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This past month I haven't had the time to do all the regular water changes on my discus tank as I normally do, I did maybe a quarter of them. Well, one of my chocolate gouramis got this infection above its eye. I almost thought it was a fungus, but there are some literatures that say what...
I know this is not cichlid related, but I know several of you folks have reefs and maybe, just maybe, you might know the answer to my delimma.
I have been struggling with red slime and hair algae for a year now. I can't figure it out. The tank is a 55 gallon with a 20 gal sump. I have a...
I can't help you with the pet store, but I drive that same distance to go to a store that carries the types of fish and coral I like. Luckily, I have family in that area so I make quite the trip of it. If it is a good store with good, healthy livestock, it is worth the trip. My cousin used to...
creaturemd,
A little over a year ago my planted discus tank fell victim to some bacterial disease. I tried everything I could think of in the line of meds that would also be safe for the plants. NOTHING was working and I lost three of my most beloved discus and two of my cobalts started to...
Big Ed,
Sometime the parents aren't successfull with the first few spawnings. It is also easy for the eggs to fungus. Make sure the parents are comfy, water perams are right and they usually get it right. Good luck.
Out of all the online forums I have visited and joined, this is the only one I have stayed with. It seems that no matter what the other forums are about, even specialized ones, the posters can get rude towards one another. This place is so tolerant and encouraging of all peoples, something...
Hornwort, that is also what I have seen it named. One of the clumps that I moved has completely dissentegrated into a collapsed heap. The other is dissentegrating a bit slower, but I believe it is a lost cause. Everything I have ever read about this plant indicates that it is hardy, but it...
My ten gal pygmy gourami tank was overidden with foxtail, I don't know what species this is but it looks like a rugged, thinner version of cabomba that is multibranched. This plant completely filled up the top ten inches of water, I pulled out five beautiful, large clumps of the stuff and...
Get yourself several true Siamese algae eaters (SAE), they really do eat hair algae. They don't get as irksome as many of the other Asian algae eaters. Some folks like female(?) flag fish as hair algae eaters, I've not had the opportunity to try them.
Ghazanfar's suggestion about cramming...
Welcome to the world of D. filamentosa! These are some of my favorite dwarf cichlids. RO water is safer for the fish if you are adding it straight to the tank. If you do decide to use distilled, mix it with equal parts of tank water first or use a reconstituting product like RO Right-there...
I like that water mixture plan, tjudy. That would make mixing to the right pH a whole lot easier.
I use straight RO in my tanks if I am just topping off which can often be as much as seven gallons in my 55 gal discus tank. RO water is "considered" pure, but as soon as it comes into...
You're right Colin, tetras are very efficient feeders, I agree with you about their safety as dithers. That is one reason why I have held off on them as a dither in where there may be fry. Many species eat their own eggs and fry if given the chance. The smallest fish can be a feirce predator...
Anabatids are very effective in the removal of hydras and other pesties that come on plants. Bettas are often used for this purpose, but I fear that your fry will fall prey to a betta as well. There are three species of the croaking gourami that Cichlids1 recommended. The Vitatus, which is a...
Dear Chris,
I've not had that experience, but that doesn't mean that others haven't. The key here is to have a compatible pair. Surely age, size and stage of development come into play. So long as both male and female are appropriately sized for their age and are in synch where sexual...
Yeah, that is what I thought. For those of you wondering what a sneaker male is, he is a male that waits on the sideline. He doesn't want to risk confrontation with the dominant male so he doesn't seem to mature fully. But if the dominant male should lose his power, the sneaker male will dive...
Randall,
They were in a 20 long tank that is bordering on heavily planted with several anubias sp, bolbitus, and water onions, driftwood, and an upturned flower pot. I will add more driftwood and a cocunut half or another pot. There is one otto cat.
The temp is between 79 and 80...
Neil,
The smaller borelli does not have a black leading edge on the ventral fin, the dorsal fin isn't as long as the obvious male's, but it does have the turquoise freckles on the face that the male does have. There is one thing I just spotted that I hadn't noticed before, there are little...