Recent content by peacelizard

I'm glad things are working but as others have said . . . a couple months isn't even out of the woods yet. So you might want to tone that smugness down a notch or two. All psycho glassbangers start out from humble beginnings

I don't have the space for buckets so I use water from the bathroom sink matched to the temp of the tank water via laser temp reader and treated with Prime

I've had a couple blood parrots that were on the aggressive side but weren't much concern because of their oral mutations and being unable to bite/liplock

My two Oscar love superworms too. And crickets.

I don't know anything about the Quiet Flows but my guess would be that it's not nearly enough. I have quite a few CA/SA cichlids in a 150g and run two FX6 and it could honestly use more... Like two AC110

Two completely different sets of water parameters that aren't compatibile. Plus, water parameters aside, depending on which New World cichlids you choose, some get quite a bit bigger and are more aggressive/territorial

I have yet to and for the most part it's stayed intact with weekly cleaning in tank water. There might be a small amount of breakdown, but it hasn't looked too bad.

The $1/gal sales at Petco don't. Or lids. They also cap out at 55 gal, so you'll have to shell out a good amount more for a 90

Mine is similar. Two AC50 on my 20g L. I've has two sponges and one ceramic bag. Other has one sponge and two ceramic. Haven't bothered with chemical as water is pretty clear as is

If you transfer over all of the old media, I would imagine your fish will be fine because you haven't lost any bacteria. Another suggestion: it couldn't hurt to run a cycle of bacteria once the canister is set up. I use Seachem Stability but there are others out there

Yeah. I use 2 FX6 canisters for my 150g and 2 AC50 on my 20g L. The most noticeable difference between the two is it definitely takes more time to maintain a canister. It's not really harder once you become familiar with it, there's just more parts to remove/clean.

Does it have to be a canister? What about one or two AC110?

As Freakgecko points out, their name gives insight into their personality. These fish are frequently in the Top 3 in terms of aggression, predatory and territorial behavior. They also grow quite large with males reaching up to 20". Even if you bought one and you didn't have problems for a...

Looks like a Red Terror to me