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I have an Albino Plecostomus that was sold to me as a bristlenose so I thought the max length would be 5 inches. When I look at bristlenose pictures elsewhere mine does not look like them. I got it in January and it was about 2 inches. Can someone help me with how big this will get so I can plan...

Was wondering if anyone can help me ID the sex of my green terror. I got in January when it was about an inch long and it is now 4-5 inches.

I currently have a 5 year old female convict cichlid who is dying. she quit eating about a week ago and with the help of my local fish stores I have tried everything to save her but they think she has dropsy. she is nose down and has been for 3 days. she has always been the only one in the tank...

I have a 5 year old female convict cichlid who every few months gets real fat and refuses to eat. She sulks around in her cave and puts her nose to the ground and loses her beautiful orange color. I am afraid to put a male in the tank with her first of all because I don't want 50 babies and...

The top picture is when we got her last July and the second picture was taken last week when she was digging a nest for her eggs. We love our McKayla.

I have been "playing" with my female convict this morning and notice that she picks at the film on the airline tubing in her tank. I assume it is algae of some sort and wondered if I should be giving her algae wafers or peas or something to supplement her boring hikari pellet diet. By playing...

I bought 2 mystery snails this weekend and didn't realize one of them was up at the top when I did the water change today. He has been floating around ever since and won't stay on the bottom. He is not dead because I dug out and put in a cup with water and he was moving around in there so I just...

Her stripes look less defined to me. ph 8.0 Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0 Nitrate 0 I used filter media from my other tank when I set up hers but nitrates still not showing. She gets 1 mini hikari cichlid pellet twice a day. She is very active and water clear but it seems her stripes are faded and...

How many times a day should I be feeding a 6 month old convict? Right now she is getting a Hikari carnivore pellet broke into 4 pieces twice daily.

I have 4 black molly's and 4 pictus cats in a tank. The molly's have been there since June but the cats we just got last weekend. My question is about the molly's. I have noticed a few times that one or two of them has white long poop. Last night one of them had reddish poop and this morning...

The lfs told me they were born in February in their store so that makes it 5-6 months old. The lfs also told me that male convicts are more colorful and t was too young to tell. I thought by the research that i did, that the females were more colorful. It has orange on its sides. Am I right in...

We just put an led air bubble curtain in our 46 gallon tank 14 inches long and I have to say it has given us the most entertainment! The molly's are seriously like a bunch of kids at a water park. They wait in line at one end of the tank, then swim through the bubbles at the back of the tank...

My husband thought the new convict tank needed kryptonite. It will have a green led under it. Hopefully building the tank this weekend so will post pictures.

I have some sort of algae in a 6 week old tank. Not sure where it came from or what I should really do about it. The research I have done tells me that it is possibly cyanobacteria. There is a patch on a rock and a patch in the sand. I tried to post a picture but it crashes every time...

I am trying to post a picture from my phone and it ceashes every time. I tried un installing the app and re-install but still crashes every time whether I try to post directly from camera or gallery.

So I keep seeing advice from people to put eggcrate? In a cichlid tank? We are thinking of using pea gravel. We found some really pretty stuff at Michaels but I don't know if it will be too big for the convict to enjoy digging and should I put something under it. Pictures or links would be mega...

Anyone have experience with convicts? I am looking at a 27gallon cube aquarium and want to put either 1 or 2 convicts in it. If I get 1, what else would be compatible? Thanks

2 down, 2 to go! I have an api master kit, ceramic tile, and fingers that don't cooperate ;-) I have broken 2 of the vials. One by dropping on my ceramic tile and one by trying to dry the inside. Can I try to find plastic tubes or will that interfere with the test results? Guess there is a...

I have 4 black molly's in a 46 gallon tank that is trying to cycle. Eventually we will be adding pictus catfish. My issue right now is that the molly's will not come out of hiding. When I first got them 4 weeks ago, they were pretty active. But now they act like scared little fish. pH 8.2...

Anyone had experience with either of these? Any success stories? Thinking about trying to see if these will help my fish-in cycle.

So I tried to post pictures but the application keeps crashing on me so I will just write this out. My tank ammonia reads almost 0.25. I say almost cuz the green tint is pretty light. In fact I was so unsure that I tested my tap in comparison. The tap has a little more yellow but not much. I am...

I added some flagstone to my tank to build caves. My pH runs high at 8.2. Can rocks raise pH? Anything I can add that will naturally lower it? I don't want to add chemicals.

Everyone always accuses me of cooking for an army (inherited from my grandmother cuz you never know who may show up. ;-)) so I need advice on how many peas approximately per molly. I just did a huge water change and I think I really stressed them out because they are all huddled on the bottom...

I have been doing daily water changes with my fish-in cycle and didn't think of this til today when my filter started sputtering. I think I must have emptied more than usual because the outflow just quit. Should I be shutting off the filter? How about the heater. Is that hard on it? I empty the...

I am cycling with 4 molly's in a 46 gallon tank. For 2 days now my ammonia has been sitting @ 0.25. It is my understanding that I have to have some ammonia in the water to produce the bacteria to cycle the tank. The rest of my parameters are pH 8.2, no2 always @ 0 (never been anything higher)...