Two things.
1) I did a water test yesterday on my planted Rekord 96 for 2 reasons - one because there is a problem with cyanobacteria algae, and two to rule out finrot on my angelfish. Its top fin is damaged, and there doesn't seem to be any likely culprit - perhaps a one-off scrap with the other angel or festivum? They usually get along swimmingly (haha). Both angels and the festivum are small (2-2.5") and don't worry - as they grow I will upgrade if/when necessary, but I was told that most festivums don't get to more than about 4-5" in captivity (as far as I know males only get to about 4" in the wild). They are nice and peaceful together. Could it be the danios? There are 3, but tend to just scrap amongst themselves. There's plenty of hiding places and plant cover. It happened once before but it healed up within a week or so. That was before I got the festivum and other angel.
2) I figured nitrates might be high. But NOOOOO. Amm = 0, Nit = 0, Nitrate = 12.5. What's going on? I have further reduced the photoperiod to just 8 hours. I feed the fish one cube of frozen food (usually mixed daphnia, artemia, bloodworm and mysis) or a pinch of Tetra Pro Colour crisp flakes (they are orange with a red circle in the centre) each day, alternating, with one or two days a week with no food. I have reduced this to alternating every other day. Could the problem be phosphate in the frozen food? If so what can I do?
Thanks,
momar
1) I did a water test yesterday on my planted Rekord 96 for 2 reasons - one because there is a problem with cyanobacteria algae, and two to rule out finrot on my angelfish. Its top fin is damaged, and there doesn't seem to be any likely culprit - perhaps a one-off scrap with the other angel or festivum? They usually get along swimmingly (haha). Both angels and the festivum are small (2-2.5") and don't worry - as they grow I will upgrade if/when necessary, but I was told that most festivums don't get to more than about 4-5" in captivity (as far as I know males only get to about 4" in the wild). They are nice and peaceful together. Could it be the danios? There are 3, but tend to just scrap amongst themselves. There's plenty of hiding places and plant cover. It happened once before but it healed up within a week or so. That was before I got the festivum and other angel.
2) I figured nitrates might be high. But NOOOOO. Amm = 0, Nit = 0, Nitrate = 12.5. What's going on? I have further reduced the photoperiod to just 8 hours. I feed the fish one cube of frozen food (usually mixed daphnia, artemia, bloodworm and mysis) or a pinch of Tetra Pro Colour crisp flakes (they are orange with a red circle in the centre) each day, alternating, with one or two days a week with no food. I have reduced this to alternating every other day. Could the problem be phosphate in the frozen food? If so what can I do?
Thanks,
momar
