Recent content by kuhlizach93

I've seen them dig and rearrange the sand plenty of times. This flashing is happening on the rocks I have in the tank. Thanks for the advice though mikem691!!!!

so I have a 10gal tank with seven shell dwelling chichlids (neolampralogus multifaciatius) and I've been noticing some very odd behavior. I had just recently lost one of my cichlids and could not find him for two days. in that time period I had a huge ammonia and nitrate/nitrite spike. in about...

so I have a 10 gal. with seven shell dwelling cichlids. I had just recently lost one and it took a while to find it. my ammonia and nitrate/nitrite spiked like crazy. they are all feeding fine, the water quality is good, and their all swimming and digging happily. however, two of them have...

Thanks everyone! And my local craft store sells escargot shells so I will be definitely picking some up. But are there any other tank requirements they would need? I know about the high pH and the hard water, but is there anything else that I'm missing?

I am interested in starting a 10 gal Shellie tank. So far what I have in the tank is white aragonite sand, a small power head, a small but powerful air stone, a heater and a HOB 10-20 gal aqueon filter. Plus a few lava rock with java fern attached to it for aquascaping. My tank is still cycling...