Any chance female?
Any chance female?
Going for a hat trick of three. Any chance this one is a female as well or could it be a recessive male?
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I lost this one yesterday and I am still trying to figure out why it died.
It could have been from fighting as its sides where always quite scratched.
It may have found a dead spot in the tank beside one of the caves and eaten something off like a dead glass shrimp so I have moved the cave in a bit to allow more flow.
I have a large dw in the tank and I use low ph rainwater so maybe the dw has pulled the ph down too far? I will be using higher ph town water to do wc for a while in the future.
The usually water perams are fine, no ammonia, no nitrites, nitrates 5 to 10.
The other 4 adults and the little 3.5cm juvi are all fine and acted in their usual disgusted manner (flicking their tails and such) when I uncovered they hidey spots to check them.
Just hope this is a one off incident.
It could have been from fighting as its sides where always quite scratched.
It may have found a dead spot in the tank beside one of the caves and eaten something off like a dead glass shrimp so I have moved the cave in a bit to allow more flow.
I have a large dw in the tank and I use low ph rainwater so maybe the dw has pulled the ph down too far? I will be using higher ph town water to do wc for a while in the future.
The usually water perams are fine, no ammonia, no nitrites, nitrates 5 to 10.
The other 4 adults and the little 3.5cm juvi are all fine and acted in their usual disgusted manner (flicking their tails and such) when I uncovered they hidey spots to check them.
Just hope this is a one off incident.
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Must have just been a one off as the others are still all fine.
I did take out the biggest dw and replaced it with a couple of slate tiles over the caves as it might have really been pulling the ph down.
I also took the sponge off the canister intake and got rid of the glass shrimp. The high tank temp longterm just doesn't agree with shrimp.
There was a lot of gunk trapped under the sponge so I siphoned it all out and did partial wc.
Frozen food is off the menu for a while and they will just have to get used to Hikari sinking wafers as I can put them very close to the caves and a bit of 1mm Spectrum fussy feeder pellets with the garlic in to improve their digestion.
I did take out the biggest dw and replaced it with a couple of slate tiles over the caves as it might have really been pulling the ph down.
I also took the sponge off the canister intake and got rid of the glass shrimp. The high tank temp longterm just doesn't agree with shrimp.
There was a lot of gunk trapped under the sponge so I siphoned it all out and did partial wc.
Frozen food is off the menu for a while and they will just have to get used to Hikari sinking wafers as I can put them very close to the caves and a bit of 1mm Spectrum fussy feeder pellets with the garlic in to improve their digestion.