Step by Step increasing pH safely

[eklikewhoa]

Re: Step by Step increasing pH safely

No laughing here.....I think Geoff has a notebook version of your database.

Paul was not referring to me but lots of people use NLS with no problems and I'm one of them....strictly NLS though.

[geoff_tropheus]

Re: Step by Step increasing pH safely

I used to have a EXCEL spreadhseet for every tank, and now I keep a Notebook.

So, yes I am a fish nerd.

I keep track of water conditions, filter maintenance, waterchange, treatments, sick fish, dead fish, new fish, their size from time to time, and in general observastions.

My tropheus are feed daily with Aquarian Tropical Flake Food, New Life Spectrum Cichlid Formula 1mm pellet size, and Hikari Cichlid Excel mini pellet size.  I feed these three foods for three levels of feeding, the NLS sinks, the Hikari Floats, and the Flake mixes in all three levels, bottom, top, and middle.

I feed once a week fresh veggies or some other frozen treat.  The fresh veggies I prepare just like I would for myself.

I have to feed seaweed to my Annectens, because I still have (2) guys that will only eat seaweed, and romaine, and from time to time they will eat some flake food, but it is very rare that they do.  They spit out immediately any pellet food that I have.  So I make special meals for those two.

If you got those fish from T & T then he most likely got a hod of the Segrest Farms "Grab Bag" Tropheus.  I hate that they do that, but that is what happens from time to time.  Even Old World Exotic will offer grab bag tropheus.

Possibly, if you run out of room, T &T may take some of them back, you might ask them.

[eklikewhoa]

Re: Step by Step increasing pH safely

If anything contact Navarro which hardly ever posts on here.....he has a super nice "LFS" tank which houses all the random singleton trophs that he saves from the LFS.





Geoff....is there are reason why you feed those foods that sit at different levels of the tank? just curious.

[imagirlgeek]

Re: Step by Step increasing pH safely

My database consists of information on each type of fish we have (scientific name, common name, Origin, Diet, Temperament, Temp, pH Range, water hardness, links to good websites about them, gender differences, breeding ratio, and Notes -- then links to our individual fish (which tank, sex, status, and if died, any notes on what happened to cause it, if I can tell).  

Then a table with each tank's test date, pH, ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate, hardness, and temp.

I chose Access db so I can just go in and run a query to quickly know what's going on when I need.  Well, and apparently I had too much time on my hands when I created it.  

I too, am a fish nerd.  

I'm pretty sure T&T would take back any that I decided to give up.  I haven't decided what to do just yet.  I'm already attached to the little buggers!  I guess I'll wait a month or so, let them really start getting their colors and personalities and then decide.  And going forward I guess I'm going to have to buy a book on Tropheus to carry with me when I want to buy so I know exactly what I'm getting.

[Zulaab]

Re: Step by Step increasing pH safely

I guess I'm going to have to buy a book on Tropheus to carry with me when I want to buy so I know exactly what I'm getting.

or put geoff number on speed dial   :devil:  :devil:  :bsjoke:

[geoff_tropheus]

Re: Step by Step increasing pH safely

I have 5 books in English and 4 books in German all about Tropheus.

Most of the English books also cover other tangs, but have really nice Petro and Tropheus sections.

All of my German Books are 100% on Tropheus.  I just hate having to type the pages into Google, and then have google translate them.  Sometimes makes no sense how it was translated.

Anyone know how to read German?

[geoff_tropheus]

Re: Step by Step increasing pH safely

EK - I just saw your quesiton.

The reason I feed three types of food, is I have always feed a flake food and believe this has always been the best food that has worked for me in getting new wild fish up to speed and eating first.  Then once they are eating flake foods, you can move them over to pellets without a problem.

Flake food is also excellent fry food, if you do not have large amounts of algae for them to eat, because you might have some kind of pleco or something cleaning most of the algae.  And since I have so many tanks, that I cannot spend the time scrubbing algae all the time, all but my Ujiji tank has pleco's in it.

In my tanks where I have huge Tropheus or really agressive Trophues, and in my tanks where I have Petrochromis, I found that if I only fed one type of food, they would spend more time tying to chase other fish around or hoard the pile.  When I started feeding three levels, then I found some fish would go to the bottom for siniking pellets, others would swim around for flakes, and some would wait at the top for the floating pellets.  This way more fish throughout are getting more food, and not so much just the bullies or the larger fish.

It has worked really well for me lately, especially as I combined more groups together, and started keeping Petros in with them.

[eklikewhoa]

Re: Step by Step increasing pH safely

Ok, thanks Geoff.

I figured it was for the greedy to not hoard all the food and for the passive ones to be able to get some.