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The word Peaceful and any cichlid does not work. My Uaru was the cause of the death of my beloved Severum. I should have homed the Uaru as soon as I saw my severum was getting stressed. They can be mean I think they do best with other Uarus and other good size fish that are not cichlids. Uarus...

Too young/small to tell and really only when breeding tubes drop will you know. The males will have a bigger head as they mature. I had a breeding pair of normal blue acaras years ago and I only could tell them apart because I saw them spawn. It is not easy to sex the little ones. here is the...

I found when keeping NW cichlids the more the better. 2 was NEVER good an oscar and a severum alone in a tank could be war. You never know but I would not do it unless you have a 100Gal and other south american cichlids to level the aggression out. Each cichlid has it's own personality so if you...

I had a Bichir with my uaru that would be a good tank mate. Tetras are hit and miss they are often eaten or scared so badly they jump out.

I had 2 Uarus for years. They ran the tank. I blame the big one for the death of my favorite and first Severum who was 8 years old when he died. They are cool fish but since one was involved with the death of my severum who was a pet to me. I have this thing against them I know it is wrong. I...

I have a little bit of black bread algae in my planted tank but since the tank has become more established I have got it under control it really is all about balance. Sometimes it takes years to find that balance .

The real question is what kind of plants are you looking to keep?

Well this is my tank now. I have my Discus again. 100Dsicus2018 by Sarah Ireland, on Flickr

DIscus are not hard to breed. I had some breed in a community tank they are a lot like Angles. The Key to keeping discus is start off with good stock and buy the biggest you can afford. I would never buy fish under 3 inches ever again. I buy my Discus from a good source I trust and I get 3.5 - 5...

My Silver Dollars love this stuff.

I have one Tank now. 100Gal Planted Discus tank. I am back.

I have been keeping fresh water fish since 1998 I have kept all the types of fish I wanted. Now I do not know what I want for my planted 100Gal. I have always wanted to make my 100Gal into a planted tank and I have it looks amazing. One thing is What fish to put in it? What is in it now 1...

The Paradise fish or Macropodus opercularis has been in the hobby for 100s of years. I wonder why we do not have different Color morphs and different fin shapes? Betta fish come in all colors and finage. Why not the Macropodus opercularis? I feel like this fish is very under estimated and...

I love Vallisneria aka Val. I have the corkscrew kind and jungle and Giant. Over the years I have had it TAKE OVER a tank but other tanks it did not make it. This plant grows like a weed or it does not grow at all. It needs good light and CO2 to grow like a weed. Brazilian Pennywort All...

Well it took all day to switch the tanks. from 9:00am to 8:30pm. I planted the 100 Gal and I am not willing to risk my Severum eatting and ripping up all my hard work. I am thinking maybe keep the 80Gal for the Severum and my OLD Pictus cat that is almost as old as my daughter at 9 years old.

So I have not been on here in a long time. My tanks are the same old tanks same old fish. I am looking to get down to one tank. I want to just have my 100 Gal. I have lots of plants my 80Gal tank is over growns. I need more room for my plants. I want to keep my red severum but I know my plants...

I have a 100 Gal fish tank and an 80 Gal Planted. The 100 Gal That has always been for South american cichlids. I have only kept one african cichlid a buffalo head cichlid. i want to try something new with my 100 gal but I am not sure I should. Is it worth it getting african cichlids? Why do...

You are not going to stop it. Your male is trying to get her to breed with him. Has he made a bubble next yet? A female sword tail looks a lot like a female betta fish. He will start to hurt her the more frustrated. You will need to separate them live bearers and Bettas do not mix well. I kept...

I use to breed Fancy Half moon Plakats. I had one female really trick me for the long time I thought it was a female then the fins really came in and I saw now it was a male. It is a male Plakat for sure. The longer Ventral fins are the real give away. It looks like the ones they breed to...

I really like the lay out of this tank. I liked the way it looked with out the plants along the bottom. Once they fill it should look good. Oh shrimp are great. I miss mine.

SO when will this happen?

I have has this happen I bought a sword all the leave melted then I got new leaves that looked NOTHING like the one it had when I got it. Like it was said before some aquatic plants can grow to suit the environment. It will not die Mine is like 5 or more years old and it has changes a bit over...

Over the over 10 years of keeping south American cichlids I had 2 maybe 3 death that were caused by other tank mates. One was like yours. My Severum in my avitar Nip was his name I grew up from a baby he got to be a 9 inch awesome fish. I loved him like a pet. My STUPID Uaru and him never saw...

Most Cichlids are amazing parents and only eat fry if they feel stressed. My young severum just laid eggs today I was shocked. I did not want them to grow up the mother is deformed my other fish ate the eggs. So did you get fry?

Discus maybe. They can get big but still have a little mouth compared to make Cichlids. I have a 4 inch blue Acara that hunted and ate all of my Serpae tetras. Angle fish are good as long as the tetras are full grown and fast.

It has been a long time since I posted on here. I have kept both Discus and Now Angles only. I had my last and oldest Discus was 5 years when he passed. He lived with the angle fish for a year. With the Angles and it was fine. A lot a like in so many ways. In the wild discus and angles are...

I love my 80 Gal planted tank.

So it has been a long time since I have been on here. I have been busy with a young conure, dogs, daughter, Gecko, and others stuff. I have some time now. A month or so ago I re did my whole planted 80 gal tank. It was just looking blah and the plants were not as happy. Due mainly to neglect...

It's been a long time since I have been on this sight I have a lot more than just fish going on in my world now. I just took in a Crested Gecko from a family member that pasted away. This is my first reptile that is mine. I have looked after many years ago for a person but this is my little...

I like how it looks. All you need to do is trim a little  and I would pull some plants in the middle to show the substrate a bit.    I think all you need to do it trim it up a little. 

I am going to take my planted 80gal tank down and redo the whole thing. I do this every 2 years. The plants are not growing as well has they were so It is time to switch it up.    I am thinking of going with a dirt base with Clay mixed in it. Then top it with a good layer of sand?   This would...

I have not set this tank up in over 5 years. It was setting in my Garage. I was using a 20gal long and thought WHY use a smaller tank when I can use a larger tank. So I set this up a little while ago. The Val still needs to grow in. I think in a month of so it will look awesome.    looking at is...

I love my Vallisneria I can grow it in any tank. It is great for low light high light. It grows like a weed and it grows tall. It is the tall grassy plant in the background in my Sig. 

I still have mine. I use to feed them live blackworms they loved it. But I can't get the live worms anymore and one is looking really bad. I bought some Swordtails to supply live food and it has worked well for one Goby that it looking very fat today thanks to a female dropping fry last night. ...

This is not the first nasty pleco. I bought one for a friends tank and it would attach the cory cats. SO I took it home and put it in my 100 gal were it can't push anyone around because everyone in there is much bigger. Then I bought one for my 80 gal planted tank. She was fine for a year now...

You have brown hair algae that stuff is the worst! I had it in my tank really really bad. The thing that killed it for me was HIGH LIGHT. I increased my light bought a whole new light and just blasted it with light it died. BUT i got green hair algae next but I did not mind it because it is...

I have had pleccos before but the 2 I have now are Female BN plecos and they are Nasy fish. one is in a 100 Gal and can't do much hard to the fish in that tank. But I have another mean girl in my comunity tank and she is very aggressive during feeding time. I had a clown pleco years ago that was...

Live pants will fix it. Some fast growing steam pants or duck weed. Live pants would be the cheap healthy way to fix the problem. Look into planted tanks.

I had my fish in a 20 gal tall. I moved them to a 20gal long so they would have more room. I was dealing with some awful brown hair algae I wanted to start over too. I set up the tank all is well. Most of the fish loved the extra space. I had 2 golden killifish. They were hanging out together...