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My cichlids sink to the bottom and loose color. One of my yellow labs, nemo, sticks only his head into the fake plants and keeps the rest of his body out. I swear my eel never sleeps he just drapes himself over some fake ferns and looks like limp pasta.

OK thanks for the advice. What kind of sand should I use? Are fake plants ok? i've got a plastic hood with no holes(kinda eclipse style) but i also have 40 pounts of chem text book that i can put on it to keep them from moving out. Just out of curiousity, how big of a tank would I need for...

I just inherited a 10 gal tank from a friend of mine who just moved into a no pets dorm. I've had a crab tank before but without much success before (I was little and kitty thought escaping crabs were toys). I wanna do this right so I have a few questions: 1. Do I cycle? Is cycling the same...

I get the cubes bc that is all my lfs has. I use the bloodworms for my peacock eel and for a rare treat for my cichlids. For my eel I chop the cube into smaller pieces , grab a piece with some tweezers, and then put like half my arm into the fish tank so that he (my eel) can get the stuff out...

I don't know about quarenteen for shrimp. All the shrimp I have ever fed my animals were either sinking pellets or freeze dried krill (naughty treat for my cichlids). So far the only thing that seems to work for my eel are those blood worm cubes.

Lol I didn't buy them my mom went to a fish store at christmas and asked for gift ideas (she knew not to get fish but she didn't want to give me a gift card). I was skeptical but they do work well.

Well I have one on each of my tanks and they all seem to do a good job. Just make sure u get one that is right for your tank (some are for acryllic and some are for glass). I'm very happy with mine.

Just stopped by (not an easy place to get to from OSU campus). Beautiful fish! I wish I had the room for he/she in my dorm. I'm afraid my MTS will get worse if I keep catching "sales" I started this school year with 2 tanks of fish and I now have 7 with an 8th being set up. Thanks for the...

I have red Carribian ultra fine sand and as long as I don't dig through the gravel it doesn't get sucked up.

What size tank are you keeping them in? Many cichlids release an "anti growth" hormone in a tank to keep them from getting too big in an environment. I hope I'm eplaining this right. I had a yellow lab in a small tank for a while and he stopped growing but once he was in a larger tank he got...

Thanks for all the advice! I ended up with a ghost knife in a 60 gallon tank. My mom absolutely loves this thing...she calls it a feather fish and she is really interested in it which is rare because she isn't a big fish fan. I just saw a clown knife on national geographic and that thing was...

Bigger tank should be your first priority. I assume you are talking about a black ghost knife fish. They are also mildy electric (not like an eel but the generate a bit) and that can really irratate some fish. Knifes eat anything that can fit in their mouth given half a chance and so any tank...

Here in Ohio there have been a few cases of people catching big firebelly piranahas in rivers. People get them when they are 3 inches and kinda fun but they don't realize how big they get. On top of their size they need warm water to survive... my dad and I found one dead last fall (the first...

No nothing else is sticking out. The red pimple between his eyes is raised but the redness has disapated a bit this morning. The lfs said that Kanacyn was a good general med. Is there something better I could be using?

My yellow lab is sick. He's got a red welt right between his eyes (kinda looks like a pimple) and he keeps sinking to the bottom of the tank , resting on the gravel , and breathing really slowly. My water params are all great (all the other fish are fine) and he has been in a qt tank (10 gal)...

Well my eel is a bit picky. Frozen blood worms is all it will eat but I have convinced it to eat on my schedule (usually mid afternnoon). He's gotten less nocternal. He's about 4 inches long now and I still do the tweezer feedings. The worms float at the top so the tweezers are the best way...

I had the exact same problem. My little peacock is 3 inches long and was terribly shy when I first got him. Took me a few days but here is what I do: 1. Get some frozen blood worms 2. Mine come in cubes so I chop up the cube into pieces about the size of a bb. 3. Find a nice pair of tweezers...

I tottally agree with Enki. My first fw fish was an arowana that I got at my lfs when he was 3 inches long. I had him in a 20 gal for about 2 monthes before it was apparent that this thing was getting huge. Major tank busters. While I had mine I fed it frozen blood worms and crickets but I'm...

I did a little searching on the web. http://www.arowanas.com/ This seems to be a pretty comprehensive website. Oh and I do know that the Golden Arowana is sometimes called the Asian Arowana which might make searching easier. Wish I could be of more help.

yup that was the one I was talking about. I just saw their tanks and they were gross. Usually when I am in there I can't even see the tanks because the place is tiny and usually crowded with students. I went to Jacks yesterday and u were right they were better. Thanks for the suggestion...

Menagerie is bad? I haven't seen the fish tanks (place was pretty crowded) but the owner showed me pics of the fish they had. Thanks for the heads up I'll avoid it. I've only been in there to buy misc supplies not for fish yet. My friend ordered some fish from them and had them delivered and...

I am gonna wait a couple days to get some zebra danios (it's snowing here in Ohio). Lol this is my 6th tank (4 in my dorm). How many zebras can I get and keep the bio load on the medium level? My dorm has a fluorescent light and my tank came with one so the getting the things to glow isn't a...

This past Wednesday was my 20th birthday. Several of my friends decided to suprise me with a 10 gal tank w/ filter and fine pebble substrate. They knew enough to cycle the tank before dumping in my present...2 glo fish. Lol I have never expresssed an interest in them but being a Mol. Gen...

A wayward cricket found its way into my cichlid tank and Ozzy and Nemo inhaled the thing. My friend feeds her oscars crickets from the pet store and they go nuts for them. Just be careful about catching ones around the house. You never know what the cricket has been sprayed in or been roaming...

I agree with what some people have been saying. Cray fish can be kept with certain fish. The friend of mine with the blue crayfish now has it with some bigger Malawi cichlids and it keeps to itself and doesn't bother them. I think from what my new lfs says (they have been gr8 with advice)...