O.k., thank you!
I use osmosis water, also one catalpa leaf for each tank, elder cones ( I am learning to find out how many before the tank is really dark!), dried beech leaves.
In my tank which I’m preparing for my future Parosphromenos linkei I have done as I did usual with my tanks, about 8 mm fine gravel …. And I’ve read already, that that is rather unusual for Paro tanks….
Also I’m not used to “clean” my tanks all the time, I have in every tank shrimps and snakes, they do a good work.
Till now I newer had to manipulate much in my tanks, I respect too much the rest of
my animals 😉 …
Therefore it’s unusual for me to “clean” the tanks so often.
Also it’s unusual for me that you can obviously start a black water tank at once …. It’s a good opportunity if a additional Paro tank will be needed perhaps some day 😉
I change the water once a week 20 to 30 % with osmosis water.
That are the two things I am thinking of at the moment – a stable pH at low enough rate and the cleaning ( removing old leaves, old elder cones and so on ….)
I’m exercising already with my two Spaerichtys tanks, the fish seem to do well, but still they have got no fry … Perhaps they are still too young or I must get the pH more stable down… And obviously get a still lower conductivity, do you think so to?
At the moment I have got about pH 6,5, in Paro tank 50 conductance, in Spaerichtis tank about 190 conductance….