joel.uejio;4237531; said:
I use the API test and do it as directed. Add so many drops of solution for bottle 1, shake it for 30 seconds, add the second bottle and shake it for 1 minute.
As for their tank, my plans to get a bigger tank (I was supposed to have it by now) were derailed when I lost my job. I have them currently in a 55 gallon tank. I'm working on finding a way to get something bigger, it's hard when you got other bills and such with no income. What little money I do get is going towards their food. Living in an apartment, I'm pressed for room, so I was thinking of getting 2 75 gallon tanks and double stacking them on an iron stand rather than a 135-150 gallon tank and just putting a pair in each.
As for their diet, I feed them a pretty varied diet. Flakes, frozen bloodworms, frozen Brine Shrimp with Spirulina, frozen Krill and on a rare occasion I get some Ghostshrimp for them. I usually change the water twice a week. It is possible something in the test went wrong, but there has been 3 times I did it the same way, one time it showed nitrAtes at 20 ppm and the other 2 times it's said 0 ppm.
I was planning on switching out my substrate for the river rock as they call it and adding all natural stuff and making caves with slate and rock and such. But I'm also planning to add some dithers as well.
They're acting a lot better today than they were. So perhaps that heater was the cause and the water change I did last night got rid of any metals that could have been in the water from it?
