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I don't know if it would help any but the last fish to die was a Demasoni who was bloated but was not eating and always either hiding behind the rocks or hiding by the filter intake or the heater. His breathing was very fast and he looked like he couldn't swim. He wasn't a pinecone so scale...

Is this the one that stains your tank? The blue one? That's how it was descibed to me anyway. I don't really mind. I'm sure the blue will fade over time.

That was the one thing, along with other info, that stuck with me from this site :) I have been using NLS Cichlid + NLS Cichlid Veggie from Day 1 :D I have been very impressed so far as colors and the fact that I'm not even finished the containers and it looks like I need to go to Medium...

Thank you for the replies guys :) I suspect bloat as well. From looking at photos of bloat, I recall that some had swollen bums, some were bloated and yes, the hiding and not eating were there. All my parameters are 0. My nitrates are a tad high due to it is water change day. But...

Hi all, I have a 90 gal rectangle Marineland tank that I have set up for African Malawi Cichlids. I also have(had) some Albino Red eye Haps and 2 Electric Blue haps as well. My tank is about a month old. I just moved everything from my 6 year old 55 gal to the new 90 so it went...

Darn it! :( Thank you :)

Ok, trying not to sound noobish, so what I more then likely have is 3 males and 1 female(although we can't count her out even though she has no yellow on her) But the other two females with the yellow tips are 99% sure male. Is it safe to say that definite females will never get yellow on...

That's a male. The fins never lie :) I've had this many times and they always turn male in the end. And might I add some of the biggest boys I've ever had like 8-9 inches!

My Dominant male is kind of a mustard yellow with almost black/brown bars. Are you saying he could actually be a she? My largest "Female" is very dominant and I think is trying to dethrone him so to speak. I was hoping they would breed :( But the yellow wasn't in the LFS. "She" got to my...

Ok so. I purchased 4 Kenyi. 1 yellow male and 3 females. He was the biggest male in the tank so I took him because he seemed to be a winner for dominance. I took the largest female because she seemed to be the winner for alpha female. When I got them home upon closer inspections, 2 of my...

I keep fish because I wanted to teach my girls about life and all the aspects of it. Convicts really gave them the whole baby fish experience. I keep africans now because I wanted to see their world. Way more interesting :) Also, I like playing Bruce Almighty when I walk to the tank glass :) LOL

This is ALWAYS the way it goes :)

Aw your welcome :) My family really does have a lot these horror stories. Now, thankfully our death rate is really low but our sides have been split many times. We still laugh at dad today when he wants to put like angelfish in with his RD or JD's. Thankfully my mom has the wallet :)

I have some from my 55 and my new 90 First the 55 Kids are so caring :) When my daughters were 4-5(they're 11mths apart so like to do things like twins, including ganging up on mommy ) They decided that the fish were hungry so they emptied my pellets into the tank. A big container 3/4 full...

Mine are still about 1-2.5 inches and have tasted them but spit it out and swam away. I don't think they like the leaves, but the roots are different story. My demasoni likes to do an "eat and run" as he swims by on occasion but it's always just a nip. I will keep an eye out. So far it's...

She is very pretty :) I'm not ready for them yet. I've read the stories ;) Lol

I learned something neat. Since I have Haps(meat) and Mbuna(veggie) I went and got NLS Regular and NLS Veggie. I mixed these in together and serve as one. The Haps only eat the regular and the Mbuna will eat the veggie pellets first and move to the reg pellets after. They know what they like :)

I realize this is an old thread but just had to comment :) I have raised convicts for 6 yrs before I switched to mbuna and let me tell you...convict fry are very, Very, VERY hardy. Even without their parents around I have had a 75% survival rate with a tank full of other convicts, JD's and...

I think it's funny the first in my life to buy plants and I get snails :)

I never went the live plant route with any of my tanks. It was always plastic. With my new Mbuna 90 I went and bit the bullet. I got a Cryp Spiralis(??SP) and and Amazon Sword. I also have a japanese moss ball, but I don't really consider that a plant per say. Anyways, I have read these...

I have a 90 gal and kind of dreading the thought of the number of bags I would need for it. Now, I have a Mbuna tank and if you all know, Mbuna's need lots of rock and the rock needs to be on the glass. So before I added my sand I 3/4 of my glass with rock work. So when I then calculated...

Thank you Emi. I'm going to clean my filter before I settle in for the night. Any tips on that so I don't loose my cycle?

Thank you Mike :) I add Prime on my PWC to apparently keep levels low. At least that's what the bottle says. I also used stability in the first 4 days but ran out. I'm not sure what purigen is though. I run a Rena xp3 which comes with a biobag instead of a carbon filter I think and my hubby...

Hi I guess I should update :) My numbers have been ammonia 0, nitrites 0 and nitrates 40-80 for the past 4 days. I ended up transferring most of my sand and filter media and all of my rocks over to my new tank on my 2nd to 3rd day. So after a week of going through what I found out was...

Ahhh...ok:) Too bad. I love the fins on it though:)