sinner
06-17-2006, 2:18 AM
I have a 90 gal AngelFish tank that I have been trying to make a real plant setting. I want it to be quite lush. I'd rather have less angels and more plants.
I suffer from angel genocide. I cannot tell you why, I follow all the advice I can ( since a lot of times they conflict ). But more often than not, I add two angels and watch four die. They look fine at the store, they look fine in the little (hospital) tank, <their guarantee expires> and they look fine, I put them into my main tank .. in the living room... Everybody dies a horrible death in front of all my visitors. They wait until someone visits, then they bash their little heads repeatedly into the glass right in front of my visitor.. Really. well, my gouramis did that, my angels just go sideways right in front of a visitor, but they tend to make a big show of that too..
SO anyway.. I have a gourami tank (30 gal), and Angel tank (90 gal) and another 10 gal hospital type "Tank OF DEATH". Only One fish survived only to be killed later. I seem to make a better death dealer than I do keeper.
I Love my Angels are so graceful and pretty. The Gouramis look so much the same, I can only tell them apart by personality, which they have plenty of. I am quite happy with my inhabitants..
I Transferred my dying anubus plants into my 30 gal tank to "feed it' some
good bacteria.. Those plants are TOTALLY thriving in that cheap plastic aquarium!!! I want to move them back to my 90 gal, but want to know what's wrong..
In my 90 Gal, I have several money-wort type stems that my pleco keeps digging up, I let it get caught up in a fake plant until I notice roots growing out, then I try to plant it again. It only lasts for a couple of weeks though,
then they're in with the fake plant again.
I also have a red-ruben which looked exactly the same as it did when I brought it home many months ago (6? - guessing)..,but since I cleaned iright by it, now it seems to be dying.
I contibute this completely to substrate.
My question is whether I should place some soil substrate into my main tank, under my gravel, gradually, or how do others do it? If I don't use my python and suck it up, it's totally disgusting! I'd be okay with it if it will eventually get sucked up by the undergravel filter, but I do not hear good things about them.
I suffer from angel genocide. I cannot tell you why, I follow all the advice I can ( since a lot of times they conflict ). But more often than not, I add two angels and watch four die. They look fine at the store, they look fine in the little (hospital) tank, <their guarantee expires> and they look fine, I put them into my main tank .. in the living room... Everybody dies a horrible death in front of all my visitors. They wait until someone visits, then they bash their little heads repeatedly into the glass right in front of my visitor.. Really. well, my gouramis did that, my angels just go sideways right in front of a visitor, but they tend to make a big show of that too..
SO anyway.. I have a gourami tank (30 gal), and Angel tank (90 gal) and another 10 gal hospital type "Tank OF DEATH". Only One fish survived only to be killed later. I seem to make a better death dealer than I do keeper.
I Love my Angels are so graceful and pretty. The Gouramis look so much the same, I can only tell them apart by personality, which they have plenty of. I am quite happy with my inhabitants..
I Transferred my dying anubus plants into my 30 gal tank to "feed it' some
good bacteria.. Those plants are TOTALLY thriving in that cheap plastic aquarium!!! I want to move them back to my 90 gal, but want to know what's wrong..
In my 90 Gal, I have several money-wort type stems that my pleco keeps digging up, I let it get caught up in a fake plant until I notice roots growing out, then I try to plant it again. It only lasts for a couple of weeks though,
then they're in with the fake plant again.
I also have a red-ruben which looked exactly the same as it did when I brought it home many months ago (6? - guessing)..,but since I cleaned iright by it, now it seems to be dying.
I contibute this completely to substrate.
My question is whether I should place some soil substrate into my main tank, under my gravel, gradually, or how do others do it? If I don't use my python and suck it up, it's totally disgusting! I'd be okay with it if it will eventually get sucked up by the undergravel filter, but I do not hear good things about them.