This gal needs help!!!

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Re: This gal needs help!!!

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I am trying my best.
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Re: This gal needs help!!!

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I know you are. You're doing a good job at it also. Just keep it up is all I'm saying :)
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Oh ok.


I will let everyone know the decision on the tank as soon as I know.
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Re: This gal needs help!!!

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Keep testing your water & posting parameters. You're doing a great job keeping them alive for now.
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...

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I woke up late and had to run to counseling this morning. Didn't have time to check the levels. But I started a log book (WCs, Feedings, and Levels) :) That should help me remember things such as feedings. I am cutting back to once a day as suggested. Though I feel bad for them. They are used to being fed twice a day. They won't starve right?

I did a 50% WC last night before bed.I don't remember what the levels were exactly....
Can anyone tell me what the levels should look like to be considered good?
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Re: This gal needs help!!!

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Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: <20 though ideally less than 10
It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another. We consider those, when the cerebral structure/intellectual faculties most developed, as highest. A bee doubtless would when the instincts were.
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Twice a day is to much, once a day for 6 days and 1 day no food
RTR wrote:Fahakas do not have tank mates, they may have swimming food reserves.
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Re: This gal needs help!!!

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+1, overfeeding is killing them with kindness!
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...

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Re: This gal needs help!!!

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How big are they? Do you know if they're juvies or adults?
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Re: This gal needs help!!!

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Pufferpunk wrote:+1, overfeeding is killing them with kindness!

no kidding!!! Mine died before I could set up my tank because of over feeding and a missing hunk of shrimp that I couldn't find.

Point being.. don't take your eyes off them (at this point) while feeding and remove that food promptly when they are full.
if you follow me, you avoid stepping in the crap that I just did...

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They are about 1 inch maybe 1.5... 2 inches is pushing it.

I will make sure not to feed them more than once a day. I was told to feed them twice a day... :/ more misguiding. :(

and flutter thanks for the levels. I now know what to look for. :)
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Re: This gal needs help!!!

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Don't forget 1 fasting day/week. That means no food for 1 out of 6 days.
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...

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Re: This gal needs help!!!

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It has been written in the log to not feed them on Sundays. :)
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Re: This gal needs help!!!

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Good for you :) A log is excellent, I really should start one.
It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another. We consider those, when the cerebral structure/intellectual faculties most developed, as highest. A bee doubtless would when the instincts were.
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Re: This gal needs help!!!

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No water params today?
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