Electric Blue Acara Fry & Breeding Guide
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Aquarium electric blue Acara Cichlid fry and Breeding can be profitable. These fish are super easy to breed and they sell for descent money at fish stores. I like to feed them higher quality food when breeding. Northfin is my go to brand. Here is a link:
Northfin 3mm Food: https://amzn.to/2zWlR4G
More Added talk on Cichlid Fish Tanks:
I need help. I have been doing a fish in cycle for over a month. I’ve been following the file y’all have posted. My water parameters right now are ammonia .50ppm nitrite .25ppm and nitrate is 10ppm. I dose with prime every 24hours, but I honestly can’t remember if I did yesterday. I can’t imagine myself forgetting, but I can’t for sure remember either. It’s a 60gal with 3 commons, 2 Molly’s, and 2 swordtails. https://youtu.be/uXDAvPnJ22A
My male swordtail has been hanging around the top of the tank all day. He’s never been very playfully active, so that wasn’t suspicious. But he doesn’t usually hang around the top. I also found him stuck to the filter when I came to check on him before bed. I’m sorry its not much, it’s really late and I’m really worried. Please ask any questions if I’m forgetting details. Any help is appreciated.
My Electric Blue Acara Care Guide
https://youtu.be/SdA4yBt9Ltc
I’m probably not much help but I know it’s late and others may not respond sooner because of the time. But I’m also in the fish in cycle and have been doing water changes daily with my parameters (and they’re similar to yours) so maybe doing more frequent water changes on top of the prime would be good? And you also might wanna get an intake sponge filter to add to your filter so that your fishies don’t get caught.
It’s a prefilter, they’re pretty cheap! In regards to your worries on the swordtail I’m no help. But water changes go a long way. Best of luck thank you I just did a 50% water change yesterday. I can’t get my ammonia to 1ppm like the files say to with the fish in cycle, but I can’t not change the water. Idk if that’ll cause my tank not to cycle though. I usually double dose prime, today I added a little extra. And thank you for the recommendation for the filter.
If you are double dosing Prime, you leave the tank until Ammonia does hit 1ppm before water changing again. Prime will protect the fish. Too many water changes too soon will stall your cycle. Add 1tsp salt per 5 gallon of tank water, will also protect from Nitrites. Likely not needed with Prime, but I always do. https://youtu.be/g2m-tr95DQE
okay thank you so much. I’ve been wondering about that. I just felt uncomfortable not doing water changes, so I did them to be safe. I lightly salt my tanks after water changes. Would I need to add the salt daily or just one time. Should be enough filtration, but maybe add a sponge filter to intake as was recommended above. Or a separate sponge filter, running on air pump. More area for beneficial bacteria.
The air pulls water through the sponge. There is a plastic insert, like a grate the sponge is pulled over. Trust me when I rinse that sponge, yuck lol Also beneficial bacteria grows. Much better to do water changes to bring your ammonia levels down to no higher than 0.25 than constantly dose with Prime. Prime _will_ lock up ammonia for 48 hours while still leaving it bio-available for your cycle, but you are still providing more fuel than it can process at the moment.
I only meant when you may have forgotten, are you doing daily water changes? and a cycle can sadly take 8 to 12 weeks. That is why fishless cycling is so important, but never mentioned by pet stores wanting a quick sale. yes, my mom had bought my daughter the fish, so I figured we have them might as well get into it and do some research. I’ve learned A LOT. I would not have chosen a fish in cycle had I known before. Thank you!
Yeah the file says to let ammonia rise to 1ppm before you do a water change while dosing with prime and continue. Then the same when nitrites hit 1ppm. I, myself, was uncomfortable with waiting longer than a week to change my water. and I don’t think the amount of water changes was specified other than after certain parameters hit a certain level.
You are showing Nitrates 10ppm, so your tank is beginning to cycle. Keep dosing Prime. Weekly water changes are likely fine at this point. The BBs are doing their job. Almost there. You may not see 1ppm ammonia now anyway. But don't worry about .25ppm, your cycle is eating it now. Keep dosing Prime as a safeguard. Test tap also for ammonia, nitrites, nitrates. And PH. Your tap may have that low level of ammonia.