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I was just doing my weekly checking of the water parameters for my 55g cichlid tank. I was using the API strip test. Everything was in check except for the PH, which is showing up at less than 6.0. So I broke out my API test tube pH kit... and the test is reading at 7.6! What could make my...

I picked up two keyhole cichlids from someone about a week ago. I noticed right away that one of them was extremely fat. I didn't think much of it because it was obvious the person I was getting them from wasn't a very good cichlid keeper. They were put into my tank with two severums and were...

Have two 6" green severums in a 55g. I got them from someone keeping them in a community cichlid tank and said he never noticed them breeding and wasn't sure if they were a breeding pair. He assumed it was because they were in a community tank. They've settled in nicely in my tank and have...

I have an established 10g FW tank with an UGF. I would like to convert this tank to a brackish water for one puffer. My question is will an UGF work if I'm using gravel and not sand? Also, if I switch to a HOB filter, should I keep the two running simultaneously until the HOB is established? Or...

Hi! I have a 20 gallon with two male swordtails and two female swordtails. I know you're supposed to keep more females than males, but a friend needed to get rid of them due to a leaking tank and I took the males in. They grew up in my tank and they were fine. Now as mature males one has become...