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What kind of filter do you think would be best for apistos? I understand they like slow water. My first tank came used with a fluval HOB, so I’ve never had to shop for filters before. My dad, who used to own an LFS, likes the Penguin biowheel filters, so I’m looking at those, but I don’t really...

Believe it or not, they share a common ancestor lol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_public_school_football_games?wprov=sfti1 Although as an American I also think it’s weird

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Cool, that about what I was hoping the answer would be! I don’t need it to be “blackwater” proper, but I was excited to have a tea-colored, leaf-littered tank because that’s something I can’t do in my other, hardwater tank. I will make sure to get plants too.

Here’s one of my thicc bois. Happy otos make me happy 😃. When I got them they were very skinny, as you can see in this picture

????? No one’s talking about having a bare-bottom tank. OP was asking how deep into the substrate you should stick the gravel vac.

I understand the arguments against gravel vac-ing on paper, but in my experience it just doesn’t work out in practice. If I don’t vacuum the gravel, it gets full of detritus that pollutes the whole tank every time I try to move the gravel at all. It might be good for the plants, but that doesn’t...

It’s weird, I figured that, as a SA cichlid, most people would put apistos in an Amazon-style, blackwater-type tank, you know leaf litter and driftwood and not a ton of plants. But it seems like most apisto tanks I see online are just normal planted-community-tank style aquascaping. Is the...

That’s actually a really interesting origin story! Much more interesting than having them in a tank

So since the front page now shows random pictures from the forum through the years… I have now been notified of the existence of the forum’s old “Rogue’s Gallery” thread for people to post real-life pictures of themselves. I can’t believe that everyone would just reveal themselves and their kids...

In a 10 gallon with hard water, you could absolutely do some Cherry Shrimp! Petsmart doesn’t normally have them, but many LFS (local fish stores) will. They’re a little bit delicate but they will also breed readily once you’ve got them situated. White Clouds shouldn’t bother them as long as you...

Yeah it’s a glo-fish white skirt tetra, either injected with dye or modified to produce pigment. Unfortunately stocked by even some of the more hobbyist-oriented LFS I’ve seen. I guess Little Timmys like them.

Plans so far: Setup -I can acquire a 20 long from dad’s coworker. -Need to buy a filter and heater. -Either sand substrate OR a some aquasoil that I bought for my other tank and never used. Aquascape -I can get it started with a few new plants/rocks/sticks and a few borrowed from my other tank...

According to SeriouslyFish that’s within MacMasteri parameters, although to make it perfect I could lower the pH a little

Ok my tap water is abt 25 ppm hardness so i think I’m good on that front. I don’t know the pH exactly but iirc it’s between 6.8-7.2

It’s worked fine for my Cherry shrimp, which are surely more delicate than endlers.

Huh. I didn’t know that

Crushed coral (can be found as substrate for marine tanks) in a bag in the filter.

So if I use Dan’s Fish it looks like shipping is 39.99? I guess that’s in addition to the $70 for the fish themselves? I might see if my LFS can order one

I don’t have a test strip on hand, but from my memory my tap water is definitely soft enough for soft water fish, but I doubt it’s soft enough for breeding macmasteri. I think I was overthinking it earlier; given my record with platies I’m not in any danger of being overrun by fry lol 😂. How...

Basically I love the idea of having a nuptial pair, but I don’t want to get in over my head if they’re going to breed like rabbits and cause me to have to figure out what to do with all the babies. I wouldn’t mind having a brood to sell to the LFS every now and then, but when we talk abt regular...

So would keeping a breeding pair naturally result in constant breeding/killing babies if I don’t remove them, or would they not breed unless I induced it with the right conditions?

Looking at some more varieties, I really like MacMasteri and Hongsloi. I already liked that look in my head but I didn’t know what species it was.

Got carried away while integrating the new pothos (currently suspended by some surprisingly competent paperclips) and ended up rearranging the aqua scape a little bit! I also removed the sponge over the filter intake, because I noticed the substrate was annoyingly dusty despite gravel vac-ing...

I’ve been toying more and more with the idea of getting a second tank, and the fish I really want to do is Apistos. However, I have some questions. First off, I can’t decide between a single male and a breeding pair. I really love the idea of breeding fish in general, and I also really like the...

I got some pothos today to fill out the top space of the aquarium! I liked the way it looked in a friend’s tank because it grows lots of roots at the top of the tank without having to care for 10 million individual delicate floaters (been having trouble with red-roots). His tank had a lot of...

Another dream tank is tanganyikan cichlids, but I don’t feel ready for that any time soon.

I also like it when fish have bright, complex patterns; I prefer it to bright solid colors, that’s why I got painted platies instead of another type.

I love biotope aquariums (although my tank isn’t one), and I love having fish that can breed. I generally like Asian fish better than Amazon (loaches>plecos; danios/rasboras/barbs>tetras; shrimp>absence of shrimp), but the SA dwarf cichlids, especially Apistos, have grown on me a lot. I also...

ENTER THE LAMB

It’s really weird to me that a solar storm could cause aurora down to Florida without some sort of massive infrastructure damage. It’s even weirder to me that I somehow didn’t hear about it until after.

That’s a really cute lil tank! The floating island is a fun idea. I bet it’ll look lovely when it’s fully established/decorated. Can we get a full tank shot?

The Latin word “canis/canem” (from whence we get “canine”) is cognate (descended from the same root) with English “hound”.

Yeah adult mollies grow to 5-7 inches and need a 30 gallon or so. If you want something similar but smaller, Platys stay around 2-3 inches and are suitable for a 20 gallon or *maybe* a little smaller? (I’m not an expert here) Guppies and endlers are in the same family and stay about 1 inch, and...

I enjoy a black or neutral one for contrast, but I don't mind having no background. I don't like backgrounds that have more aquascape/fish in them, I think it looks weird and draws visual attention away from the real aquascape and fish. If half the perceived "aquascape" is just a print, then...