Recent content by ashepler

This tank is viewable from all four sides, dividing our living and dining rooms. The vertical line is actually part of a split pane window 15 feet beyond the tank. That is a south window, but there is a 12 porch overhang beyond that and two huge shade trees so there's no sunlight hitting...

It is possible. My first thought was some sort of bacterial bloom, but aside from a few new plants there hasn't been much of a change lately. You may be right about the start of some plant matter decomposing. Now that I think about the few small plants were added a day or two before this...

We have a 75g planted tank with roughly 20 smaller fish. It's been running for 6-8 weeks, cycled, no problems etc. The tank is pretty clear except when you're sitting next to it looking up towards the light. There appear to be tons of really small particles that are not being filtered out by...

I would say 10-20g would suffice since they are considered among the dwarf cichlids.

Nice profile. My brother and I started with 8 GBR in our 75g community tank and waited for pairing to begin. Once we noticed a pair we either moved them to another tank or waited until after the spawning to move. From the original 8, we have had 3 pair lay a total of 5 batches of eggs. We...

ok, thank you all!!

It was in my gmail so I'm not sure how to get more from the headers than what I posted above. I can forward the actual email if you want to look at it. You guys are welcome to look in my PMs, you'll see there are none. Thanks all for the quick action :D

But I received no private message on this site, or are you saying it will show in my email instead of my usercp?

I've only been a member for a week or so and have already been spammed by someone wanting me to join and mod their new forum, what gives? There was no PM here, sort of disappointing to see this happening... Aquarium Advice - Aquarium & Reef Forum fromAquarium Advice - Aquarium & Reef Forum...

The Rams should do fine in your tank. I would remove the guppies, not for compatibility problems but to lower the number of inhabitants.

Your ammonia test kit may actually be giving you a false reading. If it is indeed that high your fish would not be alive. Also realize that with each water change it is possible to be adding ammonia (bound to chlorine (as chloramine)) and with your treatment, converting to a non toxic form but...

Been out of the hobby 10+ years....not again, back to stay :) Currently my brother and I have a 75, 55 and handful of smaller fry tanks. My interests are mainly in aquascapng and cichlids, would like to get into some Apistos. We've been lucky so far, of the 8 GBR we've obtained, three pairs...