Recent content by mcalbreeze1

Shell dwellers I want to have a Yellow Lab so I understand I need to stick with the Lake Malawi fish. The shell dwellers sound interesting I would love to find out more about them, do you know a name of one of them?

I haven't decided on how many fish to get yet. However, the more I read the more convinced I am that I need more caves, so I may have to change the design I was going for. Thanks for your thoughts

I am starting a 55 gal tank African Cichlid tank. So far I have this great sand from Criba-Sea that says it is specifically for an african tank and has small shells mixed into the sand, so I am not so worried about it. The man at the store (sales only fish and supplies) told me that the...

Alga eater has a brown spot on his nose His behavior had changed in that I think he is more active which is probably due to the decrease in ich covering his body. I took a couple of pics, but they were not small enough to attach, so I changed my camera settings but he doesn't like the...

Alga eater has a brown spot on his nose Tonight I did my 25% water change and added more ich medicine. Then I noticed that the alga eater has a velvety brown spot over his nose. Doesn't appear to be raw or raised, just a light brown. Not sure if this has been there and I could'nt see it for...

You are right :) You are right, he is a male. The fin does meet at a point in the back! Mystery solved. And tonight he is eating and swimming around a lot more than yesterday, but still has ich all over. I will leave things alone for a couple of days. Thanks for your help and I will let...

The filter The filter was about a week old. Do you think that was too new and maybe removed too much of the med? :? You could be right about the gourami being male. He/she is all blue and has some very light red bands. Someone at the pet store said they thought it was female since it...

One more thing Thanks for the quick response. I took the carbon out of the filter, it was in the tank for about 3 hours. Do you think it would have removed too much of the medicine? I am planning on leaving the tank alone for three more days and then do a water change and add more medicine...

Our 30 gallon tank is about 2 months old. Finally we have the water levels on target. We have a continuing problem with ick! I have a algea eater, that has had ick for as long as we have had him. Last night I added 6 tbls of aquarium salt, 60 drops of ich cure with formalin and raised the...