I am raising a school of nine juveniles Silver Dollars, roughly within one to one and half inch "diameter". Once they reach a safe size to be with Oscars, they will be moved.
They are housed in a Perfecto Breeding 30 tank (30"Lx18"Wx12"H).
I am using
a) around 20g of Fluval peat fiber (way less than recommended amount of 70g, to be on the safe side and do this slowly).
b) a mixture of 1:2 R/O processed drinking water to tap source water,
c) adding extra humic acids, tannins and "other beneficial organics" which do not alter
pH nor color water (
API Amazon Extract, South American Cichlid) which I use in my Oscars-Severums-Convicts tank.
d) and three mid-large size Indian Almond Tree leaves (abundant in my city, soaked them in boiling water for 5 minutes, then suddenly dumped them in cold water to take pathogens away).
e) removed activated charcoal since I want the tea-colored water to be present.
Note: c) and d) are regular maintenance in my Oscars-Severums-Convicts tank, the Silver Dollar final destination. I do use activated charcoal in that tank since it is still housing 5 sub-adults Kenyi. I keep pH in that tank at 7.4; once they leave that tank, I will aim at pH 6.8 with at least 2.5
DKH.
Readings before adding Indian Almond Tree leaves and around 20g of Peat Fiber (yesterday)
pH 7.5
3.5 dKH
4.0 dGH
Here's a pic of the Indian Almond Tree Leaves, behind a quite beaten-up Anubias afzelii. Water is yellowish at the moment.Silver Dollars tank
Pepe
Santo Domingo
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