The Plant Tank

Sunday, September 10, 2006

Weaning the angelfish fry

  • pH:
  • Temp:
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  • NH4:
  • NO2:
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  • PO4:
  • Iron:
  • Dosing: 25 mL Excel, 12.5 ppm NO3, 1.8 ppm PO4, 1 tsp MgSO4, 2 tsp CaSO4
  • NO3:PO4 Cumulative Dosing Ratio: 12.5:1.8 = 6.9

Notes:
50% water change:
25 mL Amquel+
25 mL Excel
2.5 tsp baking soda
1 tsp MgSO4
2 tsp CaSO4
12.5 ppm NO3
1.8 ppm PO4

I bought a couple more of the breeding cages and split the quickly growing angelfish fry into the four breeding cages. Yesterday, I began weaning them off the brine shrimp, introducing finely crumbled fish flakes and feeding them brine shrimp only once a day, instead of the usual twice a day. It looks like they are slowly eating the flakes. The angelfish pair spawned today after the water change.

Although there is a lot less green dust algae building up on the tank walls, there is some sort of green dust like algae growing on the plant leaves, possibly due to the increased fish waste output from the many fry. I'll probably up the Excel dosage for a while until I get rid of the fish fry. I'll also keep the ratio of phosphates to nitrates dosing higher to try to suppress the green algae.

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