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Picked up 7 Green Tiger Barbs this weekend and they seem to be getting along famously in our 35 gallon with a Neon Dwarf Gourami and 2 Plecos. Saw Snake Skins for the first time and was wondering about mixing some of these guys in. Possible? And if so - what woudl be a good number. Would this...

I suggest dropping down to a 20 to 25% water changes and adding second filter to the mix. There is no such thing as over filtering and with so many fish you really do need to be considering another filter. My 55 Gallon Mbuna tank has 10 Mbuna and 3 Synodontis in it and I consider that heavily...

I've had odd bad luck with guppies also. In some part of the fish other world I am sure I am known as the "Guppy Killer." Odd since all sorts of other fish have turned out fine for me. Perhaps you just have the curse?

I recently adopted a tank with a 5 inch African Leaf Fish, 9 inch Pleco, pretty good size Dwarf Gourami and a what I believe is 4 to 5 inch Fire Eel (haven't seen a lot of him - lol). For most of this week I've been feeding them freeze dried foods, which they have been readily accepting. Last...

In my Mbuna tank have 3 syno catfish (I've been trying to indentify them, but it's been a slow process - lol). One of is pretty large of one breed - about the same size as my juvie Mbuna, however the other two (of another breed) are very young themselves. All three have faired well. No one...

I would like to set up my 55 gallon mbuna tank for moonlight type lighting as the only time I get to see them anyway is late, late at night (work and school). Anyone suggestion a set up for this type of tank? Also, if I do this, should I be counting time the 'moonlight' is on toward the overall...

I understand that you may have already of gotten your fish, but I'll toss in my two cents. \ Personally, I wouldn't go with the Gouramis - they can tend to be bullys and fin nippers and your tetras might fall under their wrath. My own experience found a single Gourami began picking on his...

Have you ever used their buffer? If so, these guys are already in the tank - I understand with the fish in I should be raising the pH slowly. For a 55 gallon about how much should I use and about how often in order to try and get the pH to were it needs to be?

So, I'm using Cihilid Lake Salt in order to to raise pH and all that. The water hardness is normally about 250 with our water at it has reached and held 425, however the pH has remained at 7.0 with the alkalinity around 50. How often should I be adding the CLS? I first introduced the amount...

I wouldn't worry about it to much. I live in Texas and we have been getting above 100 weather pretty consistantly all summer long. Because of this we can't really afford to keep our house AC on lower than 84 F, so therefor the water in all 3 of our tanks have been at that same temp. Between...

Geez - I really don't know. Something that looks nice and maybe can be stacked to create a few caves and such. I saw a picture on here of someone with several flat rocks stacked leave a holes here and there to be swam through...

With pet store rocks being so stupidly expensive, surely this is another way to get and stock you tank with rocks for Mbunas! Please share!

Yeah - I understand that the Balas get pretty big. In fact, I really look forward to fully raising these guys. I've brought them up from about half the size they are now. Eventually I intend to go up to a 100 gallon tank. That won't be until sometime after I moved after next summer, though. As...

Reaaranging my fish tanks for couple of new tanks and would like to make my 55 Gallon into a Cihilid tank. Currently I decieded I would like to get an Electric Blue Johanni and a Cobalt Blue Zebra. Two questions. What is perhaps a red Cihilid which would go well with these two? Also, do you...

Reaaranging my fish tanks for couple of new tanks and would like to make my 55 Gallon into a Cihilid tank. Currently I decieded I would like to get an Electric Blue Johanni and a Cobalt Blue Zebra. Two questions. What is perhaps a red Cihilid which would go well with these two? Also, do you...

That's funny how different fish can be. I have a pleco in one tank that I neve get to see, while the pleco is my main tank is crazy - he seems to never stand still sometimes and LOVES swimming against the bubbles from the air rocks!

Hopefully it looks like I will be getting a 100 gallon tank in about a week. I would like to create a small beach like rise for some land/water critter (not sure exactly what yet) and would like to use sand in it. For the portion of the tank where the land rises, should I use gravel to build it...

I now have 3 tanks up and going and was thinking. Between the three tanks it would be pretty feasible that when I go to a new tank later to take the water from the water changes and add them to a new tank. Would this allow me to skip the overall cycling process?

Yeah - the 10 gallon is for now - the intention is to upgrade them as I move onto bigger tanks each time ( the Balas for instance will need more than the 55 gallon they are currently in eventually). However, I figure they won't grow overnight ;). Thanks for the advice - based on the frogs arms...

We picked up an absolutely adorable Green Spotted Puffer a little over a month ago. We placed him in our tank with two Tetras, two Bala Sharks, a Pleco, two Pictus Catfish. a Dwarf African Frog and also added a 'Dragon Fish' at the same. All was well for nearly a week when the GSP decieded to...