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THANK YOU all for your help and suggestions. I started treatment Monday by adding to the water and mixing it in food. This really makes the tank a gross mess though, especially without the cartridges in the filter. So tues i did a 25% vacuum out. I treated again in food only wed. today i'm...

I went to Jeff Rapps place and picked out some gorgeous cichlids. My Honduran Redpoint Convicts spawned six days after I got them home. They eat everything and just keep spawning. On the other hand I have my Krobia sp. "xingu orange spot" pair. The male is growing really fast and eats...

OK i finally found a source of Metronidazole... Its a Seachem product. I spoke to a technician on the phone and he said it needs to be fed to the fish. Any ideas on the best way to do this? I was thinking mix the powder with flake and small pellet food and water and then freeze it in little...

ok i have tried lfs's and a vet and i can't find this med. any clue as to what it might be sold as in the us?

I have had three clown loachs for about two years now, one 2", one 3" and one 4". They were doing great for all that time, plump and happy. I wanted to get some more clowns because I thought they would be happier in a larger group. I bought three new clowns all at 2". They seemed healthy and...

I worked at my lfs for a while so have suffered countless injuries including electric shock from busted heaters, cuts, stabs from catfish spines, etc... The worst by far though was being bitten by a huge red devil! I was just trying to siphon his tank and he snuck up on me... took a chunk out...

Bolivian Rams are pretty hardy and outgoing. They seem to fit what you are looking for.

Hikari Sinking carnivore pellets, New Life Spectrum large fish pellets and chopped silversides oh and they steal the algae discs from the pleco

Mine love and grow well on Hikari Sinking Carnivore Pellets and New Life Spectrum large fish formula as a base diet, with some chopped frozen silversides as a treat. They also will eat those algae discs meant for plecos.

With black neons, you should really have twelve for them to feel comfortable and act normally. Six would be the bare minimum though.

A black dogface puffer... I found one but I don't have a big enough set up to keep it... One day I am setting up a really big salt water system to keep one of these guys, with a golden moray, maybe a zebra moray, a trigger, and some kind of grouper. I like the bumblebees and some of the Red...

I took care of some african butterflys at the lfs i used to work in. The only foods they would take initialy were live insects, such as crickets, grasshoppers, etc... After a few weeks I could get them to eat FD krill that was thrown at the surface right above them. What kind of fish do you...

Joe- Thanks so much for the great illustration! I really appreciate it!! It looks like I have two females.. Kate

The catfish i used as my avatar is a Giant Mekong Catfish Pangasianodon Gigas. It is very much real, but probably not for long! It is a critically endangered species whose existance is threatened by fishing, development and river damming. It lives in the Mekong river in Southeast Asia and can...

Joe- Your fish are gorgeous!! Thanks for your insight!!

I would say a fifty breeder would be bare min. size for one. Even a fifty five is kind of small- it may be four feet long but it is only one foot deep. I always thought tanks should be at least twice the fishes length in any direction? Mine are very active swimmers and make full use of the...

Wow thats a cool site thanks! I bookmarked it in case I need it some day.

I am only planning on having one cichlid in my 90 gal tank. It is getting built into the wall of my bedroom when I move in a few months so I really want a "happy" tank where no one is being chased or terrorized. Right now it is very cool to watch as the loaches and barbs all school together...

You will be ok for six months at least but it will def outgrow your 38 eventually.

Has anyone owned one of these fish and care to share their experience? I have pretty much decided that is what I want to get for my nintey US gal tank. I am planning on getting one through Tangled Up in Cichlids, since the ones I see in pet stores are usually beat up and ratty looking. They...

I have never ever heard of fish "vet" around here... I wish! I can't even find a vet to treat my goats right now let alone fish!!! They all do dogs, cats, rabbits and horses...

My striped botias like snails and stay small.

Penelope is about 2.5-3" and Einstein is about 5.5" The fish store I got them from told me they would probably be ok, but they were wrong. Luckily, I have a lot of tanks, so I wasn't too worried about it. I just observed them for a while after getting her.

I had to get a LFS to order the maracyn-two for me so I won't have it right away but luckily the angel is still doing really well. I got rid of the goldfish and I am keeping the QT tank really pristine. I am trying to convince my cousin to either take care of her tank or just break it down...

Oh man im sorry but that is so funny... I can just see the glowing blue coming from your bichir!!! You can expect him to eat any other fish that can fit into his mouth though, for sure! I would get a tank divider if you really don't want any more of your little fish to disappear! With...

Well the tank was fully cycled when he went in so there should not have been any ammonia, just an escalating nitrate level. I bought the Maracyn today but I still have to find some Maracyn-two. The angel is doing well in the QT tank though, the red line has actually faded and it is eating...

I would try to get six rainbows if possible but I think three would do just fine if you had two F and one M. They do tend to be expensive. Although most tetras are from acidic waters, some, like the BA, can easily adapt to higher pH and hardness without any harm to the fish. I would never...

They are awesome fish aren't they? Where are you from? I wonder if it is the same breeder. I have had my reg. colored senegals bichir for over a year now and he is just so interesting and curious. He was TR as well.

My cousin runs a rat rescue and I have had several adopted rats. I personally liked neutered males the best. They were sweet, cuddly and did not smell or mark. I did give mine a bath once a week though.

That is a really pretty little tank!

Most of that advice seems designed to sell you something! The only part I personally agree with is that the smaller the clown loach, the more fragile. I would not put any clown loaches in a twelve gal. It is just way too small. Especially since they are a def. schoaling fish. What about a...

i agree 6 would be minimal but they can be expensive, so make 3 a bare minimum and 6 a goal. Keep them at a ratio of 1 male to 2 females. They are easy to sex. Females are paler and longer, while males are more colorful and deeper bodied.

Well the boesemani rainbows sound like they would work. The gouramis and guppies would be picked on by them though, I don't think they would even last the two days. Also, your water parameters are not ideal for keeping gouramis or loaches. I never had luck keeping clowns at any pH over 7.8...

Well, whoever owns him, that GT is awesome! is that what you would call a "royal" GT?

I named mine Jackie. She had to move back to the store I bought her from, unfortunatly. I was told "average cichlid aggression" when I bought her a year ago but that is far from true. She kills anything that shares tank space with her, except for an armored sort of pleco. She is sneaky too...

Yes it is an albino. I'm normally not a fan of albino fish but I really like her (it.) When I give her the dark colored New Life pellets, I can see them in her belly! I also have a reg. colored polypterus senegalus called einstein. I am hoping that I have one male and one female but I have...

Yeah I know they are carnivores primarily but they don't seem to know that! My other polypterus senegalus LOVES to steal the plecos algae wafers! I usually feed them a mix of chopped silversides, Hikari sinking carn. pellets, and New Life large fish formula pellets. But they seem to eat...

Thanks so much for all the helpful info! I really appreciate it! I have a lot of faith in this fish healing. It seems like a really tough angel! I wish my cousin had given it to me a long time ago, before all this had happened! I will do my best to heal it up though. Hopefully it makes a...

Sorry for the bad pic quality, but I just have a camera phone right now. This is my newest addition and my second bichir (both are tank raised.) I call her Penelope. I don't usually name my fish, unless they have a lot of personality. Isn't she precious?

Thanks so much for the advice! It doesn't seem like a fungus to me because it is not "fuzzy" at all. The fish is still eating with gusto. I don't have another QT tank but tomorrow or tuesday I will go to my lfs to pick up the meds you suggested and I will get rid of the remaining goldfish...