Becca
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Came home from work yesterday to find my Dicrossus maculatus laying it down on a leaf.
About 1-2 days post 20% water change and blackworm feeding. I really need to start keeping better track of this stuff.
The bad news is I'm battling some sort of algae that came in on plants in that tank and is just running rampant... I'm trying to reduce hours of light, do frequent small water changes and feed less, but the harder I try, the faster it grows. Might have to cut back on water changes with eggs in the tank.
Tank is just below 80 degrees, loaded with driftwood and has 2 bags of peat pellets tucked behind parts of the scape. It's a 29 gallon that houses the pair of D. macs, 2 Badis badis, 4 chocolate gouramis, 1 Valliant's chocolate gourami, 2 eyespot gouramis, 3 purple cories, and 4 Amano shrimp.
At the moment, pH appears to be around 7.0, maybe 6.8... all the yucky stuff is at 0ppm. The pH actually surprised me - I'm not accustomed to chocolate gouramis looking so happy in a tank where it's that high and, what little I've found to read about spawning D. macs seems to indicate they like their pH very low and their water a little dirty.
I am hoping that removing the emperor tetras will help keep these eggs from meeting the same fate the last one did. With any luck, I'll see some fry wiggling around in a couple of days!
About 1-2 days post 20% water change and blackworm feeding. I really need to start keeping better track of this stuff.
The bad news is I'm battling some sort of algae that came in on plants in that tank and is just running rampant... I'm trying to reduce hours of light, do frequent small water changes and feed less, but the harder I try, the faster it grows. Might have to cut back on water changes with eggs in the tank.
Tank is just below 80 degrees, loaded with driftwood and has 2 bags of peat pellets tucked behind parts of the scape. It's a 29 gallon that houses the pair of D. macs, 2 Badis badis, 4 chocolate gouramis, 1 Valliant's chocolate gourami, 2 eyespot gouramis, 3 purple cories, and 4 Amano shrimp.
At the moment, pH appears to be around 7.0, maybe 6.8... all the yucky stuff is at 0ppm. The pH actually surprised me - I'm not accustomed to chocolate gouramis looking so happy in a tank where it's that high and, what little I've found to read about spawning D. macs seems to indicate they like their pH very low and their water a little dirty.
I am hoping that removing the emperor tetras will help keep these eggs from meeting the same fate the last one did. With any luck, I'll see some fry wiggling around in a couple of days!
Congrats!
