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I've noticed a marked increase in nitrates when feeding live black worms or frozen blood worms in in my tanks, which are all planted. Perhaps it's just feeding more than I would when I feed dry foods, which I can't know because I don't weigh the foods though I do try to do a similar volume each...

Aren't chocolate cichlids uaru? I was under the impression they're meant to be kept as pairs or in groups and won't be happy without any conspecifics.

Yes, you need to remove the tropheus. They should be in a group, that stocking is entirely incompatible (it may be young and not causing problems yet but rest assured it will), they require different parameters, and 200L is too small for even a tropheus species tank. I wonder how that ended up...

And to update I guess super luckily just happened to catch them doing what I'm 99% sure was spawning this morning in a depression they dug out under a rock (I was able to see both of their tail fins right next to each other moving together in such a way I've never seen before for a sustained...

interesting thanks, so perhaps their continued toleration of each other is evidence of a pair. just this afternoon I caught them together under a small cave they'd dug out from under a flat rock.

Hi, so I think I messed up trying to get a pair of these julis. I started with 4, one got cornered and rejected from the groups and banished from the rocks minutes after putting them in. This lasted about a week but the rejected one was just getting chased some if he came too close so I kind of...

why do you think you shouldn't add them all at once? Assuming it's freshly cycled and handling 4ppm of ammonia in 12 hours, you're perfectly good to put them all in at once and that's probably the best thing to do with regards to aggression and preventing some from establishing territories and...

I feel like with this lake, the most interesting thing is the social behavior, which you'll miss out on with singles. At the very least I would avoid anything that enjoys the company of others. No brichardi complex, no cyprichromis, no shellies, no frontosa (kidding, but you never know what the...