Recent content by posleen103

What kind of sturcture does your tank have? Angels will pair up and kind of establish a school. 1 Angel will always be the one getting picked on, he needs some structure, drift wood and or plants to escape. In general 1 angel will be boss, if you have one very aggressive angel then a school...

Make sure the glass is of acceptable quality. By that I mean clarity and strength. http://www.garf.org/tank/buildtank.asp Is a good calculator, obviously as your glass is 1/2 and not 3/8ths some changes would have to be made.

Actually I just cleared out 3/4s of the plants.. it was over grown. I then planted towards the back of the tank to open more up. The plants look a little bad at the bottom cause they weren't getting any light.

I've had them for about 4 months, I just sold my first batch of juvies from the spawning. I"ve found that keep them at 78-82 keeps them happy and more colored. Also these get fed brine shrimp, Daphna, freeze dried blood worms and flakes. Lighting is also key. I have a grow bulb and an antic...

Here are a few pics of my GBRs.

Since I live on the south shore... I"d say its fine as long as you use a bleach wash or something... rock type might matter. I put about 300 agates in my 20 long, 3 years no issues.

I've built several tanks... local glass stores. Depending on how tall you want to make your tank and if you care about having a brace in the middle you can go with 1/4 inch plate which is pretty standard. Not sure what your dimensions are but 1/4 inch plate can be used up to 18 inchs high with...

Plywood tanks are roughly the same if not more expensive then making a glass aquarium from scratch. I think that if you can cut glass or have a good glassier in the area who won't charge an arm and a leg glass is cheaper and easier to work with.

I find that Actin blue brings out rams colors really nicely. My breeding pair looks just like yours but there about a week post spawn, which explains there colors. Took my first batch of rams about a month or maybe even 6 weeks to look truly awesome.

What are you lights? How long have you had your fish? And whats the tempature?

Depending on your water quality I"ve always found more is better. A python water changer is the best investment ever.

What %? Once a week 50% water changes for me, haven't had ich or anything like that since... At least 10 years.

Water Changes are key for them. I keep marbled though, which are a little different.

Good, aren't they pretty? I"ve found that hatchets seem pretty delicate moving water, but once there acclimated they tend to be good. Fortunately my LFS and I both use well water from the same aquifer which helps a lot.

Silver hatchets don't hug the top quite as much as marbled hatchets, but they do stay in the top 1/3rd of the water right? And as for eating more... look at them head on. There really really skinny fish. I expect a cardinal tetra and a hatchet fish to eat about the same.