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I have the cabomba carolina(?) I think. I added a 36 in. t5 HO single bulb with a coralife flora sun 39w in it to bring the wattage up a bit and promote photosynthesis. Does that make my light range between low to medium? And will I be needing a co2 injector then? Right now I am dosing my plants...

Thanks for the link Big Jim! I am currently using a 36 in. Marineland double bright LED fixture for my 40H with anubias, java fern, java moss, red wendii, and cobomba in it. I wonder if I should add more light or if this is enough light for these plants.

hi, nice tank! i just started doing a planted tank and am thinking of using leds but not sure if it has enough light intensity to grow plants. what brand leds are you using?

The dark one looks like a blue trewavasse (?) and the other one I'm not familiar with.

Very nice especially the waterfall and the plants with the purple flowers!

Well this is the first time that I have fries and I am going to ask the lfs that I frequent if they would buy them from me. I would like to place them and their parents in my 10 gallon holding tank, but netting is going to be quite a challenge I think. I'll probably suction them and net the...

My jewel cichlids have spawned and there are lots of fries! Wondering what's another alternative to removing these fries aside from netting them? Would suctioning them with a 5/8 in. hose work?

Thanks for the advice guys. I do have a 10 gal QT tank, but I think I'll let them spit out in the 75 gal tank. The fries will be hybrids and I don't really intend to keep or sell them. If they survive then they are lucky and if they look nice then I might keep them.

So you don't sell any that are starting to show a little bit if they are males or females? I was able to fortunately get a Mac red face peacock that is about an inch or over that you can definitely tell that it is a male. I'll post a picture of it when I get a chance to take a shot. Are you...

LOL!!! Thanks again. I'll try when I do my next pwc. As for the lights trick that is a good idea. They sure look very disoriented when it first comes on. However, I get disoriented with the bright lights too, haha! Speaking of selling the fries, I don't know if I will. How much are you...

Thanks. Wish me luck in netting the holding female since I had difficulty catching the other one the last time. They hide behind the rocks and, unless I remove the rocks, I don't think it's possible to net them. Maybe then it would be time to clean behind those rocks. It's been a while since...

At what point do you start removing the mothers from the main tank? Thanks.:)

Found another cichlid holding. My powder blue socolofi turned out to be a female. Well, will see if these fries survive this time.

i've had my cascade 1200 for almost 4 months now and never had to do anything with the impeller o-ring. i only clean the media trays. just added another 1200 to replace the magnum 350 which went to my 40 gallon tank and no problem with the 2nd one. my 75 gallon african cichlid tank has now 2...

a zebra... this is what a yellow lab looks like... :smile:

LATEST UPDATE... After dinner, I decided to give my 75G cichlid tank a thorough scrutiny and, as I was looking under the hollow log, I found a little yellow cichlid fry! :eek: My kids are so excited and happy to see it and they can't wait to see it grow. Hopefully this one will survive the...

speaking of fish personalities the african cichlids have as much personality as the south/central american ones imho. i've had oscars before too and watching these slow moving fish is just boring! i guess it all depends on each person's preference. :)

Glow fish, tattooed fish, and now glow in the dark cichlids? Some people will do anything to make a profit.

A mixture of male African cichlids. I have a 75g and I just love watching my cichlids - all 29 males and 1 female - interact with each other. They are males of different species so they do not look alike. The female, a yellow lab, was a mistaken identity. I originally thought it was a male...