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Thanks everyone! I'm actually already cycled..I've been wondering about this for a while now and just kept forgetting to ask lol

Okay so any filter I've ever had has come with the filter of course which has the carbon in the pad...and a black square thing. I don't know what that's called. It's just this rough black square that has always come with every one of my fish filters. Well I got a new filter kit and it came with...

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Okay so I've never had to deal with bloat before so I need advice. His right side is swollen and he's laying on the bottom of the tank and not eating. I don't have a quarantine tank and don't have money for one right now... can I treat my whole tank for it? I had a 55 gallon tank btw.. I'm so...

Yeah I bought another fish from a Lfs last night that was blue then when I got him home he was white... Lol. Thanks everyone

Okay I just added some malawi cichlid ph buffer. It says it maintains a ph of 7.8-8.3 It said to add a teaspoon for every 10-20 gallons of water...that's not very specific so I put 4 teaspoons in..is that too much or too little? Should I be testing it with my api with the high ph range now? Do I...

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I just searched acei and yeah he look a lot like one. So I'm guessing thats what he is. They look identical.

You know honestly I don't know. I got him out of an "assorted african" tank. I know I know you're not suppose to. But I felt bad for him! Why would he be stressed? He seems happy and swims with the other fish and everything

Okay so I got a cichlid 3 days ago and he was dark blue with yellow fins. Now he's a light blue almost silver color. What would cause his color to change like that so fast? I feed my cichlids hikari or what ever it is. I only have 3 in my 55 gallon tank and just checked my water yesterday. No...

okay thanks! (: I was a little worried.

Okay I feel a little silly asking this considering I've had fish for years now...but I just noticed on tetras aquasafe it says it makes tap water safe for fish. It says it takes out chlorine and chloramine and toxic metals in tap water but it doesn't say anything about ammonia... or is that what...

I have a friend that has a 75 gallon fishtank and she has allll kinds of cichlids in there..She has red parrots mixed with africans mixed with god knows what lol.But her fish seem to get along and thrive as well

Okay well a red parrot cichlid is a mix between a south American and central American cichlid. So I thought you weren't suppose to mix them with African cichlids?

I didn't think you were suppose to mix regions though.