My Gardneri (was Re: Flubendazole kills Ick)

[Chris Browning <hvac25000 at yahoo_com>]

Oh I see, I thought the story you gave was the complete story of the tank, not just where the trouble began. Well I hope your luck goes better from now on :)
 
Thanks for the offer Charles, I might take it up if my luck doesn't change soon with the ones I have. 4 males, 4 females, that I raised from eggs, which lived in a 12 gallon for a while, then moved to my 125 after they got too large for the 12. Every so often, I see them spawning in the gravel of the tank, and the egg floats away after and gets eaten sooner or later. Once in a while I move them to a different tank in an to breed them, usually my 10 gallon, never works.
 
I tried adding mops to the 125 for them to use, 3 or 4. My rainbows love them, my killies love them, but the killie eggs always fungus soon after being laid. The rainbows always hatch, but I have yet to get them to grow up, something my fault I assume, not sure what though. 
 
Right now I have 1 male and 2 females and a large amount of some type of thread algae in the 10, and they are doing fine, but I don't see any eggs, hopefully due to not being able to see all the algae. I'm going to leave them for another week, then put them back in the 125, shut the filter off, and leave the tank alone while my father and I go on vacation to Alaska. 
 
This method worked, on accident, with my feeder Danios, and the fry are doing fine in a different tank. I didn't feed them for almost a month, not knowing they were even in the tank, and they grew fine, I assume eating various microoraganisms floating about. Hopefully it will work again.
 
Chris


Charles Harrison <charles at inkmkr_com> wrote:
>Just out of curiosity, Charles, 1 week of cycling and you added 
>fish, delicate ones at that? And you added the fish before you added 
>the plants? Goes against everything I have learned, I am a little 
>confused... But then again, what do I know? I can't get Gardneri to 
>breed, lol.
>Chris

Hello Chris,
I set up the tank mid May. The tank was full of water in was planted 
three weeks before I put the first fish in it, power filter running 
with sediment from my other office tank, etc. . The plants I added 
were new after picking some up from the local Fish Club monthly 
meeting. The Angels were just fish from recent spawnings. Actually 
after two weeks of great health, I thought the expansion of the 
population was OK. It was a bad choice of either plants or fish. The 
swords were from a local breeder also.

You want some Gardneri?? Orange Australies?

Charles H
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