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Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 7:32 am
Right, so, I have a 10 gallon freshwater. There are three cories in it, a floss-and-carbon filter, heater (72-74F), pebble substrate, terra cotta pot, and random stone I found outside.
I threw the elodea in after rinsing it in distilled water and left it alone. When I went to change the water yesterday, I noticed it was pretty hardcore dead. The stalks and leaves had turned brown, were slimy, and the leaves were limp and floppy.
This brutal death took about a week. I do not know why. This was too quick a death to be related to nutrients; could it have been the pH or light level?
Incidentally, I'd also collected some duckweed from a local pond - again, seemed to do fine for about a week, but it's starting to snuff it as we speak.
There's some lucky bamboo suspended from the side of the tank - wet feet only - and while it's not outright dying, it's a bit off-color.
I did a few pH tests yesterday evening. It came up 5. Horrible. Threw in some basic chalk neutralizer to the proper dosage and tested again this morning. Usually it wavers a bit by now, but it's still at 5. The catfish have been fine - eating, chilling out, playing around. I've got no idea what's going on. Haaaaalp?
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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 1:12 pm
I just brought a water sample into the local petstore and there's a theory that it was the nitrogen cycle that killed the plants all dead. I'm just surprised my cories didn't snuff it; apparently they're hardy little fish.
I had thought the nitrogen cycle had finished - or, perhaps, that it would not cycle at all, due to the insame amount I was dinking around with it, but surprise! Needless to say I'm going to throw in some distilled to keep the nitrate levels down and wait a few weeks before I add any plants.
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Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 11:46 am
Finally! Nitrates: 10 ppm, pH: 7.2.
Threw some more elodea in - and here's the kicker - the tank I took the original stuff from died too. It was a disease, surprise! The nitrate cycle probably didn't help, because even though they're used in life processes, it's a stressful thing.
So, I took some elodea from a different, healthy tank and it's doing fine. =] The lucky bamboo recovered -- roots everywhere. Faboo!
That's the end of this saga~
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Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 3:37 am
just to cover a few things, all catfish are carnivores, and thus will eat anything and can bully fish. cory cats don't do that as much, but still, if you have a few in a tank, they might be fighting for food, being bottom feeders. as for the fish you got, it could have been water quality. io know where i like, we can't get coolie loaches with the red stripes for there is a mild amount of copper in the water. good luck finding more out. ask the pet store you got if from. and if it was from wal-mart, well that answers your question...
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Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 5:17 am
zainith666 just to cover a few things, all catfish are carnivores, and thus will eat anything and can bully fish. cory cats don't do that as much, but still, if you have a few in a tank, they might be fighting for food, being bottom feeders. as for the fish you got, it could have been water quality. io know where i like, we can't get coolie loaches with the red stripes for there is a mild amount of copper in the water. good luck finding more out. ask the pet store you got if from. and if it was from wal-mart, well that answers your question... all catfish are not carnivores. plecos and cories eat plenty of plant life
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Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 1:08 pm
however, plecos and corys are just like all catfish, and are scavengers. thus making them carnivorous, for they will bottom feed. cory cats are known for bottom feeding. which is a treat if there isn't a sufficient amount of food for them to eat, for they will attack fish who are scared and stressed. most importantly, if there is a peaceful fish who is not adjusting to a tank, they have a chance of being harmed by other fish. what i'm saying is new tank syndrome to the other fish might not only kill that fish on its own, but make it more prone to death by catfish. and a pleco is a tough fish to debate.
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Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 6:30 pm
zainith666 however, plecos and corys are just like all catfish, and are scavengers. thus making them carnivorous, for they will bottom feed. cory cats are known for bottom feeding. which is a treat if there isn't a sufficient amount of food for them to eat, for they will attack fish who are scared and stressed. most importantly, if there is a peaceful fish who is not adjusting to a tank, they have a chance of being harmed by other fish. what i'm saying is new tank syndrome to the other fish might not only kill that fish on its own, but make it more prone to death by catfish. and a pleco is a tough fish to debate. of course they are like catfish, they are catfish. and a carnivore is something that eats only meat and only needs nutrition from meat. corys are omnivores not carnivores
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