Hi all,
It is a tank with nothing to break up line of sight and you can get scraps for dominance that end up with fatalities if the loser has know-where to hide.
The other option is a water quality one, because you don't have many plants, you tank is nearer to a non-planted tank and still possibly not "cycled", if you didn't have cycled filter media initially?
I'm not an advocate of cycling using ammonia, but I like tanks with lots of plants, including some with the <"aerial advantage">. An air stone might help at night.
cheers Darrel
Was the nitrate (NO3) 0 ppm?I have also put some live stock in and am going to do a 50 water change weekly just for a bit. Tested my parameters again today and they are all at 0 currently.
You are never going to know. Were they Tiger Barbs?Unfortunately I came downstairs this morning to find two of the barbs belly up. They looked like they had been chewed. I’m guessing they got into some pretty serious fights last night and that was that.
Can’t really think of any other reason why they would have died and looked as bad as they did
It is a tank with nothing to break up line of sight and you can get scraps for dominance that end up with fatalities if the loser has know-where to hide.
The other option is a water quality one, because you don't have many plants, you tank is nearer to a non-planted tank and still possibly not "cycled", if you didn't have cycled filter media initially?
I'm not an advocate of cycling using ammonia, but I like tanks with lots of plants, including some with the <"aerial advantage">. An air stone might help at night.
and @Edvet's suggestion.If possible add some cheap fast growing plants in the beginning, this will addd stability to your tank (can be pondplants like Elodea (waterweed), watersprite (ceratopteris), Egeria densa (brazilian waterweed) aka oxygenating plants).
cheers Darrel