Trimac water conditions

[DuckHole]

Hi I was getting a couple trimacs and tested my water and was wondering if this is a safe range for these fish. Thanks for any input.

Nitrate 20 ppm
Nitrite 0 ppm
Hardness 250 ppm
Alkalinity 240 ppm
PH 8
Ammonia .25 ppm

 

[Toby_H]

As faor PH, hardness & alkalinity... they aren't very picky... just keep it stable and they'll be fine in those ranges...

Ammonia and Nitrite should be kept at zero... which is easy to do with a mature tank, new set ups have to cycle and are likely to have "mini spikes" when new fish are added. If that doesn't make sense do a search on the word "cycle" and you'll learn a ton.

Nitrates at 20 are awesome... They are best kept 'in check' with weekly water changes... everyone must define what 'in check' means for themselves... personally I try to keep all my tanks under 40ppm... I don't worry as long as they stay under 60ppm... even when life is kicking my butt and I'm slacking off I won't let them ever get over 100ppm...

 

[bigspizz]

Very sound advice.^^

 

[DuckHole]

As faor PH, hardness & alkalinity... they aren't very picky... just keep it stable and they'll be fine in those ranges...

Ammonia and Nitrite should be kept at zero... which is easy to do with a mature tank, new set ups have to cycle and are likely to have "mini spikes" when new fish are added. If that doesn't make sense do a search on the word "cycle" and you'll learn a ton.

Nitrates at 20 are awesome... They are best kept 'in check' with weekly water changes... everyone must define what 'in check' means for themselves... personally I try to keep all my tanks under 40ppm... I don't worry as long as they stay under 60ppm... even when life is kicking my butt and I'm slacking off I won't let them ever get over 100ppm...

Thanks for the info. The reason Ive got my self kinda freaked out is that I ordered real trimacs from Rapps and would be upset to spend that money to get them shipped to me and have them croak on me.

 

[crisper]

Get the ammonia down to 0 and the ware wiil be fine. You need to be concerned about aggression between them. I recently picked up 7 trimacs now i am down to 4 all because of aggression and they are all under 2".