Clare
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So, I am back into this hobby after a long hiatus - my tanks are doing great and the fish are thriving - I am indeed grateful that I had some prior knowledge before I set them up.
However, I do have fish now that I never kept in years previous and have a couple of questions, so here are goes:
1. Will my khuli loaches eat the occasional red flatworms that show up in my 40G planted tank? I don't seem to be overfeeding and don't see them often - just wondering as I seem to bring them with new plants on occasion. This tank also has 2 bolivian rams (old, slow & living out their retirement here), 1 female betta, 2 albino blue eyed long finned bristlenose plecos, a nice group of fancy guppies, 1 corydora concolors, 1 corydora arcuatus and the 2 khulis. It is a moderately planted tank with lots of mopani wood and no algae issues and a seemingly under control snail population (thanks to an assassin snail who loves his job; I do a 20% PWC weekly and I have an Eheim ECCO 2236 canister on it. I just find those flatworms gross LOL
2. My 100G hex is deep - 36 inches - and is only scaped with plastic plants & mopani wood (lots of it) at this point & is heavily stocked. It has a brown algae issue which is getting better with the introduction of 4 nerites snails. My water tests are consistently good: NO2 0 ppm; NO3 10 ppm, NH3 0 ppm, PH a bit high at 7.8, but all fish, even my pair of apistogrammas agassizii, are thriving. Bimonthly PWCs and filtration is a Eheim Pro II 2026 canister and an Aquaclear 110 HOB. I am having trouble with temp - cannot seem to get it below 84 even with the heaters set at their lowest settings - this is a contributing factor the the algae, right? Do I just live with it? Add more nerites? Anything else I can do about the brown algae without chemicals?
3. I have a female betta in the 40G with the guppies - no issues regarding cohabitation but she is constantly full of eggs and her oviductor in always showing - does she see the male guppies as possible mates??? I do not want to breed her with my male betta - will she be okay in this condition long term? Or do I need to remove her into her own tank?
Okay, I think that it is for now - any replies would be greatly appreciated. So glad I found this site. Thanks!
Clare
However, I do have fish now that I never kept in years previous and have a couple of questions, so here are goes:
1. Will my khuli loaches eat the occasional red flatworms that show up in my 40G planted tank? I don't seem to be overfeeding and don't see them often - just wondering as I seem to bring them with new plants on occasion. This tank also has 2 bolivian rams (old, slow & living out their retirement here), 1 female betta, 2 albino blue eyed long finned bristlenose plecos, a nice group of fancy guppies, 1 corydora concolors, 1 corydora arcuatus and the 2 khulis. It is a moderately planted tank with lots of mopani wood and no algae issues and a seemingly under control snail population (thanks to an assassin snail who loves his job; I do a 20% PWC weekly and I have an Eheim ECCO 2236 canister on it. I just find those flatworms gross LOL
2. My 100G hex is deep - 36 inches - and is only scaped with plastic plants & mopani wood (lots of it) at this point & is heavily stocked. It has a brown algae issue which is getting better with the introduction of 4 nerites snails. My water tests are consistently good: NO2 0 ppm; NO3 10 ppm, NH3 0 ppm, PH a bit high at 7.8, but all fish, even my pair of apistogrammas agassizii, are thriving. Bimonthly PWCs and filtration is a Eheim Pro II 2026 canister and an Aquaclear 110 HOB. I am having trouble with temp - cannot seem to get it below 84 even with the heaters set at their lowest settings - this is a contributing factor the the algae, right? Do I just live with it? Add more nerites? Anything else I can do about the brown algae without chemicals?
3. I have a female betta in the 40G with the guppies - no issues regarding cohabitation but she is constantly full of eggs and her oviductor in always showing - does she see the male guppies as possible mates??? I do not want to breed her with my male betta - will she be okay in this condition long term? Or do I need to remove her into her own tank?
Okay, I think that it is for now - any replies would be greatly appreciated. So glad I found this site. Thanks!
Clare