v81tun Posted November 11, 2012 Author Share Posted November 11, 2012 Gradually trying to reduce the ph.It is at 7.7 today, and I lost my blue ram just an hour ago.Jack Dempsey is looking miserable, but he is one of the few that should be able to tolerate the Ph Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aiden Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 Hi there not sure exactly what has happend here, but i have been through this trial and error with the electic yellows, this spicific veriaty of ciclid is very temprimental when it comes to water changes, being on multipul points, with this ciclid it is important to insure your tempriture is on the bottom range of tropical heated water with a high increase offten causing stress and breathing problems, the 2nd is if you try to vaccumme your rocks,corral to quickly it can kick up unwanted gritt, this strips the air out of the water being that the minute bubbles the fish relies on to breath attaches themself to these particals and then sinks to the bottom of the tank, the only way to do it with this veriety is to insure you do your water changes as slow as posible, and just a little clarification for those wanting to bread ciclids, this species of fish will not bread like guppys as they are egg layers, in the guppy kingdom these fish will mate together then the female will incubate the kin in there bellys giving birth to live young, where as ciclids wont do the dance in this way, if you have a female ciclid you will generaly find that they start to lay eggs after a year or so, and the male will then after fertilise the egg after the female has decided where to put it, these fish if successfully tring to bread will cozy up with each other wilst the egg is unhatched. Once the egg hatches then generaly the female will take controle and kick the male out, untill the time that she wants him around again, you can have 1 male work with 3 or so females of you have the space and is generaly better to do it this way rather then have 2 males fight for the chance of the female, this is obviously how it would work in the wild but for the life of your fish, hope this helps anyone and all to have happy thriving fish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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