‘ello all! I have good news, and I have bad news. The bad news…only a few days after a 40% water change, and the total ammonia is back to 1 ml/l 🙁 Still not 100% sure why, but it’s possible that when I was giving microworms to this tank, I was giving a lot more than I thought I was…only gave microworms once since the last water change, so not 100% sure this is the sole cause, but it’s worth a shot…
On the upside, in spite of my very stupid newb mistakes (water with significant hardness, excess nutrients, etc), my paros are doing fine…in fact, I caught the male trying to court one of the females a matter of minutes ago, and she was paling a bit…maybe she was considering it seriously? I don’t think I will succeed in spawning these fishes until I fix the goofed water parameters, though.