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I prefer gravel with cichlids, especially large ones. 1. They like to dig, and gravel is great for that. 2. Gravel is easy to vacuum, cichlids are all messy fish 3. gravel is easy to repair after the fish decides to move ALL of it to one end of the tank, sand isn't so easy...though, I've...

250g- 1 silver arrowana, 2 peacock bass, 1 red devil, 2 plecos, 2 pictus cats, 1 tinfoil bass, 1 bala shark (juv) 120g- red devil breeding pair + fry (depending on when they bred), pleco 60 breeder - 1 black piranha 55g #1 -RD fry grow out, pleco 55g #2- 4 red belied piranhas, and a handful...

silver :( he's with 1 pictus cat 2 angelfish 1 red devil - to be removed 1 green terror - possibly to be removed 6 jewels 1 tf barb 1 pleco 1 turq. severum I just bought a 7 in. archer, I'm debating if I want him in there too I probably forgot something you wouldn't think it, but they all do...

green terrors have orange on the edge of the dorsal and tail fin, and a differently shaped body,...that looks just like a jack dempsy I used to own.

just moved him from my 120 to a new 250...which Im praying doesn't decide to cycle!

I like fish for many reasons. First I enjoy the challenge, why I like to keep difficult species, always something to tweak and fix, stuff you don't just mindlessly throw a wrench at, you actually have to figure it out, and then fix it. also why I like computers. A fishtank is like a computer...

I'd recommend against live, live food is expensive, and when these guys get big, they can EAT, you'll spend a fortune every day trying to keep him fed. They'll eat anything that they can get in their mouth too, so you'd never be able to keep him with anything because they do get over 3 feet...

I've never tried salt in a planted tank :/ to afraid to. (I only actually use salt when I want to stop the infection NOW and can't get to the store 30 miles away!) For my planted tanks I use an Ich medicine containing malachite green, it's never hurt the plants, and stops the infection every...

wow thanks :) i can lose the 4 inches...i like round numbers, but 96 is close enough. I won't be starting this anytime soon, I just spent a little more than $2500 of a 250 gallon tank, so no $$$ for starting just yet, but I like to research in advance.

raise the temp about 80F and about 2-3 tablespoons of non-iodized salt per 5 gallons of water works best. (check your species salt tolerances first)

I've always had the dream of building my own massive aquarium, I mean I bought a big one, but it's not the same as home made...you do it yourselfers know what I mean. now here's the size I've thought of 100" x 42" x 20" 84,000 cu. in. so roughly 360 usg by my crappy maths. I want to use...

boy when Moderators Hijack thread...then you know it's a good forum :D everything in the 120 is going in the 250, arrowana who is 16 inches long, a little big for the 120 almost. The spotted cat, the severum, the big pleco, the angels, the jewels, 1 small red devil and 1 small green...

yes...I'll do that with the digital camera I don't have :( setup won't be fun at all...getting it into my fish room won't be fun at all (down 2 flights of stairs)...tommorrow will be a very taxing day.

I name mine :) my red devil is ricky (his mate was lucy, her death brought me here) my Pygocentrus Naterri are killer, crusher, brutus, Kujo, and fluffy my Serasalmus Rhombeus is Samson Arrowana is Zeus angelfish are aries and hermes turquiose severum is neptune cat, plecos, jewles, green...

1- 250 gal I bought yesterday 1- 120 gal 3- 55 gal 2- 29 gal 1- 20 gal 1- 15 gal 2- 10 gal not that anyone cares about the new guy.

sounds like poor water quality to me. People who have city water often have large amounts of chlorine in it, which causes many of the symptoms you describe. There are products on the market that dechlorinate your water to make it safe for aquarium use, I unfortunately don't know anything about...

Here's a method I've used with success to get cichlids to get along, especially with large agressive ones. (never tried it with smaller ones) If the female was in first, and is larger than the male, she will beat the crap out of him, so what I did was drop a tank divider right down the middle...

I keep 2 Red Devils and a Green Terror in my 120, they don't fight, probably because their both concentrating on being bigger than the arrowanas mouth :D I breed both species, and I've kept the young together in 55gallons of water, but when they mature, they don't get along.

I kept some of these...I trained them to take guppies from the net if I held it just underwater for them. Top water fish, very fun to watch eat, they coil their bodies up and then take off like a spring through the tank to get their prey...look under needle nosed gar they are also called that...

yes I did...I just can't figure out why after 7 years he'd do that. I'll either have to find some new tankmates for him or move him out to one of my 55s and restock the tank...1 fish and 120 gallons of water looks ridiculous..any suggestions?

the damage was far to extensive...the male was so much bigger and stronger. I'm sad to say that she died in the night :no: :byebye:

still upside down...but her fins have unclamped from the sides of her body at least, still won't close her mouth..maybe in the morning.

I have an adult female red devil. I keep her and her mate along with their most recent batch of young in a 120 gallon tank. tonight I found her upside down at the bottom of the tank breathing slowly mouth wide open No external signs of disease, only thing past couple days is her fins were...