Saratoga jardini pond build

[turtles]

sad news woke up this morning to a dead barramundi pretty sad i reallly liked that fish i think it was a amonia spike cause my amonia now after a water change is .50ppm and im am now doing 15% water changes daily but the togas fine and the silver dollers (now in diffrent tank)

 

[turtles]

i will be getting another barra today shouldnt die this time i have increaased filtration signifacenly

 

[turtles]

got my new barra as the old one will be missed RIP put amo lock in just to be safe

 

[StingraySteve]

sad news woke up this morning to a dead barramundi pretty sad i reallly liked that fish i think it was a amonia spike cause my amonia now after a water change is .50ppm and im am now doing 15% water changes daily but the togas fine and the silver dollers (now in diffrent tank)

spewin.... this is just a "bandaid solution", but if you keep your pH slightly acidic ammonia loses some of its toxicity. Easy as putting in a piece of bogwood that still releases abit of tannins

 

[turtles]

yea its got bog wood in the tank and i know its i thought may as well give it a try i dont want to lose any more fish and i aam doing regular water changes but the jar aint eating yet and neither is my new barra but my old one was the best he samshed pellets within 30seconds in the new tank

 

[StingraySteve]

yea its got bog wood in the tank and i know its i thought may as well give it a try i dont want to lose any more fish and i aam doing regular water changes but the jar aint eating yet and neither is my new barra but my old one was the best he samshed pellets within 30seconds in the new tank

Don't go overboard with the waterchanges. Barras are very tough fish and can tolerate a little ammonia (i know this sounds like bad advice but u hafta believe me) but if you keep changing the water very frequently, u could restart the whole cycling process. If the jar's not eating yet that weird because when i had him feeding him wasn't the issue... it was trying to keep him fed. Do you use lights in his tank because I hardly ever did - he sometimes got really skittish with the lights on.

 

[turtles]

yea i got lights on the tank and i am doing a 10% water change every other day and the jar is fine with the lights he just swims slowlyly and gracefully against the current

 

[StingraySteve]

shouldn't be too much of a problem then. With the jardini, what i suggest is turning the light off fr about an hr before you throw in some food. Make it easy for him by breaking the floating pellets i gave ya. At least that way if he doesn't eat them they are easy to scoop out

 

[turtles]

yea i will try that the only reaction to pellets was he would bite them but then spit them out

 

[StingraySteve]

If he's doing that, then id stay away from the sinking pellets. The sinking ones i gave you can start to stink if they're left uneaten for long enough