I've set up a new tank. Officially, it went up 10/15/13. The first fish in it was a common pleco. However, he was too rambunctious for the plants and kept uprooting my cabomba so he went to the fish shop in exchange for some neon tetras and cory cats. The tank is an Aqueon brand but made by All Glass Aquariums I think. I have a Current USA Satellite Freshwater + LED light, Filstar XP L filter, and Eheim Jäger 250 watt heater. I'm feeding Hikari sinking wafers and algae wafers, Hikari bloodworms, frozen brine shril from San Francisco Bay Brand, New Life Spectrum flakes and pellets, plus Zoo Med spirulina flakes. The fish don't seem to like the NLS pellets. They eat everything else. It's weird.
Currently, I have black skirt tetras, neon tetras, green cory cats, harlequin rasboras, Bolivian rams, and otocinclus cats. The plants are amazon swords in various varieties, dwarf sagittaria, and cabomba furcata.
I've got some Bolivian rams, too. I got them about a week ago and they already made eggs! In the picture above, look toward the upper right on the driftwood. I don't have much hope that they will result in viable spawn, but it's cool nonetheless.
Harlequin rasboras.
And otocinclus!
I bought six. Two succumbed to the dreaded oto-syndrome. Apparently, otos have a rough trip to the store because they are almost all wild caught. As a result, they frequently die in the first few days or weeks at home. I thought for sure I lost three but just tonight I managed to see all four at the same time. Two, I know are gone. One didn't even last the first night. These guys have been here for three nights now. There's definitely plenty of food for them. I had to clean the front glass tonight because it was developing a film of algae.
Water conditions seem good. Tested tonight and had zero ammonia and nitrite. Only 20 or 10 ppm nitrate. It's hard to read the test. Water temperature was 79 last night and 78 today. The plants appear to be growing. I have seem some leaf and root development.
All seems well in the tank at this point. Last night I found most of the rasboras and neons gasping at the surface after lights out. I adjust the spray nozzle on the filter return and that seemed to help. Otherwise, I haven't lost any other fish besides the two otos. Hopefully my luck will last.








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