newbie_dave
Aquarium Advice Freak
I was looking earlier and I'm sure you can get what look like tea bags that you put in your tank and it leeches tanning into your water
interesting.. Could you just use a certain type if tea? Black tea perhaps? British fish?!?I was looking earlier and I'm sure you can get what look like tea bags that you put in your tank and it leeches tanning into your water
That's awesome! I will look for those at my fish store.
How did you get your tank to have the subdued lighting like that? Is the water darker from the leaf litter? I just ordered a piece of driftwood that's supposed to release tannins to make the water a little darker and more acidic like Amazonian water.
How oftern do you take them out and put new ones in?
Thanks everyone! The whole cichlid world is very new to me, so I appreciate the input! I'm guessing it will probably be a good month at least before I get them (need to cycle the tank and get other things established first) but I'll post an update later!
Thanks for the cardinal suggestion... I will probably go with those instead of neons, depending on what my lfs has.
Plans right now are to cycle the tank, introduce the cory cats, then the schooling fish (cardinals?), and then the apistos. Any other suggestions are welcome!
Apistogramma are definitely from South America. Africa has their own dwarf cichlid in the Pelvicachromis family. $8 for an Apisto seems like a pretty good price but I'd be sure that thats what you're actually buying. I have taken pictures at the store to go home and look it up just to be sure. They aren't always right, sometimes they're mislabeled. Who knows?