Going bigger

[Si4geckos]

You should have taken a photo first before dragging her out!

Will do next time. She's keen for another dip. Just been spayed so may be a week or two before they let her back in the swimming team!

[Ric]

Well, you've got your work cut out there then. If the little cat is not scared of getting her paws wet, then she'll keep trying. Very cute, though

[Si4geckos]

Cleaned the fx6 on the big tank today and the 306 on the shrimp tank.

Found over 20 shrimp in the 306. Bonus shrimp= win!

Hope they colour back up again.

[Flex365]

Hit the jackpot there mate - congrats on your win

[Martinspuddle]

Cleaned the fx6 on the big tank today and the 306 on the shrimp tank.

Found over 20 shrimp in the 306. Bonus shrimp= win!

Hope they colour back up again.

When I use to do maintenance on my TetraTec 1200 external filter despite having a prefilter sponge on the filter intake, I use find hundreds of young Cherry Shrimp in the bottom of the canister. I can only think the very young shrimplets manage to get though the sponge and sucked up into the filter.

[Si4geckos]

Since adding the filter gunk from the fx6 to the cycling quarantine tank, ammonia disappeared in about 5 days then had masses of nitrite for 48hrs. Both measured zero last night. I did a 40% water change and cleared out a bit of the mess from the aquarium floor leaving the filters ‘dirty’ but I’m hoping it’s nearly cycled. Re dosed ammonia to about 4ppm so hoping it’ll clear tonight then it’s potentially new fish time!!

[plankton]

Why are you still dosing to 4ppm?

[Si4geckos]

Why are you still dosing to 4ppm?

I was aiming for about 2.5. maybe 3, but the bottle drips very fast as you straighten it up! Doh!

About 2ppm ammonia and 4ish nitrite tonight. Still some waiting to do. I won't dose as much ammonia next time. Was just starting to get excited about new fish too!

[Si4geckos]

I’ve noticed in the past couple of weeks occasionally my electric blue rams heads have gone a lot darker. The bodies are light blue and shimmery and the heads look dark like denim jeans.

I’m 99% sure I’ve a Male and female and wondering if this is breeding dress like the honey gourami. Can’t seem to find much on google. They darken when pairing up and go back to normal when just swimming around.

Any thoughts?

Here’s a video that doesn’t show it as extreme as it is in person (closest comes when you see their reflection in the glass about 8 seconds in).

https://youtu.be/havGtNxEIQo

Am I going to have to try and raise rams soon?

[Gingerlove05]

Generally colouring up is a sign of happy fish
Looking at the fins they do look male and female from what i can see, but rams are hard to sex without being the electric blues
On a plus note if they do breed and get it right (it might take a few goes) for a while they will look after the young, protecting them and herding them around the tank to various feeding areas