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Thanks again and I will certainly post updates on how it goes with raising some brine shrimp to maturity for my other, bigger fish... my wife and I are excited and ready to get the hatchery and brine shrimp tank going!

Thanks, after a lot of research and watching videos on how to do it, I decided baby brine shrimp is the best option. I ordered a 16 oz container of eggs and a hatchery, already got brand new air pump on hand and air tubing to run hatchery. Thinking about even setting up a 7.5 gallon salt tank to...

So my male and female convict cichlids recently spawned and the fry have been free swimming for 2 days. My wife and I removed the fry from the parent tank into their own tank to make it easier to keep up with them and raise them up. Since then, the male has been extremely aggressive towards her...

I wouldn’t even begin to know where to start hatching baby brines... is it time consuming? Pretty easy to master? My convict fry are no bigger than 3 mm in length.. they’re so tiny! My wife and I figured a way to get the New Life Spectrum fry powder to them by mixing it with a little tank water...

Ok, so April 26th, my wife and I noticed our female Black Convict Cichlid doing what looked to us like laying eggs. Every so often our male would go back to where we thought she was laying her eggs and do some Peculiar maneuvers, even turning completely upside down to face his stomach toward the...

I’m starting a shrimp tank and just wanted some input on best water parameters and anything else that may be useful in order to be successful at breeding shrimp. Going to go with a strain of Neocaridina shrimp, not sure exactly which one yet though. Leaning towards the Blue Fantasy shrimp...

I do regular water changes weekly on wednesdays on all my tanks.. when I first noticed the cloudiness it was a Friday and when I checked my parameters 2 days before everything was perfect. The Wednesday before I noticed the cloudiness, everything was perfect, like I said, and it was a week after...

So about a week and a half ago I noticed the water in my 45 gallon community tank was kind of cloudy(normally the water in all my tanks are crystal clear). Well the next day it was a little cloudier and more noticeable, and our school of 7 Tiger barbs were dead, well as our albino rainbow shark...

Yeah, I’m sure he’s relatively young. He’s right around 3 inches long. My female is even younger at about 2 1/4 inches long, maybe 2 1/2 inches. Her black bars are solid black and her body a light Greyish color, and a bright red belly! Her belly is fading in color now though, I assume it’s...

My 2 Cichlid tanks I aim to keep them between 250-300 ppm GH as cichlids in general do very well in hard water... I have to use magnesium sulfate to manipulate my waters hardness because my tap water is alway 25 ppm or less, most the time it’s 0 ppm.. very soft! Sometimes I have to manipulate my...

I only do 25% water change per week and I purposely raise the GH using Magnesium Sulfate(Epsom Salt). However, this time the level went way higher than usually why I am for. I aim for GH between 100-180 ppm as all my fish in this aquarium are comfortable within this range of water hardness...

I don’t think it’s a bullying issue because they have been tank mates for a while and before, if anything, my tiger barbs would nip at the Bala every once and while... as long as I’ve had him, I’ve never seen him be aggressor...

I don’t think it’s the water change it’s self... I think maybe the sudden change in my waters hardness has something to do with it! My GH went from about 25ppm to about 250 ppm! That’s about 15 dGH of change within a 12 hour time frame so that’s really all I can think it could be... however I...

I have a 45 gallon community tank and usually when I just get close to the the tank they gather close to the surface in a frenzy thinking it’s lunch time! This morning I went to feed them and all 6 Tiger Barbs are huddled up together under a rock arch in the aquarium. The other species in the...

Is this a male convict? I was told at the store it was a Firemouth Cichlid!!

Also, salvin cichlids are known for their bright red, yellow, blue, grey, black, bright orange color combinations! They’re beautiful! But cichlids do take time to color up properly with a proper diet and healthy living conditions so maybe that could play a role in the fish not looking right!

That is sounds most likely to also be a Convict Cichlid. I have 2 convicts and that is a good description of them, especially when new to the tank or stressed. With time the your fish may become brighter with colors Being more pronounced... and now that I’ve looked online since this incident I...

I went to the fish store yesterday looking to get 2 more cichlids for my cichlid tank and I’m new to keeping cichlids. Until yesterday I had only 1 black convict cichlid in a 40 Gallon tank I bought and set up about a month and a half ago as my cichlid tank. So I told the guy there, after...

The tank has been going for almost 4 months and started the tank off with crushed coral as my substrate. The granules are similar in size to sand and to me it’s easier to clean and better looking than gravel... I went out this morning and invested in a more reliable testing method, I was using 6...

I’m fairly new to being an aquarist and have been keeping fish for right at a year now. I understand the importance of water quality and recently noticed that my 29 gallon tank has an alkalinity(KH) of 0 ppm. I know that this could potentially be bad if I have an acid spike for whatever reason...