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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...
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...
I can't believe the bad luck I am having with this species of fish :cry:.
Yesterday the male P.t. Lobe slaughtered the female. I found her with all her fins shredded.
They were getting along so well, she would follow him around like a puppy, they would swim together, each would do the...
I am down to two Apist. borellis in my 55 discus tank. One is definately a male, he has that steel blue coloration and the very long fins. The other I am not sure what sex it is. It is a muddy brown color, its fins are not long, and it is much smaller in size. They are both the same age, it...
I was up north shortly after Christmas and just "happened" :wink: to visit my favorite lfs in Salem, and they even had a pair of P. t. Lobes for sale! :D
Of course I had to purchase them to replace my deceased pair from the heater malfunction. I was afraid for the female because the male...
The more I study up on this species and see pictures of the different wild types, the more charmed I am with them and the more I want to own every species of them known to reside here in the U.S. I have not developed much of an attraction to any other Westie. Now that this thought has been in...
Half of the checkerboard fry have survived so far. They are so cute, the way they follow their mother. You can see their little checker patterns and they have big eyes just like the shocked emoticon 8O, :). It's cool, their papa stays close and is the first line of defense, he keeps his...
I recently ordered some anubias bangkok, what azgardens sent me was barteri. Now they are all rotting. At first they looked gorgeous, all four of them have begun to rot away, one is already gone, fell apart in my hands. The rhizomes and stems are turning grey and fungusy and smell bad. I...
Does anyone know if Seachem's Flourish Excell really does what it is advertised to do? Does it really add CO2 to the water for the plants? This sounds to good to be true. But, the Flourish products are a good line, so I wonder.
Once again, the checkerboard layed eggs two days ago and this morning they were broken open. But this time, I found where the mother stashed her babies! I got fry! I got fry! I got fry! :D :D :D
What do I do with them now? I have Liquifry and a net breeder on order and if Fedex ever...
So my plants have arrived and are floating in all my other freshwater tanks, I've sterilized the driftwood and gravel, I have every bucket and clean container filled with RO water waiting to go into the new breeder tank, and my gravel amendment and heater has yet to arrive. It was supposed to...
Today I spent quite some time watching my 50 gal tank. After all the fish realized I wasn't going to feed them, the smallest of my three A. boreli puffed up and started posturing towards the middle sized male. The blue and red markings on Small's face colored up brightly as Small backed up and...
Here is my delima: My freshwater tanks are all very low in pH, 6.5 or lower, and KH, 1-2. The lfs here do not lower their pH, 8.0 or above, and who knows what their KH is. I desperately need algae eaters. I prefer ottocinclus, which they usually have at one lfs or another. So how do I...
OK, this morning I took a look to see how the eggs of the checkerboards were doing and they were gone. Since I'm not sure how long the eggs incubate I figured they could have fungussed or she knew they were infertile so she ate them. But I looked a bit closer and there is what looks like egg...
My checkerboards spawned again! :D This time I was able to watch some of their mating rituals. First the female would shimmy over a leaf, then the male would shimmy over a leaf next to hers, then the female would gently nip the male's side and they would swim around a bit and do the shimmies...
I was up late searching for some pictures of different Pelvicachromis taeniatus and came across a picture of a Keinke Gold. And I thought the Lobe was a gorgeous variety! The online site said it is new to the aquarium trade, but does anyone know anything about this variety? Does anyone know...
I am wanting to hook up my diy CO2 injector to my planted tanks but the dKH is between 1 and 2 and the pH is 6.0 or lower. How do I hook up the injector without causing a pH crash? I use RO water and 1/4 tsp. of Seachem's Acid Buffer per 5 gal. newly added RO water. I have read about using...
I have three Checkerboard cichlids in my 55 gal discus tank. They are the filamentosas sp. One is an adult male, one is a juvy male who is just starting to color up and the other is a female. Yesterday the juvy male was picking on the female and the adult male staunchly defended her, but then...
My plant shipment came today and I am happy with their quality. I ordered for my 55 gal discus tank and my new 20 long P.t. tank.
For the discus tank I purchased four Echinodorus, three Red Rubins and one Jade Hormanii. I am so glad the representative suggested I pick the medium size...