Hi,

My common BN fry are 5 weeks old. May I start feeding them SERA spirulina and Hikari algae wafers? Until now they received only vegetable

Thank you,
Cristi Ionescu

Bas Pels wrote: and only rrarely about dying eggs - the cause can be genetic or environmentally.

Thank you for your answer. I have a new question: What can I do to improve the environment conditions? which are the perfect conditions?

Mod edit: This thread was posted as a "reply" to a 3 year old thread. I thought it made more sense to separate it out, as "waking" old threads doesn't make that much sense unless the subject is realy closely related to the WHOLE thread.

The original post was talking about some eggs turning white ...

my ancistrus has the same problem (long stringy poo). So, is it an internal parasite?

My longfin ancistrus male (one year old) show no interest regarding PVC pipe or coconut (and of course is shows no interest regarding the longfin ancistrus female). It is in love with a driftwood. Is is in a 70 liters tank among with the female (which is plump and it is also one year old) and a very ...

MatsP wrote:
If no result, try a large-ish cooler-water change (drop temp in tank to maybe 23 or so degrees and let it warm up again).

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Mats

Is it ok to drop the temp from 26 to 23 in one step? (a large cooler water change)

In my experience, they will breed fine in a shared tank, but there are so many things that can go wrong with breeidng that it's not easy to just say "this is what you should do", without also understanding much more than a 5-6 line post can describe.

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Mats

Mats,
please share with us your ...

Hi,
one question : Is it OK to have this variations of PH (every day)? from 7.6 to 6.6 .....

Hi,

this is a good question: Is a 32mm PVC pipe too small for an ancistrus? Can it turn around in this pipe to go outside of it?

I dont have tests for NO3 and ammonia :(

in my tank there are: Tetra EX 600 (external filter), 2 air stones and internal filter (aquael). All of them create a lot of turbulence (annd temp = 26-27 C) .... so i supose that the result of O2 test is ok.

When I will have any news I will let you know ...

Hi,

in a 70 liters tank, I have 4 young longtail ancistrus and 4 prionobrama filigera. Starting yesterday, one ancistrus began to stay at the top of aquarium (few centimeters under the water level) and its breathing is very fast. is it possible to have a gills infection?

thank you in advance ...