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| Date: | 5/19/2013 8:38:34 PM |
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Awesome. The natural water we get here in Illinois if VERY hard, VERY alkaline. Indoors, our water softener gives us soft water, and very high pH. I also have a huge container with rain water (which is very soft, very acidic), so I can basically mix and match anything I want, lol. It just takes some time and patience to get it where I need it to be. Sometimes it takes a month to bring pH down, sometimes it shoots down so fast I have to stop water changes altogether for a few. ^.^ It's crazy over here, hee hee.
I'm glad to hear they won't decimate others and their siblings like my convict cichlids! They are absolutely insane to take care of, but it's somehow still fun. Right now my pair wants to breed again, but I still have their three surviving (they went a little cannibalistic/aggressive/negligent after hatching) in the tank with the mom. On one half I have the mom and the fry, and on the other side of the plastic divider the dad. I sure hope the little guys grow up. >.<
I feed them crumbled cichlid flakes (they hatched early December, late November), thawed frozen brine shrimp, veggie flakes, and sometimes all-tropical flakes. Is it too late for them to grow? =[ I'm not sure...they are my first cichlid batch. (My first fry were platys who got stuck at the three-day-old stage for their lives, and the second batch were danios who are a year old and still one cm!) |
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