Recent content by john.hunter225

wow...about 24 hours later the giant danios are settled in now and swimming all over the mid-top levels of the water. There is a noticeable difference already. They are still somewhat skittish and run off when I move to/away from the tank sometimes, but when I just stand there and watch them...

Well no real change with the temp bumped up and the different food. I added 5 tiger barbs to try a different type of dither fish and my rainbow shark went crazy and chased them nonstop. Gave it a day to see if anything changes and had to take them out before they were chased to death. Guess...

Yeah all the fish will hide or run and hide not just the females.

They seem to be healthy, they just hide in the back and if there are any near the front they run off anytime I move to/away from my desk. They just swim around in the back and hide in the rocks or move around from rock to rock. Seems like half of them are just keeping an eye on me since the...

One idea I read someone else suggested was moving all the rocks back so they can still hid in the rocks but don't have room to just sit around openly in the back. I just moved all the rocks around 2 days ago so I'm going to hold off on another move for a least a week. Don't want to stress them...

No real loud noises ever really happen. Someone might occasionally pass by the tank (5 ft away) but that is it. No kids in the house. The male peacock will breed a lot, no problem with them doing that. Seems he is on a break or something now. The male hap is still small and just added him a few...

I've rearranged the tank 2-3 times now, once with more caves hiding spots, and now I have it with some big caves and hiding spots but more open space too. No one messes with the tank, I live with 3 other people and most the others aren't home or don't really go near the tank, and never mess...

Hi everyone. So hitting a brick wall right now and not sure what I can do even if there is anything I can do. I've had my cichlids for about 7 months now and they just hide behind my rocks almost all the time. They come out every morning when I turn on the lights and feed them but after that...

If its black beard algae I bought a 75g setup that had it all over the lace rocks, bottom around the glass, fake plants. I took them out used some hydrogen peroxide and scrubbed them with a bristle brush, scrapped stuff off glass, reduced the lights on for maybe 6 hours. Haven't seen any of it...

Thanks everyone a ton, this made my life a little easier! :dance:

Oh nice, I've looked at the jacobfreibergi before and didn't see the same color types but now I saw a few. Sweet. Now for the first big blue one its hard to get a good picture of him because he hides and swims a lot. Here two I got when he stopped for a second.

Its a light orange, definately not yellow. Appreciate the answers so far. :)

Hi there, Just got a 75g tank a while ago and been trying to get everything right so I can start a breeding group of cichlids. The tank came with a bunch of different fish and I'm still in the process of rehoming the ones I don't want. Now I'm trying to figure out what males I have left in the...

The guy I bought my setup from had them for a while in with other cichlids (malawi) and he had them in 7.0 ph with soft water. Ha that could be a big thing on why they haven't really grown. *sigh*

Yeah they seem to look like the Altolamprologus calvus (Chaitika) Just really small still. Thanks!