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It can be a tank boss at times, in fact that is why I have been increasing my stock and it has curbed the aggression. It will occasionally chase a fish, usually only the juveniles I have that are grey with bars like the demasoni. Hopefully once they color up they will be orange and then I won’t...

Hi, I am pretty new to keeping cichlids and I have 6 juvenile peacocks and one mbuna in my tank. I have had them for almost a year now. Anyway, I started out with a few which my uncle gave me from a batch of babies from his cichlids. When I started, he gave me NLS to feed them, so I started...

I tested the water this morning and you were spot on Aiken. Again maybe 0 or 0.25 ppm Ammonia, 0 Nitrites, and 10-20 ppm Nitrates (I only really know it’s above 5 and less than 40). So I try testing some bottled water for Ammonia. I look at the test and sure enough that is a clear zero (nice...

Thank you for your help Aiken. Testing some bottled water sounds like a great idea. I will try that tomorrow. I also noticed some algae (I think brown algae, which I have read is not actually algae) on the glass today. Just tiny spots of it, like dust. Hopefully this is a good sign for my...

So I just tested my water and things are confusing me even more. This morning it looks like 0.25 ppm Ammonia, 0 Nitrites, and about 10-20 ppm Nitrates (again, really hard to tell with the API test kit as they are both orange). I dosed with some Seachem Prime to contain the Ammonia, and will...

Update: I am on day 6 since changing tanks and while it is difficult to tell, I thought that maybe my ammonia level was at 0.25 ppm. (yellow, but maybe slight tinge of green which might have been 0) Nitrites still 0 and Nitrates still around 10 or 20 ppm. In any case, I planned to do my water...

Trying. I am afraid to open the filter up and clean anything until it is cycled though. I recently bought a pre-filter sponge to keep on so that I can just clean that instead.

Thank you, will do. I tested again this morning and still no ammonia or nitrites. I think the nitrate level went up, but hard to tell whether it is 10 or 20 ppm with the API kit. The next obvious color change from orange to red doesn’t happen until 40 ppm.

Thank you for the advice. I appreciate it. The 407 does have 4 baskets that are each sectioned into 2 parts. The 207 on the other hand has only 3 baskets that are each just one big basket. The ceramic media I took out was only enough to fill one side of the basket in the 407. I did have some...

Hi, this is my first post as I need help that Google and Youtube have not been able to provide me. Hopefully someone here can help me. I had a 4 inch turtle in a 20 gallon tank filled all the way up with a turtle topper. I was using a Fluval 207 rated for up to a 45 gallon tank since I heard...