a1Matt said:I feel a vicarious thrill at you getting the gouramis!
Will wait avidly to hear how you get on
a1Matt said:Do you still have your boraras brigittae?
For mine I have been dropping my ph, kh, gh to make conditions closer to their natural environment. Have also been feeding them live food for the first time (Daphnia). Am noticing some with eggs now I suspect it was a combo of both changes that did it. Thought you might like to know!
dw1305 said:Hi all,
Nice tank and lovely fish, only suggestion would be maybe add some floating plants (Limnobium or Pistia) or an emergent plant with lots of fine roots? they also apparently jump.
I stored 5 for a few months (for a friend until he could pick them up), and they really liked the "Apistogramma tank" with no fertiliser or CO2, biofilm, rainwater, lots of leaf litter and live food, tannin stained water, lots of moss and java fern and a covering of floating plants. They were really active and constantly interacted. I did 10% water change every day, and kept the conductivity below 100microS. I kept them on their own, although at various times spare Apistogramma adults, Epiplatys etc were in with them for a few days. I tried to persuade the owner to let me keep them, but he had them back and they all succumbed over the next year (no apparent reason all looked fine, then found a dead one in the tank). I did see them once in their new home (he is a well known Hypancistrus breeder, tank had R.O. water, but much less cover), and the only noticeable difference was that were much paler brown (they had been "Bournville" coloured) and more static than they had been with me.
cheers Darrel
I second that, thanksandyh said:Cheers Darrel,
Some excellent information there!
thanksandyh said:I will try to keep you updated on the situation!
RO water and peat.andyh said:So how have you been changing the water conditions?
andyh said:You have 80 Brigittae! I am jealous that must look immense! Need a pic/video dude! Come on ! Show me! I have 15 in my 35l and they look cool. Where did you get yours?
a1Matt said:I saw something interesting in my tank the other day which I've just posted on my journal, but thought I would share here too...
A chocolate gourami approached a juvenile CRS, I expected the CRS to scuttle away, he didn't - he turned to face the gourami.
They were then dead still facing each other about 10cm apart for about a minute.
When I put my nose up to the glass to get a close up I could see that the shrimp had its antenna held straight out in front of it and was waggling them side to side of the gourami. This successfully halted the gourami, who then retreated (literally swam backwards).
CRS 1 Gourami 0!
I now recall that the gouramis often look at the shrimp from a similar distance, but never attack them