Recent content by ditosdad

Good advice! I will check into some cichlid salt, if not then won't use any!

Just wanted to know if and how much aquarium salt would be ok to add to an African Cichlid aquarium? Its a 40 gal tank by the way!

I just rehomed the convict to a friends. We came to the colclusion that it was very stressed and a little beat up. It sucks but I think it will be better off now. They all started out great together. The other 3 are still the same and doing great!

That could be but I havnt seen anything. The convict is the boss of the jack and bumblebee. The oscar is getting along real good with the others unless something happened that I didnt see.

I have a convict cichlid, jack dempsey, bumblebee and a tiger oscar. Everything was great at first all with lots of energy. The last week or so the convict has been in its shelter spot and not comming out. It just kind of stays at the bottom with no life almost. It appears to be gasping with the...

Yes, the outside of the glass. Thanks for the compliment!

My Oscar seems to change shades based on its mood I guess? Is that right? From shades of grayish to almost black. When black its got stripes of the lighter shade going vertical. Also can the sex be told by these pics?

I was doing the fishless cycle for dummies and at week 4 the ammonia levels were still at 3-4 ppm the nitrites hit a wall at 1 ppm. so at week 5 I did a huge water change to get rid of the ammonia then added fish. I have been monitoring very close and you know the rest!

Thats good advice. So if I do a 50% pwc daily, will the tank start to sustain itself?

I sprayed the back of the glass first with a very light coat of white stone finish spray paint then second it with a flat black spray. I think it turned out pretty good!

Hope that makes sense!

Well, first after I do a pwc the fish seem revived like fresh oxygen has been given with the aqueon water vac. Also not sure if this has to do with oxygen levels but I did a pwc on Fri and the ammonia levels were up again today so I did another pwc.

How could I tell if there is enough oxygen getting through?

I have a 40 gal freshwater tank and a marineland emperor 400 power filter running it. I wanted to know if my tank is getting enough oxygen through it and if not whats the best way to do so? Would a power head do the trick?

I know exactly what you are talking about. The reef capable are more than double the lumens than the double bright system, so my point is the reef capable system will be bright enough for a reef tank depending the size of the light because marineland makes different sizes. Check it out...