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I'm wondering if I can mix the different foods that I feed and plan on feeding my fish and then freeze it and feed to my fish twice a day. That way I don't have to keep up with a schedule and stop worrying about giving too much or too little of something to my fish, and I will save time and...

I recently got a 10" Watermelon pleco, also known as L330, Spotted Royal Pleco and he's very active all day, the problem is that he keeps stirring up the sand and makes the tank incredibly cloudy, to the point that you can barely see inside the tank. I'm using ACE Hardware's Pool Filter Sand...

Hi guys, as I posted a few weeks ago I had my tank for sale and then I decided to give it a try and go from African Cichlids to an Amazion Basin biotope, since I've always liked oddballs and monster fish. I know my 120 (60x18x26 with 30 gallon wet/dry sump and corner overflows) will need to be...

Hi all! It's been a while, I had a kid (now he's 16 months) and I've recently moved, so I had my aquarium for sale, but I changed my mind and decided to keep it, but I'm making changes. I was really bored and jaded with my current 120 Gallon African Cichlids setup, in part due to lack of time...

My Nimbochromis venustus and what seems to be a Protomelas spilonatus keep doing this (please see video below) pretty often, the Venustus makes a nest on the sand and "calls" the Spilonatus and they do this "ritual" that seems like breeding, but both are males, what are they doing if not...

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Here's the issue with my Protomelas spilonotus: About 3 days ago I noticed that it stopped eating, it' still swims on the open and very occasionally hides, fins are almost always "open" (forgot the right term), but it has no interest on eating. I don't see him or her being harassed, but I'm not...

I have a 20 gallon quarantine tank that I'm keeping as a permanent setup for now, until my fish grow and I'm able to move them to the main tank with the bigger, more aggressive fish. I was seeing brown algae maybe a month after setting up the tank (it was setup last October) and now I'm starting...

Hi, Last night I bought a Gabon shrimp from my LFS and I took it home, between the ride home and the acclimation time it was probably about 45 minutes since he was bagged and I noticed he was dead or dying. He was in the bag laying on its side. I moved him and he did nothing so I figured he...

Hi guys, I have a 120 gallon aquarium with 9 African cichlids and I've noticed that 3 of my fish have sunken bellies and one of them has damaged fins and tail, also. All of them are eating and one of them remains hiding, except when he eats. I saw white stringy poop a couple of times and...

Well, as some of you have seen, I posted about a new Red Zebra cichlid that I got last week and I needed help identifying it. The issue now is that I set up the QT the same day I brought the fish home because it was an unexpected gift from my LFS, so I had to rush and set up the quarantine...

I got this new fish today and I'm not sure what species it is. It was in a tank labeled "XL African". Please help me identify it. Thanks.

One of my fish, that is usually shy, has been hidden more than often in the same cave (all the time) and it's not eating. I've noticed this behavior about a week ago or a little longer, but today, I've noticed a stringy looking thing hanging from his vent. It's like a "cotton hair" that ends up...

Hi, I recently bought a Pinpoint pH Monitor that has been calibrated and I compared the results with the API liquid test kit, to be sure. I have African cichlids and I would like to keep my water's pH, or I should say hardness higher, but most importantly, stable. KH is about 5.5 - 6 dKH GH is...

I will be setting up a quarantine tank (10 gallon) and I know it should be a simple thing to do, but I have a few questions. Do I need any substrate? If yes, it can be "new" or it needs to be from the main tank? Do I need to cycle the tank? If no, how will I keep the quarantined fish...

I recently treated my fish for Ich using 2 tablespoons of aquarium salt for every 5 gallons over a period of 48 hours (4 doses every 12 hours). The tank is a 120 gallon. They are African cichlids, so they are able to handle those salt levels well. Now, I'm at the end of the treatment (10...

I recently bought new foods for my fish, all of them carnivorous and omnivorous. I've been feeding them Hikari Cichlid Excel Mini Pellets and I recently added Hikari Micro Wafers to their diet because the smaller Lithobates wasn't getting a chance to eat as much as the bigger fish. Last...

2 x OB Peacocks 2" 2 x Otopharynx Lithobates 1.5" 1 x Nimbochromis Venesuts 4-5" 1 x Nimbochromis Livingstonii 3" 1 x Aulonocara Jacobfreibergi Swallowtail 4-5" 1 x German Red Peacock 3.5" 1 x Aulonocara Nyassae 4" Taking into consideration the maximum size of these fish and that...

I've noticed this week that some fish were swimming sideways against rocks, not all the time but occasionally, not all the fish are doing it either, I don't see most of them doing it now, except for my Venustus, which I also noticed today that he is "resting" on the internal overflow intake...

I've noticed this week that some fish were swimming sideways against rocks, not all the time but occasionally, not all the fish are doing it either, I don't see most of them doing it now, except for my Venustus, which I also noticed today that he is "resting" on the internal overflow intake...

This is my original "wanted" list: Mylochromis lateristriga Cyrtocara moorii Otopharynx lithobates (Zimbawe) Placidochromis sp. "Phenochilus Tanzania" Protomelas sp. "Spilonotus Likoma" Protomelas spilonotus (Mara Rocks) Nimbochromis venustus This are the fish I got so far (a little off my...

Please feel free to make any suggestions. I have a 120 gallon tank. Which of these fish can and cannot be together? How many? How many of each specie? I want them to be all male and get them as juveniles. Mylochromis lateristriga Lethrinops sp. "Mbasi Creek" Lethrinops sp. "Red Cap" (Itungi)...

Hi guys, I finished cycling my tank less than a week ago, no fish yet, and I tested KH for the first time, today. It takes 3 drops to change the color from light blue to a very soft yellow. Should I add more drops until it turns bright yellow? or it doesn't matter what tone of yellow it is? If...

Something that I found interesting is that a couple weeks before adding ammonia to start the cycle and about a week after I put the rocks in place I saw a small white, semi-transparent thing that was attached to the surface of some rocks and a fake little plant. It looked like a thick spider web...

Like many hobbyists, I'm against crossbreeding/hybrids and I'm looking for African cichlids with pure strains, don't care if they have been tank raised for generations, I'm not looking for wild caught or anything, just pure Africans that were breed in a species tank. Anyone knows where I can...