Some Of My Current And Recent Set-Ups And Fish

[Assaye]

 

[Deek]

Oh my good god, i love your fighters everyone of them looks in superb condition. Slightly curious how you have time for all those tanks i struggle with 3 and my maintenance takes 2-3 hours twice a week.

 

[Assaye]

Oh my good god, i love your fighters everyone of them looks in superb condition. Slightly curious how you have time for all those tanks i struggle with 3 and my maintenance takes 2-3 hours twice a week.

Thanks! I've actually had a lot of problems with the fighters. The water here is very hard and despite my best effots, I have had a lot of loses. We've narrowed the problem down to either a string of (very) bad luck or the water, because the tanks are all 'perfect' by betta standards - soft plants, gentle filters, great mixed insectivore diet, frequent water changes, always double 0, low nitrates, etc. Things seem to have settled down with the males (touch wood) - I have 5 males at the moment and we are having trouble keeping condition on one of them but the other four are doing well. Even the thin one is very active, friendly, eating well and bubble-nesting so maybe he is just a 'bad do-er'. Aside from the general ill-health, my main problem has been with the fins. I just can't keep them in good condition! I swear, it must be the water and I really don't think I'll replace these guys unless I can sort something out with RO.

I spend a lot of time on the tanks. Today I probably spent 3 hours on maintainence and that was just doing the downstairs tanks (5 of them - 290, 65, 60, 50, 35). The upstairs tanks (65, 54, 30, 28) will be done tomorrow and that will probably take just as long because I need to clean snail poo and algae off the silk plants

So - 6 hours a week? Maybe I'm just slow, lol. To think that for a couple of weeks I had three more tanks to handle, including two that needed twice daily water changes. Glad I got those taken down (were temp tanks while I was sorting the goldies out).

 

[Wills]

laetacaras are looking good now

 

[Assaye]

laetacaras are looking good now

They are looking brilliant! One is still bigger than the other, and a bit more active, but they have both grown quite a lot. Some lovely colours on them - blues and yellows on the fins, with red and blue on the dorsal. Nice midnight blue tinge to their bodies as well. The photo doesn't do the big one justice. Both feeding very well and not very shy anymore. Since adding the neons they've decided that the main body of the tank is a nice, safe space that they want to swim in. Really proud of these guys