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So my male and female convict cichlids recently spawned and the fry have been free swimming for 2 days. My wife and I removed the fry from the parent tank into their own tank to make it easier to keep up with them and raise them up. Since then, the male has been extremely aggressive towards her...

Ok, so April 26th, my wife and I noticed our female Black Convict Cichlid doing what looked to us like laying eggs. Every so often our male would go back to where we thought she was laying her eggs and do some Peculiar maneuvers, even turning completely upside down to face his stomach toward the...

I’m starting a shrimp tank and just wanted some input on best water parameters and anything else that may be useful in order to be successful at breeding shrimp. Going to go with a strain of Neocaridina shrimp, not sure exactly which one yet though. Leaning towards the Blue Fantasy shrimp...

So about a week and a half ago I noticed the water in my 45 gallon community tank was kind of cloudy(normally the water in all my tanks are crystal clear). Well the next day it was a little cloudier and more noticeable, and our school of 7 Tiger barbs were dead, well as our albino rainbow shark...

I have a 45 gallon community tank and usually when I just get close to the the tank they gather close to the surface in a frenzy thinking it’s lunch time! This morning I went to feed them and all 6 Tiger Barbs are huddled up together under a rock arch in the aquarium. The other species in the...

Is this a male convict? I was told at the store it was a Firemouth Cichlid!!

I went to the fish store yesterday looking to get 2 more cichlids for my cichlid tank and I’m new to keeping cichlids. Until yesterday I had only 1 black convict cichlid in a 40 Gallon tank I bought and set up about a month and a half ago as my cichlid tank. So I told the guy there, after...

I’m fairly new to being an aquarist and have been keeping fish for right at a year now. I understand the importance of water quality and recently noticed that my 29 gallon tank has an alkalinity(KH) of 0 ppm. I know that this could potentially be bad if I have an acid spike for whatever reason...