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Thanks for the very in depth response, I would love a marine tank but it all just seems extremely difficult to keep rather than fresh. I applaud those who do and to them they keep awesome fish

My malawis are so hard to catch because they hide in and around the rocks

I’ve always wanted a marine tank but thought that getting seawater would somehow be wrong. I also live in Durham so I could be getting it from the coast. When I initially asked about marine in my LGS they told me that ide need lots of different chemicals and it would be very expensive. Ide...

Okay thankyou :)

Yeah all values are consistent water change to water change and my fish are doing great, I just feel there is an opportunity for better filtration (if my crushed coral is doing nothing)

Are there any other fish in the water?

Squish them against the glass with your finger. A lot of people may reccomend buying another animal to deal with them, this is the wrong advice. Do not buy one animal to deal with another

They are possibly brought in from plants, did you buy any plants recently?

I know it didn’t help really. I fill up buckets and add the cichlid salt + Malawi buffer and mix for a while to dissolve in order to achieve the numbers in my tank. But in terms of my original question, do you think keeping my crushed coral in will be beneficial?

Okay apologies for long response I have posted the results of the tap water and my aquarium water below :) Tap - Ph - 7 Kh - 2 Gh - 3 Aquarium - Ph - 8 Kh - 6 Gh - 11 Every week I religiously change 75% of water and replace with fresh, aswell as roughly 20g of both cichlid salt...

I will do a test on both tomorrow, but even when starting off, the crushed coral did not change any of the values stated

Wow this was an awesome read! I love bichirs and wish I had the tank space in my house to accommodate but unfortunately I don’t. Nevertheless, fascinating read :)

Yes possibly, obviously I have a lot more media in both filters that also carry bacteria, but I’m not sure if that would be enough to prevent a cycle crash

In my 190l tank I am keeping Malawi cichlids that I buffer the gh/kh/ ph with malawi buffer and cichlid salt. This achieves 7.8+ ph 10kh and 18+gh if I remember rightly. Before I started using these buffers, I tried putting crushed coral in my filters but this did nothing. Since getting my...

I’ve played cricket for years. I once was bowling and hit the batsmen in the box (private area). He went down like a sack of potatoes. The umpire turned to me smiling and said ‘one ball left’. Probably the funniest occasion I’ve had playing cricket lol

I literally don’t even allow any tap water to touch anything while I’m cleaning lol

Although all of this may be true, I still don’t believe it should ever be advised to use tap water to rinse filter media

Yeah as already stated by @Lynnzer The piece of advice stating to run filter sponges under hot water, was an absolutely awful piece of advice. Don’t ever run filter media under tap water as it kills the beneficial bacteria it has accumulated. Therefore doing that may uncycle your tank and...

Could u not just remove the pleco’s?

Most siphons will have a sand attachment that just gets placed on top of the sand and sucks the waste from the top. I use an electric siphon for this. Also speeds up water change

Following the above comments. I have both a fluval 207 and a allpondsollutions 1000EF. They both are great filters but I find the build quality of the fluval is considerably better and is probably going to last longer

I’m happy thankyou :)

Yeah I have a water meter but only under my sink which I imagine is just incoming water

So it would cost me more for pouring it down the drain?

Hi, I usually dump my fish water on a water change down the toilet. My water bills are divided into sewage and water use. Am I costing myself more money than just pouring it outside?

No the male is peacock and the female is mbuna

I have a fish that is very clearly got eggs in their mouth. I have lots of other fish in the tank and hate to lose the fry. How do I best conserve the fry so the other fish won’t eat them? I also have a air driven sponge filter that I used for my fry tank in the past that’s been in the shed...

Yeah I’ve been really struggling here in the north. I live in a new build house so on Tuesday my bedroom was at 34 degrees during the night. That is way to hot to sleep in. My dogs have became ill and had to be taken to the vet. Okay now though. Much nicer cooler weather here :) Never thought...

I’m from north of England (Newcastle) and most of this I don’t even understand lol but I do have similar versions of some of them That’s gerrin on me wazz- I believe my version would be ‘that’s deeing me head in’ And ‘am clept’ - would be ‘am clamming’ for me

The writing was obviously a bit exaggerated. Marra just being a northern term

Propa geordie like haha I’m not geordie but do have a northern accent. Gets recognised instantly wherever I go haha

Very close haha ‘the toon’ is Newcastle football club. Spuggies just describes birds in general haha

Here near Newcastle we have our own language of slang - see sentence below A went to the boozer with me marra’s to watch the toon on the tele. Seen these proper munter lasses walking on the other side of the street! Even the spuggies pegged it. Proper belta Yeah translate that one

Before answering this, ide like to know your tap water kh and gh. Do you know those values?

I wouldn’t say your filtering too much. I’m filtering 1700l per hour for my 190l tank and I don’t have anything like this. I am however using canister filters rather Than sponge filtration

Yes but surely then plants follow the same logic, if the plants are watered and absorbed with the same contaminated water aswell as using fertilisers and being genetically modified. This is just as bad?

Cichlids do have aggressive behaviours but in a tank that large, aswell as using the right tools to manage it, they are perfectly fine. I have 47 cichlids in my 50g all going great :)

Well my water change is due tomorrow if your telling me to not do it 😂 haha I’ll go sometime next week and update you guys

No I’ve never been! I just googled it’s only 26 miles away from me lol

About half an hour away from me haha