach as much, but mine are 2 big pieces that even though they have been under water for AWHILE still leach, and since i have put them in my tank they grow this really gross looking clear/white algae stuff that i heard is normal when new to tank but is supposed to go away after a couple weeks but its STILL there so 2 days ago i had enough and totally scrubbed every inch of them to get it all off, if it grows back i may have to break in and get a pleco... but yeah so back to main topic LOL try a big double waterchange like i did and then if that still doesnt work then i would separate her until she gets a bit bigger and try again

 

[assortedsorts]

how long did you wait between the water changes? a day?

 

[Sarah88]

no i did them back to back, drained 50% then filled back up and then drained again and filled back up, i normally wouldnt do this but had to, to get all the gunk out of the water that i scrubbed off the logs otherwise i would have had to clean out my filter numerous times, but yeah and temp dropped couple of degrees as well which normally i wouldnt like to happen but apparently they didnt mind lol, i also raised the temp from 80 to like 84 so that could have something to do with it as well but i dont think so because iv had the temp that high before and it didnt do anything but maybe as a combination its what "turned them on" LMAO

 

[assortedsorts]

haha ill give it a try during next water change

 

[Otherone]

I've read that you can stimulate breeding by simulating dry to rainy seasons. Basically goes like this - lower the water level in the tank raise the temp slightly. Give them a week or two to adjust maybe longer, change the water then lower temps a few degrees below normal and fill the tank, a few weeks of lower temp and water changes then return to normal. I'm not 100% sure on the length of time perhaps someone who's used this method can help out. - best of luck.