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I'm starting my first reef tank and I've been super extra cautious with everything. I cycled my DT and QT for three months before bringing home my first fish yesterday, a Midas blenny. He was eating and happy looking in qt. After I turned the lights off he seemed stress so I left a hall light on...

So I've been in the hobby for a couple of years now, and have several heavily planted tanks. The lights over my 55 just completely up and died today because it was the first thing I ever bought and didn't realize until now they were total crap. It's an odyssea 48" t5ho with two 55 watt bulbs...

So I have a 55 gallon HEAVILY planted tank. A year or two ago I bought an odyssea 48" inch t5ho light ballast. At the time I was just starting out and just trying to find something that would fit the tank without having to get a custom lid (the tank is from the 80s and just slightly off standard...

Thanks that's what I needed to know, I'm going to take a look at it again tomorrow and do another water change if I need to. The fish seem to be fine for now

So my 55 has been well established for a year now, I hardly ever have issues other then a little bit of hair algae and some platys that have become lumpy looking over the past few months (I've been all over the Internet and chalked it up to age and crappy breeding, but if you know anything about...

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Because breeding isn't really my goal, I'm considering just one krib. Will that be okay?

I think if i have one I can have a reasonably sized school, it seems pretty common. I also had to upgrade to an aquaclear 30 because my 20 busted

So, I have an empty fully mature 20 gallon. I was thinking about putting a pair or one kribensis in there. Aqua advisor is having a hissy fit about it right now, so I wanted your consensus on stocking. I have an aquaclear 20 filter and an elite mini for a little extra current for my hillstream...

Haha, i hope that's the case

It's been 5 days and he still won't leave his cave. Is there anything I can do?

So I got a convict cichlid for a nice big specimen tank. I picked this particular one out because he was so funny spitting pebbles out to build a little cave and flaring at the other cichlids. also I wanted to potentially save someone newer to the hobby from introducing a particularly aggressive...

Yaaaay. So so far, I have two options A school Rummynose and a School of zebra danio with a krib or apisto (my best lfs tends to have kribs but not apistos, but I could always check again) OR Just one convict or jewel, whichever they've got I'll have to ask my partner what she'd prefer...

Also, it's an iwagumi scape. There's plenty of rocks and interest for most fish, but it's definitely not cluttered, I also have some slate to sneak caves behind the rocks

Jewel as well as convict cichlids seem to do well at 75 according to everything i look at, as my loach has been for a long time now, do you think they don't thrive at that temp?

I do like kribs and apistos though

I think that high of a temp in particular would deplete oxygen and not be kind to my loach

I wish that I could have, I don't know enough to. I was reading the other day about some lucky person who happened to work in a pathology lab of some sort and found someone working there who autopsied and diagnosed fish as a hobby, she found out her puff had had Gill flukes

I love German blue rams, but I have one already in my other tank, he's a love nugget. While they're super pretty, they actually do require a way higher temp than the loach would be comfortable at, around 78-82

Right now I keep an extra power head on next to my hob filter to create more aeration, but it's not a Strong current except in that spot. I'm willing to make the system more river like if I get more fish that would appreciate it and go for that kind of setup. I like white clouds in pictures, but...

But I also want to know what other kinds of setups might be ideal, if there are interesting unique specimen fish for a 20, or possibly nice current loving tank mates for my loaches so that I could up the stream effect more than I could before (again, his oxygen and temp is fine where he's at)

Also my puff ignored the loach completely, he's so small and sleek, predators dont care about him

Fair enough, but he really is small and happy in the 20, I can see zero things about his size, behavior, or waste production that would suggest a bigger tank. Convict cichlids in particular seems to have a very large temp range, I've seen suggestions ranging between 68 to 74 and ones from 74...

Also, it's pretty clear you just clicked the first link, which is live aquaria. Most would agree live aquaria gives irregular reccomendations on sizing, anything that's a 20 they bump up to 30, always. A hillstream loach is a small flat fish that hangs out on rocks

That is not even a little bit true about reticulated hillstream loaches, they're only a couple of inches, I would look at the tank size on more sites before saying that. What about just one convict or jewel? I get a LOT of sources saying a 20 is great for a pair, and those fry will be snackins...