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I’m a 60 year old man in a 23 year old body, love drinking whiskey and music from the war. Get off my lawn!

I wouldn’t add any medication unless you have absolute certainty that is the disease/ condition you need to treat. Always post as much about it on here, in the mean time to 75% water change + gravel vacuum every day for a week.

Yeah I completely agree with this. I see people accelerating their cars to 40 mph in a couple of seconds around school traffic. People don’t realise how little it would take a car to kill someone

They sound delicious

It doesn’t look like there’s lots of space to hide really. Ide put more rocks and wood so it can hide more effectively. Also what is your feeding regime? Below I’ve attached my tank, I know Severums aren’t rift lake cichlid but it’s an example of lots of places to hide

Ellioti is a difficult fish to sex, also they may have just eaten the eggs

I once bought some rocks from a guy on Facebook that had them in his reef tank. I boiled them over and over again. The day after I put them in my tank, 17 fish died

Just increase til 30 degrees Celsius and don’t use salt

My LFS charges £6 for a water test That’s pretty outrageous

That was a very informative answer thankyou :) I’m actually going to save this answer for the future

I’m not attempting to offend but I’m noticing a pattern and just had a question based on your responses to posts. Am I right in saying that basically if anything is wrong with your fish whatsoever that it’s almost always a good idea to do a 75% water change + gravel vacuum daily for 7 days?

Awesome! 😊

I feed twice a day for my rift lake cichlids, (mbuna and peacocks) but I have 48 fish

I’ll try and simplify it. Yes we recommend not to use chemicals, with the exception of tap conditioner because of the chlorine or chloramine. Chlorine (like used in swimming pools) is used by water companies to purify the water of any bad things it may have in for us to drink, however...

No Colin is talking about chloramine. Water companies either add chlorine (which is just dealt with by basic tap conditioner) or chloramine (which is ammonia + chlorine) which needs a more specific tap conditioner like seachem prime. If your water company adds chloramine, that may be where the...

I love Anubias, very tough plant. Even survives my rift lake cichlids! That and Java fern are both awesome plants

You got that one right. Life’s not fair at all

1. I’m not actually sure 2. The siphon should be as low as possible so that you can water change as much as possible each week 3. Doesn’t really matter, obviously not right on top of the filter intake because it’s more than likely plastic which (although very unlikely) could melt 4. Sand is...

That’s awesome 😄 Don’t suppose you match those blue jeans with some blue suede shoes? Particular while walking in Memphis Please say you know that song lol

Haha I suppose lol

I love jewels but they are nasty fish lol

We had ‘how long will I love you?’ By Ellie Goulding. If you have heard the song, you can imagine why I cried infront of everyone lol

Awesome, I’ll give it a go

Okay so work out how much it takes for a 2l bottle then just increase is in ratio with a bigger barrel?

How much limestone do you think ide need for a 200l drum ?

I wish my Northumbrian water supply hardness would go. My water is softer than butter

I’m trying hard to envision what a ^ shape would look like in channels of rock. Could u draw a little basic diagram?

There’s a more square in version. Building a pillar almost would be difficult because the rocks are very weird shapes. Do you have an example?

I have attached a picture of my rift lake cichlid tank below. Ide like some ideas on how to improve. I’ve tried basically all floating plants (hornwort, duckweed, frogbit) I’ve also tried a few plants that just got demolished (valisneria, crypts, Ludwigia, Nomaphila stricta) but I’ve also had...

That might be a shout, may give it a go

Is there such a thing as a reverse reverse osmosis system? To harden water rather than soften it

I’m also in County Durham under Northumbrian water. I haven’t had an increase that I know of. I’ll double check my tap water but my water is super soft Kh - 3 Gh - 4 Ph - 7

That tank looks awesome! Nice job

My wife tutted lol

That one’s hilarious lol my wife didn’t find it too amusing but I did 🤣