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Even in a high school microbiology course one would learn that the microbial load of liquid is significantly larger in comparison to that of a solid surface. When a material is in a solid state it offers a two dimensional plan for a colony to populate. A substance in a liquid state offers three...

Overstocking takes experience, an established tank and much better filtration then a simple cheap over the back filter. More and larger water changes don't work. The bacteria you're talking don't just hang around on surfaces they float in the water. So when you remove water you also remove...

You are talking about underwater gallery's cichlid stones That Pet Place Pet Supplies Search | ThatPetPlace.com They are kind of expensive, but they are awesome. This place has the bulk boxes the cheapest and you can sign up for their email coupons. The cichlid stone are light weight so rock...

I have a pair of kenyi. They used to live in my 75 gallon, and he was always starting promblems. I moved him over to my 150 and he settled down. So having a bigger tank helps with their attitude.

It is a Kenyi. It's still too little to tell, but if it is a male it will turn bright yellow. I hope you have a big tank and it's tank mates can handle living with him

I adopted an american cichlid tank from friends. It came with 2 severums and a jack dempsey x texas cichlid. The jack dempsey is pretty. They don't do much other then just hang out. To me they're kinda boring, but I"m used to my mbunas

The yellow with black vertical stripes is a Pseudotropheus crabro (bumbel bee) The speckled one is an OB of some sort. It doesn't have a fleshy upper lib so it's not a fuellborni. It may be a Metriaclima estherae OB (red zebra OB). It's hard to tell was colors are on it. The yellow one...

There are instructions on here for a really nifty DIY project explaining how to make the 3-D backgrounds caves and arches. It looks pretty easy.

When he settled down his stripes are a bit lighter. He is kinda purplish gray. His top fin is almost red.

I was browsing through craigslist looking for another tank for fry when I came across someone selling their 20 gallon aquarium set up. They just bought it from petco a couple months ago and kept having problems so they were selling it. The picture made it obvious as to why they were having so...

Ad Konings is the coauthor of the book im talking about. I'm trying my hardest to think of the name.

Jos Snoeks wrote a good book on taxonomy of malawi fish i forget the exact title but if you search him on amazon it should come up

Your little fish is a labidochromis caeruleus. If you break the word labid/o/chrom/is down it roughly means pertaining to lip color. All the fish in the genus are very colorful. They woul go well with your fish. It is a mbuna cichlid from the lake malawi. If you decide to keep him you should...

If you have a decent sized tank with a lot of places to hide he should be okay once hes settled into the big tank.

That is adding in same day shipping costs and traveling expenses. I'm also really picky about my fish.