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Just thought ide share one of my beautiful OB’s in my tank. (Just incase you would like to see lol) Such a good looking fish

Have you tried fry food like hikari first bites?

This is my 50g African cichlid tank I have around 40 fish + catfish, with recently seeing little fry! The tank has a black sand substrate with ocean rock to raise ph. I add cichlid salt and Malawi buffer weekly to achieve the desired ph. I hope you all like my tank as much as I do :)

Yeah looks like a species of pictus catfish, but I have no idea. The first is defo a convict or a polar parrot

Wow ide love to see those pacus :) Welcome

Or is the first one a polar parrot?

My guess was a convict and a pictus catfish haha

Wow, just noticed these little guys swimming around in my tank! I’ve seen maybe 3-4 of them about 1/2 an inch long. They are ducking and weaving inside the rocks at the bottom. Considering I have around 45 fish and catfish in my tank ide consider this amazing! Also any thoughts on species...

Just a question, how would I use a python type water changer while using cichlids salt?

Could we have more photos of the fish? Including fill vision of their fins. This is a pretty easy way to sex firemouth cichlids

Yeah I’m going with skirt tetra, honey gourami and no 3 has resemblance to a very bland green terror haha but I have no idea

Great idea! Following this thread

What is the large grass mossy type plant in the second picture? Java moss?

This was very informative thankyou, if there’s nothing the government can/ will do in a reasonable amount of time, is there nothing the people could do to stand up and change this?

I may have misunderstood the link but if I haven’t this annoys me. Why should the people of the UK have to pay stupidly high prices of gas and electric, just to have the government turn it off every so often weather they want to or not? Surely if the electric is going to be turned off, for...

Remember to have check valves on air pumps, stops water siphoning everywhere if power goes out

10% is nowhere near big enough weekly, I do 75% weekly. 10% isn’t gunna change the nitrate much. Bump up water change amount

This slightly depends on what your planning to keep, any ideas?

Maybe a week, the fish has a slight bulge on its stomach

No, I have noticed that one of the fish that died has been sluggish and slow, still eating but slow. The other one, I hadn’t noticed anything

Hi, I have a 50g Malawi tank that has been established 9 months, currently has around 40 Malawi and 5 catfish. This morning I’ve came down to 2 fish dead. One of them is right in the middle of the sand, the other is under rocks. I have tested tank water and the parameters are below. I’ve removed...

They are fighting in my opinion, especially the photo of the firemouth, but open gills are to display dominance

Hi! Welcome to the forum :) What size tank do you have this fish in? And was your tank cycled before you put the fish in? If you don’t know what this means please ask :)

Why are you using a surface skimmer on a freshwater setup?

When doing water changes, let your filter output splash on the surface of the water for a while, then fill up the tank with colder water than normal. This process tricks the fish into thinking the season has changed and it was raining

Ide first like to ask what type of fish you are keeping, and the natural ph,kh and gh of your tap water? As you may need a buffer substrate for those fish

Elodia

Jesus I have never seen this, but to me it seems beyond repair. I would wait for other users to comment first, but ide have euthanasia in the back of my mind on this one

I have used both fish alive and tropical supplies NE. I got most of my African cichlids from both of those. I have to say tropical supplies have given me some very questionable advice in there regarding cichlids.

Ahh thanks :)

Excuse me ignorance, but what exactly would you use a turkey baster for?

My most useful is definitely my electric siphon. My father in law made me a usb cable (which is 5v) for it (when it only needs 3v) to speed it up. Fills up 36l in just over a minute :)