african cichlds

Hi I’ve recently set out my African cichlid tank in a way that there are rocks everywhere for the fish (ocean rock). If one of my fish die for any reason while in or behind the rocks, how will I ever know? And also won’t this just cause ammonia without me even knowing? Advice please?

Started a while ago with absolutely nothing and went to this awesome tank set up! Let me know what you guys think Tank set up- Jewel trigon 190l white Fluval 207 canister filter Allpondsollutions 1000ef canister filter 47 Malawi of different species 1 synodontis feather fin squeaker 1...

Currently I have a blue coloured gravel in my African cichlid tank. I’m looking to change it to sand. What’s the easiest way to change this to sand? And am I right in saying it’s just play sand? Thanks

100L multi tank - 8 little fellas In there, thought I’d show everyone a picture and see what they thought. Just a little air pump hooked up, as well as an aqua one nautilus 600 pump doing it’s job well.

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Hi , My main tank a 75 gallon 4.5 feet long African Malawi Cichlid community tank with some 25 odd has been infected by internal parasites as I have noticed few fish are having sunken belly and stringy white poop. I have done the following already since past 4 weeks. I am keeping them on...

Hi All, I have a relatively new tank ( about a month and a half or so old) and have had 3 casualty’s so far. 1 yellow lab ( about 1.5cm )had a patch on its stomach left side like it was bitten off. Never healed, he stopped eating and was sitting at the bottom of the tank breathing hard. I...

Set up the old cichlid fry tank and turned it into a home for Neolamprologus multifasciatus aka the multi banded cichlid! I've been looking for these bad boys for at least a year. Finally found some and they were not cheap. I bought 5 for 15$ a piece, so 75$ for approx. 4 inches of fish... Let's...