Here is just a sneak peek; tomorrow we will post more pictures and details.
It was a long day today setting up the new tank.
Clearing the water, boiling two pieces of driftwood, cleaning lots of plants with potassium permanganate, with gloves and everything. Big mess in the house, especially the floor.
At the same time assisting to a family lunch, and taking care of 4 abandoned kittens, that we bottle feed. And we have 4 more ready to give away tomorrow morning in the flea market. We own 12 cats; I wonder if we should make a blog about cats, lol.
Back to the fish.
The angelfish today hit very bad a platy, taking away some scales. We will have to separate them. We have 6 otocinclus ready for the new tanks, which are very young (small), so we can’t put the angelfish there. Besides we want a big school of 25 tetra neons. Tomorrow we may put 4 danios to start cycling the aquarium. It should take very few as the Eco-Complete substrate is supposed to come with the bacteria for ammonia and nitrite.
We are not adding anything else to the water, just Tetra Aqua Safe. In the other tanks we use Tetra Flora Pride, with excellent results. We also use Tetra Easy Balance, although we make constant water changes and vacuum gravel every few days. The ammonia and nitrite are kept in 0.
We also used Seachem Stability for the others aquariums, cycling them in 30 days. Let's see how good is this substrate Eco-Complete.
Thank you for all the help. Have a nice holiday!
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