Any advice would be very much appreciated.
I have a common bristlenose in a 95L tank. There is a fine gravel, lots of bog wood and some slate caves. The tank is planted with java fern, water wisteria, amazon sword and elodia.
The plec shares the tank with a few mixed platies and 6 julii cory.
The water in the tank is: Ph7.2, Gh8, ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate 20, temp 25-6.
I feed with tetra plec pellets, king british algae wafers, cucumber, courgette an occasional tetra shrimp pellet and the odd frozem blood worm (not all at the same time).
The tank is filtered with an eheim pickup 160 and also a hob filter. I also do 20% weekly water changes.
The worry I have is that over the last few days the bn has been trying to climb out, his whole body has been out of the water and I am worried that he could climb out of a small hole in the back of the lid. The tank and bn have been there for over a year now and I have never seen him try this before.
Sorry for the long winded post but any ideas as to why this might be happening would be most welcome.
Forgot to mention that there is also ayoung L187b plec in there too but they have both been living happily together for 4 months now.
I have a common bristlenose in a 95L tank. There is a fine gravel, lots of bog wood and some slate caves. The tank is planted with java fern, water wisteria, amazon sword and elodia.
The plec shares the tank with a few mixed platies and 6 julii cory.
The water in the tank is: Ph7.2, Gh8, ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate 20, temp 25-6.
I feed with tetra plec pellets, king british algae wafers, cucumber, courgette an occasional tetra shrimp pellet and the odd frozem blood worm (not all at the same time).
The tank is filtered with an eheim pickup 160 and also a hob filter. I also do 20% weekly water changes.
The worry I have is that over the last few days the bn has been trying to climb out, his whole body has been out of the water and I am worried that he could climb out of a small hole in the back of the lid. The tank and bn have been there for over a year now and I have never seen him try this before.
Sorry for the long winded post but any ideas as to why this might be happening would be most welcome.
Forgot to mention that there is also ayoung L187b plec in there too but they have both been living happily together for 4 months now.
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