75 gallon Planted Office Tank Journal

What's the male:female ratio for your cherries? You need to put more tank pics in this thread. Helps alleviate the headaches when I try to keep up with the ferts/light/PAR conversation. :p: Looking forward to your long-awaited plants arriving!

(Oh yeah, what about the sneakerfish??)
 
fishycat said:
What's the male:female ratio for your cherries? You need to put more tank pics in this thread. Helps alleviate the headaches when I try to keep up with the ferts/light/PAR conversation. :p: Looking forward to your long-awaited plants arriving!

(Oh yeah, what about the sneakerfish??)
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Male/ female ratio....Hmmm, let me go count.

:popcorn:

Males: 6
Females: 8
Fake Cherry Barb: 1
Total: 15

On this subject, I also want to state something regarding female cherry barbs. I have read several descriptions of this fish, and I think the female is unfairly characterized as "boring", or "plain". This is NOT the case with my fish. Here is an example quote


Female Cherry barbs are not as vividly coloured and will usually display a rather dull orange shade.
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I totally disagree with this assesment. I would say I almost prefer the female coloring, but certainly a good mix of m/f is very pretty. My females are yellow/orange, with a dark lateral line, and a white belly. My males are either very red, or a red-brown. In either case, this very different coloring is like getting two fish in one species. Anyway, I like it.
 
Good start!

In addition to more plants, I'd scoot the one sword a bit away from the corner (they do get quite big) - and I'd switch the sm. Cichlid stone and driftwood positions, the DW is a bit too centered.

Any chance you can find another, larger DW piece?

Also - I'd position the heater horizontally along the bottom (an inch or two off the substrate) - no need to see it all the time. The film on the water surface should dissipate on its own if circulation is adequate, otherwise blot it off w/ a (strong - not generic) paper towel or coffee filter.
 
Squawkbert said:
Good start!

In addition to more plants, I'd scoot the one sword a bit away from the corner (they do get quite big) - and I'd switch the sm. Cichlid stone and driftwood positions, the DW is a bit too centered.

Any chance you can find another, larger DW piece?

Also - I'd position the heater horizontally along the bottom (an inch or two off the substrate) - no need to see it all the time. The film on the water surface should dissipate on its own if circulation is adequate, otherwise blot it off w/ a (strong - not generic) paper towel or coffee filter.
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Actually the rocks (cichlid stones), and Amazon sword are coming out on Tuesday when the plants get here. The driftwood will be moved them. I dont have an exact plan for the location of the driftwood, but there is a firm plant layout, and I will squeeze it in if I can. The way the tank looks now has always been just a temporaily thing, believe me, I know this layout stinks, :hitting:.

The deal with heaters is this, both are techincally the same exact model, but one has a different power cord and says "submersible", and the other says it can only be submersed up to xxxx line. Since I didnt want to risk ignoring the directions, I keep both of the tops (where the temp dial is), out of the water according to the marking on the heaters. In my kids tank, I also prefer a horizontal approach to hide them heaters low in the tank.

Also, since buying these heaters, I have adjusted them to reality. At first, these things were reading like -5 degrees F compared to the actual water temp. The eheim heaters do make it real easy to re-calibrate them, or whatever it's called.

I do like your idea about coffee filters, I am going to try that with unbleached filters. :thumbsup:

Thanks for reading, keep checking back.
 
geekpryde said:
What happens if you overdose Plantex CSM+B?
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Look, I am quoting myself! :lol:

Okay, I started a new thread regarding the above question, since I was kinda freaked out about what I did. More can be found here.

I ended up doing a 35% water change a few hours after OD the tank with Trace Fertz, just to be safe.

Here is what I did (so stupid).

See where it says GOOD, yeah, that is the cap I thought I opened. See the one that says BAD, well see, that is the cap I actually opened. And then I poured. Took about 1 second to realize what I did, and then 60 ml fell into the tank.

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:eek3:
 
No plants until Tuesday. :shakehead:

I dont know if my fish are deciding to get mean, or they are in heat, but instead of being a nice group of 14 cherry barbs, the males spend all day chasing each other, and chasing tail. Seems that they are not pairing off, cause the males just try to cozy up with any female that gets close. The males seem to be staking out spots in my large Amazon sword, and are defending their spots relentlessly. I didnt think there was this kind of behavior in the nice schooling community fish. :goldfish:

They are not trashing each other mind you, but they are giving good chase.
 
Oy, that's a lot of males for that many females. At least there's space to run away! I have Endler's, so I understand. :laugh: I'm sure things will settle after you get the plants in. Yay, Tuesday!!
 
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