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My temp is at 74 now

Temp and parameters also vary from wild fish vs captive bred. A lot of hobby fish are kept ain conditions different than their natural habitat and they have adapted, I would go as far to say it’s impossible to completely replicate their natural habitat when they are across the world . You can do...

Trigonostigma espei , Corydoras habrosus, Boraras merah are in the tank

yes those are it . I started with 6 and I believe I’m down to 2 in the past week and a half . I think it may be the temperature was too high at 79, I have is slowly coming down it’s at about 76-77’F right now . I will get a video of the remaining swimming uploaded here shortly. Also the rasbora...

I will have to get a video uploaded of the Corys . It’s hard to see them in pictures but the pictures of the dead one is just one , and I am seeing a lot of red on its top side so it’s making me thing it has that Cory disease I’ve been reading about

Will post photos soon

What do you mean by upend themselves ?? , alright I am going to put a different heater in there that can go down to76 the one that’s in there is preset to 78 . I’ll also keep doing regular water changes , idk what else to do besides started over

What am I supposed to do then, rip the tank apart and change substrate ?

But I’m not sure if the temp would the soil I have is pretty much sand , it’s very fine clay based dirt , I know the issues with iron already , and at least 2 inches of sand on top, the digging the Cory’s are doing barely goes below the surface , and everything else is thriving fine , I’m even...

I was going off of the walsted method , and father fish , not sure if you’re are familiar with those methods. They say that the organisms that are in the dirt are beneficial and are more likely to find something harmful in your clean tank than anything from outside you get from a stream and put...

Yea the plants came from petsmart , I got a couple bucephalandra green and a java moss coconut bridge , all the other plants have been in there for a while already , but I never washed them off either . I saw the porkchop hiding out in the back this morning and didn’t come out when I fed...

Nooooo not quikcrete concrete , it’s quikqrete play sand , and the yard has not been treated with anything , I dug a hole and got the dirt deep down ..

Also it’s the same problem I posted about last week about the rasboras going missing , I’ve had them for months now and they have been fine with the setup, maybe a couple of the fish I got were old ? Is that an uncommon problem? I have some phoenix rasbora in there 2 and haven’t lost a single one ,

I did get a couple plants , and I just put them in there

Nitrates are around 20 I didn’t give a number because it is hard to read these strips sometimes so idk if it’s 20 or 0. Ammonia is 0. It is soil from the backyard with fine quickrete on top

79 is the max of their recommended temp range

I thought I had put it all in there , it’s a dirt with sand capping it off. Porkchop rasbora

Number are posted

I started out with 3 of them got 3 more , and I have slowly been seeing them die one by one . I think I have only 2 maybe 3 left out of the 6 and it’s only been 6 days . Tank is cycled and heavily planted , the other 2 that I can see seem to be doing fine , the 3 rd one is surfing the back by...

Soft sand substrate is a must for Cory’s if you don’t want them to scrape up there mouth

No the fish are adult size or close to it

I wouldn’t even begin to be able to guess their age , I know I’ve had them personally for about a month

Tank has been set up about 2 months