How's the tank now... Considered the 'Whippies' yet?
I have indeed considered them, but not done anything about it yet.
No major updates bar a sad one... The Altifrons took a sudden disliek to anything with fins. Complete line of sight territory and started chasing off any fish that came anywhere near them. Since I was sold them as a different smaller fish and knowing they were going to outgrow the tank, I decided they had to go. I bought an awesome little fish trap and had the greedy idiots captured within ten minutes! Off to the shop they went.
In terms of water chemistry, ive been doing 100litre 50/50 Tap/RO water changes every 3 days since build and a fortnight ago swopped to once weekly as it began to stabilise around the hardness I wanted.
Current figures are thus:
And you can see my TDS trend here over the past month.
Fish are all happy and growing nicely. Here are a few images from yesterday.
The bolivians randomly bite the Tapajos side. He doesnt even turn round. It was originally concerning to watch, but now its just amusing. Its always at feeding time, and one "rams" him repeatedly and he just carries on eating. When he finally raises his fins and turns, the ram shoots off at speed. LOL
Feeding time... Everyone up!
Its taken a month but the Queen Arabeque now comes out every feeding time and eats with the rest, only shuffling off if anyone gets too close.
The Rio Curua has taken a liking to this cave I installed, which is nice as we can see her most of the time now.
The Corys... well they just go about as though there are no other fish in the tank. Love these guys, they never stop moving.
Rummys and Angels... just going about their day swimming back and forth.
And the Green phantom again, a month later has started to show himself, partially at least.
But when he does come out, its great to see.
And thats it from me really. I will start remineralising pure RO next as I want my KH a tad higher, but thats for later as its stable now.