umberk
New Member
I have two separate questions.
First question is that I have 1 male and 3 female Golden Wonder Killi or Yellow Panchax. The male is about 2 inches and the females range from 1.5 inches to 1 inch long. The male only bothers the largest female and has nipped scales off of her head and wouldnt let her out of a corner of the tank for a few hours. She was completely stressed out and became lethargic, luckily though she has recovered from it. The smallest Killi doesnt seem to grow either and I question if its in fact a male who is hiding his identity. Any reason for the sudden aggression towards the female? I realize it may be due to wanting to breed but Id think he'd bother the other girls as well. They are in a 40 gallon tank with a Dwarf Gourami, 10 Serpae Tetras, 5 Aeneus Corys, 1 Kirbensis, and 1 Bristlenose Plecostomus.
Would adding more females fix his behaviour, any other suggestions? I havent gotten more because I cant find any of a decent size.
Second question.
I had a small issue with Nitrates and Ammonia for a little while but now it is below 20ppm, 0ppm Ammonia, 0ppm Nitrites. I have a low tech planted tank with low lighting with some type of lily plant, Anubias, Water Sprite, Moss Ball, Amazon Sword(though I dont know how well that will do) and thin leafed Crypt. I have used root tablets primarily and occaisonally liquid fertilizers(less then the directions tell me)as I dont have a lateralite/flourite substrate but rather have gravel. I have found what looks like hair algae growing on the plants, primarily on my Anubias and a little bit on my Water Sprite that is planted, it covered enough of the leaves on a portion of Water Sprite that it killed a stalk. I have brushed off the algae from the Anubias with a soft bristle toothbrush because its very hard to remove otherwise. I would do the same to the Water Sprite but I would destroy the plant more so than anything else.
How can I either prevent the growth of the algae or get rid of it altogether?
First question is that I have 1 male and 3 female Golden Wonder Killi or Yellow Panchax. The male is about 2 inches and the females range from 1.5 inches to 1 inch long. The male only bothers the largest female and has nipped scales off of her head and wouldnt let her out of a corner of the tank for a few hours. She was completely stressed out and became lethargic, luckily though she has recovered from it. The smallest Killi doesnt seem to grow either and I question if its in fact a male who is hiding his identity. Any reason for the sudden aggression towards the female? I realize it may be due to wanting to breed but Id think he'd bother the other girls as well. They are in a 40 gallon tank with a Dwarf Gourami, 10 Serpae Tetras, 5 Aeneus Corys, 1 Kirbensis, and 1 Bristlenose Plecostomus.
Would adding more females fix his behaviour, any other suggestions? I havent gotten more because I cant find any of a decent size.
Second question.
I had a small issue with Nitrates and Ammonia for a little while but now it is below 20ppm, 0ppm Ammonia, 0ppm Nitrites. I have a low tech planted tank with low lighting with some type of lily plant, Anubias, Water Sprite, Moss Ball, Amazon Sword(though I dont know how well that will do) and thin leafed Crypt. I have used root tablets primarily and occaisonally liquid fertilizers(less then the directions tell me)as I dont have a lateralite/flourite substrate but rather have gravel. I have found what looks like hair algae growing on the plants, primarily on my Anubias and a little bit on my Water Sprite that is planted, it covered enough of the leaves on a portion of Water Sprite that it killed a stalk. I have brushed off the algae from the Anubias with a soft bristle toothbrush because its very hard to remove otherwise. I would do the same to the Water Sprite but I would destroy the plant more so than anything else.
How can I either prevent the growth of the algae or get rid of it altogether?
