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I just bought a firemouth to add to my 90 gallon currently I had a jack dempsey and a Vieja Argentea both are between 5 and 6 inches the firemouth is a little smaller but they seem ok together the argentea picks on the firemouth a little but I am going to make some more hiding spots in the tank...

Should the whole tank be treated or use a syringe like you had said and is this going to have to be done daily ? What does the excel really do when it's added to the tank ?

No I have not measured my phosphate levels I have to buy the kit. last week when I tested my water my nitrate was about 20 ppm I will check it tomorrow and see if it has changed the algae just was there one day never saw it and then it's all over the wood . Where can I buy the excel and will it...

I maybe have the lights on 4 hours but not everyday and the room it's in I shut all the blinds cause I thought it was from sun light that was the main light source but it was not direct as far as water flow I have a aqua clear 110 and a fluval 405 the beard algae is growing on the drift wood...

I have a 90 cichlid tank set up that has developed beard algae on the drift wood in the tank it seems to be getting worse everyday and I don't know what to due I have put phosphate pads in my filters cut all the lights in the room and its still growing. Should I remove the wood from the tank and...

Here is another pic it's sorta hard to see

Pic of the drift wood

Here is a pic of what I'm dealing with not the best pic

I'm doing about a 25-30 percent water change on a 90 gallon weekly ,all levels are fine and I'm using the tank light maybe 4 hours a day rest is just the natural light in the room but its not direct sunlight feeding everyday once a day pellets or frozen blood worms and everything is eatin ...

Wood has been in the tank since November and I soaked it for almost a month before putting it in the tank

I have two big pieces of drift wood in my tank and today I noticed that the one piece has what looks like brown hair growing on it I have never seen this before and it was not their yesterday . Is this something I should worry about ? or is this a normal thing when you have drift wood

I should of went with the 125 instead of the 90 but I got a good deal on it. I wanted to get something different but I don't want to have any problems wit my other fish between a convict, fire mouth ,and another jack, what would be the best choice ?

Would a fire mouth work being that its doesn't get that big?

I think I'm leaning toward a green terror or a Texas

I bought a green severum had it for about two and a half weeks and started to notice that my other fish looked like they had ich that turned into some type of fungal infection tried to qt them and medicate long story short I lost all of them but my jd

Is there any other rare cichlids that you normally don't see ? I have a really good store I started using that has green terrors from Ecuador from the wild they didn't have any when I was there but I heard the colors on them are amazing.

I was told that a flower horn or midas has to be kept alone because they get really nasty

I recently lost all of my fish except my jd and just got a Vieja argentea i would like to add at least one more if not two fish but am undecided on what else I can put with my current fish i was thinking about a green terror or a fire mouth does anyone have any suggestions on these or any other...

I just lost three of my fish due to ich and some other sickness I have a texas that has been hanging on for the past week but he isnt getting any better and will not eat. At first it looked like ich on all my fish like grains of salt then they started getting cloudy eyes and a white slim on them...

just got back home from the fish store with some meds and my african did not make it My sevrem isnt looking good should i put him in another tank and treat him or should i trat the whole tank ?

just did a water change and i think that maybe my african chilid has velvet he has a white film on him cloudy eyes and is breathing very hard not acting right at all my sevrem also has the breathing symptoms and the cloudy eyes both will not eat i think i am going to try to put each in a 10...

I have been slowly rasing the temp up im my tank im almost at 86 but my fish seem to have gotten worse the ich is all over them and now a few of them have cloudy eyes and my sevrem is staying at the top of the tank i have 2 air stones running does anyone have any help for me? really dont want...

sounds good i am going to start to raise my temp I have a jack dempsey,texas chiclid,one african chclid ,a blood parrot, and green sevrem can these fish take the higer water temp of 86 and above? what is the ideal temp to kill the ich at? also i just bought an aqueon water changer to do both of...

should i add salt everyday to the tank ?

I just noticed today that both my blood parrot and texas chcilid have what looks to be ich 2 weeks ago i added a green severum which looked to be very healthy so i dont know if he had it or is it just a fluke thing that happened i do 40% water changes weekley and all my readings are good . I...