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I think most of the bacteria is in the filter. Only a tiny bit will be in the gravel so it shouldn't affect it too much. Good luck.

If you want to keep dwarf puffers in a community tank you have to keep them fed with blook worm otherwise they will become nippy. It's probably a good idea not to put them in with anything they will outgrow or equal in size. Don't know too much about them though. Good luck.

I did this a while ago. I simply started introducing the new conditioner through water changes. I don't think you will have any problems.

You should be changing 25% of the water once a week to remove nitrates from the water. Otherwise the fish are more likely to be stressed and get diseases. Also feed your pleco with a sinking tablet food (like hikari algae wafers). You only need to throw one in every 3rd day and do it at night...

so how many smaller size cichlids (5"-6") would you recommened I put in the tank to fully stock or overcrowd?

Yeah. I asked this question a while ago on here and somebody said about 6 small cichlids should be ok. But some people say that overcrowding leads to less aggression. It's quite confusing.

ok sorry I messed that up a bit. I have a 33 Gal at the moment and got an empty 27 Gal. i was putting everything but the pleco into the 27 Gal and adding cichlids to the 33 gal. Will all those fish plus the Pleco be ok in the tank or will the tank be overcrowded?

Not sure yet. Maybe some Yellow Lab's, Kenyi and Kribs. Nothing that gets too big basically.

Hello again. I am about to transfer all my fish from my main tank to a second tank apart from my pleco. The pleco is a para pleco (I think) so it should stay quite small. I was going to put some african cichlids into the tank with the pleco. Will they bother it? Also there are 2 mollies, 8...

Hello. I am trying to transfer all of my fish from my main tank into a new tank which has been cycled and set up for a few months now. The fish are 2 Mollies, 8 neon tetras, 4 black phantom tetras, 3 clown loaches and 2 dwarf gouramis. I transfered the mollies today but how long should I...

Hello. I recently bought a new tank to transfer the fish from my old tank to it. When my older tank which is a 33 gallon, was free I was going to set up a cichlid tank. But now I'm thinking that maybe it isn;t big enough. I wanted some nice colourfull fish in there. Anyway. Do you think...

Hello. I was thinking of setting up a cichlid tank. i read that fish that are added to a tank that already has cichlids in it is bad because they have set up territories. So lets say I want to have about 10 cichlids in my tank. Would I have to put them all in together? Surely that would...

why not try having your lights on for less time? My tank went green at one point. It was all over the rocks and on the plants. I started switching hte lights on at about 4 in teh afternoon when I got in and switched them off at about 10. It soon cleared up. Good luck.

ok. Thanks for the information. Any idea what fluval I should use for a 40-50 gallon tank? thinking of getting one :)

Hello. I have the 125 litre Juwel aquarium. TI came with a built in filter which is in the back right vorner of the tank and goes all the way down from top to bottom. I think this spoils the tanks look. If you read my earlier post you would know that I am changing this tank to a cichlid tank...