Calling all firemouth keepers

[Mogurako]

Those plants are live plant but low light. The floating plants may help with algae too. I'll do all three.


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How many bulbs does it have? What's the spectrum of them?


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[Caliban07]

I'm not sure what spectrum the lights are they came with the tank I bought second hand.


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[Caliban07]

It has two tube. A very white light.


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[Mogurako]

You probably have 10K bulbs then if they are the ones that came with the fixture. Which explains the fish looking "bleached out/stressed" and your algae problems.


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[Caliban07]

You probably have 10K bulbs then if they are the ones that came with the fixture. Which explains the fish looking "bleached out/stressed" and your algae problems.


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Ok thanks. It's all gonna be sorted at weekend. Poor fish all this time.


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[Mogurako]

Look for some 5000k-6500k bulbs with lower wattage, that's considered full spectrum daylight. You'll likely only need one since you don't have any plants on the bottom.


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[Rivers2k]

I'm going have to disagree with the black sand and iridescence to an extent. Genetics also plays a big role in this as well. I get tons of iridescence on natural colored sand even in breeding dress. I think it has to do allot with the intensity and spectrum of the lighting as well.

Breeding dress:
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Normal:
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Iridescence do show allot in natural sand but I think they do pop more with the black sand and some of the other colors are more subdued. That being said i do prefer the look of Fire Mouth on the natural color sand you tend to see a more over all spectrum of color on them.

Genetics does play a part but those were the same fish in 1,4 and5 pic 2 and 3 were the parents. I found sand makes the a huge difference with these. breeding dress does play a big part to.

 

[Caliban07]

So far I've changed the lighting and the background. They are a bit more adventurous now. Especially when I'm not there and I can peak round the corner to have a look.

Next job (when I can find some) is to get some darker, earthy coloured substrate and some floating plants. Probably frogbit or something.

So far so good.


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[JRT83]

Figured I'd recommend my favorite substrate, red flint gravel. Not overly light or dark, has a nice mixture of various shades of tans, reds, and browns..... here it is in my 125g







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[Caliban07]

Looks quite well. I'm after something like that but without the lighter parts. I live in the UK. We kinda get the short end of the stick in terms if selection in most areas of this hobby and the right colour is proving difficult to find.

Thanks for sharing though. Still on the hunt.


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