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I feel that is what is happening here. I have two power heads and two heaters in water and five light lamps in the wooden hood. I get no voltage if I switch off any two of these four internal appliances. But How do you earth the tank. I am a layman as far as electricals are concerned. Do you...

I also need some piece of advise here. I have two internal filters in my 100 Gal tank. Both of them emit a very small stray charge in the water. When I put my hand in the water I feel nothing. But when I put a current tester (screw driver type neon tester) it glows dimly. Fish are fine. This is...

I have a single albino kribensis in my tank with other american cichlids. I have made various hide outs in the tank. The krib has occupied one of them and keeps in it. I have noticed something strange. I takes out a few grains of gravel from inside the hideout and spits it out. By doing so it...

Of all the cichlids, I believe Oscars eat the most. you may feed them thrice a day but they will still be hungry the fourth time. at the same time they are the biggest polluters in your tank. so it is wise to feed them less to keep your tank environment healthy. I feed my oscars once a day. you...

I have added a single flower horn. It has already started protecting his territory. PLACID? My severams have already hacked two of my old tiger oscars. They tried to do the same with the replacement single one I added. But now that oscar has started fighting back :shifty: Now my tank is in...

could you tell me some other fish that are compatible in my tank?

Although Angels are cichlids. But I have my doubts. I want to add white blushing angel and black veil angel to my tank containing oscars, severams, green terror, texas cichlid, fire mouth. Will it be compatible? secondly should I add a pair of both or a single one of each?

Details of my tank are as below: I feed them a mixture of pallets, tetra bits, frozen blood worms. I feed them about five teaspoons. It gets eaten with in two-three minutes I have a pair each of oscars, texas cichlids, severams, parrots, walking cats, high fin cats, one firemouth Water change...

How often should I feed my cichlids? Earlier I was feeding them twice a day. But then the water started becoming very dirty. Now I am feeding them once a day. Water is good. But will it effect their growth? They are about 2 inches big.

Why do we insist on a partial water change? Once the tank is cycled and we have bacteria colonies in the filter and gravel, we can very well go in for a complete water change i.e. 100% weekly. Of course keeping the filter media in water to save the bacteria colonies while we do it. why it is not...

I have a 125 gal tank with ten cichlids and four cats. Since cichlids are messy eaters (including oscars) how much should be the amount of weekly water change-20% or 50%? I have two internal filters rated for 2000 lph each. And should I use the gravel vac every week or every two weeks? I am...

I have a cichlid tank which also has a pair of scats. I am told by my lfs that scats need high salt in the tank. somewhere around 1-2 grams per litre. Is it true? and if I add that much salt what will happen to my water quality and my other fish that include oscar, green terror, parrot, fire...

I need advise on another thing. I have a big vertical long internal filter rated for 2000 lph. It has two chambers, one below the other. both the chambers have sponge in it. can i replace the sponge in one chamber with bio balls, carbon granules and cotton wool? Will it reduce or enhance the...

Guys, I think I have found the culprit. when I leave for office there is a power cut every alternate one or two hours for half an hour each. There can be about 4 to 6 such cuts in a day. Do you think this can be a reason? at night there is no cut.

mine is white and it is there for over two months now. Can it be anything else? does not go away even after a water change. Please help. It is a 100 L tank with two internal filters.

I have a tank of 3*1*1.5 with six chichlids. I had two internal filters earlier. I was told by some one that the water quality of external filter is much better than the internal filter. I got two external filters made. These are glass boxes 1 foot in length by 1/2 foot in breadth and height...

got the idea chief. I will try to enhance the dimensions as much as I can. But guys I am still in a fix over the sand issue. Could any one please tell me how to clean the sand substate with a normal gravel vac? Because in India we donot get very good substate cleaners. Only option is the gravel...

Great to have someone who has undergone the same problem as mine. A very valuable piece of advise. My oscar pair will not leave eachother for the whole day. cannot afford to lose one of them. I am planning to buy a tank 4/1.5/1.5. I have two oscars, two firemouths, two parrots, two texas, two...

No. I do not own those fishes now. In fact I turned to cichlids and returned all the other fresh water fishes I had. i agree the tank is small. But the fishes are only about two inches. I am moving to the bigger tank soon. That is why I am seriously thinking about my options between the sand and...

3/1/1.5. This is precisely the reason I am apprehensive.

I have a 120 ltr tank with cichlids, oscar, texas cichlid and parrot. I have multicolored stones for substrate of about 1 cm diameter. I am able to clean it every week with a gravel vac. Should I move to sand for cosmetic reasons as it looks very good? What are the problems with cleaning it? And...

thanks for the reply. Actually I myself do not know these water stats. In India we do not get the kits for measuring these (or I am not aware what equipement is required for this). Is there a way I can measure this in 'do it yourself way'. Please advise.

I have a 3 ft tank which is about 10 months old. I have koi karp, gouramis, sucker cats in that. Three days back I introduced two knife fish. They seem to be scared. they are not eating. keep on hiding. I fear they will die. what can be the cause of this?

My molly gave birth 3 days ago. I put the fry in a separate tank. today platy also gave birth. I have two queries: 1. Can platy and molly fry be kept in the same tank together? 2. what should I feed my platy fry with?

I have recently added four golden apple snails in my tank. I do not have any plants in the tank. Will the snails survive just by eating the left over food by the fishes? I put floating type of food for fish and they drop a lot of it while eating.

I have a tank of 1 ft*1 ft*1ft that is running for over a month now. I was trying to cycle it with fish. I have just lost two black moor gold with in a span of one day. I am now left with two red golds, one platty, and one white molly. I had changed 30 % of water two days back. what could be the...

As I have already told it is not a planted tank. But thanks for the advise every one. I will go in for apple snails.

I have read somewhere that keeping snails in your tank helps in cleaning the tank by consuming the fish waste and other such things. Is it true. I have an 18 Gal. community tank. I do not have any live plants. Of course if I have live snails, it will add to the beauty of my tank as well. Please...

The fish has grown fat on the belly. Reading on the other such topics on forum I gather that pregnant fishes have spot on the belly. But in case of black fish it is difficult to tell. But as far as I understand it is an egg layer. But even if that is a case how to determine that the eggs are...

Of course this might have been discussed a no. of times but I am not able to get a suitable answer to my requirement. I have a very fine gravel and am using 0.5 cm dia pipe to siphon out water from my tank. Now the problem is if I put the pipe too close to the gravel, it gets stuck in the pipe...

Very logical and relieving reply indeed. Thanks. I have following fish: 2 signal sharks 2 Red sword tails 4 mollies (2 black 2 dalmatian) 2 albino 2 tetras 2 tiger barbs 2 paradise blue Please guide if any of these evolves in stagnant water. If none, I am too happy with my filter.

I don't have HOB. I have submersible filter that sucks water from bottom and lets out clean water from a nozel at the top.

I have a small concern here. The water filter creates strong currents in the tank. It forces the fishes to keep paddling more forcefully than is normal or they get swayed with the current. Does it have any stress factor on the fishes. I had earlier placed the filter so that the current goes...