my 201s

[jucino]

Just got this from a bro here ..

Quick question is Sudo sand ok for this guys ??currently housing them in a 1.5 ft tank with my cories , Will be transferring them out to a bigger tank soon


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Got these two a few weeks back..they had sunken belly during the first week but they have now recovered ..

Pictures taken during wc

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[barmby]

I guess the sands are not so critical. Water change and circulation are more important.

[jucino]

thanks for the reply bro..I'm housing them with cories now.. they are swimming around the tank instead hiding up in the caves and all. is that considered normal???

[barmby]

Of course not normal. What kind of setup? Any pic?

[jucino]

oops i missed out this thread.

i have two set ups..

1.5ft tank
one is a 1.5 ft tank which has sand as substrate and some cories and platys as tank mates.. it is running on a large HOF filled wtih mr aqua mini CRs and a white sponge for mechanical fitration. Inside the 1.5 ft is a black sponge filter for additional aeration. For this tank, the 3 201s I have is doing fine and eating well.Sorry i havent managed to take a picture of this tank setup yet.Ph is at 6 however, ammonia and nitrate always is around 0.5 but never 0 . WC is done at 90% every 3 days with aged water.

another setup is a 3 ft ious tank

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. Ious compartment is mainly used for mechanical filtration filled with black sponge and white sponge . I've placed some baby torsat inside to help eat any left over food from the tank. in the return comparment I've got two inlets.. one is to a mr aqua 3 tier OHF filled with mr aqua mini CRs and momotaro bacteria sticks. Another is going to a jebao canister filled with mr aqua mini crs and bio balls(bio balls are just there to filled up filtration space for the moment as i save up for better media:p). Inside the tank was 4 , 201s (2 from the bag above and the other 2 at the picture below) and a l52 as seen ffrom my avatar.How ever, the 201s from the bag of 5 above didn't survive in this tank. They weren't eating as well as the rest and by the time i realised it , one have already bit the bullet. I quickly transferred the remaining to the 1.5ft tank but it also died the day after .

Pictures below show how malnourished the plec is in the 3 ft tank as compared to the ones in the 1.5ft tank.
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One of the reason for the 2 plecs dying is because they were too stress up to feed? Prior to releasing 2 two of them into the 3ft tank they were shifted in the breeder boxes I have. In the breeder boxes there wasn't anything for them to hide and all. Then when I release them into the main tank there after, it got worse for them .Thus , they didn't feed well, thus dying of starvation. Any bros can confirm this hypothesis? Ph was on the low side around 6 and ammonia and nitrate level was at 0ppm . Wc was done every 3 days 30% each time with tap water (anti-chlorine Stress coat pumped into the tank b4 adding tap water in.)

Nonetheless , lesson learn to observe the plecs each and every time and that negligence always leads to casualties=( .For the 3ft tank, I will try to get a water tank or so to age the water and I might remove the canister filter and replace with a internal filter instead . For the 1.5 tank , I will try to get a bigger tank to increase the water volume and I might also reduce the number of dithers inside it . Please provide any suggestions and feed backs if you have any to improve on my setup! Thanks alot and have a great weekend ahead!

[barmby]

You have the jaguar inside whilst releasing the 5 of them?

[alesi]

If your 3 ft has good water parameters, chances for new introduction survival is very high. But they need time to locate the food which may not be easy initially.

[jucino]

You have the jaguar inside whilst releasing the 5 of them?

Of course not bro... haha,that jaguar is not with me any more and given its greedy nature, it'ld make quick work out of the plecos if i were to release them in.
If your 3 ft has good water parameters, chances for new introduction survival is very high. But they need time to locate the food which may not be easy initially.
Hmm, thats the problem i face with the plecs in the 3ft tank.. I dun see the plecs eating much.:(