Recent content by warezaholic

If I end up harming my fish, I couldn't have done anything differently than what I'm already doing. Where my spirit is willing but my body is failing me. Maybe my methods aren't up to your standards but the fish are thriving, so I think I'm on the ball as far as my care is going down. I intend...

When someone tells me to do it this way otherwise I shouldn't buy any more Discus!! In my view that is a condescending comment. With that said, I'm not feeling the love!

I'm out! I'm tapping out! I can't continue a conversation where I will be continuously talked down too. Thanks but I'm out...

I am grateful for the advice but I am old, handicapped and alone. My aquarium duties is a hobby not a vocation, occupation or business. I cannot be dedicating 20 or 40 hours a week just stressing over having the most perfect aquariums in the industry. As my experience grows, my attention to...

I have the temperature at 83 and "everyone" seems happy, active and eating very well... I know the temperature is at the high side of the eel tolerance but think they are comfortable and are actively hunting at feeding time. The discus is asserting his dominance and is even nibbling at the...

I have been gradually raising the temperature from 78°f to 84°f and now the discus is spending most of his time roaming and hunting all over the tank. He is also realizing he is safe and he's the biggest fish in the pond. I feel he is much happier and will be better off but I read that to the...

Thanks for the advice and info Big Red. I'll consider all of it. I will probably choose the discus and hope to build on better research. I bought the discus on impulse and the shop didn't advise me about the combination of the discus and the fish he was selling to me and he sold me gourme's and...

My big red discus seems happy and spends time in his hideaway as long as the water is moving. When the water stops moving he comes out and is always egar to eat both brine and blood worms but he's trained to eat directly from the 14 inch long pipette (same goes for the eels and brine)... I am...

Hi again. I had to change my plans about African Cichlids and I'm going with Discus Cichlids and Tiretrack Eels, along with some small harmless, colorful and active community members in a 50gal. My discus is 4 inches (similar to the picture) was in the tank for 6 days now and if finally...

Thanks. I have already installed the substrate and the African hap has established itself as the tank boss. It has excavated a dugout down to the glass bottom and a mountain 6 inches above the normal sand substrate. If I move it back, he just starts over. It's a matter of him wanting to...

Sorry but I can't picture anything you are describing. Maybe something with a link to a better illustration. It is apparent the these cichlids are moving the sand so much that the rocks are being buried. The dominant fish has excavated himself a sand quarry making an 8 inch sand mountian.

Thanks. I hope to find a patient mentor. In my past experiences my mouth brooding Mbuna didn't seem to be into this much earth moving except to spawn. It was a pleasing hobby but now I'm realizing how expensive this hobb is getting these days. It would appear they are happy. They seem to...

I have not owned an aquarium in 20 years. I'm a widower and becoming crippled that makes my outdoorsy interests behind me and revisiting my aquariu hobby fits an old body's like mine pretty well until my time expires. Long ago I had a 55, 50, two 29 and two 10's running with nearly all breeding...