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nonionayI've wanted a centerpiece fish for my tank for a while now. I decided a pair of rams was a good option. But when I was looking at a blue ram (a loverly fish, if I may say) this even more beautiful fish swam by. "What's that?" It was a chocolate killifish. I adore ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
csinman's golden wonder killi, but I didn't want one since dangit, I want to be different. (We both have tetras, a small pleco, and otos) But no, this guy was just too pretty to pass up. They came as a pair, male and female. As flashy as the male is, I really love the female. She's tiny and blandly brown save some white marks on her fins. She hovers at the top and doesn't do much else. She's discreet, smart and ladylike. Meanwhile, her husband's kind of a blustering idiot. Cannot find food when it's floating around his head.
He's been really restless since I got him home. To my dismay, he damaged one of my tetras. Mind you, this now makes the tetra cooler in my eyes, but it's not a fate I'd wish on anyone. The owner of the fish store gave me a polite lecture when I asked if I could return them. Even though my ammonia and nitrates are at zero, my pH is really low, and apparently this means there's a bunch of rotten sludge under my gravel, and quite possibly, this pH imbalance is pissing off my killifish. So I have hope, because I just might get through this, even though I have shame, because my tank is sludgy.
I learned cool stuff, too, like that the good bacteria colonies form in 3/4 inch circles along the glass, at 3/4 inch intervals, and if you run your finger along them, it should feel clean, and not greasy.
Lord Yeti* the killifish seems to have chilled a little, even without water changes, so maybe he's adjusting.
*Shut up, it's my co-worker's fault.
csinman's golden wonder killi, but I didn't want one since dangit, I want to be different. (We both have tetras, a small pleco, and otos) But no, this guy was just too pretty to pass up. They came as a pair, male and female. As flashy as the male is, I really love the female. She's tiny and blandly brown save some white marks on her fins. She hovers at the top and doesn't do much else. She's discreet, smart and ladylike. Meanwhile, her husband's kind of a blustering idiot. Cannot find food when it's floating around his head. He's been really restless since I got him home. To my dismay, he damaged one of my tetras. Mind you, this now makes the tetra cooler in my eyes, but it's not a fate I'd wish on anyone. The owner of the fish store gave me a polite lecture when I asked if I could return them. Even though my ammonia and nitrates are at zero, my pH is really low, and apparently this means there's a bunch of rotten sludge under my gravel, and quite possibly, this pH imbalance is pissing off my killifish. So I have hope, because I just might get through this, even though I have shame, because my tank is sludgy.
I learned cool stuff, too, like that the good bacteria colonies form in 3/4 inch circles along the glass, at 3/4 inch intervals, and if you run your finger along them, it should feel clean, and not greasy.
Lord Yeti* the killifish seems to have chilled a little, even without water changes, so maybe he's adjusting.
*Shut up, it's my co-worker's fault.
