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Mine did well in a planted tank. But, personally I really think they need caves. Have 2 for each pair. 2 reasons. 1. Places for them to take a break from each other. 2. So they have a choice for where they want to spawn. Dither fish= any small and fast fish that are not aggressive. You could...

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About 5 weeks ago I set up a 5 gallon aquarium and let it cycle. I got the tank specifically for a betta. I added the betta 2 days ago and he's doing great! It will be a heavily planted tank soon. I have some plants in there now but im going to get more. The tank also has a large(for a 5 gal...

Yesterday I got 4 bunches of Glosso. They are all healthy and are not rotting. The bunches are about 3 inches tall. My question is: what is the best way to plant glosso? What are the ways that work best for you guys? Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

I dose ferts and put in root tabs so I think I could handle the swords. I more want to break line of sight. But ill put in enough plants that it would be difficult for the rams to get to the other side.

My lights are 2 6000k 24 watt plant bulbs.

I am getting a pair of electric blue rams and a pair of gold rams to go in my 30 gallon planted aquarium. I want to make a kind of wall in the middle so the pairs don't see each other. But I don't know what kind of plant to use for this. The only plants I can think of are amazon swords. Does...

I have EC over dirt. My plants do very well and I don't dose ferts very much. I have a feeling its more the dirt than the EC but I like the black substrate look.

Mine were too. I always got the impression that those fish were nice but not someone you would want to mess with. Hehe My local LFS sells these guys as babies and has a display tank with about 4-5 of them in there and other africans. All adult size and the labidochromis have actually bred and...

No smaller than 30 and try to get a taller tank because they are tall fish.

I have kept both apistos, rams and Africans. In my experience Africans are much more aggressive. Between rams and apistos I like rams more. Although I cant really say that for sure because im still trying to get my hands on some apistogramma Atahualpa. I am setting up a planted tank for a...

That's a big boy and a nice fish. I used to have 3 of these about 4 years ago but mine never got that big. How is the aggression from him? Do you have any others?

im having trouble getting him to eat now. he wont eat bloodworms, flakes or pellets. All of which he has eaten before. Does the formalin, salt or melafix make him not want to eat???

I put him in a quarantine tank today. I do 25 minute dips in a formalin solution then bring him back to the quarantine tank where I have aquarium salt and about 2 hours after that I put a dose of melafix into the tank. At first he was swimming really oddly and on his side but now he is...

Alright, so that might explain fin damage. But I haven't seen them nip at his fins even though I have been watching a lot. It doesn't explain the whitish film on parts of his body and fins though.