trennamw
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10 gallon tank, cycled a month ago, it's had a female betta and some baby pond snails and Malaysian trumpet snails. When the diatoms started going crazy I got 3 Otos.
One died about 24 hours after coming home. No obvious signs of anything. The other two seem fine. But if the tank is too immature maybe I should move them to my 29 gallon, where 3 Otos are doing well for a few months.
Tank is 77 degrees, ammonia and nitrite at 0, nitrate below 5, some crypts and water lettuce in residence. GH 6, KH 4, pH totally stable at 7.5. Water gets stress coat and some cichlid salt and buffer since it's basically distilled.
I get that Otos are delicate ... I put 4 in my 29 gallon tank a few months ago, right at about the same time (a few weeks after cycle was done and fish went in, about a week after diatoms arrived). Those have done well.
I drip acclimate, too.
Those were from a good LFS, this batch in the 10 gallon were from Pet Smart. I was a tad concerned about one, it stuck to the side of the container they use and she pushed it out with the handle of the net.
One died about 24 hours after coming home. No obvious signs of anything. The other two seem fine. But if the tank is too immature maybe I should move them to my 29 gallon, where 3 Otos are doing well for a few months.
Tank is 77 degrees, ammonia and nitrite at 0, nitrate below 5, some crypts and water lettuce in residence. GH 6, KH 4, pH totally stable at 7.5. Water gets stress coat and some cichlid salt and buffer since it's basically distilled.
I get that Otos are delicate ... I put 4 in my 29 gallon tank a few months ago, right at about the same time (a few weeks after cycle was done and fish went in, about a week after diatoms arrived). Those have done well.
I drip acclimate, too.
Those were from a good LFS, this batch in the 10 gallon were from Pet Smart. I was a tad concerned about one, it stuck to the side of the container they use and she pushed it out with the handle of the net.