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  1. gouramigrl

    Betta

    hey.i was needing help on trying to keep my betta from being a hog when it comes to feeding time! he wont let my glass cat fish get any food.and im not sure what to do.ive cut back on feeding them bc im scared that my betta will get to fat and get a diease from over eating all the food in the...
  2. gouramigrl

    New Betta

    thank you all! i still havent really decided on the name but deff guna go with midas! it seems to go well with him and his personality! i did have a question that im not to sure with what it means! he has been doing a lot of bubble nesting but there isnt a female in the tank. does that mean he...
  3. gouramigrl

    New Set Up For 10 Gl Tank

    im going to jump in real fast before anyone gets upset over putting a cichlid in a tropical community tank this is the boyfriend and the explination. but this cichlid is tiny its smaller then my cory cat if itd hold still to measure its somewhere between 3/4 of an inch and 1/2 inch. i know from...
  4. gouramigrl

    New Betta

    and the name you gave me crissylou has made the cut and now is his new name! thank you for the wonderful name :)
  5. gouramigrl

    New Betta

    thanks.haha yea well im going to change the name bc im not into the whole gaylord hefferdink! thats a really tight name!!
  6. gouramigrl

    New Betta

    the name has been decided thanks to james it is gaylord hefferdink! idk but he likes it and is still laughing about it so that is the name of my betta :)
  7. gouramigrl

    New Betta

    haha alright.ill think about that one.any other suggestions?! :)
  8. gouramigrl

    New Betta

    here is a picture of the new betta in the 2 gallon tank we need a name for the little guy because we havent been able to come up with one so if you guys could give us some really good names for him that would be loads of help :) i was thinking any kind of name from any kind of era from...
  9. gouramigrl

    Other Cichlid Mates For Electric Yellows?

    dthoffsett im going to be putting another type of cichlid in the tank and my boyfriend purchased him out of the assorted cichlid tank and we arent sure what type of fish he actually is (ill try and get a picture of him so we can get an opinion on what he looks like) he is no bigger then my...
  10. gouramigrl

    New Set Up For 10 Gl Tank

    yea it was for the best bc i didnt want all of my other fish to get beaten up by him being aggressive like that.so i talked to my boyfriend and we took him back yesterday to the pet store. so hopefully he can go to a better home and get treated as well as we treated him. i wish the lil guy the...
  11. gouramigrl

    New Set Up For 10 Gl Tank

    i have given away all the guppies to good homes. they are doing really well in their new homes. the only thing in the tank now is the ghost cat fish and the albino cory cat. i had to return the gouarmi back to the pet store bc he was showing aggression towards all of my other fish during feeding...
  12. gouramigrl

    New Set Up For 10 Gl Tank

    the no3 is the nitrate. ya its really cool that our lfs will let us give them the fish but really we arent getting anything out of it but maybe a couple of cents a fish but it opens up more tank space. i understand that but all the fish that i have kept in my tank that get 3-4 inches long do...
  13. gouramigrl

    Oddball - 10 Gal?

    you could go with some ghost cat fish. i have two in my ten gallon tank. and they are the oddest fish i have in my tank. they are interesting to watch. they hunt when i put their flakes in there and they swim mainly in the middle of the tank. they do better in pairs or in groups larger in then...
  14. gouramigrl

    New Set Up For 10 Gl Tank

    hey hey, thanks for the info will look it all up soon, this is the boyfriend. i agree completely with the ph. our ph outa the tap is usually 8.2- 8.9 depending on what time of year it is. i currently have the mbuna in the larger tank. and its just perfect ph for my africans but its definately...
  15. gouramigrl

    New Set Up For 10 Gl Tank

    i dont know if its really going to be over stocked because the only thing that is going to be in there once i get them is going to be them,the shrimp,gourami,and the glass cats.and neither of them take up that much room and the gourami stays up toward the top of the tank and the cats mainly are...
  16. gouramigrl

    New Set Up For 10 Gl Tank

    my ph is actually 7.5 and it sometimes can be around the 8 range bc of our tap water. i know your not trying to agrue with me and im not really trying to agrue with you either.the information that you all have given me is very wonderful and i thank you for that. i do know that fish can die from...
  17. gouramigrl

    Other Cichlid Mates For Electric Yellows?

    i know that they need to be kept in a larger tank but my boyfriends is doing just fine in the 29 gallon tank and we havent had any problems with him being in there other then the bumble bee and the lab going at it every now and then. usually just them chaseing each other away. nothing serouis...
  18. gouramigrl

    New Set Up For 10 Gl Tank

    its not so much that i need a bigger tank bc i really dont.there is nothing wrong with my fish.they are as healthy as they can be in the ten gallon tank right now. i get help with keeping them healthy and everything they need from my boyfriend. if he thinks something is wrong with any of the...
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    Other Cichlid Mates For Electric Yellows?

    comeing from experience i have a 29 gallon bow front fish tank and i have a yellow lab and a bumble bee cichlid and its going ok for the moment but once the bumble bee hits his mature state its going to be world war three in there. my boyfriend and i have had a albino red top zebra in there...
  20. gouramigrl

    New Set Up For 10 Gl Tank

    i want to thank all of you guys for saying what you have gone thru with your tanks and the fish you have kept in them or the fish that you currently have. my loauch did just fine all by himself he was my oldest fish in there other then my ghost cat fish. and he died bc he got old. im not...
  21. gouramigrl

    New Set Up For 10 Gl Tank

    the fish that will be remaining after everything is said and done will be the ghost catfish and the gourami. those are the only fish that ill be keeping after i get rid of the guppies and the fry and the albino cory cat and all the male guppies. and ill either be given them to the lfs or people...
  22. gouramigrl

    New Set Up For 10 Gl Tank

    My 2 gallon tank surves its purpose its for keeping the males away from my females, ive been breading guppies in this tank for about 1 year now and i do realize my 2 gallon tank is overstocked but it was not over stocked 1 month ago when all my guppies were fry! so thats why im getting all my...
  23. gouramigrl

    Where Could I Find Some Shellie Cichlids

    i just read up on these little guys n i was wondering where i could purchase some. i live in illinois so id probably would have to look up on the net on where i could find them.but i was just wonderin if any one on here knew where i could purchase them i was going to put them in my ten gallon...
  24. gouramigrl

    How Would You Clean Rock You Got From Outside

    i believe that they are large cobble river rocks and some limestone rocks that i just picked up from outside. ya doing the research on that i did learn that they do need at least a 55 gallon tank for a proper mbuna tank but this is just a single species lab tank in a 29 gallon. and thank you...
  25. gouramigrl

    How Would You Clean Rock You Got From Outside

    hello! im new to this site and i was wondering how you would clean rocks for a mbuna tank? i recently today went outside and got a whole bunch of rocks for my 29 gallon fish tank that currently has two cichlids one lab and one bumblebee cichlid.and i was just wondering how you would come about...
  26. gouramigrl

    New Set Up For 10 Gl Tank

    yea i was reading that they did need to have at least for two a 29 gallon tank and for a group of them i would need at least a 55 gallon tank for them. yea i know they are shoaling fish i was considering getting a few more of the cory cats but im not to sure on that. im also getting rid of alot...
  27. gouramigrl

    New Set Up For 10 Gl Tank

    yea i will have to look into all of that. i talked to my boyfriends friend about what kind of other fish i could have in the tank and he said i could use angel fish but im not to sure about that because i know how tall and wide they can get.so would those be a good choice or no? ive been doing...
  28. gouramigrl

    New Set Up For 10 Gl Tank

    ive already a loauch in my tank once before and he did fine. with the bettas i was planning on breeding them eventually. i was thinking about doing a different kind of cory cat because ive had juli and ablino but the juli's all died and the oldest albino i had in there recently passed away. i...
  29. gouramigrl

    New Set Up For 10 Gl Tank

    i need some ideas with what i can do for the ten gallon tank. because we are goin to be given away the rest of the guppies we have and i wanted to do something completely different with the then gallon tank. what would be some good ideas of some fish that i could put in there? some of the fish...
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