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They sound like whirly gig beetles. They dive when startled but soon resurface and resume dashing around the surface. Perhaps not the best food since they are small and have a much thicker exoskeloton than most other food items of their size.

Depending on its size it could still get its color back. It is an Electric Blue Hap and was most likely hormoned to the max to make it as colorful as possible.

They normally have a nice red belly by the time they reach 4 inches. Many times they don't kill other fish right off, they take bites from their fins. If it were a black piranha it would normally eat a fish by biting it in half. Red Bellies either eat from the rear of the fish or on small fish a...

Clown barbs or Rhombus barbs

Nice pickup but it is a male. The price you paid is much less than festaes that size sell for. Females have a dark bluish green patch on the dorsal males do not.

If it is a female festae it will have a dark blue-to almost green area in the middle of the dorsal fin. Female uro's if they have a spot will be quite small in size and a dusky black-grey. From the sound of your description your new fish is a female festae.

The first and biggest clue is the spot at the base of the tail. Festae have a smaller spot which is slightly above the middle of the tail base while false red terror have a spot which covers the base of the tail.

Watch her fins, if they are not clamped she feels fine and it is likely nothing to worry about. Clamped fins are one of the first signs of distress in most fish. South American fish are sometimes imported with blackspots which come from a parasite that uses birds as one of its hosts.

At the price you cannot go wrong. Just the tank would cost what it is selling for.

If you have fish food by all means add it to the tank to maintain the ammonia levels.

Rather than hooking the Python up to the sink to siphon the water out which is a big waste of water I have always siphoned the water into the toilet or out the back door. Then I hook up the python to the sink to refill. You will have plenty of time to adjust the water temperature as the tank...

Yes in a tank with fify danios, I want that one works great. I have always called them dane e ohs. As for sick lids that is the most correct pronounciation.

The first fish is a Labidochromis exasperatus and the little fish looks like a small Pseudotropheus lombardoi although small mbuna can be hard to id.

If she has a way to bypass the water softner convicts can live in any pH between 7 and 8.2 with ease. The type of watersoftner that I have dealt with uses sodium as a catalist in an exchanger to replace the calcium hardness. They are completely safe to use with fish and not cause any harm to them.

Herotilipia multispinosa, Rainbow Cichlid Comes from Costa Rica and Nicaragua and they are not aggressive as cichlids go.

Oscars should not be kept with any rift lake fish at all. The water requirements are completely different and if the oscar does not eat the africans the africans will beat the oscar senseless.

All livebearers have small stomachs and need frequent small feedings. You can feed them enough food to float on the top for two or three minutes four times a day. Since the other fish are small tetras your tank of fish will all be happy with their feeding.

The other fish are various types of Zebra. The orange and brown fish is known as an O/B Zebra, they have been in the industry since the early seventies. The auratus is most likely a female unless it is very small. Chipokae are much worse for a community tank because they feed on small fish in...

Feed them foods that are heavily algae based and they will stay much smaller as they do in the wild. If you were to dive into Lake Malawi you would not see any five inch mbunas, that is from a diet that they get in captivity with much more protein. The acei will reach five inches in any case and...

Once you get them to breed try to keep the male separate so he does not breed again before he regains his strength. I have had some of the other larger mouth breeders and the male would breed himself to death if I let him. .PS. you do have at least one of the best bosses.

That is great, not something you see everyday. Your fish must be real happy.

Any rocks that are soft will likely cause problems. Try placing the rocks into a container of water that is clear so that you can see if they change the clarity of the water. Granite and Basalt are two types of rock that do not change the water to any extent and do not desolve in water.

I bought a 240 gallon us plexiglass tank from a person that needed money fast for $1000.00. The price he had paid for the tank new was just over $2200.00, it was just over a year old and not a scratch. Try looking in the for sale adds in the paper as well as the forums. Sometimes someone will...

As with buying from any online retailer if you can buy the same fish locally it will not save you any money. If you buy any fish books look for bookman at aquabid, even though he is in Germany once you send him the payment via paypal the book is in your hands in two days. I have bought fish on...

You pH is just right for the fish you have and the ones you are looking at. The temperature should be right at 78F for those fish. The pH should stay right around where it is now unless you heavily overstock the tank and then do no water changes. Fish wastes after they are broken down by...

They will be breeding when she is about two inches long. I have several other species of Pelvichromis and they all start breeding when the female reaches two inches or so. They all use small caves to spawn in.

When I caught them in the southeast they were found twenty miles from the nearest saltwater so I would think they could easily breed in pure freshwater.

You can if you want, I would just not add more fish other than a female ram for the time being.

In both their standard color which is light grey with dark gray stripes and the more colorful orange with either black or lighter orange blotches they both can look very similar. Midas cichlids are Amphilophus citrinellus while Red Devils are A. labiatus. They both grow to a size of twelve...

The bioload on the tank is still too light. The tank will cycle eventually and there will never be much of a rise in the ammonia or nitrites. You will need at least a dozen small fish in there plus some good feeding.

Calvus are well known for sloww growth. Keep the water in the tank very well changed and feed as much good food as the fish can eat every day.

Your list looks good. The acei get larger than the other fish but are not as aggressive as the others. If the acei were given a diet with too much protein they can reach to at least 18cm. Feed them with a diet made for saltwater vegetarian fish with some brine shrimp thrown in. Malawi cichlids...

Kribs are from West Africa and enjoy low pH water with some current as they come from streams and small rivers.

Regardless of the other fins females always have rounded pelvic fins while the males always have pointed pelvic fins. Everything looks good as to your fish being a male,female pair. The female is the fish that begins the spawning so make sure she gets alot of good foods. A neutral pH will give...

Sure it is, kribs are not very aggressive even when they are breeding.

The blue fish is a male Otopharynx lithobate but I have not gone through enough pictures to see which locality it is. Max size is around six inches and they are about as aggressive as an electric blue hap.

OK so you made a mistake, you have already taken care of that. The bacteria would not be killed by the high ammonia level although if there had been fish in there they would have. Just keep a close eye on the ammonia level from here on out.

A real quality pearlscale goldfish will have a body nearly as round as a ball. See if you can find out if there are any local fish clubs. They would be your best bet for showing your fish without traveling great distances. As for your guppies I see no reason why you could not take them to a...

$450.00 for a Australian Lungfish $350.00 for a Leopoldii stingray

As the new leaves grow larger you can remove the old leaves if they are unsightly. You can add new plants at any time.