College the Wood Shrimp, aka Bamboo shrimp, aka Atyopsis moluccensis, changes her habits, and Fish give birth
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effect into different parameters, but I was able to salvage 11IB. 09IB
has produced daphnia, seemingly out of nowhere. Allowing the
concatenation plot to age rather than reprocess, finds other critters
it seems.
College has changes her behavior for about two weeks. She appears
slightly more reddish, and away from her regular feeding post situated
in front of the outlet stream. I have concerns, as she doesn't eat as
much, and much of the time posted under the wood instead. A new test
kit has been employed, a more extenstive kit reading some of the
previous water quality indicators of the last kit, comparatively of
same ranges, but now suited with additional indicators...things read
kosher. It may be due to a lower rotifer level vs diatom level, or
maybe now that she is an adult she consumes less -- I am just not sure.
As always, anyone want to chime in, feel free.
The new occupance, a band of mosquito fish, have fit into Tank Two to
my satisfaction. One female gave birth to two fish, little, little
things -- mostly eyes and tail. That female did die after jumping out
of the hospital, hence becoming cat food. Another female, also gave
birth last night, and my observations have noticed two more. The other
fish will chase them when they emerge into open water, but mostly they
keep to the rocks and under the plants, a place where the adult fish
don't loiter.
Now that the weather is cooler, I have to apply more heat to keep the
temperature at 25c, but I allow it to drop to about 21 and remain there
for longer periods.
Present parameters; Tank Two is a 30 gallon tank holding about 24
gallons of fresh water, pH 7.6 and stable. Four drops of Iodine added
this week. 30% water change two weeks ago. Carbonate hardness of 2.5
and, water temp 25.5C during the day dropping to 21C during night.
Low levels of nitrate, stable. Daphnia population exhausted in T2,
but some developed in 09IB. Blood worms population exhausted. Hydra
population small and growing population. Common water Snails small and
now growing. Cyclops population small and stable. Java ferns (4)
stopped growing, doing poorly. Java moss (four bunches)
stable and stopped growing. Amazon swords (2) flora stable and
growing. Lotus (1) flora stable and rapidly growing. Sagittaria
subulata, spreading -- now nineteen plants. UnID "I" worms population
small and stable. The Atyopsis moluccensis (College) about is about
5.75 centimeters in length.
"That is all."