Recent content by Effluorescence

I disagree to a degree, "Fish do not interact with you because they think you want to be friends" Fish become friends with eachother for the same reasons mammals do, safety in numbers. It's not a anthropomorphic thing, it is an evolutionary adaptation to take advantage of a group to increase...

and I LOVE them, they are so beautiful and sweet. They are very interactive too, they will come up to the glass and make eye contact (one in particular does more often) their personalities are so diverse. I was thinking about breeding them after they were adults because they are a unique fish...

What do you mean by specks? If the ammonia isn't being processed there aren't colonies to process it. You can increase the likelihood that they develop sufficient quantities to process present ammonia by increasing the colonizable surface area. Is the tank empty of everything except a filter...