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Bartian,
The pH is not that low for long, and the tank they are in is pH 4 – 5.2, temp 77F, 70 ppm TDS. These conditions seems to make them happy and they propogate.
Hi,
Not to hijack the blackworm topic, but with such small fish, why not focus on a sustainable live food like grindal worms which are far more size appripriate and easier to keep then blackworms?
On the blackworm topic, I keep small filter media bags of peat genules in my blackwater tanks. In my L183 tank I had fed some blackworms several months ago. Appearenlty some of the blackworms made it to the filter media bags and took up residence. The end result was a breeding colony of blackworms that the fish would graze on , but not deplete.
Here’s a pic of them
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Hi,
I’m a US fish keeper and first time poster here. I keep a handful of blackwater species, and here’s how I prepare my water. I use a Brute 32 gallon trashcan (it sits on coasters so I can movie it around the fishroom), toss in a couple large filter media bags full of Sera Superpeat granules (Fluval peat didn’t seem to get the pH as low as Sera) and reconstitute the water a small bit with Kent RO Right up to about 60 ppm TDS. The pH in the trashcan after a few days is around 5.2. I keep 1 to 2 small filter media bags of peat in the blackwater tanks themselves. When I do weekly water changes, I check the tanks and the pH has continued to drop to around 4.5 or so. This method would work well with a 5 gallon bucket or any other size container as well.
Steve
