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[APD] Tanganyikan Planted Tanks
Brian
I have 6 juvenile Neolamprologus leleupi that are Oct. 2007 fry of my 4 year
old adults. 4 Synodontis lucipinnis about 1 3/4" long, 1 Alto. compressiceps
about 2" long, 2 female Ancistrus cats, 1 upside down Synodontis, and a pair
of Pseudocrenilabrus multicolor in my tank. The Egyptian Mouthbrooders are
in there to spawn and then I plan to take the female out to another tank to
save the fry. My original parents died. I have two pairs left.
I have Cryptocoryne spiralis, C. moehlmannii, C. wendtii, C. undulata, Water
Lettuce and Duckweed in mine. I use a 6:1 by volume KNO3 : KH2PO4 dry ferts
about 1 tsp per week. I use Seachem Lake Tanganyika salts and Seachem Malawi
Buffer. I also use Excel at 8 ml daily for the 38 gallon tank. I don't
really do frequent water changes. Maybe monthly. Low light. Substrate is
Seachem Onyx Sand mixed with finely sieved Carib Sea African Cichlid mix.
No CO2 currently. I have a Carbo Plus I haven't hooked up yet. I plan to
plumb it into the outflow from my Eheim in a sort of CO2 reactor.
I have been thinking about adding about 4-6 juvenile N. buescheri but I am
not too sure they will get along with the N. leleupi when they all mature.
My 38 is a little small for 2 breeding pairs. I have been thinking of
possibly adding Julidochromis regani "kipili" instead.
I am not concerned about using limestone rock in my tank because I want hard
water. These rocks are really a Dolomitic limestone so they should add some
Mg too besides the CaCO3.
How are you finding the Glutaraldehyde to work? Any pluses or minuses? I
have read some stuff about it recently.
Jerry Smith
Bloomingdale, NJ
>To: "aquatic plants digest" <aquatic-plants at actwin_com> Subject: Re:
>[APD] Image Hosting From: "BRiaN Forsythe" <megasycophant at gmail_com>
>Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:28:08 -0400
>Set up in Dec 2007, those pics were taken just after it was set up.
>None taken lately cuz I got busy and skipped dosing for about a week,
>have a hair algae thing going on. Getting better though. Dosing is
>modified EI (since I don't wanna do big water changes with
>Tanganyikans) + glutaraldehyde (rather than Excel). KH is about 12,
>working it up to 15 or so, don't really measure much else.
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