Hannibal the Bichir
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- Jan 15, 2012
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Good day everyone,
I have a few questions today, if anyone could help me out that would be great.
First off, I redid my entire tank. I originally had gravel mixed with aragonite and it acted like a home for diatoms. I sifted the aragonite out and I think it turned out pretty well.
Questions-
1. What is the best way to remove sand from your rocks, without moving the rocks? Im thinking like a turkey baster to expell water and hopefully move the sand from the rocks.
2. I have a young yellow lab, wondering if it is male or female. I know the difference but at this age, he has a solid black dorsal but no black on his pectoral (I cant remember fin names) fins yet.
3. I think you can judge by the pictures I will post, but originally the aragonite/gravel mix was around 4" deep. Now with just the aragonite its around 1-2". Thinking about getting another bag.
4. Originally I had the tank established with- peacocks, demasoni, labs, venustrus, cichlids and a couple other pretty colorful ones. Long story short breaker got flipped and airators shut off. Anyway, most of them died. Was left with about 3 female peacocks and a pleco. I tried to restock, but ended up only going to my lfs once and petsmart multiple times on a restricted budget. The current stock is pretty packed-
3 yellow labs
5 female/juvenile sunshine peacocks
1 male Aulonocara jacobfreibergi-male
1 pleco
1, I believe its a very faded demasoni (pic will be posted)
1 red blotch zebra (mate disappeared last night)
1 unidentified african (big black one)
1 salvini
1 acei cichlid
I am willing to trade some of them to make room. I was looking for more of a vibrant color palatte without going into a male only tank. I wanted to keep the lab and peacock colony if possible. What suggestions would you have to add color. I was thinking the electric blue johanni, even though their agressive. I saw a pretty timid one, even with smaller tankmates. Maybe, I would get another venustrus. The main show pieces are the salvini, acei, male peacock, and lab colony at the moment.
Tank-
55 gallon
2-75 Hob filters
Nitrate and Nitrite levels will provide if needed, as well as ph etc.
Sorry ffor the overwhelming nature of this post. I thought I better get all my questions answered by the best of the best.
I have a few questions today, if anyone could help me out that would be great.
First off, I redid my entire tank. I originally had gravel mixed with aragonite and it acted like a home for diatoms. I sifted the aragonite out and I think it turned out pretty well.
Questions-
1. What is the best way to remove sand from your rocks, without moving the rocks? Im thinking like a turkey baster to expell water and hopefully move the sand from the rocks.
2. I have a young yellow lab, wondering if it is male or female. I know the difference but at this age, he has a solid black dorsal but no black on his pectoral (I cant remember fin names) fins yet.
3. I think you can judge by the pictures I will post, but originally the aragonite/gravel mix was around 4" deep. Now with just the aragonite its around 1-2". Thinking about getting another bag.
4. Originally I had the tank established with- peacocks, demasoni, labs, venustrus, cichlids and a couple other pretty colorful ones. Long story short breaker got flipped and airators shut off. Anyway, most of them died. Was left with about 3 female peacocks and a pleco. I tried to restock, but ended up only going to my lfs once and petsmart multiple times on a restricted budget. The current stock is pretty packed-
3 yellow labs
5 female/juvenile sunshine peacocks
1 male Aulonocara jacobfreibergi-male
1 pleco
1, I believe its a very faded demasoni (pic will be posted)
1 red blotch zebra (mate disappeared last night)
1 unidentified african (big black one)
1 salvini
1 acei cichlid
I am willing to trade some of them to make room. I was looking for more of a vibrant color palatte without going into a male only tank. I wanted to keep the lab and peacock colony if possible. What suggestions would you have to add color. I was thinking the electric blue johanni, even though their agressive. I saw a pretty timid one, even with smaller tankmates. Maybe, I would get another venustrus. The main show pieces are the salvini, acei, male peacock, and lab colony at the moment.
Tank-
55 gallon
2-75 Hob filters
Nitrate and Nitrite levels will provide if needed, as well as ph etc.
Sorry ffor the overwhelming nature of this post. I thought I better get all my questions answered by the best of the best.