LalaLand
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Hi everyone, with the new arrival of baby guppys we moved the serpaes to a separate/new/cycled tank. It was a good chance to give them better water parameters as well, from what I understand (and we're fairly new to fishkeeping but loving it), in contrast to the mollys and guppys who like a higher ph and harder water (which they have, ph 7.5, Gh and Kh around the 8-10 degrees) and we moved the serpas to ph 6.8 and Gh around 5-6. I drip acclimatized them over an hour before moving to the new tank. They are now so pale and have been for 4 days! And fairly quiet, sort of hovering, until they occasionally swim a round, play with each other and then go quiet again near the bottom of the tank.
Similar tank set up, live plants, gravel, lots of places to hide. Ammonia still a little high (0.25-0.5) but adding prime and watching it every day. Nitrite zero, nitrates just above zero. Used established medium from other tank. It's a smaller tank (10 gallon for the 3 serpaes), that's about all. Any ideas how to make them better? Should I harden the water for a while? It took a while to get them out of the other tank, they were so fast, and we had to chase them for about 10 minutes to get them out, maybe they are recovering? Thanks!
Similar tank set up, live plants, gravel, lots of places to hide. Ammonia still a little high (0.25-0.5) but adding prime and watching it every day. Nitrite zero, nitrates just above zero. Used established medium from other tank. It's a smaller tank (10 gallon for the 3 serpaes), that's about all. Any ideas how to make them better? Should I harden the water for a while? It took a while to get them out of the other tank, they were so fast, and we had to chase them for about 10 minutes to get them out, maybe they are recovering? Thanks!