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does ANYONE have some idea of what may be wrong with him???

i have a male Aulonocara (sunshine peacock) that stopped eating about 3 days ago. he was eating one day, the next day he wasn't. i've only had him about a month. honestly, he's never been BIG eater, but he's always ate. he just quit eating out-of-the-blue. he seems fine otherwise. he "hangs-out"...

i was just fixing to say that. back when i was young, my dad put a redbreast he caught in our neighborhood pond in a 90g that we had. he had the whole thing to himself (except for a pleco). we had him for about a year. he was growing like crazy (we were hoping he would grow to be a state or...

i have a malawi cichlid tank. my tap water is soft and has a low ph. i've been experimenting with a diy buffer recipe (baking soda, epsom salt and non-iodized table salt). my gh is good now (16) but by the time i added enough baking soda to get my ph up to (8.4), it made my kh (27). from...

i think i have seen the "shake". it looks kinda like they are having a seizure. why do they do that??? i could tell right away that the plant uprooting was going to be a problem, so i took the little plastic bases off of mine and siliconed them to the back of a few of my rocks. atleast i...

interesting. one of the more aggressive fish in my tank is a female (blue/purple) kenyi. i didn't know it was a female until you just told me. the fish i referred to in my original post (that i had to return with 1 fin and 1/2 a tail) was a male (yellow) kenyi. the second i put him in the tank...

IDK. i had just heard and read that in several places. what do you think the ideal # of mbunas would be in a 75??? i would still do my water changes and vac the gravel once per week to get rid of the waste & nitrates. i've always thought the more filtration the better though, especially if...

i have 14 mbunas in a 75g. they are VERY aggressive / active. they are fun to watch, but the last few fish i added were immediately attacked. two were killed, the third, i took back out and returned to the per store with a fin missing and 1/2 a tail. i've been reading alot about aggression...

thanks for the reply. i like the wood too, but it's just too big. it's hard to tell from the picture, but it's huge. from end to end it's 25" and from front to back it's 15". i can't turn it any other way. i would like to lay it down, but it's over 1/2 the legnth of the tank, so there...

i love big hex tanks like that. a buddy of mine in college had one just like that. he had an oscar, a jack dempsey and a pleco in it. they all got pretty big and seemed to get along fine in there.

this stuff works wonders (WAY better than carbon, in my opinion). Seachem. Purigen

lol. i knew it. . . . . i'm going to break it down this weekend and try something different. i have more rocks. i may just do away with the wood all together, and add the rest of the rocks. does it stress the fish out badly to change around the aquascape once they have gotten use to it...

thanks, i may try that. i'm going to re-arrange it this weekend. something just doesn't look right about it. everyone that comes to my house goes on & on about how much they like it. i sit and stare at it constantly though, and the more i look at it, the less i like it. my girlfriend thinks...

i think the black/black looks awsome. i only wish i would have used sand instread of gravel. the black gravel fades pretty fast (or atleast mine did). it's more of a dark gray now, and doesn't look nearly as good.

it's been running about 6 weeks. i know the picture quality is pretty bad. i had to take it with my old cell phone (digi cam is broken, thanks to my daughter :(). i especially want yall's opinion on the piece of driftwood. i bought everything off craigs list. the tank, stank and canopy...

i've got ick in my 75g cichlid tank right now. i've been ising paragard. it's suppose to be really good. they say to treat for 14 days. after 3 days, all of the symptoms were gone. i kept using it like they said though. on day 12, two of my fish started showing signs of it again. i've...

so how many water changes & what % do you think would work best??? should i add some chemical filtration that will help get rid of the ammonia (white diamond, ect.) or leave it up to the bacteria???

the ammonia is killin' me. i can't get rid of it, no matter what i do. i have a 75g with 12 mixed cichlids in it. i have 2 emperor 400's (4 bio wheels) and the media containers are full of bio balls (nano balls/ 600 of them). the water has been in the tank 5 weeks and the fish have been in it 4...

so are you saying to treat each individual gallon jug of water with prime, or treat the tank with prime and then just dump the water in???

my tap water is heavily clorinated. when i do water changes, i use prime, but it still scares me knowing i'm dumping all those chemicals in there along with the water. i have a bunch of empty gallon jugs (that had drinking water in them). if i fill them up with tap water and let them sit in...

thanks for your reply. i was told that if you leave "expired" carbon in there, it releases the imputities it absorbed back out into the water. i plan to pack it pretty full of fish eventually, so i want to have as much good bacterie as i can.

i have a 75gal. cichlid tank. i run 2 emperor 400 filters. i've decided not to use carbon anymore and was wondering if filling the media containers with little bio balls or bio noodles or something like that would be beneficial. this may be totally stupid, but i was also wondering if it would...

thanks everyone. i went by walmart on my way home yesterday and got a big piece of poly-fill batting. it was like a 30 sq. ft. piece for $6. i cut 4 pieces the size of my media containers and sandwiched them in there. my water wasn't crystal clear this morning, but it could definately tell an...

that's why i was asking where you got it. i had read that you can get the same thing the pet store is gonna sell you far cheaper at a fabric shop or even walmart. what exactly did you ask for? do they call it polyfill? since i'm running 2 400's, i have 4 media containers. i was thinking of...

so you don't use carbon at all? where did you get your polyfill?