Following the research done on keeping Rheoheros lentiginosus here, this thread serves as a blog/journal/diary/tracking of the setting up of an aquarium for this species of central american cichlid.
Parameter measurements are all done with API test kits, except for temperature which is measured with the Hanna Checktemp Digital Thermometer.
Full setup list, total cost: $899.11
Aquarium & Stand
Equipments and their Accessories
Aquarium Decorations and Substrate
Miscellaneous
My next four R. lentiginosus has arrived!
Packaging from CotA is great. Seems like they use methylene blue to help the fish during transport... I think. Not sure, just know that the water is blue. One of the bag was leaking water.
With these, I did not add the water in their bag to the tank... in hindsight, I probably should have not done that with the other four R. lentiginosus either. But anyways, too late. So I just cut the bags and scooped each fish into the tank.
We have a bit of an issue.
These are much larger than the other four, lol. They are not as active as the previous four, and lies on the substrate almost constantly - especially the one that was in the leaking bag. I am keeping an eye on them to see how they fair.
It's been about an hour and they are getting a bit more active, but yeah, still not great.
With that said, could also just be due to the length of transport. I estimate the previous four to have been transport maybe 18 hours max. The new ones, probably more like 30.
That concludes this thread. Next part continued here.