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My 55g is currently very over-crowded due to an unexpected and successful mating of my two jewel cichlids. My tank went from 14 fish to about 50 and I have been doing water changes every 2 to 3 days (about 30 to 50%) for weeks now. Apparently this was not enough because my male jewel became...

I have some disease issues cropping up in my tank. I am going to treat with Maracyn II and Coppersafe. I know I'm supposed to remove the carbon from my tank but not sure how to do that. I have a Penquin Biowheel 150 and Penguin Biowheel 200 running on this 55g tank. I use the corresponding...

I have a male and female jewel cichlid who just had their first batch of fry about two weeks ago. They are amazing parents and I have been so impressed with their parenting. My dilemma now is I'm not one to let the babies get eaten so I'm taking on the responsibility of raising them (and...

My jewels just had babies about two days ago. I think they'll be up and swimming freely by tomorrow or so. I think I would like to try and raise them if it's not going to be too expensive or difficult to do so. I do have another 26g tank out in the garage. I have a heater for it, but no...

My pair of jewels has just hatched their first batch of fry. I think it's wonderful and cute, however, I don't want my 55g community tank to turn into a baby factory. I'm considering giving away the female to stop this, but was wondering, will the jewel do alright by himself in the tank, as the...

I have two jewels in my 55g community tank. I've been wondering since I got them (3 weeks ago) what sexes I had. This morning, I discovered that they are both watching over a batch of eggs that they laid on a rock. I have heard that the white eggs are the unfertilized ones. All of the eggs I...

I'm pretty new to this hobby and was told from a lfs employee to always add conditioning salt to any water I put in my tank. I am still doing this with every water change, once a week, along with dechlorinator. Since I've had no cycling issues and no fish loss, I'm afraid to change what I'm...

I just got two peacock cichlids from lfs. They are both various shades of brown, not much color at all. One of them does seem to have some orange above his eyes and around his face. I'm wondering, do cichlids "color up" as they mature, maybe mine are younger? They are about 2 1/2 inches...

I have a new 55gal set up for about two weeks now. I transferred everything over (gravel, filter, fish, decors, etc.) and my tank doesn't seem like it's going to cycle again, thank God! But since I've only been at this hobby for about 8 months, I was wondering two things. One, I do a 10 to...

I've been bitten by the "fish bug" and have decided to upgrade my 26 gal to a 55 gal tank. I started with a 5 gal about six months ago so I've been doing all of this pretty quickly. I was very successful when I upgraded my 5 gal to the 26 gal. in January. I moved over most of the old...

One tiger barb has one of her ventral fins completely missing, all of it. I am starting to wonder if she is just "deformed." I got her from LFS about a week ago and never really noticed it. I have her in separate tank in case the others caused it and were picking on her. She seems totally...

I recently added 3 albino tiger barbs to my 22 gal tank to join the 3 regular tiger barbs already living there (only 6 fish in the tank). Water levels seem great, no ammonia, no nitrites. Everyone was getting along fine for the first few days. One evening I was watching TV and the fishes were...

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