Recent content by mikeyost12

well I just got home from a 3 day business trip in Charlotte. My wife continued to treat the tank while I was gone. It has been 6 days now of medicine and a steady temperature of 86. Although I did lose 3 Silver Dollars and a Bala Shark, I am happy to say the entire tank didnt get wiped out. The...

I do have some clown loaches in the tank. Is that Rid Ich Plus safe for the Clowns?

Hi All, I really need some advice on this one. In my 125G tank, I recently added some Silver Dollars (about 2 weeks ago). The tank is stocked with the following: 1. 1 Rope Fish 2. 5 Cory Cats 3. 1 Pleco 4. 3 Bala Sharks 5. 7 Silver Dollars On Wednesday night, I noticed my Silver Dollars had...

So in my 55G established aquarium, I was experiencing a .25 Ammonia level that just would not go away after adding an additional 5 Mbuna Cichlids to the tank. In order to establish more beneficial bacteria to help with the small amount of Ammonia, I changed out 2 of the 4 baskets of filtration...

They are Malawi

It does help a lot. I know it was extremely broad, and was just looking for a overall generic answer and I appreciate your help

so its my first time keeping African cichlids in a aquarium and they all look very healthy and are very active so I think. With this being my first time with cichlids what are their overall behavior like? What do they do that is considered normal behavior in a aquarium? What signs should I watch...

As for the Heater - yes I would get a new heater, sounds like the one you have may be going bad. As for the PH, how are your current fish doing? if they are doing good then I would just monitor the PH to make sure it doesn't start to get to much higher than what it currently is.... what kind of...

A little under a month ago if someone would have asked me what my filtration system was, I would have answered that it was a HOB Emperor 400 Filter. In early November, I also switched over to a canister filter and it was the best thing I have ever done..... I bought the Fluval 406 Canister...

I saw that most fish can adapt to higher PH as long as they are acclimated correctly which I use the drip method acclimation that usually takes about 1.5 to 2 hours to complete. Also, I guess worse case scenario, I could move towards a African Cichlid tank

So the deal on that was I went up to my LPS yesterday to get everything I would need for the substrate change..... I had been doing a lot of research and was thinking I was going with sand but when I got up there all they had was Live Sand..... So I purchased the black eco complete substrate and...

This was from 4 days ago

Here is my Nitrate reading from 3 days ago, and this was before I did such a large water change....

So I have been doing a lot of research on changing out substrate and was super nervious to do so because of BB that was established in my old substrate and not wanting to kill any fish...... Well a few days ago I thought I had crashed my tank just by trying to get some Danios which I actually...

It is a 55G tank with a Fluval 406 Canister Filter I use Prime everytime I do a water change and believe me, I do water changes religiously, once per week. The fish in the tank are now 1 Angel Fish and 6 Albino Cory Cats The parameters now are: PH 7.8 Ammonia - between 0 and .25 Nitrite - 0...