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Hello everybody,
I am extremely happy to have gotten three beautiful P. linkei of Dorothee’s breedings. it seems like they have already gained some colour. The male shows some fine dots on the fins.
I am incredibly grateful for Dorothee’s advises and explanations.
Pictures will follow tomorrow.Hi everybody,
The project gets real… I am looking fortwarfst to getting some p.linkei soon.
Now I am preparing the tank. I had an interesting conversation with my chemistry teacher and he gave me two sensors and a mainboard of the Pasco-Systems that is used in our School. Today, I testen some RO water and water from the tank for pH and EC.The results seem to be convenient. I have Measured RO water pH 6.98 EC 0 microsim/sec.
The has pH 5.02 EC 14
What Do you think about the Sensors and the recults? Does anyone know the Pascosystem? Are These good Sensors?Hello everybody,
As promised, I took some pictures of the tank…
Today, I collected some oak leaves. I was not sure wether I was already too late since most of the leaves must have fallen off the trees some weeks ago. I now have found two kinds of leaves. Some that were at the border of a forrest already on the ground, some a bit wet. I tried to get the ones that looked best, mostly dry and without big damages.
The others I found were still at a branch and are a bit smaller than the others. However, they were completely dry and fell off quite easily.I now dry them on the top of my large tank. How do you process your leaves? Can I simply put them into the tank or should I wash thom before or something else. Do you think they are OK for the tank even if some may have been on the ground for some weeks? I didnt take no rotten ones and tryed to get the rater “thick” ones…
Oooops I meant alder cones. Sorry, I’ve never known too much about botanics…
Ok, I’ll add more leaves to cover ti completely – Thanks!
Hello everyone,
I’ve been reading a lot the last days and now I set up my first parotank as follows:
So far, I got one of the two 25l tanks prepared with two clay tubes, two big Indian Almond leaves, some freely floating Microsorum, and 5 black beech cones. I used 100% deionized water (RO).
I will add some oak leaves when I get some.I have no sand or so in the tank. This should be ok, I think? Because I want to keep the tank as clean as possible…
At the moment, I measure the Ph once a day and see wether I will have to add further peat or not.
I’m extremely happy to have found someone who lives near Freiburg from whom I will get P.linkei soon.
I will post some pics later…
All the best,
RafaelThanks for the answers…
I’ve been using the “Seemndelbaumblätter” (Catappa leaves I think?) for my Betta coccina but always used peat as well. They seem to like it (50+ juveniles) Does it also work with Catappa or Oak only?
How deep is your Ph and how many liters per leave?
Do you put some in your fresh water for waterexchange as well?
Or how else do you keep the ph stable (I think if you only have leaves in the tank the ph will be unstable right after Waterexchanges?)So many questions…
Hello everybody,
A great 2015 to all of you. May all your wishes become true!
Thanks a lot for all your answers. I will defenitly read through the article section and the Methods Forum.
I’m looking forwards to the coming year…
@Peter: Thank you for those adresses. I will contact all of them.@Mark: Interesting idea.. I’ll have to look those up.
