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Hi, I have been working on the internal filter part few weeks and finally made it.
The same power head(sobo 1000wp) is used. With a sponge in the bottom then the old media as mechanical media then some pumice stone (to grow good bacteria on the stone) and above that another high density sponge...
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Having African Cichlid tank is very exciting. Those are auratus cichlids 13 of them, full playful mood, very active. every time some or the other chases some other, all less than or equal to an inch in length. I have two plants in this five gallon tank. It is obvious that i have to upsize...
Hi, today I observed that one of the active one from the 13 cichlid is digging the substrate specifically at one spot. And not allowing any other to come near by chasing away. I think it's territory issue. As I was unaware of that I tried to pull back the substrate in to normal and again it did...
Hi Tbox, am from Hyderabad, India. We do have full fledge fish enthusiastic pet stores but far away from where I stay. The pet store which I bought these fishes is a local stores. As said earlier that am beginner, I bought this tank. Neither the pet store person told nor I checked online. I do...
Thank you V227. Please suggest. The table which I have is 40x20 inches
A tank with 40x20x20 (length*bredth*height) in inches.. will this suffice?. In that 4*20*20 in inches(same) attached filteration biological and mechanical..
Finally understood that these are African Malawi lake cichlids. The retail store sold me saying that those are zebra danios. My bad, I had a very clear intention to cycle my 6 gallon fish tank with live fishes and after reading some blogs I understood that zebra danios are the perfect ones...
thank you for the suggestions.. @Fresh2o, @Reygan2, @dcutl002
when i started, i had 6 pairs of different fishes. i was not aware of the cycle concept and never tried to google it seriously. simply went to the pet store and he suggested the tank of 6 gallon, sobo wp1200f water purifier, some...
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I had to change the substrate as the earlier one was the gravel of white marble Stone. I don't know but the color of the gravel changed so thought of changing it..I got the sand from the construction site and washed it thoroughly and trimmed the two plants which I had from the start. To...
Thank you for the valuable information.. if those are not going to survive this cycle I will definitely follow it instructions to go for a fish less cycle.. in the mean time I will try to get one of those kits.. Thanks a lot @ altidude
Hi, after going through the 'getting started' & nitrogen cycle I got to know that the best fishes to get through the cycle is zebra danios. I get 4 pairs of those. I understand that the cycle did not complete. I tried the fish less cycle also.. I could not hold on a day by seeing the empty...
I have read about the fish less aquarium. I will do it for one month.. I wanted to use some soil substrate below the marble gravel which is presently used. Grow some grass in the bottom as well the two plants which are presently in the 5 gallon tank. Let's everything settle down I will monitor...
In the mean time, a pair of gold fish and tiger barb died and gold fish - it's tail fin was kind of eaten away and bent, tiger barb- was very active i could not understand why they passed away.. I think both were stressed out. So I found that the fish was sick and the problem was ich infection...
@coralbandit now tell me what to do... I mean, I bought those and I don't think they will take it back.. I will make myself available to maintain it till the.....
I asked for guppies for that tank but the retailer sent those instead.. my bad..