Recent content by Sistill

I agree, but I have had success with removing the eggs, I may have been lucky, all good points though.

I would still turn your lights of as normal, fish need the light cycled to recreate the wild. I have a blue moonlight on 24hours a day, it gives a blue glow through the night. Cribs are good parents but in a community tank the fry will start disappearing, the best thing to do is find where she...

I thought that, they are not new and I see no obvious sign of bullying, and trust me I have been watching.

Yes defiantly I hand picked them, even if I did have two, why are my other fish dull!!

I only have one male in there with a couple of females so he should be showing

Hi, recently some of my fish have lost there colour, my cobalt blue is vibrant and colourful so are my yellow labs and Afras, but other fish like red Rubin, then you got my pseudotropheus williamsi, pseudotropheus polit are not, they are almost grey in colour, the water is good,temperature ok...

Male labs tend to stain up when they are super dominant, I bet the leader of the lab pack

Ok will get another net, good tips thank you to all

Tried that when I did my last water change, as soon as I stick my net in they hide. They have got another few days of trying before I start taking rocks out!!. It's a cobalt blue zebra, red top afra and a lab that are holding so I am lambing on stripping them into my fry tank together.

Ok, thank you I will stick my filter outlets higher tonight and put an air stone in to creat surface movement.

Any tips on catching holding fish would be gratefully received, apart from stripping the tank down I have run out of ideas and patience!!!

Fellow African cichlid keepers in the uk, are you having issues with water temperature at the moment?. My water is 28.5 so I am icing it and keeping lights off, any other tips would be cool.

The lower fins on a male yellow lab have black edges

My fish sleep among the rocks!! Would never work for me lol

I have had two spit in tank, and had three survive from each batch, it's natures way, they only problem I can see is potential in breeding